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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 132 96
Rank change year-on-year -221 -36 +57
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 227 549 1,831
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.38% 2.13% 2.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.41% 6.04% 8.05%
Number of salaries quoted 143 299 501
10th Percentile - £43,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £67,750 £76,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,625 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.73% - -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 16,082 9,083 22,749
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.76% 35.18% 34.87%
Number of salaries quoted 7,786 5,201 14,972
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,099 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.17% +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 10 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 10 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 -128 63 £60,000 -3.23% 101
North of England -75 54 £37,500 -47.91% 56
South West -96 35 £50,000 -16.67% 56
Midlands -62 31 £52,500 -12.50% 48
North West -39 29 £37,500 -57.70% 28
East of England -109 27 £40,000 -47.37% 48
West Midlands -16 20 £40,250 -32.92% 21
Yorkshire -54 18 £37,500 -28.57% 15
Scotland -31 10 £37,500 -16.67% 18
East Midlands -66 10 £75,000 +25.00% 27
North East -29 7 £37,500 -63.86% 14
Wales -38 7 £57,500 -4.17% 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 49 (21.59%) Jupyter
2 7 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.64%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.20%) CMS
4 5 (2.20%) IIS
5 2 (0.88%) Confluence
5 2 (0.88%) Kinematics
6 1 (0.44%) Apache
6 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.44%) WordPress
Applications
1 49 (21.59%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.76%) Simulink
3 3 (1.32%) CATIA
4 2 (0.88%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (3.96%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 71 (31.28%) AWS
2 52 (22.91%) Cloud Computing
3 12 (5.29%) Google Analytics
4 9 (3.96%) Azure
5 8 (3.52%) GCP
6 5 (2.20%) Snowflake
7 4 (1.76%) Prefect
8 2 (0.88%) Google Ads
8 2 (0.88%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.88%) SaaS
8 2 (0.88%) Slack
9 1 (0.44%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.44%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.44%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.44%) Firebase
9 1 (0.44%) GitHub
9 1 (0.44%) Google App Engine
9 1 (0.44%) Google Tag Manager
9 1 (0.44%) PaaS
9 1 (0.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.08%) Broadband
2 5 (2.20%) Ethernet
2 5 (2.20%) Software-Defined Radio
3 3 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.88%) Internet
5 1 (0.44%) IPsec
5 1 (0.44%) S/MIME
5 1 (0.44%) VPN
5 1 (0.44%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.93%) Metadata
2 10 (4.41%) Big Data
3 9 (3.96%) Tableau
4 7 (3.08%) Hadoop
5 6 (2.64%) Data Mining
5 6 (2.64%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.20%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.76%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.44%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.44%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.44%) Power BI
8 1 (0.44%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 56 (24.67%) Visual Studio Code
2 25 (11.01%) Rational DOORS
3 20 (8.81%) Git
4 7 (3.08%) GitLab
5 2 (0.88%) JIRA
6 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.44%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.44%) MLflow
General
1 66 (29.07%) Finance
2 60 (26.43%) Retail
3 56 (24.67%) Manufacturing
4 37 (16.30%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (13.22%) Marketing
6 29 (12.78%) Social Skills
7 28 (12.33%) Electronics
8 13 (5.73%) Automotive
9 12 (5.29%) Games
10 9 (3.96%) Aerospace
11 5 (2.20%) Aviation
11 5 (2.20%) Banking
11 5 (2.20%) Legal
11 5 (2.20%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.32%) Aeronautics
13 3 (1.32%) French Language
13 3 (1.32%) Italian Language
13 3 (1.32%) Portuguese Language
13 3 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (20.26%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 46 (20.26%) Programmer
1 46 (20.26%) Trainee
1 46 (20.26%) Trainee Programmer
2 31 (13.66%) Software Engineer
3 29 (12.78%) Developer
4 25 (11.01%) Senior
5 21 (9.25%) Systems Engineer
6 16 (7.05%) Python Developer
7 15 (6.61%) FPGA Engineer
8 13 (5.73%) Principal Engineer
8 13 (5.73%) Principal Systems Engineer
9 11 (4.85%) Embedded Engineer
10 10 (4.41%) Algorithm Engineer
11 9 (3.96%) Senior Software Engineer
12 8 (3.52%) Graduate
12 8 (3.52%) Lead
12 8 (3.52%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 8 (3.52%) SEO Specialist
13 7 (3.08%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (29.52%) NumPy
1 67 (29.52%) Pandas
2 53 (23.35%) scikit-learn
3 52 (22.91%) Matplotlib
4 49 (21.59%) Hugging Face
4 49 (21.59%) Streamlit
5 17 (7.49%) PyTorch
6 15 (6.61%) TensorFlow
7 13 (5.73%) HTML
8 10 (4.41%) .NET
9 8 (3.52%) CSS
10 7 (3.08%) OpenCV
11 6 (2.64%) REST
12 5 (2.20%) .NET Core
12 5 (2.20%) Play Framework
12 5 (2.20%) SciPy
13 4 (1.76%) DirectX
13 4 (1.76%) Google JAX
13 4 (1.76%) OpenGL
13 4 (1.76%) React
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.69%) FPGA
2 13 (5.73%) PCIe
3 12 (5.29%) VHDL
4 9 (3.96%) NVMe
5 8 (3.52%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.08%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.08%) Video\Live Streaming
7 6 (2.64%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.20%) 3D Graphics
8 5 (2.20%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.20%) CUDA
8 5 (2.20%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.20%) Driving Licence
8 5 (2.20%) Embedded Systems
8 5 (2.20%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.20%) Social Media
9 4 (1.76%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.76%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.76%) Robotics
10 3 (1.32%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.29%) Linux
2 4 (1.76%) Android
2 4 (1.76%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.76%) Windows
3 3 (1.32%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (0.88%) Robot Operating System
4 2 (0.88%) Unix
4 2 (0.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (42.73%) AI
2 96 (42.29%) Machine Learning
3 66 (29.07%) Visualisation
4 62 (27.31%) LLM
4 62 (27.31%) Software Engineering
5 59 (25.99%) OO
6 55 (24.23%) OOP
7 52 (22.91%) Workflow
8 51 (22.47%) Neural Network
8 51 (22.47%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
9 50 (22.03%) Data Privacy
9 50 (22.03%) Prompt Engineering
10 49 (21.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
10 49 (21.59%) Conversational UI
10 49 (21.59%) Customer Service
10 49 (21.59%) Sentiment Analysis
11 41 (18.06%) Computer Science
12 37 (16.30%) Signal Processing
13 36 (15.86%) Analytics
14 26 (11.45%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 128 (56.39%) Python
2 50 (22.03%) C++
3 28 (12.33%) C
4 24 (10.57%) C#
5 21 (9.25%) SQL
6 11 (4.85%) R
7 10 (4.41%) Java
8 9 (3.96%) Assembly Language
8 9 (3.96%) MATLAB
9 7 (3.08%) JavaScript
10 6 (2.64%) Go
11 5 (2.20%) Scala
12 4 (1.76%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.88%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.88%) Embedded C++
13 2 (0.88%) Julia
13 2 (0.88%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.44%) Rust
14 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.44%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 51 (22.47%) Degree
2 49 (21.59%) AWS Certification
2 49 (21.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 24 (10.57%) Master's Degree
4 16 (7.05%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (6.61%) Security Cleared
6 14 (6.17%) PhD
7 7 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.08%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.08%) SC Cleared
8 5 (2.20%) MBA
9 3 (1.32%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.44%) CEH
10 1 (0.44%) CISM
10 1 (0.44%) CISSP
10 1 (0.44%) GIAC
10 1 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.05%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 7 (3.08%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.20%) Actionable Recommendations
3 5 (2.20%) QA
4 4 (1.76%) IEC 61508
4 4 (1.76%) ISO 26262
5 3 (1.32%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.32%) GDPR
6 2 (0.88%) NIST
7 1 (0.44%) AUTOSAR
7 1 (0.44%) CDISC
7 1 (0.44%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.44%) GxP
7 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.44%) HL7
7 1 (0.44%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (9.69%) Firmware
2 13 (5.73%) Embedded Firmware
3 10 (4.41%) Docker
4 3 (1.32%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.32%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.32%) SCCM
1 3 (1.32%) SCOM
1 3 (1.32%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 2 (0.88%) Kubeflow
2 2 (0.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 53 (23.35%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.25%) Google
3 19 (8.37%) IBM
4 13 (5.73%) Altera
5 11 (4.85%) Databricks
6 10 (4.41%) Xilinx
7 9 (3.96%) Screaming Frog
8 5 (2.20%) BT
9 4 (1.76%) Ahrefs
10 3 (1.32%) Botify
10 3 (1.32%) Dell
10 3 (1.32%) HP
10 3 (1.32%) McAfee
10 3 (1.32%) Rockwell
10 3 (1.32%) VMware
11 2 (0.88%) Hotjar
11 2 (0.88%) Thales
12 1 (0.44%) CyberArk
12 1 (0.44%) NVIDIA
12 1 (0.44%) OpenAI