Mathematics Jobs

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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 33 133
Rank change year-on-year -67 +100 +21
Permanent jobs citing Mathematics 2,721 6,697 5,160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.58% 7.08% 3.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.09% 7.42% 3.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,421 992 1,698
10th Percentile £20,645 £26,775 £30,000
25th Percentile £27,500 £39,313 £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 £91,250 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £45,500 £46,000
% change year-on-year -12.09% -1.09% -3.16%

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 88,012 90,290 162,948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.51% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,295 54,552 83,502
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,909
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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% +9.38%

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 3 June 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 3 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
England -71 2,289 £42,500 -32.00% 1,869
UK excluding London -76 1,980 £40,000 -12.09% 1,381
Work from Home +24 737 £50,000 -20.00% 310
London +18 684 £70,000 -15.15% 460
South East -38 650 £45,000 -11.33% 323
Midlands -56 403 £28,000 -26.32% 295
Scotland -31 333 £52,500 +10.53% 17
West Midlands -50 264 £30,000 -23.08% 153
North of England -173 233 £32,815 -22.79% 396
South West -102 199 £50,000 -25.93% 247
North West -141 147 £37,500 -40.00% 200
East Midlands -54 139 £27,750 +15.63% 145
East of England -113 116 £30,500 -48.09% 167
Yorkshire -127 70 £32,500 -18.75% 152
Wales -44 41 £42,500 +9.89% 16
North East -103 16 £30,000 -20.00% 52
Northern Ireland -3 5 £70,000 - 14
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 - 1

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 62 (2.28%) SAS
2 47 (1.73%) Apache Spark
3 17 (0.62%) Cloud Foundry
3 17 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.40%) Apache
4 11 (0.40%) Confluence
5 10 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (0.37%) CMS
6 7 (0.26%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.22%) Drupal
8 5 (0.18%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 4 (0.15%) Moodle
9 4 (0.15%) Site Server
10 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.074%) Luigi
11 2 (0.074%) WordPress
Applications
1 249 (9.15%) Microsoft Office
2 206 (7.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 38 (1.40%) Simulink
4 36 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 28 (1.03%) AutoCAD
6 19 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.48%) SPSS
8 10 (0.37%) GNU Octave
9 7 (0.26%) MS Visio
10 6 (0.22%) Stateflow
11 4 (0.15%) Revit
11 4 (0.15%) Solid Edge
11 4 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
13 1 (0.037%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.037%) Adobe XD
13 1 (0.037%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 10 (0.37%) 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 (0.074%) 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
1 361 (13.27%) AWS
2 167 (6.14%) Azure
3 161 (5.92%) Power Platform
4 79 (2.90%) GCP
5 74 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (0.96%) GitHub
7 22 (0.81%) SaaS
8 20 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
9 16 (0.59%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (0.51%) Serverless
11 12 (0.44%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (0.44%) Cloud Computing
11 12 (0.44%) Google Gemini
12 9 (0.33%) Power Automate
12 9 (0.33%) PowerApps
13 8 (0.29%) Snowflake
14 7 (0.26%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (0.26%) Amazon Kinesis
14 7 (0.26%) Amazon S3
14 7 (0.26%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 73 (2.68%) Wireless
2 21 (0.77%) Firewall
3 20 (0.74%) Internet
4 19 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
5 18 (0.66%) TCP/IP
6 17 (0.62%) Kerberos
7 14 (0.51%) LAN
8 12 (0.44%) Broadband
9 11 (0.40%) Network Security
10 7 (0.26%) Link 16
10 7 (0.26%) VPN
11 6 (0.22%) 5G
11 6 (0.22%) VLAN
11 6 (0.22%) VoIP
12 5 (0.18%) Intranet
12 5 (0.18%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.18%) WAN
13 4 (0.15%) 3GPP
13 4 (0.15%) DNS
13 4 (0.15%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 297 (10.92%) Tableau
2 152 (5.59%) Power BI
3 87 (3.20%) SQL Server
4 75 (2.76%) NoSQL
5 44 (1.62%) Data Mining
6 42 (1.54%) Big Data
7 39 (1.43%) Hadoop
8 38 (1.40%) MySQL
9 34 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
10 29 (1.07%) Relational Database
11 28 (1.03%) Data Lake
11 28 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
12 24 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
12 24 (0.88%) Redis
13 17 (0.62%) Amazon Aurora
13 17 (0.62%) Apache Ignite
13 17 (0.62%) CockroachDB
14 14 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
14 14 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 13 (0.48%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 259 (9.52%) Git
2 27 (0.99%) JIRA
3 26 (0.96%) Subversion
4 23 (0.85%) CMake
5 21 (0.77%) Visual Studio
6 12 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 10 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
8 9 (0.33%) Jenkins
9 8 (0.29%) Rational DOORS
9 8 (0.29%) TestRail
10 6 (0.22%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.18%) Eclipse
11 5 (0.18%) GitLab
11 5 (0.18%) JUnit
11 5 (0.18%) Robot Framework
11 5 (0.18%) Xcode
12 4 (0.15%) Gradle
12 4 (0.15%) Maven
12 4 (0.15%) Postman
12 4 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,048 (38.52%) Social Skills
2 705 (25.91%) Analytical Skills
3 630 (23.15%) Finance
4 504 (18.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 306 (11.25%) Marketing
6 291 (10.69%) Law
7 263 (9.67%) Retail
8 227 (8.34%) Organisational Skills
9 217 (7.98%) Presentation Skills
10 145 (5.33%) Financial Institution
11 128 (4.70%) Influencing Skills
12 120 (4.41%) Games
13 101 (3.71%) Banking
14 95 (3.49%) Legal
15 79 (2.90%) Investment Banking
16 73 (2.68%) Electronics
17 72 (2.65%) Military
18 70 (2.57%) Manufacturing
19 66 (2.43%) Local Government
20 62 (2.28%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 593 (21.79%) Senior
2 584 (21.46%) Analyst
3 297 (10.92%) Software Engineer
4 246 (9.04%) Data Scientist
5 232 (8.53%) Data Analyst
6 213 (7.83%) Developer
7 203 (7.46%) Senior Analyst
8 174 (6.39%) Lead
9 159 (5.84%) Engineering Manager
9 159 (5.84%) Software Engineering Manager
10 133 (4.89%) Graduate
11 124 (4.56%) Product Analyst
11 124 (4.56%) Sales Analyst
12 113 (4.15%) Senior Data Analyst
13 89 (3.27%) Senior Data Scientist
13 89 (3.27%) Senior Software Engineer
14 76 (2.79%) IT Support
15 66 (2.43%) Senior Manager
16 63 (2.32%) Systems Engineer
17 60 (2.21%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (4.59%) Pandas
2 124 (4.56%) .NET
3 91 (3.34%) TensorFlow
4 89 (3.27%) NumPy
5 79 (2.90%) Spring
6 70 (2.57%) Kafka
7 58 (2.13%) scikit-learn
8 54 (1.98%) HTML
8 54 (1.98%) PySpark
8 54 (1.98%) RESTful
8 54 (1.98%) Spring Boot
9 47 (1.73%) PyTorch
10 42 (1.54%) Qt
11 40 (1.47%) XML
12 35 (1.29%) CSS
13 32 (1.18%) React
14 31 (1.14%) REST
15 23 (0.85%) HTML5
15 23 (0.85%) WPF
16 20 (0.74%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 487 (17.90%) Algorithms
2 240 (8.82%) Cloud Native
3 155 (5.70%) Self-Motivation
4 98 (3.60%) Onboarding
5 96 (3.53%) Driving Licence
5 96 (3.53%) Management Information System
6 63 (2.32%) Market Risk
7 56 (2.06%) Data Structures
8 49 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
8 49 (1.80%) Distributed Applications
9 42 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
10 34 (1.25%) CUDA
11 30 (1.10%) Life Science
12 27 (0.99%) Renewable Energy
13 26 (0.96%) Housing Association
13 26 (0.96%) PMI
14 21 (0.77%) CCTV
14 21 (0.77%) FPGA
14 21 (0.77%) Product Ownership
15 20 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 199 (7.31%) Linux
2 157 (5.77%) Windows
3 49 (1.80%) Android
4 46 (1.69%) Unix
5 38 (1.40%) Apple iOS
6 26 (0.96%) Windows 10
7 15 (0.55%) Ubuntu
8 11 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
8 11 (0.40%) Mac OS
9 9 (0.33%) Debian
10 7 (0.26%) CentOS
11 5 (0.18%) SUSE
11 5 (0.18%) Windows Server
11 5 (0.18%) Windows Vista
12 4 (0.15%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.074%) FreeRTOS
14 2 (0.074%) Windows 8
14 2 (0.074%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.037%) Scientific Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,051 (38.63%) Computer Science
2 978 (35.94%) Problem-Solving
3 675 (24.81%) Software Engineering
4 519 (19.07%) Physics
5 482 (17.71%) Statistics
6 475 (17.46%) Data Analysis
7 453 (16.65%) Analytics
8 452 (16.61%) Agile
9 423 (15.55%) Decision-Making
10 415 (15.25%) Data Science
11 341 (12.53%) Machine Learning
12 333 (12.24%) Visualisation
13 288 (10.58%) Artificial Intelligence
13 288 (10.58%) Customer Service
14 269 (9.89%) Mentoring
15 264 (9.70%) Coaching
16 245 (9.00%) Actionable Insight
17 220 (8.09%) SDLC
18 200 (7.35%) Business Strategy
19 193 (7.09%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 851 (31.28%) Python
2 628 (23.08%) SQL
3 281 (10.33%) Java
4 263 (9.67%) C++
5 238 (8.75%) C#
6 228 (8.38%) C
7 127 (4.67%) R
8 106 (3.90%) JavaScript
9 93 (3.42%) MATLAB
10 72 (2.65%) Fortran
11 53 (1.95%) VBA
12 45 (1.65%) Bash
13 39 (1.43%) Embedded C
14 32 (1.18%) TypeScript
15 28 (1.03%) Go
16 24 (0.88%) Haskell
17 23 (0.85%) PowerShell
18 18 (0.66%) T-SQL
19 15 (0.55%) GLSL
20 12 (0.44%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,600 (58.80%) Degree
2 294 (10.80%) Master's Degree
3 225 (8.27%) DBS Check
4 223 (8.20%) PhD
5 217 (7.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 194 (7.13%) Security Cleared
7 95 (3.49%) Numerate Degree
8 68 (2.50%) HNC
9 57 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
10 54 (1.98%) SC Cleared
11 40 (1.47%) HND
12 35 (1.29%) DV Cleared
13 32 (1.18%) PMI Certification
14 17 (0.62%) NVQ Level 3
15 16 (0.59%) MBA
16 15 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
17 12 (0.44%) Azure Certification
18 11 (0.40%) CCNA
18 11 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
19 10 (0.37%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (3.75%) QA
2 77 (2.83%) Data Quality
3 39 (1.43%) GDPR
4 34 (1.25%) SLA
5 30 (1.10%) Accessibility
5 30 (1.10%) ISO 9001
6 21 (0.77%) CDISC
7 14 (0.51%) Good Clinical Practice
7 14 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (0.48%) ISO 9002
9 12 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 10 (0.37%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 9 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 9 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.29%) PMO
13 5 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.18%) NIST
14 4 (0.15%) GRC
14 4 (0.15%) ISO 14001
14 4 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 50 (1.84%) Firmware
2 45 (1.65%) Docker
3 28 (1.03%) Active Directory
4 16 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
6 9 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.15%) VMware Server
8 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.11%) IAG
9 2 (0.074%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.037%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.037%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 48 (1.76%) Kubernetes
2 22 (0.81%) Terraform
3 4 (0.15%) Ansible
3 4 (0.15%) Grafana
4 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.11%) Progress Chef
4 3 (0.11%) Puppet
5 2 (0.074%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.037%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.037%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (0.037%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.037%) SCCM
6 1 (0.037%) yum
Vendors
1 371 (13.63%) Microsoft
2 201 (7.39%) Databricks
3 69 (2.54%) Google
4 31 (1.14%) Apple
5 24 (0.88%) SAP
6 22 (0.81%) Oracle
7 18 (0.66%) OpenAI
8 13 (0.48%) Cisco
9 10 (0.37%) Alteryx
9 10 (0.37%) IFS
10 9 (0.33%) ServiceNow
10 9 (0.33%) VMware
11 8 (0.29%) CA
11 8 (0.29%) Cadence
12 7 (0.26%) NEC
12 7 (0.26%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.26%) Veeam
13 6 (0.22%) Bloomberg
13 6 (0.22%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.22%) Splunk