Complexity Analysis (Analysis of Algorithms)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Complexity Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Complexity Analysis over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 881 943 1065
Rank change year-on-year +62 +122 -198
Permanent jobs citing Complexity Analysis 30 56 148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.054% 0.095%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% 0.057% 0.099%
Number of salaries quoted 24 22 26
10th Percentile £41,250 £55,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £87,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.86% +20.69% +11.54%
75th Percentile £68,750 £103,750 £85,938
90th Percentile - - £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Complexity Analysis is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,620 99,018 149,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,724 58,165 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Complexity Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Complexity Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Complexity Analysis in the UK

Complexity Analysis
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Complexity Analysis.

Salary trend for Complexity Analysis in the UK

Complexity Analysis
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Complexity Analysis over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Complexity Analysis in the UK

Complexity Analysis
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Complexity Analysis within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 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
England +64 30 £58,750 -32.86% 16
UK excluding London -17 21 £65,000 +8.33% 9
South East +17 17 £52,500 -12.50% 2
Work from Home +77 11 £65,000 - 3
London +108 9 £50,000 -42.86% 6
South West -17 4 £65,000 -25.71% 1

Complexity Analysis
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:

Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 7 (23.33%) Azure
2 5 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (13.33%) AWS
3 4 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (13.33%) Serverless
4 3 (10.00%) IaaS
4 3 (10.00%) PaaS
5 1 (3.33%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (13.33%) RDBMS
1 4 (13.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (23.33%) Git
2 5 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 3 (10.00%) JUnit
4 1 (3.33%) Gatling
4 1 (3.33%) LoadRunner
4 1 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (56.67%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (53.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Aerospace
3 4 (13.33%) Legal
3 4 (13.33%) Retail
4 3 (10.00%) Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Senior
2 7 (23.33%) Software Engineer
3 6 (20.00%) Developer
3 6 (20.00%) Scientific Software Developer
3 6 (20.00%) Software Developer
4 5 (16.67%) Junior
5 4 (13.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 3 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Lead
6 3 (10.00%) Lead DevOps
6 3 (10.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Junior Software Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Senior Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Senior Software Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Lead Software Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Technical Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) React
1 4 (13.33%) Redux
2 2 (6.67%) OpenMP
3 1 (3.33%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 30 (100.00%) Algorithms
2 21 (70.00%) Data Structures
3 17 (56.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (6.67%) FPGA
5 2 (6.67%) Verilog
5 2 (6.67%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (76.67%) Computer Science
2 22 (73.33%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (70.00%) OO
4 17 (56.67%) Chemistry
4 17 (56.67%) Mathematics
4 17 (56.67%) OOD
4 17 (56.67%) Physics
5 14 (46.67%) Parallel Programming
6 7 (23.33%) DevOps
6 7 (23.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 7 (23.33%) Software Engineering
7 5 (16.67%) Agile
7 5 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 5 (16.67%) Microservices
7 5 (16.67%) Prototyping
8 4 (13.33%) Data Analysis
8 4 (13.33%) Data Management
8 4 (13.33%) ETL
8 4 (13.33%) OOP
8 4 (13.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (80.00%) Python
2 23 (76.67%) C
3 17 (56.67%) Fortran
4 9 (30.00%) C++
5 7 (23.33%) Java
6 5 (16.67%) Go
7 4 (13.33%) MATLAB
8 1 (3.33%) Bash
8 1 (3.33%) Groovy
8 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
8 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
8 1 (3.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 23 (76.67%) Degree
2 19 (63.33%) PhD
3 17 (56.67%) Master's Degree
4 4 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Istio
1 3 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (3.33%) Dynatrace