Algorithms Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Algorithms
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Algorithms over the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 145 122
Rank change year-on-year -198 -23 +27
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 208 564 1,365
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.40% 2.00% 2.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.39% 5.55% 6.80%
Number of salaries quoted 117 306 469
10th Percentile - £43,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £52,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £76,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,900 £85,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -13.33%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Algorithms falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 14,952 10,166 20,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.61% 36.10% 34.62%
Number of salaries quoted 7,031 5,071 14,080
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,063 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +9.09% -15.38%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Algorithms relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Algorithms job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Algorithms
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Algorithms.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Algorithms

Algorithms
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Algorithms in the UK excluding London

Algorithms
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Algorithms within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -115 51 £67,500 +8.00% 115
North of England -45 48 £37,500 -47.18% 63
East of England -72 32 £48,750 -35.86% 63
South West -86 31 £40,792 -37.24% 62
North West -17 28 £37,500 -56.01% 32
Midlands -33 26 £55,000 -8.33% 53
West Midlands -10 15 £37,500 -37.50% 23
Yorkshire -46 15 £37,500 -28.57% 21
Scotland -27 13 £37,500 -16.67% 19
East Midlands -47 10 £75,000 +25.00% 30
Wales -17 7 £57,500 -4.17% 15
North East -15 5 £37,500 -37.50% 12
Algorithms
UK

Algorithms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 46 (22.12%) Jupyter
2 6 (2.88%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.88%) Kinematics
3 5 (2.40%) CMS
3 5 (2.40%) IIS
4 3 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.48%) Apache
6 1 (0.48%) Confluence
6 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 46 (22.12%) Chatbot
2 6 (2.88%) Simulink
3 4 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.96%) OrCAD
6 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.88%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 61 (29.33%) AWS
2 49 (23.56%) Cloud Computing
3 12 (5.77%) Google Analytics
4 8 (3.85%) Azure
5 7 (3.37%) GCP
6 5 (2.40%) Snowflake
7 4 (1.92%) Google Tag Manager
7 4 (1.92%) Google Workspace
7 4 (1.92%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.96%) Google Docs
8 2 (0.96%) Google Sheets
8 2 (0.96%) Slack
9 1 (0.48%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.48%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.48%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.48%) Firebase
9 1 (0.48%) GitHub
9 1 (0.48%) Google App Engine
9 1 (0.48%) SaaS
9 1 (0.48%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.37%) Software-Defined Radio
2 5 (2.40%) Ethernet
3 3 (1.44%) Broadband
4 2 (0.96%) Internet
5 1 (0.48%) IPsec
5 1 (0.48%) S/MIME
5 1 (0.48%) VPN
5 1 (0.48%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.65%) Metadata
2 12 (5.77%) Big Data
3 10 (4.81%) Tableau
4 7 (3.37%) Hadoop
5 6 (2.88%) Data Lake
5 6 (2.88%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.40%) Data Mining
7 4 (1.92%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.44%) Power BI
9 2 (0.96%) Looker
9 2 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.48%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.48%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.48%) GIS
10 1 (0.48%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.48%) Spotfire
10 1 (0.48%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 49 (23.56%) Visual Studio Code
2 26 (12.50%) Rational DOORS
3 8 (3.85%) Git
4 3 (1.44%) GitLab
5 2 (0.96%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.96%) JIRA
6 1 (0.48%) MLflow
6 1 (0.48%) TestRail
General
1 64 (30.77%) Finance
2 57 (27.40%) Retail
3 52 (25.00%) Manufacturing
4 42 (20.19%) Social Skills
5 40 (19.23%) Electronics
6 37 (17.79%) Analytical Skills
7 29 (13.94%) Marketing
8 13 (6.25%) Automotive
9 8 (3.85%) Games
10 7 (3.37%) Aerospace
10 7 (3.37%) Aviation
11 5 (2.40%) Aeronautics
11 5 (2.40%) Banking
11 5 (2.40%) Legal
11 5 (2.40%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.40%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.44%) French Language
13 3 (1.44%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 45 (21.63%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 45 (21.63%) Programmer
1 45 (21.63%) Trainee
1 45 (21.63%) Trainee Programmer
2 24 (11.54%) Systems Engineer
3 20 (9.62%) Principal Engineer
3 20 (9.62%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 20 (9.62%) Senior
3 20 (9.62%) Software Engineer
4 17 (8.17%) Lead
5 13 (6.25%) Developer
6 11 (5.29%) FPGA Engineer
7 10 (4.81%) Embedded Engineer
8 8 (3.85%) Robotics Engineer
9 7 (3.37%) Algorithm Engineer
9 7 (3.37%) C++ Software Engineer
9 7 (3.37%) SEO Executive
10 6 (2.88%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 6 (2.88%) Senior Developer
11 5 (2.40%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (25.48%) NumPy
1 53 (25.48%) Pandas
2 51 (24.52%) scikit-learn
3 49 (23.56%) Matplotlib
4 46 (22.12%) Hugging Face
4 46 (22.12%) Streamlit
5 13 (6.25%) TensorFlow
6 11 (5.29%) PyTorch
7 8 (3.85%) .NET
8 7 (3.37%) HTML
9 6 (2.88%) CSS
9 6 (2.88%) FHIR
9 6 (2.88%) Middleware
10 5 (2.40%) Play Framework
11 4 (1.92%) .NET Core
11 4 (1.92%) DirectX
11 4 (1.92%) OpenGL
12 3 (1.44%) Keras
12 3 (1.44%) OpenCV
12 3 (1.44%) React
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.65%) FPGA
2 10 (4.81%) PCIe
3 9 (4.33%) Robotics
4 8 (3.85%) 3D Graphics
4 8 (3.85%) Embedded Systems
4 8 (3.85%) Life Science
4 8 (3.85%) VHDL
5 7 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.37%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.88%) NVMe
6 6 (2.88%) Omics
7 5 (2.40%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.40%) CUDA
7 5 (2.40%) Social Media
8 4 (1.92%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.44%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.44%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.44%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.44%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.44%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.81%) Linux
2 4 (1.92%) Android
2 4 (1.92%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.92%) Unix
3 2 (0.96%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (49.52%) AI
2 93 (44.71%) Machine Learning
3 61 (29.33%) Visualisation
4 59 (28.37%) LLM
5 56 (26.92%) OO
6 49 (23.56%) Neural Network
6 49 (23.56%) Workflow
7 47 (22.60%) Data Privacy
7 47 (22.60%) Prompt Engineering
7 47 (22.60%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 47 (22.60%) Software Engineering
8 46 (22.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
8 46 (22.12%) Conversational UI
8 46 (22.12%) Customer Service
8 46 (22.12%) OOP
8 46 (22.12%) Sentiment Analysis
9 43 (20.67%) Analytics
10 41 (19.71%) Computer Science
11 38 (18.27%) Signal Processing
12 30 (14.42%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 112 (53.85%) Python
2 51 (24.52%) C++
3 40 (19.23%) C
4 20 (9.62%) SQL
5 19 (9.13%) C#
6 13 (6.25%) R
7 12 (5.77%) Java
8 11 (5.29%) MATLAB
9 8 (3.85%) Assembly Language
9 8 (3.85%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.40%) Scala
11 4 (1.92%) Bash
11 4 (1.92%) Rust
11 4 (1.92%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.96%) Embedded C
12 2 (0.96%) Fortran
12 2 (0.96%) Go
12 2 (0.96%) Google Apps Script
12 2 (0.96%) Swift
12 2 (0.96%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 58 (27.88%) Degree
2 46 (22.12%) AWS Certification
2 46 (22.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 29 (13.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 25 (12.02%) Master's Degree
5 22 (10.58%) PhD
5 22 (10.58%) Security Cleared
6 18 (8.65%) SC Cleared
7 7 (3.37%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.40%) MBA
9 3 (1.44%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.48%) CEH
10 1 (0.48%) CISM
10 1 (0.48%) CISSP
10 1 (0.48%) GIAC
10 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.62%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 8 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.37%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.88%) CDISC
4 6 (2.88%) GxP
4 6 (2.88%) HL7
5 5 (2.40%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (1.92%) IEC 61508
6 4 (1.92%) ISO 26262
7 2 (0.96%) NIST
8 1 (0.48%) AUTOSAR
8 1 (0.48%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.48%) GDPR
8 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.48%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.48%) QA
8 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (10.58%) Firmware
2 10 (4.81%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (1.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.96%) Kubeflow
2 1 (0.48%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 51 (24.52%) Microsoft
2 25 (12.02%) Google
3 20 (9.62%) IBM
4 10 (4.81%) Altera
5 9 (4.33%) Screaming Frog
6 7 (3.37%) Databricks
7 6 (2.88%) Xilinx
8 5 (2.40%) BT
9 4 (1.92%) Ahrefs
10 3 (1.44%) Botify
11 2 (0.96%) Hotjar
11 2 (0.96%) Thales
12 1 (0.48%) CyberArk
12 1 (0.48%) Foundry
12 1 (0.48%) Huawei
12 1 (0.48%) NVIDIA
12 1 (0.48%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.48%) SAP
12 1 (0.48%) TIBCO
12 1 (0.48%) YouTube