Algorithms Jobs

Algorithms
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Algorithms over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 118 196
Rank change year-on-year -28 +78 -57
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 1,083 2,307 1,990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.08% 2.35% 1.91%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.01% 6.59% 4.39%
Number of salaries quoted 660 753 853
10th Percentile £45,675 £38,750 £40,447
25th Percentile £58,750 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -13.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £76,000 £82,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,250 £104,237 £121,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 18,032 35,027 45,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.57% 35.62% 43.58%
Number of salaries quoted 9,839 23,030 23,975
10th Percentile £31,500 £28,000 £35,271
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Algorithms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Algorithms in the UK

Algorithms
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Algorithms.

Salary trend for Algorithms in the UK

Algorithms
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Algorithms over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Algorithms in the UK

Algorithms
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Algorithms within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +44 981 £70,600 +8.62% 1,048
UK excluding London -44 800 £62,500 +4.17% 500
Work from Home +127 454 £70,600 +8.62% 535
South East +45 417 £65,000 +12.07% 128
London +61 261 £102,500 +20.59% 624
East of England +37 120 £65,000 - 91
South West +62 74 £70,000 +16.67% 67
North of England -4 62 £73,246 +30.21% 87
Wales +81 53 £65,000 +18.18% 10
Midlands -36 41 £60,000 -4.00% 55
North West -51 40 £88,662 +47.77% 43
Scotland -96 29 £45,000 -30.77% 66
East Midlands +3 21 £60,000 +6.68% 13
West Midlands -8 20 £60,000 -4.00% 42
Yorkshire +63 16 £45,000 -10.00% 19
North East +56 6 £103,750 +13.76% 25
Northern Ireland +38 4 - - 7

Algorithms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 27 (2.49%) Jupyter
2 12 (1.11%) Kinematics
3 11 (1.02%) Apache Spark
4 7 (0.65%) Apache
4 7 (0.65%) Confluence
5 6 (0.55%) CMS
6 5 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.46%) Ethereum
6 5 (0.46%) WordPress
7 4 (0.37%) GemFire
8 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.18%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.092%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 20 (1.85%) Simulink
2 14 (1.29%) Mathcad
3 12 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.83%) Final Cut Pro
5 5 (0.46%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (0.46%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.37%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.28%) Adobe Premiere
7 3 (0.28%) GNU Octave
7 3 (0.28%) InDesign
7 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
8 2 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.092%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.092%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.092%) OrCAD
9 1 (0.092%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (2.22%) Ripple
1 24 (2.22%) Ripple XRP
2 4 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.092%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.092%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.092%) Raiser’s Edge
4 1 (0.092%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.092%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 121 (11.17%) AWS
2 120 (11.08%) Power Platform
3 115 (10.62%) Azure
4 66 (6.09%) GCP
5 41 (3.79%) SaaS
6 18 (1.66%) Amazon SageMaker
7 16 (1.48%) Amazon S3
8 15 (1.39%) Vertex AI
9 13 (1.20%) Google Analytics
10 12 (1.11%) Azure AI
10 12 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
11 11 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (1.02%) Azure Machine Learning
11 11 (1.02%) Canva
11 11 (1.02%) Microsoft Copilot
12 10 (0.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (0.83%) Serverless
14 8 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (0.65%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.11%) Multicast
2 6 (0.55%) Bluetooth
2 6 (0.55%) WAN
3 5 (0.46%) HTTP
3 5 (0.46%) Internet
3 5 (0.46%) RS-485
3 5 (0.46%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.37%) 5G
4 4 (0.37%) DNS
4 4 (0.37%) SD-WAN
4 4 (0.37%) SMTP
5 2 (0.18%) GPRS
5 2 (0.18%) GSM
5 2 (0.18%) MQTT
5 2 (0.18%) RTP
6 1 (0.092%) DVB
6 1 (0.092%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.092%) SMS
6 1 (0.092%) Wireless
6 1 (0.092%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (10.99%) Power BI
2 96 (8.86%) GIS
3 94 (8.68%) Geospatial Data
3 94 (8.68%) Power Query
4 63 (5.82%) NoSQL
5 60 (5.54%) Big Data
6 32 (2.95%) Data Mining
7 24 (2.22%) Tableau
8 18 (1.66%) MongoDB
9 16 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
10 14 (1.29%) Relational Database
11 12 (1.11%) Redis
12 11 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (0.92%) SQL Server
14 8 (0.74%) Cloud Spanner
14 8 (0.74%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.65%) BigQuery
15 7 (0.65%) Hadoop
15 7 (0.65%) KDB
15 7 (0.65%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 270 (24.93%) Rational DOORS
2 71 (6.56%) Git
3 29 (2.68%) JIRA
4 24 (2.22%) JUnit
5 22 (2.03%) Eclipse
5 22 (2.03%) IntelliJ
5 22 (2.03%) Jasmine
5 22 (2.03%) Karma Test Runner
5 22 (2.03%) Mockito
5 22 (2.03%) Protractor
6 15 (1.39%) Visual Studio
7 10 (0.92%) Jenkins
8 7 (0.65%) Gradle
9 6 (0.55%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.55%) Vite
9 6 (0.55%) webpack
10 5 (0.46%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.46%) Subversion
11 4 (0.37%) Bazaar
11 4 (0.37%) GitLab
General
1 317 (29.27%) Electronics
2 238 (21.98%) Finance
3 209 (19.30%) Social Skills
4 143 (13.20%) Analytical Skills
5 100 (9.23%) Law
6 75 (6.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 73 (6.74%) Banking
8 49 (4.52%) Legal
9 45 (4.16%) Marketing
10 41 (3.79%) Games
11 39 (3.60%) Retail
12 36 (3.32%) Manufacturing
13 31 (2.86%) Front Office
14 25 (2.31%) Financial Institution
14 25 (2.31%) Pharmaceutical
15 24 (2.22%) Digital Economy
16 17 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
17 15 (1.39%) Public Sector
18 13 (1.20%) Automotive
19 12 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 330 (30.47%) Senior
2 270 (24.93%) Systems Engineer
3 174 (16.07%) Principal Engineer
4 144 (13.30%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 136 (12.56%) Developer
6 126 (11.63%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 118 (10.90%) Software Engineer
8 111 (10.25%) Data Scientist
9 85 (7.85%) Lead
10 66 (6.09%) Senior Software Engineer
11 45 (4.16%) Java Developer
11 45 (4.16%) Senior Data Scientist
12 36 (3.32%) Senior Developer
13 33 (3.05%) C++ Developer
13 33 (3.05%) Quantitative Developer
14 29 (2.68%) C++ Software Engineer
15 28 (2.59%) Analyst
16 23 (2.12%) C++ Quantitative Developer
16 23 (2.12%) Software Developer
17 22 (2.03%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (5.82%) React
2 62 (5.72%) PyTorch
3 52 (4.80%) scikit-learn
4 50 (4.62%) TensorFlow
5 41 (3.79%) Pandas
6 39 (3.60%) AngularJS
6 39 (3.60%) NumPy
7 32 (2.95%) RabbitMQ
8 25 (2.31%) .NET
8 25 (2.31%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 24 (2.22%) Hibernate
10 23 (2.12%) Node.js
11 22 (2.03%) JPA
11 22 (2.03%) OpenCV
12 21 (1.94%) Kafka
12 21 (1.94%) SciPy
13 20 (1.85%) CSS
14 18 (1.66%) Middleware
15 17 (1.57%) REST
16 16 (1.48%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 110 (10.16%) Data Structures
2 53 (4.89%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (4.25%) Cyberattack
4 36 (3.32%) Equities
4 36 (3.32%) Robotics
5 33 (3.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 30 (2.77%) Blockchain
6 30 (2.77%) Virtual Team
7 29 (2.68%) Credit Risk
8 26 (2.40%) Hedge funds
9 24 (2.22%) Social Media
10 22 (2.03%) FPGA
10 22 (2.03%) Life Science
11 21 (1.94%) Fixed Income
12 20 (1.85%) Management Information System
12 20 (1.85%) Public Cloud
13 18 (1.66%) Derivative
14 17 (1.57%) Cloud Native
14 17 (1.57%) Embedded Systems
15 16 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 128 (11.82%) Linux
2 29 (2.68%) Windows
3 20 (1.85%) Unix
4 17 (1.57%) Apple iOS
5 11 (1.02%) Android
6 6 (0.55%) Robot Operating System
6 6 (0.55%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.46%) Debian
8 3 (0.28%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.092%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (28.81%) Problem-Solving
2 311 (28.72%) Signal Processing
3 302 (27.89%) Technical Leadership
4 296 (27.33%) Systems Engineering
5 273 (25.21%) Machine Learning
6 257 (23.73%) Software Engineering
7 255 (23.55%) Artificial Intelligence
8 250 (23.08%) Data Science
9 245 (22.62%) Analytics
10 236 (21.79%) Mentoring
11 214 (19.76%) Computer Science
12 191 (17.64%) Agile
13 176 (16.25%) Mathematics
14 166 (15.33%) Visualisation
15 144 (13.30%) Test Planning
16 131 (12.10%) Business Intelligence
17 122 (11.27%) Actionable Insight
17 122 (11.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 118 (10.90%) Statistics
19 114 (10.53%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 348 (32.13%) Python
2 246 (22.71%) SQL
3 176 (16.25%) C++
4 152 (14.04%) Java
5 139 (12.83%) R
6 80 (7.39%) C
7 76 (7.02%) JavaScript
8 58 (5.36%) C#
9 46 (4.25%) TypeScript
10 27 (2.49%) MATLAB
11 24 (2.22%) Go
12 14 (1.29%) Bash
13 13 (1.20%) Embedded C
14 9 (0.83%) Fortran
15 6 (0.55%) Ladder Logic
15 6 (0.55%) Rust
15 6 (0.55%) Scala
16 5 (0.46%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.37%) Ruby
18 3 (0.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 315 (29.09%) Degree
2 291 (26.87%) BPSS Clearance
3 135 (12.47%) Master's Degree
4 117 (10.80%) PhD
5 84 (7.76%) Security Cleared
6 70 (6.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 66 (6.09%) DV Cleared
8 45 (4.16%) Numerate Degree
9 30 (2.77%) SC Cleared
10 11 (1.02%) Azure Certification
11 9 (0.83%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.46%) CISSP
13 2 (0.18%) CSSLP
13 2 (0.18%) MBA
13 2 (0.18%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.18%) PMP
13 2 (0.18%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.092%) AWS Certification
14 1 (0.092%) CISM
14 1 (0.092%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 291 (26.87%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 36 (3.32%) QA
3 23 (2.12%) Accessibility
4 19 (1.75%) GDPR
5 12 (1.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (0.46%) NIST
7 4 (0.37%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.092%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 96 (8.86%) Docker
2 10 (0.92%) Firmware
3 6 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (0.46%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 82 (7.57%) Kubernetes
2 10 (0.92%) Terraform
3 5 (0.46%) Grafana
3 5 (0.46%) Oozie
4 3 (0.28%) Ansible
4 3 (0.28%) Kubeflow
4 3 (0.28%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.18%) Argo
5 2 (0.18%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.092%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.092%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 293 (27.05%) IBM
2 62 (5.72%) Google
3 54 (4.99%) Microsoft
4 33 (3.05%) Databricks
5 30 (2.77%) OpenAI
6 26 (2.40%) SAP
7 15 (1.39%) MathWorks
7 15 (1.39%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.29%) Adobe
9 11 (1.02%) Workday
10 9 (0.83%) Ahrefs
11 8 (0.74%) NVIDIA
12 7 (0.65%) ANSYS
12 7 (0.65%) EMC
12 7 (0.65%) Facebook
12 7 (0.65%) Oracle
13 6 (0.55%) Siemens
14 5 (0.46%) Cloudera
15 4 (0.37%) Salesforce
15 4 (0.37%) Solace