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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 202 106
Rank change year-on-year -105 -96 +74
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 327 478 1,898
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.49% 1.61% 2.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.18% 3.86% 7.57%
Number of salaries quoted 235 208 558
10th Percentile - £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,600 £73,063
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,758 £86,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -13.79%

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 15,019 12,379 25,059
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 22.38% 41.58% 31.79%
Number of salaries quoted 9,838 5,377 15,528
10th Percentile £29,500 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £34,988 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,356 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.71% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 June 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 June 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 -49 111 £67,500 +8.87% 74
North of England -9 67 £37,500 -56.01% 50
East of England -17 57 £65,000 +19.27% 58
South West -87 42 £60,000 +20.00% 48
Midlands -5 34 £37,500 -37.50% 23
North West -1 31 £37,500 -56.88% 26
West Midlands -9 26 £37,500 -37.50% 13
Yorkshire -23 21 £37,500 -47.91% 10
North East -32 15 £52,000 -54.78% 14
Scotland -66 12 £39,500 -31.30% 11
East Midlands -28 7 £57,500 -4.17% 10
Wales -58 2 £39,500 -39.23% 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £39,500 - 5
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 51 (15.60%) Jupyter
2 7 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.14%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.22%) CMS
4 2 (0.61%) Confluence
4 2 (0.61%) IIS
5 1 (0.31%) SAS
5 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 49 (14.98%) Chatbot
2 12 (3.67%) Simulink
3 3 (0.92%) CATIA
4 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.61%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 12 (3.67%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 82 (25.08%) AWS
2 56 (17.13%) Cloud Computing
3 21 (6.42%) Azure
4 14 (4.28%) Google Analytics
5 9 (2.75%) GCP
6 7 (2.14%) SaaS
7 6 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (1.53%) Google Ads
8 5 (1.53%) Slack
8 5 (1.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (1.22%) GitHub
9 4 (1.22%) Prefect
10 2 (0.61%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.61%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.61%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.61%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.31%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.31%) PaaS
11 1 (0.31%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.31%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.36%) Broadband
2 6 (1.83%) Software-Defined Radio
3 5 (1.53%) Ethernet
4 4 (1.22%) Internet
5 3 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.61%) Firewall
7 1 (0.31%) 5G
7 1 (0.31%) IPsec
7 1 (0.31%) MQTT
7 1 (0.31%) RS-422
7 1 (0.31%) Wireless
7 1 (0.31%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.81%) Metadata
2 14 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (3.06%) Big Data
4 7 (2.14%) MongoDB
5 6 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (1.83%) GIS
5 6 (1.83%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.22%) Hadoop
6 4 (1.22%) Tableau
7 3 (0.92%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.92%) MySQL
7 3 (0.92%) Redis
8 2 (0.61%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.61%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.61%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.31%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.31%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 70 (21.41%) Visual Studio Code
2 42 (12.84%) Git
3 23 (7.03%) Rational DOORS
4 15 (4.59%) GitLab
5 3 (0.92%) JIRA
5 3 (0.92%) PetaLinux
6 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.31%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.31%) MLflow
6 1 (0.31%) Plastic SCM
6 1 (0.31%) TeamCity
General
1 75 (22.94%) Finance
2 60 (18.35%) Retail
3 55 (16.82%) Manufacturing
4 47 (14.37%) Social Skills
5 35 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (9.79%) Marketing
7 29 (8.87%) Electronics
8 19 (5.81%) Automotive
9 16 (4.89%) Aerospace
10 12 (3.67%) Advertising
11 9 (2.75%) Games
12 8 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.92%) Aeronautics
14 3 (0.92%) Banking
14 3 (0.92%) French Language
14 3 (0.92%) Italian Language
14 3 (0.92%) Legal
14 3 (0.92%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 79 (24.16%) Software Engineer
2 52 (15.90%) Developer
3 46 (14.07%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
3 46 (14.07%) Programmer
3 46 (14.07%) Trainee
3 46 (14.07%) Trainee Programmer
4 44 (13.46%) Senior
5 27 (8.26%) Senior Software Engineer
6 25 (7.65%) Embedded Engineer
6 25 (7.65%) Python Developer
7 24 (7.34%) FPGA Engineer
7 24 (7.34%) Lead
8 18 (5.50%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 17 (5.20%) Systems Engineer
10 13 (3.98%) Senior Embedded Engineer
10 13 (3.98%) SEO Specialist
11 10 (3.06%) Graduate
11 10 (3.06%) Lead Software Engineer
11 10 (3.06%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
12 9 (2.75%) Algorithm Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (21.71%) NumPy
1 71 (21.71%) Pandas
2 54 (16.51%) scikit-learn
3 52 (15.90%) Matplotlib
4 50 (15.29%) Streamlit
5 49 (14.98%) Hugging Face
6 20 (6.12%) PyTorch
7 17 (5.20%) HTML
7 17 (5.20%) TensorFlow
8 15 (4.59%) .NET
9 13 (3.98%) CSS
10 9 (2.75%) REST
11 8 (2.45%) Flask
11 8 (2.45%) React
12 7 (2.14%) .NET Core
12 7 (2.14%) OpenCV
13 5 (1.53%) boto
13 5 (1.53%) Jinja
13 5 (1.53%) OpenLayers
13 5 (1.53%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.48%) FPGA
2 27 (8.26%) Embedded Systems
3 21 (6.42%) PCIe
3 21 (6.42%) VHDL
4 17 (5.20%) Data Structures
4 17 (5.20%) Product Ownership
5 13 (3.98%) Robotics
6 12 (3.67%) NVMe
7 10 (3.06%) Onboarding
7 10 (3.06%) Video\Live Streaming
8 8 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (2.14%) Driving Licence
9 7 (2.14%) Verilog
10 6 (1.83%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.53%) Client/Server
11 5 (1.53%) Cloud Native
11 5 (1.53%) CUDA
11 5 (1.53%) IoT
11 5 (1.53%) Over-the-Top Content
11 5 (1.53%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 25 (7.65%) Linux
2 7 (2.14%) Windows
3 6 (1.83%) Robot Operating System
4 5 (1.53%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (1.53%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (1.53%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (1.53%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (1.22%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.92%) Android
6 3 (0.92%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (33.94%) Software Engineering
2 107 (32.72%) AI
3 92 (28.13%) Machine Learning
4 69 (21.10%) Computer Science
5 62 (18.96%) Visualisation
6 61 (18.65%) OOP
7 58 (17.74%) LLM
8 55 (16.82%) OO
9 52 (15.90%) Workflow
10 51 (15.60%) Signal Processing
11 50 (15.29%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
12 49 (14.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
12 49 (14.98%) Conversational UI
12 49 (14.98%) Customer Service
12 49 (14.98%) Data Privacy
12 49 (14.98%) Neural Network
12 49 (14.98%) Prompt Engineering
12 49 (14.98%) Sentiment Analysis
13 38 (11.62%) Analytics
13 38 (11.62%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 172 (52.60%) Python
2 82 (25.08%) C++
3 44 (13.46%) C
4 41 (12.54%) C#
5 21 (6.42%) MATLAB
6 19 (5.81%) SQL
7 14 (4.28%) Java
8 12 (3.67%) Assembly Language
9 11 (3.36%) JavaScript
10 10 (3.06%) Embedded C
10 10 (3.06%) Embedded C++
10 10 (3.06%) Go
11 8 (2.45%) TypeScript
12 7 (2.14%) Rust
13 5 (1.53%) R
14 2 (0.61%) Julia
14 2 (0.61%) Scala
14 2 (0.61%) VBA
15 1 (0.31%) Bash
15 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 72 (22.02%) Degree
2 51 (15.60%) AWS Certification
3 49 (14.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 38 (11.62%) Security Cleared
5 26 (7.95%) Master's Degree
6 18 (5.50%) SC Cleared
7 17 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (4.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (4.28%) DV Cleared
10 12 (3.67%) PhD
11 3 (0.92%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.61%) MBA
12 2 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.31%) HND
13 1 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.59%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 6 (1.83%) QA
3 5 (1.53%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.53%) GDPR
4 4 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 3 (0.92%) Automotive SPICE
5 3 (0.92%) ISO 26262
5 3 (0.92%) MISRA
5 3 (0.92%) MISRA C
6 2 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.31%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 35 (10.70%) Firmware
2 34 (10.40%) Docker
3 14 (4.28%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (1.53%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.53%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.53%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (4.59%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.53%) Kubeflow
2 5 (1.53%) SCCM
2 5 (1.53%) SCOM
2 5 (1.53%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 3 (0.92%) Terraform
4 1 (0.31%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 57 (17.43%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.34%) Google
3 16 (4.89%) Altera
3 16 (4.89%) IBM
4 13 (3.98%) Xilinx
5 10 (3.06%) Databricks
6 7 (2.14%) Screaming Frog
7 5 (1.53%) Dell
7 5 (1.53%) HP
7 5 (1.53%) McAfee
7 5 (1.53%) VMware
8 4 (1.22%) TikTok
9 3 (0.92%) Botify
9 3 (0.92%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.92%) Rockwell
10 2 (0.61%) BT
11 1 (0.31%) Ahrefs
11 1 (0.31%) MathWorks
11 1 (0.31%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.31%) Thales