Mathematics Job Trends in London

Mathematics (Maths)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Mathematics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 130 122
Rank change year-on-year -90 -8 +22
Permanent jobs citing Mathematics 250 312 530
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.97% 2.65% 2.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 2.82% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 101 99 190
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,500 £62,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £95,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +26.67% -11.76%
75th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £124,375
90th Percentile £130,000 £130,500 £150,000
England median annual salary £41,175 £43,355 £53,500
% change year-on-year -5.03% -18.96% -17.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 20,835 11,067 16,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 80.49% 93.99% 89.72%
Number of salaries quoted 13,772 6,955 9,963
10th Percentile £40,825 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%

Mathematics
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Mathematics job vacancy trend in London

Mathematics
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Mathematics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Mathematics

Mathematics
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mathematics in London over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Mathematics in London

Mathematics
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mathematics within the London region over the 6 months to 5 October 2026. 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
Central London -22 19 £132,500 +39.47% 113
East London -4 7 - - 11
South London -5 3 £32,500 -15.03% 11
West London -15 3 £100,000 - 17
Mathematics
England

Mathematics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 10 (4.00%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.00%) Apache Pig
2 5 (2.00%) ColdFusion
3 4 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.20%) SAS
5 2 (0.80%) Confluence
6 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.40%) R Markdown
6 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (5.20%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (3.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.20%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 67 (26.80%) AWS
2 41 (16.40%) Cloud Computing
3 24 (9.60%) Azure
4 14 (5.60%) Power Platform
5 12 (4.80%) GitHub
5 12 (4.80%) SaaS
5 12 (4.80%) Serverless
6 10 (4.00%) GCP
7 9 (3.60%) Amazon Bedrock
7 9 (3.60%) Snowflake
8 7 (2.80%) Anthropic Claude
8 7 (2.80%) dbt
9 6 (2.40%) Google Analytics
10 5 (2.00%) Amazon EMR
10 5 (2.00%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (2.00%) Google Drive
10 5 (2.00%) Google Workspace
10 5 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (1.20%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 38 (15.20%) Internet
2 15 (6.00%) Multicast
3 5 (2.00%) Firewall
4 3 (1.20%) 5G
5 2 (0.80%) Network Security
6 1 (0.40%) DSL
6 1 (0.40%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (0.40%) NAS
6 1 (0.40%) SAN
6 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.40%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.20%) Big Data
2 11 (4.40%) NoSQL
3 10 (4.00%) Power BI
4 7 (2.80%) BusinessObjects
4 7 (2.80%) Relational Database
4 7 (2.80%) SAP HANA
5 6 (2.40%) Geospatial Data
5 6 (2.40%) Hadoop
6 5 (2.00%) Apache Hive
6 5 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.60%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.20%) Apache Iceberg
8 3 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.20%) DocumentDB
8 3 (1.20%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.20%) Flink
8 3 (1.20%) Redis
8 3 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.20%) Tableau
9 2 (0.80%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 17 (6.80%) JIRA
2 14 (5.60%) Git
3 7 (2.80%) Claude Code
4 3 (1.20%) Gradle
4 3 (1.20%) Maven
5 2 (0.80%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.80%) Snyk
6 1 (0.40%) NUnit
General
1 92 (36.80%) Finance
2 68 (27.20%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (26.00%) Social Skills
4 36 (14.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 30 (12.00%) Marketing
6 28 (11.20%) Military
7 27 (10.80%) Banking
8 21 (8.40%) Public Speaking
9 18 (7.20%) Organisational Skills
10 16 (6.40%) Law
11 14 (5.60%) Legal
12 13 (5.20%) Retail
13 9 (3.60%) Financial Institution
14 7 (2.80%) Telecoms
15 6 (2.40%) Front Office
15 6 (2.40%) Manufacturing
16 5 (2.00%) Advertising
16 5 (2.00%) Local Government
17 4 (1.60%) Public Sector
18 3 (1.20%) Arabic Language
Job Titles
1 58 (23.20%) Senior
2 35 (14.00%) Architect
3 30 (12.00%) Solutions Architect
4 27 (10.80%) Software Engineer
5 26 (10.40%) Data Scientist
6 18 (7.20%) Analyst
6 18 (7.20%) Senior Architect
6 18 (7.20%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 17 (6.80%) Developer
8 15 (6.00%) Senior Software Engineer
9 14 (5.60%) C++ Software Engineer
10 13 (5.20%) Python Engineer
10 13 (5.20%) Python Software Engineer
11 10 (4.00%) Lead
11 10 (4.00%) Senior Data Scientist
11 10 (4.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 9 (3.60%) Analytics Manager
12 9 (3.60%) AWS Solution Architect
12 9 (3.60%) Data Analyst
12 9 (3.60%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.40%) FIX Protocol
2 16 (6.40%) PyTorch
3 14 (5.60%) Pandas
3 14 (5.60%) pytest
4 13 (5.20%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 13 (5.20%) LangGraph
4 13 (5.20%) NumPy
5 11 (4.40%) TensorFlow
6 10 (4.00%) LangChain
6 10 (4.00%) scikit-learn
7 8 (3.20%) Kafka
8 5 (2.00%) .NET
8 5 (2.00%) Google Maps API
8 5 (2.00%) Model Context Protocol
8 5 (2.00%) OpenMP
8 5 (2.00%) React
9 4 (1.60%) REST
10 3 (1.20%) HTML
10 3 (1.20%) OpenACC
10 3 (1.20%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 46 (18.40%) Onboarding
2 36 (14.40%) Algorithms
3 34 (13.60%) Blog
4 29 (11.60%) AI Agents
5 24 (9.60%) Derivative
6 20 (8.00%) Cloud Native
7 19 (7.60%) Equities
7 19 (7.60%) Fixed Income
8 18 (7.20%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (4.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (3.60%) Reinsurance
11 8 (3.20%) Hackathon
12 6 (2.40%) Autonomous Agent
12 6 (2.40%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (2.40%) IoT
12 6 (2.40%) Management Information System
12 6 (2.40%) Marketing Technology
13 5 (2.00%) Augmented Reality
13 5 (2.00%) CUDA
13 5 (2.00%) Exotic Derivative
Operating Systems
1 26 (10.40%) Linux
2 15 (6.00%) Windows
3 4 (1.60%) Unix
4 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (60.40%) Computer Science
2 124 (49.60%) AI
3 96 (38.40%) Analytics
4 85 (34.00%) Machine Learning
5 55 (22.00%) Software Engineering
6 51 (20.40%) Data Science
7 46 (18.40%) Statistics
8 44 (17.60%) Physics
9 43 (17.20%) Decision-Making
10 42 (16.80%) Agile
11 40 (16.00%) Use Case
12 39 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
12 39 (15.60%) Roadmaps
13 36 (14.40%) Mentoring
14 33 (13.20%) Systems Engineering
15 31 (12.40%) Generative AI
15 31 (12.40%) LLM
16 25 (10.00%) Validation
17 23 (9.20%) Low Latency
17 23 (9.20%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 100 (40.00%) Python
2 46 (18.40%) SQL
3 37 (14.80%) C++
4 30 (12.00%) R
5 23 (9.20%) Java
6 11 (4.40%) C#
6 11 (4.40%) JavaScript
7 10 (4.00%) Julia
8 8 (3.20%) MATLAB
9 6 (2.40%) Bash
10 4 (1.60%) C
11 3 (1.20%) Go
12 2 (0.80%) Fortran
12 2 (0.80%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.80%) Rust
12 2 (0.80%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.80%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.40%) Ada
13 1 (0.40%) Perl
13 1 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 161 (64.40%) Degree
2 67 (26.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (13.60%) Master's Degree
4 28 (11.20%) PhD
5 21 (8.40%) DBS Check
6 10 (4.00%) Security Cleared
7 8 (3.20%) AWS Certification
8 6 (2.40%) SC Cleared
9 5 (2.00%) MBA
9 5 (2.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 5 (2.00%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (1.60%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.80%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.80%) HNC
12 2 (0.80%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.80%) QA
2 18 (7.20%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.80%) GDPR
4 5 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.60%) SLA
6 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 7 (2.80%) Docker
2 5 (2.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 3 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.80%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.40%) IAG
Systems Management
1 2 (0.80%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.40%) Kubeflow
2 1 (0.40%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 23 (9.20%) Google
2 14 (5.60%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.80%) OpenAI
4 10 (4.00%) SAP
5 9 (3.60%) Facebook
6 8 (3.20%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.00%) LexisNexis
8 4 (1.60%) iManage
9 3 (1.20%) Databricks
9 3 (1.20%) Solace
9 3 (1.20%) VMware
10 2 (0.80%) Avaya
10 2 (0.80%) Cisco
10 2 (0.80%) Genesys
11 1 (0.40%) Capita
11 1 (0.40%) ESRI
11 1 (0.40%) Instagram
11 1 (0.40%) Veritas
11 1 (0.40%) Xero