Mathematics Job Trends in the North East

Mathematics (Maths)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Mathematics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 70 57
Rank change year-on-year +17 -13 -43
Permanent jobs citing Mathematics 26 17 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 2.58% 1.76% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.24% 1.99% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 12 6 7
10th Percentile - £25,134 -
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,789 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £46,183 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.39% +12.64% +9.33%
75th Percentile £42,500 £89,063 £60,000
90th Percentile - £100,000 £61,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £56,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -6.67% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 803 853 594
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 79.58% 88.39% 90.55%
Number of salaries quoted 532 371 517
10th Percentile £27,888 £30,750 £29,900
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +3.09% -3.00%
75th Percentile £65,793 £68,750 £61,445
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £75,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Mathematics
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Mathematics job vacancy trend in the North East

Mathematics
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Mathematics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Mathematics

Mathematics
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mathematics in the North East over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Mathematics in the North East

Mathematics
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mathematics within the North East region over the 6 months to 4 January 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
Tyne and Wear +18 24 £40,000 +0.34% 17
Durham +6 2 - - 2
Mathematics
England

Mathematics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (46.15%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (42.31%) Chatbot
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.85%) Azure
1 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (3.85%) Azure Stack
1 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (3.85%) Data Mining
1 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.85%) Power BI
1 1 (3.85%) Spark SQL
1 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (42.31%) Advertising
2 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.85%) Electronics
2 1 (3.85%) Games
2 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (3.85%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Support Engineer
1 11 (42.31%) Technical Engineer
1 11 (42.31%) Technical Support
1 11 (42.31%) Technical Support Engineer
1 11 (42.31%) Trainer
2 2 (7.69%) Analyst
2 2 (7.69%) Instructor
3 1 (3.85%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (3.85%) Data Analyst
3 1 (3.85%) Data Engineer
3 1 (3.85%) Electronics Engineer
3 1 (3.85%) Electronics Test Engineer
3 1 (3.85%) Statistician
3 1 (3.85%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (42.31%) Driving Licence
1 11 (42.31%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.85%) EPoS
2 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) AI
2 11 (42.31%) B2B
2 11 (42.31%) B2B Sales
2 11 (42.31%) Business Development
2 11 (42.31%) Commercial Awareness
2 11 (42.31%) Conversational UI
2 11 (42.31%) Customer Experience
2 11 (42.31%) Customer Service
2 11 (42.31%) Data Entry
2 11 (42.31%) Telesales
3 8 (30.77%) Physics
4 4 (15.38%) Computer Science
5 3 (11.54%) Statistics
6 2 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (3.85%) Agile
7 1 (3.85%) Benchmarking
7 1 (3.85%) Data Analysis
7 1 (3.85%) ETL
7 1 (3.85%) Project Management
7 1 (3.85%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.69%) Python
1 2 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (53.85%) Degree
2 12 (46.15%) HNC
2 12 (46.15%) Master's Degree
3 11 (42.31%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) QA
Vendors
1 12 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 11 (42.31%) PayPal