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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 214 134
Rank change year-on-year +96 -80 +83
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 2,311 1,830 4,713
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.33% 1.81% 3.00%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.59% 4.24% 6.28%
Number of salaries quoted 757 833 1,182
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,798 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £96,250 £89,688
90th Percentile £100,000 £121,250 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +9.09%

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 35,065 43,146 75,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.34% 42.71% 47.68%
Number of salaries quoted 23,057 23,446 33,908
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,014 £34,513
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £108,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 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
UK excluding London +93 1,947 £60,000 - 255
England +25 1,399 £65,000 -13.33% 458
Scotland +116 879 £65,000 +30.00% 20
South East +72 478 £58,000 -3.33% 85
Work from Home +15 471 £65,000 -13.33% 245
London -43 327 £85,000 - 213
Midlands -12 158 £62,500 +16.28% 38
North of England -55 151 £55,000 -8.33% 36
East of England +13 138 £65,000 - 46
South West +8 136 £60,000 -7.69% 28
North West -48 127 £60,000 -9.09% 25
West Midlands -30 84 £60,000 -4.00% 36
East Midlands +20 74 £62,500 +31.58% 2
Yorkshire +10 22 £50,000 -1.93% 10
Wales +12 6 £55,000 +4.76% 8
North East -8 2 £91,200 +40.31% 1
Northern Ireland +22 1 £70,000 -30.00% 1

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
1 258 (11.16%) Apache Spark
2 71 (3.07%) Apache
3 21 (0.91%) FileNet
4 9 (0.39%) SAS
5 7 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.22%) Confluence
6 5 (0.22%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.22%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.17%) ColdFusion
7 4 (0.17%) IIS
8 3 (0.13%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.087%) CMS
9 2 (0.087%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.043%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.043%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.043%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.043%) Luigi
10 1 (0.043%) WordPress
Applications
1 87 (3.76%) Simulink
2 42 (1.82%) Stateflow
3 23 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
5 13 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.39%) GNU Octave
7 7 (0.30%) CANalyzer
8 5 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.22%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.087%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 1 (0.043%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.043%) Blender
10 1 (0.043%) InVision
10 1 (0.043%) Sketch
10 1 (0.043%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 6 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (0.13%) ProductWriter
3 2 (0.087%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.043%) Data Workbench
4 1 (0.043%) Endur
4 1 (0.043%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.043%) Yoast SEO
Cloud Services
1 577 (24.97%) AWS
2 432 (18.69%) Azure
3 238 (10.30%) IBM Cloud
4 207 (8.96%) Serverless
5 138 (5.97%) GCP
6 135 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
7 132 (5.71%) Azure Functions
8 125 (5.41%) Azure API Management
8 125 (5.41%) Azure Logic Apps
8 125 (5.41%) Azure Service Bus
9 74 (3.20%) Amazon SQS
9 74 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
10 66 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
11 56 (2.42%) Cloud Computing
12 54 (2.34%) Amazon EMR
12 54 (2.34%) SaaS
13 51 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
13 51 (2.21%) Amazon EKS
14 46 (1.99%) Amazon S3
15 41 (1.77%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 22 (0.95%) Wireless
2 18 (0.78%) J1939
3 14 (0.61%) Ethernet
4 10 (0.43%) OFDM
5 9 (0.39%) Internet
6 8 (0.35%) Firewall
6 8 (0.35%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.30%) HTTP
8 6 (0.26%) Bluetooth
9 5 (0.22%) BGP
9 5 (0.22%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (0.22%) IPsec
9 5 (0.22%) LAN
9 5 (0.22%) Network Security
9 5 (0.22%) OpenFlow
9 5 (0.22%) OSPF
9 5 (0.22%) SSL
9 5 (0.22%) VLAN
9 5 (0.22%) VPN
9 5 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 518 (22.41%) NoSQL
2 265 (11.47%) PostgreSQL
3 244 (10.56%) MongoDB
4 238 (10.30%) DB2
5 229 (9.91%) Relational Database
6 223 (9.65%) Big Data
7 201 (8.70%) Hadoop
8 104 (4.50%) Apache Hive
9 86 (3.72%) HBase
10 78 (3.38%) Data Lake
11 75 (3.25%) Elasticsearch
12 69 (2.99%) Tableau
13 63 (2.73%) Redis
14 52 (2.25%) MySQL
15 51 (2.21%) Electronic Patient Records
15 51 (2.21%) SQL Server
16 41 (1.77%) Power BI
17 39 (1.69%) Qlik Sense
18 38 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
19 23 (1.00%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 217 (9.39%) Git
2 125 (5.41%) Jenkins
3 86 (3.72%) Bitbucket Server
4 73 (3.16%) JUnit
5 39 (1.69%) JIRA
6 25 (1.08%) Android Studio
7 22 (0.95%) Cypress.io
7 22 (0.95%) GitLab
8 21 (0.91%) Jasmine
8 21 (0.91%) Karma Test Runner
8 21 (0.91%) Protractor
8 21 (0.91%) Selenium
8 21 (0.91%) WebDriver
9 19 (0.82%) ClearCase
10 18 (0.78%) CMake
10 18 (0.78%) Plastic SCM
11 17 (0.74%) Subversion
12 16 (0.69%) Maven
13 14 (0.61%) ClearQuest
14 7 (0.30%) Moq
General
1 1,096 (47.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 940 (40.68%) Finance
3 825 (35.70%) Law
4 553 (23.93%) Legal
5 400 (17.31%) Social Skills
6 244 (10.56%) Public Sector
7 241 (10.43%) Marketing
8 188 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
9 157 (6.79%) Banking
10 120 (5.19%) Investment Banking
11 86 (3.72%) Electronics
12 52 (2.25%) Automotive
13 49 (2.12%) Retail
14 44 (1.90%) Military
15 41 (1.77%) Manufacturing
15 41 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
16 39 (1.69%) Games
17 28 (1.21%) Front Office
18 24 (1.04%) Telecoms
19 23 (1.00%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 1,010 (43.70%) Software Engineer
2 405 (17.52%) Developer
3 277 (11.99%) Senior
4 273 (11.81%) Data Scientist
5 272 (11.77%) Java Engineer
5 272 (11.77%) Java Software Engineer
6 257 (11.12%) Full Stack Engineer
7 201 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
8 198 (8.57%) AWS Software Engineer
9 176 (7.62%) Data Engineer
10 171 (7.40%) Python Engineer
11 154 (6.66%) Python Software Engineer
12 144 (6.23%) Full Stack Developer
13 138 (5.97%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 134 (5.80%) Azure Developer
15 133 (5.76%) Big Data Engineer
15 133 (5.76%) Big Data Software Engineer
16 128 (5.54%) Lead
17 120 (5.19%) Azure Engineer
18 89 (3.85%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 449 (19.43%) React
2 415 (17.96%) AngularJS
3 368 (15.92%) HTML
4 343 (14.84%) CSS
5 330 (14.28%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 327 (14.15%) .NET
7 324 (14.02%) Web Services
8 310 (13.41%) jQuery
9 276 (11.94%) REST
10 266 (11.51%) Vue
11 256 (11.08%) Node.js
12 251 (10.86%) ASP.NET
13 239 (10.34%) ASP.NET Core
14 238 (10.30%) Backbone.js
14 238 (10.30%) Ember.js
15 222 (9.61%) Spring
16 157 (6.79%) Kafka
17 121 (5.24%) TensorFlow
18 105 (4.54%) J2EE
19 100 (4.33%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 568 (24.58%) Data Structures
2 271 (11.73%) Blockchain
3 244 (10.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 168 (7.27%) Onboarding
5 137 (5.93%) Cloud Native
6 113 (4.89%) e-Learning
7 50 (2.16%) Embedded Systems
8 47 (2.03%) Client/Server
9 43 (1.86%) Legacy Code
10 38 (1.64%) Management Information System
11 36 (1.56%) CUDA
12 34 (1.47%) FPGA
13 33 (1.43%) Public Cloud
13 33 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
14 32 (1.38%) Product Ownership
14 32 (1.38%) VHDL
15 31 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
15 31 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
16 27 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
17 24 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 404 (17.48%) Linux
2 289 (12.51%) Windows
3 280 (12.12%) Android
4 249 (10.77%) Apple iOS
5 139 (6.01%) Unix
6 10 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
7 6 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
7 6 (0.26%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.043%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.043%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,206 (52.19%) Software Engineering
2 1,154 (49.94%) Agile
3 1,124 (48.64%) Artificial Intelligence
4 967 (41.84%) Machine Learning
5 928 (40.16%) Visualisation
6 845 (36.56%) CI/CD
7 790 (34.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 790 (34.18%) SDLC
8 686 (29.68%) Community of Practice
9 679 (29.38%) Operational Stability
10 556 (24.06%) Computer Science
11 517 (22.37%) Risk Management
12 508 (21.98%) Problem-Solving
13 470 (20.34%) Mathematics
14 419 (18.13%) Data Science
15 414 (17.91%) Full Stack Development
16 386 (16.70%) OO
17 339 (14.67%) User Experience
18 334 (14.45%) Design Patterns
19 333 (14.41%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,072 (46.39%) Python
2 857 (37.08%) Java
3 835 (36.13%) SQL
4 438 (18.95%) JavaScript
5 405 (17.52%) C#
6 222 (9.61%) C
7 217 (9.39%) C++
8 138 (5.97%) MATLAB
9 130 (5.63%) TypeScript
10 125 (5.41%) PL/SQL
11 95 (4.11%) Scala
12 82 (3.55%) Go
13 73 (3.16%) R
14 69 (2.99%) Fortran
15 41 (1.77%) Bash
16 37 (1.60%) Embedded C
17 30 (1.30%) Kotlin
18 23 (1.00%) Haskell
18 23 (1.00%) Perl
19 17 (0.74%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 746 (32.28%) Degree
2 253 (10.95%) Master's Degree
3 194 (8.39%) PhD
4 188 (8.14%) Security Cleared
5 117 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 54 (2.34%) SC Cleared
7 47 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 47 (2.03%) DBS Check
8 32 (1.38%) DV Cleared
9 18 (0.78%) Numerate Degree
10 12 (0.52%) PMI Certification
11 11 (0.48%) HND
11 11 (0.48%) MBA
12 5 (0.22%) CCIE
12 5 (0.22%) Chartered Engineer
12 5 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.22%) JNCIE
13 4 (0.17%) CESG Certified Professional
13 4 (0.17%) Postgraduate
14 2 (0.087%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (1.43%) QA
2 29 (1.25%) Data Quality
3 19 (0.82%) Accessibility
3 19 (0.82%) MISRA
4 18 (0.78%) Automotive SPICE
4 18 (0.78%) ISO 26262
5 17 (0.74%) GDPR
6 12 (0.52%) AUTOSAR
7 7 (0.30%) HIPAA
7 7 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 7 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 5 (0.22%) IEC 61508
9 4 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.043%) MISRA C
System Software
1 86 (3.72%) HDFS
2 76 (3.29%) Docker
3 37 (1.60%) Firmware
4 8 (0.35%) Active Directory
5 7 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
6 4 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.087%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.043%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.043%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.043%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 179 (7.75%) Kubernetes
2 131 (5.67%) Terraform
3 45 (1.95%) Grafana
4 34 (1.47%) Prometheus
5 15 (0.65%) Functional Safety
6 7 (0.30%) Ansible
7 3 (0.13%) Istio
7 3 (0.13%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.043%) SCCM
Vendors
1 263 (11.38%) IBM
2 247 (10.69%) Databricks
3 238 (10.30%) Red Hat
4 117 (5.06%) Oracle
5 102 (4.41%) Google
6 97 (4.20%) Microsoft
7 91 (3.94%) Informatica
8 56 (2.42%) Cloudera
9 47 (2.03%) Alteryx
10 46 (1.99%) Dynatrace
11 45 (1.95%) Splunk
12 26 (1.13%) OpenAI
13 23 (1.00%) Dell
14 18 (0.78%) Lauterbach
15 13 (0.56%) Facebook
15 13 (0.56%) NVIDIA
15 13 (0.56%) SAP
16 11 (0.48%) Instagram
17 8 (0.35%) Teradata
18 7 (0.30%) Xilinx