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 25 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 153 125
Rank change year-on-year -182 -28 +22
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 206 575 1,203
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.42% 1.86% 2.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.39% 5.30% 6.76%
Number of salaries quoted 114 297 437
10th Percentile - £43,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £68,563 £76,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £75,900 £85,000 £86,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - -3.70% -6.90%

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 14,788 10,848 17,804
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.83% 35.16% 35.06%
Number of salaries quoted 6,988 4,864 12,594
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,325 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,013 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.65% +13.18% -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 25 February 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 25 February 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 -124 53 £67,500 +8.00% 75
North of England -40 43 £37,500 -43.61% 39
East of England -54 36 £55,000 -27.63% 38
South West -80 34 £40,792 -37.24% 36
North West -8 25 £37,500 -56.01% 23
Midlands -32 21 £55,000 -8.33% 27
West Midlands +2 14 £41,250 -31.25% 12
Yorkshire -38 13 £37,500 -16.67% 9
Scotland -35 12 £37,500 -16.67% 14
Wales -15 7 £57,500 -13.27% 8
East Midlands -46 7 £75,000 +25.00% 15
North East -8 5 £37,500 -37.50% 7
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 42 (20.39%) Jupyter
2 9 (4.37%) Kinematics
3 7 (3.40%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.43%) IIS
5 3 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.97%) CMS
6 2 (0.97%) WordPress
7 1 (0.49%) Apache
Applications
1 42 (20.39%) Chatbot
2 7 (3.40%) Simulink
3 5 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.49%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.43%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 56 (27.18%) AWS
2 45 (21.84%) Cloud Computing
3 13 (6.31%) Google Analytics
4 8 (3.88%) Azure
4 8 (3.88%) GCP
5 5 (2.43%) Google Workspace
5 5 (2.43%) Snowflake
6 4 (1.94%) Google Tag Manager
7 3 (1.46%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.97%) Google Docs
8 2 (0.97%) Google Sheets
8 2 (0.97%) Slack
9 1 (0.49%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.49%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.49%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.49%) Firebase
9 1 (0.49%) GitHub
9 1 (0.49%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (0.49%) Google App Engine
9 1 (0.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.88%) Software-Defined Radio
2 4 (1.94%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.97%) Broadband
4 1 (0.49%) Internet
4 1 (0.49%) S/MIME
4 1 (0.49%) VPN
4 1 (0.49%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.74%) Metadata
2 14 (6.80%) Big Data
3 11 (5.34%) Tableau
4 8 (3.88%) Hadoop
5 7 (3.40%) Data Lake
6 6 (2.91%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.43%) Data Mining
8 4 (1.94%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.46%) Power BI
10 2 (0.97%) Looker
11 1 (0.49%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.49%) GIS
11 1 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.49%) Spotfire
11 1 (0.49%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 45 (21.84%) Visual Studio Code
2 27 (13.11%) Rational DOORS
3 8 (3.88%) Git
4 3 (1.46%) GitLab
5 2 (0.97%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.49%) JIRA
6 1 (0.49%) MLflow
6 1 (0.49%) TestRail
General
1 58 (28.16%) Finance
2 50 (24.27%) Retail
3 48 (23.30%) Manufacturing
4 46 (22.33%) Electronics
5 44 (21.36%) Social Skills
6 35 (16.99%) Analytical Skills
7 27 (13.11%) Marketing
8 12 (5.83%) Automotive
9 8 (3.88%) Aviation
10 7 (3.40%) Aerospace
11 6 (2.91%) Aeronautics
11 6 (2.91%) Telecoms
12 5 (2.43%) Banking
12 5 (2.43%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.94%) Games
14 3 (1.46%) Avionics
14 3 (1.46%) French Language
14 3 (1.46%) Italian Language
14 3 (1.46%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 42 (20.39%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 42 (20.39%) Programmer
1 42 (20.39%) Trainee
1 42 (20.39%) Trainee Programmer
2 25 (12.14%) Systems Engineer
3 22 (10.68%) Principal Engineer
3 22 (10.68%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 22 (10.68%) Senior
4 21 (10.19%) Lead
5 20 (9.71%) Software Engineer
6 11 (5.34%) Developer
6 11 (5.34%) Robotics Engineer
7 10 (4.85%) Embedded Engineer
7 10 (4.85%) FPGA Engineer
8 7 (3.40%) Algorithm Engineer
8 7 (3.40%) C++ Software Engineer
8 7 (3.40%) SEO Specialist
9 6 (2.91%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 6 (2.91%) Senior Developer
9 6 (2.91%) SEO Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (23.30%) NumPy
1 48 (23.30%) Pandas
2 47 (22.82%) scikit-learn
3 45 (21.84%) Matplotlib
4 42 (20.39%) Hugging Face
4 42 (20.39%) Streamlit
5 13 (6.31%) TensorFlow
6 11 (5.34%) PyTorch
7 9 (4.37%) HTML
7 9 (4.37%) Middleware
8 8 (3.88%) .NET
8 8 (3.88%) CSS
9 7 (3.40%) FHIR
10 5 (2.43%) Play Framework
11 4 (1.94%) .NET Core
11 4 (1.94%) DirectX
11 4 (1.94%) OpenGL
12 3 (1.46%) React
12 3 (1.46%) Seaborn
13 2 (0.97%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.77%) FPGA
2 12 (5.83%) Robotics
3 9 (4.37%) Embedded Systems
3 9 (4.37%) Life Science
3 9 (4.37%) PCIe
4 8 (3.88%) 3D Graphics
5 7 (3.40%) Omics
5 7 (3.40%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.40%) VHDL
6 6 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.43%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.43%) CUDA
7 5 (2.43%) NVMe
7 5 (2.43%) Social Media
8 3 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.46%) Arduino
8 3 (1.46%) Augmented Reality
8 3 (1.46%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.46%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.46%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.37%) Linux
2 4 (1.94%) Android
2 4 (1.94%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.46%) Unix
4 2 (0.97%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (49.51%) AI
2 88 (42.72%) Machine Learning
3 58 (28.16%) Visualisation
4 55 (26.70%) OO
5 54 (26.21%) LLM
6 50 (24.27%) Software Engineering
7 47 (22.82%) Analytics
8 45 (21.84%) Neural Network
8 45 (21.84%) Workflow
9 43 (20.87%) Data Privacy
9 43 (20.87%) Prompt Engineering
9 43 (20.87%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 42 (20.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
10 42 (20.39%) Computer Science
10 42 (20.39%) Conversational UI
10 42 (20.39%) Customer Service
10 42 (20.39%) OOP
10 42 (20.39%) Sentiment Analysis
10 42 (20.39%) Signal Processing
11 31 (15.05%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 108 (52.43%) Python
2 53 (25.73%) C++
3 43 (20.87%) C
4 22 (10.68%) C#
5 20 (9.71%) SQL
6 14 (6.80%) Java
6 14 (6.80%) MATLAB
6 14 (6.80%) R
7 11 (5.34%) JavaScript
8 8 (3.88%) Assembly Language
9 5 (2.43%) Scala
10 4 (1.94%) Rust
10 4 (1.94%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.46%) Bash
11 3 (1.46%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (1.46%) Objective-C
11 3 (1.46%) Swift
11 3 (1.46%) Tcl
12 2 (0.97%) Fortran
13 1 (0.49%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 63 (30.58%) Degree
2 42 (20.39%) AWS Certification
2 42 (20.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 35 (16.99%) BPSS Clearance
4 27 (13.11%) Security Cleared
5 26 (12.62%) Master's Degree
6 22 (10.68%) PhD
6 22 (10.68%) SC Cleared
7 7 (3.40%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.43%) MBA
9 4 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.94%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.49%) CEH
10 1 (0.49%) CISM
10 1 (0.49%) CISSP
10 1 (0.49%) GIAC
10 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (10.68%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 9 (4.37%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.40%) CDISC
3 7 (3.40%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.40%) GxP
3 7 (3.40%) HL7
4 6 (2.91%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (1.94%) IEC 61508
5 4 (1.94%) ISO 26262
6 2 (0.97%) NIST
7 1 (0.49%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.49%) GDPR
7 1 (0.49%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.49%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (9.71%) Firmware
2 9 (4.37%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (1.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.97%) Kubeflow
2 1 (0.49%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 48 (23.30%) Microsoft
2 25 (12.14%) Google
3 22 (10.68%) IBM
4 9 (4.37%) Altera
4 9 (4.37%) Screaming Frog
5 7 (3.40%) Databricks
6 6 (2.91%) Ahrefs
7 5 (2.43%) BT
7 5 (2.43%) Xilinx
8 2 (0.97%) Hotjar
9 1 (0.49%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.49%) Foundry
9 1 (0.49%) Huawei
9 1 (0.49%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.49%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.49%) SAP
9 1 (0.49%) Thales
9 1 (0.49%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.49%) YouTube