Mathematics Job Trends in England

Mathematics (Maths)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Mathematics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 95 148
Rank change year-on-year -54 +53 -46
Permanent jobs citing Mathematics 844 1,542 977
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.71% 2.77% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 3.18% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 364 614 586
10th Percentile £24,500 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £29,938 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,510 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.37% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,938 £93,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £140,000
UK median annual salary £45,998 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% -4.17% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 41,486 48,456 42,166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.29% 87.03% 93.60%
Number of salaries quoted 25,004 25,273 32,594
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,313 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%

Mathematics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Mathematics job vacancy trend in England

Mathematics
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Mathematics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Mathematics

Mathematics
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mathematics in England over the 6 months to 12 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Mathematics in England

Mathematics
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mathematics within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London +9 255 £100,000 +42.86% 190
South East -14 173 £42,500 -26.09% 293
North of England -53 163 £40,000 -5.88% 236
Midlands -53 111 £35,000 -12.50% 156
South West -29 88 £40,000 -31.03% 128
North West -25 69 £54,500 +35.91% 141
Yorkshire -61 64 £26,500 -49.52% 71
West Midlands -61 60 £31,000 -22.50% 79
East of England -22 53 £40,000 -42.86% 139
East Midlands -5 51 £75,000 +76.47% 69
North East 0 30 £40,000 -13.39% 27
Mathematics
UK

Mathematics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 18 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (1.07%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.83%) SAS
4 5 (0.59%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.47%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.24%) R Markdown
7 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.12%) CMS
7 1 (0.12%) Confluence
7 1 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 125 (14.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 124 (14.69%) Chatbot
3 86 (10.19%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (2.96%) Maya
5 15 (1.78%) Simulink
6 8 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.36%) Mathcad
8 3 (0.36%) Stata
9 1 (0.12%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.12%) Abaqus
9 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.12%) Blender
9 1 (0.12%) GNU Octave
9 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.07%) SAP FS
3 3 (0.36%) SAP CX
4 1 (0.12%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 78 (9.24%) Power Platform
2 48 (5.69%) AWS
3 40 (4.74%) Azure
3 40 (4.74%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (2.61%) GCP
5 18 (2.13%) GitHub
6 14 (1.66%) Boomi
6 14 (1.66%) Cloud Computing
6 14 (1.66%) SaaS
6 14 (1.66%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 11 (1.30%) IaaS
8 10 (1.18%) PaaS
9 7 (0.83%) Serverless
10 4 (0.47%) OpenShift
10 4 (0.47%) Power Automate
10 4 (0.47%) PowerApps
11 3 (0.36%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (0.36%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (0.36%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (0.36%) Oracle CX
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.18%) Multicast
2 7 (0.83%) DNS
3 6 (0.71%) TCP/IP
3 6 (0.71%) VLAN
3 6 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (0.59%) Software-Defined Radio
4 5 (0.59%) VoIP
5 4 (0.47%) HTTP
5 4 (0.47%) SMTP
5 4 (0.47%) VPN
6 2 (0.24%) DHCP
6 2 (0.24%) Firewall
6 2 (0.24%) LAN
6 2 (0.24%) WAN
7 1 (0.12%) Broadband
7 1 (0.12%) Internet
7 1 (0.12%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.12%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.12%) TCAP
7 1 (0.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (9.24%) Power BI
2 61 (7.23%) Tableau
3 17 (2.01%) Data Lake
3 17 (2.01%) Data Mining
4 15 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (1.66%) Relational Database
5 14 (1.66%) SQL Server
6 8 (0.95%) NoSQL
7 6 (0.71%) MongoDB
7 6 (0.71%) Power Query
8 5 (0.59%) Big Data
8 5 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.59%) Redis
9 4 (0.47%) KDB
9 4 (0.47%) MySQL
10 3 (0.36%) GIS
10 3 (0.36%) Metadata
10 3 (0.36%) Tick Data
11 2 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (0.24%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 26 (3.08%) JIRA
2 19 (2.25%) Git
3 7 (0.83%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.71%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (0.47%) Selenium
5 4 (0.47%) SpecFlow
6 3 (0.36%) GitLab
6 3 (0.36%) Rational Rhapsody
6 3 (0.36%) TestRail
7 2 (0.24%) MLflow
7 2 (0.24%) Plastic SCM
8 1 (0.12%) Maven
8 1 (0.12%) Spinnaker
General
1 268 (31.75%) Social Skills
2 231 (27.37%) Finance
3 208 (24.64%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (9.36%) Law
5 73 (8.65%) Banking
5 73 (8.65%) Manufacturing
6 64 (7.58%) Games
6 64 (7.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 63 (7.46%) Marketing
8 44 (5.21%) Legal
8 44 (5.21%) Organisational Skills
9 42 (4.98%) Financial Institution
10 41 (4.86%) Retail
11 31 (3.67%) French Language
11 31 (3.67%) Presentation Skills
12 30 (3.55%) Dutch Language
13 28 (3.32%) Electronics
14 22 (2.61%) Front Office
15 17 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
16 16 (1.90%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 127 (15.05%) Trainer
2 114 (13.51%) Senior
3 113 (13.39%) Analyst
4 60 (7.11%) Developer
4 60 (7.11%) Software Engineer
5 58 (6.87%) Support Engineer
6 55 (6.52%) Technical Support
7 51 (6.04%) Data Analyst
8 46 (5.45%) Technical Engineer
8 46 (5.45%) Technical Support Engineer
9 45 (5.33%) Lead
10 41 (4.86%) IT Support
10 41 (4.86%) Systems Engineer
11 34 (4.03%) Data Scientist
12 32 (3.79%) Architect
13 31 (3.67%) IT Architect
14 26 (3.08%) Mathematician
15 23 (2.73%) 1st Line Support
15 23 (2.73%) Support Technician
16 22 (2.61%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (3.79%) .NET
2 20 (2.37%) React
3 16 (1.90%) FIX Protocol
4 14 (1.66%) CSS
5 13 (1.54%) pytest
5 13 (1.54%) PyTorch
6 12 (1.42%) Kafka
6 12 (1.42%) Pandas
6 12 (1.42%) REST
6 12 (1.42%) TensorFlow
6 12 (1.42%) Vue
7 11 (1.30%) HTML
7 11 (1.30%) Web Services
8 10 (1.18%) Blazor
8 10 (1.18%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 10 (1.18%) scikit-learn
8 10 (1.18%) WPF
9 8 (0.95%) AngularJS
9 8 (0.95%) Java Concurrency
10 7 (0.83%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 84 (9.95%) Algorithms
2 69 (8.18%) Driving Licence
2 69 (8.18%) Self-Motivation
3 44 (5.21%) Enterprise Software
4 40 (4.74%) Analytical Mindset
5 39 (4.62%) Data Structures
6 31 (3.67%) Cloud Native
6 31 (3.67%) Derivative
7 30 (3.55%) Equities
8 23 (2.73%) Onboarding
9 19 (2.25%) e-Learning
9 19 (2.25%) Renewable Energy
10 15 (1.78%) Fixed Income
10 15 (1.78%) Management Information System
11 14 (1.66%) FMCG
11 14 (1.66%) Social Media
12 12 (1.42%) 3D Graphics
13 11 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 10 (1.18%) Credit Risk
14 10 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 51 (6.04%) Windows
2 47 (5.57%) Linux
3 12 (1.42%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.07%) Unix
5 7 (0.83%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.71%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.47%) Android
8 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (34.60%) AI
2 227 (26.90%) Physics
3 219 (25.95%) Computer Science
4 213 (25.24%) Problem-Solving
5 158 (18.72%) Analytics
6 140 (16.59%) Statistics
7 124 (14.69%) Conversational UI
8 117 (13.86%) Machine Learning
9 115 (13.63%) Data Science
10 111 (13.15%) Business Intelligence
11 108 (12.80%) Data Analysis
12 104 (12.32%) Software Engineering
13 90 (10.66%) Business Strategy
13 90 (10.66%) Decision-Making
14 85 (10.07%) Agile
15 78 (9.24%) Statistical Modelling
16 75 (8.89%) Customer Service
16 75 (8.89%) Risk Management
17 70 (8.29%) Continuous Improvement
18 57 (6.75%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 244 (28.91%) Python
2 116 (13.74%) SQL
3 66 (7.82%) C#
4 58 (6.87%) C++
5 44 (5.21%) Java
6 26 (3.08%) R
7 22 (2.61%) C
8 20 (2.37%) MATLAB
9 18 (2.13%) JavaScript
10 10 (1.18%) Scala
11 9 (1.07%) Bash
11 9 (1.07%) T-SQL
11 9 (1.07%) VBA
12 6 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.59%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.59%) Rust
14 4 (0.47%) F#
14 4 (0.47%) Fortran
14 4 (0.47%) Haskell
14 4 (0.47%) OCaml
Qualifications
1 561 (66.47%) Degree
2 207 (24.53%) Master's Degree
3 180 (21.33%) PhD
4 94 (11.14%) Security Cleared
5 72 (8.53%) Numerate Degree
6 59 (6.99%) SC Cleared
7 55 (6.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 42 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 32 (3.79%) DV Cleared
10 30 (3.55%) DBS Check
11 19 (2.25%) HNC
12 12 (1.42%) Postgraduate
13 11 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.95%) RIBA
15 6 (0.71%) AAT
15 6 (0.71%) ACCA
15 6 (0.71%) CIMA
16 5 (0.59%) A+ Certification
17 4 (0.47%) PMI Certification
17 4 (0.47%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (5.21%) Data Quality
2 21 (2.49%) QA
3 9 (1.07%) IFRS
3 9 (1.07%) IFRS 17
3 9 (1.07%) PMO
3 9 (1.07%) Solvency II
4 8 (0.95%) GDPR
4 8 (0.95%) SLA
5 6 (0.71%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 1 (0.12%) CDISC
7 1 (0.12%) DICOM
7 1 (0.12%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.12%) HL7
7 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
7 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (2.61%) Active Directory
1 22 (2.61%) Docker
2 8 (0.95%) Firmware
3 5 (0.59%) Hyper-V
3 5 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (2.01%) Terraform
2 9 (1.07%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.47%) Functional Safety
4 2 (0.24%) FTK
4 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.12%) Ansible
5 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 134 (15.88%) Microsoft
2 124 (14.69%) PayPal
3 48 (5.69%) SAP
4 37 (4.38%) Alteryx
5 30 (3.55%) Bloomberg
6 17 (2.01%) Oracle
7 16 (1.90%) Adobe
8 14 (1.66%) Dell
8 14 (1.66%) MuleSoft
8 14 (1.66%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.07%) Duck Creek
9 9 (1.07%) Guidewire
10 7 (0.83%) Databricks
10 7 (0.83%) Facebook
10 7 (0.83%) Google
11 6 (0.71%) Zoho
12 5 (0.59%) IBM
12 5 (0.59%) Siemens
12 5 (0.59%) VMware
13 3 (0.36%) Sage