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 18 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 237 114
Rank change year-on-year -93 -123 +162
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 376 402 1,241
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.48% 1.16% 2.09%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.05% 2.95% 6.91%
Number of salaries quoted 262 179 319
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £35,313 £45,625 £47,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,600 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +7.14% -13.10%

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 18,358 13,635 17,948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.48% 39.23% 30.23%
Number of salaries quoted 11,879 6,347 9,864
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £66,095
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,300 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -10.20%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -40 124 £67,500 +8.87% 63
East of England -4 95 £65,000 +18.18% 39
North of England -13 60 £41,982 -16.04% 41
South West -51 46 £56,000 +22.07% 23
Midlands -27 27 £37,500 -34.78% 25
Yorkshire -11 26 £37,500 +7.14% 15
West Midlands -14 21 £37,500 -37.50% 11
Scotland -57 20 £39,500 -40.15% 6
North West -7 19 £60,000 +20.00% 14
North East -48 15 £52,000 -54.78% 13
East Midlands -27 5 £47,500 +75.93% 14
Wales -74 2 £39,500 -39.23% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £39,500 - 1
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 24 (6.38%) Jupyter
2 9 (2.39%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.06%) CMS
5 2 (0.53%) Confluence
6 1 (0.27%) Kinematics
6 1 (0.27%) SAS
6 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 22 (5.85%) Chatbot
2 12 (3.19%) Simulink
3 3 (0.80%) CATIA
4 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.27%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 10 (2.66%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.27%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 62 (16.49%) AWS
2 26 (6.91%) Cloud Computing
3 24 (6.38%) Azure
4 13 (3.46%) Google Ads
5 12 (3.19%) Google Analytics
6 10 (2.66%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (2.39%) GCP
7 9 (2.39%) GitHub
8 7 (1.86%) SaaS
9 5 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (1.06%) Prefect
11 3 (0.80%) Datadog
11 3 (0.80%) dbt
11 3 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (0.80%) Slack
12 2 (0.53%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (0.53%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.53%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (0.53%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (0.53%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.39%) Broadband
2 6 (1.60%) Software-Defined Radio
3 4 (1.06%) Internet
3 4 (1.06%) Wireless
4 3 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.53%) 5G
5 2 (0.53%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.53%) Firewall
6 1 (0.27%) IPsec
6 1 (0.27%) LTE
6 1 (0.27%) MQTT
6 1 (0.27%) RS-422
6 1 (0.27%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.79%) Metadata
2 15 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (1.86%) Big Data
3 7 (1.86%) MongoDB
4 6 (1.60%) GIS
5 5 (1.33%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.06%) Hadoop
6 4 (1.06%) MySQL
6 4 (1.06%) Redis
7 3 (0.80%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.53%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.53%) Pinecone
8 2 (0.53%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.27%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 46 (12.23%) Git
2 42 (11.17%) Visual Studio Code
3 20 (5.32%) Rational DOORS
4 16 (4.26%) GitLab
5 6 (1.60%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.06%) JIRA
7 3 (0.80%) CMake
7 3 (0.80%) PetaLinux
7 3 (0.80%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.53%) Plastic SCM
8 2 (0.53%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.27%) MLflow
9 1 (0.27%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 74 (19.68%) Finance
2 48 (12.77%) Social Skills
3 42 (11.17%) Marketing
4 30 (7.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (7.18%) Electronics
5 27 (7.18%) Retail
6 26 (6.91%) Manufacturing
7 23 (6.12%) Aerospace
8 17 (4.52%) Advertising
9 16 (4.26%) Games
10 11 (2.93%) Banking
11 10 (2.66%) Law
12 8 (2.13%) Automotive
13 5 (1.33%) Legal
14 4 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.06%) Private Banking
15 3 (0.80%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 102 (27.13%) Software Engineer
2 56 (14.89%) Developer
2 56 (14.89%) Senior
3 45 (11.97%) Lead
4 39 (10.37%) Embedded Engineer
5 27 (7.18%) Senior Software Engineer
6 26 (6.91%) Python Developer
7 21 (5.59%) FPGA Engineer
8 20 (5.32%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 19 (5.05%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
9 19 (5.05%) Programmer
9 19 (5.05%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 19 (5.05%) Systems Engineer
9 19 (5.05%) Trainee
9 19 (5.05%) Trainee Programmer
10 16 (4.26%) SEO Specialist
11 13 (3.46%) Design Engineer
12 12 (3.19%) C++ Software Engineer
12 12 (3.19%) Data Scientist
13 11 (2.93%) FPGA Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (10.90%) NumPy
1 41 (10.90%) Pandas
2 26 (6.91%) Hugging Face
3 25 (6.65%) scikit-learn
4 23 (6.12%) Matplotlib
4 23 (6.12%) PyTorch
4 23 (6.12%) Streamlit
5 20 (5.32%) HTML
6 18 (4.79%) .NET
7 16 (4.26%) CSS
8 15 (3.99%) TensorFlow
9 11 (2.93%) React
10 10 (2.66%) REST
10 10 (2.66%) Yocto
11 8 (2.13%) Flask
11 8 (2.13%) Google JAX
11 8 (2.13%) JAX
12 7 (1.86%) .NET Core
13 6 (1.60%) Node.js
13 6 (1.60%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 35 (9.31%) Embedded Systems
2 29 (7.71%) FPGA
3 28 (7.45%) Data Structures
4 21 (5.59%) VHDL
5 20 (5.32%) Robotics
6 18 (4.79%) Product Ownership
7 17 (4.52%) PCIe
8 12 (3.19%) Driving Licence
9 10 (2.66%) NVMe
9 10 (2.66%) Renewable Energy
9 10 (2.66%) Verilog
10 8 (2.13%) SCADA
10 8 (2.13%) Video\Live Streaming
11 7 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.86%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.60%) Hedge funds
12 6 (1.60%) IoT
13 5 (1.33%) Cloud Native
13 5 (1.33%) Device Driver
13 5 (1.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.18%) Linux
2 13 (3.46%) Windows
3 10 (2.66%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (1.33%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (1.06%) Robot Operating System
5 4 (1.06%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.27%) Android
6 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (37.23%) Software Engineering
2 95 (25.27%) AI
3 77 (20.48%) Computer Science
4 75 (19.95%) Machine Learning
5 50 (13.30%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (12.77%) Signal Processing
7 44 (11.70%) Agile
8 43 (11.44%) CI/CD
9 42 (11.17%) Validation
10 40 (10.64%) Mentoring
10 40 (10.64%) OOP
11 39 (10.37%) Deep Learning
12 38 (10.11%) Data Science
13 34 (9.04%) Continuous Improvement
14 33 (8.78%) Analytics
14 33 (8.78%) LLM
15 32 (8.51%) OO
15 32 (8.51%) SEO
15 32 (8.51%) Test Automation
15 32 (8.51%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 179 (47.61%) Python
2 92 (24.47%) C++
3 50 (13.30%) C
4 43 (11.44%) C#
5 23 (6.12%) MATLAB
6 21 (5.59%) Java
7 17 (4.52%) SQL
8 16 (4.26%) Embedded C++
9 14 (3.72%) Go
10 13 (3.46%) Embedded C
11 11 (2.93%) JavaScript
11 11 (2.93%) Rust
11 11 (2.93%) TypeScript
12 10 (2.66%) Assembly Language
13 2 (0.53%) VBA
14 1 (0.27%) Bash
14 1 (0.27%) Fortran
14 1 (0.27%) Julia
14 1 (0.27%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 89 (23.67%) Degree
2 57 (15.16%) Security Cleared
3 30 (7.98%) SC Cleared
4 27 (7.18%) AWS Certification
5 26 (6.91%) Master's Degree
6 24 (6.38%) DV Cleared
7 22 (5.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 20 (5.32%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (4.26%) PhD
11 3 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.53%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.53%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.27%) HND
13 1 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.19%) Accessibility
2 11 (2.93%) GDPR
3 9 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 7 (1.86%) QA
5 6 (1.60%) Automotive SPICE
5 6 (1.60%) ISO 26262
5 6 (1.60%) MISRA
5 6 (1.60%) MISRA C
6 4 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.27%) AUTOSAR
7 1 (0.27%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 43 (11.44%) Docker
1 43 (11.44%) Firmware
2 22 (5.85%) Embedded Firmware
3 5 (1.33%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.33%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (5.59%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.39%) Terraform
3 5 (1.33%) Ansible
3 5 (1.33%) SCCM
3 5 (1.33%) SCOM
3 5 (1.33%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 3 (0.80%) Argo
4 3 (0.80%) Grafana
4 3 (0.80%) Kubeflow
4 3 (0.80%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.27%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 32 (8.51%) Microsoft
2 26 (6.91%) Google
3 11 (2.93%) IBM
3 11 (2.93%) Xilinx
4 10 (2.66%) Altera
5 7 (1.86%) Databricks
5 7 (1.86%) Screaming Frog
6 5 (1.33%) Dell
6 5 (1.33%) HP
6 5 (1.33%) McAfee
6 5 (1.33%) VMware
7 4 (1.06%) TikTok
8 3 (0.80%) Botify
8 3 (0.80%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.80%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.80%) Rockwell
8 3 (0.80%) Splunk
9 2 (0.53%) MathWorks
10 1 (0.27%) Intel
10 1 (0.27%) Thales