Mathematics Jobs

Mathematics (Maths)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 97 35
Rank change year-on-year +74 -62 +95
Permanent jobs citing Mathematics 3,720 2,591 7,302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.13% 2.63% 7.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.65% 3.06% 7.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,357 1,425 1,130
10th Percentile £25,313 £20,750 £24,000
25th Percentile £37,574 £27,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £45,000 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.89% -27.42% +3.33%
75th Percentile £60,265 £65,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £95,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +25.14% -11.11% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,641 84,574 99,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.26% 86.00% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,531 59,798 58,397
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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
UK excluding London +86 3,336 £50,055 +25.14% 1,012
England +81 3,176 £50,055 +11.23% 1,669
North of England +186 1,357 £47,683 +36.24% 248
North West +149 831 £47,683 +45.31% 133
Midlands +54 580 £40,101 +43.22% 203
Work from Home +79 540 £25,625 -51.19% 663
Yorkshire +145 512 £25,625 -26.79% 76
South East +23 433 £55,000 +22.22% 256
Scotland +66 401 £58,033 +10.54% 60
South West +114 368 £52,600 +10.37% 133
West Midlands +46 355 £40,000 +33.33% 105
London -41 291 £83,750 +15.52% 722
East Midlands +64 225 £40,101 +44.51% 99
East of England +56 141 £40,101 +31.48% 144
Wales +41 52 £47,550 +5.67% 12
North East +52 14 £44,500 +48.33% 42
Northern Ireland +36 5 - - 10

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 29 (0.78%) Apache
2 27 (0.73%) SAS
3 23 (0.62%) Jupyter
4 10 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.22%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.19%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.16%) Confluence
7 6 (0.16%) IBM Domino
8 4 (0.11%) CMS
9 1 (0.027%) Joomla!
9 1 (0.027%) MTS
9 1 (0.027%) WordPress
Applications
1 655 (17.61%) Simulink
2 144 (3.87%) Chatbot
3 123 (3.31%) Mathcad
4 66 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
5 41 (1.10%) Mathematica
5 41 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
6 20 (0.54%) Maya
7 14 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 3 (0.081%) SPSS
9 2 (0.054%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.054%) OrCAD
10 1 (0.027%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.027%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.027%) GNU Octave
10 1 (0.027%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.027%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.027%) Stata
Business Applications
1 145 (3.90%) Teamcenter
2 11 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.081%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.081%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.081%) SAP CX
4 2 (0.054%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.027%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 353 (9.49%) AWS
2 104 (2.80%) Azure
3 60 (1.61%) Power Platform
4 52 (1.40%) AWS CloudFormation
5 50 (1.34%) Amazon EKS
6 28 (0.75%) Adobe Analytics
7 22 (0.59%) Cloud Computing
8 20 (0.54%) Amazon SageMaker
8 20 (0.54%) SaaS
9 18 (0.48%) GCP
10 15 (0.40%) Google Analytics
10 15 (0.40%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (0.40%) Serverless
11 14 (0.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 11 (0.30%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (0.30%) Boomi
12 11 (0.30%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
13 9 (0.24%) GitHub
14 7 (0.19%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (0.19%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 402 (10.81%) DNS
2 397 (10.67%) VPN
3 14 (0.38%) HTTP
4 11 (0.30%) Multicast
4 11 (0.30%) Network Security
5 7 (0.19%) Internet
6 6 (0.16%) Ethernet
7 5 (0.13%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.11%) 5G
8 4 (0.11%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.11%) SMTP
8 4 (0.11%) WAN
9 3 (0.081%) Software-Defined Radio
9 3 (0.081%) Structured Cabling
9 3 (0.081%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.054%) DWDM
10 2 (0.054%) Firewall
10 2 (0.054%) GPON
10 2 (0.054%) IPv4
10 2 (0.054%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (2.50%) Big Data
2 86 (2.31%) Tableau
3 59 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
3 59 (1.59%) Power BI
4 51 (1.37%) SQL Server
5 17 (0.46%) Relational Database
6 14 (0.38%) Data Lake
7 11 (0.30%) Data Mining
8 10 (0.27%) Redis
9 8 (0.22%) Amazon QuickSight
10 7 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (0.19%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (0.16%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (0.16%) BigQuery
11 6 (0.16%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.13%) Hadoop
12 5 (0.13%) MySQL
12 5 (0.13%) Tick Data
13 4 (0.11%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.11%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 174 (4.68%) Rational DOORS
2 66 (1.77%) Git
3 59 (1.59%) JIRA
4 40 (1.08%) Visual Studio
5 26 (0.70%) Eclipse
5 26 (0.70%) Eclipse RCP
6 7 (0.19%) Selenium
6 7 (0.19%) Subversion
7 6 (0.16%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.13%) Appium
8 5 (0.13%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.13%) MSTest
9 4 (0.11%) Maven
9 4 (0.11%) Postman
10 3 (0.081%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.081%) CMake
10 3 (0.081%) JMeter
11 2 (0.054%) NUnit
11 2 (0.054%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.054%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 931 (25.03%) Social Skills
2 749 (20.13%) Finance
3 682 (18.33%) Analytical Skills
4 537 (14.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 528 (14.19%) Presentation Skills
6 449 (12.07%) Electronics
7 324 (8.71%) Manufacturing
8 301 (8.09%) Marketing
9 297 (7.98%) Aerospace
10 262 (7.04%) Law
11 174 (4.68%) Banking
12 142 (3.82%) Aeronautics
13 92 (2.47%) Retail
14 61 (1.64%) Automotive
15 55 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
16 51 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
16 51 (1.37%) Legal
17 44 (1.18%) Games
18 33 (0.89%) Military
19 28 (0.75%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 1,005 (27.02%) Senior
2 939 (25.24%) Systems Engineer
3 540 (14.52%) Developer
4 470 (12.63%) Software Developer
5 397 (10.67%) Principal Engineer
6 363 (9.76%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 317 (8.52%) Principal Systems Engineer
8 246 (6.61%) IT Support
9 191 (5.13%) Analyst
10 187 (5.03%) Senior Electrical Engineer
11 185 (4.97%) Junior
12 171 (4.60%) Software Engineer
13 151 (4.06%) Technical Manager
14 145 (3.90%) Junior Systems Engineer
15 143 (3.84%) Trainer
16 137 (3.68%) Lead
17 136 (3.66%) Help Desk Manager
18 127 (3.41%) Integration Engineer
18 127 (3.41%) System Verification Engineer
18 127 (3.41%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (2.39%) .NET
2 76 (2.04%) Node.js
3 64 (1.72%) Pandas
4 60 (1.61%) Software Packaging
5 49 (1.32%) HTML
6 39 (1.05%) CSS
7 28 (0.75%) AngularJS
7 28 (0.75%) React
8 27 (0.73%) scikit-learn
9 26 (0.70%) JSP
9 26 (0.70%) Middleware
10 25 (0.67%) TensorFlow
11 24 (0.65%) WPF
12 18 (0.48%) PyTorch
13 17 (0.46%) NumPy
14 15 (0.40%) PySpark
15 14 (0.38%) gRPC
16 12 (0.32%) Boost C++ Libraries
16 12 (0.32%) Kafka
17 11 (0.30%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 492 (13.23%) Cyberattack
2 237 (6.37%) Enterprise Software
3 180 (4.84%) SCADA
4 176 (4.73%) Algorithms
5 61 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
6 39 (1.05%) Management Information System
7 31 (0.83%) Social Media
8 23 (0.62%) Cloud Native
9 19 (0.51%) Fixed Income
9 19 (0.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 19 (0.51%) Mobile App
10 18 (0.48%) Analytical Mindset
10 18 (0.48%) Derivative
11 17 (0.46%) Data Structures
12 16 (0.43%) Equities
13 15 (0.40%) Hedge funds
14 14 (0.38%) Credit Risk
15 13 (0.35%) Product Ownership
15 13 (0.35%) Virtual Team
16 12 (0.32%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 558 (15.00%) Linux
2 464 (12.47%) Android
3 321 (8.63%) Windows
4 26 (0.70%) Windows Vista
5 17 (0.46%) Unix
6 2 (0.054%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.027%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.027%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.027%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.027%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.027%) VMS
7 1 (0.027%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,505 (40.46%) Physics
2 1,458 (39.19%) Systems Engineering
3 831 (22.34%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 772 (20.75%) Line Management
5 762 (20.48%) Software Engineering
6 700 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
7 668 (17.96%) Validation
8 626 (16.83%) Verification and Validation
9 601 (16.16%) Computer Science
10 598 (16.08%) Agile
11 564 (15.16%) SysML
12 503 (13.52%) OO
13 489 (13.15%) Coaching
14 482 (12.96%) OOP
15 462 (12.42%) Design Patterns
16 447 (12.02%) Android Development
17 434 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
18 397 (10.67%) Statistics
19 393 (10.56%) Digital Twin
20 390 (10.48%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 950 (25.54%) Python
2 661 (17.77%) MATLAB
3 606 (16.29%) C++
4 601 (16.16%) Java
5 454 (12.20%) Go
6 259 (6.96%) SQL
7 138 (3.71%) C#
8 134 (3.60%) Rust
9 129 (3.47%) JavaScript
10 90 (2.42%) C
11 45 (1.21%) R
12 37 (0.99%) TypeScript
13 27 (0.73%) Ada
14 14 (0.38%) Fortran
15 12 (0.32%) Bash
16 8 (0.22%) T-SQL
16 8 (0.22%) VBA
17 7 (0.19%) Scala
18 6 (0.16%) PHP
19 5 (0.13%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 2,781 (74.76%) Degree
2 1,118 (30.05%) BPSS Clearance
3 536 (14.41%) Security Cleared
4 506 (13.60%) DV Cleared
5 465 (12.50%) HND
6 406 (10.91%) HNC
7 308 (8.28%) Numerate Degree
8 285 (7.66%) Master's Degree
9 230 (6.18%) PhD
10 76 (2.04%) DBS Check
11 64 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
12 45 (1.21%) Chartered Engineer
13 33 (0.89%) SC Cleared
14 10 (0.27%) AAT
14 10 (0.27%) ACCA
14 10 (0.27%) CIMA
15 9 (0.24%) Postgraduate
16 5 (0.13%) A+ Certification
17 4 (0.11%) ISTQB
18 3 (0.081%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (4.41%) IEC 61508
2 163 (4.38%) ARP4754
2 163 (4.38%) DO-254
3 82 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 32 (0.86%) QA
5 11 (0.30%) Data Quality
6 9 (0.24%) GDPR
6 9 (0.24%) SLA
7 6 (0.16%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.16%) Good Clinical Practice
8 5 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.081%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.054%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.054%) NIST
11 1 (0.027%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.027%) DO-178B
11 1 (0.027%) IFRS
11 1 (0.027%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 479 (12.88%) Docker
2 10 (0.27%) Firmware
3 9 (0.24%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 449 (12.07%) Ansible
2 83 (2.23%) Kubernetes
3 52 (1.40%) Terraform
4 6 (0.16%) BMC PATROL
5 1 (0.027%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.027%) Istio
5 1 (0.027%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 149 (4.01%) Microsoft
2 147 (3.95%) IBM
3 144 (3.87%) PayPal
4 92 (2.47%) MathWorks
5 47 (1.26%) Adobe
6 36 (0.97%) Databricks
6 36 (0.97%) Salesforce
7 28 (0.75%) Google
7 28 (0.75%) Oracle
8 27 (0.73%) Micro Focus
9 21 (0.56%) Siemens
10 19 (0.51%) Zoho
11 13 (0.35%) Marketo
11 13 (0.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 12 (0.32%) Dell
13 11 (0.30%) MuleSoft
13 11 (0.30%) SAP
14 7 (0.19%) ANSYS
14 7 (0.19%) Omniture
14 7 (0.19%) TikTok