Algorithms Jobs in the West Midlands

Algorithms
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in permanent job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Algorithms over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 172 149
Rank change year-on-year -8 -23 +46
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 20 79 132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.45% 1.09% 1.99%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.50% 3.20% 4.23%
Number of salaries quoted 8 28 25
10th Percentile - £47,500 £41,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +26.32%
75th Percentile £62,500 £83,125 £80,000
90th Percentile £72,250 £86,250 £110,000
England median annual salary £70,600 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +8.62% -13.33% +7.14%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,335 2,468 3,121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 29.89% 34.09% 46.95%
Number of salaries quoted 696 1,705 981
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,925 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £63,750 £64,108 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Algorithms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Algorithms in the West Midlands

Algorithms
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Algorithms in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Algorithms in the West Midlands

Algorithms
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Algorithms in the West Midlands

Algorithms
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Algorithms within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Birmingham +39 11 £60,000 -22.58% 16
Warwickshire -67 3 - - 13
Worcestershire +16 2 - - 2
Herefordshire +11 2 - -
Staffordshire +24 1 £60,000 -4.00% 11
Algorithms
England

Algorithms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (10.00%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (5.00%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) AWS
2 11 (55.00%) Azure
3 7 (35.00%) SaaS
4 3 (15.00%) GCP
5 2 (10.00%) Asana
5 2 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) NoSQL
2 5 (25.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 7 (35.00%) Eclipse
1 7 (35.00%) IntelliJ
1 7 (35.00%) Jasmine
1 7 (35.00%) JUnit
1 7 (35.00%) Karma Test Runner
1 7 (35.00%) Mockito
1 7 (35.00%) Protractor
2 2 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (5.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 8 (40.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Automotive
3 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Developer
2 7 (35.00%) Java Developer
2 7 (35.00%) SaaS Developer
3 6 (30.00%) Backend Developer
3 6 (30.00%) Data Scientist
4 3 (15.00%) Senior
5 2 (10.00%) C++ Developer
5 2 (10.00%) C++ Software Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Python Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Data Scientist
5 2 (10.00%) Software Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 1 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Applications Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) AngularJS
2 7 (35.00%) Hibernate
2 7 (35.00%) JPA
2 7 (35.00%) RabbitMQ
2 7 (35.00%) React
3 2 (10.00%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Cyberattack
2 2 (10.00%) CUDA
2 2 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (10.00%) PKI
2 2 (10.00%) SIMD
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Agile
2 10 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 9 (45.00%) Microservices
4 8 (40.00%) Data Science
4 8 (40.00%) Machine Learning
5 7 (35.00%) Computer Science
5 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (35.00%) Unit Testing
6 6 (30.00%) Data Analysis
6 6 (30.00%) Mathematics
7 5 (25.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
7 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 5 (25.00%) Visualisation
8 4 (20.00%) Analytics
8 4 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (20.00%) OpenUP
8 4 (20.00%) Scrum
8 4 (20.00%) Statistics
9 3 (15.00%) DevOps
10 2 (10.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) Java
2 7 (35.00%) Python
2 7 (35.00%) SQL
3 4 (20.00%) C++
4 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.00%) C
5 1 (5.00%) Go
5 1 (5.00%) Kotlin
5 1 (5.00%) MATLAB
5 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) Degree
2 4 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) CISSP
3 2 (10.00%) Numerate Degree
3 2 (10.00%) PMI Certification
3 2 (10.00%) PMP
4 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) GDPR
1 2 (10.00%) HIPAA
1 2 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (65.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Functional Safety
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) IBM
2 1 (5.00%) MathWorks