Mathematics Jobs in Scotland

Mathematics (Maths)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Mathematics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Mathematics over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 43 138
Rank change year-on-year -33 +95 -16
Permanent jobs citing Mathematics 340 285 110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.06% 6.02% 1.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.45% 6.38% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 80 37 46
10th Percentile £27,500 £22,470 £24,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,733 £34,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -17.39% +27.78%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £65,500 £72,500 £78,445
UK median annual salary £45,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% - +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Mathematics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,235 4,465 5,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.87% 94.26% 91.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,418 2,242 2,777
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,125 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,905 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% +10.30% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

Mathematics
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Mathematics in Scotland

Mathematics
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Mathematics in Scotland

Mathematics
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mathematics in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Mathematics in Scotland

Mathematics
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mathematics within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Glasgow -43 261 £24,699 -33.11% 6
Edinburgh +17 45 £60,000 +26.32% 14
Aberdeen -16 20 £35,000 - 3
Stirling - 4 - - 1
Aberdeenshire -1 1 £35,000 - 2
Mathematics
UK

Mathematics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 17 (5.00%) Cloud Foundry
2 3 (0.88%) SAS
3 2 (0.59%) Apache
3 2 (0.59%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.29%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.29%) EViews
3 1 (0.29%) Revit
3 1 (0.29%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 99 (29.12%) AWS
2 35 (10.29%) Azure
3 22 (6.47%) GCP
4 6 (1.76%) BlazeMeter
5 4 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (1.18%) Power Platform
6 3 (0.88%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (0.88%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (0.88%) Entra ID
6 3 (0.88%) Power Automate
6 3 (0.88%) PowerApps
6 3 (0.88%) SaaS
7 2 (0.59%) GitHub
7 2 (0.59%) IaaS
7 2 (0.59%) PaaS
8 1 (0.29%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 41 (12.06%) Wireless
2 17 (5.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (17.06%) NoSQL
2 17 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 17 (5.00%) CockroachDB
3 6 (1.76%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.18%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.18%) Power BI
5 3 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (1.76%) JUnit
2 2 (0.59%) Git
3 1 (0.29%) IntelliJ
3 1 (0.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.29%) Maven
General
1 289 (85.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 245 (72.06%) Finance
3 241 (70.88%) Law
4 192 (56.47%) Marketing
5 138 (40.59%) Financial Institution
6 72 (21.18%) Banking
7 63 (18.53%) Investment Banking
8 62 (18.24%) Social Skills
9 21 (6.18%) Presentation Skills
10 19 (5.59%) Games
11 11 (3.24%) Analytical Skills
12 10 (2.94%) Retail
13 6 (1.76%) Private Banking
14 4 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.59%) Telecoms
16 1 (0.29%) Aerospace
16 1 (0.29%) Back Office
16 1 (0.29%) Electronics
16 1 (0.29%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 156 (45.88%) Engineering Manager
1 156 (45.88%) Software Engineering Manager
2 85 (25.00%) Senior
3 83 (24.41%) Software Engineer
4 44 (12.94%) Senior Manager
5 41 (12.06%) Embedded Engineer
6 34 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
7 33 (9.71%) Lead
7 33 (9.71%) Lead Software Engineer
8 31 (9.12%) Graduate
9 27 (7.94%) Software Engineering Director
10 26 (7.65%) Python Engineer
10 26 (7.65%) Python Software Engineer
11 24 (7.06%) Junior
11 24 (7.06%) Junior Embedded Engineer
12 19 (5.59%) Java Engineer
12 19 (5.59%) Java Software Engineer
12 19 (5.59%) Principal Engineer
12 19 (5.59%) Principal Software Engineer
13 17 (5.00%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (20.88%) Spring
2 58 (17.06%) NumPy
2 58 (17.06%) Pandas
3 54 (15.88%) Spring Boot
4 48 (14.12%) RESTful
5 23 (6.76%) REST
6 19 (5.59%) React
7 17 (5.00%) GraphQL
7 17 (5.00%) Kafka
7 17 (5.00%) OAuth
8 16 (4.71%) WebGL
9 2 (0.59%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.59%) CSS
9 2 (0.59%) HTML
10 1 (0.29%) .NET
10 1 (0.29%) .NET Framework
10 1 (0.29%) ASP.NET
10 1 (0.29%) ASP.NET MVC
10 1 (0.29%) J2EE
10 1 (0.29%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 233 (68.53%) Cloud Native
2 58 (17.06%) Market Risk
3 48 (14.12%) Distributed Applications
4 17 (5.00%) Public Cloud
5 11 (3.24%) Algorithms
5 11 (3.24%) Life Science
6 6 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.47%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.18%) Product Ownership
9 3 (0.88%) Credit Risk
9 3 (0.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (0.59%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.59%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.59%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.29%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.29%) Blockchain
11 1 (0.29%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.29%) Housing Association
11 1 (0.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.88%) Windows
2 2 (0.59%) Linux
2 2 (0.59%) Unix
3 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (91.47%) Computer Science
2 309 (90.88%) Software Engineering
3 198 (58.24%) Agile
4 166 (48.82%) SDLC
5 126 (37.06%) CI/CD
6 78 (22.94%) Analytics
7 67 (19.71%) Physics
8 66 (19.41%) Continuous Delivery
8 66 (19.41%) Decision-Making
9 64 (18.82%) Coaching
9 64 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
10 63 (18.53%) Machine Learning
11 56 (16.47%) Artificial Intelligence
11 56 (16.47%) Operational Stability
12 54 (15.88%) Microservices
13 41 (12.06%) Observability
14 33 (9.71%) Tech Ops
15 32 (9.41%) Asset Management
16 29 (8.53%) Wealth Management
17 27 (7.94%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 126 (37.06%) Java
2 106 (31.18%) Python
3 89 (26.18%) SQL
4 48 (14.12%) C
5 41 (12.06%) Embedded C
6 16 (4.71%) GLSL
6 16 (4.71%) TypeScript
7 15 (4.41%) C#
8 8 (2.35%) C++
9 7 (2.06%) Haskell
9 7 (2.06%) Rust
10 4 (1.18%) R
11 2 (0.59%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.59%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.59%) PHP
11 2 (0.59%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.59%) Ruby
12 1 (0.29%) Bash
12 1 (0.29%) Go
Qualifications
1 71 (20.88%) Degree
2 10 (2.94%) PhD
3 9 (2.65%) Master's Degree
4 4 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.88%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.29%) BICSI Certification
6 1 (0.29%) BICSI RCDD
6 1 (0.29%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.29%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.29%) PMP
6 1 (0.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.06%) SLA
2 4 (1.18%) QA
3 2 (0.59%) CRD IV
3 2 (0.59%) GRC
3 2 (0.59%) IFRS
3 2 (0.59%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 41 (12.06%) Firmware
2 17 (5.00%) Embedded Firmware
3 4 (1.18%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (5.59%) Kubernetes
2 17 (5.00%) Terraform
3 6 (1.76%) Grafana
4 2 (0.59%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.59%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (5.00%) Google
2 11 (3.24%) Microsoft
3 6 (1.76%) Dynatrace
3 6 (1.76%) Splunk
4 4 (1.18%) Databricks
5 2 (0.59%) Apple
6 1 (0.29%) Autodesk
6 1 (0.29%) Thales
6 1 (0.29%) YouTube