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 22 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 268 207 263
Rank change year-on-year -61 +56 -113
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 282 589 344
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.76% 1.22% 1.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.34% 4.07% 3.09%
Number of salaries quoted 119 310 185
10th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £36,681
25th Percentile £40,750 £53,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

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 12,069 14,480 11,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.67% 30.03% 36.82%
Number of salaries quoted 6,627 6,462 8,033
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,375 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,110 £69,550
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £84,056
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.00% -

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025. 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 -80 81 £62,575 -7.30% 109
Scotland +49 61 £75,900 +49.54% 16
East of England -24 52 £55,000 -27.63% 56
South West -24 37 £45,021 -30.74% 28
Midlands +43 22 £75,000 +29.31% 21
North of England +18 19 £35,000 -38.06% 45
West Midlands +40 12 £60,000 +10.60% 12
North West +29 11 £38,500 -31.87% 28
Wales +14 10 £57,500 - 3
East Midlands +20 8 £75,000 +20.00% 9
Yorkshire +7 8 £35,000 -22.22% 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 20 (7.09%) Kinematics
2 8 (2.84%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.48%) Apache
4 6 (2.13%) Camunda
4 6 (2.13%) CMS
4 6 (2.13%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (1.42%) WordPress
6 3 (1.06%) Kentico
6 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.06%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.06%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (2.48%) Simulink
2 6 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.35%) Mathcad
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.71%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 37 (13.12%) AWS
2 15 (5.32%) Vertex AI
3 14 (4.96%) Google Analytics
4 10 (3.55%) Azure
4 10 (3.55%) Power Platform
5 8 (2.84%) GCP
6 7 (2.48%) Amazon S3
7 6 (2.13%) npm
7 6 (2.13%) Yarn
8 5 (1.77%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (1.77%) Google Docs
8 5 (1.77%) Google Sheets
8 5 (1.77%) Google Workspace
8 5 (1.77%) Serverless
9 4 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.42%) Google Tag Manager
10 3 (1.06%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (0.71%) BlazeMeter
11 2 (0.71%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.19%) Software-Defined Radio
2 3 (1.06%) Internet
3 1 (0.35%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.35%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.35%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (0.35%) Modbus
3 1 (0.35%) MQTT
3 1 (0.35%) S/MIME
3 1 (0.35%) VPN
3 1 (0.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.32%) Data Mining
1 15 (5.32%) Metadata
2 13 (4.61%) NoSQL
3 11 (3.90%) Data Lake
4 10 (3.55%) Power BI
5 9 (3.19%) Big Data
6 7 (2.48%) Apache Cassandra
6 7 (2.48%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (2.13%) RDBMS
7 6 (2.13%) Tableau
8 5 (1.77%) Looker
8 5 (1.77%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.42%) Parquet
9 4 (1.42%) SQL Server
10 3 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.06%) GIS
10 3 (1.06%) KDB
10 3 (1.06%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 40 (14.18%) Rational DOORS
2 10 (3.55%) JUnit
3 8 (2.84%) Git
4 7 (2.48%) Cypress.io
4 7 (2.48%) webpack
5 6 (2.13%) Vite
6 5 (1.77%) GitLab
6 5 (1.77%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.77%) JIRA
7 3 (1.06%) TestRail
7 3 (1.06%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.71%) Selenium
9 1 (0.35%) Ant
9 1 (0.35%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.35%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.35%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.35%) Maven
9 1 (0.35%) Protractor
9 1 (0.35%) WebDriver
General
1 85 (30.14%) Finance
2 83 (29.43%) Law
3 79 (28.01%) Electronics
4 70 (24.82%) Social Skills
5 66 (23.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 58 (20.57%) Marketing
7 54 (19.15%) Analytical Skills
8 33 (11.70%) Banking
9 17 (6.03%) Retail
10 12 (4.26%) Manufacturing
11 9 (3.19%) Aviation
12 8 (2.84%) Aerospace
13 7 (2.48%) Games
14 6 (2.13%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.77%) Legal
15 5 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (1.42%) Automotive
16 4 (1.42%) Investment Banking
17 3 (1.06%) Avionics
17 3 (1.06%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 83 (29.43%) Software Engineer
2 61 (21.63%) Lead
3 41 (14.54%) Senior
3 41 (14.54%) Systems Engineer
4 33 (11.70%) Java Engineer
4 33 (11.70%) Java Software Engineer
4 33 (11.70%) Principal Engineer
5 32 (11.35%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 20 (7.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 20 (7.09%) Robotics Engineer
7 19 (6.74%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 13 (4.61%) Python Engineer
8 13 (4.61%) Python Software Engineer
8 13 (4.61%) SEO Manager
9 11 (3.90%) Developer
9 11 (3.90%) SEO Executive
10 9 (3.19%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (3.19%) AWS Software Engineer
11 8 (2.84%) Analyst
11 8 (2.84%) Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (11.35%) Spring
2 27 (9.57%) React
3 22 (7.80%) Spring Boot
4 20 (7.09%) Middleware
5 19 (6.74%) CSS
6 18 (6.38%) HTML
7 14 (4.96%) Kafka
8 11 (3.90%) AngularJS
9 10 (3.55%) FHIR
9 10 (3.55%) TensorFlow
10 9 (3.19%) PyTorch
10 9 (3.19%) scikit-learn
11 8 (2.84%) REST
11 8 (2.84%) RESTful
12 7 (2.48%) .NET
12 7 (2.48%) NumPy
12 7 (2.48%) Pandas
12 7 (2.48%) Web Services
13 6 (2.13%) JDBC
13 6 (2.13%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.80%) Robotics
2 12 (4.26%) Data Structures
3 11 (3.90%) 3D Graphics
3 11 (3.90%) Life Science
4 10 (3.55%) Omics
5 9 (3.19%) Cloud Native
6 8 (2.84%) FPGA
7 7 (2.48%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.13%) Embedded Systems
8 6 (2.13%) Social Media
9 5 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.77%) Blog
9 5 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.77%) Verilog
9 5 (1.77%) VHDL
10 4 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.42%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.42%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.06%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.90%) Linux
2 4 (1.42%) Unix
3 2 (0.71%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.71%) Windows
4 1 (0.35%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (42.91%) Software Engineering
2 104 (36.88%) AI
3 102 (36.17%) Agile
4 95 (33.69%) Machine Learning
5 89 (31.56%) Visualisation
6 68 (24.11%) SDLC
7 67 (23.76%) Analytics
8 62 (21.99%) CI/CD
8 62 (21.99%) Community of Practice
9 61 (21.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 60 (21.28%) Signal Processing
11 58 (20.57%) Operational Stability
12 50 (17.73%) Data Science
13 49 (17.38%) Systems Engineering
14 48 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
15 47 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
16 44 (15.60%) Computer Science
17 38 (13.48%) Mathematics
18 32 (11.35%) Test Planning
19 30 (10.64%) OO
Programming Languages
1 77 (27.30%) Python
2 63 (22.34%) Java
3 54 (19.15%) C++
4 49 (17.38%) C
5 34 (12.06%) C#
5 34 (12.06%) SQL
6 23 (8.16%) JavaScript
7 16 (5.67%) TypeScript
8 14 (4.96%) MATLAB
9 9 (3.19%) R
10 8 (2.84%) Bash
11 4 (1.42%) Fortran
11 4 (1.42%) Rust
11 4 (1.42%) Swift
11 4 (1.42%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.06%) Assembly Language
12 3 (1.06%) Google Apps Script
12 3 (1.06%) Objective-C
12 3 (1.06%) Scala
12 3 (1.06%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 68 (24.11%) Degree
2 56 (19.86%) BPSS Clearance
3 28 (9.93%) Security Cleared
4 25 (8.87%) Master's Degree
4 25 (8.87%) PhD
5 21 (7.45%) SC Cleared
6 7 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.77%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.35%) CEH
8 1 (0.35%) CISM
8 1 (0.35%) CISSP
8 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.35%) GIAC
8 1 (0.35%) MCP
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (15.25%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 12 (4.26%) Accessibility
3 10 (3.55%) CDISC
3 10 (3.55%) GxP
3 10 (3.55%) HL7
4 6 (2.13%) ISO 26262
5 4 (1.42%) IEC 61508
6 2 (0.71%) AUTOSAR
6 2 (0.71%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.71%) GDPR
6 2 (0.71%) NIST
6 2 (0.71%) QA
7 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.35%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.35%) GRC
7 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.35%) JTAG
7 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (3.55%) Firmware
2 5 (1.77%) Docker
2 5 (1.77%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (6.38%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.90%) Terraform
3 3 (1.06%) Ansible
4 2 (0.71%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 47 (16.67%) Google
2 40 (14.18%) IBM
3 28 (9.93%) Microsoft
4 18 (6.38%) Screaming Frog
5 16 (5.67%) OpenAI
6 14 (4.96%) Ahrefs
7 12 (4.26%) Oracle
8 7 (2.48%) Dynatrace
8 7 (2.48%) Splunk
9 6 (2.13%) Databricks
10 4 (1.42%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.71%) Adobe
11 2 (0.71%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.71%) Hotjar
11 2 (0.71%) SAP
12 1 (0.35%) CyberArk
12 1 (0.35%) Foundry
12 1 (0.35%) MathWorks
12 1 (0.35%) NVIDIA
12 1 (0.35%) Thales