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 7 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 191 251
Rank change year-on-year -104 +60 -95
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 220 601 359
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.55% 1.40% 1.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.68% 4.38% 3.38%
Number of salaries quoted 103 322 170
10th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,900 £76,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £75,900 £67,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +12.44% -6.90% +0.69%

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 13,133 13,728 10,629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.07% 32.08% 36.57%
Number of salaries quoted 6,455 6,188 7,797
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,375 £41,250 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,750 £69,800
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £84,056
UK median annual salary £53,877 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.21% -4.00% -0.33%

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 7 December 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 7 December 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 -86 67 £75,900 +19.06% 193
East of England -35 46 £55,000 -27.63% 97
South West -32 31 £45,021 -30.74% 99
Scotland +2 27 £75,900 +68.67% 32
Midlands +8 23 £75,000 +25.00% 94
North of England 0 18 £35,000 -30.00% 119
West Midlands +18 13 £60,000 +7.14% 46
North West +24 10 £38,250 -32.31% 62
Wales +2 8 £57,500 +4.55% 16
East Midlands +1 8 £75,000 +22.45% 41
Yorkshire -14 8 £35,000 -22.22% 48
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 19 (8.64%) Kinematics
2 4 (1.82%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.82%) CMS
2 4 (1.82%) WordPress
3 3 (1.36%) Apache
3 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.91%) Camunda
4 2 (0.91%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.45%) Kentico
5 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.45%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (3.18%) Simulink
2 6 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.45%) Mathcad
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.91%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 18 (8.18%) AWS
2 15 (6.82%) Vertex AI
3 11 (5.00%) Google Analytics
4 9 (4.09%) Power Platform
5 8 (3.64%) Azure
6 7 (3.18%) GCP
7 5 (2.27%) Google Docs
7 5 (2.27%) Google Sheets
7 5 (2.27%) Google Workspace
8 4 (1.82%) Google Tag Manager
9 3 (1.36%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.36%) Serverless
10 2 (0.91%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.91%) npm
10 2 (0.91%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 2 (0.91%) Yarn
11 1 (0.45%) GitHub
11 1 (0.45%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.64%) Software-Defined Radio
2 2 (0.91%) Internet
3 1 (0.45%) S/MIME
3 1 (0.45%) VPN
3 1 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.82%) Data Mining
1 15 (6.82%) Metadata
2 10 (4.55%) Data Lake
3 9 (4.09%) Power BI
4 7 (3.18%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.73%) Tableau
6 5 (2.27%) Big Data
7 4 (1.82%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.36%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.36%) GIS
8 3 (1.36%) Looker
8 3 (1.36%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.91%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.91%) Parquet
9 2 (0.91%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.91%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.45%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.45%) MySQL
10 1 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 34 (15.45%) Rational DOORS
2 7 (3.18%) Git
3 5 (2.27%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.82%) JIRA
4 4 (1.82%) JUnit
5 3 (1.36%) GitLab
5 3 (1.36%) TestRail
5 3 (1.36%) webpack
6 2 (0.91%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.91%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.91%) Vite
7 1 (0.45%) Ant
7 1 (0.45%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.45%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.45%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.45%) Maven
7 1 (0.45%) Protractor
7 1 (0.45%) Selenium
7 1 (0.45%) WebDriver
General
1 68 (30.91%) Electronics
2 61 (27.73%) Social Skills
3 43 (19.55%) Finance
4 42 (19.09%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (18.18%) Law
6 33 (15.00%) Marketing
7 25 (11.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (7.73%) Retail
9 13 (5.91%) Banking
10 10 (4.55%) Manufacturing
11 9 (4.09%) Aviation
12 7 (3.18%) Aerospace
13 5 (2.27%) Games
13 5 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (2.27%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.82%) Automotive
15 3 (1.36%) Aeronautics
15 3 (1.36%) Avionics
15 3 (1.36%) Legal
16 2 (0.91%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 54 (24.55%) Lead
2 42 (19.09%) Software Engineer
3 37 (16.82%) Systems Engineer
4 35 (15.91%) Senior
5 29 (13.18%) Principal Engineer
6 28 (12.73%) Principal Systems Engineer
7 19 (8.64%) Robotics Engineer
8 12 (5.45%) Java Engineer
8 12 (5.45%) Java Software Engineer
9 11 (5.00%) SEO Manager
10 10 (4.55%) Developer
11 9 (4.09%) SEO Executive
12 8 (3.64%) Analyst
13 7 (3.18%) C++ Software Engineer
13 7 (3.18%) Embedded Engineer
13 7 (3.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 6 (2.73%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 6 (2.73%) Senior Developer
15 5 (2.27%) Account Manager
15 5 (2.27%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.64%) Middleware
2 12 (5.45%) CSS
3 11 (5.00%) HTML
3 11 (5.00%) Spring
4 10 (4.55%) FHIR
4 10 (4.55%) React
4 10 (4.55%) TensorFlow
5 9 (4.09%) PyTorch
6 7 (3.18%) .NET
6 7 (3.18%) scikit-learn
7 6 (2.73%) Qt
7 6 (2.73%) Spring Boot
8 5 (2.27%) .NET Core
8 5 (2.27%) Kafka
8 5 (2.27%) NumPy
8 5 (2.27%) Pandas
9 4 (1.82%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.82%) OpenGL
9 4 (1.82%) REST
9 4 (1.82%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.55%) Robotics
2 11 (5.00%) 3D Graphics
2 11 (5.00%) Life Science
3 10 (4.55%) Omics
4 9 (4.09%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.64%) Social Media
6 7 (3.18%) FPGA
7 6 (2.73%) Embedded Systems
8 5 (2.27%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.82%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.82%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.82%) Verilog
9 4 (1.82%) VHDL
10 3 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.36%) Arduino
10 3 (1.36%) Augmented Reality
10 3 (1.36%) Blog
10 3 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.36%) Raspberry Pi
10 3 (1.36%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.55%) Linux
2 4 (1.82%) Unix
3 2 (0.91%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.91%) Windows
4 1 (0.45%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (35.91%) AI
2 78 (35.45%) Software Engineering
3 72 (32.73%) Machine Learning
4 61 (27.73%) Agile
5 59 (26.82%) Analytics
6 51 (23.18%) Signal Processing
7 47 (21.36%) Data Science
7 47 (21.36%) Visualisation
8 41 (18.64%) Systems Engineering
9 40 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (17.73%) Computer Science
10 39 (17.73%) Technical Leadership
11 36 (16.36%) Mathematics
12 28 (12.73%) Test Planning
13 27 (12.27%) OO
13 27 (12.27%) SDLC
14 26 (11.82%) Physics
15 25 (11.36%) CI/CD
15 25 (11.36%) Statistical Modelling
16 23 (10.45%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 60 (27.27%) Python
2 49 (22.27%) C++
3 45 (20.45%) C
4 29 (13.18%) C#
4 29 (13.18%) Java
5 22 (10.00%) SQL
6 14 (6.36%) JavaScript
6 14 (6.36%) MATLAB
7 9 (4.09%) R
8 7 (3.18%) Bash
8 7 (3.18%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.82%) Fortran
9 4 (1.82%) Rust
9 4 (1.82%) Swift
9 4 (1.82%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.36%) Assembly Language
10 3 (1.36%) Google Apps Script
10 3 (1.36%) Objective-C
10 3 (1.36%) Tcl
11 2 (0.91%) VC++
Qualifications
1 66 (30.00%) Degree
2 48 (21.82%) BPSS Clearance
3 27 (12.27%) Security Cleared
4 25 (11.36%) Master's Degree
4 25 (11.36%) PhD
5 21 (9.55%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.27%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.45%) CEH
7 1 (0.45%) CISM
7 1 (0.45%) CISSP
7 1 (0.45%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.45%) GIAC
7 1 (0.45%) MCP
7 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (15.91%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 12 (5.45%) Accessibility
3 10 (4.55%) CDISC
3 10 (4.55%) GxP
3 10 (4.55%) HL7
4 6 (2.73%) ISO 26262
5 4 (1.82%) IEC 61508
6 2 (0.91%) AUTOSAR
6 2 (0.91%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.91%) NIST
7 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.45%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.45%) GDPR
7 1 (0.45%) GRC
7 1 (0.45%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.45%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.45%) QA
7 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (4.09%) Firmware
2 4 (1.82%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.73%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.36%) Terraform
3 2 (0.91%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.45%) Ansible
4 1 (0.45%) Grafana
Vendors
1 39 (17.73%) Google
2 34 (15.45%) IBM
3 24 (10.91%) Microsoft
4 16 (7.27%) OpenAI
5 11 (5.00%) Screaming Frog
6 10 (4.55%) Ahrefs
7 4 (1.82%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.36%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.36%) Oracle
8 3 (1.36%) Splunk
9 2 (0.91%) Adobe
9 2 (0.91%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.91%) Databricks
9 2 (0.91%) Hotjar
10 1 (0.45%) Huawei
10 1 (0.45%) MathWorks
10 1 (0.45%) SAP
10 1 (0.45%) Thales
10 1 (0.45%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.45%) YouTube