Hybrid/Remote Mathematics Job Trends

Mathematics (Maths)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Mathematics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 155 133
Rank change year-on-year -21 -22 +44
Permanent jobs citing Mathematics 203 359 536
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.35% 2.18% 2.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 2.33% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 72 178 308
10th Percentile £27,550 £25,313 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,563 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,520 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £115,000 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £141,250 £87,375 £115,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,114 15,432 20,281
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.46% 93.53% 93.47%
Number of salaries quoted 8,324 9,112 16,422
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,938 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Mathematics
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Mathematics and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Mathematics job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Mathematics
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Mathematics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Mathematics

Mathematics
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Mathematics over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Mathematics salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Mathematics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.96%) SAS
2 6 (2.96%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.49%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.49%) CMS
4 1 (0.49%) Confluence
Applications
1 70 (34.48%) Chatbot
2 14 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (5.91%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.48%) Simulink
5 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 12 (5.91%) Azure
2 11 (5.42%) AWS
3 10 (4.93%) Power Platform
4 9 (4.43%) GitHub
4 9 (4.43%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (4.43%) SaaS
5 7 (3.45%) Dagster
6 5 (2.46%) Amazon SageMaker
6 5 (2.46%) Azure Machine Learning
6 5 (2.46%) GCP
6 5 (2.46%) Snowflake
6 5 (2.46%) Vertex AI
7 4 (1.97%) PowerApps
8 2 (0.99%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.99%) Google Analytics
8 2 (0.99%) Google Workspace
8 2 (0.99%) OpenShift
8 2 (0.99%) Prefect
9 1 (0.49%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.49%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.99%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.93%) Power BI
2 7 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.96%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (2.96%) Redis
4 5 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (2.46%) Apache Iceberg
4 5 (2.46%) BigQuery
4 5 (2.46%) Delta Lake
4 5 (2.46%) Looker
4 5 (2.46%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.46%) Pinecone
4 5 (2.46%) Tableau
4 5 (2.46%) Weaviate
5 3 (1.48%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.99%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.99%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.49%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.49%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.49%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 5 (2.46%) JIRA
1 5 (2.46%) MLflow
2 4 (1.97%) Selenium
2 4 (1.97%) SpecFlow
3 3 (1.48%) Git
3 3 (1.48%) GitLab
General
1 64 (31.53%) Social Skills
2 46 (22.66%) Finance
3 41 (20.20%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.42%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (4.93%) Retail
6 9 (4.43%) Banking
6 9 (4.43%) Front Office
7 7 (3.45%) Marketing
8 6 (2.96%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.97%) Billing
9 4 (1.97%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.97%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.48%) Dutch Language
10 3 (1.48%) French Language
10 3 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.48%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.99%) Brand Awareness
11 2 (0.99%) Law
11 2 (0.99%) Legal
11 2 (0.99%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 73 (35.96%) Trainer
2 26 (12.81%) Analyst
3 23 (11.33%) Developer
4 15 (7.39%) Systems Engineer
5 14 (6.90%) Senior
6 10 (4.93%) Software Engineer
7 9 (4.43%) Consultant
8 7 (3.45%) IT Support
8 7 (3.45%) Lead
8 7 (3.45%) Physicist
8 7 (3.45%) Risk Analyst
9 6 (2.96%) Qualitative Analyst
9 6 (2.96%) Quantitative Analyst
9 6 (2.96%) Quantitative Risk Analyst
10 5 (2.46%) 1st Line Support
10 5 (2.46%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
10 5 (2.46%) Data Consultant
10 5 (2.46%) Node.js Developer
10 5 (2.46%) Senior Consultant
10 5 (2.46%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.45%) .NET
2 6 (2.96%) Java Concurrency
2 6 (2.96%) Node.js
3 5 (2.46%) Faiss
3 5 (2.46%) NestJS
3 5 (2.46%) PyTorch
3 5 (2.46%) TensorFlow
3 5 (2.46%) vLLM
4 4 (1.97%) Gherkin
4 4 (1.97%) HTML
5 3 (1.48%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (1.48%) Kafka
5 3 (1.48%) React
6 2 (0.99%) Blazor
6 2 (0.99%) JSON
6 2 (0.99%) REST
7 1 (0.49%) CSS
7 1 (0.49%) NumPy
7 1 (0.49%) Web Services
7 1 (0.49%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.34%) Algorithms
2 13 (6.40%) e-Learning
2 13 (6.40%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (3.45%) Credit Risk
3 7 (3.45%) Derivative
3 7 (3.45%) Driving Licence
3 7 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.97%) Equities
4 4 (1.97%) PMI
5 3 (1.48%) Arduino
5 3 (1.48%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.48%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.48%) Life Science
5 3 (1.48%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.48%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.48%) Raspberry Pi
6 2 (0.99%) Client/Server
6 2 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (0.99%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.90%) Linux
2 6 (2.96%) Unix
3 3 (1.48%) Windows
4 2 (0.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (54.19%) Physics
2 105 (51.72%) AI
3 71 (34.98%) Computer Science
4 70 (34.48%) Conversational UI
5 43 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (12.32%) Software Engineering
6 25 (12.32%) Statistics
7 23 (11.33%) Innovative Thinking
8 21 (10.34%) Analytics
8 21 (10.34%) Data Science
9 16 (7.88%) Machine Learning
10 15 (7.39%) Decision-Making
10 15 (7.39%) Trend Analysis
11 14 (6.90%) Data Analysis
11 14 (6.90%) Economics
12 13 (6.40%) CI/CD
13 12 (5.91%) Customer Service
14 11 (5.42%) Business Intelligence
14 11 (5.42%) Software Testing
14 11 (5.42%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 64 (31.53%) Python
2 24 (11.82%) SQL
3 21 (10.34%) Java
4 14 (6.90%) C
4 14 (6.90%) C++
5 10 (4.93%) C#
6 9 (4.43%) Bash
6 9 (4.43%) JavaScript
7 8 (3.94%) Scala
8 7 (3.45%) R
9 5 (2.46%) Go
9 5 (2.46%) MATLAB
9 5 (2.46%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.46%) VBA
10 4 (1.97%) Fortran
11 3 (1.48%) Assembly Language
11 3 (1.48%) Objective-C
11 3 (1.48%) Swift
12 2 (0.99%) Haskell
12 2 (0.99%) OCaml
Qualifications
1 168 (82.76%) Degree
2 88 (43.35%) Master's Degree
3 81 (39.90%) PhD
4 28 (13.79%) Security Cleared
5 27 (13.30%) SC Cleared
6 13 (6.40%) DV Cleared
7 11 (5.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (5.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (4.93%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (1.97%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.97%) ISEB
9 4 (1.97%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 4 (1.97%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.99%) A+ Certification
10 2 (0.99%) MCP
10 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.99%) NVQ Level 3
10 2 (0.99%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.49%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.99%) GMP
1 2 (0.99%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.49%) IFRS
2 1 (0.49%) IFRS 17
2 1 (0.49%) QA
2 1 (0.49%) Solvency II
System Software
1 8 (3.94%) Docker
2 4 (1.97%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.97%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (0.99%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 70 (34.48%) PayPal
2 14 (6.90%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.46%) Databricks
3 5 (2.46%) Google
3 5 (2.46%) Palantir
4 2 (0.99%) Oracle
4 2 (0.99%) ServiceNow