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 have cited Algorithms over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 193 148
Rank change year-on-year +73 -45 +69
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 2,299 2,059 4,378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.35% 1.97% 2.84%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.61% 4.59% 6.03%
Number of salaries quoted 752 855 1,181
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,371 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £121,250 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +9.09%

All Generic Skills
UK

Algorithms is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,768 44,861 72,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 42.86% 47.13%
Number of salaries quoted 22,918 24,128 34,106
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,107 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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
UK excluding London +73 1,953 £60,000 - 276
England -2 1,357 £65,000 -13.33% 473
Scotland +100 908 £65,000 +31.31% 26
South East +76 474 £58,000 -3.33% 91
Work from Home +18 456 £65,000 -13.33% 278
London -64 308 £85,000 - 225
North of England -80 151 £56,250 -6.25% 35
Midlands -21 147 £62,500 +13.64% 31
East of England -2 135 £65,000 - 67
South West +16 131 £60,000 -4.00% 32
North West -60 126 £60,000 -10.11% 24
West Midlands -32 79 £62,500 +4.17% 26
East Midlands +10 68 £56,245 +18.41% 5
Yorkshire -4 23 £50,000 -1.93% 8
Wales +17 5 £55,000 +4.76% 7
Northern Ireland +32 2 £67,500 -32.50% 3
North East -5 2 £91,200 +40.31% 3

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
1 257 (11.18%) Apache Spark
2 71 (3.09%) Apache
3 20 (0.87%) FileNet
4 9 (0.39%) SAS
5 7 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.26%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.22%) Confluence
7 5 (0.22%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.17%) ColdFusion
8 4 (0.17%) IIS
9 3 (0.13%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.087%) CMS
11 1 (0.043%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.043%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.043%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.043%) Luigi
11 1 (0.043%) WordPress
Applications
1 121 (5.26%) Simulink
2 77 (3.35%) Stateflow
3 23 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
5 13 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.30%) CANalyzer
6 7 (0.30%) GNU Octave
7 5 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.22%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.087%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.043%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.043%) Blender
9 1 (0.043%) InVision
9 1 (0.043%) Sketch
9 1 (0.043%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 6 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (0.13%) ProductWriter
2 3 (0.13%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.043%) Data Workbench
3 1 (0.043%) Endur
3 1 (0.043%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.043%) Yoast SEO
Cloud Services
1 575 (25.01%) AWS
2 412 (17.92%) Azure
3 221 (9.61%) IBM Cloud
4 201 (8.74%) Serverless
5 138 (6.00%) GCP
6 128 (5.57%) Azure DevOps
7 124 (5.39%) Azure Functions
8 118 (5.13%) Azure API Management
9 117 (5.09%) Azure Logic Apps
9 117 (5.09%) Azure Service Bus
10 75 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
11 74 (3.22%) Amazon SQS
12 67 (2.91%) Amazon ECS
13 56 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
14 54 (2.35%) Amazon EMR
14 54 (2.35%) SaaS
15 51 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
15 51 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
16 45 (1.96%) Amazon S3
17 39 (1.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 22 (0.96%) Wireless
2 18 (0.78%) J1939
3 14 (0.61%) Ethernet
4 9 (0.39%) Internet
5 8 (0.35%) Firewall
5 8 (0.35%) OFDM
5 8 (0.35%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.30%) HTTP
7 6 (0.26%) Bluetooth
7 6 (0.26%) OpenFlow
8 5 (0.22%) BGP
8 5 (0.22%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (0.22%) IPsec
8 5 (0.22%) LAN
8 5 (0.22%) Modbus
8 5 (0.22%) Network Security
8 5 (0.22%) OSPF
8 5 (0.22%) SSL
8 5 (0.22%) VPN
8 5 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 501 (21.79%) NoSQL
2 249 (10.83%) PostgreSQL
3 227 (9.87%) MongoDB
4 222 (9.66%) Big Data
5 221 (9.61%) DB2
6 218 (9.48%) Relational Database
7 202 (8.79%) Hadoop
8 105 (4.57%) Apache Hive
9 86 (3.74%) HBase
10 75 (3.26%) Elasticsearch
11 74 (3.22%) Data Lake
12 62 (2.70%) Redis
13 58 (2.52%) Tableau
14 51 (2.22%) Electronic Patient Records
14 51 (2.22%) MySQL
14 51 (2.22%) SQL Server
15 39 (1.70%) Power BI
16 38 (1.65%) Qlik Sense
17 36 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
18 23 (1.00%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 204 (8.87%) Git
2 124 (5.39%) Jenkins
3 86 (3.74%) Bitbucket Server
4 73 (3.18%) JUnit
5 39 (1.70%) JIRA
6 24 (1.04%) Android Studio
7 22 (0.96%) GitLab
8 21 (0.91%) Cypress.io
8 21 (0.91%) Jasmine
8 21 (0.91%) Karma Test Runner
8 21 (0.91%) Protractor
8 21 (0.91%) Selenium
8 21 (0.91%) WebDriver
9 19 (0.83%) ClearCase
9 19 (0.83%) CMake
10 18 (0.78%) Plastic SCM
10 18 (0.78%) Subversion
11 16 (0.70%) Maven
12 14 (0.61%) ClearQuest
13 7 (0.30%) Moq
General
1 1,082 (47.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 934 (40.63%) Finance
3 817 (35.54%) Law
4 549 (23.88%) Legal
5 377 (16.40%) Social Skills
6 237 (10.31%) Marketing
7 227 (9.87%) Public Sector
8 182 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
9 154 (6.70%) Banking
10 117 (5.09%) Investment Banking
11 87 (3.78%) Electronics
12 53 (2.31%) Automotive
13 49 (2.13%) Retail
14 45 (1.96%) Military
15 41 (1.78%) Manufacturing
16 38 (1.65%) Games
17 35 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
18 28 (1.22%) Front Office
19 23 (1.00%) Private Banking
19 23 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,007 (43.80%) Software Engineer
2 394 (17.14%) Developer
3 270 (11.74%) Java Engineer
3 270 (11.74%) Java Software Engineer
4 269 (11.70%) Senior
5 256 (11.14%) Data Scientist
6 247 (10.74%) Full Stack Engineer
7 200 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
8 198 (8.61%) AWS Software Engineer
9 174 (7.57%) Data Engineer
10 169 (7.35%) Python Engineer
11 153 (6.66%) Python Software Engineer
12 152 (6.61%) Lead
13 137 (5.96%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 136 (5.92%) Full Stack Developer
15 133 (5.79%) Big Data Engineer
15 133 (5.79%) Big Data Software Engineer
16 126 (5.48%) Azure Developer
17 111 (4.83%) Azure Engineer
18 86 (3.74%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 430 (18.70%) React
2 397 (17.27%) AngularJS
3 349 (15.18%) HTML
4 326 (14.18%) CSS
5 312 (13.57%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 311 (13.53%) .NET
7 307 (13.35%) Web Services
8 292 (12.70%) jQuery
9 260 (11.31%) REST
10 249 (10.83%) Vue
11 248 (10.79%) Node.js
12 234 (10.18%) ASP.NET
13 222 (9.66%) ASP.NET Core
14 221 (9.61%) Backbone.js
14 221 (9.61%) Ember.js
15 220 (9.57%) Spring
16 154 (6.70%) Kafka
17 107 (4.65%) TensorFlow
18 104 (4.52%) J2EE
19 99 (4.31%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 551 (23.97%) Data Structures
2 253 (11.00%) Blockchain
3 227 (9.87%) Hybrid Cloud
4 166 (7.22%) Onboarding
5 137 (5.96%) Cloud Native
6 104 (4.52%) e-Learning
7 50 (2.17%) Embedded Systems
8 47 (2.04%) Client/Server
9 43 (1.87%) Legacy Code
10 40 (1.74%) Renewable Energy
11 38 (1.65%) Management Information System
12 37 (1.61%) CUDA
13 34 (1.48%) FPGA
14 33 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
14 33 (1.44%) Public Cloud
14 33 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
14 33 (1.44%) VHDL
15 32 (1.39%) Product Ownership
16 31 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
17 28 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 387 (16.83%) Linux
2 274 (11.92%) Windows
3 262 (11.40%) Android
4 232 (10.09%) Apple iOS
5 141 (6.13%) Unix
6 10 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
7 7 (0.30%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.043%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.043%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,198 (52.11%) Software Engineering
2 1,135 (49.37%) Agile
3 1,085 (47.19%) Artificial Intelligence
4 944 (41.06%) Machine Learning
5 908 (39.50%) Visualisation
6 839 (36.49%) CI/CD
7 782 (34.01%) Continuous Improvement
8 781 (33.97%) SDLC
9 679 (29.53%) Community of Practice
10 672 (29.23%) Operational Stability
11 548 (23.84%) Computer Science
12 513 (22.31%) Risk Management
13 503 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
14 458 (19.92%) Mathematics
15 404 (17.57%) Data Science
16 396 (17.22%) Full Stack Development
17 366 (15.92%) OO
18 328 (14.27%) Mentoring
19 323 (14.05%) User Experience
20 320 (13.92%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 1,051 (45.72%) Python
2 846 (36.80%) Java
3 807 (35.10%) SQL
4 421 (18.31%) JavaScript
5 388 (16.88%) C#
6 223 (9.70%) C
7 217 (9.44%) C++
8 171 (7.44%) MATLAB
9 129 (5.61%) TypeScript
10 125 (5.44%) PL/SQL
11 96 (4.18%) Scala
12 83 (3.61%) Go
13 73 (3.18%) R
14 70 (3.04%) Fortran
15 43 (1.87%) Bash
16 37 (1.61%) Embedded C
17 29 (1.26%) Kotlin
18 23 (1.00%) Haskell
18 23 (1.00%) Perl
19 17 (0.74%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 734 (31.93%) Degree
2 238 (10.35%) Master's Degree
3 193 (8.39%) PhD
4 190 (8.26%) Security Cleared
5 116 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 55 (2.39%) SC Cleared
7 47 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
8 35 (1.52%) DBS Check
9 34 (1.48%) DV Cleared
10 17 (0.74%) Numerate Degree
11 12 (0.52%) MBA
11 12 (0.52%) PMI Certification
12 11 (0.48%) HND
13 5 (0.22%) CCIE
13 5 (0.22%) Chartered Engineer
13 5 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.22%) JNCIE
14 4 (0.17%) CESG Certified Professional
14 4 (0.17%) Postgraduate
15 3 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (1.44%) QA
2 26 (1.13%) Data Quality
3 19 (0.83%) MISRA
4 18 (0.78%) Accessibility
4 18 (0.78%) Automotive SPICE
4 18 (0.78%) ISO 26262
5 15 (0.65%) GDPR
6 12 (0.52%) AUTOSAR
7 7 (0.30%) HIPAA
7 7 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 7 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 5 (0.22%) IEC 61508
9 4 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.043%) MISRA C
10 1 (0.043%) SLA
System Software
1 87 (3.78%) HDFS
2 75 (3.26%) Docker
3 37 (1.61%) Firmware
4 9 (0.39%) Active Directory
5 7 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
6 4 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.043%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.043%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.043%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.043%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 176 (7.66%) Kubernetes
2 130 (5.65%) Terraform
3 45 (1.96%) Grafana
4 34 (1.48%) Prometheus
5 15 (0.65%) Functional Safety
6 8 (0.35%) Ansible
7 3 (0.13%) Istio
7 3 (0.13%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.043%) SCCM
Vendors
1 245 (10.66%) IBM
2 233 (10.13%) Databricks
3 221 (9.61%) Red Hat
4 117 (5.09%) Oracle
5 99 (4.31%) Google
6 96 (4.18%) Microsoft
7 91 (3.96%) Informatica
8 56 (2.44%) Cloudera
9 47 (2.04%) Dynatrace
10 46 (2.00%) Alteryx
11 45 (1.96%) Splunk
12 26 (1.13%) OpenAI
13 23 (1.00%) Dell
14 18 (0.78%) Lauterbach
15 14 (0.61%) SAP
16 13 (0.57%) Facebook
16 13 (0.57%) NVIDIA
17 11 (0.48%) Instagram
18 8 (0.35%) Teradata
19 6 (0.26%) Adobe