Mathematics Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Mathematics (Maths)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Mathematics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 27 28
Rank change year-on-year -14 +1 +6
Permanent jobs citing Mathematics 32 62 37
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 3.60% 6.94% 6.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.71% 8.03% 6.69%
Number of salaries quoted 14 29 10
10th Percentile £29,825 £46,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £65,000 £25,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £72,500 £26,587
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% +172.69% -55.69%
75th Percentile £71,250 £78,750 £34,125
90th Percentile £78,250 £79,000 £41,875
East of England median annual salary £41,250 £70,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -41.07% +100.00% -36.36%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

Mathematics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 680 772 553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 76.40% 86.35% 90.95%
Number of salaries quoted 474 347 356
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,780 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £47,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +0.92% -0.91%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £88,125
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

Mathematics
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Mathematics relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Mathematics job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Mathematics
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Mathematics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Mathematics

Mathematics
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mathematics in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Mathematics in Cambridgeshire

Mathematics
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mathematics within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 30 December 2025. 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
Cambridge -15 23 £57,500 -20.69% 43
Peterborough - 2 £77,500 - 19
Mathematics
East of England

Mathematics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Chatbot
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
1 1 (3.13%) AWS
1 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
1 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (9.38%) Redis
2 1 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (3.13%) Big Data
2 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.13%) Power BI
2 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
General
1 9 (28.13%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Retail
3 3 (9.38%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Finance
4 1 (3.13%) Law
4 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Trainer
2 6 (18.75%) Consultant
2 6 (18.75%) Machine Learning Consultant
3 5 (15.63%) Senior
4 4 (12.50%) Pricing Manager
4 4 (12.50%) Senior Support Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Software Support Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Support Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Technical Manager
5 3 (9.38%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Junior
5 3 (9.38%) Quantitative Researcher
5 3 (9.38%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) JavaScript Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) UI Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) UX Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Graduate Applications Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Numerical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) Google JAX
1 6 (18.75%) JAX
1 6 (18.75%) PyTorch
1 6 (18.75%) TensorFlow
2 4 (12.50%) .NET
3 3 (9.38%) Node.js
4 2 (6.25%) AngularJS
4 2 (6.25%) React
4 2 (6.25%) Vue
5 1 (3.13%) FHIR
5 1 (3.13%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) CUDA
2 4 (12.50%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (9.38%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.13%) Biopharmaceutical
4 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.13%) Life Science
4 1 (3.13%) Omics
4 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (62.50%) Physics
2 14 (43.75%) Machine Learning
3 13 (40.63%) AI
4 10 (31.25%) Computer Science
5 8 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (21.88%) Conversational UI
7 6 (18.75%) Computer Vision
7 6 (18.75%) Prototyping
7 6 (18.75%) Rapid Prototyping
8 5 (15.63%) Data Science
8 5 (15.63%) DevOps
8 5 (15.63%) Statistical Modelling
8 5 (15.63%) Statistics
9 4 (12.50%) Collaborative Engineering
9 4 (12.50%) Presales
9 4 (12.50%) Software Engineering
10 3 (9.38%) Analytical Thinking
10 3 (9.38%) Automated Trading
10 3 (9.38%) Price Optimisation
10 3 (9.38%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 15 (46.88%) Python
2 5 (15.63%) C#
2 5 (15.63%) R
3 4 (12.50%) C++
4 3 (9.38%) Java
5 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (62.50%) Degree
2 9 (28.13%) PhD
3 8 (25.00%) Master's Degree
4 6 (18.75%) Numerate Degree
5 4 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (12.50%) Postgraduate
6 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) CDISC
1 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.13%) DICOM
1 1 (3.13%) GDPR
1 1 (3.13%) HIPAA
1 1 (3.13%) HL7
1 1 (3.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) PayPal
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft