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 22 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 138 108
Rank change year-on-year -205 -30 +48
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 212 576 1,573
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.39% 2.13% 2.59%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.37% 5.99% 7.41%
Number of salaries quoted 127 316 478
10th Percentile - £43,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £52,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,792 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.73% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £76,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,900 £85,625 £87,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -13.33%

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 15,444 9,609 21,214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.16% 35.56% 34.90%
Number of salaries quoted 7,341 5,134 14,400
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £56,875 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.21% +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 22 March 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 22 March 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 -128 56 £67,250 +7.60% 109
North of England -67 48 £37,500 -47.91% 68
South West -97 32 £40,792 -37.24% 61
Midlands -46 30 £50,000 -16.67% 56
North West -29 29 £37,500 -56.88% 33
East of England -89 27 £42,500 -44.08% 62
West Midlands -3 18 £37,500 -37.50% 24
Yorkshire -48 13 £37,500 -28.57% 20
Scotland -36 12 £37,500 -16.67% 18
East Midlands -52 11 £75,000 +25.00% 32
Wales -30 7 £57,500 -4.17% 11
North East -26 6 £37,500 -50.82% 16
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 49 (23.11%) Jupyter
2 6 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.83%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.36%) CMS
3 5 (2.36%) IIS
3 5 (2.36%) Kinematics
4 2 (0.94%) Confluence
5 1 (0.47%) Apache
5 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 49 (23.11%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.89%) Simulink
3 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.94%) OrCAD
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (3.77%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 70 (33.02%) AWS
2 52 (24.53%) Cloud Computing
3 12 (5.66%) Google Analytics
4 8 (3.77%) Azure
5 7 (3.30%) GCP
6 5 (2.36%) Snowflake
7 4 (1.89%) Google Tag Manager
8 3 (1.42%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.42%) Prefect
9 2 (0.94%) Google Docs
9 2 (0.94%) Google Sheets
9 2 (0.94%) Google Workspace
9 2 (0.94%) SaaS
9 2 (0.94%) Slack
10 1 (0.47%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.47%) Firebase
10 1 (0.47%) GitHub
10 1 (0.47%) Google App Engine
10 1 (0.47%) PaaS
10 1 (0.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.77%) Software-Defined Radio
2 7 (3.30%) Broadband
3 5 (2.36%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.94%) Internet
5 1 (0.47%) IPsec
5 1 (0.47%) S/MIME
5 1 (0.47%) VPN
5 1 (0.47%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.02%) Metadata
2 10 (4.72%) Big Data
2 10 (4.72%) Tableau
3 7 (3.30%) Hadoop
4 6 (2.83%) Data Mining
4 6 (2.83%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.36%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.89%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.89%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.94%) Looker
7 2 (0.94%) Power BI
8 1 (0.47%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.47%) GIS
8 1 (0.47%) Spotfire
8 1 (0.47%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 52 (24.53%) Visual Studio Code
2 25 (11.79%) Rational DOORS
3 14 (6.60%) Git
4 3 (1.42%) GitLab
4 3 (1.42%) JIRA
5 2 (0.94%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.47%) MLflow
6 1 (0.47%) TestRail
General
1 65 (30.66%) Finance
2 60 (28.30%) Retail
3 54 (25.47%) Manufacturing
4 36 (16.98%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (16.98%) Electronics
5 35 (16.51%) Social Skills
6 29 (13.68%) Marketing
7 13 (6.13%) Automotive
8 12 (5.66%) Games
9 5 (2.36%) Aerospace
9 5 (2.36%) Aviation
9 5 (2.36%) Banking
9 5 (2.36%) Legal
9 5 (2.36%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.42%) Aeronautics
11 3 (1.42%) French Language
11 3 (1.42%) Italian Language
11 3 (1.42%) Portuguese Language
11 3 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (21.70%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 46 (21.70%) Programmer
1 46 (21.70%) Trainee
1 46 (21.70%) Trainee Programmer
2 23 (10.85%) Software Engineer
3 22 (10.38%) Developer
4 21 (9.91%) Systems Engineer
5 19 (8.96%) Senior
6 17 (8.02%) Principal Engineer
6 17 (8.02%) Principal Systems Engineer
7 15 (7.08%) Lead
8 14 (6.60%) FPGA Engineer
9 10 (4.72%) Embedded Engineer
9 10 (4.72%) Python Developer
10 8 (3.77%) Algorithm Engineer
10 8 (3.77%) SEO Executive
11 7 (3.30%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
11 7 (3.30%) C++ Software Engineer
11 7 (3.30%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 7 (3.30%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (28.77%) NumPy
1 61 (28.77%) Pandas
2 53 (25.00%) scikit-learn
3 52 (24.53%) Matplotlib
4 49 (23.11%) Hugging Face
4 49 (23.11%) Streamlit
5 15 (7.08%) PyTorch
5 15 (7.08%) TensorFlow
6 9 (4.25%) .NET
6 9 (4.25%) HTML
7 6 (2.83%) CSS
7 6 (2.83%) OpenCV
7 6 (2.83%) REST
8 5 (2.36%) .NET Core
8 5 (2.36%) Middleware
8 5 (2.36%) Play Framework
9 4 (1.89%) DirectX
9 4 (1.89%) FHIR
9 4 (1.89%) OpenGL
9 4 (1.89%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.91%) FPGA
2 12 (5.66%) PCIe
3 11 (5.19%) VHDL
4 8 (3.77%) 3D Graphics
4 8 (3.77%) Embedded Systems
4 8 (3.77%) NVMe
5 7 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.30%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.30%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.30%) Robotics
5 7 (3.30%) Video\Live Streaming
6 6 (2.83%) Life Science
7 5 (2.36%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.36%) CUDA
7 5 (2.36%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.36%) Low-Code
7 5 (2.36%) Social Media
8 4 (1.89%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.89%) Omics
9 3 (1.42%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.25%) Linux
2 4 (1.89%) Android
2 4 (1.89%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.94%) Robot Operating System
3 2 (0.94%) Unix
4 1 (0.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (46.70%) AI
1 99 (46.70%) Machine Learning
2 64 (30.19%) Visualisation
3 62 (29.25%) LLM
4 60 (28.30%) OO
5 53 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 52 (24.53%) Neural Network
6 52 (24.53%) OOP
6 52 (24.53%) Workflow
7 51 (24.06%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 50 (23.58%) Data Privacy
8 50 (23.58%) Prompt Engineering
9 49 (23.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
9 49 (23.11%) Conversational UI
9 49 (23.11%) Customer Service
9 49 (23.11%) Sentiment Analysis
10 37 (17.45%) Signal Processing
11 36 (16.98%) Analytics
11 36 (16.98%) Computer Science
12 26 (12.26%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 115 (54.25%) Python
2 49 (23.11%) C++
3 33 (15.57%) C
4 20 (9.43%) C#
5 19 (8.96%) SQL
6 12 (5.66%) R
7 10 (4.72%) Java
8 8 (3.77%) Assembly Language
9 7 (3.30%) JavaScript
10 6 (2.83%) Go
10 6 (2.83%) MATLAB
11 5 (2.36%) Scala
12 4 (1.89%) Rust
12 4 (1.89%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.94%) Bash
13 2 (0.94%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.94%) Embedded C++
13 2 (0.94%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.47%) Julia
14 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 49 (23.11%) AWS Certification
1 49 (23.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 49 (23.11%) Degree
2 24 (11.32%) Master's Degree
3 18 (8.49%) PhD
4 17 (8.02%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (5.66%) Security Cleared
6 8 (3.77%) SC Cleared
7 7 (3.30%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.36%) MBA
10 3 (1.42%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.47%) CEH
11 1 (0.47%) CISM
11 1 (0.47%) CISSP
11 1 (0.47%) GIAC
11 1 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.02%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 7 (3.30%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.83%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.36%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (2.36%) QA
5 4 (1.89%) CDISC
5 4 (1.89%) GxP
5 4 (1.89%) HL7
5 4 (1.89%) IEC 61508
5 4 (1.89%) ISO 26262
6 2 (0.94%) NIST
7 1 (0.47%) AUTOSAR
7 1 (0.47%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.47%) GDPR
7 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.47%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (9.91%) Firmware
2 12 (5.66%) Embedded Firmware
3 7 (3.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.94%) Kubeflow
1 2 (0.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 53 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.38%) Google
3 17 (8.02%) IBM
4 12 (5.66%) Altera
5 10 (4.72%) Databricks
5 10 (4.72%) Screaming Frog
6 9 (4.25%) Xilinx
7 5 (2.36%) BT
8 4 (1.89%) Ahrefs
9 3 (1.42%) Botify
10 2 (0.94%) Hotjar
10 2 (0.94%) Thales
11 1 (0.47%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.47%) Foundry
11 1 (0.47%) Huawei
11 1 (0.47%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.47%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.47%) SAP
11 1 (0.47%) TIBCO