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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 146 94
Rank change year-on-year -195 -52 +62
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 238 537 1,878
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.38% 2.04% 2.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.45% 5.63% 8.07%
Number of salaries quoted 156 292 525
10th Percentile - £43,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £48,438 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £75,450 £86,250 £86,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -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 16,361 9,530 23,263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.35% 36.22% 34.86%
Number of salaries quoted 7,922 5,224 15,207
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,739 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.10% +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 16 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 16 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 -133 67 £60,000 -3.23% 89
North of England -63 55 £37,500 -47.91% 38
South West -95 38 £50,000 -16.67% 38
Midlands -54 30 £50,000 -16.67% 26
East of England -104 29 £37,500 -50.66% 42
North West -37 28 £37,500 -57.70% 15
West Midlands -14 19 £37,500 -37.50% 12
Yorkshire -50 19 £37,500 -28.57% 12
Scotland -37 12 £38,500 -14.44% 17
East Midlands -64 10 £75,000 +25.00% 14
North East -31 8 £37,500 -63.86% 11
Wales -36 7 £57,500 -4.17% 4
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 (20.59%) Jupyter
2 7 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.52%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.10%) CMS
4 5 (2.10%) IIS
5 2 (0.84%) Confluence
5 2 (0.84%) Kinematics
6 1 (0.42%) Apache
6 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.42%) WordPress
Applications
1 49 (20.59%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.68%) Simulink
3 3 (1.26%) CATIA
4 2 (0.84%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (4.20%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 73 (30.67%) AWS
2 52 (21.85%) Cloud Computing
3 12 (5.04%) Google Analytics
4 11 (4.62%) Azure
5 9 (3.78%) GCP
6 5 (2.10%) Snowflake
7 4 (1.68%) Prefect
8 2 (0.84%) Google Ads
8 2 (0.84%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.84%) SaaS
8 2 (0.84%) Slack
9 1 (0.42%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.42%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.42%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.42%) Firebase
9 1 (0.42%) GitHub
9 1 (0.42%) Google App Engine
9 1 (0.42%) Google Tag Manager
9 1 (0.42%) PaaS
9 1 (0.42%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.94%) Broadband
2 5 (2.10%) Ethernet
2 5 (2.10%) Software-Defined Radio
3 3 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.42%) Internet
4 1 (0.42%) IPsec
4 1 (0.42%) S/MIME
4 1 (0.42%) VPN
4 1 (0.42%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.56%) Metadata
2 10 (4.20%) Big Data
3 9 (3.78%) Tableau
4 7 (2.94%) Hadoop
5 6 (2.52%) Data Mining
5 6 (2.52%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.10%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.68%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.42%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.42%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.42%) Power BI
8 1 (0.42%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 59 (24.79%) Visual Studio Code
2 26 (10.92%) Rational DOORS
3 24 (10.08%) Git
4 9 (3.78%) GitLab
5 2 (0.84%) JIRA
6 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.42%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.42%) MLflow
General
1 66 (27.73%) Finance
2 60 (25.21%) Retail
3 56 (23.53%) Manufacturing
4 36 (15.13%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (13.87%) Marketing
6 31 (13.03%) Social Skills
7 28 (11.76%) Electronics
8 13 (5.46%) Automotive
9 12 (5.04%) Games
10 9 (3.78%) Aerospace
11 5 (2.10%) Aviation
11 5 (2.10%) Banking
11 5 (2.10%) Legal
11 5 (2.10%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.68%) Advertising
12 4 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.26%) French Language
13 3 (1.26%) Italian Language
13 3 (1.26%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 46 (19.33%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 46 (19.33%) Programmer
1 46 (19.33%) Trainee
1 46 (19.33%) Trainee Programmer
2 36 (15.13%) Software Engineer
3 33 (13.87%) Developer
4 26 (10.92%) Senior
5 21 (8.82%) Systems Engineer
6 19 (7.98%) Python Developer
7 16 (6.72%) FPGA Engineer
8 13 (5.46%) Principal Engineer
8 13 (5.46%) Principal Systems Engineer
9 11 (4.62%) Embedded Engineer
9 11 (4.62%) Senior Software Engineer
10 10 (4.20%) Algorithm Engineer
11 9 (3.78%) SEO Specialist
12 8 (3.36%) Graduate
12 8 (3.36%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 7 (2.94%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
13 7 (2.94%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (29.41%) NumPy
1 70 (29.41%) Pandas
2 53 (22.27%) scikit-learn
3 52 (21.85%) Matplotlib
4 49 (20.59%) Hugging Face
4 49 (20.59%) Streamlit
5 17 (7.14%) PyTorch
6 15 (6.30%) TensorFlow
7 12 (5.04%) HTML
8 11 (4.62%) .NET
9 7 (2.94%) CSS
9 7 (2.94%) OpenCV
10 6 (2.52%) REST
11 5 (2.10%) .NET Core
11 5 (2.10%) Play Framework
11 5 (2.10%) SciPy
12 4 (1.68%) DirectX
12 4 (1.68%) Google JAX
12 4 (1.68%) JAX
12 4 (1.68%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.66%) FPGA
2 14 (5.88%) PCIe
3 13 (5.46%) VHDL
4 10 (4.20%) NVMe
5 9 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.78%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.78%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.94%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.94%) Video\Live Streaming
7 6 (2.52%) Driving Licence
7 6 (2.52%) Embedded Systems
8 5 (2.10%) 3D Graphics
8 5 (2.10%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.10%) CUDA
8 5 (2.10%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.10%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.10%) Social Media
9 4 (1.68%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.68%) Robotics
10 3 (1.26%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.88%) Linux
2 6 (2.52%) Windows
3 4 (1.68%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (1.68%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (1.68%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (1.26%) Android
4 3 (1.26%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.26%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.84%) Robot Operating System
5 2 (0.84%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (39.92%) AI
2 94 (39.50%) Machine Learning
3 68 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 65 (27.31%) Visualisation
5 61 (25.63%) LLM
6 59 (24.79%) OO
7 57 (23.95%) OOP
8 52 (21.85%) Workflow
9 51 (21.43%) Neural Network
9 51 (21.43%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 50 (21.01%) Data Privacy
10 50 (21.01%) Prompt Engineering
11 49 (20.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 49 (20.59%) Conversational UI
11 49 (20.59%) Customer Service
11 49 (20.59%) Sentiment Analysis
12 44 (18.49%) Computer Science
13 41 (17.23%) Signal Processing
14 35 (14.71%) Analytics
15 28 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 133 (55.88%) Python
2 55 (23.11%) C++
3 30 (12.61%) C
4 28 (11.76%) C#
5 21 (8.82%) SQL
6 11 (4.62%) R
7 10 (4.20%) Assembly Language
7 10 (4.20%) Java
8 9 (3.78%) MATLAB
9 6 (2.52%) Go
9 6 (2.52%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.10%) Scala
11 4 (1.68%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.84%) Embedded C
12 2 (0.84%) Embedded C++
12 2 (0.84%) Julia
12 2 (0.84%) Rust
12 2 (0.84%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.42%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 53 (22.27%) Degree
2 49 (20.59%) AWS Certification
2 49 (20.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 24 (10.08%) Master's Degree
4 19 (7.98%) Security Cleared
5 16 (6.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (5.46%) PhD
7 10 (4.20%) SC Cleared
8 8 (3.36%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.10%) MBA
11 3 (1.26%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.42%) CEH
12 1 (0.42%) CISM
12 1 (0.42%) CISSP
12 1 (0.42%) GIAC
12 1 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.72%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 7 (2.94%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.10%) Actionable Recommendations
3 5 (2.10%) QA
4 4 (1.68%) IEC 61508
4 4 (1.68%) ISO 26262
5 3 (1.26%) GDPR
6 2 (0.84%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.84%) NIST
7 1 (0.42%) AUTOSAR
7 1 (0.42%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.42%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.42%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (9.66%) Firmware
2 14 (5.88%) Embedded Firmware
3 13 (5.46%) Docker
4 4 (1.68%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.68%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.68%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.68%) SCCM
1 4 (1.68%) SCOM
1 4 (1.68%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 3 (1.26%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.84%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.42%) Terraform
Vendors
1 54 (22.69%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.24%) Google
3 20 (8.40%) IBM
4 14 (5.88%) Altera
5 11 (4.62%) Databricks
5 11 (4.62%) Xilinx
6 10 (4.20%) Screaming Frog
7 5 (2.10%) BT
8 4 (1.68%) Ahrefs
8 4 (1.68%) Dell
8 4 (1.68%) HP
8 4 (1.68%) McAfee
8 4 (1.68%) VMware
9 3 (1.26%) Botify
9 3 (1.26%) Rockwell
10 2 (0.84%) Hotjar
10 2 (0.84%) Thales
11 1 (0.42%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.42%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.42%) SAP