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

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 98 36
Rank change year-on-year +70 -62 +101
Permanent jobs citing Mathematics 3,813 2,627 7,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.06% 2.66% 6.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.53% 3.10% 7.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,391 1,432 1,102
10th Percentile £25,313 £20,750 £24,000
25th Percentile £37,574 £27,500 £36,813
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 £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 50,654 84,747 98,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.80% 85.73% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,617 59,812 57,648
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,474 £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 8 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 8 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 +87 3,417 £50,055 +25.14% 1,241
England +74 3,234 £50,055 +11.23% 1,961
North of England +180 1,387 £47,683 +36.24% 297
North West +137 859 £47,773 +27.39% 154
Midlands +50 588 £40,101 +44.51% 198
Work from Home +67 547 £25,625 -50.27% 1,254
Yorkshire +143 514 £25,625 -26.79% 99
South East +23 444 £55,000 +22.22% 418
Scotland +65 424 £58,033 +10.54% 61
South West +116 376 £52,600 +10.37% 139
West Midlands +45 362 £30,000 +1.69% 106
London -46 293 £85,000 +21.43% 954
East Midlands +61 226 £40,101 +45.82% 91
East of England +54 140 £40,101 +40.70% 154
Wales +39 52 £47,550 +5.67% 20
North East +49 14 £44,500 +48.33% 48
Northern Ireland +39 7 £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 30 (0.79%) SAS
2 29 (0.76%) Apache
3 23 (0.60%) Jupyter
4 10 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.21%) Apache Spark
5 8 (0.21%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.16%) Confluence
6 6 (0.16%) IBM Domino
7 4 (0.10%) CMS
8 2 (0.052%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.026%) Joomla!
9 1 (0.026%) MTS
9 1 (0.026%) WordPress
Applications
1 689 (18.07%) Simulink
2 144 (3.78%) Chatbot
3 123 (3.23%) Mathcad
4 68 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
5 46 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
6 41 (1.08%) Mathematica
7 20 (0.52%) Maya
8 14 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 3 (0.079%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.079%) SPSS
10 2 (0.052%) Blender
10 2 (0.052%) LaTeX
10 2 (0.052%) OrCAD
11 1 (0.026%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.026%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.026%) GNU Octave
11 1 (0.026%) Microsoft Project
11 1 (0.026%) MicroStation
11 1 (0.026%) Stata
Business Applications
1 145 (3.80%) Teamcenter
2 11 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.079%) SAP CX
4 2 (0.052%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (0.052%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.052%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.026%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 356 (9.34%) AWS
2 103 (2.70%) Azure
3 58 (1.52%) Power Platform
4 52 (1.36%) AWS CloudFormation
5 50 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
6 29 (0.76%) Adobe Analytics
7 22 (0.58%) Amazon SageMaker
7 22 (0.58%) Cloud Computing
8 20 (0.52%) GCP
8 20 (0.52%) SaaS
9 18 (0.47%) Microsoft 365
10 16 (0.42%) Google Analytics
10 16 (0.42%) Serverless
11 13 (0.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 11 (0.29%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (0.29%) Boomi
12 11 (0.29%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
13 10 (0.26%) GitHub
14 8 (0.21%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (0.18%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 402 (10.54%) DNS
2 397 (10.41%) VPN
3 14 (0.37%) HTTP
4 11 (0.29%) Multicast
4 11 (0.29%) Network Security
5 7 (0.18%) Internet
6 6 (0.16%) 5G
6 6 (0.16%) Ethernet
6 6 (0.16%) SD-WAN
6 6 (0.16%) WAN
7 5 (0.13%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.10%) SMTP
9 3 (0.079%) Software-Defined Radio
9 3 (0.079%) Structured Cabling
9 3 (0.079%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.052%) DWDM
10 2 (0.052%) GPON
10 2 (0.052%) IPv4
10 2 (0.052%) IPv6
10 2 (0.052%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (2.49%) Big Data
2 86 (2.26%) Tableau
3 59 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
4 57 (1.49%) Power BI
5 49 (1.29%) SQL Server
6 16 (0.42%) Data Lake
6 16 (0.42%) Relational Database
7 11 (0.29%) Data Mining
8 9 (0.24%) Redis
9 8 (0.21%) Amazon QuickSight
9 8 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.21%) NoSQL
10 7 (0.18%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (0.16%) BigQuery
11 6 (0.16%) Hadoop
11 6 (0.16%) MySQL
12 5 (0.13%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (0.13%) MongoDB
13 4 (0.10%) KDB
13 4 (0.10%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 174 (4.56%) Rational DOORS
2 67 (1.76%) Git
3 60 (1.57%) JIRA
4 40 (1.05%) Visual Studio
5 26 (0.68%) Eclipse
5 26 (0.68%) Eclipse RCP
6 7 (0.18%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.18%) Selenium
6 7 (0.18%) Subversion
7 5 (0.13%) Appium
7 5 (0.13%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.13%) MSTest
8 4 (0.10%) CMake
8 4 (0.10%) Maven
8 4 (0.10%) Postman
9 3 (0.079%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.079%) JMeter
9 3 (0.079%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (0.079%) TestRail
10 2 (0.052%) NUnit
General
1 942 (24.70%) Social Skills
2 755 (19.80%) Finance
3 694 (18.20%) Analytical Skills
4 537 (14.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 528 (13.85%) Presentation Skills
6 451 (11.83%) Electronics
7 334 (8.76%) Manufacturing
8 317 (8.31%) Aerospace
9 300 (7.87%) Marketing
10 265 (6.95%) Law
11 174 (4.56%) Banking
12 162 (4.25%) Aeronautics
13 95 (2.49%) Retail
14 71 (1.86%) Automotive
15 66 (1.73%) Legal
16 64 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
17 60 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
18 42 (1.10%) Games
19 33 (0.87%) Military
20 28 (0.73%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 1,037 (27.20%) Senior
2 997 (26.15%) Systems Engineer
3 534 (14.00%) Developer
4 468 (12.27%) Software Developer
5 396 (10.39%) Principal Engineer
6 383 (10.04%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 317 (8.31%) Principal Systems Engineer
8 249 (6.53%) IT Support
9 193 (5.06%) Analyst
10 187 (4.90%) Senior Electrical Engineer
11 184 (4.83%) Junior
12 172 (4.51%) Software Engineer
13 151 (3.96%) Technical Manager
14 149 (3.91%) Lead
15 145 (3.80%) Junior Systems Engineer
16 143 (3.75%) Trainer
17 136 (3.57%) Help Desk Manager
18 127 (3.33%) Integration Engineer
18 127 (3.33%) System Verification Engineer
18 127 (3.33%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (2.28%) .NET
2 76 (1.99%) Node.js
3 64 (1.68%) Pandas
4 60 (1.57%) Software Packaging
5 49 (1.29%) HTML
6 38 (1.00%) CSS
7 28 (0.73%) scikit-learn
8 27 (0.71%) React
9 26 (0.68%) JSP
9 26 (0.68%) Middleware
10 25 (0.66%) AngularJS
10 25 (0.66%) TensorFlow
11 23 (0.60%) WPF
12 18 (0.47%) PyTorch
13 17 (0.45%) NumPy
14 15 (0.39%) PySpark
15 13 (0.34%) gRPC
16 12 (0.31%) Boost C++ Libraries
16 12 (0.31%) Kafka
17 11 (0.29%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 492 (12.90%) Cyberattack
2 237 (6.22%) Enterprise Software
3 180 (4.72%) SCADA
4 178 (4.67%) Algorithms
5 67 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
6 40 (1.05%) Management Information System
7 38 (1.00%) Social Media
8 24 (0.63%) Cloud Native
9 20 (0.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 19 (0.50%) Derivative
10 19 (0.50%) Fixed Income
10 19 (0.50%) Mobile App
11 17 (0.45%) Analytical Mindset
12 16 (0.42%) Credit Risk
12 16 (0.42%) Data Structures
12 16 (0.42%) Equities
13 15 (0.39%) Product Ownership
14 13 (0.34%) EPoS
14 13 (0.34%) Hedge funds
14 13 (0.34%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 557 (14.61%) Linux
2 464 (12.17%) Android
3 327 (8.58%) Windows
4 33 (0.87%) Windows Vista
5 17 (0.45%) Unix
6 2 (0.052%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.026%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.026%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.026%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.026%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.026%) VMS
7 1 (0.026%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,529 (40.10%) Physics
2 1,514 (39.71%) Systems Engineering
3 875 (22.95%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 797 (20.90%) Software Engineering
5 779 (20.43%) Line Management
6 717 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
7 711 (18.65%) Validation
8 660 (17.31%) Verification and Validation
9 606 (15.89%) Computer Science
10 598 (15.68%) Agile
10 598 (15.68%) SysML
11 509 (13.35%) Coaching
12 501 (13.14%) OO
13 482 (12.64%) OOP
14 461 (12.09%) Design Patterns
15 447 (11.72%) Android Development
16 439 (11.51%) Continuous Improvement
17 427 (11.20%) Digital Twin
18 405 (10.62%) Statistics
19 393 (10.31%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 962 (25.23%) Python
2 697 (18.28%) MATLAB
3 610 (16.00%) C++
4 604 (15.84%) Java
5 454 (11.91%) Go
6 260 (6.82%) SQL
7 137 (3.59%) C#
8 134 (3.51%) Rust
9 128 (3.36%) JavaScript
10 91 (2.39%) C
11 48 (1.26%) R
12 35 (0.92%) TypeScript
13 27 (0.71%) Ada
14 15 (0.39%) Fortran
15 13 (0.34%) Bash
16 9 (0.24%) VBA
17 7 (0.18%) Scala
18 6 (0.16%) PHP
18 6 (0.16%) T-SQL
19 5 (0.13%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 2,861 (75.03%) Degree
2 1,147 (30.08%) BPSS Clearance
3 537 (14.08%) Security Cleared
4 509 (13.35%) HND
5 506 (13.27%) DV Cleared
6 440 (11.54%) HNC
7 316 (8.29%) Numerate Degree
8 296 (7.76%) Master's Degree
9 238 (6.24%) PhD
10 83 (2.18%) DBS Check
11 68 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
12 45 (1.18%) Chartered Engineer
13 34 (0.89%) SC Cleared
14 11 (0.29%) Postgraduate
15 10 (0.26%) AAT
15 10 (0.26%) ACCA
15 10 (0.26%) CIMA
16 5 (0.13%) A+ Certification
17 4 (0.10%) ISTQB
18 3 (0.079%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (4.30%) IEC 61508
2 163 (4.27%) ARP4754
2 163 (4.27%) DO-254
3 82 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 32 (0.84%) QA
5 12 (0.31%) GDPR
6 11 (0.29%) Data Quality
7 9 (0.24%) SLA
8 6 (0.16%) Accessibility
8 6 (0.16%) Good Clinical Practice
9 5 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.079%) CDISC
10 3 (0.079%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.052%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.052%) NIST
12 1 (0.026%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.026%) DO-178B
12 1 (0.026%) IFRS
12 1 (0.026%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 479 (12.56%) Docker
2 10 (0.26%) Firmware
3 9 (0.24%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 449 (11.78%) Ansible
2 83 (2.18%) Kubernetes
3 54 (1.42%) Terraform
4 6 (0.16%) BMC PATROL
5 2 (0.052%) Grafana
5 2 (0.052%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.026%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.026%) Istio
6 1 (0.026%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 151 (3.96%) Microsoft
2 147 (3.86%) IBM
3 144 (3.78%) PayPal
4 92 (2.41%) MathWorks
5 48 (1.26%) Adobe
6 36 (0.94%) Databricks
6 36 (0.94%) Salesforce
7 30 (0.79%) Google
8 27 (0.71%) Micro Focus
9 26 (0.68%) Oracle
10 21 (0.55%) Siemens
11 19 (0.50%) Zoho
12 15 (0.39%) SAP
13 14 (0.37%) Marketo
13 14 (0.37%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 12 (0.31%) Dell
15 11 (0.29%) MuleSoft
16 7 (0.18%) Omniture
16 7 (0.18%) TikTok
17 6 (0.16%) EMC