Mathematics (Maths)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Mathematics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Mathematics over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 34 133
Rank change year-on-year -65 +99 +21
Permanent jobs citing Mathematics 2,678 6,926 4,915
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.65% 7.03% 3.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.13% 7.36% 3.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,416 1,034 1,667
10th Percentile £20,645 £25,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £27,500 £38,112 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £92,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £94,375 £115,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £45,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% -1.10% -4.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Mathematics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,549 94,155 156,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 95.59% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 60,063 55,401 82,663
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

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 May 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 May 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 -73 2,242 £42,500 -32.00% 2,050
UK excluding London -81 1,942 £40,000 -11.11% 1,560
Work from Home +37 736 £51,500 -20.77% 391
London +21 679 £70,000 -15.15% 459
South East -40 626 £45,000 -18.18% 373
Midlands -54 395 £28,000 -26.32% 337
Scotland -31 336 £52,500 +10.53% 19
West Midlands -40 259 £30,000 -23.08% 180
North of England -162 224 £35,000 -12.50% 426
South West -106 197 £47,657 -31.92% 293
North West -133 144 £37,500 -21.05% 213
East Midlands -46 136 £27,750 +15.63% 158
East of England -107 117 £30,500 -49.17% 185
Yorkshire -127 65 £35,000 -12.50% 164
Wales -39 42 £43,750 -20.45% 26
North East -102 15 £30,000 -20.00% 51
Northern Ireland +5 5 £70,000 - 12
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 - 2

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 55 (2.05%) SAS
2 53 (1.98%) Apache Spark
3 17 (0.63%) Cloud Foundry
4 15 (0.56%) Apache
4 15 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.41%) Confluence
6 10 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (0.37%) CMS
7 7 (0.26%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.22%) Drupal
9 5 (0.19%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 4 (0.15%) Moodle
10 4 (0.15%) Site Server
11 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.075%) Luigi
12 2 (0.075%) WordPress
Applications
1 249 (9.30%) Microsoft Office
2 208 (7.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 37 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 37 (1.38%) Simulink
4 27 (1.01%) AutoCAD
5 19 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.49%) SPSS
7 10 (0.37%) GNU Octave
8 7 (0.26%) MS Visio
9 6 (0.22%) Stateflow
10 4 (0.15%) Solid Edge
10 4 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
11 3 (0.11%) Revit
12 2 (0.075%) Microsoft Project
13 1 (0.037%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.037%) Adobe XD
13 1 (0.037%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 9 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.26%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.15%) SAP CO
3 4 (0.15%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.15%) SAP FI
3 4 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
3 4 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.075%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.037%) Maximo
5 1 (0.037%) ProductWriter
5 1 (0.037%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.037%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 366 (13.67%) AWS
2 168 (6.27%) Azure
3 164 (6.12%) Power Platform
4 81 (3.02%) GCP
5 73 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
6 24 (0.90%) GitHub
7 22 (0.82%) SaaS
8 19 (0.71%) Dynamics 365
9 14 (0.52%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (0.52%) Serverless
10 12 (0.45%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (0.45%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (0.37%) Snowflake
12 8 (0.30%) Power Automate
12 8 (0.30%) PowerApps
13 7 (0.26%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (0.26%) Amazon Kinesis
13 7 (0.26%) Amazon S3
13 7 (0.26%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (0.26%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 73 (2.73%) Wireless
2 21 (0.78%) Firewall
3 20 (0.75%) Internet
4 19 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
5 17 (0.63%) Kerberos
5 17 (0.63%) TCP/IP
6 13 (0.49%) LAN
7 12 (0.45%) Broadband
8 10 (0.37%) Network Security
9 7 (0.26%) Link 16
9 7 (0.26%) VPN
10 6 (0.22%) 5G
10 6 (0.22%) VLAN
11 5 (0.19%) Intranet
11 5 (0.19%) Unified Communications
11 5 (0.19%) VoIP
12 4 (0.15%) 3GPP
12 4 (0.15%) DNS
12 4 (0.15%) Ethernet
12 4 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 300 (11.20%) Tableau
2 156 (5.83%) Power BI
3 85 (3.17%) SQL Server
4 76 (2.84%) NoSQL
5 44 (1.64%) Data Mining
6 40 (1.49%) Big Data
7 39 (1.46%) Hadoop
8 38 (1.42%) MySQL
9 34 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
10 30 (1.12%) Relational Database
11 29 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
12 28 (1.05%) Data Lake
13 24 (0.90%) Redis
14 23 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
15 17 (0.63%) Amazon Aurora
15 17 (0.63%) Apache Ignite
15 17 (0.63%) CockroachDB
16 15 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 13 (0.49%) Amazon QuickSight
17 13 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 255 (9.52%) Git
2 27 (1.01%) Subversion
3 26 (0.97%) JIRA
4 23 (0.86%) CMake
5 21 (0.78%) Visual Studio
6 12 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 9 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
8 8 (0.30%) Jenkins
8 8 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
9 7 (0.26%) JUnit
9 7 (0.26%) TestRail
10 6 (0.22%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.19%) Eclipse
11 5 (0.19%) Robot Framework
11 5 (0.19%) Xcode
12 4 (0.15%) GitLab
12 4 (0.15%) Gradle
12 4 (0.15%) Katalon Studio
12 4 (0.15%) Maven
12 4 (0.15%) Postman
General
1 1,038 (38.76%) Social Skills
2 698 (26.06%) Analytical Skills
3 636 (23.75%) Finance
4 507 (18.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 311 (11.61%) Marketing
6 291 (10.87%) Law
7 268 (10.01%) Retail
8 225 (8.40%) Organisational Skills
9 222 (8.29%) Presentation Skills
10 150 (5.60%) Financial Institution
11 128 (4.78%) Influencing Skills
12 121 (4.52%) Games
13 105 (3.92%) Banking
14 95 (3.55%) Legal
15 78 (2.91%) Investment Banking
16 71 (2.65%) Electronics
16 71 (2.65%) Military
17 66 (2.46%) Local Government
17 66 (2.46%) Manufacturing
18 58 (2.17%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 575 (21.47%) Senior
2 571 (21.32%) Analyst
3 282 (10.53%) Software Engineer
4 248 (9.26%) Data Scientist
5 232 (8.66%) Data Analyst
6 208 (7.77%) Developer
7 196 (7.32%) Senior Analyst
8 171 (6.39%) Lead
9 163 (6.09%) Engineering Manager
9 163 (6.09%) Software Engineering Manager
10 131 (4.89%) Graduate
11 124 (4.63%) Product Analyst
11 124 (4.63%) Sales Analyst
12 113 (4.22%) Senior Data Analyst
13 90 (3.36%) Senior Data Scientist
14 84 (3.14%) Senior Software Engineer
15 73 (2.73%) IT Support
16 66 (2.46%) Senior Manager
17 61 (2.28%) Systems Engineer
18 60 (2.24%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (4.82%) Pandas
2 124 (4.63%) .NET
3 93 (3.47%) NumPy
4 92 (3.44%) TensorFlow
5 81 (3.02%) Spring
6 70 (2.61%) Kafka
7 58 (2.17%) scikit-learn
8 56 (2.09%) Spring Boot
9 54 (2.02%) RESTful
10 52 (1.94%) PySpark
11 49 (1.83%) HTML
12 48 (1.79%) PyTorch
13 42 (1.57%) Qt
14 41 (1.53%) XML
15 32 (1.19%) CSS
15 32 (1.19%) REST
16 31 (1.16%) React
17 21 (0.78%) HTML5
17 21 (0.78%) WPF
18 20 (0.75%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 477 (17.81%) Algorithms
2 243 (9.07%) Cloud Native
3 147 (5.49%) Self-Motivation
4 98 (3.66%) Onboarding
5 96 (3.58%) Management Information System
6 95 (3.55%) Driving Licence
7 65 (2.43%) Market Risk
8 56 (2.09%) Data Structures
9 50 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
10 49 (1.83%) Distributed Applications
11 42 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
12 33 (1.23%) CUDA
13 29 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
14 28 (1.05%) Life Science
15 26 (0.97%) Housing Association
15 26 (0.97%) PMI
16 22 (0.82%) FPGA
17 21 (0.78%) CCTV
17 21 (0.78%) Product Ownership
18 19 (0.71%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 186 (6.95%) Linux
2 152 (5.68%) Windows
3 48 (1.79%) Android
4 37 (1.38%) Apple iOS
5 36 (1.34%) Unix
6 24 (0.90%) Windows 10
7 14 (0.52%) Ubuntu
8 11 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
8 11 (0.41%) Mac OS
9 9 (0.34%) Debian
10 6 (0.22%) CentOS
11 5 (0.19%) Windows Server
11 5 (0.19%) Windows Vista
12 4 (0.15%) SUSE
12 4 (0.15%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.075%) FreeRTOS
14 2 (0.075%) Windows 8
14 2 (0.075%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.037%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,040 (38.83%) Computer Science
2 968 (36.15%) Problem-Solving
3 666 (24.87%) Software Engineering
4 504 (18.82%) Physics
5 488 (18.22%) Statistics
6 473 (17.66%) Data Analysis
7 460 (17.18%) Analytics
8 455 (16.99%) Agile
9 422 (15.76%) Decision-Making
10 408 (15.24%) Data Science
11 344 (12.85%) Machine Learning
12 324 (12.10%) Visualisation
13 286 (10.68%) Artificial Intelligence
14 285 (10.64%) Customer Service
15 267 (9.97%) Mentoring
16 265 (9.90%) Coaching
17 243 (9.07%) Actionable Insight
18 214 (7.99%) SDLC
19 200 (7.47%) Business Strategy
20 199 (7.43%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 837 (31.25%) Python
2 623 (23.26%) SQL
3 283 (10.57%) Java
4 254 (9.48%) C++
5 233 (8.70%) C#
6 216 (8.07%) C
7 133 (4.97%) R
8 103 (3.85%) JavaScript
9 90 (3.36%) MATLAB
10 62 (2.32%) Fortran
11 43 (1.61%) VBA
12 40 (1.49%) Embedded C
13 35 (1.31%) Bash
14 31 (1.16%) TypeScript
15 27 (1.01%) Go
16 23 (0.86%) Haskell
17 22 (0.82%) PowerShell
18 18 (0.67%) T-SQL
19 15 (0.56%) GLSL
20 11 (0.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,584 (59.15%) Degree
2 284 (10.60%) Master's Degree
3 225 (8.40%) DBS Check
4 213 (7.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 209 (7.80%) PhD
6 189 (7.06%) Security Cleared
7 96 (3.58%) Numerate Degree
8 68 (2.54%) HNC
9 57 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
10 55 (2.05%) SC Cleared
11 41 (1.53%) HND
12 36 (1.34%) DV Cleared
13 31 (1.16%) PMI Certification
14 17 (0.63%) NVQ Level 3
15 16 (0.60%) MBA
16 15 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
17 12 (0.45%) Azure Certification
18 11 (0.41%) CCNA
18 11 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
19 10 (0.37%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (3.77%) QA
2 68 (2.54%) Data Quality
3 39 (1.46%) GDPR
4 33 (1.23%) SLA
5 30 (1.12%) Accessibility
6 29 (1.08%) ISO 9001
7 21 (0.78%) CDISC
8 14 (0.52%) Good Clinical Practice
8 14 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 13 (0.49%) ISO 9002
10 12 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 10 (0.37%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 9 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 9 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.30%) PMO
14 7 (0.26%) IFRS
14 7 (0.26%) IFRS 9
15 6 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.22%) CRD IV
16 4 (0.15%) GRC
System Software
1 51 (1.90%) Firmware
2 43 (1.61%) Docker
3 25 (0.93%) Active Directory
4 16 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
6 9 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.15%) VMware Server
8 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.11%) IAG
9 2 (0.075%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.037%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.037%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 46 (1.72%) Kubernetes
2 20 (0.75%) Terraform
3 6 (0.22%) Grafana
4 4 (0.15%) Ansible
5 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.11%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.11%) Puppet
6 2 (0.075%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.037%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.037%) Oracle ZFS
7 1 (0.037%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.037%) SCCM
7 1 (0.037%) yum
Vendors
1 358 (13.37%) Microsoft
2 199 (7.43%) Databricks
3 70 (2.61%) Google
4 31 (1.16%) Apple
5 24 (0.90%) SAP
6 22 (0.82%) Oracle
7 18 (0.67%) OpenAI
8 13 (0.49%) Cisco
9 12 (0.45%) Alteryx
10 10 (0.37%) IFS
11 9 (0.34%) ServiceNow
11 9 (0.34%) VMware
12 8 (0.30%) CA
12 8 (0.30%) Cadence
13 7 (0.26%) NEC
13 7 (0.26%) Salesforce
13 7 (0.26%) Splunk
13 7 (0.26%) Veeam
14 6 (0.22%) Bloomberg
14 6 (0.22%) Xilinx