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 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 277 161 176
Rank change year-on-year -116 +15 +19
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 629 2,840 2,809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.19% 2.31% 2.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.22% 5.37% 4.98%
Number of salaries quoted 355 959 1,182
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,297 £41,350
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.82% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +8.11% +5.71%

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 19,511 52,884 56,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.83% 43.05% 44.00%
Number of salaries quoted 14,245 29,698 33,809
10th Percentile £33,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.47% +7.92% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £106,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

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 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023. 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 -128 501 £72,500 - 653
UK excluding London -96 379 £55,000 -8.33% 390
Work from Home -12 261 £67,500 -10.00% 295
London -88 230 £87,500 +6.06% 346
Scotland -1 111 £55,000 +12.24% 31
South West +14 86 £69,447 +26.27% 30
South East -65 80 £55,000 -8.33% 166
North of England -100 42 £61,250 -5.77% 60
Midlands -47 38 £50,000 -13.04% 33
West Midlands +4 33 £52,500 -4.55% 21
Yorkshire -28 21 £63,750 -8.93% 18
East of England -6 18 £62,500 -10.71% 74
North West -64 17 £61,250 +6.52% 36
East Midlands -33 5 £43,745 -27.09% 12
North East +42 4 £55,000 -8.33% 8
Northern Ireland +37 2 £70,000 +33.33% 1
Wales -2 2 £27,750 +11.00% 5

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 67 (10.65%) Apache Spark
2 18 (2.86%) Apache
3 17 (2.70%) Jupyter
4 13 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.43%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.79%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.79%) SAS
7 3 (0.48%) Confluence
8 2 (0.32%) Jetty
8 2 (0.32%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.16%) CMS
9 1 (0.16%) Drupal
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 46 (7.31%) Simulink
2 41 (6.52%) Stateflow
3 3 (0.48%) 3ds Max
3 3 (0.48%) Blender
3 3 (0.48%) CANalyzer
3 3 (0.48%) Maya
3 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.32%) CATIA
4 2 (0.32%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.32%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.16%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.16%) Sketch
5 1 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 9 (1.43%) ProductWriter
2 7 (1.11%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.16%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 146 (23.21%) AWS
2 101 (16.06%) Azure
3 65 (10.33%) GCP
4 30 (4.77%) SaaS
5 27 (4.29%) Power Platform
6 22 (3.50%) Cloud Computing
7 15 (2.38%) Amazon S3
8 14 (2.23%) Serverless
9 13 (2.07%) Amazon SQS
9 13 (2.07%) OpenShift
9 13 (2.07%) PaaS
10 11 (1.75%) Amazon EMR
10 11 (1.75%) GitHub
11 9 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (1.43%) Google Docs
11 9 (1.43%) Lucidchart
11 9 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (1.43%) Miro
11 9 (1.43%) Slack
12 8 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.59%) DNS
1 10 (1.59%) Software-Defined Radio
1 10 (1.59%) Wireless
2 7 (1.11%) DHCP
2 7 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (0.64%) Internet
3 4 (0.64%) J1939
3 4 (0.64%) OpenFlow
3 4 (0.64%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (0.48%) HTTP
4 3 (0.48%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.32%) Firewall
5 2 (0.32%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.32%) RS-232
6 1 (0.16%) 5G
6 1 (0.16%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.16%) Modbus
6 1 (0.16%) RS-485
6 1 (0.16%) RTMP
6 1 (0.16%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (15.58%) Big Data
2 47 (7.47%) Hadoop
3 39 (6.20%) NoSQL
4 27 (4.29%) Data Lake
4 27 (4.29%) Power BI
5 22 (3.50%) Apache Hive
5 22 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (3.18%) Relational Database
6 20 (3.18%) Tableau
7 16 (2.54%) Redis
8 14 (2.23%) Elasticsearch
8 14 (2.23%) SQL Server
9 12 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
10 11 (1.75%) Presto
11 10 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (1.59%) Impala
11 10 (1.59%) MySQL
12 9 (1.43%) MongoDB
12 9 (1.43%) Scylla
13 7 (1.11%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 56 (8.90%) Git
2 24 (3.82%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.07%) JIRA
4 11 (1.75%) CMake
4 11 (1.75%) JUnit
4 11 (1.75%) Subversion
5 8 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (0.79%) Gatling
6 5 (0.79%) GitLab
6 5 (0.79%) LoadRunner
6 5 (0.79%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (0.79%) RStudio
6 5 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
7 4 (0.64%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (0.64%) Mockito
8 3 (0.48%) Gradle
8 3 (0.48%) IDA Disassembler
8 3 (0.48%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.48%) Spinnaker
8 3 (0.48%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 243 (38.63%) Finance
2 160 (25.44%) Social Skills
3 108 (17.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 81 (12.88%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (7.79%) Law
6 45 (7.15%) Banking
7 44 (7.00%) Marketing
8 25 (3.97%) Legal
9 24 (3.82%) Front Office
10 23 (3.66%) Presentation Skills
11 22 (3.50%) Electronics
12 17 (2.70%) Financial Institution
12 17 (2.70%) Games
13 15 (2.38%) Manufacturing
14 13 (2.07%) Private Banking
15 12 (1.91%) Investment Banking
15 12 (1.91%) Telecoms
16 11 (1.75%) Public Sector
17 10 (1.59%) Automotive
18 7 (1.11%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 132 (20.99%) Developer
2 116 (18.44%) Software Engineer
3 111 (17.65%) Senior
4 104 (16.53%) Lead
5 97 (15.42%) Data Scientist
6 77 (12.24%) Data Engineer
7 42 (6.68%) Senior Data Scientist
8 38 (6.04%) Systems Engineer
9 33 (5.25%) Java Developer
10 32 (5.09%) Lead Data Engineer
11 31 (4.93%) Control Systems Engineer
12 30 (4.77%) Senior Software Engineer
13 26 (4.13%) Analyst
13 26 (4.13%) Principal Engineer
14 24 (3.82%) Python Developer
15 23 (3.66%) Architect
15 23 (3.66%) Graduate
16 20 (3.18%) Lead Data Scientist
17 18 (2.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 18 (2.86%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (9.38%) HTML
2 54 (8.59%) TensorFlow
3 50 (7.95%) PyTorch
4 44 (7.00%) React
5 39 (6.20%) Kafka
6 36 (5.72%) Pandas
7 35 (5.56%) NumPy
8 33 (5.25%) scikit-learn
9 28 (4.45%) PySpark
10 22 (3.50%) AngularJS
10 22 (3.50%) CSS
11 20 (3.18%) .NET
11 20 (3.18%) Spring
12 18 (2.86%) REST
13 14 (2.23%) Keras
14 13 (2.07%) RESTful
15 12 (1.91%) LangChain
15 12 (1.91%) Web Services
16 11 (1.75%) Node.js
16 11 (1.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 116 (18.44%) Data Structures
2 39 (6.20%) Cyberattack
3 36 (5.72%) Renewable Energy
4 27 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (3.18%) Embedded Systems
5 20 (3.18%) IoT
6 18 (2.86%) FPGA
6 18 (2.86%) VHDL
7 17 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
8 16 (2.54%) Cloud Native
8 16 (2.54%) Onboarding
9 12 (1.91%) Distributed Computing
10 10 (1.59%) Client/Server
11 9 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 9 (1.43%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.43%) Mobile App
12 7 (1.11%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.11%) e-Learning
13 6 (0.95%) Derivative
13 6 (0.95%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 60 (9.54%) Linux
2 26 (4.13%) Unix
3 13 (2.07%) Windows
4 10 (1.59%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.32%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.16%) Android
6 1 (0.16%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (40.22%) Machine Learning
2 231 (36.72%) Computer Science
3 200 (31.80%) Software Engineering
4 193 (30.68%) Data Science
5 167 (26.55%) Problem-Solving
6 161 (25.60%) Agile
7 159 (25.28%) Mathematics
8 157 (24.96%) Artificial Intelligence
9 144 (22.89%) Visualisation
10 110 (17.49%) CI/CD
11 108 (17.17%) Analytics
12 92 (14.63%) Mentoring
13 89 (14.15%) Data Analysis
14 82 (13.04%) Statistics
15 76 (12.08%) Validation
16 68 (10.81%) Data Modelling
17 65 (10.33%) Continuous Improvement
18 63 (10.02%) DevOps
19 59 (9.38%) Data Engineering
19 59 (9.38%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 361 (57.39%) Python
2 187 (29.73%) Java
3 173 (27.50%) SQL
4 121 (19.24%) C++
5 85 (13.51%) MATLAB
6 82 (13.04%) JavaScript
7 74 (11.76%) R
8 55 (8.74%) Go
9 52 (8.27%) C#
10 47 (7.47%) C
11 43 (6.84%) Scala
12 40 (6.36%) Bash
13 28 (4.45%) TypeScript
14 19 (3.02%) Fortran
15 15 (2.38%) PowerShell
16 13 (2.07%) Rust
17 8 (1.27%) Groovy
18 6 (0.95%) PL/SQL
18 6 (0.95%) Ruby
19 5 (0.79%) Julia
Qualifications
1 276 (43.88%) Degree
2 112 (17.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 109 (17.33%) Security Cleared
4 95 (15.10%) Master's Degree
5 56 (8.90%) PhD
6 54 (8.59%) DV Cleared
7 35 (5.56%) SC Cleared
8 18 (2.86%) Numerate Degree
9 9 (1.43%) ISTQB
10 8 (1.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 7 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.64%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.64%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.48%) Postgraduate
14 2 (0.32%) AWS Certification
15 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 1 (0.16%) ISEB
15 1 (0.16%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.18%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.27%) QA
3 6 (0.95%) ISO 26262
4 3 (0.48%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.48%) Automotive SPICE
4 3 (0.48%) SLA
5 1 (0.16%) DICOM
5 1 (0.16%) DO-254
5 1 (0.16%) HL7
5 1 (0.16%) IFRS
5 1 (0.16%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 68 (10.81%) Docker
2 7 (1.11%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.11%) Firmware
3 5 (0.79%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 90 (14.31%) Kubernetes
2 19 (3.02%) Terraform
3 9 (1.43%) Ansible
4 7 (1.11%) Istio
5 5 (0.79%) Grafana
6 3 (0.48%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.32%) Kibana
7 2 (0.32%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.16%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.16%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.16%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.16%) Mesos
8 1 (0.16%) Puppet
8 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (5.56%) Databricks
2 26 (4.13%) Microsoft
3 22 (3.50%) Google
4 13 (2.07%) SAP
5 12 (1.91%) Oracle
6 9 (1.43%) Dell
7 7 (1.11%) Dynatrace
8 6 (0.95%) Alteryx
8 6 (0.95%) Informatica
8 6 (0.95%) OpenAI
8 6 (0.95%) Teradata
8 6 (0.95%) YouTube
9 4 (0.64%) Cloudera
9 4 (0.64%) Sun
10 3 (0.48%) Intel
10 3 (0.48%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.48%) TIBCO
11 2 (0.32%) IBM
11 2 (0.32%) Instagram
11 2 (0.32%) Okta