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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 99 31
Rank change year-on-year +67 -68 +101
Permanent jobs citing Mathematics 3,851 2,719 6,803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.90% 2.62% 7.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.37% 3.12% 7.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,364 1,427 1,001
10th Percentile £25,313 £20,645 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £27,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £45,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.89% -28.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £60,265 £65,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £68,000 £95,000 £116,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £40,000 £45,196
% change year-on-year +25.14% -11.50% -0.67%

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 52,256 87,133 91,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.58% 84.04% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 25,854 60,896 54,581
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -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 31 May 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 31 May 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 +80 3,433 £50,055 +25.14% 876
England +68 3,293 £50,000 +17.65% 1,660
North of England +179 1,596 £47,683 +40.63% 252
North West +138 1,109 £47,863 +27.63% 141
Work from Home +76 874 £25,625 -49.26% 625
Midlands +52 544 £40,101 +43.22% 130
Yorkshire +144 467 £25,625 -26.79% 64
Scotland +63 404 £58,033 +10.54% 43
South East -2 396 £52,500 +16.67% 209
West Midlands +48 335 £30,000 - 77
South West +108 333 £52,600 +5.20% 131
London -46 303 £90,000 +28.57% 841
East Midlands +47 209 £40,101 +44.51% 53
East of England +38 113 £40,101 +31.48% 120
Wales +37 38 £47,550 +11.88% 16
North East +55 20 £40,000 +33.33% 52
Northern Ireland +47 10 £26,000 -62.86% 14

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 28 (0.73%) Apache
1 28 (0.73%) SAS
2 25 (0.65%) Jupyter
3 10 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.18%) Apache Spark
4 7 (0.18%) Confluence
4 7 (0.18%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.078%) CMS
7 1 (0.026%) MTS
Applications
1 746 (19.37%) Simulink
2 199 (5.17%) Chatbot
3 117 (3.04%) Mathcad
4 49 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
5 43 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
6 26 (0.68%) Mathematica
7 20 (0.52%) Maya
8 5 (0.13%) Blender
9 4 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 3 (0.078%) AutoCAD
10 3 (0.078%) GNU Octave
10 3 (0.078%) MicroStation
10 3 (0.078%) SPSS
11 2 (0.052%) LaTeX
11 2 (0.052%) OrCAD
12 1 (0.026%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.026%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.026%) Stata
Business Applications
1 145 (3.77%) Teamcenter
2 11 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.078%) SAP CX
4 2 (0.052%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.052%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.026%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 288 (7.48%) AWS
2 95 (2.47%) Azure
3 52 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
4 51 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
5 49 (1.27%) Power Platform
6 27 (0.70%) Adobe Analytics
7 24 (0.62%) Amazon SageMaker
8 23 (0.60%) GCP
9 22 (0.57%) Microsoft 365
10 19 (0.49%) SaaS
11 18 (0.47%) Cloud Computing
12 14 (0.36%) Google Analytics
12 14 (0.36%) Serverless
13 12 (0.31%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (0.29%) Boomi
14 11 (0.29%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
15 10 (0.26%) AWS Lambda
16 9 (0.23%) Snowflake
17 8 (0.21%) GitHub
18 7 (0.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 659 (17.11%) VPN
2 402 (10.44%) DNS
3 262 (6.80%) Cisco IOS
4 12 (0.31%) Network Security
5 11 (0.29%) Multicast
6 10 (0.26%) HTTP
7 9 (0.23%) 5G
7 9 (0.23%) SD-WAN
7 9 (0.23%) WAN
8 8 (0.21%) Internet
9 5 (0.13%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.10%) Ethernet
10 4 (0.10%) SMTP
11 3 (0.078%) Software-Defined Radio
11 3 (0.078%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.052%) Intranet
13 1 (0.026%) BGP
13 1 (0.026%) DWDM
13 1 (0.026%) IPv4
13 1 (0.026%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (2.62%) Big Data
2 89 (2.31%) Tableau
3 61 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
4 49 (1.27%) Power BI
5 43 (1.12%) SQL Server
6 22 (0.57%) Relational Database
7 19 (0.49%) Data Lake
8 15 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (0.29%) Data Mining
10 10 (0.26%) KDB
11 9 (0.23%) MySQL
12 8 (0.21%) NoSQL
12 8 (0.21%) Redis
13 7 (0.18%) Kdb+
14 6 (0.16%) DynamoDB
14 6 (0.16%) GIS
14 6 (0.16%) Hadoop
15 5 (0.13%) Amazon Aurora
15 5 (0.13%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 165 (4.28%) Rational DOORS
2 68 (1.77%) Git
3 58 (1.51%) JIRA
4 36 (0.93%) Visual Studio
5 26 (0.68%) Eclipse
5 26 (0.68%) Eclipse RCP
6 9 (0.23%) Subversion
7 8 (0.21%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.13%) MSTest
9 3 (0.078%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.078%) RStudio
10 2 (0.052%) CMake
10 2 (0.052%) GitLab
10 2 (0.052%) Maven
10 2 (0.052%) NUnit
10 2 (0.052%) Selenium
10 2 (0.052%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.026%) LabVIEW
11 1 (0.026%) Qt Creator
11 1 (0.026%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 962 (24.98%) Analytical Skills
2 878 (22.80%) Social Skills
3 831 (21.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 781 (20.28%) Finance
5 444 (11.53%) Electronics
6 438 (11.37%) Presentation Skills
7 355 (9.22%) Manufacturing
8 307 (7.97%) Aerospace
9 293 (7.61%) Marketing
10 274 (7.12%) Law
11 194 (5.04%) Banking
12 162 (4.21%) Aeronautics
13 107 (2.78%) Legal
14 98 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
15 95 (2.47%) Retail
16 74 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
17 68 (1.77%) Automotive
18 50 (1.30%) Games
19 34 (0.88%) Front Office
20 33 (0.86%) Esports
Job Titles
1 1,052 (27.32%) Systems Engineer
2 926 (24.05%) Senior
3 524 (13.61%) Developer
4 469 (12.18%) Software Developer
5 371 (9.63%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 263 (6.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 246 (6.39%) Principal Engineer
8 207 (5.38%) Principal Systems Engineer
9 201 (5.22%) Trainer
10 197 (5.12%) Software Engineer
11 182 (4.73%) Junior
12 177 (4.60%) IT Support
13 176 (4.57%) Analyst
14 172 (4.47%) Lead
15 152 (3.95%) Technical Manager
16 145 (3.77%) Junior Systems Engineer
17 136 (3.53%) Help Desk Manager
18 120 (3.12%) Data Scientist
19 110 (2.86%) Data Analyst
20 101 (2.62%) Products Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 262 (6.80%) Elastic Stack
2 78 (2.03%) .NET
3 74 (1.92%) Node.js
4 65 (1.69%) Pandas
5 60 (1.56%) Software Packaging
6 44 (1.14%) HTML
7 36 (0.93%) CSS
8 30 (0.78%) React
9 28 (0.73%) Middleware
10 27 (0.70%) scikit-learn
11 26 (0.68%) JSP
12 25 (0.65%) TensorFlow
13 17 (0.44%) NumPy
14 16 (0.42%) AngularJS
14 16 (0.42%) PyTorch
15 15 (0.39%) Kafka
15 15 (0.39%) PySpark
16 13 (0.34%) FIX Protocol
17 12 (0.31%) Boost C++ Libraries
18 11 (0.29%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 754 (19.58%) Cyberattack
2 175 (4.54%) Algorithms
3 162 (4.21%) Enterprise Software
4 66 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
5 44 (1.14%) Management Information System
6 42 (1.09%) Cloud Native
7 39 (1.01%) Social Media
8 28 (0.73%) Derivative
8 28 (0.73%) SCADA
9 26 (0.68%) Driving Licence
10 20 (0.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 20 (0.52%) Mobile App
11 19 (0.49%) Equities
12 18 (0.47%) Analytical Mindset
12 18 (0.47%) Fixed Income
13 17 (0.44%) Credit Risk
14 15 (0.39%) EPoS
15 13 (0.34%) e-Learning
15 13 (0.34%) Product Ownership
16 12 (0.31%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 826 (21.45%) Linux
2 728 (18.90%) Android
3 508 (13.19%) Windows
4 33 (0.86%) Windows Vista
5 19 (0.49%) Unix
6 2 (0.052%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.052%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.052%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.026%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.026%) SafeRTOS
7 1 (0.026%) VMS
7 1 (0.026%) VxWorks
7 1 (0.026%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,444 (37.50%) Systems Engineering
2 1,406 (36.51%) Physics
3 970 (25.19%) Line Management
4 945 (24.54%) Problem-Solving
5 889 (23.08%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 870 (22.59%) Software Engineering
7 693 (18.00%) Validation
8 661 (17.16%) Computer Science
9 647 (16.80%) SysML
10 635 (16.49%) Verification and Validation
11 630 (16.36%) Agile
12 486 (12.62%) OO
13 476 (12.36%) Digital Twin
14 473 (12.28%) OOP
15 461 (11.97%) Statistics
16 455 (11.82%) Design Patterns
17 450 (11.69%) Artificial Intelligence
18 447 (11.61%) Android Development
19 434 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
20 392 (10.18%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,252 (32.51%) Python
2 764 (19.84%) MATLAB
3 624 (16.20%) Java
4 602 (15.63%) C++
5 456 (11.84%) Go
6 273 (7.09%) Bash
7 264 (6.86%) PowerShell
8 254 (6.60%) SQL
9 134 (3.48%) JavaScript
9 134 (3.48%) Rust
10 120 (3.12%) C#
11 86 (2.23%) C
12 40 (1.04%) R
13 39 (1.01%) TypeScript
14 27 (0.70%) Ada
15 11 (0.29%) Fortran
16 6 (0.16%) Scala
16 6 (0.16%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.16%) VBA
17 5 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2,662 (69.12%) Degree
2 1,042 (27.06%) BPSS Clearance
3 545 (14.15%) HND
4 544 (14.13%) Security Cleared
5 517 (13.43%) DV Cleared
6 480 (12.46%) HNC
7 350 (9.09%) Master's Degree
8 298 (7.74%) PhD
9 188 (4.88%) Numerate Degree
10 79 (2.05%) DBS Check
11 65 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
12 40 (1.04%) SC Cleared
13 21 (0.55%) Chartered Engineer
14 14 (0.36%) Postgraduate
15 5 (0.13%) A+ Certification
16 4 (0.10%) Microsoft Certification
17 3 (0.078%) AWS Certification
17 3 (0.078%) Azure Certification
18 2 (0.052%) CISSP
18 2 (0.052%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (4.28%) IEC 61508
2 163 (4.23%) ARP4754
2 163 (4.23%) DO-254
3 93 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 23 (0.60%) QA
5 20 (0.52%) GDPR
6 13 (0.34%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.13%) SLA
9 4 (0.10%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.078%) CDISC
10 3 (0.078%) Def Stans
10 3 (0.078%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.052%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.052%) DO-178B
11 2 (0.052%) NIST
12 1 (0.026%) IEC 62304
12 1 (0.026%) IFRS
12 1 (0.026%) IFRS 9
12 1 (0.026%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 743 (19.29%) Docker
2 262 (6.80%) Hyper-V
2 262 (6.80%) VMware NSX
2 262 (6.80%) vSphere
3 12 (0.31%) Firmware
4 6 (0.16%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 710 (18.44%) Ansible
2 327 (8.49%) Terraform
3 86 (2.23%) Kubernetes
4 6 (0.16%) Grafana
5 4 (0.10%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.078%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (0.052%) Netcool
7 2 (0.052%) Netcool/OMNIbus
7 2 (0.052%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.026%) Istio
8 1 (0.026%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 265 (6.88%) Splunk
2 263 (6.83%) Cisco
3 262 (6.80%) 3PAR
3 262 (6.80%) Juniper
4 199 (5.17%) PayPal
5 147 (3.82%) IBM
6 140 (3.64%) Microsoft
7 101 (2.62%) MathWorks
8 46 (1.19%) Adobe
9 37 (0.96%) Databricks
10 32 (0.83%) Salesforce
11 31 (0.80%) Google
11 31 (0.80%) Oracle
12 21 (0.55%) Zoho
13 20 (0.52%) SAP
13 20 (0.52%) Siemens
14 14 (0.36%) Marketo
14 14 (0.36%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 12 (0.31%) Dell
16 11 (0.29%) MuleSoft