Mathematics Jobs in Scotland

Mathematics (Maths)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 73 48 120
Rank change year-on-year -25 +72 +9
Permanent jobs citing Mathematics 252 214 144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.42% 5.64% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.04% 5.88% 2.56%
Number of salaries quoted 41 34 46
10th Percentile £27,500 £35,733 £23,592
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,813 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £67,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £60,625
90th Percentile £75,000 - £75,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £65,000 £59,866
% change year-on-year -26.92% +8.58% +19.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,004 3,640 5,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 87.82% 95.94% 92.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,133 1,969 3,041
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,555 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,548 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -23 204 £80,750 +79.44% 2
Edinburgh +1 30 £60,000 -14.29% 7
Aberdeen -19 12 £35,000 -33.33%
South Ayrshire - 2 £49,067 - 3
Aberdeenshire -6 1 £35,000 +29.63%
Dundee -12 1 £49,990 - 1
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 (6.75%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.40%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.79%) Simulink
3 1 (0.40%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.40%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 84 (33.33%) AWS
2 34 (13.49%) Azure
3 23 (9.13%) GCP
4 4 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (1.59%) Power Platform
5 3 (1.19%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (1.19%) Entra ID
5 3 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.19%) Power Automate
5 3 (1.19%) PowerApps
6 2 (0.79%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.14%) Wireless
2 17 (6.75%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.79%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (13.49%) NoSQL
2 17 (6.75%) Amazon Aurora
2 17 (6.75%) CockroachDB
3 4 (1.59%) Big Data
3 4 (1.59%) Data Lake
3 4 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.59%) Power BI
4 3 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.79%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.40%) DTS
6 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Git
1 1 (0.40%) Rational DOORS
General
1 213 (84.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 200 (79.37%) Finance
3 188 (74.60%) Law
4 154 (61.11%) Marketing
5 90 (35.71%) Financial Institution
6 60 (23.81%) Banking
7 54 (21.43%) Investment Banking
8 33 (13.10%) Social Skills
9 21 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
10 20 (7.94%) Games
11 13 (5.16%) Analytical Skills
12 10 (3.97%) Retail
13 5 (1.98%) Wholesale Banking
14 2 (0.79%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.79%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.40%) Back Office
15 1 (0.40%) Electronics
15 1 (0.40%) Legal
Job Titles
1 102 (40.48%) Engineering Manager
1 102 (40.48%) Software Engineering Manager
2 76 (30.16%) Senior
3 68 (26.98%) Software Engineer
4 37 (14.68%) Senior Manager
5 34 (13.49%) Lead
5 34 (13.49%) Senior Software Engineer
6 33 (13.10%) Lead Software Engineer
7 29 (11.51%) Software Engineering Director
8 27 (10.71%) Python Engineer
8 27 (10.71%) Python Software Engineer
9 20 (7.94%) Principal Engineer
9 20 (7.94%) Principal Software Engineer
10 19 (7.54%) Java Engineer
10 19 (7.54%) Java Software Engineer
11 18 (7.14%) Embedded Engineer
12 17 (6.75%) Graduate
12 17 (6.75%) Lead Java Engineer
12 17 (6.75%) Senior Java Engineer
12 17 (6.75%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (19.05%) Spring
2 34 (13.49%) NumPy
2 34 (13.49%) Pandas
3 31 (12.30%) RESTful
3 31 (12.30%) Spring Boot
4 17 (6.75%) GraphQL
4 17 (6.75%) Kafka
4 17 (6.75%) OAuth
4 17 (6.75%) REST
5 8 (3.17%) React
6 6 (2.38%) WebGL
7 3 (1.19%) CSS
7 3 (1.19%) HTML
7 3 (1.19%) PySpark
8 1 (0.40%) .NET
8 1 (0.40%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.40%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.40%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (0.40%) Hugging Face
8 1 (0.40%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 179 (71.03%) Cloud Native
2 34 (13.49%) Market Risk
3 31 (12.30%) Distributed Applications
4 17 (6.75%) Public Cloud
5 11 (4.37%) Algorithms
6 6 (2.38%) Credit Risk
7 5 (1.98%) Life Science
8 4 (1.59%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.40%) Augmented Reality
10 1 (0.40%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.40%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.40%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.40%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.19%) Linux
2 1 (0.40%) Windows
2 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (88.89%) Software Engineering
2 221 (87.70%) Computer Science
3 149 (59.13%) Agile
4 120 (47.62%) SDLC
5 79 (31.35%) CI/CD
6 66 (26.19%) Decision-Making
6 66 (26.19%) Machine Learning
7 64 (25.40%) Analytics
8 63 (25.00%) Coaching
9 60 (23.81%) Artificial Intelligence
10 57 (22.62%) Operational Stability
11 47 (18.65%) Problem-Solving
12 42 (16.67%) Observability
13 36 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
14 33 (13.10%) Physics
14 33 (13.10%) Tech Ops
15 32 (12.70%) Microservices
16 31 (12.30%) Visualisation
17 28 (11.11%) Data Ingestion
18 27 (10.71%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 89 (35.32%) Java
2 84 (33.33%) Python
3 59 (23.41%) SQL
4 23 (9.13%) C
5 18 (7.14%) Embedded C
6 13 (5.16%) C#
7 6 (2.38%) C++
7 6 (2.38%) GLSL
7 6 (2.38%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.19%) Haskell
8 3 (1.19%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.19%) MATLAB
8 3 (1.19%) Rust
9 1 (0.40%) Fortran
9 1 (0.40%) Go
9 1 (0.40%) R
9 1 (0.40%) Scala
9 1 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 47 (18.65%) Degree
2 7 (2.78%) Master's Degree
3 6 (2.38%) PhD
4 4 (1.59%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.40%) BICSI Certification
6 1 (0.40%) BICSI RCDD
6 1 (0.40%) HNC
6 1 (0.40%) HND
6 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.40%) PMP
6 1 (0.40%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.40%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.59%) SLA
2 2 (0.79%) IFRS
2 2 (0.79%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 18 (7.14%) Firmware
2 4 (1.59%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (1.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (6.75%) Kubernetes
1 17 (6.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (7.14%) Google
2 7 (2.78%) Microsoft
3 5 (1.98%) Databricks
4 2 (0.79%) Apple
4 2 (0.79%) IBM
4 2 (0.79%) Splunk
5 1 (0.40%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.40%) ANSYS
5 1 (0.40%) Autodesk
5 1 (0.40%) YouTube