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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 260 206
Rank change year-on-year -79 -54 +84
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 398 332 624
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.46% 0.96% 1.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.87% 2.47% 4.12%
Number of salaries quoted 260 142 266
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,950 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £40,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,600 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,600 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.39% +8.62% -7.90%

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 21,258 13,455 15,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.53% 38.78% 29.24%
Number of salaries quoted 13,365 6,254 6,815
10th Percentile £29,750 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% -8.33% -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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -6 148 £70,000 +11.87% 208
East of England +21 118 £65,000 +18.18% 197
North of England -42 45 £51,000 +45.71% 130
South West -70 39 £60,000 +33.27% 90
Midlands -43 28 £67,500 +1.89% 97
Yorkshire -19 21 £32,500 -7.14% 39
Scotland -60 17 £39,500 -40.15% 112
West Midlands -27 16 £67,500 +22.73% 58
East Midlands -23 12 £81,250 +7.05% 39
North West -33 12 £60,000 +33.33% 75
North East - 12 £60,000 - 17
Northern Ireland - 2 £39,500 - 22
Wales -72 1 £39,500 -44.05% 21
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 11 (2.76%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.50%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.25%) CMS
4 1 (0.25%) Confluence
4 1 (0.25%) Kinematics
4 1 (0.25%) SAS
4 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 24 (6.03%) Simulink
2 4 (1.01%) Mathematica
3 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.25%) CATIA
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (2.51%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 38 (9.55%) AWS
2 25 (6.28%) Azure
3 15 (3.77%) Google Ads
4 14 (3.52%) Google Analytics
5 10 (2.51%) Amazon ECS
5 10 (2.51%) GitHub
6 8 (2.01%) GCP
7 6 (1.51%) SaaS
8 5 (1.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (0.75%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (0.75%) Amazon S3
10 3 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (0.75%) Datadog
10 3 (0.75%) dbt
10 3 (0.75%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (0.75%) Serverless
10 3 (0.75%) Slack
11 2 (0.50%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.27%) Wireless
2 7 (1.76%) Software-Defined Radio
3 4 (1.01%) 5G
3 4 (1.01%) Broadband
3 4 (1.01%) LTE
4 3 (0.75%) Ethernet
4 3 (0.75%) Internet
4 3 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.50%) Firewall
6 1 (0.25%) DHCP
6 1 (0.25%) DNS
6 1 (0.25%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.25%) MQTT
6 1 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.25%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.02%) Metadata
2 13 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (1.76%) Big Data
5 6 (1.51%) GIS
6 5 (1.26%) MySQL
6 5 (1.26%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.01%) Hadoop
7 4 (1.01%) Redis
8 3 (0.75%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.50%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.50%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.50%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.50%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 43 (10.80%) Git
2 19 (4.77%) Visual Studio Code
3 18 (4.52%) Rational DOORS
4 15 (3.77%) GitLab
5 6 (1.51%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.26%) PetaLinux
7 4 (1.01%) MLflow
8 3 (0.75%) CMake
8 3 (0.75%) JIRA
8 3 (0.75%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.50%) Plastic SCM
9 2 (0.50%) Rational Rhapsody
9 2 (0.50%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.25%) Subversion
General
1 63 (15.83%) Social Skills
2 49 (12.31%) Finance
3 38 (9.55%) Marketing
4 33 (8.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (7.29%) Aerospace
5 29 (7.29%) Electronics
6 22 (5.53%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (4.77%) Advertising
8 11 (2.76%) Banking
9 10 (2.51%) Law
10 8 (2.01%) Games
10 8 (2.01%) Military
11 7 (1.76%) Automotive
11 7 (1.76%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.51%) Aviation
12 6 (1.51%) Retail
13 4 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.01%) Private Banking
14 3 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 103 (25.88%) Software Engineer
2 67 (16.83%) Senior
3 57 (14.32%) Lead
4 41 (10.30%) Developer
5 39 (9.80%) Embedded Engineer
6 27 (6.78%) FPGA Engineer
7 26 (6.53%) Senior Software Engineer
8 19 (4.77%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 19 (4.77%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 18 (4.52%) SEO Specialist
9 18 (4.52%) Systems Engineer
10 16 (4.02%) Data Scientist
11 14 (3.52%) C++ Software Engineer
11 14 (3.52%) Design Engineer
11 14 (3.52%) Python Developer
12 13 (3.27%) FPGA Design Engineer
13 12 (3.02%) Architect
14 11 (2.76%) Principal Engineer
15 10 (2.51%) Lead Software Engineer
15 10 (2.51%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.03%) HTML
1 24 (6.03%) PyTorch
2 23 (5.78%) CSS
3 19 (4.77%) .NET
4 16 (4.02%) React
4 16 (4.02%) TensorFlow
5 14 (3.52%) Yocto
6 11 (2.76%) NumPy
6 11 (2.76%) Pandas
7 10 (2.51%) Terraform
8 8 (2.01%) STL
9 7 (1.76%) .NET Core
9 7 (1.76%) Flask
9 7 (1.76%) Google JAX
9 7 (1.76%) Hugging Face
9 7 (1.76%) JAX
10 6 (1.51%) Node.js
11 5 (1.26%) boto
11 5 (1.26%) REST
11 5 (1.26%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 46 (11.56%) Embedded Systems
1 46 (11.56%) FPGA
2 35 (8.79%) Robotics
3 33 (8.29%) Data Structures
4 25 (6.28%) VHDL
5 22 (5.53%) PCIe
6 16 (4.02%) Product Ownership
7 14 (3.52%) Verilog
8 10 (2.51%) ASIC
8 10 (2.51%) NVMe
8 10 (2.51%) Renewable Energy
9 8 (2.01%) Device Driver
9 8 (2.01%) IoT
9 8 (2.01%) SCADA
10 7 (1.76%) Driving Licence
10 7 (1.76%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.51%) Synthetic Data
12 5 (1.26%) AI Agents
12 5 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (1.26%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 32 (8.04%) Linux
2 19 (4.77%) Embedded Linux
3 13 (3.27%) Windows
4 5 (1.26%) Robot Operating System
5 2 (0.50%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.25%) Android
6 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.25%) CentOS
6 1 (0.25%) Debian
6 1 (0.25%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.25%) Unix
6 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (37.19%) Software Engineering
2 104 (26.13%) AI
3 85 (21.36%) Computer Science
4 81 (20.35%) Machine Learning
5 55 (13.82%) Agile
5 55 (13.82%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (12.56%) Mathematics
7 49 (12.31%) CI/CD
7 49 (12.31%) Data Science
7 49 (12.31%) Signal Processing
8 48 (12.06%) Mentoring
9 42 (10.55%) Validation
10 37 (9.30%) Analytics
10 37 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
10 37 (9.30%) Deep Learning
11 34 (8.54%) Decision-Making
12 30 (7.54%) Test Automation
13 29 (7.29%) FPGA Design
13 29 (7.29%) Systems Engineering
14 28 (7.04%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 173 (43.47%) Python
2 118 (29.65%) C++
3 60 (15.08%) C
4 47 (11.81%) MATLAB
5 46 (11.56%) C#
6 23 (5.78%) Embedded C++
6 23 (5.78%) Java
7 19 (4.77%) Embedded C
7 19 (4.77%) SQL
8 15 (3.77%) JavaScript
8 15 (3.77%) TypeScript
9 13 (3.27%) Go
10 12 (3.02%) Rust
11 10 (2.51%) Assembly Language
12 5 (1.26%) SystemVerilog
13 2 (0.50%) Fortran
13 2 (0.50%) VBA
14 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 106 (26.63%) Degree
2 77 (19.35%) Security Cleared
3 43 (10.80%) SC Cleared
4 32 (8.04%) Master's Degree
5 25 (6.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (5.28%) DV Cleared
6 21 (5.28%) PhD
7 17 (4.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.76%) DBS Check
9 6 (1.51%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.25%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.27%) GDPR
2 12 (3.02%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.01%) QA
4 7 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 6 (1.51%) Automotive SPICE
5 6 (1.51%) ISO 26262
5 6 (1.51%) MISRA
5 6 (1.51%) MISRA C
6 4 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 2 (0.50%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.25%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 41 (10.30%) Firmware
2 40 (10.05%) Docker
3 22 (5.53%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.75%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.50%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.25%) Ceph
6 1 (0.25%) Lustre
6 1 (0.25%) NFS
6 1 (0.25%) Samba
6 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 20 (5.03%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.26%) Ansible
3 3 (0.75%) Argo
3 3 (0.75%) Grafana
3 3 (0.75%) Kubeflow
3 3 (0.75%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.50%) SCCM
4 2 (0.50%) SCOM
4 2 (0.50%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 1 (0.25%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 22 (5.53%) Google
2 13 (3.27%) Xilinx
3 11 (2.76%) Altera
4 10 (2.51%) Microsoft
5 6 (1.51%) IBM
5 6 (1.51%) OpenAI
5 6 (1.51%) Thales
6 4 (1.01%) Databricks
6 4 (1.01%) Intel
6 4 (1.01%) TikTok
7 3 (0.75%) Dynatrace
7 3 (0.75%) Rockwell
7 3 (0.75%) Screaming Frog
7 3 (0.75%) Splunk
8 2 (0.50%) Dell
8 2 (0.50%) HP
8 2 (0.50%) MathWorks
8 2 (0.50%) McAfee
8 2 (0.50%) VMware
9 1 (0.25%) Apple