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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 141 209
Rank change year-on-year +5 +68 -85
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 1,375 1,940 1,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.29% 1.94% 1.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.18% 5.78% 4.12%
Number of salaries quoted 740 657 699
10th Percentile £47,500 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,600 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.62% -7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £75,900 £81,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,600 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +17.67% - -4.00%

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 22,232 33,566 35,363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.98% 33.57% 41.92%
Number of salaries quoted 10,690 20,934 21,347
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,000 £35,385
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,885 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £64,029
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -14.10% +2.45%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -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 18 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Algorithms in the UK

Algorithms
Top 16 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 18 July 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 +52 1,171 £70,600 +8.62% 1,055
UK excluding London +3 1,082 £70,600 +17.67% 520
South East +71 624 £70,600 +17.67% 155
Work from Home +125 617 £70,600 +12.96% 450
London +49 259 £110,000 +37.50% 623
East of England +14 114 £55,000 -15.38% 96
Scotland -54 98 £63,150 -2.85% 43
South West +64 82 £63,150 +16.94% 49
Wales +86 78 £70,600 +28.36% 16
North of England -56 56 £74,500 +35.45% 109
North West -78 39 £82,626 +37.71% 63
Midlands -41 30 £60,000 +4.35% 55
West Midlands +12 16 £60,000 +4.35% 30
Yorkshire +35 14 £66,575 +33.15% 32
East Midlands -28 14 £60,000 - 24
North East +37 3 £115,000 +26.10% 14

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 26 (1.89%) Apache Spark
2 24 (1.75%) Jupyter
3 19 (1.38%) Kinematics
4 15 (1.09%) Apache
5 14 (1.02%) CMS
6 12 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.58%) Camunda
7 8 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.44%) WordPress
9 5 (0.36%) Umbraco
10 4 (0.29%) GemFire
10 4 (0.29%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.22%) Kentico
12 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.073%) Ethereum
13 1 (0.073%) SharePoint
Applications
1 27 (1.96%) Simulink
2 21 (1.53%) Mathcad
3 12 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.58%) Blender
5 5 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.29%) Adobe Premiere
6 4 (0.29%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.29%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.22%) InDesign
7 3 (0.22%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.15%) GNU Octave
8 2 (0.15%) OrCAD
9 1 (0.073%) Final Cut Pro
9 1 (0.073%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.073%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 133 (9.67%) AWS
2 115 (8.36%) Azure
3 65 (4.73%) GCP
4 35 (2.55%) Google Analytics
5 30 (2.18%) Vertex AI
6 23 (1.67%) SaaS
7 22 (1.60%) Power Platform
8 19 (1.38%) Amazon S3
9 17 (1.24%) Amazon SageMaker
10 16 (1.16%) Azure Machine Learning
11 13 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (0.80%) Azure AI
12 11 (0.80%) Microsoft Copilot
13 10 (0.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 10 (0.73%) Cloud Computing
14 9 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (0.58%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (0.58%) npm
15 8 (0.58%) Snowflake
15 8 (0.58%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.02%) WAN
2 13 (0.95%) Multicast
3 12 (0.87%) 5G
3 12 (0.87%) SD-WAN
4 8 (0.58%) Internet
5 4 (0.29%) DNS
5 4 (0.29%) HTTP
5 4 (0.29%) MQTT
5 4 (0.29%) SMTP
5 4 (0.29%) Software-Defined Radio
5 4 (0.29%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.22%) S/MIME
6 3 (0.22%) SSL
6 3 (0.22%) X.509
7 2 (0.15%) Bluetooth
7 2 (0.15%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.15%) LoRaWAN
7 2 (0.15%) Modbus
7 2 (0.15%) RTP
8 1 (0.073%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (5.53%) NoSQL
2 71 (5.16%) Big Data
3 41 (2.98%) Data Mining
4 33 (2.40%) MongoDB
5 29 (2.11%) Relational Database
6 23 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
7 22 (1.60%) Power BI
8 19 (1.38%) Tableau
9 17 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
10 14 (1.02%) DB2
11 13 (0.95%) Apache Cassandra
11 13 (0.95%) Data Lake
11 13 (0.95%) MySQL
12 12 (0.87%) Looker
12 12 (0.87%) RDBMS
13 11 (0.80%) KDB
14 10 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (0.73%) QGIS
14 10 (0.73%) SQL Server
15 9 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 559 (40.65%) Rational DOORS
2 68 (4.95%) Git
3 24 (1.75%) JIRA
4 23 (1.67%) JUnit
5 14 (1.02%) Visual Studio
5 14 (1.02%) Vite
6 12 (0.87%) Jenkins
7 9 (0.65%) Cypress.io
7 9 (0.65%) webpack
8 8 (0.58%) GitLab
8 8 (0.58%) IntelliJ
8 8 (0.58%) Jasmine
8 8 (0.58%) Karma Test Runner
8 8 (0.58%) Protractor
9 7 (0.51%) Eclipse
9 7 (0.51%) Gradle
9 7 (0.51%) Mockito
10 5 (0.36%) Bazaar
10 5 (0.36%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 668 (48.58%) Electronics
2 319 (23.20%) Finance
3 230 (16.73%) Law
4 213 (15.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 168 (12.22%) Social Skills
6 156 (11.35%) Analytical Skills
7 138 (10.04%) Banking
8 119 (8.65%) Marketing
9 55 (4.00%) Retail
10 40 (2.91%) Games
11 38 (2.76%) Front Office
12 27 (1.96%) Manufacturing
13 22 (1.60%) Investment Banking
14 20 (1.45%) Legal
14 20 (1.45%) Public Sector
15 19 (1.38%) Advertising
16 17 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
17 15 (1.09%) Automotive
18 14 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
19 10 (0.73%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 568 (41.31%) Systems Engineer
2 431 (31.35%) Senior
3 330 (24.00%) Principal Engineer
4 322 (23.42%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 237 (17.24%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 219 (15.93%) Software Engineer
7 106 (7.71%) Lead
8 96 (6.98%) Developer
9 84 (6.11%) Data Scientist
10 76 (5.53%) Java Engineer
11 71 (5.16%) Java Software Engineer
12 64 (4.65%) Senior Software Engineer
13 39 (2.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 39 (2.84%) Python Engineer
13 39 (2.84%) Radar Engineer
14 37 (2.69%) Python Software Engineer
15 36 (2.62%) Senior Data Scientist
16 35 (2.55%) Java Developer
17 29 (2.11%) C++ Developer
17 29 (2.11%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (6.91%) React
2 72 (5.24%) Spring
3 55 (4.00%) Kafka
4 50 (3.64%) Spring Boot
5 44 (3.20%) scikit-learn
6 41 (2.98%) AngularJS
6 41 (2.98%) TensorFlow
7 35 (2.55%) PyTorch
8 33 (2.40%) CSS
9 30 (2.18%) REST
10 28 (2.04%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 28 (2.04%) Middleware
11 27 (1.96%) HTML
12 20 (1.45%) PySpark
13 19 (1.38%) .NET
13 19 (1.38%) FIX Protocol
13 19 (1.38%) Pandas
14 18 (1.31%) RESTful
15 17 (1.24%) OAuth
16 16 (1.16%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 114 (8.29%) Data Structures
2 52 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (3.35%) Cyberattack
4 45 (3.27%) Equities
5 40 (2.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 38 (2.76%) Public Cloud
7 33 (2.40%) Cloud Native
8 31 (2.25%) Fixed Income
8 31 (2.25%) Robotics
9 27 (1.96%) Derivative
10 25 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (1.60%) Hedge funds
12 20 (1.45%) Social Media
13 19 (1.38%) Management Information System
14 16 (1.16%) Blog
14 16 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (1.02%) FPGA
16 13 (0.95%) GNSS
17 12 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
17 12 (0.87%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 97 (7.05%) Linux
2 30 (2.18%) Windows
3 19 (1.38%) Apple iOS
3 19 (1.38%) Unix
4 16 (1.16%) Android
5 3 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (0.22%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (0.073%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.073%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 664 (48.29%) Signal Processing
2 655 (47.64%) Systems Engineering
3 650 (47.27%) Technical Leadership
4 343 (24.95%) Software Engineering
5 322 (23.42%) Test Planning
6 312 (22.69%) Artificial Intelligence
7 301 (21.89%) Machine Learning
8 259 (18.84%) Agile
8 259 (18.84%) Problem-Solving
9 245 (17.82%) Visualisation
10 214 (15.56%) Analytics
11 201 (14.62%) Data Science
12 181 (13.16%) SDLC
13 180 (13.09%) Mentoring
14 178 (12.95%) Mathematics
15 172 (12.51%) Computer Science
16 160 (11.64%) CI/CD
17 125 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
18 117 (8.51%) Community of Practice
19 115 (8.36%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 345 (25.09%) Python
2 223 (16.22%) Java
3 152 (11.05%) SQL
4 142 (10.33%) C++
5 90 (6.55%) R
6 84 (6.11%) JavaScript
7 64 (4.65%) C
8 57 (4.15%) TypeScript
9 55 (4.00%) C#
10 41 (2.98%) MATLAB
11 13 (0.95%) Scala
12 12 (0.87%) Embedded C
13 9 (0.65%) Go
13 9 (0.65%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.51%) Rust
15 6 (0.44%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.36%) Bash
17 3 (0.22%) Embedded C++
17 3 (0.22%) VC++
18 2 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 650 (47.27%) BPSS Clearance
2 228 (16.58%) Degree
3 83 (6.04%) Master's Degree
4 72 (5.24%) PhD
5 69 (5.02%) Security Cleared
6 61 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 52 (3.78%) DV Cleared
8 36 (2.62%) Numerate Degree
9 14 (1.02%) SC Cleared
10 11 (0.80%) Azure Certification
10 11 (0.80%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.22%) CISM
11 3 (0.22%) CISSP
11 3 (0.22%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.15%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.15%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 650 (47.27%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 28 (2.04%) QA
3 23 (1.67%) GDPR
4 13 (0.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 12 (0.87%) Accessibility
6 8 (0.58%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.22%) NIST
9 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.15%) JTAG
10 1 (0.073%) GRC
System Software
1 92 (6.69%) Docker
2 11 (0.80%) Firmware
3 6 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (0.36%) Apache Flume
5 3 (0.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 106 (7.71%) Kubernetes
2 33 (2.40%) Terraform
3 14 (1.02%) Ansible
4 5 (0.36%) Grafana
4 5 (0.36%) Oozie
5 4 (0.29%) Kubeflow
6 3 (0.22%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 3 (0.22%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.15%) Mesos
7 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.073%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 578 (42.04%) IBM
2 118 (8.58%) Google
3 76 (5.53%) Microsoft
4 47 (3.42%) OpenAI
5 38 (2.76%) Databricks
6 32 (2.33%) Oracle
7 26 (1.89%) Ahrefs
8 22 (1.60%) MathWorks
8 22 (1.60%) SAP
9 15 (1.09%) Screaming Frog
9 15 (1.09%) ServiceNow
10 13 (0.95%) Splunk
11 12 (0.87%) Red Hat
12 11 (0.80%) Dynatrace
12 11 (0.80%) Workday
13 8 (0.58%) Facebook
14 7 (0.51%) NVIDIA
15 5 (0.36%) Cloudera
15 5 (0.36%) Solace
15 5 (0.36%) YouTube