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 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 156 119
Rank change year-on-year +96 -37 +32
Permanent jobs citing Mathematics 2,761 1,334 4,371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.65% 2.24% 3.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.35% 2.38% 3.24%
Number of salaries quoted 713 719 1,503
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +12.68%
75th Percentile £72,500 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,995 £52,293 £43,250
% change year-on-year -4.39% +20.91% -10.36%

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 63,410 56,130 135,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.81% 94.41% 96.14%
Number of salaries quoted 31,055 40,211 76,155
10th Percentile £33,875 £32,500 £33,986
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £97,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £52,700 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.47% +0.38% +5.00%

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 23 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Mathematics in the UK

Mathematics
Top 18 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 23 October 2024. 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 +84 2,331 £55,000 -15.38% 809
UK excluding London +101 2,226 £49,995 -4.39% 599
South East +40 537 £51,242 -3.32% 157
Work from Home -4 483 £60,000 -7.69% 1,091
North of England +104 467 £42,500 -22.73% 154
London +11 464 £75,000 -14.29% 216
Midlands +90 355 £30,000 -29.41% 112
South West +88 330 £52,600 -4.36% 78
Scotland +79 295 £56,509 -5.82% 11
North West +60 224 £42,500 -34.62% 77
West Midlands +45 205 £37,482 -9.13% 63
Yorkshire +91 202 £60,000 +10.60% 56
East of England +21 176 £70,000 +64.71% 96
East Midlands +64 150 £30,000 -38.46% 49
Wales +53 54 £32,500 +15.54% 6
North East +5 41 £39,866 -6.20% 23
Northern Ireland +29 11 £27,250 -22.14% 4
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 -

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 44 (1.59%) SAS
2 39 (1.41%) Confluence
3 33 (1.20%) WinCC
4 18 (0.65%) Apache Spark
5 17 (0.62%) Apache
6 11 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.25%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
10 3 (0.11%) Luigi
11 2 (0.072%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.072%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.036%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.036%) DataSynapse
Applications
1 120 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 95 (3.44%) Simulink
3 86 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
4 28 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.47%) Mathcad
6 13 (0.47%) Mathematica
7 8 (0.29%) CPLEX
8 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.14%) OrCAD
10 3 (0.11%) CANalyzer
11 2 (0.072%) CATIA
11 2 (0.072%) SPSS
12 1 (0.036%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.036%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.036%) Maya
12 1 (0.036%) MS Visio
12 1 (0.036%) Revit
Business Applications
1 37 (1.34%) Teamcenter
2 8 (0.29%) SAP Business One
3 7 (0.25%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.11%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.072%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.072%) SAP PM
5 2 (0.072%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.036%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 1 (0.036%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.036%) Maximo
6 1 (0.036%) ReMetrica
Cloud Services
1 195 (7.06%) AWS
2 111 (4.02%) Azure
3 84 (3.04%) Power Platform
4 29 (1.05%) GCP
5 28 (1.01%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (0.94%) GitHub
7 22 (0.80%) SaaS
8 12 (0.43%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (0.36%) Cloud Computing
9 10 (0.36%) Figma
9 10 (0.36%) Miro
9 10 (0.36%) PowerApps
10 8 (0.29%) Snowflake
11 6 (0.22%) Amazon SageMaker
11 6 (0.22%) ClickUp
11 6 (0.22%) Entra ID
11 6 (0.22%) Google Sheets
12 5 (0.18%) Amazon S3
12 5 (0.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (0.14%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 49 (1.77%) Broadband
2 19 (0.69%) TCP/IP
3 14 (0.51%) HTTP
4 13 (0.47%) Internet
5 12 (0.43%) SMTP
5 12 (0.43%) WAN
6 11 (0.40%) 5G
7 9 (0.33%) DNS
7 9 (0.33%) Link 16
8 8 (0.29%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.29%) Wireless
9 6 (0.22%) Firewall
10 5 (0.18%) Ethernet
10 5 (0.18%) Network Security
10 5 (0.18%) VoIP
11 4 (0.14%) SNMP
12 3 (0.11%) Intranet
12 3 (0.11%) J1939
12 3 (0.11%) LAN
13 2 (0.072%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (5.98%) Tableau
2 78 (2.83%) Power BI
3 52 (1.88%) SQL Server
4 34 (1.23%) Big Data
5 31 (1.12%) Data Mining
6 23 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
7 21 (0.76%) Geospatial Data
8 20 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
9 18 (0.65%) MySQL
10 17 (0.62%) Relational Database
11 16 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
12 15 (0.54%) Data Lake
13 13 (0.47%) Hadoop
14 11 (0.40%) Amazon QuickSight
14 11 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (0.40%) NoSQL
15 9 (0.33%) RDBMS
16 8 (0.29%) Redis
16 8 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 7 (0.25%) GIS
Development Applications
1 146 (5.29%) Git
2 64 (2.32%) JIRA
3 48 (1.74%) Rational DOORS
4 39 (1.41%) Visual Studio
5 26 (0.94%) Subversion
6 15 (0.54%) CMake
7 14 (0.51%) Jenkins
7 14 (0.51%) Mercurial
8 11 (0.40%) Bitbucket
9 10 (0.36%) Eclipse
9 10 (0.36%) Eclipse RCP
9 10 (0.36%) MSTest
10 8 (0.29%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
11 7 (0.25%) GitLab
12 6 (0.22%) Crucible
13 4 (0.14%) PostCSS
13 4 (0.14%) rollup.js
13 4 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
13 4 (0.14%) Vite
General
1 866 (31.37%) Social Skills
2 490 (17.75%) Analytical Skills
3 358 (12.97%) Finance
4 351 (12.71%) Retail
5 338 (12.24%) Presentation Skills
6 110 (3.98%) Aerospace
7 86 (3.11%) Games
8 85 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
9 84 (3.04%) Electronics
10 80 (2.90%) Marketing
11 79 (2.86%) Banking
12 78 (2.83%) Law
13 74 (2.68%) Manufacturing
13 74 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
14 63 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 52 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
16 51 (1.85%) Avionics
17 47 (1.70%) Legal
18 35 (1.27%) Aeronautics
19 34 (1.23%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 829 (30.03%) Senior
2 501 (18.15%) Principal Engineer
3 346 (12.53%) Configuration Management Engineer
3 346 (12.53%) SCM Engineer
4 313 (11.34%) Analyst
5 236 (8.55%) Senior Electrical Engineer
6 235 (8.51%) Software Engineer
7 214 (7.75%) Developer
8 211 (7.64%) Lead
9 153 (5.54%) Systems Engineer
10 140 (5.07%) Senior Analyst
11 133 (4.82%) Data Scientist
12 126 (4.56%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 116 (4.20%) Data Analyst
14 89 (3.22%) Senior Developer
15 84 (3.04%) Senior Data Analyst
16 81 (2.93%) Senior Software Engineer
17 80 (2.90%) Senior Data Scientist
18 71 (2.57%) Software Developer
19 59 (2.14%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (4.89%) .NET
2 120 (4.35%) HTML
3 106 (3.84%) CSS
4 77 (2.79%) WPF
5 53 (1.92%) Pandas
5 53 (1.92%) PySpark
6 42 (1.52%) ASP.NET
6 42 (1.52%) TensorFlow
7 38 (1.38%) .NET Framework
8 35 (1.27%) scikit-learn
9 34 (1.23%) Blazor
10 30 (1.09%) HTML5
10 30 (1.09%) React
11 23 (0.83%) NumPy
11 23 (0.83%) XML
12 21 (0.76%) AngularJS
13 19 (0.69%) Kafka
13 19 (0.69%) Node.js
13 19 (0.69%) Qt
13 19 (0.69%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 276 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 273 (9.89%) Onboarding
3 238 (8.62%) SCADA
4 79 (2.86%) Social Media
5 59 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
6 45 (1.63%) Robotics
7 42 (1.52%) Management Information System
8 41 (1.48%) Credit Risk
9 33 (1.20%) STB
10 26 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
11 23 (0.83%) Virtual Team
12 20 (0.72%) Cloud Native
12 20 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
12 20 (0.72%) Hedge funds
13 19 (0.69%) FPGA
14 16 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
15 15 (0.54%) Driving Licence
16 14 (0.51%) Acoustics
17 13 (0.47%) Equities
17 13 (0.47%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 160 (5.80%) Linux
2 125 (4.53%) Windows
3 53 (1.92%) Unix
4 29 (1.05%) Windows Vista
5 8 (0.29%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
6 5 (0.18%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.14%) Android
7 4 (0.14%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
8 2 (0.072%) CentOS
8 2 (0.072%) SUSE
8 2 (0.072%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.036%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.036%) VMS
9 1 (0.036%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.036%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 906 (32.81%) Physics
2 671 (24.30%) Problem-Solving
3 591 (21.41%) Coaching
4 571 (20.68%) Computer Science
5 530 (19.20%) Data Analysis
6 444 (16.08%) Stakeholder Management
7 385 (13.94%) Data Science
8 371 (13.44%) Software Engineering
9 368 (13.33%) Analytics
10 359 (13.00%) Configuration Management
11 355 (12.86%) Release Management
12 351 (12.71%) Waterfall
13 332 (12.02%) Mentoring
14 294 (10.65%) Customer Service
15 290 (10.50%) Statistics
16 286 (10.36%) Machine Learning
17 252 (9.13%) Systems Engineering
18 240 (8.69%) Visualisation
19 231 (8.37%) Artificial Intelligence
20 209 (7.57%) Mechatronics
Programming Languages
1 754 (27.31%) Python
2 403 (14.60%) SQL
3 258 (9.34%) C++
4 225 (8.15%) C#
5 196 (7.10%) C
6 156 (5.65%) JavaScript
7 151 (5.47%) VBA
8 139 (5.03%) MATLAB
9 123 (4.45%) Java
9 123 (4.45%) R
10 57 (2.06%) TypeScript
11 53 (1.92%) Rust
12 51 (1.85%) Fortran
13 33 (1.20%) Bash
14 27 (0.98%) PHP
15 15 (0.54%) T-SQL
16 11 (0.40%) Embedded C
17 10 (0.36%) Embedded C++
17 10 (0.36%) PowerShell
18 9 (0.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2,214 (80.19%) Degree
2 457 (16.55%) Chartered Engineer
3 398 (14.42%) Numerate Degree
4 252 (9.13%) HNC
5 194 (7.03%) Master's Degree
6 183 (6.63%) Security Cleared
7 144 (5.22%) DBS Check
8 124 (4.49%) PhD
9 121 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
10 79 (2.86%) SC Cleared
11 62 (2.25%) HND
12 30 (1.09%) DV Cleared
13 11 (0.40%) ACCA
13 11 (0.40%) CIMA
14 8 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (0.22%) CISSP
15 6 (0.22%) MBA
16 5 (0.18%) CISM
16 5 (0.18%) CRISC
16 5 (0.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (2.39%) Data Quality
2 46 (1.67%) QA
3 22 (0.80%) Accessibility
4 17 (0.62%) IEC 61131
5 13 (0.47%) ISO 9002
6 10 (0.36%) SLA
7 9 (0.33%) CDISC
7 9 (0.33%) IFRS
7 9 (0.33%) IFRS 9
8 7 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
8 7 (0.25%) WAI
9 6 (0.22%) GDPR
9 6 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
10 5 (0.18%) ISO 26262
10 5 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 5 (0.18%) NIST
11 4 (0.14%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.072%) Automotive SPICE
12 2 (0.072%) MISRA
12 2 (0.072%) MISRA C
System Software
1 41 (1.48%) Docker
2 20 (0.72%) Firmware
3 14 (0.51%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.47%) Embedded Firmware
5 9 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.22%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.072%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.036%) KVM
8 1 (0.036%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.036%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.036%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.036%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 37 (1.34%) Kubernetes
2 15 (0.54%) Terraform
3 5 (0.18%) Grafana
4 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.072%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.036%) Ansible
6 1 (0.036%) Kibana
6 1 (0.036%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 346 (12.53%) Micro Focus
2 209 (7.57%) Microsoft
3 130 (4.71%) Databricks
4 47 (1.70%) IBM
5 37 (1.34%) Siemens
6 35 (1.27%) Google
7 29 (1.05%) Oracle
8 19 (0.69%) SAP
9 13 (0.47%) ANSYS
10 11 (0.40%) Salesforce
11 10 (0.36%) VMware
12 9 (0.33%) Alteryx
13 7 (0.25%) NEC
13 7 (0.25%) Xilinx
14 6 (0.22%) Apple
14 6 (0.22%) Cadence
14 6 (0.22%) Trayport
15 5 (0.18%) EMC
15 5 (0.18%) Sage
16 4 (0.14%) Sun