Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 17 April 2021

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 17 April 2021 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Algorithms
UK
6 months to
17 Apr 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 206 225 184
Rank change year-on-year +19 -41 +16
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 1,349 1,657 2,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.60% 1.49% 1.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.05% 3.86% 4.71%
Number of salaries quoted 886 1,240 2,033
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £103,750 £108,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -

Algorithms is in the Generic IT 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.

All Generic IT Skills
UK
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 33,283 42,896 58,580
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK 39.55% 38.61% 39.40%
Number of salaries quoted 23,552 33,450 44,670
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,754 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -

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 17 April 2021.

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 17 April 2021. 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
Job
Vacancies
England +6 1,203 £66,250 +6.00% 334
London +22 663 £80,000 +10.34% 171
UK excluding London +15 616 £55,000 +4.76% 177
Work from Home +13 232 £65,000 +8.33% 72
South West +67 167 £57,500 +27.78% 19
South East -27 156 £55,000 +4.76% 59
North of England +44 120 £52,500 - 25
Yorkshire +63 89 £52,500 +5.00% 10
Scotland +25 73 £60,000 +20.00% 12
Midlands +13 44 £55,000 +7.32% 30
East of England -10 43 £65,000 +4.00% 30
West Midlands +10 35 £56,250 -2.17% 16
North West -18 30 £60,000 +11.63% 9
East Midlands -8 9 £48,000 +12.94% 14
Wales +46 7 £62,500 +4.17% 1
Northern Ireland +4 6 £40,000 -5.88% 1
North East +8 1 £47,500 -20.83% 6

For the 6 months to 17 April 2021, IT jobs citing Algorithms also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads with a requirement for Algorithms.

1 628 (46.55%) Python
2 547 (40.55%) Software Engineering
3 512 (37.95%) Data Structures
4 478 (35.43%) Java
5 435 (32.25%) Machine Learning
6 407 (30.17%) Agile Software Development
6 407 (30.17%) Degree
7 380 (28.17%) Computer Science
8 349 (25.87%) C++
9 338 (25.06%) Data Science
10 333 (24.68%) SQL
11 299 (22.16%) Finance
12 257 (19.05%) Mathematics
13 236 (17.49%) AWS
14 230 (17.05%) JavaScript
14 230 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
15 218 (16.16%) Artificial Intelligence
16 211 (15.64%) C#
17 206 (15.27%) Docker
18 199 (14.75%) Kubernetes
19 193 (14.31%) PhD
20 181 (13.42%) OO
21 180 (13.34%) TDD
22 177 (13.12%) Microservices
22 177 (13.12%) Analytics
23 173 (12.82%) Linux
24 158 (11.71%) C
25 147 (10.90%) Azure
26 146 (10.82%) Git (software)
27 138 (10.23%) React

Algorithms
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 88 (6.52%) Apache Spark
2 33 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
3 23 (1.70%) Apache
4 18 (1.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 17 (1.26%) Jupyter
6 16 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
7 11 (0.82%) Confluence
8 10 (0.74%) nginx
8 10 (0.74%) Tomcat
9 8 (0.59%) SAS
10 7 (0.52%) Tornado
11 5 (0.37%) CMS
12 4 (0.30%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.30%) Ethereum
13 3 (0.22%) Gunicorn
13 3 (0.22%) IIS
13 3 (0.22%) Jetty
13 3 (0.22%) Luigi
14 2 (0.15%) OpenStack
14 2 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 57 (4.23%) Simulink
2 37 (2.74%) Stateflow
3 7 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.30%) Figma
5 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (0.30%) Sketch
5 4 (0.30%) SPSS
6 3 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.15%) InVision
8 1 (0.074%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 1 (0.074%) Magento
1 1 (0.074%) Quorum
Cloud Services
1 236 (17.49%) AWS
2 147 (10.90%) Azure
3 89 (6.60%) SaaS
4 72 (5.34%) GCP
5 39 (2.89%) GitHub
6 37 (2.74%) Power Platform
7 36 (2.67%) Cloud Computing
8 32 (2.37%) Serverless
9 31 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
10 21 (1.56%) IaaS
11 20 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
12 18 (1.33%) Amazon SageMaker
13 16 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
14 14 (1.04%) Amazon ECS
15 12 (0.89%) Amazon S3
16 11 (0.82%) PaaS
17 8 (0.59%) AWS CodePipeline
18 7 (0.52%) Amazon ElastiCache
18 7 (0.52%) Amazon EMR
18 7 (0.52%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 74 (5.49%) Internet
2 42 (3.11%) Wireless
3 35 (2.59%) MIMO
4 28 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
5 26 (1.93%) DVB
6 25 (1.85%) HTTP
7 11 (0.82%) 5G
8 10 (0.74%) Firewall
9 9 (0.67%) 3G
9 9 (0.67%) LTE
9 9 (0.67%) PPP
9 9 (0.67%) WiMAX
10 7 (0.52%) NAS
11 6 (0.44%) Ethernet
11 6 (0.44%) FlexRay
11 6 (0.44%) IMAP
11 6 (0.44%) SMTP
12 4 (0.30%) HTTPS
13 3 (0.22%) DNS
13 3 (0.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (9.49%) Big Data
2 121 (8.97%) NoSQL
3 75 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
4 53 (3.93%) SQL Server
5 50 (3.71%) Relational Database
6 44 (3.26%) Data Mining
6 44 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
7 41 (3.04%) Redis
8 40 (2.97%) Data Lake
9 36 (2.67%) Hadoop
10 34 (2.52%) Power BI
10 34 (2.52%) Tableau
11 27 (2.00%) MySQL
12 22 (1.63%) MongoDB
13 18 (1.33%) Apache Cassandra
14 17 (1.26%) Hazelcast
15 14 (1.04%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 12 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (0.89%) Cosmos DB
16 12 (0.89%) Flink
Development Applications
1 146 (10.82%) Git (software)
2 68 (5.04%) Subversion
3 51 (3.78%) Mercurial
4 50 (3.71%) Jenkins
5 30 (2.22%) Maven
6 26 (1.93%) GitLab
7 22 (1.63%) JIRA
8 12 (0.89%) IntelliJ
9 11 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
10 10 (0.74%) Bitbucket
10 10 (0.74%) CircleCI
10 10 (0.74%) JUnit
10 10 (0.74%) Travis CI
11 7 (0.52%) Rational Team Concert
11 7 (0.52%) VSS/SourceSafe
12 6 (0.44%) CruiseControl
12 6 (0.44%) Gemini Tracker
12 6 (0.44%) git-flow
12 6 (0.44%) Hudson
12 6 (0.44%) Mockito
General
1 299 (22.16%) Finance
2 80 (5.93%) Games
3 57 (4.23%) Electronics
4 53 (3.93%) Banking
5 46 (3.41%) Telecoms
6 45 (3.34%) Marketing
7 42 (3.11%) Retail
8 37 (2.74%) Front Office
9 27 (2.00%) Manufacturing
10 25 (1.85%) Legal
11 23 (1.70%) Advertising
12 22 (1.63%) Law
13 17 (1.26%) Online Betting
14 16 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
15 15 (1.11%) Automotive
15 15 (1.11%) Public Sector
16 12 (0.89%) Investment Banking
17 11 (0.82%) Back Office
18 8 (0.59%) Aerospace
19 7 (0.52%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 391 (28.98%) Developer
2 281 (20.83%) Software Engineer
3 169 (12.53%) Data Scientist
4 113 (8.38%) Java Developer
5 106 (7.86%) Senior Software Engineer
6 95 (7.04%) Java Engineer
7 86 (6.38%) Java Software Engineer
7 86 (6.38%) Senior Developer
8 64 (4.74%) Data Engineer
9 54 (4.00%) Python Developer
10 52 (3.85%) Software Developer
11 46 (3.41%) Senior Data Scientist
12 43 (3.19%) Python Engineer
13 41 (3.04%) Analyst
14 40 (2.97%) C# Developer
15 39 (2.89%) Systems Engineer
16 38 (2.82%) Machine Learning Engineer
17 36 (2.67%) Cloud Developer
18 32 (2.37%) Algorithm Engineer
19 30 (2.22%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (10.23%) React
2 137 (10.16%) .NET
3 90 (6.67%) Web Services
4 87 (6.45%) Spring
5 83 (6.15%) Natural Language Processing
6 82 (6.08%) .NET Core
6 82 (6.08%) TensorFlow
7 78 (5.78%) Node.js
8 74 (5.49%) HTML
9 67 (4.97%) Kafka
10 64 (4.74%) CSS
11 63 (4.67%) AngularJS
12 60 (4.45%) PyTorch
13 56 (4.15%) Pandas
14 55 (4.08%) Spring Boot
15 54 (4.00%) NumPy
16 52 (3.85%) RESTful
17 48 (3.56%) REST
18 44 (3.26%) Django
19 41 (3.04%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 512 (37.95%) Data Structures
2 131 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
3 86 (6.38%) User Experience
4 73 (5.41%) Greenfield Project
5 65 (4.82%) Hedge funds
6 54 (4.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
7 45 (3.34%) Enterprise Software
8 42 (3.11%) Derivative
9 40 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
10 39 (2.89%) Public Cloud
11 37 (2.74%) Data Centre
12 36 (2.67%) Robotics
13 28 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 22 (1.63%) Equities
14 22 (1.63%) LIMS
15 21 (1.56%) Online Games
16 19 (1.41%) Fixed Income
17 18 (1.33%) Cloud Native
18 17 (1.26%) Cyberattack
18 17 (1.26%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 173 (12.82%) Linux
2 42 (3.11%) Windows
3 25 (1.85%) Unix
4 11 (0.82%) Android
5 9 (0.67%) Embedded Linux
6 7 (0.52%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.52%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.37%) CentOS
8 3 (0.22%) Robot Operating System
9 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 547 (40.55%) Software Engineering
2 435 (32.25%) Machine Learning
3 407 (30.17%) Agile Software Development
4 380 (28.17%) Computer Science
5 338 (25.06%) Data Science
6 257 (19.05%) Mathematics
7 230 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
8 218 (16.16%) Artificial Intelligence
9 181 (13.42%) OO
10 180 (13.34%) TDD
11 177 (13.12%) Analytics
11 177 (13.12%) Microservices
12 134 (9.93%) Fintech
13 118 (8.75%) Test Automation
14 116 (8.60%) Scrum
15 111 (8.23%) DevOps
16 110 (8.15%) Mentoring
17 108 (8.01%) Decision-Making
18 103 (7.64%) Deep Learning
19 102 (7.56%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 628 (46.55%) Python
2 478 (35.43%) Java
3 349 (25.87%) C++
4 333 (24.68%) SQL
5 230 (17.05%) JavaScript
6 211 (15.64%) C#
7 158 (11.71%) C
8 116 (8.60%) MATLAB
9 110 (8.15%) TypeScript
10 99 (7.34%) Go
11 86 (6.38%) R
11 86 (6.38%) Scala
12 84 (6.23%) Java 8
13 35 (2.59%) Ruby
14 29 (2.15%) Bash Shell
14 29 (2.15%) VB
15 20 (1.48%) PHP
16 17 (1.26%) F#
17 16 (1.19%) Kotlin
18 15 (1.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 407 (30.17%) Degree
2 193 (14.31%) PhD
3 127 (9.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 87 (6.45%) Master's Degree
5 43 (3.19%) Security Cleared
6 23 (1.70%) Numerate Degree
7 22 (1.63%) SC Cleared
8 15 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (0.82%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.37%) Postgraduate
11 4 (0.30%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.15%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.074%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.074%) CCIE
13 1 (0.074%) CCIE Routing and Switching
13 1 (0.074%) CCNP
13 1 (0.074%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (2.08%) QA
2 11 (0.82%) ISO 26262
3 8 (0.59%) Data Quality
3 8 (0.59%) MISRA
4 6 (0.44%) IEC 62304
4 6 (0.44%) ISO 13485
5 5 (0.37%) IEC 61131
5 5 (0.37%) ISO 9001
6 4 (0.30%) GRC
6 4 (0.30%) IEC 61508
6 4 (0.30%) MISRA C
7 3 (0.22%) DICOM
7 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.15%) CDISC
8 2 (0.15%) Good Clinical Practice
8 2 (0.15%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 206 (15.27%) Docker
2 35 (2.59%) Firmware
3 14 (1.04%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 2 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.15%) vSphere
5 1 (0.074%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 199 (14.75%) Kubernetes
2 59 (4.37%) Terraform
3 19 (1.41%) Prometheus
4 13 (0.96%) Puppet
5 10 (0.74%) Ansible
6 9 (0.67%) Grafana
7 7 (0.52%) Kibana
7 7 (0.52%) Opscode Chef
8 5 (0.37%) Istio
8 5 (0.37%) systemd
9 4 (0.30%) Marathon
9 4 (0.30%) Mesos
10 3 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.22%) Oozie
10 3 (0.22%) SELinux
11 2 (0.15%) Control-M
11 2 (0.15%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.15%) vRealize
12 1 (0.074%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.074%) SCCM
Vendors
1 84 (6.23%) Oracle
2 56 (4.15%) Microsoft
3 38 (2.82%) Google
4 37 (2.74%) PagerDuty
5 25 (1.85%) SAP
6 23 (1.70%) Databricks
6 23 (1.70%) Twitter
7 20 (1.48%) Atlassian
8 14 (1.04%) Gemalto
9 8 (0.59%) Instagram
10 7 (0.52%) Alteryx
10 7 (0.52%) MathWorks
11 6 (0.44%) IBM
12 5 (0.37%) DataRobot
12 5 (0.37%) Facebook
12 5 (0.37%) New Relic
13 4 (0.30%) EMC
13 4 (0.30%) Solace
13 4 (0.30%) Sybase
13 4 (0.30%) Yahoo!
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