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 23 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 198 127
Rank change year-on-year -109 -71 +72
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 578 786 2,252
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.61% 1.74% 2.07%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.39% 4.08% 6.18%
Number of salaries quoted 384 294 750
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £38,737
25th Percentile £37,449 £47,500 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,528 £82,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £122,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000

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 24,223 19,254 36,418
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.57% 42.62% 33.48%
Number of salaries quoted 15,449 9,216 23,556
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,125 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -14.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,359 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.72% - -9.09%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Algorithms relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Algorithms job vacancy trend in the UK

Algorithms
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Algorithms.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Algorithms

Algorithms
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Algorithms over the 6 months to 23 June 2026.

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 23 June 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
England -81 530 £65,000 - 263
UK excluding London -114 343 £60,000 - 195
London -57 206 £95,000 -13.64% 98
Work from Home -90 134 £60,000 - 83
South East -52 117 £70,000 +12.90% 58
North of England -9 68 £37,500 -56.01% 33
East of England -13 65 £65,000 +18.18% 40
South West -89 44 £57,500 +15.00% 40
Midlands -30 33 £37,500 -37.50% 22
North West +3 31 £37,500 -56.01% 15
West Midlands -10 26 £37,500 -37.50% 11
Yorkshire -18 21 £37,500 -47.91% 7
North East -38 16 £52,000 -54.78% 13
Scotland -56 12 £39,500 -31.30% 2
East Midlands -29 6 £57,500 -4.17% 11
Wales -57 2 £39,500 -39.23% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £39,500 - 4

Algorithms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 56 (9.69%) Jupyter
2 20 (3.46%) ArcGIS
3 9 (1.56%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.56%) CMS
4 8 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.04%) SAS
6 2 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.35%) Confluence
7 1 (0.17%) Apache
7 1 (0.17%) Drupal
7 1 (0.17%) Kinematics
7 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 56 (9.69%) Chatbot
2 13 (2.25%) Simulink
3 3 (0.52%) Blender
3 3 (0.52%) CATIA
3 3 (0.52%) Maya
3 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.35%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (2.08%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 146 (25.26%) AWS
2 77 (13.32%) Azure
3 61 (10.55%) Cloud Computing
4 35 (6.06%) GCP
5 20 (3.46%) GitHub
6 18 (3.11%) Google Analytics
7 15 (2.60%) SaaS
8 9 (1.56%) Slack
9 8 (1.38%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (1.21%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (1.21%) Google Ads
10 7 (1.21%) Power Platform
11 5 (0.87%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (0.87%) Prefect
11 5 (0.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (0.69%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (0.69%) Serverless
13 3 (0.52%) Amazon SageMaker
13 3 (0.52%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (0.52%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.98%) Broadband
2 18 (3.11%) Multicast
3 6 (1.04%) 5G
3 6 (1.04%) Ethernet
3 6 (1.04%) Software-Defined Radio
4 4 (0.69%) Internet
5 3 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.35%) Firewall
6 2 (0.35%) Wireless
7 1 (0.17%) 3GPP
7 1 (0.17%) GSM
7 1 (0.17%) IPsec
7 1 (0.17%) MQTT
7 1 (0.17%) RANAP
7 1 (0.17%) RS-422
7 1 (0.17%) SS7
7 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.17%) UMTS
7 1 (0.17%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.17%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.67%) GIS
2 22 (3.81%) BigQuery
3 21 (3.63%) Elasticsearch
3 21 (3.63%) Metadata
3 21 (3.63%) QGIS
3 21 (3.63%) Spatial Data
4 20 (3.46%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (2.25%) Big Data
6 11 (1.90%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (0.87%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.87%) Power BI
9 4 (0.69%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.69%) MySQL
9 4 (0.69%) Redis
9 4 (0.69%) Tableau
10 3 (0.52%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.35%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 76 (13.15%) Visual Studio Code
2 70 (12.11%) Git
3 22 (3.81%) JIRA
3 22 (3.81%) Rational DOORS
4 17 (2.94%) GitLab
5 3 (0.52%) PetaLinux
6 2 (0.35%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.35%) MLflow
6 2 (0.35%) Plastic SCM
6 2 (0.35%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.17%) CMake
7 1 (0.17%) GCC
7 1 (0.17%) GDB
7 1 (0.17%) Valgrind
General
1 152 (26.30%) Finance
2 80 (13.84%) Social Skills
3 79 (13.67%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (12.46%) Retail
5 62 (10.73%) Manufacturing
6 37 (6.40%) Marketing
7 28 (4.84%) Electronics
8 26 (4.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (3.81%) Front Office
10 21 (3.63%) Banking
11 20 (3.46%) Automotive
12 17 (2.94%) Advertising
12 17 (2.94%) Aerospace
13 15 (2.60%) Games
14 8 (1.38%) Legal
15 6 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.87%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.87%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (0.69%) French Language
Job Titles
1 146 (25.26%) Software Engineer
2 128 (22.15%) Senior
3 109 (18.86%) Developer
4 55 (9.52%) Senior Software Engineer
5 52 (9.00%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
5 52 (9.00%) Programmer
5 52 (9.00%) Python Developer
6 51 (8.82%) Trainee
6 51 (8.82%) Trainee Programmer
7 43 (7.44%) Senior Developer
8 41 (7.09%) C++ Software Engineer
9 35 (6.06%) Lead
10 30 (5.19%) Python Engineer
11 28 (4.84%) Embedded Engineer
12 25 (4.33%) FPGA Engineer
12 25 (4.33%) Python Software Engineer
13 24 (4.15%) Consultant
14 23 (3.98%) Data Scientist
14 23 (3.98%) Senior Python Developer
15 21 (3.63%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (13.84%) NumPy
1 80 (13.84%) Pandas
2 61 (10.55%) scikit-learn
3 60 (10.38%) Streamlit
4 58 (10.03%) Matplotlib
5 55 (9.52%) Hugging Face
6 51 (8.82%) PyTorch
7 47 (8.13%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 27 (4.67%) TensorFlow
9 24 (4.15%) Django
10 20 (3.46%) FIX Protocol
11 19 (3.29%) HTML
12 18 (3.11%) pytest
12 18 (3.11%) React
13 17 (2.94%) .NET
14 15 (2.60%) CSS
15 13 (2.25%) REST
16 10 (1.73%) RESTful
17 9 (1.56%) Node.js
17 9 (1.56%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 88 (15.22%) Data Structures
2 48 (8.30%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (6.92%) Equities
4 33 (5.71%) Embedded Systems
5 32 (5.54%) FPGA
6 26 (4.50%) Management Information System
7 24 (4.15%) Hedge funds
8 22 (3.81%) Greenfield Project
8 22 (3.81%) PCIe
8 22 (3.81%) VHDL
9 21 (3.63%) Product Ownership
10 19 (3.29%) Fixed Income
11 18 (3.11%) Derivative
12 17 (2.94%) Video\Live Streaming
13 16 (2.77%) Robotics
14 12 (2.08%) NVMe
15 10 (1.73%) Onboarding
15 10 (1.73%) Over-the-Top Content
15 10 (1.73%) Public Cloud
16 9 (1.56%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 66 (11.42%) Linux
2 8 (1.38%) Windows
3 7 (1.21%) Robot Operating System
4 5 (0.87%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (0.87%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (0.87%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (0.69%) Android
5 4 (0.69%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.69%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.35%) Unix
7 1 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (40.48%) Software Engineering
2 178 (30.80%) AI
3 174 (30.10%) Machine Learning
4 150 (25.95%) Computer Science
5 106 (18.34%) Data Science
6 104 (17.99%) OOP
7 98 (16.96%) Analytics
8 94 (16.26%) OO
9 92 (15.92%) Agile
10 90 (15.57%) Visualisation
11 78 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
11 78 (13.49%) Workflow
12 67 (11.59%) Continuous Improvement
13 65 (11.25%) LLM
13 65 (11.25%) Signal Processing
14 57 (9.86%) CI/CD
14 57 (9.86%) Validation
15 56 (9.69%) Conversational UI
15 56 (9.69%) Data Analysis
15 56 (9.69%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 357 (61.76%) Python
2 159 (27.51%) C++
3 58 (10.03%) C
4 49 (8.48%) C#
5 42 (7.27%) SQL
6 24 (4.15%) MATLAB
7 23 (3.98%) Rust
8 20 (3.46%) TypeScript
9 18 (3.11%) Java
10 17 (2.94%) JavaScript
11 14 (2.42%) Assembly Language
11 14 (2.42%) Go
12 11 (1.90%) Embedded C
12 11 (1.90%) Embedded C++
13 9 (1.56%) R
14 4 (0.69%) Julia
15 3 (0.52%) VBA
16 2 (0.35%) Bash
17 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.17%) VC++
Qualifications
1 122 (21.11%) Degree
2 63 (10.90%) AWS Certification
3 54 (9.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 49 (8.48%) Security Cleared
5 45 (7.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 34 (5.88%) Master's Degree
7 24 (4.15%) SC Cleared
8 19 (3.29%) DV Cleared
8 19 (3.29%) PhD
9 14 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.87%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.52%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.17%) HND
12 1 (0.17%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (8.48%) QA
2 26 (4.50%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 13 (2.25%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.21%) GDPR
6 4 (0.69%) Automotive SPICE
6 4 (0.69%) ISO 26262
6 4 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 4 (0.69%) MISRA
6 4 (0.69%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.17%) AUTOSAR
7 1 (0.17%) EMIR
7 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 41 (7.09%) Firmware
2 38 (6.57%) Docker
3 18 (3.11%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (0.87%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.87%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.17%) IAG
Systems Management
1 18 (3.11%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.08%) Terraform
3 9 (1.56%) Kubeflow
4 5 (0.87%) SCCM
4 5 (0.87%) SCOM
4 5 (0.87%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 1 (0.17%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 64 (11.07%) Microsoft
2 56 (9.69%) Google
3 16 (2.77%) Altera
4 15 (2.60%) IBM
5 13 (2.25%) Xilinx
6 9 (1.56%) Databricks
6 9 (1.56%) Screaming Frog
7 6 (1.04%) Botify
8 5 (0.87%) Dell
8 5 (0.87%) HP
8 5 (0.87%) McAfee
8 5 (0.87%) TikTok
8 5 (0.87%) VMware
9 4 (0.69%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.52%) Ahrefs
10 3 (0.52%) Rockwell
11 2 (0.35%) Foundry
11 2 (0.35%) YouTube
12 1 (0.17%) Instagram
12 1 (0.17%) NVIDIA