Mathematics Jobs in Edinburgh

Mathematics (Maths)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Mathematics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Mathematics over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 72 77
Rank change year-on-year +35 +5 +37
Permanent jobs citing Mathematics 64 39 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.31% 2.58% 3.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.52% 2.93% 3.83%
Number of salaries quoted 31 37 31
10th Percentile - £27,500 £35,733
25th Percentile £25,000 £46,250 £41,791
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,625 £60,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -57.29% +22.45% -14.78%
75th Percentile £25,938 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £28,750 £100,000 -
Scotland median annual salary £58,033 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +10.54% +10.53% -17.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 851 1,331 1,856
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 97.15% 88.20% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 363 933 1,075
10th Percentile £26,250 £35,000 £35,740
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £97,500 £89,941
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%

Mathematics
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Mathematics in Edinburgh

Mathematics
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Mathematics in Edinburgh

Mathematics
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mathematics in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Mathematics in Edinburgh

Mathematics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 5 (7.81%) SAS
2 1 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Chatbot
1 2 (3.13%) LaTeX
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.56%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 8 (12.50%) AWS
2 7 (10.94%) Amazon SageMaker
3 4 (6.25%) Snowflake
4 3 (4.69%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.13%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.81%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.31%) Big Data
2 4 (6.25%) Tableau
3 3 (4.69%) Power BI
4 2 (3.13%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.56%) GIS
Development Applications
1 5 (7.81%) Git
General
1 51 (79.69%) Finance
2 36 (56.25%) Banking
3 12 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (18.75%) Legal
4 10 (15.63%) Front Office
5 9 (14.06%) Social Skills
6 4 (6.25%) Retail
6 4 (6.25%) Wholesale Banking
7 2 (3.13%) Games
8 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 19 (29.69%) Analyst
2 12 (18.75%) Data Analyst
3 7 (10.94%) Risk Officer
4 6 (9.38%) Data Scientist
5 5 (7.81%) Technologist
6 4 (6.25%) Risk Analyst
6 4 (6.25%) Senior
6 4 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (6.25%) Senior Risk Analyst
7 3 (4.69%) Risk Manager
8 2 (3.13%) Consultant
8 2 (3.13%) Fraud Analyst
8 2 (3.13%) Security Consultant
8 2 (3.13%) Site Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Trainer
9 1 (1.56%) Data Engineer
9 1 (1.56%) Full-Stack Developer
9 1 (1.56%) Graduate Data Engineer
9 1 (1.56%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (18.75%) Software Packaging
2 3 (4.69%) Google JAX
2 3 (4.69%) RESTful
2 3 (4.69%) scikit-learn
3 2 (3.13%) JAX
3 2 (3.13%) NumPy
3 2 (3.13%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (3.13%) PyTorch
3 2 (3.13%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.56%) Kafka
4 1 (1.56%) LangChain
4 1 (1.56%) Pandas
4 1 (1.56%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.81%) Algorithms
1 5 (7.81%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.69%) Credit Risk
4 2 (3.13%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (42.19%) Statistics
2 24 (37.50%) Statistical Modelling
3 23 (35.94%) Analytics
4 22 (34.38%) Artificial Intelligence
5 19 (29.69%) Cybersecurity
6 17 (26.56%) Fintech
6 17 (26.56%) Line Management
6 17 (26.56%) Software Engineering
7 16 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (23.44%) Visualisation
9 14 (21.88%) Risk Management
10 13 (20.31%) Quantitative Analysis
11 12 (18.75%) Model Validation
11 12 (18.75%) Quantitative Finance
11 12 (18.75%) Validation
12 10 (15.63%) Data Analytics
12 10 (15.63%) Data Extraction
12 10 (15.63%) Predictive Modelling
12 10 (15.63%) Project Management
12 10 (15.63%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 26 (40.63%) Python
2 20 (31.25%) SQL
3 1 (1.56%) R
Qualifications
1 56 (87.50%) Degree
2 16 (25.00%) Master's Degree
3 14 (21.88%) PhD
4 2 (3.13%) CISM
4 2 (3.13%) CISSP
4 2 (3.13%) Postgraduate
5 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.13%) Data Quality
1 2 (3.13%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (3.13%) Grafana
1 2 (3.13%) Prometheus
1 2 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (3.13%) PayPal
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft