Mathematics (Maths)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Mathematics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Mathematics over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 34 133
Rank change year-on-year -66 +99 +26
Permanent jobs citing Mathematics 2,710 6,856 5,043
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.62% 7.06% 3.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.12% 7.38% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,420 1,009 1,671
10th Percentile £20,645 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £27,500 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £92,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £116,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £45,196 £45,500
% change year-on-year -11.50% -0.67% -4.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Mathematics 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 86,886 92,843 159,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.13% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,763 54,795 82,800
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £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%

Mathematics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Mathematics in the UK

Mathematics
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Mathematics.

Salary trend for Mathematics in the UK

Mathematics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mathematics over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Mathematics in the UK

Mathematics
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mathematics within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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 -70 2,275 £42,500 -32.00% 2,044
UK excluding London -78 1,970 £40,000 -11.50% 1,539
Work from Home +34 741 £50,500 -22.31% 354
London +11 683 £70,000 -15.15% 470
South East -39 646 £45,000 -12.62% 364
Midlands -53 400 £28,000 -26.32% 322
Scotland -30 336 £52,500 +10.53% 21
West Midlands -45 261 £30,000 -23.08% 173
North of England -177 229 £33,907 -20.22% 425
South West -104 199 £50,000 -25.93% 286
North West -137 146 £37,500 -37.50% 219
East Midlands -58 139 £27,750 +15.63% 152
East of England -112 114 £30,500 -48.09% 199
Yorkshire -125 68 £35,000 -15.15% 157
Wales -47 41 £42,500 +9.89% 20
North East -97 15 £30,000 -20.00% 53
Northern Ireland +3 5 £70,000 - 13
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 - 1

Mathematics
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 57 (2.10%) SAS
2 48 (1.77%) Apache Spark
3 17 (0.63%) Cloud Foundry
4 16 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.44%) Apache
6 11 (0.41%) Confluence
7 10 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (0.37%) CMS
8 7 (0.26%) SharePoint
9 6 (0.22%) Drupal
10 5 (0.18%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 4 (0.15%) Moodle
11 4 (0.15%) Site Server
12 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.074%) Luigi
13 2 (0.074%) WordPress
Applications
1 249 (9.19%) Microsoft Office
2 206 (7.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 37 (1.37%) Simulink
4 36 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 28 (1.03%) AutoCAD
6 19 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.48%) SPSS
8 10 (0.37%) GNU Octave
9 7 (0.26%) MS Visio
10 6 (0.22%) Stateflow
11 4 (0.15%) Revit
11 4 (0.15%) Solid Edge
11 4 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
13 1 (0.037%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.037%) Adobe XD
13 1 (0.037%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 10 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.26%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.15%) SAP CO
3 4 (0.15%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.15%) SAP FI
3 4 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
3 4 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.074%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.037%) Maximo
5 1 (0.037%) ProductWriter
5 1 (0.037%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.037%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 362 (13.36%) AWS
2 169 (6.24%) Azure
3 162 (5.98%) Power Platform
4 80 (2.95%) GCP
5 74 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
6 25 (0.92%) GitHub
7 22 (0.81%) SaaS
8 20 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
9 16 (0.59%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (0.52%) Serverless
11 12 (0.44%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (0.44%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (0.33%) Power Automate
12 9 (0.33%) PowerApps
13 8 (0.30%) Snowflake
14 7 (0.26%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (0.26%) Amazon Kinesis
14 7 (0.26%) Amazon S3
14 7 (0.26%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (0.26%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 74 (2.73%) Wireless
2 21 (0.77%) Firewall
3 20 (0.74%) Internet
4 19 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
5 18 (0.66%) TCP/IP
6 17 (0.63%) Kerberos
7 14 (0.52%) LAN
8 12 (0.44%) Broadband
9 11 (0.41%) Network Security
10 7 (0.26%) Link 16
10 7 (0.26%) VPN
11 6 (0.22%) 5G
11 6 (0.22%) VLAN
11 6 (0.22%) VoIP
12 5 (0.18%) Intranet
12 5 (0.18%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.18%) WAN
13 4 (0.15%) 3GPP
13 4 (0.15%) DNS
13 4 (0.15%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 298 (11.00%) Tableau
2 153 (5.65%) Power BI
3 85 (3.14%) SQL Server
4 76 (2.80%) NoSQL
5 44 (1.62%) Data Mining
6 42 (1.55%) Big Data
7 39 (1.44%) Hadoop
8 38 (1.40%) MySQL
9 34 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
10 30 (1.11%) Relational Database
11 28 (1.03%) Data Lake
11 28 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
12 24 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
12 24 (0.89%) Redis
13 17 (0.63%) Amazon Aurora
13 17 (0.63%) Apache Ignite
13 17 (0.63%) CockroachDB
14 14 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 13 (0.48%) Amazon QuickSight
16 12 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 259 (9.56%) Git
2 27 (1.00%) JIRA
3 26 (0.96%) Subversion
4 23 (0.85%) CMake
5 21 (0.77%) Visual Studio
6 12 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 10 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
8 9 (0.33%) Jenkins
9 8 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
9 8 (0.30%) TestRail
10 6 (0.22%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.22%) JUnit
11 5 (0.18%) Eclipse
11 5 (0.18%) GitLab
11 5 (0.18%) Robot Framework
11 5 (0.18%) Xcode
12 4 (0.15%) Gradle
12 4 (0.15%) Katalon Studio
12 4 (0.15%) Postman
12 4 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,045 (38.56%) Social Skills
2 698 (25.76%) Analytical Skills
3 635 (23.43%) Finance
4 507 (18.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 309 (11.40%) Marketing
6 292 (10.77%) Law
7 265 (9.78%) Retail
8 227 (8.38%) Organisational Skills
9 218 (8.04%) Presentation Skills
10 148 (5.46%) Financial Institution
11 128 (4.72%) Influencing Skills
12 121 (4.46%) Games
13 102 (3.76%) Banking
14 94 (3.47%) Legal
15 79 (2.92%) Investment Banking
16 71 (2.62%) Electronics
17 70 (2.58%) Military
18 66 (2.44%) Local Government
18 66 (2.44%) Manufacturing
19 60 (2.21%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 589 (21.73%) Senior
2 573 (21.14%) Analyst
3 296 (10.92%) Software Engineer
4 247 (9.11%) Data Scientist
5 231 (8.52%) Data Analyst
6 215 (7.93%) Developer
7 198 (7.31%) Senior Analyst
8 172 (6.35%) Lead
9 161 (5.94%) Engineering Manager
9 161 (5.94%) Software Engineering Manager
10 133 (4.91%) Graduate
11 124 (4.58%) Product Analyst
11 124 (4.58%) Sales Analyst
12 113 (4.17%) Senior Data Analyst
13 90 (3.32%) Senior Data Scientist
14 89 (3.28%) Senior Software Engineer
15 75 (2.77%) IT Support
16 66 (2.44%) Senior Manager
17 62 (2.29%) Systems Engineer
18 60 (2.21%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (4.72%) Pandas
2 124 (4.58%) .NET
3 91 (3.36%) NumPy
3 91 (3.36%) TensorFlow
4 80 (2.95%) Spring
5 70 (2.58%) Kafka
6 58 (2.14%) scikit-learn
7 55 (2.03%) Spring Boot
8 54 (1.99%) PySpark
8 54 (1.99%) RESTful
9 52 (1.92%) HTML
10 47 (1.73%) PyTorch
11 42 (1.55%) Qt
12 40 (1.48%) XML
13 34 (1.25%) CSS
14 32 (1.18%) REST
15 31 (1.14%) React
16 23 (0.85%) WPF
17 22 (0.81%) HTML5
18 20 (0.74%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 487 (17.97%) Algorithms
2 242 (8.93%) Cloud Native
3 154 (5.68%) Self-Motivation
4 97 (3.58%) Management Information System
4 97 (3.58%) Onboarding
5 96 (3.54%) Driving Licence
6 64 (2.36%) Market Risk
7 56 (2.07%) Data Structures
8 49 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
8 49 (1.81%) Distributed Applications
9 42 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
10 34 (1.25%) CUDA
11 30 (1.11%) Life Science
12 29 (1.07%) Renewable Energy
13 26 (0.96%) Housing Association
13 26 (0.96%) PMI
14 21 (0.77%) CCTV
14 21 (0.77%) FPGA
14 21 (0.77%) Product Ownership
15 20 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 197 (7.27%) Linux
2 155 (5.72%) Windows
3 49 (1.81%) Android
4 45 (1.66%) Unix
5 38 (1.40%) Apple iOS
6 26 (0.96%) Windows 10
7 15 (0.55%) Ubuntu
8 11 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
8 11 (0.41%) Mac OS
9 9 (0.33%) Debian
10 7 (0.26%) CentOS
11 5 (0.18%) SUSE
11 5 (0.18%) Windows Server
11 5 (0.18%) Windows Vista
12 4 (0.15%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.074%) FreeRTOS
14 2 (0.074%) Windows 8
14 2 (0.074%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.037%) Scientific Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,052 (38.82%) Computer Science
2 974 (35.94%) Problem-Solving
3 678 (25.02%) Software Engineering
4 519 (19.15%) Physics
5 481 (17.75%) Statistics
6 472 (17.42%) Data Analysis
7 457 (16.86%) Agile
8 456 (16.83%) Analytics
9 424 (15.65%) Decision-Making
10 412 (15.20%) Data Science
11 343 (12.66%) Machine Learning
12 327 (12.07%) Visualisation
13 289 (10.66%) Artificial Intelligence
14 288 (10.63%) Customer Service
15 268 (9.89%) Mentoring
16 264 (9.74%) Coaching
17 243 (8.97%) Actionable Insight
18 222 (8.19%) SDLC
19 200 (7.38%) Business Strategy
20 195 (7.20%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 847 (31.25%) Python
2 623 (22.99%) SQL
3 283 (10.44%) Java
4 261 (9.63%) C++
5 236 (8.71%) C#
6 227 (8.38%) C
7 128 (4.72%) R
8 105 (3.87%) JavaScript
9 90 (3.32%) MATLAB
10 72 (2.66%) Fortran
11 47 (1.73%) VBA
12 45 (1.66%) Bash
13 40 (1.48%) Embedded C
14 31 (1.14%) TypeScript
15 28 (1.03%) Go
16 24 (0.89%) Haskell
17 23 (0.85%) PowerShell
18 17 (0.63%) T-SQL
19 15 (0.55%) GLSL
20 11 (0.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,598 (58.97%) Degree
2 293 (10.81%) Master's Degree
3 225 (8.30%) DBS Check
4 221 (8.15%) PhD
5 216 (7.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 195 (7.20%) Security Cleared
7 95 (3.51%) Numerate Degree
8 68 (2.51%) HNC
9 57 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
10 54 (1.99%) SC Cleared
11 40 (1.48%) HND
12 36 (1.33%) DV Cleared
13 32 (1.18%) PMI Certification
14 17 (0.63%) NVQ Level 3
15 16 (0.59%) MBA
16 15 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
17 12 (0.44%) Azure Certification
18 11 (0.41%) CCNA
18 11 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
19 10 (0.37%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (3.76%) QA
2 71 (2.62%) Data Quality
3 39 (1.44%) GDPR
4 34 (1.25%) SLA
5 30 (1.11%) Accessibility
6 29 (1.07%) ISO 9001
7 21 (0.77%) CDISC
8 14 (0.52%) Good Clinical Practice
8 14 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 13 (0.48%) ISO 9002
10 12 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 10 (0.37%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 9 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 9 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.30%) PMO
14 6 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
15 4 (0.15%) IFRS
15 4 (0.15%) IFRS 9
15 4 (0.15%) ISO 14001
15 4 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 51 (1.88%) Firmware
2 45 (1.66%) Docker
3 27 (1.00%) Active Directory
4 16 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
6 9 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.15%) VMware Server
8 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.11%) IAG
9 2 (0.074%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.037%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.037%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 48 (1.77%) Kubernetes
2 21 (0.77%) Terraform
3 5 (0.18%) Grafana
4 4 (0.15%) Ansible
5 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.11%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.11%) Puppet
6 2 (0.074%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.037%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.037%) Oracle ZFS
7 1 (0.037%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.037%) SCCM
7 1 (0.037%) yum
Vendors
1 370 (13.65%) Microsoft
2 201 (7.42%) Databricks
3 69 (2.55%) Google
4 31 (1.14%) Apple
5 24 (0.89%) SAP
6 21 (0.77%) Oracle
7 18 (0.66%) OpenAI
8 13 (0.48%) Cisco
9 10 (0.37%) Alteryx
9 10 (0.37%) IFS
10 9 (0.33%) ServiceNow
10 9 (0.33%) VMware
11 8 (0.30%) CA
11 8 (0.30%) Cadence
12 7 (0.26%) NEC
12 7 (0.26%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.26%) Splunk
12 7 (0.26%) Veeam
13 6 (0.22%) Bloomberg
13 6 (0.22%) Sophos