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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 35 132
Rank change year-on-year -65 +97 +16
Permanent jobs citing Mathematics 2,582 7,370 4,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.63% 7.04% 2.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.06% 7.36% 3.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,422 1,152 1,635
10th Percentile £20,750 £24,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £27,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £65,000 £91,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% - -5.26%

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 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Mathematics in the UK

Mathematics
Top 17 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 27 April 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 -76 2,141 £45,000 -28.00% 2,274
UK excluding London -77 1,902 £40,000 -11.11% 1,787
Work from Home +22 686 £52,500 -19.23% 386
London -3 619 £72,500 -9.38% 479
South East -41 612 £45,000 -10.00% 419
Midlands -56 373 £28,000 -26.32% 352
Scotland -33 340 £52,500 +10.53% 37
West Midlands -38 255 £30,000 -23.08% 208
North of England -168 219 £35,000 -12.50% 521
South West -101 193 £47,657 -31.92% 343
North West -135 135 £32,815 +6.43% 298
East Midlands -62 118 £27,750 +15.63% 145
East of England -112 117 £29,500 -50.83% 233
Yorkshire -118 70 £35,000 -12.50% 159
Wales -35 44 £45,000 -35.71% 20
North East -98 14 £30,000 -20.00% 67
Northern Ireland +9 5 £70,000 - 7

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 71 (2.75%) Apache Spark
2 60 (2.32%) SAS
3 25 (0.97%) Apache
4 17 (0.66%) Cloud Foundry
5 12 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.43%) Confluence
7 10 (0.39%) CMS
8 9 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
9 7 (0.27%) SharePoint
10 6 (0.23%) Drupal
11 5 (0.19%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 4 (0.15%) Moodle
12 4 (0.15%) Site Server
13 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.077%) WordPress
15 1 (0.039%) Luigi
Applications
1 253 (9.80%) Microsoft Office
2 204 (7.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 35 (1.36%) Simulink
4 30 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 27 (1.05%) AutoCAD
6 19 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.50%) SPSS
8 10 (0.39%) GNU Octave
9 8 (0.31%) MS Visio
10 6 (0.23%) Stateflow
11 4 (0.15%) Solid Edge
11 4 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
12 3 (0.12%) Revit
13 2 (0.077%) EViews
13 2 (0.077%) Microsoft Project
14 1 (0.039%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 1 (0.039%) Adobe XD
14 1 (0.039%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.15%) SAP CO
2 4 (0.15%) SAP ERP
2 4 (0.15%) SAP FI
2 4 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
2 4 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.077%) Demantra
3 2 (0.077%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.077%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.077%) Oracle ASCP
3 2 (0.077%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.077%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.039%) Maximo
4 1 (0.039%) ProductWriter
4 1 (0.039%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.039%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 324 (12.55%) AWS
2 173 (6.70%) Azure
3 164 (6.35%) Power Platform
4 89 (3.45%) GCP
5 77 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
6 29 (1.12%) GitHub
7 24 (0.93%) SaaS
8 18 (0.70%) Dynamics 365
9 15 (0.58%) Serverless
10 13 (0.50%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (0.50%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (0.43%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (0.31%) Amazon EMR
12 8 (0.31%) Amazon Kinesis
12 8 (0.31%) Amazon S3
12 8 (0.31%) Snowflake
13 7 (0.27%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (0.27%) Power Automate
13 7 (0.27%) PowerApps
14 6 (0.23%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 76 (2.94%) Wireless
2 22 (0.85%) Internet
3 21 (0.81%) Firewall
4 19 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
5 17 (0.66%) Kerberos
5 17 (0.66%) TCP/IP
6 14 (0.54%) LAN
7 11 (0.43%) Broadband
8 9 (0.35%) Network Security
9 7 (0.27%) Link 16
9 7 (0.27%) VLAN
9 7 (0.27%) VPN
10 5 (0.19%) 5G
10 5 (0.19%) Intranet
10 5 (0.19%) Unified Communications
10 5 (0.19%) VoIP
10 5 (0.19%) WAN
11 4 (0.15%) 3GPP
11 4 (0.15%) Ethernet
12 3 (0.12%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 223 (8.64%) Tableau
2 157 (6.08%) Power BI
3 82 (3.18%) SQL Server
4 74 (2.87%) NoSQL
5 49 (1.90%) Data Mining
5 49 (1.90%) Hadoop
6 41 (1.59%) Big Data
6 41 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
6 41 (1.59%) MySQL
7 32 (1.24%) Relational Database
8 31 (1.20%) Data Lake
9 29 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
10 26 (1.01%) Apache Ignite
10 26 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
11 21 (0.81%) Redis
12 17 (0.66%) Amazon Aurora
12 17 (0.66%) CockroachDB
13 16 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 13 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
15 10 (0.39%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 197 (7.63%) Git
2 33 (1.28%) JIRA
3 29 (1.12%) Subversion
4 24 (0.93%) CMake
5 21 (0.81%) Visual Studio
6 12 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 10 (0.39%) Jenkins
8 9 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.27%) JUnit
9 7 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
9 7 (0.27%) TestRail
10 6 (0.23%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.23%) gulp
10 6 (0.23%) Maven
10 6 (0.23%) PostCSS
10 6 (0.23%) rollup.js
10 6 (0.23%) Vite
11 5 (0.19%) Eclipse
11 5 (0.19%) Robot Framework
11 5 (0.19%) Xcode
General
1 956 (37.03%) Social Skills
2 652 (25.25%) Analytical Skills
3 632 (24.48%) Finance
4 498 (19.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 302 (11.70%) Marketing
6 282 (10.92%) Law
7 222 (8.60%) Retail
8 221 (8.56%) Organisational Skills
9 175 (6.78%) Presentation Skills
10 149 (5.77%) Financial Institution
11 125 (4.84%) Influencing Skills
12 121 (4.69%) Games
13 119 (4.61%) Banking
14 90 (3.49%) Legal
15 80 (3.10%) Investment Banking
16 73 (2.83%) Electronics
17 72 (2.79%) Military
18 63 (2.44%) Manufacturing
19 59 (2.29%) Local Government
20 58 (2.25%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 520 (20.14%) Analyst
2 500 (19.36%) Senior
3 279 (10.81%) Software Engineer
4 224 (8.68%) Data Scientist
5 222 (8.60%) Developer
6 180 (6.97%) Data Analyst
7 168 (6.51%) Lead
8 160 (6.20%) Engineering Manager
8 160 (6.20%) Software Engineering Manager
9 145 (5.62%) Senior Analyst
10 129 (5.00%) Graduate
11 124 (4.80%) Product Analyst
11 124 (4.80%) Sales Analyst
12 82 (3.18%) Senior Software Engineer
13 73 (2.83%) IT Support
14 69 (2.67%) Junior
15 68 (2.63%) Senior Data Scientist
16 64 (2.48%) Senior Manager
17 60 (2.32%) Senior Data Analyst
17 60 (2.32%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (4.65%) .NET
2 111 (4.30%) Pandas
3 93 (3.60%) NumPy
4 79 (3.06%) Spring
5 78 (3.02%) Kafka
6 72 (2.79%) TensorFlow
7 55 (2.13%) Spring Boot
8 53 (2.05%) RESTful
9 46 (1.78%) HTML
9 46 (1.78%) PyTorch
10 43 (1.67%) Qt
11 42 (1.63%) XML
12 39 (1.51%) scikit-learn
13 33 (1.28%) PySpark
13 33 (1.28%) React
14 30 (1.16%) CSS
14 30 (1.16%) REST
15 22 (0.85%) WebGL
16 21 (0.81%) HTML5
17 20 (0.77%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 458 (17.74%) Algorithms
2 236 (9.14%) Cloud Native
3 141 (5.46%) Self-Motivation
4 98 (3.80%) Management Information System
5 93 (3.60%) Driving Licence
6 88 (3.41%) Onboarding
7 64 (2.48%) Market Risk
8 56 (2.17%) Data Structures
9 51 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
10 48 (1.86%) Distributed Applications
11 46 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
12 33 (1.28%) CUDA
13 32 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 32 (1.24%) Renewable Energy
14 28 (1.08%) Credit Risk
15 26 (1.01%) Housing Association
15 26 (1.01%) PMI
16 25 (0.97%) FPGA
17 23 (0.89%) Life Science
18 22 (0.85%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 187 (7.24%) Linux
2 147 (5.69%) Windows
3 48 (1.86%) Android
4 37 (1.43%) Apple iOS
4 37 (1.43%) Unix
5 23 (0.89%) Windows 10
6 14 (0.54%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.50%) Mac OS
8 11 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
9 9 (0.35%) Debian
10 6 (0.23%) CentOS
10 6 (0.23%) Windows Server
11 5 (0.19%) Windows Vista
12 4 (0.15%) SUSE
12 4 (0.15%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.077%) FreeRTOS
14 2 (0.077%) Windows 8
14 2 (0.077%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.039%) Scientific Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,028 (39.81%) Computer Science
2 883 (34.20%) Problem-Solving
3 663 (25.68%) Software Engineering
4 495 (19.17%) Physics
5 460 (17.82%) Agile
6 421 (16.31%) Statistics
7 417 (16.15%) Data Analysis
8 408 (15.80%) Analytics
9 385 (14.91%) Decision-Making
10 384 (14.87%) Data Science
11 317 (12.28%) Machine Learning
12 275 (10.65%) Customer Service
13 269 (10.42%) Coaching
14 261 (10.11%) Mentoring
15 257 (9.95%) Artificial Intelligence
16 256 (9.91%) Visualisation
17 208 (8.06%) SDLC
18 200 (7.75%) Business Intelligence
19 182 (7.05%) Cybersecurity
19 182 (7.05%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 758 (29.36%) Python
2 540 (20.91%) SQL
3 289 (11.19%) Java
4 263 (10.19%) C++
5 228 (8.83%) C#
6 225 (8.71%) C
7 132 (5.11%) R
8 97 (3.76%) JavaScript
9 83 (3.21%) MATLAB
10 61 (2.36%) Fortran
11 45 (1.74%) Embedded C
12 38 (1.47%) VBA
13 35 (1.36%) Bash
14 34 (1.32%) TypeScript
15 24 (0.93%) Go
16 23 (0.89%) Haskell
17 21 (0.81%) PowerShell
18 18 (0.70%) T-SQL
19 16 (0.62%) GLSL
20 13 (0.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,508 (58.40%) Degree
2 259 (10.03%) Master's Degree
3 212 (8.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 205 (7.94%) PhD
5 190 (7.36%) Security Cleared
6 153 (5.93%) DBS Check
7 89 (3.45%) Numerate Degree
8 61 (2.36%) HNC
9 57 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
10 56 (2.17%) SC Cleared
11 41 (1.59%) HND
12 38 (1.47%) DV Cleared
13 31 (1.20%) PMI Certification
14 17 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (0.62%) NVQ Level 3
16 15 (0.58%) MBA
17 12 (0.46%) Azure Certification
17 12 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
18 11 (0.43%) CCNA
19 10 (0.39%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (4.03%) QA
2 58 (2.25%) Data Quality
3 38 (1.47%) GDPR
4 31 (1.20%) SLA
5 28 (1.08%) ISO 9001
6 23 (0.89%) Accessibility
7 21 (0.81%) CDISC
8 16 (0.62%) IFRS
8 16 (0.62%) IFRS 9
9 15 (0.58%) CRD IV
10 14 (0.54%) Good Clinical Practice
10 14 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 11 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 17025
12 10 (0.39%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 9 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
13 9 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 9 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 8 (0.31%) PMO
15 4 (0.15%) GRC
System Software
1 55 (2.13%) Firmware
2 44 (1.70%) Docker
3 23 (0.89%) Active Directory
4 19 (0.74%) Embedded Firmware
5 16 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.15%) VMware Server
8 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.12%) IAG
9 2 (0.077%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.039%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 44 (1.70%) Kubernetes
2 20 (0.77%) Terraform
3 6 (0.23%) Grafana
4 3 (0.12%) Ansible
4 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
4 3 (0.12%) Puppet
5 2 (0.077%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.077%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.039%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.039%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.039%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (0.039%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.039%) SCCM
6 1 (0.039%) yum
Vendors
1 355 (13.75%) Microsoft
2 127 (4.92%) Databricks
3 78 (3.02%) Google
4 31 (1.20%) Apple
5 24 (0.93%) SAP
6 21 (0.81%) Oracle
7 18 (0.70%) OpenAI
8 14 (0.54%) Alteryx
8 14 (0.54%) Cisco
9 10 (0.39%) IFS
10 9 (0.35%) ServiceNow
11 8 (0.31%) VMware
12 7 (0.27%) CA
12 7 (0.27%) Salesforce
12 7 (0.27%) Veeam
13 6 (0.23%) Bloomberg
13 6 (0.23%) Red Hat
13 6 (0.23%) Sage
13 6 (0.23%) Sophos
13 6 (0.23%) Splunk