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

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 133 214
Rank change year-on-year -15 +81 -97
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 1,223 2,191 1,583
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.09% 2.03% 1.77%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.71% 6.07% 4.12%
Number of salaries quoted 663 737 731
10th Percentile £47,500 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £62,000 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,600 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.96% -10.71% -5.40%
75th Percentile £73,886 £82,500 £93,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £99,150 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% - -

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 21,434 36,125 38,415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.67% 33.45% 43.05%
Number of salaries quoted 10,155 23,027 21,760
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £35,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,800 £55,000 £64,029
Median % change year-on-year +8.73% -14.10% +2.45%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £98,474 £108,750
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 2 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 2 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 +12 1,025 £70,600 +11.72% 3,707
UK excluding London -23 932 £68,000 +13.33% 1,726
South East +48 545 £70,600 +21.72% 497
Work from Home +116 536 £70,600 +12.96% 1,446
London +51 256 £110,000 +33.33% 2,173
Scotland -60 92 £57,500 -11.54% 165
South West +66 80 £50,000 -9.09% 201
Wales +95 78 £70,600 +28.36% 48
East of England -22 64 £55,000 -15.38% 301
North of England -45 48 £85,253 +55.00% 316
North West -64 37 £86,957 +44.93% 184
Midlands -62 25 £60,000 - 173
West Midlands -9 14 £60,000 - 104
East Midlands -23 11 £43,500 -30.40% 67
Yorkshire +47 8 £70,996 +41.99% 103
North East +47 3 £115,000 +26.10% 29

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 25 (2.04%) Apache Spark
2 24 (1.96%) Jupyter
3 18 (1.47%) Kinematics
4 15 (1.23%) Apache
5 13 (1.06%) CMS
6 11 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.65%) Camunda
7 8 (0.65%) Oracle Workflow
8 5 (0.41%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.41%) WordPress
9 4 (0.33%) GemFire
9 4 (0.33%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.25%) Kentico
11 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.082%) Ethereum
12 1 (0.082%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (1.64%) Simulink
2 14 (1.14%) Mathcad
3 11 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.65%) Blender
5 5 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.33%) Adobe Premiere
6 4 (0.33%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.33%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.25%) InDesign
7 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (0.25%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.16%) GNU Octave
8 2 (0.16%) OrCAD
9 1 (0.082%) Final Cut Pro
9 1 (0.082%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.082%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 138 (11.28%) AWS
2 118 (9.65%) Azure
3 62 (5.07%) GCP
4 31 (2.53%) Google Analytics
5 30 (2.45%) Vertex AI
6 25 (2.04%) SaaS
7 20 (1.64%) Power Platform
8 19 (1.55%) Amazon S3
9 16 (1.31%) Amazon SageMaker
10 15 (1.23%) Azure Machine Learning
11 13 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (0.90%) Azure AI
12 11 (0.90%) Microsoft Copilot
13 10 (0.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 9 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
15 8 (0.65%) Amazon ECS
15 8 (0.65%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (0.65%) npm
15 8 (0.65%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.14%) WAN
2 12 (0.98%) 5G
2 12 (0.98%) SD-WAN
3 11 (0.90%) Multicast
4 8 (0.65%) Internet
5 4 (0.33%) DNS
5 4 (0.33%) HTTP
5 4 (0.33%) MQTT
5 4 (0.33%) SMTP
5 4 (0.33%) Software-Defined Radio
5 4 (0.33%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.25%) S/MIME
6 3 (0.25%) SSL
6 3 (0.25%) X.509
7 2 (0.16%) Bluetooth
7 2 (0.16%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.16%) LoRaWAN
7 2 (0.16%) Modbus
7 2 (0.16%) RTP
8 1 (0.082%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (6.30%) NoSQL
2 71 (5.81%) Big Data
3 42 (3.43%) Data Mining
4 32 (2.62%) MongoDB
5 29 (2.37%) Relational Database
6 22 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
7 20 (1.64%) Power BI
8 18 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
8 18 (1.47%) Tableau
9 14 (1.14%) DB2
10 13 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
10 13 (1.06%) MySQL
11 12 (0.98%) Data Lake
11 12 (0.98%) Looker
11 12 (0.98%) RDBMS
12 11 (0.90%) KDB
13 10 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (0.82%) QGIS
13 10 (0.82%) SQL Server
14 9 (0.74%) Redis
Development Applications
1 409 (33.44%) Rational DOORS
2 66 (5.40%) Git
3 25 (2.04%) JUnit
4 21 (1.72%) JIRA
5 15 (1.23%) Visual Studio
6 14 (1.14%) Vite
7 11 (0.90%) Jenkins
8 10 (0.82%) IntelliJ
8 10 (0.82%) Jasmine
8 10 (0.82%) Karma Test Runner
8 10 (0.82%) Protractor
9 9 (0.74%) Cypress.io
9 9 (0.74%) Eclipse
9 9 (0.74%) Mockito
9 9 (0.74%) webpack
10 8 (0.65%) GitLab
11 7 (0.57%) Gradle
12 5 (0.41%) Bazaar
12 5 (0.41%) CircleCI
12 5 (0.41%) Subversion
General
1 520 (42.52%) Electronics
2 312 (25.51%) Finance
3 227 (18.56%) Law
4 213 (17.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 176 (14.39%) Social Skills
6 163 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
7 136 (11.12%) Banking
8 115 (9.40%) Marketing
9 55 (4.50%) Retail
10 37 (3.03%) Games
11 35 (2.86%) Front Office
12 28 (2.29%) Manufacturing
13 24 (1.96%) Legal
14 22 (1.80%) Investment Banking
15 20 (1.64%) Public Sector
16 17 (1.39%) Advertising
16 17 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
17 15 (1.23%) Automotive
18 13 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
19 12 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 418 (34.18%) Systems Engineer
2 380 (31.07%) Senior
3 233 (19.05%) Principal Engineer
4 226 (18.48%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 224 (18.32%) Software Engineer
6 183 (14.96%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 107 (8.75%) Lead
8 97 (7.93%) Developer
9 87 (7.11%) Data Scientist
10 75 (6.13%) Java Engineer
11 71 (5.81%) Java Software Engineer
12 67 (5.48%) Senior Software Engineer
13 39 (3.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 39 (3.19%) Radar Engineer
14 38 (3.11%) Senior Data Scientist
15 36 (2.94%) Python Engineer
16 35 (2.86%) Java Developer
16 35 (2.86%) Python Software Engineer
17 29 (2.37%) C++ Developer
18 28 (2.29%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (7.85%) React
2 71 (5.81%) Spring
3 53 (4.33%) Kafka
4 49 (4.01%) Spring Boot
5 42 (3.43%) AngularJS
5 42 (3.43%) scikit-learn
6 40 (3.27%) TensorFlow
7 39 (3.19%) PyTorch
8 32 (2.62%) CSS
8 32 (2.62%) REST
9 26 (2.13%) HTML
9 26 (2.13%) Middleware
10 25 (2.04%) Boost C++ Libraries
11 23 (1.88%) Pandas
12 21 (1.72%) .NET
12 21 (1.72%) NumPy
13 20 (1.64%) PySpark
14 18 (1.47%) RESTful
15 17 (1.39%) FIX Protocol
15 17 (1.39%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 115 (9.40%) Data Structures
2 48 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (3.76%) Cyberattack
4 40 (3.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 39 (3.19%) Equities
5 39 (3.19%) Public Cloud
6 34 (2.78%) Robotics
7 32 (2.62%) Cloud Native
8 29 (2.37%) Fixed Income
9 25 (2.04%) Derivative
9 25 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
10 22 (1.80%) Hedge funds
11 19 (1.55%) Social Media
12 18 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
12 18 (1.47%) Management Information System
13 15 (1.23%) Blog
14 14 (1.14%) FPGA
15 13 (1.06%) GNSS
16 12 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
16 12 (0.98%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 102 (8.34%) Linux
2 35 (2.86%) Windows
3 25 (2.04%) Unix
4 23 (1.88%) Apple iOS
5 16 (1.31%) Android
6 4 (0.33%) Robot Operating System
7 3 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.082%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.082%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 507 (41.46%) Signal Processing
2 500 (40.88%) Technical Leadership
3 498 (40.72%) Systems Engineering
4 347 (28.37%) Software Engineering
5 311 (25.43%) Artificial Intelligence
6 298 (24.37%) Machine Learning
7 261 (21.34%) Agile
8 251 (20.52%) Problem-Solving
9 245 (20.03%) Visualisation
10 226 (18.48%) Test Planning
11 215 (17.58%) Analytics
12 205 (16.76%) Data Science
13 194 (15.86%) Mentoring
14 183 (14.96%) SDLC
15 179 (14.64%) Computer Science
16 173 (14.15%) Mathematics
17 158 (12.92%) CI/CD
18 123 (10.06%) Continuous Improvement
19 117 (9.57%) Community of Practice
20 115 (9.40%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 336 (27.47%) Python
2 224 (18.32%) Java
3 153 (12.51%) SQL
4 148 (12.10%) C++
5 104 (8.50%) R
6 83 (6.79%) JavaScript
7 68 (5.56%) C
8 59 (4.82%) C#
9 57 (4.66%) TypeScript
10 34 (2.78%) MATLAB
11 13 (1.06%) Scala
12 12 (0.98%) Embedded C
13 10 (0.82%) Bash
14 9 (0.74%) Go
14 9 (0.74%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.57%) Fortran
15 7 (0.57%) Rust
16 6 (0.49%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.25%) Embedded C++
17 3 (0.25%) VC++
Qualifications
1 493 (40.31%) BPSS Clearance
2 237 (19.38%) Degree
3 90 (7.36%) Master's Degree
4 79 (6.46%) PhD
5 76 (6.21%) Security Cleared
6 59 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 58 (4.74%) DV Cleared
8 38 (3.11%) Numerate Degree
9 20 (1.64%) SC Cleared
10 11 (0.90%) Azure Certification
10 11 (0.90%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.25%) CISM
11 3 (0.25%) CISSP
11 3 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.16%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.16%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 493 (40.31%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 27 (2.21%) QA
3 23 (1.88%) GDPR
4 13 (1.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 12 (0.98%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.57%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.25%) NIST
9 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.16%) JTAG
10 1 (0.082%) GRC
System Software
1 90 (7.36%) Docker
2 11 (0.90%) Firmware
3 6 (0.49%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (0.41%) Apache Flume
5 3 (0.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 102 (8.34%) Kubernetes
2 32 (2.62%) Terraform
3 14 (1.14%) Ansible
4 5 (0.41%) Grafana
4 5 (0.41%) Oozie
5 3 (0.25%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 3 (0.25%) Kubeflow
5 3 (0.25%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.16%) Mesos
6 2 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.082%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 430 (35.16%) IBM
2 113 (9.24%) Google
3 76 (6.21%) Microsoft
4 47 (3.84%) OpenAI
5 39 (3.19%) Databricks
6 32 (2.62%) Oracle
7 24 (1.96%) Ahrefs
8 22 (1.80%) SAP
9 15 (1.23%) MathWorks
9 15 (1.23%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.14%) Screaming Frog
11 13 (1.06%) Splunk
12 12 (0.98%) Red Hat
13 11 (0.90%) Dynatrace
13 11 (0.90%) Workday
14 8 (0.65%) Facebook
15 7 (0.57%) NVIDIA
16 5 (0.41%) Cloudera
16 5 (0.41%) Solace
16 5 (0.41%) YouTube