The first table below looks at the demand for Mathematica skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Mathematica over the 3 months to 22 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 of the Application Platforms category.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wolfram Research Mathematica
Rank 844 890 866
Rank change year-on-year
+46 -24
Permanent jobs citing Mathematica 20 10 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.018% 0.008% 0.003%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.086% 0.040% 0.017%
Number of salaries quoted 20 10 3
Average salary £57,500 £85,000 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-32.35% +169.84%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £30,000 £31,500
% change year-on-year
+33.33% -4.76%
All Application Platforms
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
23351 25169 23274
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 21.47% 20.52% 19.04%
Number of salaries quoted 19847 21860 20067
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -

Mathematica
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Mathematica within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Mathematica Jobs Demand Trend

Mathematica
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Mathematica within the UK.

Mathematica Salary Trend

Mathematica
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Mathematica over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 within the UK.

Mathematica Salary Histogram

Mathematica
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mathematica within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +42 20 £57,500 -32.35%
London +56 17 £57,500 -32.35%
Canary Wharf - 7 £72,500 -
South East +11 3 £40,000 +33.33%
Hampshire +7 2 £40,000 +33.33%
Southampton - 2 £40,000 -
Oxfordshire - 1 £50,500 -
Oxford - 1 £50,500 -
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £32,500 -

Mathematica
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Mathematica 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 Mathematica.

1 25 (83.33%) Finance
2 22 (73.33%) MATLAB
3 17 (56.67%) C++
3 17 (56.67%) Degree
3 17 (56.67%) Credit Risk
4 13 (43.33%) Java
5 12 (40.00%) UNIX
5 12 (40.00%) Physics
6 11 (36.67%) SQL
7 10 (33.33%) Banking
8 9 (30.00%) Mathematics
8 9 (30.00%) Python
9 8 (26.67%) C
9 8 (26.67%) Oracle
10 7 (23.33%) Linux
10 7 (23.33%) Financial Institution
10 7 (23.33%) Validation
10 7 (23.33%) R
10 7 (23.33%) Analytics
10 7 (23.33%) Market Risk
11 6 (20.00%) C#
12 5 (16.67%) PhD
12 5 (16.67%) Shell Script
13 4 (13.33%) CRM
13 4 (13.33%) Telecoms
13 4 (13.33%) Aerospace
13 4 (13.33%) Publishing
13 4 (13.33%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (13.33%) ERP
13 4 (13.33%) HTML

Mathematica
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Mathematica 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 Mathematica. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (13.33%) HTML
2 3 (10.00%) J2EE
2 3 (10.00%) XML
3 2 (6.667%) OpenGL
3 2 (6.667%) XMPP
4 1 (3.333%) .NET
4 1 (3.333%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.333%) COM
4 1 (3.333%) DCOM
4 1 (3.333%) ActiveX
Application Platforms
1 3 (10.00%) SAS
2 2 (6.667%) Apache
2 2 (6.667%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Stata
2 1 (3.333%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Kondor+
1 3 (10.00%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.667%) DHCP
1 2 (6.667%) Kerberos
1 2 (6.667%) DNS
1 2 (6.667%) SSL
1 2 (6.667%) LDAP
1 2 (6.667%) SSH
1 2 (6.667%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.667%) Data Mining
1 2 (6.667%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (6.667%) MySQL
1 2 (6.667%) SQLite
2 1 (3.333%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.667%) Subversion
1 2 (6.667%) Git (software)
1 2 (6.667%) GCC
1 2 (6.667%) GDB
2 1 (3.333%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (83.33%) Finance
2 10 (33.33%) Banking
3 7 (23.33%) Financial Institution
4 4 (13.33%) Telecoms
4 4 (13.33%) Aerospace
4 4 (13.33%) Publishing
4 4 (13.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 16 (53.33%) Quantitative Analyst
1 16 (53.33%) Analyst
2 10 (33.33%) Developer
3 7 (23.33%) Credit Risk Analyst
3 7 (23.33%) Developer Analyst
3 7 (23.33%) Quantitative Developer
4 3 (10.00%) C++/Java Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Senior C++ Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 3 (10.00%) C++ Developer
5 2 (6.667%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (6.667%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (6.667%) Sales Executive
5 2 (6.667%) Programmer
5 2 (6.667%) Administrator
5 2 (6.667%) C++ Programmer
5 2 (6.667%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.333%) Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 17 (56.67%) Credit Risk
2 12 (40.00%) Physics
3 9 (30.00%) Mathematics
4 7 (23.33%) Market Risk
5 4 (13.33%) Computer Science
5 4 (13.33%) Statistics
5 4 (13.33%) SaaS
5 4 (13.33%) Hedge funds
6 3 (10.00%) Derivative
6 3 (10.00%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 3 (10.00%) Equity Derivative
6 3 (10.00%) Fixed Income
6 3 (10.00%) Credit Derivative
6 3 (10.00%) Equities
6 3 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (6.667%) Replication
7 2 (6.667%) PKI
7 2 (6.667%) GPGPU
Operating Systems
1 12 (40.00%) UNIX
2 7 (23.33%) Linux
3 3 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (23.33%) Validation
1 7 (23.33%) Analytics
2 4 (13.33%) CRM
2 4 (13.33%) ERP
3 3 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (10.00%) Change Management
3 3 (10.00%) Release Management
3 3 (10.00%) OO
3 3 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (6.667%) Configuration Management
4 2 (6.667%) Software Engineering
4 2 (6.667%) Algorithmic Trading
4 2 (6.667%) Load Balancing
4 2 (6.667%) Pattern Recognition
5 1 (3.333%) Monte Carlo Method
5 1 (3.333%) Multithreading
5 1 (3.333%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 22 (73.33%) MATLAB
2 17 (56.67%) C++
3 13 (43.33%) Java
4 11 (36.67%) SQL
5 9 (30.00%) Python
6 8 (26.67%) C
7 7 (23.33%) R
8 6 (20.00%) C#
9 5 (16.67%) Shell Script
10 3 (10.00%) VBA
10 3 (10.00%) Fortran
11 2 (6.667%) Perl
11 2 (6.667%) Ruby
11 2 (6.667%) tcsh
11 2 (6.667%) Bash shell
12 1 (3.333%) T-SQL
12 1 (3.333%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 17 (56.67%) Degree
2 5 (16.67%) PhD
System Software
1 2 (6.667%) Xen
1 2 (6.667%) qmail
1 2 (6.667%) Postfix
1 2 (6.667%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) EMC NetWorker
2 2 (6.667%) YUM
2 2 (6.667%) Red Hat Spacewalk
2 2 (6.667%) Cobbler
2 2 (6.667%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Oracle
2 3 (10.00%) Wall Street Systems
2 3 (10.00%) Algorithmics
2 3 (10.00%) OpenLink
2 3 (10.00%) Murex
2 3 (10.00%) Calypso
2 3 (10.00%) Fidessa
3 2 (6.667%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.333%) Minitab
4 1 (3.333%) Microsoft
City, London
The function validates all market risk models including economic capital, behavioral, counterparty credit risk and liquidity models... - Extensive stakeholder engagement and stakeholder management - Challenge the methodology for how...
McGregor Boyall
Salary: £65k - £80k
Posted: 16 May 2013