Mathematics (Maths)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 5 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 158 107 144
Rank change year-on-year -51 +37 +6
Permanent jobs citing Mathematics 1,179 4,014 3,387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.21% 3.23% 2.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 3.38% 2.79%
Number of salaries quoted 678 1,433 1,434
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £34,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £137,500 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,528 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +21.24% -10.53% +2.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 50,261 118,879 121,556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.08% 95.74% 95.44%
Number of salaries quoted 36,398 72,456 81,203
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.87% +7.00% +4.17%

Mathematics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Mathematics in the UK

Mathematics
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Mathematics in the UK

Mathematics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mathematics over the 6 months to 5 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Mathematics in the UK

Mathematics
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mathematics within the UK over the 6 months to 5 December 2023. 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
England -51 1,027 £62,500 +4.17% 1,128
UK excluding London -72 724 £51,528 +21.24% 716
Work from Home +22 494 £63,750 +6.25% 418
London -8 403 £87,500 +12.90% 502
South East -29 224 £55,000 +24.87% 230
North of England -35 143 £51,528 +37.41% 161
South West -35 84 £47,500 +5.56% 88
Scotland -6 78 £52,500 -4.55% 38
Midlands -85 77 £46,250 +25.85% 114
Yorkshire +30 76 £54,000 +21.77% 38
East of England -5 75 £38,750 -16.13% 87
North West -17 61 £51,500 +67.04% 105
West Midlands -55 54 £35,000 -4.76% 66
Wales -17 34 £28,130 -11.28% 14
East Midlands -51 23 £52,500 +90.91% 48
Northern Ireland -2 9 £35,000 -46.15% 7
North East 0 6 £41,750 +4.38% 22

Mathematics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 107 (9.08%) SAS
2 46 (3.90%) Apache Spark
3 23 (1.95%) Apache
4 16 (1.36%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.34%) Confluence
6 4 (0.34%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.34%) ThingWorx
7 2 (0.17%) Luigi
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.085%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.085%) MS Exchange
8 1 (0.085%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.085%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 76 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (4.07%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.85%) Simulink
5 6 (0.51%) SPSS
6 4 (0.34%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.25%) Stata
8 2 (0.17%) CATIA
8 2 (0.17%) EViews
8 2 (0.17%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.085%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.085%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 6 (0.51%) Sage 200
2 5 (0.42%) Demantra
2 5 (0.42%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.42%) Oracle ASCP
2 5 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.42%) Oracle EBS R12
2 5 (0.42%) SAP ERP
2 5 (0.42%) Shopify
3 4 (0.34%) HFM
3 4 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.085%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 235 (19.93%) AWS
2 186 (15.78%) Azure
3 135 (11.45%) GCP
4 104 (8.82%) Power Platform
5 44 (3.73%) SaaS
6 42 (3.56%) GitHub
7 30 (2.54%) Amazon EC2
8 24 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
9 23 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (1.78%) Serverless
11 13 (1.10%) Amazon S3
11 13 (1.10%) OpenShift
12 12 (1.02%) Google Analytics
13 11 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
14 10 (0.85%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (0.85%) Azure Data Factory
14 10 (0.85%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (0.85%) Snowflake
15 9 (0.76%) Amazon EMR
15 9 (0.76%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 35 (2.97%) Wireless
2 16 (1.36%) WAN
3 15 (1.27%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.10%) 5G
5 10 (0.85%) Software-Defined Radio
6 9 (0.76%) SD-WAN
7 7 (0.59%) Internet
8 6 (0.51%) Firewall
8 6 (0.51%) LAN
9 5 (0.42%) DNS
9 5 (0.42%) Network Security
9 5 (0.42%) VPN
9 5 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.34%) LTE
10 4 (0.34%) MIMO
11 3 (0.25%) 3GPP
11 3 (0.25%) 5G NR
11 3 (0.25%) DHCP
11 3 (0.25%) VLAN
12 2 (0.17%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (8.82%) Power BI
2 83 (7.04%) Base SAS
3 72 (6.11%) Metadata
4 67 (5.68%) Tableau
5 66 (5.60%) Big Data
6 52 (4.41%) MySQL
7 46 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
8 31 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
9 30 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
9 30 (2.54%) Relational Database
10 28 (2.37%) Hadoop
11 27 (2.29%) Data Lake
11 27 (2.29%) SQL Server
12 21 (1.78%) Looker
13 20 (1.70%) Data Mining
14 19 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
15 18 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
16 17 (1.44%) Apache Ignite
17 15 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 13 (1.10%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 93 (7.89%) Git
2 43 (3.65%) Jenkins
3 30 (2.54%) Maven
4 25 (2.12%) IntelliJ
5 17 (1.44%) JIRA
6 15 (1.27%) Subversion
7 13 (1.10%) Bitbucket
8 12 (1.02%) Visual Studio
9 10 (0.85%) GitLab
10 8 (0.68%) Artifactory
11 7 (0.59%) CMake
11 7 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.42%) gulp
12 5 (0.42%) PostCSS
12 5 (0.42%) rollup.js
12 5 (0.42%) TeamCity
12 5 (0.42%) Vite
13 4 (0.34%) TestComplete
13 4 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
13 4 (0.34%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 364 (30.87%) Social Skills
2 326 (27.65%) Finance
3 223 (18.91%) Analytical Skills
4 179 (15.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 104 (8.82%) Telecoms
6 84 (7.12%) Pharmaceutical
7 76 (6.45%) Marketing
8 75 (6.36%) Retail
9 64 (5.43%) Presentation Skills
10 61 (5.17%) Banking
11 56 (4.75%) Manufacturing
12 44 (3.73%) Games
13 40 (3.39%) Front Office
14 31 (2.63%) Electronics
15 30 (2.54%) Financial Institution
15 30 (2.54%) Law
16 24 (2.04%) Legal
17 18 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
18 17 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
18 17 (1.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 257 (21.80%) Senior
2 247 (20.95%) Analyst
3 219 (18.58%) Developer
4 119 (10.09%) Architect
5 92 (7.80%) Solutions Architect
6 89 (7.55%) Enterprise Architect
6 89 (7.55%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
7 83 (7.04%) Software Engineer
8 75 (6.36%) Senior Developer
9 70 (5.94%) Data Scientist
10 68 (5.77%) Programmer
11 66 (5.60%) SAS Programmer
11 66 (5.60%) SAS Statistical Programmer
11 66 (5.60%) Statistical Programmer
12 65 (5.51%) Java Developer
13 64 (5.43%) Junior
14 63 (5.34%) Data Analyst
15 56 (4.75%) Graduate
16 55 (4.66%) Lead
17 52 (4.41%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (8.14%) HTML
2 80 (6.79%) XML
3 59 (5.00%) CSS
4 45 (3.82%) .NET
4 45 (3.82%) Pandas
5 39 (3.31%) React
6 32 (2.71%) PyTorch
7 31 (2.63%) AngularJS
8 26 (2.21%) NumPy
8 26 (2.21%) scikit-learn
9 25 (2.12%) J2EE
9 25 (2.12%) jOOQ
9 25 (2.12%) React Native
9 25 (2.12%) Redux
10 21 (1.78%) J2SE
10 21 (1.78%) Unity (Game Engine)
11 20 (1.70%) TensorFlow
11 20 (1.70%) Unreal Engine
12 19 (1.61%) OpenGL
12 19 (1.61%) OpenGL ES
Miscellaneous
1 157 (13.32%) Algorithms
2 117 (9.92%) Onboarding
3 85 (7.21%) Life Science
4 68 (5.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 62 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
6 54 (4.58%) Management Information System
7 45 (3.82%) Cyberattack
8 40 (3.39%) Derivative
8 40 (3.39%) Equities
9 39 (3.31%) Credit Risk
10 36 (3.05%) Hedge funds
11 32 (2.71%) Data Structures
12 26 (2.21%) Smartphone
13 22 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
14 20 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
14 20 (1.70%) Embedded Systems
15 19 (1.61%) Ray Tracing
16 18 (1.53%) Handset
16 18 (1.53%) Mali
16 18 (1.53%) SIMD
Operating Systems
1 146 (12.38%) Linux
2 67 (5.68%) Windows
3 61 (5.17%) Android
4 30 (2.54%) Unix
5 25 (2.12%) Mac OS
6 9 (0.76%) Windows 10
6 9 (0.76%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.34%) Debian
9 3 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.17%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.085%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.085%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 657 (55.73%) Computer Science
2 360 (30.53%) Problem-Solving
3 351 (29.77%) Physics
4 332 (28.16%) Statistics
5 268 (22.73%) Agile
6 218 (18.49%) Software Engineering
7 201 (17.05%) Analytics
8 181 (15.35%) Data Science
9 167 (14.16%) Visualisation
10 165 (13.99%) DevOps
11 159 (13.49%) Data Analysis
12 156 (13.23%) Validation
13 155 (13.15%) Machine Learning
14 143 (12.13%) Decision-Making
15 132 (11.20%) Business Intelligence
16 127 (10.77%) Actionable Insight
17 123 (10.43%) Collaborative Working
18 118 (10.01%) Project Management
19 116 (9.84%) Cybersecurity
20 114 (9.67%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 428 (36.30%) Python
2 248 (21.03%) SQL
3 211 (17.90%) C++
4 177 (15.01%) Java
5 112 (9.50%) R
6 111 (9.41%) C
7 106 (8.99%) C#
8 98 (8.31%) JavaScript
9 84 (7.12%) SAS Macro
10 48 (4.07%) Bash
10 48 (4.07%) MATLAB
11 29 (2.46%) TypeScript
12 25 (2.12%) Embedded C
13 24 (2.04%) Rust
14 21 (1.78%) Fortran
15 16 (1.36%) T-SQL
16 15 (1.27%) Go
17 12 (1.02%) Scala
18 11 (0.93%) PowerShell
19 8 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 845 (71.67%) Degree
2 292 (24.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 135 (11.45%) Master's Degree
4 133 (11.28%) Security Cleared
5 111 (9.41%) PhD
6 105 (8.91%) Numerate Degree
7 89 (7.55%) TOGAF Certification
8 52 (4.41%) DV Cleared
9 51 (4.33%) SC Cleared
10 46 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 36 (3.05%) MCSE
12 34 (2.88%) Linux+ Certification
13 12 (1.02%) HND
14 11 (0.93%) Azure Certification
15 10 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
16 9 (0.76%) AWS Certification
16 9 (0.76%) DBS Check
17 8 (0.68%) CISSP
18 7 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
18 7 (0.59%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (9.41%) QA
2 83 (7.04%) CDISC
3 42 (3.56%) Data Quality
4 25 (2.12%) IFRS
4 25 (2.12%) IFRS 9
5 14 (1.19%) CRD IV
5 14 (1.19%) SLA
6 9 (0.76%) PMO
6 9 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.59%) JSP 440
7 7 (0.59%) RMADS
8 5 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.42%) Automotive SPICE
8 5 (0.42%) AUTOSAR
8 5 (0.42%) ISO 26262
9 2 (0.17%) COSHH
9 2 (0.17%) IEC 61508
10 1 (0.085%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.085%) Dodd-Frank
10 1 (0.085%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 83 (7.04%) Docker
2 27 (2.29%) Firmware
3 11 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.93%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.085%) KVM
5 1 (0.085%) QEMU
5 1 (0.085%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 55 (4.66%) Kubernetes
2 25 (2.12%) Terraform
3 7 (0.59%) Ansible
3 7 (0.59%) Argo
3 7 (0.59%) Packer
4 5 (0.42%) Functional Safety
5 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (0.17%) Grafana
7 2 (0.17%) Puppet
8 1 (0.085%) Consul
8 1 (0.085%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.085%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.085%) Mesos
8 1 (0.085%) SCCM
8 1 (0.085%) SCOM
8 1 (0.085%) WSUS
Vendors
1 157 (13.32%) Microsoft
2 38 (3.22%) Google
3 34 (2.88%) Apple
4 18 (1.53%) Databricks
5 17 (1.44%) Alteryx
6 15 (1.27%) SAP
7 13 (1.10%) Oracle
8 10 (0.85%) Splunk
9 9 (0.76%) VMware
10 7 (0.59%) OpenAI
10 7 (0.59%) Sage
11 5 (0.42%) Cisco
11 5 (0.42%) Talend
11 5 (0.42%) Xero
12 4 (0.34%) Adobe
12 4 (0.34%) Anaplan
12 4 (0.34%) Foundry
12 4 (0.34%) Informatica
12 4 (0.34%) MicroStrategy
12 4 (0.34%) Sun