Mathematics Jobs in Scotland

Mathematics (Maths)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 46 155
Rank change year-on-year -26 +109 -38
Permanent jobs citing Mathematics 318 262 113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.65% 6.12% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.20% 6.46% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 70 37 39
10th Percentile £27,375 £35,733 £23,184
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,082 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -17.39% +27.78%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £70,500 - £77,762
UK median annual salary £42,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -32.00% +4.17% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,115 4,054 5,784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 89.41% 94.68% 91.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,571 2,031 2,895
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +12.24%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Mathematics
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Mathematics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Mathematics in Scotland

Mathematics
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Mathematics in Scotland.

Salary trend for Mathematics in Scotland

Mathematics
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mathematics in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Mathematics in Scotland

Mathematics
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mathematics within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Glasgow -29 251 £24,699 -45.11% 6
Edinburgh -1 39 £60,000 +17.07% 4
Aberdeen -21 18 £35,000 - 3
Stirling - 3 - -
Aberdeenshire -2 1 £35,000 - 3
Mathematics
UK

Mathematics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 17 (5.35%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.31%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.31%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 99 (31.13%) AWS
2 35 (11.01%) Azure
3 22 (6.92%) GCP
4 4 (1.26%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (1.26%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (1.26%) Power Platform
5 3 (0.94%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (0.94%) Entra ID
5 3 (0.94%) Power Automate
5 3 (0.94%) PowerApps
6 2 (0.63%) IaaS
6 2 (0.63%) PaaS
6 2 (0.63%) SaaS
7 1 (0.31%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 34 (10.69%) Wireless
2 17 (5.35%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.63%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (15.72%) NoSQL
2 17 (5.35%) Amazon Aurora
2 17 (5.35%) CockroachDB
3 4 (1.26%) Data Lake
3 4 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.26%) Power BI
4 3 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.63%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Git
General
1 273 (85.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 231 (72.64%) Finance
3 230 (72.33%) Law
4 186 (58.49%) Marketing
5 124 (38.99%) Financial Institution
6 64 (20.13%) Banking
6 64 (20.13%) Investment Banking
7 51 (16.04%) Social Skills
8 20 (6.29%) Games
8 20 (6.29%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.52%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (2.20%) Retail
11 3 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.63%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.31%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.31%) Back Office
13 1 (0.31%) Electronics
13 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 142 (44.65%) Engineering Manager
1 142 (44.65%) Software Engineering Manager
2 83 (26.10%) Senior
3 79 (24.84%) Software Engineer
4 45 (14.15%) Senior Manager
5 34 (10.69%) Embedded Engineer
5 34 (10.69%) Senior Software Engineer
6 33 (10.38%) Lead
6 33 (10.38%) Lead Software Engineer
7 29 (9.12%) Graduate
7 29 (9.12%) Software Engineering Director
8 27 (8.49%) Python Engineer
8 27 (8.49%) Python Software Engineer
9 22 (6.92%) Junior
9 22 (6.92%) Junior Embedded Engineer
10 20 (6.29%) Principal Engineer
10 20 (6.29%) Principal Software Engineer
11 19 (5.97%) Java Engineer
11 19 (5.97%) Java Software Engineer
12 17 (5.35%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (20.13%) Spring
2 50 (15.72%) NumPy
2 50 (15.72%) Pandas
3 47 (14.78%) RESTful
3 47 (14.78%) Spring Boot
4 17 (5.35%) GraphQL
4 17 (5.35%) Kafka
4 17 (5.35%) OAuth
4 17 (5.35%) React
4 17 (5.35%) REST
5 15 (4.72%) WebGL
6 3 (0.94%) CSS
6 3 (0.94%) HTML
7 1 (0.31%) .NET
7 1 (0.31%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.31%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.31%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.31%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (0.31%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (0.31%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 221 (69.50%) Cloud Native
2 50 (15.72%) Market Risk
3 47 (14.78%) Distributed Applications
4 17 (5.35%) Public Cloud
5 10 (3.14%) Algorithms
5 10 (3.14%) Life Science
6 4 (1.26%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.26%) Product Ownership
7 3 (0.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (0.63%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.63%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.63%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.31%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.31%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.31%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.31%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.31%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.26%) Linux
2 3 (0.94%) Windows
3 2 (0.63%) Unix
4 1 (0.31%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (91.82%) Computer Science
2 291 (91.51%) Software Engineering
3 182 (57.23%) Agile
4 152 (47.80%) SDLC
5 111 (34.91%) CI/CD
6 74 (23.27%) Analytics
7 67 (21.07%) Decision-Making
8 65 (20.44%) Coaching
9 64 (20.13%) Machine Learning
10 58 (18.24%) Artificial Intelligence
11 57 (17.92%) Operational Stability
11 57 (17.92%) Physics
12 55 (17.30%) Problem-Solving
13 52 (16.35%) Continuous Delivery
14 48 (15.09%) Microservices
15 42 (13.21%) Observability
16 33 (10.38%) Tech Ops
17 28 (8.81%) Data Ingestion
17 28 (8.81%) Visualisation
18 26 (8.18%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 118 (37.11%) Java
2 97 (30.50%) Python
3 76 (23.90%) SQL
4 40 (12.58%) C
5 34 (10.69%) Embedded C
6 15 (4.72%) C#
6 15 (4.72%) GLSL
6 15 (4.72%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.89%) C++
7 6 (1.89%) Haskell
7 6 (1.89%) Rust
8 3 (0.94%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.63%) PHP
9 2 (0.63%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.63%) Ruby
10 1 (0.31%) Go
10 1 (0.31%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.31%) R
Qualifications
1 61 (19.18%) Degree
2 9 (2.83%) PhD
3 8 (2.52%) Master's Degree
4 5 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.94%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.31%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.31%) BICSI Certification
6 1 (0.31%) BICSI RCDD
6 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.31%) PMP
6 1 (0.31%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.20%) SLA
2 4 (1.26%) QA
3 2 (0.63%) GRC
System Software
1 34 (10.69%) Firmware
2 12 (3.77%) Embedded Firmware
3 4 (1.26%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (5.97%) Kubernetes
2 17 (5.35%) Terraform
3 2 (0.63%) Progress Chef
3 2 (0.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (5.35%) Google
2 10 (3.14%) Microsoft
3 4 (1.26%) Databricks
4 2 (0.63%) Apple
4 2 (0.63%) Splunk
5 1 (0.31%) Autodesk
5 1 (0.31%) Thales
5 1 (0.31%) YouTube