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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 118 209
Rank change year-on-year -29 +91 -74
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 1,105 2,329 1,881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.10% 2.36% 1.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.01% 6.63% 4.17%
Number of salaries quoted 686 755 847
10th Percentile £46,250 £38,750 £40,779
25th Percentile £60,313 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,600 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.62% -13.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £76,000 £82,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £103,474 £121,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -

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 18,383 35,115 45,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.94% 35.61% 43.50%
Number of salaries quoted 9,951 23,050 23,944
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £79,880 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 4 May 2025.

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 4 May 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 +39 998 £70,600 +8.62% 1,236
UK excluding London -39 824 £65,000 +8.33% 713
Work from Home +122 474 £70,600 +8.62% 576
South East +48 438 £68,000 +17.24% 266
London +45 257 £102,500 +20.59% 744
East of England +36 121 £65,000 - 130
South West +55 73 £70,000 +16.67% 88
North of England -15 62 £73,246 +33.17% 99
Wales +85 57 £68,000 +23.64% 22
Midlands -43 42 £60,000 -4.00% 60
North West -59 40 £88,662 +47.77% 47
Scotland -94 29 £45,000 -30.77% 71
West Midlands -5 21 £60,000 -4.00% 46
East Midlands -13 21 £60,000 +6.68% 12
Yorkshire +73 16 £45,000 -10.00% 24
North East +52 6 £103,750 +13.76% 28
Northern Ireland +39 2 - - 7

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 27 (2.44%) Jupyter
2 12 (1.09%) Apache Spark
2 12 (1.09%) Kinematics
3 8 (0.72%) Apache
4 6 (0.54%) CMS
5 5 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.45%) Confluence
5 5 (0.45%) Ethereum
5 5 (0.45%) WordPress
6 4 (0.36%) GemFire
7 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.18%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.090%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 20 (1.81%) Simulink
2 14 (1.27%) Mathcad
3 12 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.81%) Final Cut Pro
5 5 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (0.45%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.36%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.27%) Adobe Premiere
7 3 (0.27%) GNU Octave
7 3 (0.27%) InDesign
7 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
8 2 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.090%) Blender
9 1 (0.090%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.090%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.090%) OrCAD
9 1 (0.090%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (2.17%) Ripple
1 24 (2.17%) Ripple XRP
2 4 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.090%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.090%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.090%) Raiser’s Edge
4 1 (0.090%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.090%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 120 (10.86%) Power Platform
2 118 (10.68%) AWS
3 114 (10.32%) Azure
4 66 (5.97%) GCP
5 41 (3.71%) SaaS
6 18 (1.63%) Amazon SageMaker
7 15 (1.36%) Amazon S3
7 15 (1.36%) Google Analytics
7 15 (1.36%) Vertex AI
8 12 (1.09%) Azure AI
8 12 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
9 11 (1.00%) Azure Machine Learning
9 11 (1.00%) Canva
9 11 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
10 10 (0.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 9 (0.81%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (0.81%) Serverless
12 8 (0.72%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (0.63%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.09%) Multicast
2 7 (0.63%) WAN
3 6 (0.54%) Bluetooth
4 5 (0.45%) 5G
4 5 (0.45%) HTTP
4 5 (0.45%) Internet
4 5 (0.45%) RS-485
4 5 (0.45%) SD-WAN
4 5 (0.45%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.36%) DNS
5 4 (0.36%) SMTP
6 2 (0.18%) GPRS
6 2 (0.18%) GSM
6 2 (0.18%) MQTT
6 2 (0.18%) RTP
7 1 (0.090%) DVB
7 1 (0.090%) S/MIME
7 1 (0.090%) SMS
7 1 (0.090%) SSL
7 1 (0.090%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (10.77%) Power BI
2 96 (8.69%) GIS
3 94 (8.51%) Geospatial Data
3 94 (8.51%) Power Query
4 61 (5.52%) NoSQL
5 60 (5.43%) Big Data
6 32 (2.90%) Data Mining
7 24 (2.17%) Tableau
8 17 (1.54%) MongoDB
9 15 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
10 14 (1.27%) Relational Database
11 12 (1.09%) Redis
12 11 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (0.90%) SQL Server
14 8 (0.72%) Cloud Spanner
14 8 (0.72%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.63%) BigQuery
15 7 (0.63%) Hadoop
15 7 (0.63%) RDBMS
16 6 (0.54%) KDB
Development Applications
1 291 (26.33%) Rational DOORS
2 71 (6.43%) Git
3 27 (2.44%) JIRA
4 24 (2.17%) JUnit
5 22 (1.99%) Eclipse
5 22 (1.99%) IntelliJ
5 22 (1.99%) Jasmine
5 22 (1.99%) Karma Test Runner
5 22 (1.99%) Mockito
5 22 (1.99%) Protractor
6 14 (1.27%) Visual Studio
7 9 (0.81%) Jenkins
8 7 (0.63%) Gradle
9 6 (0.54%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.54%) Vite
9 6 (0.54%) webpack
10 5 (0.45%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.45%) Subversion
11 4 (0.36%) Bazaar
12 3 (0.27%) GitLab
General
1 345 (31.22%) Electronics
2 236 (21.36%) Finance
3 210 (19.00%) Social Skills
4 144 (13.03%) Analytical Skills
5 100 (9.05%) Law
6 74 (6.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 73 (6.61%) Banking
8 47 (4.25%) Legal
9 46 (4.16%) Marketing
10 41 (3.71%) Games
11 39 (3.53%) Retail
12 36 (3.26%) Manufacturing
13 30 (2.71%) Front Office
14 25 (2.26%) Financial Institution
14 25 (2.26%) Pharmaceutical
15 24 (2.17%) Digital Economy
16 17 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (1.27%) Public Sector
18 13 (1.18%) Automotive
18 13 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 332 (30.05%) Senior
2 292 (26.43%) Systems Engineer
3 188 (17.01%) Principal Engineer
4 158 (14.30%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 133 (12.04%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 131 (11.86%) Developer
7 116 (10.50%) Software Engineer
8 112 (10.14%) Data Scientist
9 85 (7.69%) Lead
10 65 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
11 45 (4.07%) Java Developer
11 45 (4.07%) Senior Data Scientist
12 34 (3.08%) Senior Developer
13 30 (2.71%) C++ Developer
13 30 (2.71%) Quantitative Developer
14 28 (2.53%) C++ Software Engineer
15 27 (2.44%) Analyst
16 23 (2.08%) Software Developer
17 22 (1.99%) Embedded Engineer
18 21 (1.90%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (5.61%) PyTorch
1 62 (5.61%) React
2 52 (4.71%) scikit-learn
3 50 (4.52%) TensorFlow
4 41 (3.71%) Pandas
5 39 (3.53%) NumPy
6 38 (3.44%) AngularJS
7 30 (2.71%) RabbitMQ
8 25 (2.26%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 24 (2.17%) .NET
9 24 (2.17%) Hibernate
10 23 (2.08%) Node.js
11 22 (1.99%) JPA
11 22 (1.99%) OpenCV
12 21 (1.90%) SciPy
13 20 (1.81%) Kafka
14 19 (1.72%) CSS
15 18 (1.63%) Middleware
16 16 (1.45%) WebSockets
17 15 (1.36%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 106 (9.59%) Data Structures
2 53 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (4.16%) Cyberattack
4 37 (3.35%) Robotics
5 36 (3.26%) Equities
6 31 (2.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 30 (2.71%) Virtual Team
8 29 (2.62%) Blockchain
8 29 (2.62%) Credit Risk
9 26 (2.35%) Hedge funds
10 24 (2.17%) Social Media
11 22 (1.99%) FPGA
11 22 (1.99%) Life Science
12 21 (1.90%) Fixed Income
13 20 (1.81%) Management Information System
13 20 (1.81%) Public Cloud
14 18 (1.63%) Derivative
15 17 (1.54%) Cloud Native
16 16 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
16 16 (1.45%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 124 (11.22%) Linux
2 26 (2.35%) Windows
3 20 (1.81%) Unix
4 15 (1.36%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.81%) Android
6 6 (0.54%) Robot Operating System
6 6 (0.54%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.45%) Debian
8 3 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.090%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (30.68%) Signal Processing
2 329 (29.77%) Technical Leadership
3 324 (29.32%) Systems Engineering
4 311 (28.14%) Problem-Solving
5 274 (24.80%) Machine Learning
6 254 (22.99%) Software Engineering
7 253 (22.90%) Artificial Intelligence
8 250 (22.62%) Data Science
9 241 (21.81%) Analytics
10 232 (21.00%) Mentoring
11 213 (19.28%) Computer Science
12 184 (16.65%) Agile
13 177 (16.02%) Mathematics
14 164 (14.84%) Visualisation
15 158 (14.30%) Test Planning
16 131 (11.86%) Business Intelligence
17 123 (11.13%) Actionable Insight
18 122 (11.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 118 (10.68%) Statistics
20 115 (10.41%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 346 (31.31%) Python
2 244 (22.08%) SQL
3 173 (15.66%) C++
4 151 (13.67%) Java
5 139 (12.58%) R
6 78 (7.06%) C
7 75 (6.79%) JavaScript
8 54 (4.89%) C#
9 46 (4.16%) TypeScript
10 28 (2.53%) MATLAB
11 23 (2.08%) Go
12 13 (1.18%) Embedded C
13 12 (1.09%) Bash
14 9 (0.81%) Fortran
15 6 (0.54%) Ladder Logic
15 6 (0.54%) Rust
15 6 (0.54%) Scala
16 5 (0.45%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.27%) Ruby
17 3 (0.27%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 319 (28.87%) BPSS Clearance
2 312 (28.24%) Degree
3 135 (12.22%) Master's Degree
4 115 (10.41%) PhD
5 82 (7.42%) Security Cleared
6 69 (6.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 65 (5.88%) DV Cleared
8 45 (4.07%) Numerate Degree
9 29 (2.62%) SC Cleared
10 11 (1.00%) Azure Certification
11 9 (0.81%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.45%) CISSP
13 2 (0.18%) CSSLP
13 2 (0.18%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.18%) PMP
14 1 (0.090%) CISM
14 1 (0.090%) CompTIA Security+
14 1 (0.090%) MBA
14 1 (0.090%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 319 (28.87%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 35 (3.17%) QA
3 22 (1.99%) Accessibility
4 20 (1.81%) GDPR
5 12 (1.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (0.45%) NIST
7 4 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.36%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.090%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 93 (8.42%) Docker
2 10 (0.90%) Firmware
3 6 (0.54%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (0.45%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.090%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 78 (7.06%) Kubernetes
2 9 (0.81%) Terraform
3 5 (0.45%) Oozie
4 4 (0.36%) Grafana
5 3 (0.27%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.18%) Ansible
6 2 (0.18%) Argo
6 2 (0.18%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.18%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.090%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.090%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 313 (28.33%) IBM
2 64 (5.79%) Google
3 54 (4.89%) Microsoft
4 34 (3.08%) Databricks
5 30 (2.71%) OpenAI
6 26 (2.35%) SAP
7 15 (1.36%) MathWorks
7 15 (1.36%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.27%) Adobe
9 12 (1.09%) Ahrefs
10 11 (1.00%) Workday
11 7 (0.63%) ANSYS
11 7 (0.63%) EMC
11 7 (0.63%) Facebook
11 7 (0.63%) Oracle
12 6 (0.54%) NVIDIA
12 6 (0.54%) Siemens
13 5 (0.45%) Cloudera
14 4 (0.36%) Salesforce
14 4 (0.36%) Solace