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 3 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 160 92
Rank change year-on-year -157 -68 +88
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 282 536 1,959
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.43% 1.95% 2.88%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.68% 5.10% 8.29%
Number of salaries quoted 195 293 546
10th Percentile - £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £47,500 £47,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £86,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -10.34%

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 16,774 10,520 23,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.60% 38.31% 34.70%
Number of salaries quoted 8,276 5,401 15,200
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,925 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -92 96 £60,000 -3.23% 83
North of England -59 61 £37,500 -47.91% 30
South West -85 41 £60,000 -14.29% 34
Midlands -44 32 £55,000 -8.33% 20
North West -25 31 £37,500 -56.88% 12
East of England -94 29 £37,500 -42.31% 40
West Midlands -20 21 £43,000 -28.33% 6
Yorkshire -54 21 £37,500 -16.67% 9
Scotland -35 14 £39,500 -12.22% 11
East Midlands -49 10 £75,000 +25.00% 14
North East -30 9 £37,500 -63.86% 9
Wales -38 7 £57,500 -5.74% 2
Northern Ireland -32 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 50 (17.73%) Jupyter
2 7 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.13%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.77%) CMS
4 5 (1.77%) IIS
5 2 (0.71%) Confluence
6 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 49 (17.38%) Chatbot
2 8 (2.84%) Simulink
3 3 (1.06%) CATIA
4 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.71%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 12 (4.26%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 74 (26.24%) AWS
2 54 (19.15%) Cloud Computing
3 13 (4.61%) Google Analytics
4 12 (4.26%) Azure
5 8 (2.84%) GCP
6 5 (1.77%) Snowflake
7 4 (1.42%) Google Ads
7 4 (1.42%) Prefect
8 3 (1.06%) Slack
9 2 (0.71%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.71%) SaaS
10 1 (0.35%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.35%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.35%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (0.35%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.35%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.35%) Firebase
10 1 (0.35%) Google App Engine
10 1 (0.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.84%) Broadband
2 5 (1.77%) Ethernet
2 5 (1.77%) Software-Defined Radio
3 4 (1.42%) Internet
4 3 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.35%) Firewall
5 1 (0.35%) IPsec
5 1 (0.35%) S/MIME
5 1 (0.35%) VPN
5 1 (0.35%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.09%) Metadata
2 11 (3.90%) Big Data
3 9 (3.19%) Tableau
4 7 (2.48%) Hadoop
4 7 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.13%) Data Mining
5 6 (2.13%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.77%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.42%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.35%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.35%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.35%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.35%) GIS
8 1 (0.35%) Power BI
8 1 (0.35%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 69 (24.47%) Visual Studio Code
2 36 (12.77%) Git
3 28 (9.93%) Rational DOORS
4 15 (5.32%) GitLab
5 2 (0.71%) JIRA
6 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.35%) MLflow
General
1 73 (25.89%) Finance
2 60 (21.28%) Retail
3 55 (19.50%) Manufacturing
4 42 (14.89%) Social Skills
5 38 (13.48%) Marketing
6 36 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (9.22%) Electronics
8 13 (4.61%) Automotive
9 12 (4.26%) Aerospace
9 12 (4.26%) Games
10 9 (3.19%) Advertising
10 9 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.77%) Aviation
11 5 (1.77%) Banking
11 5 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.42%) Legal
13 3 (1.06%) Aeronautics
13 3 (1.06%) French Language
13 3 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (21.28%) Software Engineer
2 46 (16.31%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
2 46 (16.31%) Programmer
2 46 (16.31%) Trainee
2 46 (16.31%) Trainee Programmer
3 39 (13.83%) Senior
4 35 (12.41%) Developer
5 23 (8.16%) Python Developer
6 22 (7.80%) Senior Software Engineer
6 22 (7.80%) Systems Engineer
7 21 (7.45%) FPGA Engineer
8 18 (6.38%) Embedded Engineer
9 13 (4.61%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 13 (4.61%) Principal Engineer
9 13 (4.61%) Principal Systems Engineer
9 13 (4.61%) SEO Specialist
10 11 (3.90%) Algorithm Engineer
11 9 (3.19%) Lead
12 8 (2.84%) Design Engineer
12 8 (2.84%) Senior Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (25.53%) NumPy
1 72 (25.53%) Pandas
2 53 (18.79%) scikit-learn
3 52 (18.44%) Matplotlib
4 49 (17.38%) Hugging Face
4 49 (17.38%) Streamlit
5 17 (6.03%) PyTorch
6 15 (5.32%) TensorFlow
7 14 (4.96%) HTML
8 12 (4.26%) .NET
9 9 (3.19%) CSS
10 7 (2.48%) OpenCV
11 6 (2.13%) .NET Core
11 6 (2.13%) REST
12 5 (1.77%) Play Framework
12 5 (1.77%) SciPy
13 4 (1.42%) DirectX
13 4 (1.42%) Google JAX
13 4 (1.42%) JAX
13 4 (1.42%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.28%) FPGA
2 18 (6.38%) PCIe
2 18 (6.38%) VHDL
3 15 (5.32%) Product Ownership
4 14 (4.96%) Embedded Systems
4 14 (4.96%) Onboarding
5 12 (4.26%) NVMe
6 9 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.84%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.84%) Video\Live Streaming
8 7 (2.48%) Driving Licence
9 6 (2.13%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.77%) 3D Graphics
10 5 (1.77%) CUDA
10 5 (1.77%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.42%) Cloud Native
11 4 (1.42%) Cybercrime
11 4 (1.42%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.42%) PKI
11 4 (1.42%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 20 (7.09%) Linux
2 7 (2.48%) Windows
3 5 (1.77%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (1.77%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (1.77%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (1.77%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (1.42%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.06%) Android
5 3 (1.06%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.71%) Robot Operating System
6 2 (0.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (34.04%) AI
2 91 (32.27%) Machine Learning
2 91 (32.27%) Software Engineering
3 65 (23.05%) Visualisation
4 60 (21.28%) LLM
5 58 (20.57%) Computer Science
6 57 (20.21%) OO
6 57 (20.21%) OOP
7 52 (18.44%) Workflow
8 51 (18.09%) Neural Network
9 50 (17.73%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 49 (17.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
10 49 (17.38%) Conversational UI
10 49 (17.38%) Customer Service
10 49 (17.38%) Data Privacy
10 49 (17.38%) Prompt Engineering
10 49 (17.38%) Sentiment Analysis
11 47 (16.67%) Signal Processing
12 38 (13.48%) Analytics
13 32 (11.35%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 150 (53.19%) Python
2 68 (24.11%) C++
3 37 (13.12%) C#
4 34 (12.06%) C
5 22 (7.80%) SQL
6 13 (4.61%) MATLAB
7 12 (4.26%) Assembly Language
8 10 (3.55%) Java
8 10 (3.55%) R
9 6 (2.13%) Go
9 6 (2.13%) JavaScript
10 5 (1.77%) Embedded C
10 5 (1.77%) Embedded C++
10 5 (1.77%) Scala
11 4 (1.42%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.71%) Julia
12 2 (0.71%) Rust
12 2 (0.71%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.35%) SystemVerilog
13 1 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 61 (21.63%) Degree
2 50 (17.73%) AWS Certification
3 49 (17.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 30 (10.64%) Security Cleared
5 26 (9.22%) Master's Degree
6 18 (6.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (6.03%) SC Cleared
8 13 (4.61%) PhD
9 11 (3.90%) DV Cleared
10 6 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.77%) MBA
12 3 (1.06%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.35%) CEH
13 1 (0.35%) CISM
13 1 (0.35%) CISSP
13 1 (0.35%) GIAC
13 1 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 6 (2.13%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.77%) Actionable Recommendations
3 5 (1.77%) GDPR
3 5 (1.77%) QA
4 4 (1.42%) IEC 61508
4 4 (1.42%) ISO 26262
5 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.35%) AUTOSAR
6 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.35%) NIST
6 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (10.99%) Firmware
2 21 (7.45%) Docker
3 16 (5.67%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (1.77%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.77%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.77%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.77%) Kubernetes
1 5 (1.77%) SCCM
1 5 (1.77%) SCOM
1 5 (1.77%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 3 (1.06%) Kubeflow
3 2 (0.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 53 (18.79%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.16%) Google
3 21 (7.45%) IBM
4 16 (5.67%) Altera
5 13 (4.61%) Xilinx
6 12 (4.26%) Databricks
7 9 (3.19%) Screaming Frog
8 5 (1.77%) BT
8 5 (1.77%) Dell
8 5 (1.77%) HP
8 5 (1.77%) McAfee
8 5 (1.77%) VMware
9 3 (1.06%) Ahrefs
9 3 (1.06%) Botify
9 3 (1.06%) Rockwell
10 2 (0.71%) Thales
11 1 (0.35%) Hotjar
11 1 (0.35%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.35%) OpenAI