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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 79 45
Rank change year-on-year +67 -34 +112
Permanent jobs citing Mathematics 408 337 269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 13.71% 4.95% 5.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.79% 5.41% 6.33%
Number of salaries quoted 280 72 36
10th Percentile £36,441 £27,500 £35,366
25th Percentile £55,801 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.54% +10.53% -17.39%
75th Percentile £60,265 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile - £69,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £52,600 £45,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +16.89% -28.00% +4.17%

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 2,758 6,226 4,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.64% 91.40% 94.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,306 2,433 2,111
10th Percentile £30,650 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 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
South Ayrshire - 97 £58,033 - 3
East Ayrshire - 75 £58,033 -
Edinburgh +32 63 £25,625 -57.29% 26
Ayrshire - 54 £58,033 - 2
Glasgow +44 40 £58,033 +134.97% 10
North Ayrshire - 28 £58,033 -
Moray - 22 £40,101 -
Fife - 21 £40,101 - 1
Aberdeen +16 3 £65,726 +87.79%
Highlands - 3 - -
Dundee - 2 - - 3
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 5 (1.23%) Apache
1 5 (1.23%) SAS
2 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 268 (65.69%) Simulink
2 15 (3.68%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.49%) LaTeX
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.25%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 28 (6.86%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 11 (2.70%) AWS
2 7 (1.72%) Amazon SageMaker
3 4 (0.98%) Snowflake
4 3 (0.74%) Power Platform
5 2 (0.49%) GCP
6 1 (0.25%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.25%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.25%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.25%) Azure
6 1 (0.25%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (0.25%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (0.25%) GitHub
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.19%) Big Data
2 4 (0.98%) Tableau
3 3 (0.74%) Power BI
4 2 (0.49%) Data Mining
4 2 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.49%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.25%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.25%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.25%) GIS
5 1 (0.25%) KDB
5 1 (0.25%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 28 (6.86%) Rational DOORS
2 5 (1.23%) Eclipse
2 5 (1.23%) Eclipse RCP
2 5 (1.23%) Git
3 1 (0.25%) Jenkins
General
1 55 (13.48%) Finance
2 39 (9.56%) Banking
3 37 (9.07%) Social Skills
4 28 (6.86%) Aerospace
4 28 (6.86%) Electronics
5 11 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (2.70%) Legal
6 10 (2.45%) Front Office
7 5 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.23%) Law
7 5 (1.23%) Retail
8 4 (0.98%) Wholesale Banking
9 2 (0.49%) Games
9 2 (0.49%) Marketing
10 1 (0.25%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.25%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 296 (72.55%) Systems Engineer
2 51 (12.50%) Senior
3 33 (8.09%) Junior
4 28 (6.86%) Junior Systems Engineer
4 28 (6.86%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 19 (4.66%) Analyst
5 19 (4.66%) Software Engineer
6 14 (3.43%) Trainer
7 12 (2.94%) Data Analyst
8 11 (2.70%) Senior Software Engineer
9 8 (1.96%) Integration Engineer
9 8 (1.96%) Principal Engineer
9 8 (1.96%) Principal Systems Engineer
9 8 (1.96%) Senior Electrical Engineer
9 8 (1.96%) System Verification Engineer
9 8 (1.96%) Systems Integration Engineer
9 8 (1.96%) Validation Engineer
10 7 (1.72%) Risk Officer
11 6 (1.47%) Data Scientist
12 5 (1.23%) Junior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.94%) Software Packaging
2 5 (1.23%) CSS
2 5 (1.23%) HTML
2 5 (1.23%) JSP
2 5 (1.23%) Middleware
2 5 (1.23%) RESTful
3 3 (0.74%) Google JAX
3 3 (0.74%) scikit-learn
4 2 (0.49%) JAX
4 2 (0.49%) Kafka
4 2 (0.49%) NumPy
4 2 (0.49%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (0.49%) PyTorch
4 2 (0.49%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.25%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.25%) LangChain
5 1 (0.25%) Pandas
5 1 (0.25%) PySpark
5 1 (0.25%) Spring
5 1 (0.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (1.96%) SCADA
2 6 (1.47%) Algorithms
3 5 (1.23%) Cloud Native
3 5 (1.23%) Management Information System
4 4 (0.98%) Product Ownership
5 3 (0.74%) Credit Risk
6 2 (0.49%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.25%) Derivative
7 1 (0.25%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.25%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.25%) Life Science
7 1 (0.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.23%) Linux
1 5 (1.23%) Windows
2 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (74.51%) Systems Engineering
2 277 (67.89%) Software Engineering
3 268 (65.69%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 268 (65.69%) SysML
4 259 (63.48%) Validation
5 248 (60.78%) Verification and Validation
6 240 (58.82%) Digital Twin
7 76 (18.63%) Physics
8 60 (14.71%) Computer Science
9 47 (11.52%) Problem-Solving
10 38 (9.31%) Artificial Intelligence
11 37 (9.07%) Project Management
11 37 (9.07%) Statistics
12 36 (8.82%) Coaching
13 33 (8.09%) UML
14 31 (7.60%) Continuous Improvement
15 29 (7.11%) Analytics
16 28 (6.86%) Creative Problem-Solving
16 28 (6.86%) PLM
17 24 (5.88%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 268 (65.69%) MATLAB
2 43 (10.54%) Python
3 26 (6.37%) SQL
4 15 (3.68%) Java
5 13 (3.19%) Rust
6 5 (1.23%) Ada
6 5 (1.23%) C#
6 5 (1.23%) C++
7 2 (0.49%) Objective-C
8 1 (0.25%) Bicep
8 1 (0.25%) C
8 1 (0.25%) Perl
8 1 (0.25%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.25%) R
8 1 (0.25%) Swift
Qualifications
1 395 (96.81%) Degree
2 240 (58.82%) HNC
2 240 (58.82%) HND
3 69 (16.91%) BPSS Clearance
4 28 (6.86%) Master's Degree
5 26 (6.37%) PhD
6 8 (1.96%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.49%) CISM
7 2 (0.49%) CISSP
7 2 (0.49%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.25%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.86%) ARP4754
1 28 (6.86%) DO-254
1 28 (6.86%) IEC 61508
2 2 (0.49%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.49%) NIST
3 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (0.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.23%) Terraform
2 3 (0.74%) Grafana
2 3 (0.74%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.49%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.25%) Netcool
4 1 (0.25%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 1 (0.25%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 29 (7.11%) IBM
2 15 (3.68%) PayPal
3 2 (0.49%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.25%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle
4 1 (0.25%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.25%) Splunk