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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 69 42
Rank change year-on-year +43 -27 +86
Permanent jobs citing Mathematics 299 279 221
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.09% 4.55% 5.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.42% 5.14% 5.86%
Number of salaries quoted 184 57 34
10th Percentile £25,313 £27,500 £35,733
25th Percentile £55,601 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £50,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% -21.57% +41.67%
75th Percentile £60,265 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile - £67,000 -
UK median annual salary £50,055 £45,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +11.23% -30.77% +8.82%

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 2,869 5,427 3,771
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 87.20% 88.47% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,350 2,347 1,998
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,299 £31,871
25th Percentile £32,951 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £63,000 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £82,548
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 - 62 £58,033 - 1
Edinburgh +25 52 £25,625 -57.29% 19
East Ayrshire - 48 £58,033 -
Glasgow +16 43 £58,033 +111.03% 13
Ayrshire - 36 £58,033 - 1
North Ayrshire - 18 £58,033 -
Fife - 12 £40,101 - 1
Moray - 12 £40,101 -
Highlands - 7 - -
Aberdeen +16 3 - - 2
Dundee +14 3 - - 2
Lanarkshire - 3 £27,500 - 7
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 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 178 (59.53%) Simulink
2 26 (8.70%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.67%) LaTeX
4 1 (0.33%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 20 (6.69%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 15 (5.02%) AWS
2 5 (1.67%) Amazon SageMaker
3 4 (1.34%) GitHub
3 4 (1.34%) Snowflake
4 3 (1.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (0.67%) GCP
6 1 (0.33%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.33%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.33%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.33%) Azure
6 1 (0.33%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (0.33%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (0.33%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (2.01%) Big Data
3 5 (1.67%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.34%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (1.34%) KDB
4 4 (1.34%) Kdb+
5 3 (1.00%) Power BI
6 2 (0.67%) Tableau
7 1 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.33%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.33%) GIS
Development Applications
1 20 (6.69%) Rational DOORS
2 4 (1.34%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.00%) Git
General
1 57 (19.06%) Finance
2 35 (11.71%) Banking
3 29 (9.70%) Social Skills
4 20 (6.69%) Aerospace
4 20 (6.69%) Electronics
5 16 (5.35%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (5.02%) Front Office
6 15 (5.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (4.68%) Law
8 13 (4.35%) Legal
9 5 (1.67%) Marketing
10 4 (1.34%) Private Banking
11 2 (0.67%) Games
11 2 (0.67%) Retail
12 1 (0.33%) Aviation
12 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 206 (68.90%) Systems Engineer
2 34 (11.37%) Senior
3 28 (9.36%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 26 (8.70%) Trainer
5 20 (6.69%) Junior
5 20 (6.69%) Junior Systems Engineer
6 15 (5.02%) Software Engineer
7 13 (4.35%) Lead
7 13 (4.35%) Lead Software Engineer
8 8 (2.68%) Java Engineer
8 8 (2.68%) Java Software Engineer
8 8 (2.68%) Lead Java Engineer
9 7 (2.34%) Risk Officer
10 6 (2.01%) Analyst
10 6 (2.01%) Developer
10 6 (2.01%) Senior Software Engineer
11 5 (1.67%) Data Analyst
11 5 (1.67%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (1.67%) Risk Manager
11 5 (1.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.01%) Software Packaging
2 11 (3.68%) RESTful
3 5 (1.67%) Kafka
4 4 (1.34%) Spring
4 4 (1.34%) Spring Boot
5 2 (0.67%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.33%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.33%) Google JAX
6 1 (0.33%) LangChain
6 1 (0.33%) Pandas
6 1 (0.33%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.68%) Cloud Native
2 5 (1.67%) Management Information System
3 4 (1.34%) Derivative
3 4 (1.34%) Distributed Applications
3 4 (1.34%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.00%) Algorithms
5 2 (0.67%) Credit Risk
5 2 (0.67%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.33%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.33%) Life Science
6 1 (0.33%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (68.90%) Systems Engineering
2 188 (62.88%) Software Engineering
3 178 (59.53%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 178 (59.53%) SysML
4 171 (57.19%) Validation
5 158 (52.84%) Digital Twin
5 158 (52.84%) Verification and Validation
6 62 (20.74%) Computer Science
7 53 (17.73%) Physics
7 53 (17.73%) Problem-Solving
8 50 (16.72%) Artificial Intelligence
9 41 (13.71%) Statistics
10 32 (10.70%) Project Management
11 28 (9.36%) Coaching
12 26 (8.70%) Conversational UI
13 23 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
14 22 (7.36%) Cybersecurity
15 20 (6.69%) Creative Problem-Solving
15 20 (6.69%) PLM
15 20 (6.69%) UML
Programming Languages
1 178 (59.53%) MATLAB
2 30 (10.03%) Python
3 12 (4.01%) SQL
4 8 (2.68%) Java
5 2 (0.67%) Objective-C
5 2 (0.67%) R
6 1 (0.33%) Bicep
6 1 (0.33%) C
6 1 (0.33%) C++
6 1 (0.33%) Perl
6 1 (0.33%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 274 (91.64%) Degree
2 158 (52.84%) HNC
2 158 (52.84%) HND
3 48 (16.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 38 (12.71%) Master's Degree
5 37 (12.37%) PhD
6 2 (0.67%) CISM
6 2 (0.67%) CISSP
6 2 (0.67%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.33%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.36%) ARP4754
1 28 (9.36%) DO-254
1 28 (9.36%) IEC 61508
2 2 (0.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.67%) NIST
3 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.33%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (2.68%) Terraform
2 6 (2.01%) Grafana
2 6 (2.01%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.34%) Netcool
3 4 (1.34%) Netcool/OMNIbus
3 4 (1.34%) Tivoli
4 2 (0.67%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 26 (8.70%) PayPal
2 24 (8.03%) IBM
3 4 (1.34%) Dynatrace
3 4 (1.34%) Oracle
3 4 (1.34%) ServiceNow
3 4 (1.34%) Splunk
4 3 (1.00%) Microsoft