Mathematics Jobs in the South West

Mathematics (Maths)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 4 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 120 18
Rank change year-on-year +104 -102 +137
Permanent jobs citing Mathematics 327 199 756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.14% 1.99% 11.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.84% 2.46% 12.11%
Number of salaries quoted 219 151 66
10th Percentile £25,313 £15,750 £27,250
25th Percentile £45,250 £21,158 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £50,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% -25.93% +24.82%
75th Percentile - £62,500 £90,625
90th Percentile £58,000 £65,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -32.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,323 8,087 6,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 92.85% 80.76% 94.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,883 5,788 3,513
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £30,505
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -6.42% +9.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,650
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Mathematics
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Mathematics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Mathematics in the South West

Mathematics
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Mathematics in the South West.

Salary trend for Mathematics in the South West

Mathematics
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mathematics in the South West over the 6 months to 4 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Mathematics in the South West

Mathematics
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mathematics within the South West region over the 6 months to 4 June 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
Bristol +58 154 £52,600 -8.52% 48
Gloucestershire +98 101 £52,600 +61.85% 36
Wiltshire +46 24 £55,000 - 10
Dorset +42 23 £40,101 +14.57% 9
Somerset +27 19 £40,101 +167.34% 44
Devon +4 2 - - 15
Cornwall +13 1 £23,557 +15.05% 2
Mathematics
England

Mathematics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 20 (6.12%) Jupyter
2 6 (1.83%) Apache
3 3 (0.92%) SAS
Applications
1 110 (33.64%) Simulink
2 26 (7.95%) Mathcad
2 26 (7.95%) Mathematica
3 8 (2.45%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 20 (6.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 5 (1.53%) GitHub
2 4 (1.22%) AWS
3 1 (0.31%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (0.31%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (0.31%) Azure
3 1 (0.31%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.92%) VPN
2 2 (0.61%) DNS
3 1 (0.31%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (0.31%) Wideband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (15.90%) Big Data
2 4 (1.22%) Relational Database
3 3 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (0.92%) CockroachDB
3 3 (0.92%) MySQL
3 3 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.31%) Power BI
4 1 (0.31%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (8.26%) JIRA
1 27 (8.26%) Visual Studio
2 20 (6.12%) Rational DOORS
3 6 (1.83%) Eclipse
3 6 (1.83%) Eclipse RCP
4 3 (0.92%) Git
5 1 (0.31%) Subversion
General
1 78 (23.85%) Finance
2 47 (14.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 34 (10.40%) Aerospace
4 30 (9.17%) Banking
5 27 (8.26%) Avionics
6 26 (7.95%) Social Skills
7 24 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
8 21 (6.42%) Electronics
9 15 (4.59%) Retail
10 13 (3.98%) Aeronautics
11 8 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.83%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.92%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.92%) Law
13 3 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.61%) Military
15 1 (0.31%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 151 (46.18%) Systems Engineer
2 98 (29.97%) Senior
3 45 (13.76%) Data Scientist
4 34 (10.40%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 29 (8.87%) Principal Engineer
6 26 (7.95%) Junior
7 21 (6.42%) Senior Data Scientist
8 20 (6.12%) Junior Systems Engineer
9 18 (5.50%) Analyst
9 18 (5.50%) Software Engineer
10 13 (3.98%) Data Analyst
11 12 (3.67%) Lead
11 12 (3.67%) Lead Systems Engineer
11 12 (3.67%) Team Leader
12 10 (3.06%) Senior Software Engineer
13 8 (2.45%) Trainer
14 6 (1.83%) Junior Software Engineer
15 5 (1.53%) Senior Analyst
16 4 (1.22%) Developer
16 4 (1.22%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.67%) Software Packaging
2 8 (2.45%) HTML
3 6 (1.83%) CSS
3 6 (1.83%) JSP
3 6 (1.83%) Middleware
4 3 (0.92%) Kafka
4 3 (0.92%) React
4 3 (0.92%) Spring
4 3 (0.92%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.31%) .NET
5 1 (0.31%) Django
5 1 (0.31%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.31%) Flask
5 1 (0.31%) Node.js
5 1 (0.31%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 44 (13.46%) Cyberattack
2 41 (12.54%) Algorithms
3 7 (2.14%) e-Learning
3 7 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (0.92%) Cloud Native
4 3 (0.92%) Data Structures
4 3 (0.92%) Product Ownership
4 3 (0.92%) Public Cloud
5 2 (0.61%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.31%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.31%) ARM Cortex
6 1 (0.31%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.31%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.31%) FPGA
6 1 (0.31%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 40 (12.23%) Linux
2 7 (2.14%) Windows
3 4 (1.22%) Android
4 1 (0.31%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.31%) SafeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (52.91%) Systems Engineering
2 147 (44.95%) Software Engineering
3 123 (37.61%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 111 (33.94%) Physics
5 110 (33.64%) SysML
6 93 (28.44%) Validation
6 93 (28.44%) Verification and Validation
7 90 (27.52%) Digital Twin
8 88 (26.91%) Computer Science
9 72 (22.02%) Problem-Solving
10 70 (21.41%) Statistics
11 65 (19.88%) Artificial Intelligence
12 54 (16.51%) Visualisation
13 50 (15.29%) Data Science
14 42 (12.84%) Machine Learning
15 40 (12.23%) Data Analysis
15 40 (12.23%) Exploratory Data Analysis
15 40 (12.23%) OpenUP
16 39 (11.93%) Analytics
17 37 (11.31%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 111 (33.94%) MATLAB
2 54 (16.51%) Python
3 42 (12.84%) Java
4 35 (10.70%) C
5 30 (9.17%) JavaScript
6 27 (8.26%) SQL
7 15 (4.59%) Rust
8 11 (3.36%) C++
9 8 (2.45%) R
10 6 (1.83%) C#
11 5 (1.53%) Go
12 4 (1.22%) Ada
13 3 (0.92%) Clojure
14 2 (0.61%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.31%) Bash
15 1 (0.31%) Embedded C
15 1 (0.31%) Embedded C++
15 1 (0.31%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.31%) Scala
15 1 (0.31%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 313 (95.72%) Degree
2 90 (27.52%) HNC
2 90 (27.52%) HND
3 85 (25.99%) BPSS Clearance
4 56 (17.13%) Security Cleared
5 52 (15.90%) DV Cleared
6 21 (6.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (6.12%) Numerate Degree
8 16 (4.89%) PhD
9 11 (3.36%) Master's Degree
10 9 (2.75%) SC Cleared
11 3 (0.92%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.03%) IEC 61508
2 21 (6.42%) ARP4754
2 21 (6.42%) DO-254
3 2 (0.61%) DO-178B
4 1 (0.31%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.31%) IEC 62304
4 1 (0.31%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 27 (8.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (7.34%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.22%) Ansible
3 2 (0.61%) BMC PATROL
3 2 (0.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (8.26%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.12%) IBM
3 8 (2.45%) PayPal
4 4 (1.22%) Oracle
5 1 (0.31%) 3PAR
5 1 (0.31%) Cisco
5 1 (0.31%) Juniper
5 1 (0.31%) Splunk
5 1 (0.31%) Xilinx