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 28 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 214 114
Rank change year-on-year -98 -100 +82
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 379 474 1,368
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.51% 1.39% 2.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.23% 3.52% 6.92%
Number of salaries quoted 269 202 381
10th Percentile - £35,175 £38,620
25th Percentile £33,750 £47,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £97,525 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -7.14%

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 16,971 13,454 19,759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.05% 39.42% 31.15%
Number of salaries quoted 11,155 6,199 11,513
10th Percentile £29,750 £26,500 £27,340
25th Percentile £36,750 £33,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,507 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.23% -2.99% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £79,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,589 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.79% +3.64% -13.61%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -30 128 £70,000 +12.90% 67
East of England -2 83 £65,000 +18.18% 48
North of England -13 71 £37,500 -48.28% 43
South West -83 46 £55,000 +19.89% 34
Midlands -32 30 £37,500 -37.50% 19
Yorkshire -20 29 £37,500 -37.50% 9
North West -6 25 £37,500 -56.01% 23
West Midlands -9 23 £37,500 -37.50% 7
North East -32 17 £52,000 -54.78% 13
Scotland -49 17 £38,500 -33.04% 8
East Midlands -27 6 £57,500 +112.96% 12
Wales -72 2 £39,500 -39.23% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £39,500 - 8
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 50 (13.19%) Jupyter
2 6 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (1.58%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.06%) CMS
4 2 (0.53%) Confluence
5 1 (0.26%) SAS
5 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 48 (12.66%) Chatbot
2 11 (2.90%) Simulink
3 3 (0.79%) CATIA
4 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.53%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 11 (2.90%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 83 (21.90%) AWS
2 52 (13.72%) Cloud Computing
3 20 (5.28%) Azure
4 19 (5.01%) Google Analytics
5 12 (3.17%) Google Ads
6 8 (2.11%) GCP
7 7 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (1.85%) SaaS
8 6 (1.58%) GitHub
9 5 (1.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (1.06%) Prefect
11 3 (0.79%) Slack
12 2 (0.53%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (0.53%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.53%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.53%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (0.53%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (0.53%) Serverless
13 1 (0.26%) Amazon SageMaker
13 1 (0.26%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.37%) Broadband
2 5 (1.32%) Software-Defined Radio
3 4 (1.06%) Internet
4 3 (0.79%) Ethernet
4 3 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.79%) Wireless
5 2 (0.53%) Firewall
6 1 (0.26%) 5G
6 1 (0.26%) IPsec
6 1 (0.26%) MQTT
6 1 (0.26%) RS-422
6 1 (0.26%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.33%) Metadata
2 16 (4.22%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (1.85%) Big Data
3 7 (1.85%) MongoDB
4 6 (1.58%) GIS
5 5 (1.32%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.06%) MySQL
6 4 (1.06%) Redis
7 3 (0.79%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.53%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.53%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.53%) Pinecone
8 2 (0.53%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.26%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.26%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 69 (18.21%) Visual Studio Code
2 45 (11.87%) Git
3 20 (5.28%) Rational DOORS
4 14 (3.69%) GitLab
5 4 (1.06%) JIRA
6 3 (0.79%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.79%) PetaLinux
6 3 (0.79%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.53%) CMake
7 2 (0.53%) MLflow
7 2 (0.53%) Plastic SCM
7 2 (0.53%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.26%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 89 (23.48%) Finance
2 58 (15.30%) Retail
3 52 (13.72%) Manufacturing
4 50 (13.19%) Social Skills
5 41 (10.82%) Marketing
6 32 (8.44%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (6.86%) Electronics
8 20 (5.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (4.49%) Aerospace
10 16 (4.22%) Advertising
11 15 (3.96%) Automotive
12 13 (3.43%) Games
13 11 (2.90%) Banking
14 5 (1.32%) Law
15 4 (1.06%) Legal
15 4 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (1.06%) Private Banking
16 3 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
17 2 (0.53%) Financial Institution
18 1 (0.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 90 (23.75%) Software Engineer
2 56 (14.78%) Developer
3 51 (13.46%) Senior
4 45 (11.87%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
4 45 (11.87%) Programmer
4 45 (11.87%) Trainee
4 45 (11.87%) Trainee Programmer
5 41 (10.82%) Lead
6 38 (10.03%) Embedded Engineer
7 26 (6.86%) Python Developer
8 25 (6.60%) Senior Software Engineer
9 22 (5.80%) FPGA Engineer
10 19 (5.01%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 19 (5.01%) Senior Embedded Engineer
11 18 (4.75%) SEO Specialist
12 16 (4.22%) Systems Engineer
13 12 (3.17%) Data Scientist
14 11 (2.90%) Design Engineer
15 10 (2.64%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
15 10 (2.64%) SEO Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (17.68%) NumPy
1 67 (17.68%) Pandas
2 52 (13.72%) Hugging Face
3 51 (13.46%) scikit-learn
4 49 (12.93%) Matplotlib
4 49 (12.93%) Streamlit
5 21 (5.54%) PyTorch
6 20 (5.28%) HTML
7 16 (4.22%) CSS
8 14 (3.69%) .NET
8 14 (3.69%) TensorFlow
9 10 (2.64%) React
9 10 (2.64%) REST
10 9 (2.37%) Yocto
11 8 (2.11%) Flask
12 7 (1.85%) .NET Core
13 6 (1.58%) Google JAX
13 6 (1.58%) JAX
13 6 (1.58%) Node.js
13 6 (1.58%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 35 (9.23%) Embedded Systems
2 30 (7.92%) FPGA
3 21 (5.54%) VHDL
4 19 (5.01%) Data Structures
4 19 (5.01%) PCIe
5 18 (4.75%) Product Ownership
6 15 (3.96%) Robotics
7 12 (3.17%) Driving Licence
8 11 (2.90%) NVMe
9 10 (2.64%) Renewable Energy
10 8 (2.11%) SCADA
10 8 (2.11%) Verilog
10 8 (2.11%) Video\Live Streaming
11 7 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.85%) IoT
11 7 (1.85%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.58%) Device Driver
12 6 (1.58%) Management Information System
13 5 (1.32%) Client/Server
13 5 (1.32%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.39%) Linux
2 10 (2.64%) Windows
3 9 (2.37%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (1.32%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (1.06%) Robot Operating System
5 4 (1.06%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.53%) Unix
7 1 (0.26%) Android
7 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (33.25%) Software Engineering
2 118 (31.13%) AI
3 95 (25.07%) Machine Learning
4 69 (18.21%) Computer Science
5 65 (17.15%) OOP
6 59 (15.57%) LLM
7 58 (15.30%) OO
7 58 (15.30%) Visualisation
8 54 (14.25%) Workflow
9 52 (13.72%) Prompt Engineering
10 49 (12.93%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 49 (12.93%) Signal Processing
11 48 (12.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 48 (12.66%) Conversational UI
11 48 (12.66%) Customer Service
11 48 (12.66%) Data Privacy
11 48 (12.66%) Neural Network
11 48 (12.66%) Sentiment Analysis
12 46 (12.14%) Problem-Solving
13 40 (10.55%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 191 (50.40%) Python
2 86 (22.69%) C++
3 50 (13.19%) C
4 44 (11.61%) C#
5 20 (5.28%) MATLAB
6 18 (4.75%) SQL
7 15 (3.96%) Embedded C++
7 15 (3.96%) Java
8 13 (3.43%) Embedded C
9 11 (2.90%) Assembly Language
9 11 (2.90%) Go
10 9 (2.37%) JavaScript
10 9 (2.37%) Rust
10 9 (2.37%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.53%) Julia
11 2 (0.53%) VBA
12 1 (0.26%) Bash
12 1 (0.26%) Fortran
12 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.26%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 78 (20.58%) Degree
2 50 (13.19%) AWS Certification
3 48 (12.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 45 (11.87%) Security Cleared
5 24 (6.33%) Master's Degree
6 23 (6.07%) SC Cleared
7 19 (5.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (4.49%) DV Cleared
9 15 (3.96%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (3.17%) PhD
11 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.53%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.26%) HND
12 1 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.90%) GDPR
2 10 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 7 (1.85%) QA
4 6 (1.58%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.58%) Automotive SPICE
4 6 (1.58%) ISO 26262
4 6 (1.58%) MISRA
4 6 (1.58%) MISRA C
5 4 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 2 (0.53%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.26%) AUTOSAR
7 1 (0.26%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 44 (11.61%) Firmware
2 37 (9.76%) Docker
3 23 (6.07%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (1.32%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.32%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (4.49%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.32%) SCCM
2 5 (1.32%) SCOM
2 5 (1.32%) Terraform
2 5 (1.32%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 3 (0.79%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.26%) Ansible
4 1 (0.26%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 58 (15.30%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.92%) Google
3 13 (3.43%) Altera
4 12 (3.17%) IBM
4 12 (3.17%) Xilinx
5 9 (2.37%) Databricks
6 7 (1.85%) Screaming Frog
7 5 (1.32%) Dell
7 5 (1.32%) HP
7 5 (1.32%) McAfee
7 5 (1.32%) VMware
8 4 (1.06%) TikTok
9 3 (0.79%) Botify
9 3 (0.79%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.79%) Rockwell
10 1 (0.26%) Ahrefs
10 1 (0.26%) Intel
10 1 (0.26%) MathWorks
10 1 (0.26%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.26%) Thales