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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 213 130
Rank change year-on-year +95 -83 +89
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 2,319 1,781 4,965
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.32% 1.79% 3.05%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.60% 4.20% 6.37%
Number of salaries quoted 750 813 1,186
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,097 £75,000 £70,750
Median % change year-on-year -14.54% +6.01% +8.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £96,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,250 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +13.64%

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 35,155 42,392 77,992
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.18% 42.62% 47.91%
Number of salaries quoted 23,026 23,184 34,267
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,483 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,625
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 £109,865 £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 20 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 20 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 +103 1,950 £60,000 - 356
England +24 1,412 £65,000 -13.33% 609
Scotland +106 876 £65,000 +32.65% 17
South East +89 479 £58,000 -3.33% 154
Work from Home +27 474 £63,195 -15.74% 289
London -41 335 £85,000 - 309
Midlands -5 157 £62,500 +19.05% 49
North of England -61 153 £55,000 -12.00% 52
East of England +8 140 £65,000 - 46
South West +3 138 £60,000 -8.37% 31
North West -44 130 £60,000 -8.40% 32
West Midlands -11 84 £60,000 - 43
East Midlands +18 73 £75,250 +58.42% 6
Yorkshire +6 21 £50,000 -9.09% 17
Wales +14 6 £55,000 +4.76% 8
North East -3 2 £91,200 +40.31% 3
Northern Ireland +31 1 £70,000 -30.00% 4

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 (11.13%) Apache Spark
2 72 (3.10%) Apache
3 21 (0.91%) FileNet
4 9 (0.39%) SAS
5 7 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.26%) Confluence
7 5 (0.22%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.17%) ColdFusion
8 4 (0.17%) IIS
8 4 (0.17%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.086%) CMS
11 1 (0.043%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.043%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.043%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.043%) Luigi
11 1 (0.043%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.043%) WordPress
Applications
1 88 (3.79%) Simulink
2 42 (1.81%) Stateflow
3 23 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
5 13 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.43%) GNU Octave
7 7 (0.30%) CANalyzer
8 5 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.22%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.086%) 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 1 (0.043%) Data Workbench
3 1 (0.043%) Endur
3 1 (0.043%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.043%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.043%) Yoast SEO
Cloud Services
1 577 (24.88%) AWS
2 434 (18.71%) Azure
3 238 (10.26%) IBM Cloud
4 207 (8.93%) Serverless
5 135 (5.82%) Azure DevOps
5 135 (5.82%) GCP
6 132 (5.69%) Azure Functions
7 125 (5.39%) Azure API Management
7 125 (5.39%) Azure Logic Apps
7 125 (5.39%) Azure Service Bus
8 74 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
9 73 (3.15%) Amazon SQS
10 66 (2.85%) Amazon ECS
11 56 (2.41%) Cloud Computing
12 54 (2.33%) Amazon EMR
13 53 (2.29%) SaaS
14 51 (2.20%) Amazon EC2
14 51 (2.20%) Amazon EKS
15 45 (1.94%) Amazon S3
16 41 (1.77%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 22 (0.95%) Wireless
2 18 (0.78%) J1939
3 14 (0.60%) Ethernet
4 11 (0.47%) OFDM
5 9 (0.39%) Internet
6 8 (0.34%) Firewall
6 8 (0.34%) 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%) Modbus
9 5 (0.22%) Network Security
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
1 519 (22.38%) NoSQL
2 265 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
3 244 (10.52%) MongoDB
4 238 (10.26%) DB2
5 229 (9.87%) Relational Database
6 223 (9.62%) Big Data
7 200 (8.62%) Hadoop
8 104 (4.48%) Apache Hive
9 86 (3.71%) HBase
10 79 (3.41%) Data Lake
11 74 (3.19%) Elasticsearch
11 74 (3.19%) Tableau
12 62 (2.67%) Redis
13 52 (2.24%) MySQL
13 52 (2.24%) SQL Server
14 51 (2.20%) Electronic Patient Records
15 41 (1.77%) Power BI
16 39 (1.68%) Qlik Sense
17 38 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
18 23 (0.99%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 221 (9.53%) Git
2 125 (5.39%) Jenkins
3 86 (3.71%) Bitbucket Server
4 72 (3.10%) JUnit
5 40 (1.72%) JIRA
6 25 (1.08%) Android Studio
7 23 (0.99%) Cypress.io
8 22 (0.95%) GitLab
9 21 (0.91%) Jasmine
9 21 (0.91%) Karma Test Runner
9 21 (0.91%) Protractor
9 21 (0.91%) Selenium
9 21 (0.91%) WebDriver
10 19 (0.82%) ClearCase
11 18 (0.78%) Plastic SCM
12 17 (0.73%) CMake
12 17 (0.73%) Subversion
13 16 (0.69%) Maven
14 14 (0.60%) ClearQuest
15 7 (0.30%) Moq
General
1 1,093 (47.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 938 (40.45%) Finance
3 825 (35.58%) Law
4 555 (23.93%) Legal
5 413 (17.81%) Social Skills
6 244 (10.52%) Public Sector
7 242 (10.44%) Marketing
8 197 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
9 154 (6.64%) Banking
10 117 (5.05%) Investment Banking
11 86 (3.71%) Electronics
12 52 (2.24%) Automotive
13 49 (2.11%) Retail
14 45 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
15 44 (1.90%) Military
16 41 (1.77%) Manufacturing
17 39 (1.68%) Games
18 25 (1.08%) Front Office
19 23 (0.99%) Private Banking
19 23 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,008 (43.47%) Software Engineer
2 401 (17.29%) Developer
3 284 (12.25%) Senior
4 280 (12.07%) Data Scientist
5 272 (11.73%) Java Engineer
5 272 (11.73%) Java Software Engineer
6 257 (11.08%) Full Stack Engineer
7 201 (8.67%) AWS Engineer
8 198 (8.54%) AWS Software Engineer
9 177 (7.63%) Data Engineer
10 171 (7.37%) Python Engineer
11 154 (6.64%) Python Software Engineer
12 144 (6.21%) Full Stack Developer
13 138 (5.95%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 135 (5.82%) Azure Developer
15 133 (5.74%) Big Data Engineer
15 133 (5.74%) Big Data Software Engineer
16 128 (5.52%) Lead
17 121 (5.22%) Azure Engineer
18 96 (4.14%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 449 (19.36%) React
2 415 (17.90%) AngularJS
3 368 (15.87%) HTML
4 342 (14.75%) CSS
5 330 (14.23%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 328 (14.14%) .NET
7 324 (13.97%) Web Services
8 310 (13.37%) jQuery
9 276 (11.90%) REST
10 266 (11.47%) Vue
11 255 (11.00%) Node.js
12 251 (10.82%) ASP.NET
13 239 (10.31%) ASP.NET Core
14 238 (10.26%) Backbone.js
14 238 (10.26%) Ember.js
15 222 (9.57%) Spring
16 156 (6.73%) Kafka
17 128 (5.52%) TensorFlow
18 105 (4.53%) J2EE
19 100 (4.31%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 564 (24.32%) Data Structures
2 271 (11.69%) Blockchain
3 244 (10.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 168 (7.24%) Onboarding
5 137 (5.91%) Cloud Native
6 113 (4.87%) e-Learning
7 50 (2.16%) Embedded Systems
8 47 (2.03%) Client/Server
9 43 (1.85%) Legacy Code
10 38 (1.64%) Management Information System
11 35 (1.51%) CUDA
12 34 (1.47%) FPGA
13 33 (1.42%) Product Ownership
13 33 (1.42%) Public Cloud
13 33 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
14 32 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
14 32 (1.38%) VHDL
15 30 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
16 26 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
17 24 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 405 (17.46%) Linux
2 290 (12.51%) Windows
3 281 (12.12%) Android
4 250 (10.78%) Apple iOS
5 139 (5.99%) Unix
6 10 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
7 6 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
7 6 (0.26%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.086%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.043%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.043%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,207 (52.05%) Software Engineering
2 1,153 (49.72%) Agile
3 1,128 (48.64%) Artificial Intelligence
4 973 (41.96%) Machine Learning
5 938 (40.45%) Visualisation
6 847 (36.52%) CI/CD
7 792 (34.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 789 (34.02%) SDLC
9 686 (29.58%) Community of Practice
10 679 (29.28%) Operational Stability
11 563 (24.28%) Computer Science
12 520 (22.42%) Risk Management
13 511 (22.04%) Problem-Solving
14 475 (20.48%) Mathematics
15 427 (18.41%) Data Science
16 414 (17.85%) Full Stack Development
17 386 (16.65%) OO
18 338 (14.58%) User Experience
19 335 (14.45%) Design Patterns
20 332 (14.32%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,071 (46.18%) Python
2 854 (36.83%) Java
3 843 (36.35%) SQL
4 436 (18.80%) JavaScript
5 407 (17.55%) C#
6 223 (9.62%) C
7 220 (9.49%) C++
8 141 (6.08%) MATLAB
9 130 (5.61%) TypeScript
10 125 (5.39%) PL/SQL
11 94 (4.05%) Scala
12 81 (3.49%) Go
13 73 (3.15%) R
14 68 (2.93%) Fortran
15 39 (1.68%) Bash
16 37 (1.60%) Embedded C
17 30 (1.29%) Kotlin
18 23 (0.99%) Haskell
18 23 (0.99%) Perl
19 17 (0.73%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 754 (32.51%) Degree
2 264 (11.38%) Master's Degree
3 197 (8.50%) PhD
4 189 (8.15%) Security Cleared
5 119 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 55 (2.37%) SC Cleared
7 52 (2.24%) DBS Check
8 47 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
9 33 (1.42%) DV Cleared
10 17 (0.73%) Numerate Degree
11 13 (0.56%) PMI Certification
12 11 (0.47%) HND
12 11 (0.47%) MBA
13 5 (0.22%) CCIE
13 5 (0.22%) Chartered Engineer
13 5 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.22%) JNCIE
14 4 (0.17%) CESG Certified Professional
14 4 (0.17%) Postgraduate
15 2 (0.086%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (1.47%) QA
2 30 (1.29%) 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 (0.73%) 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 (3.71%) HDFS
2 74 (3.19%) Docker
3 37 (1.60%) Firmware
4 8 (0.34%) Active Directory
5 7 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
6 4 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.086%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.086%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.043%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.043%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 179 (7.72%) Kubernetes
2 132 (5.69%) Terraform
3 45 (1.94%) Grafana
4 34 (1.47%) Prometheus
5 15 (0.65%) Functional Safety
6 6 (0.26%) Ansible
7 3 (0.13%) Istio
7 3 (0.13%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.086%) SCCM
9 1 (0.043%) FTK
9 1 (0.043%) SCOM
Vendors
1 263 (11.34%) IBM
2 253 (10.91%) Databricks
3 238 (10.26%) Red Hat
4 117 (5.05%) Oracle
5 102 (4.40%) Google
6 97 (4.18%) Microsoft
7 91 (3.92%) Informatica
8 56 (2.41%) Cloudera
9 46 (1.98%) Alteryx
9 46 (1.98%) Dynatrace
10 45 (1.94%) Splunk
11 26 (1.12%) OpenAI
12 22 (0.95%) Dell
13 18 (0.78%) Lauterbach
14 13 (0.56%) Facebook
14 13 (0.56%) NVIDIA
15 12 (0.52%) SAP
16 11 (0.47%) Instagram
17 8 (0.34%) Teradata
17 8 (0.34%) Xilinx