The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mathematics in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Mathematics over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Mathematics (Maths)
Rank 61 39 78
Rank change year-on-year
-22 +39
Permanent jobs citing Mathematics 25 57 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 2.350% 4.170% 1.702%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.170% 14.18% 5.882%
Number of salaries quoted 13 42 14
Average salary £40,000 £32,000 £31,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.00% +2.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £21,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,400 £45,000 £39,600
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £37,500 £32,940
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +13.84%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
306 402 459
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 28.76% 29.41% 28.94%
Number of salaries quoted 187 300 314
Average salary £40,000 £36,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% -4.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £22,700 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £66,400 £50,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Mathematics
Scotland

Mathematics
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Mathematics across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Edinburgh Mathematics Jobs Demand Trend

Mathematics
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Mathematics across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Mathematics Salary Trend

Mathematics
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Mathematics across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Edinburgh Mathematics Salary Histogram

Mathematics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Mathematics also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Mathematics.

1 32 (53.33%) Degree
2 30 (50.00%) C++
3 22 (36.67%) C#
4 20 (33.33%) Linux
5 19 (31.67%) Computer Science
5 19 (31.67%) Qt
6 17 (28.33%) Physics
6 17 (28.33%) .NET
7 16 (26.67%) Java
8 15 (25.00%) XML
8 15 (25.00%) Finance
9 14 (23.33%) Client/Server
9 14 (23.33%) GTK+
10 13 (21.67%) Software Engineering
11 9 (15.00%) Unit Testing
11 9 (15.00%) Windows
11 9 (15.00%) SQL
11 9 (15.00%) Visual Studio
12 8 (13.33%) UNIX
12 8 (13.33%) PhD
13 7 (11.67%) JavaScript
13 7 (11.67%) HTML
13 7 (11.67%) Banking
14 6 (10.00%) jQuery
14 6 (10.00%) WPF
14 6 (10.00%) Statistics
14 6 (10.00%) CSS
14 6 (10.00%) OO
14 6 (10.00%) MS Excel
14 6 (10.00%) OOD

Mathematics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Mathematics also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Mathematics. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 19 (31.67%) Qt
2 17 (28.33%) .NET
3 15 (25.00%) XML
4 14 (23.33%) GTK+
5 7 (11.67%) HTML
6 6 (10.00%) jQuery
6 6 (10.00%) WPF
6 6 (10.00%) CSS
7 5 (8.333%) Direct3D
7 5 (8.333%) OpenGL
7 5 (8.333%) MFC
8 4 (6.667%) Ajax
8 4 (6.667%) WCF
8 4 (6.667%) .NET Framework
8 4 (6.667%) ASP.NET
8 4 (6.667%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 4 (6.667%) CSS3
8 4 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 4 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC
9 2 (3.333%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 4 (6.667%) SAS
2 2 (3.333%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (1.667%) Adobe CQ
3 1 (1.667%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.667%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (10.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.667%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.333%) Ethernet
2 3 (5.000%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.333%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.667%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (1.667%) MS Access
2 1 (1.667%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 9 (15.00%) Visual Studio
2 5 (8.333%) Subversion
3 4 (6.667%) MSTest
3 4 (6.667%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 15 (25.00%) Finance
2 7 (11.67%) Banking
3 5 (8.333%) Electronics
4 4 (6.667%) Retail
5 2 (3.333%) Games
6 1 (1.667%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (48.33%) Developer
2 17 (28.33%) Software Engineer
3 16 (26.67%) C++ Developer
4 8 (13.33%) Analyst
5 6 (10.00%) Data Analyst
5 6 (10.00%) Junior
6 5 (8.333%) Junior Developer
7 4 (6.667%) Junior C# Developer
7 4 (6.667%) Junior .NET Developer
7 4 (6.667%) C# Developer
7 4 (6.667%) Financial Analyst
7 4 (6.667%) .NET Developer
7 4 (6.667%) C# .NET Developer
7 4 (6.667%) Mid-Level C# Developer
7 4 (6.667%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
7 4 (6.667%) Junior C# .NET Developer
7 4 (6.667%) Mid-Level C# .NET Developer
8 3 (5.000%) Software Developer
8 3 (5.000%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (5.000%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 19 (31.67%) Computer Science
2 17 (28.33%) Physics
3 14 (23.33%) Client/Server
4 6 (10.00%) Statistics
4 6 (10.00%) Visualisation
5 5 (8.333%) CUDA
6 4 (6.667%) Web 2.0
6 4 (6.667%) Credit Risk
6 4 (6.667%) Open Source
6 4 (6.667%) Mobile App
7 2 (3.333%) Fixed Income
7 2 (3.333%) Online Games
7 2 (3.333%) Hedge funds
7 2 (3.333%) SWIFT
8 1 (1.667%) 3D Graphics
8 1 (1.667%) Economics
Operating Systems
1 20 (33.33%) Linux
2 9 (15.00%) Windows
3 8 (13.33%) UNIX
4 2 (3.333%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (21.67%) Software Engineering
2 9 (15.00%) Unit Testing
3 6 (10.00%) OO
3 6 (10.00%) OOD
4 5 (8.333%) OOA/OOD
5 4 (6.667%) MVC
5 4 (6.667%) Mobile Application Development
6 3 (5.000%) Project Management
6 3 (5.000%) Validation
6 3 (5.000%) Data Validation
6 3 (5.000%) Requirements Analysis
6 3 (5.000%) Asset Management
7 2 (3.333%) Image Processing
7 2 (3.333%) Capacity Planning
8 1 (1.667%) Analytics
8 1 (1.667%) MVVM
8 1 (1.667%) Network Architecture
8 1 (1.667%) Enterprise Content Management
8 1 (1.667%) DRM
8 1 (1.667%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 30 (50.00%) C++
2 22 (36.67%) C#
3 16 (26.67%) Java
4 9 (15.00%) SQL
5 7 (11.67%) JavaScript
6 5 (8.333%) VC++
6 5 (8.333%) PL/SQL
6 5 (8.333%) C
7 4 (6.667%) Perl
8 2 (3.333%) Ruby
8 2 (3.333%) Python
8 2 (3.333%) MATLAB
8 2 (3.333%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.333%) PHP
8 2 (3.333%) Scala
9 1 (1.667%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (53.33%) Degree
2 8 (13.33%) PhD
Vendors
1 5 (8.333%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.333%) IBM
2 2 (3.333%) Oracle
3 1 (1.667%) Adobe
3 1 (1.667%) Google
3 1 (1.667%) Alterian