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 3 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 134 99
Rank change year-on-year -208 -35 +57
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 215 555 1,785
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.37% 2.14% 2.80%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.37% 6.08% 8.01%
Number of salaries quoted 131 307 492
10th Percentile - £43,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £51,625 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.65% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £76,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -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 15,714 9,134 22,275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.27% 35.28% 34.96%
Number of salaries quoted 7,548 5,101 14,771
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £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 £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,250 £80,100 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -136 55 £60,000 -4.00% 101
North of England -76 49 £37,500 -47.91% 56
South West -100 32 £40,792 -32.01% 56
Midlands -48 31 £52,500 -12.50% 48
East of England -97 29 £42,500 -44.08% 48
North West -35 28 £37,500 -57.70% 28
West Midlands -18 20 £40,250 -32.92% 21
Yorkshire -62 14 £37,500 -28.57% 15
Scotland -42 11 £37,500 -16.67% 18
East Midlands -57 10 £75,000 +25.00% 27
Wales -30 8 £57,500 -4.17% 8
North East -20 7 £37,500 -59.46% 14
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 49 (22.79%) Jupyter
2 6 (2.79%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.79%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.33%) CMS
3 5 (2.33%) IIS
4 3 (1.40%) Kinematics
5 2 (0.93%) Confluence
6 1 (0.47%) Apache
6 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 49 (22.79%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.86%) Simulink
3 2 (0.93%) CATIA
3 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.93%) OrCAD
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (3.72%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 71 (33.02%) AWS
2 52 (24.19%) Cloud Computing
3 12 (5.58%) Google Analytics
4 9 (4.19%) Azure
5 8 (3.72%) GCP
6 5 (2.33%) Snowflake
7 3 (1.40%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.40%) Prefect
8 2 (0.93%) Google Tag Manager
8 2 (0.93%) SaaS
8 2 (0.93%) Slack
9 1 (0.47%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.47%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.47%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.47%) Firebase
9 1 (0.47%) GitHub
9 1 (0.47%) Google Ads
9 1 (0.47%) Google App Engine
9 1 (0.47%) PaaS
9 1 (0.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.26%) Broadband
2 6 (2.79%) Software-Defined Radio
3 5 (2.33%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.93%) Internet
5 1 (0.47%) IPsec
5 1 (0.47%) S/MIME
5 1 (0.47%) VPN
5 1 (0.47%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.37%) Metadata
2 10 (4.65%) Big Data
2 10 (4.65%) Tableau
3 7 (3.26%) Hadoop
4 6 (2.79%) Data Mining
4 6 (2.79%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.33%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.86%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.93%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.93%) Power BI
8 1 (0.47%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.47%) Spotfire
8 1 (0.47%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 53 (24.65%) Visual Studio Code
2 24 (11.16%) Rational DOORS
3 15 (6.98%) Git
4 4 (1.86%) GitLab
5 2 (0.93%) JIRA
6 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.47%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.47%) MLflow
General
1 66 (30.70%) Finance
2 60 (27.91%) Retail
3 54 (25.12%) Manufacturing
4 37 (17.21%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (13.95%) Electronics
5 30 (13.95%) Marketing
5 30 (13.95%) Social Skills
6 13 (6.05%) Automotive
7 12 (5.58%) Games
8 8 (3.72%) Aerospace
9 5 (2.33%) Aviation
9 5 (2.33%) Banking
9 5 (2.33%) Legal
9 5 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.40%) Aeronautics
11 3 (1.40%) French Language
11 3 (1.40%) Italian Language
11 3 (1.40%) Portuguese Language
11 3 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (21.40%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 46 (21.40%) Programmer
1 46 (21.40%) Trainee
1 46 (21.40%) Trainee Programmer
2 25 (11.63%) Developer
3 24 (11.16%) Software Engineer
4 21 (9.77%) Systems Engineer
5 20 (9.30%) Senior
6 14 (6.51%) FPGA Engineer
6 14 (6.51%) Principal Engineer
6 14 (6.51%) Principal Systems Engineer
7 12 (5.58%) Python Developer
8 11 (5.12%) Lead
9 10 (4.65%) Algorithm Engineer
10 8 (3.72%) Embedded Engineer
10 8 (3.72%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 7 (3.26%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
11 7 (3.26%) Graduate
11 7 (3.26%) Senior Developer
12 6 (2.79%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (29.30%) NumPy
1 63 (29.30%) Pandas
2 53 (24.65%) scikit-learn
3 52 (24.19%) Matplotlib
4 49 (22.79%) Hugging Face
4 49 (22.79%) Streamlit
5 16 (7.44%) PyTorch
6 15 (6.98%) TensorFlow
7 11 (5.12%) HTML
8 10 (4.65%) .NET
9 7 (3.26%) CSS
10 6 (2.79%) OpenCV
10 6 (2.79%) REST
11 5 (2.33%) .NET Core
11 5 (2.33%) Play Framework
12 4 (1.86%) DirectX
12 4 (1.86%) OpenGL
12 4 (1.86%) React
12 4 (1.86%) SciPy
13 3 (1.40%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.77%) FPGA
2 12 (5.58%) PCIe
3 11 (5.12%) VHDL
4 8 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.72%) NVMe
5 7 (3.26%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.26%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.26%) Video\Live Streaming
6 6 (2.79%) 3D Graphics
6 6 (2.79%) Embedded Systems
7 5 (2.33%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.33%) CUDA
7 5 (2.33%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.33%) Driving Licence
7 5 (2.33%) Low-Code
7 5 (2.33%) Robotics
7 5 (2.33%) Social Media
8 4 (1.86%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.86%) Life Science
8 4 (1.86%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.19%) Linux
2 4 (1.86%) Android
2 4 (1.86%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.86%) Windows
3 3 (1.40%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (1.40%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (1.40%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (0.93%) Robot Operating System
4 2 (0.93%) Unix
4 2 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (45.58%) AI
2 97 (45.12%) Machine Learning
3 66 (30.70%) Visualisation
4 62 (28.84%) LLM
5 59 (27.44%) OO
6 55 (25.58%) Software Engineering
7 54 (25.12%) OOP
8 52 (24.19%) Neural Network
8 52 (24.19%) Workflow
9 51 (23.72%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 50 (23.26%) Data Privacy
10 50 (23.26%) Prompt Engineering
11 49 (22.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 49 (22.79%) Conversational UI
11 49 (22.79%) Customer Service
11 49 (22.79%) Sentiment Analysis
12 38 (17.67%) Computer Science
13 35 (16.28%) Analytics
13 35 (16.28%) Signal Processing
14 24 (11.16%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 123 (57.21%) Python
2 47 (21.86%) C++
3 29 (13.49%) C
4 22 (10.23%) C#
5 19 (8.84%) SQL
6 12 (5.58%) R
7 10 (4.65%) Java
8 8 (3.72%) Assembly Language
8 8 (3.72%) MATLAB
9 7 (3.26%) JavaScript
10 6 (2.79%) Go
11 5 (2.33%) Scala
12 4 (1.86%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.93%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.93%) Embedded C++
13 2 (0.93%) Julia
13 2 (0.93%) Rust
13 2 (0.93%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.47%) Bash
14 1 (0.47%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 50 (23.26%) Degree
2 49 (22.79%) AWS Certification
2 49 (22.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 23 (10.70%) Master's Degree
4 16 (7.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 16 (7.44%) PhD
5 14 (6.51%) Security Cleared
6 8 (3.72%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.79%) SC Cleared
9 5 (2.33%) MBA
10 3 (1.40%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.47%) CEH
11 1 (0.47%) CISM
11 1 (0.47%) CISSP
11 1 (0.47%) GIAC
11 1 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.44%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 7 (3.26%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.33%) Actionable Recommendations
3 5 (2.33%) QA
4 4 (1.86%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.86%) IEC 61508
4 4 (1.86%) ISO 26262
5 2 (0.93%) CDISC
5 2 (0.93%) GDPR
5 2 (0.93%) GxP
5 2 (0.93%) HL7
5 2 (0.93%) NIST
6 1 (0.47%) AUTOSAR
6 1 (0.47%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.47%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (9.77%) Firmware
2 12 (5.58%) Embedded Firmware
3 7 (3.26%) Docker
4 3 (1.40%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.40%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.40%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.40%) SCCM
1 3 (1.40%) SCOM
1 3 (1.40%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 2 (0.93%) Kubeflow
2 2 (0.93%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 54 (25.12%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.77%) Google
3 19 (8.84%) IBM
4 12 (5.58%) Altera
5 10 (4.65%) Databricks
5 10 (4.65%) Screaming Frog
6 9 (4.19%) Xilinx
7 5 (2.33%) BT
8 4 (1.86%) Ahrefs
9 3 (1.40%) Botify
9 3 (1.40%) Dell
9 3 (1.40%) HP
9 3 (1.40%) McAfee
9 3 (1.40%) VMware
10 2 (0.93%) Hotjar
10 2 (0.93%) Thales
11 1 (0.47%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.47%) Foundry
11 1 (0.47%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.47%) OpenAI