Algorithms Jobs 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 96 200
Rank change year-on-year -48 +104 0
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 821 1,973 1,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.15% 2.80% 1.80%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.84% 8.19% 4.24%
Number of salaries quoted 580 544 379
10th Percentile £46,125 £37,500 £34,875
25th Percentile £58,750 £47,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £70,600 £73,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £76,000 £86,250 £91,250
UK median annual salary £70,600 £65,000 £73,000
% change year-on-year +8.62% -10.96% +4.29%

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 12,007 24,079 25,962
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.51% 34.21% 42.34%
Number of salaries quoted 6,088 15,206 11,462
10th Percentile £29,500 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Algorithms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Algorithms in the UK excluding London

Algorithms
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Algorithms in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Algorithms in the UK excluding London

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 May 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 6 May 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 +43 436 £68,000 +17.24% 212
East of England +33 121 £65,000 - 130
South West +52 73 £70,000 +16.67% 82
North of England -22 62 £73,246 +33.17% 118
Wales +81 57 £68,000 +23.64% 22
Midlands -51 41 £60,000 -4.00% 63
North West -69 40 £88,662 +47.77% 59
Scotland -107 30 £45,000 -30.77% 73
West Midlands -10 21 £60,000 -4.00% 47
East Midlands -10 20 £60,000 +6.68% 15
Yorkshire +70 16 £45,000 -10.00% 33
North East +52 6 £103,750 +13.76% 26
Northern Ireland +37 1 - - 7
Algorithms
UK

Algorithms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 23 (2.80%) Jupyter
2 8 (0.97%) Kinematics
3 4 (0.49%) Apache
3 4 (0.49%) GemFire
4 3 (0.37%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.24%) WordPress
6 1 (0.12%) Confluence
Applications
1 20 (2.44%) Simulink
2 14 (1.71%) Mathcad
3 11 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.61%) Adobe Illustrator
4 5 (0.61%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.37%) Adobe Premiere
5 3 (0.37%) GNU Octave
5 3 (0.37%) InDesign
5 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.12%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Ripple
1 3 (0.37%) Ripple XRP
2 2 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 114 (13.89%) Power Platform
2 76 (9.26%) Azure
3 72 (8.77%) AWS
4 41 (4.99%) GCP
5 23 (2.80%) SaaS
6 15 (1.83%) Vertex AI
7 13 (1.58%) Amazon SageMaker
8 12 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
9 10 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (1.22%) Azure Machine Learning
9 10 (1.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (0.97%) Google Analytics
11 7 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.37%) Amazon S3
13 2 (0.24%) Asana
13 2 (0.24%) BlazeMeter
13 2 (0.24%) Canva
13 2 (0.24%) Google Ads
13 2 (0.24%) IaaS
13 2 (0.24%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.61%) RS-485
2 3 (0.37%) MQTT
3 2 (0.24%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.24%) GPRS
3 2 (0.24%) GSM
3 2 (0.24%) RTP
3 2 (0.24%) WAN
4 1 (0.12%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.12%) DVB
4 1 (0.12%) Internet
4 1 (0.12%) LoRaWAN
4 1 (0.12%) Modbus
4 1 (0.12%) SMS
4 1 (0.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (13.76%) Power BI
2 96 (11.69%) GIS
3 94 (11.45%) Geospatial Data
3 94 (11.45%) Power Query
4 56 (6.82%) Big Data
5 46 (5.60%) NoSQL
6 31 (3.78%) Data Mining
7 13 (1.58%) MongoDB
8 10 (1.22%) Tableau
9 9 (1.10%) Relational Database
10 8 (0.97%) Cloud Spanner
10 8 (0.97%) SQL Server
11 5 (0.61%) Redis
12 4 (0.49%) Apache Ignite
12 4 (0.49%) InterSystems Cache
12 4 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (0.49%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.37%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (0.37%) Looker
13 3 (0.37%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 291 (35.44%) Rational DOORS
2 35 (4.26%) Git
3 22 (2.68%) JUnit
4 20 (2.44%) Eclipse
4 20 (2.44%) IntelliJ
4 20 (2.44%) Jasmine
4 20 (2.44%) Karma Test Runner
4 20 (2.44%) Mockito
4 20 (2.44%) Protractor
5 11 (1.34%) JIRA
6 10 (1.22%) Visual Studio
7 6 (0.73%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.73%) Vite
8 5 (0.61%) webpack
9 4 (0.49%) Jenkins
10 3 (0.37%) GitLab
11 2 (0.24%) Maven
12 1 (0.12%) Bugzilla
12 1 (0.12%) CruiseControl
12 1 (0.12%) Subversion
General
1 345 (42.02%) Electronics
2 122 (14.86%) Finance
3 114 (13.89%) Social Skills
4 100 (12.18%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (7.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 47 (5.72%) Law
7 41 (4.99%) Banking
8 36 (4.38%) Retail
9 35 (4.26%) Marketing
10 34 (4.14%) Manufacturing
11 30 (3.65%) Legal
12 14 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (1.58%) Automotive
13 13 (1.58%) Games
14 12 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (1.46%) Public Sector
15 9 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.85%) Aerospace
16 7 (0.85%) Tech for Good
17 5 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 291 (35.44%) Systems Engineer
2 248 (30.21%) Senior
3 164 (19.98%) Principal Engineer
4 158 (19.24%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 133 (16.20%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 80 (9.74%) Data Scientist
7 69 (8.40%) Software Engineer
8 66 (8.04%) Lead
9 63 (7.67%) Developer
10 35 (4.26%) Senior Software Engineer
11 28 (3.41%) Java Developer
12 27 (3.29%) Senior Data Scientist
13 19 (2.31%) Embedded Engineer
13 19 (2.31%) Graduate
13 19 (2.31%) Software Developer
14 18 (2.19%) Embedded Software Engineer
14 18 (2.19%) SaaS Developer
15 16 (1.95%) Data Science Graduate
16 15 (1.83%) Analyst
16 15 (1.83%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (7.06%) React
2 36 (4.38%) AngularJS
3 27 (3.29%) TensorFlow
4 26 (3.17%) PyTorch
4 26 (3.17%) RabbitMQ
4 26 (3.17%) scikit-learn
5 22 (2.68%) .NET
5 22 (2.68%) Hibernate
6 20 (2.44%) JPA
6 20 (2.44%) Node.js
7 16 (1.95%) Middleware
7 16 (1.95%) NumPy
8 15 (1.83%) Spring Boot
9 14 (1.71%) Keras
10 13 (1.58%) Spring
11 12 (1.46%) Vue
12 10 (1.22%) ASP.NET
12 10 (1.22%) REST
13 9 (1.10%) .NET Core
13 9 (1.10%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 54 (6.58%) Data Structures
2 46 (5.60%) Cyberattack
3 19 (2.31%) Credit Risk
4 18 (2.19%) FPGA
4 18 (2.19%) Public Cloud
5 16 (1.95%) Learning Management System
6 15 (1.83%) Robotics
7 12 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
7 12 (1.46%) Verilog
8 10 (1.22%) Blog
8 10 (1.22%) Virtual Team
9 9 (1.10%) Cloud Native
9 9 (1.10%) Social Media
9 9 (1.10%) VHDL
10 8 (0.97%) Embedded Systems
11 7 (0.85%) Client/Server
11 7 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (0.85%) IoT
11 7 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (0.73%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 74 (9.01%) Linux
2 18 (2.19%) Windows
3 15 (1.83%) Unix
4 11 (1.34%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.73%) Android
6 5 (0.61%) Debian
7 3 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.24%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (40.80%) Signal Processing
2 324 (39.46%) Systems Engineering
3 317 (38.61%) Technical Leadership
4 250 (30.45%) Problem-Solving
5 186 (22.66%) Machine Learning
6 184 (22.41%) Mentoring
7 163 (19.85%) Artificial Intelligence
8 161 (19.61%) Software Engineering
9 158 (19.24%) Data Science
9 158 (19.24%) Test Planning
10 141 (17.17%) Computer Science
11 132 (16.08%) Analytics
12 128 (15.59%) Mathematics
13 126 (15.35%) Business Intelligence
14 123 (14.98%) Visualisation
15 121 (14.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 119 (14.49%) Agile
17 106 (12.91%) Actionable Insight
18 96 (11.69%) Data Management
19 94 (11.45%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 194 (23.63%) Python
2 175 (21.32%) SQL
3 134 (16.32%) R
4 104 (12.67%) Java
5 85 (10.35%) C++
6 64 (7.80%) JavaScript
7 58 (7.06%) C
8 37 (4.51%) C#
9 35 (4.26%) TypeScript
10 26 (3.17%) MATLAB
11 17 (2.07%) Go
12 13 (1.58%) Embedded C
13 11 (1.34%) Bash
14 9 (1.10%) Fortran
15 4 (0.49%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.37%) Rust
16 3 (0.37%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.24%) Embedded C++
17 2 (0.24%) T-SQL
17 2 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 319 (38.86%) BPSS Clearance
2 195 (23.75%) Degree
3 75 (9.14%) Security Cleared
4 65 (7.92%) Master's Degree
5 64 (7.80%) DV Cleared
6 58 (7.06%) PhD
7 42 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (4.26%) Numerate Degree
9 23 (2.80%) SC Cleared
10 4 (0.49%) CISSP
11 2 (0.24%) CSSLP
11 2 (0.24%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.24%) PMP
12 1 (0.12%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 319 (38.86%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 18 (2.19%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.71%) QA
4 6 (0.73%) GDPR
5 4 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.49%) NIST
6 3 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.37%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.12%) ISO 9000
8 1 (0.12%) JTAG
System Software
1 80 (9.74%) Docker
2 7 (0.85%) Firmware
3 3 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 62 (7.55%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.49%) Terraform
3 2 (0.24%) Ansible
3 2 (0.24%) Grafana
3 2 (0.24%) Progress Chef
3 2 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.12%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 311 (37.88%) IBM
2 41 (4.99%) Microsoft
3 40 (4.87%) Google
4 17 (2.07%) Databricks
5 15 (1.83%) MathWorks
5 15 (1.83%) OpenAI
6 14 (1.71%) SAP
7 8 (0.97%) Ahrefs
8 7 (0.85%) ANSYS
8 7 (0.85%) EMC
9 6 (0.73%) Oracle
10 5 (0.61%) Adobe
10 5 (0.61%) Facebook
10 5 (0.61%) NVIDIA
11 4 (0.49%) Solace
11 4 (0.49%) TIBCO
12 3 (0.37%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.24%) Dynatrace
13 2 (0.24%) ForgeRock
13 2 (0.24%) Ping Identity