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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 34 132
Rank change year-on-year -65 +98 +23
Permanent jobs citing Mathematics 2,619 7,265 4,682
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.66% 7.00% 2.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.09% 7.32% 3.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,428 1,120 1,670
10th Percentile £20,718 £24,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £27,500 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £65,000 £91,563 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% - -5.26%

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 84,746 99,225 149,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.94% 95.61% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 59,834 58,281 83,297
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,750 £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 May 2024.

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 3 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 -75 2,171 £45,000 -28.00% 1,870
UK excluding London -79 1,912 £40,000 -11.11% 1,376
Work from Home +29 699 £51,528 -22.22% 378
London +9 645 £72,500 -9.38% 468
South East -43 610 £45,000 -15.49% 341
Midlands -50 378 £28,000 -26.32% 289
Scotland -30 345 £52,500 +10.53% 24
West Midlands -41 254 £29,500 -24.36% 157
North of England -171 219 £35,000 -12.50% 350
South West -104 194 £47,657 -34.27% 268
North West -136 136 £35,157 +14.03% 173
East Midlands -57 124 £27,750 +15.63% 133
East of England -110 117 £28,500 -52.50% 194
Yorkshire -127 69 £35,000 -12.50% 127
Wales -36 45 £45,000 -33.33% 21
North East -103 14 £30,000 -20.00% 55
Northern Ireland +7 5 £70,000 - 7

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 72 (2.75%) Apache Spark
2 59 (2.25%) SAS
3 25 (0.95%) Apache
4 17 (0.65%) Cloud Foundry
5 12 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.42%) Confluence
7 10 (0.38%) CMS
8 9 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
9 7 (0.27%) SharePoint
10 6 (0.23%) Drupal
11 5 (0.19%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 4 (0.15%) Moodle
12 4 (0.15%) Site Server
13 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.076%) WordPress
15 1 (0.038%) Luigi
Applications
1 252 (9.62%) Microsoft Office
2 205 (7.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 34 (1.30%) Simulink
4 32 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 27 (1.03%) AutoCAD
6 19 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.50%) SPSS
8 10 (0.38%) GNU Octave
9 8 (0.31%) MS Visio
10 6 (0.23%) Stateflow
11 4 (0.15%) Solid Edge
11 4 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
12 3 (0.11%) Revit
13 2 (0.076%) EViews
13 2 (0.076%) Microsoft Project
14 1 (0.038%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 1 (0.038%) Adobe XD
14 1 (0.038%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
2 4 (0.15%) SAP CO
2 4 (0.15%) SAP ERP
2 4 (0.15%) SAP FI
2 4 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
2 4 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.076%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.038%) Demantra
4 1 (0.038%) Maximo
4 1 (0.038%) Oracle ASCP
4 1 (0.038%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.038%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.038%) ProductWriter
4 1 (0.038%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.038%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 339 (12.94%) AWS
2 177 (6.76%) Azure
3 167 (6.38%) Power Platform
4 90 (3.44%) GCP
5 75 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (1.03%) GitHub
7 22 (0.84%) SaaS
8 18 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
9 15 (0.57%) Serverless
10 14 (0.53%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (0.50%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (0.42%) Cloud Computing
13 9 (0.34%) Snowflake
14 8 (0.31%) Amazon EMR
14 8 (0.31%) Amazon Kinesis
14 8 (0.31%) Amazon S3
15 7 (0.27%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (0.27%) Azure Data Factory
15 7 (0.27%) Power Automate
15 7 (0.27%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 76 (2.90%) Wireless
2 20 (0.76%) Firewall
2 20 (0.76%) Internet
3 19 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
4 17 (0.65%) Kerberos
4 17 (0.65%) TCP/IP
5 13 (0.50%) LAN
6 12 (0.46%) Broadband
7 9 (0.34%) Network Security
8 7 (0.27%) Link 16
8 7 (0.27%) VPN
9 6 (0.23%) VLAN
10 5 (0.19%) 5G
10 5 (0.19%) Intranet
10 5 (0.19%) Unified Communications
10 5 (0.19%) VoIP
11 4 (0.15%) 3GPP
11 4 (0.15%) Ethernet
11 4 (0.15%) WAN
12 3 (0.11%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (9.32%) Tableau
2 160 (6.11%) Power BI
3 83 (3.17%) SQL Server
4 76 (2.90%) NoSQL
5 49 (1.87%) Data Mining
5 49 (1.87%) Hadoop
6 41 (1.57%) Big Data
6 41 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
7 39 (1.49%) MySQL
8 33 (1.26%) Relational Database
9 32 (1.22%) Data Lake
10 30 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
11 26 (0.99%) Apache Ignite
11 26 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
12 21 (0.80%) Redis
13 17 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
13 17 (0.65%) CockroachDB
14 16 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 14 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
16 10 (0.38%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 212 (8.09%) Git
2 32 (1.22%) JIRA
3 29 (1.11%) Subversion
4 24 (0.92%) CMake
5 21 (0.80%) Visual Studio
6 12 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 9 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
8 8 (0.31%) Jenkins
9 7 (0.27%) JUnit
9 7 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
9 7 (0.27%) TestRail
10 6 (0.23%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.19%) Eclipse
11 5 (0.19%) Robot Framework
11 5 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
11 5 (0.19%) Xcode
12 4 (0.15%) GitLab
12 4 (0.15%) Gradle
12 4 (0.15%) gulp
12 4 (0.15%) Maven
General
1 982 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 666 (25.43%) Analytical Skills
3 642 (24.51%) Finance
4 510 (19.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 312 (11.91%) Marketing
6 288 (11.00%) Law
7 233 (8.90%) Retail
8 221 (8.44%) Organisational Skills
9 187 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
10 151 (5.77%) Financial Institution
11 125 (4.77%) Influencing Skills
12 120 (4.58%) Banking
12 120 (4.58%) Games
13 92 (3.51%) Legal
14 81 (3.09%) Investment Banking
15 72 (2.75%) Electronics
15 72 (2.75%) Military
16 64 (2.44%) Manufacturing
17 62 (2.37%) Local Government
18 57 (2.18%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 531 (20.27%) Analyst
2 521 (19.89%) Senior
3 282 (10.77%) Software Engineer
4 233 (8.90%) Data Scientist
5 218 (8.32%) Developer
6 192 (7.33%) Data Analyst
7 171 (6.53%) Lead
8 163 (6.22%) Engineering Manager
8 163 (6.22%) Software Engineering Manager
9 156 (5.96%) Senior Analyst
10 129 (4.93%) Graduate
11 124 (4.73%) Product Analyst
11 124 (4.73%) Sales Analyst
12 83 (3.17%) Senior Software Engineer
13 75 (2.86%) Senior Data Scientist
14 73 (2.79%) IT Support
15 71 (2.71%) Senior Data Analyst
16 68 (2.60%) Junior
17 65 (2.48%) Senior Manager
18 60 (2.29%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (4.66%) .NET
2 120 (4.58%) Pandas
3 95 (3.63%) NumPy
4 81 (3.09%) Spring
5 80 (3.05%) TensorFlow
6 78 (2.98%) Kafka
7 56 (2.14%) Spring Boot
8 54 (2.06%) RESTful
9 47 (1.79%) PyTorch
9 47 (1.79%) scikit-learn
10 44 (1.68%) HTML
11 43 (1.64%) Qt
12 42 (1.60%) XML
13 40 (1.53%) PySpark
14 31 (1.18%) React
15 30 (1.15%) REST
16 27 (1.03%) CSS
17 21 (0.80%) WPF
18 20 (0.76%) OpenMP
18 20 (0.76%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 466 (17.79%) Algorithms
2 243 (9.28%) Cloud Native
3 139 (5.31%) Self-Motivation
4 96 (3.67%) Management Information System
5 93 (3.55%) Driving Licence
6 86 (3.28%) Onboarding
7 65 (2.48%) Market Risk
8 57 (2.18%) Data Structures
9 50 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
10 49 (1.87%) Distributed Applications
11 45 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
12 33 (1.26%) CUDA
13 32 (1.22%) Renewable Energy
14 29 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 28 (1.07%) Credit Risk
16 26 (0.99%) Housing Association
16 26 (0.99%) PMI
17 23 (0.88%) FPGA
17 23 (0.88%) Hedge funds
17 23 (0.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 186 (7.10%) Linux
2 148 (5.65%) Windows
3 48 (1.83%) Android
4 37 (1.41%) Apple iOS
5 36 (1.37%) Unix
6 23 (0.88%) Windows 10
7 14 (0.53%) Ubuntu
8 11 (0.42%) Embedded Linux
8 11 (0.42%) Mac OS
9 9 (0.34%) Debian
10 6 (0.23%) 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 (0.076%) FreeRTOS
14 2 (0.076%) Windows 8
14 2 (0.076%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.038%) Scientific Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,040 (39.71%) Computer Science
2 898 (34.29%) Problem-Solving
3 671 (25.62%) Software Engineering
4 503 (19.21%) Physics
5 471 (17.98%) Agile
6 438 (16.72%) Statistics
7 434 (16.57%) Data Analysis
8 425 (16.23%) Analytics
9 398 (15.20%) Decision-Making
10 396 (15.12%) Data Science
11 330 (12.60%) Machine Learning
12 279 (10.65%) Visualisation
13 273 (10.42%) Customer Service
14 270 (10.31%) Coaching
15 268 (10.23%) Artificial Intelligence
16 261 (9.97%) Mentoring
17 213 (8.13%) SDLC
18 203 (7.75%) Business Intelligence
19 194 (7.41%) Actionable Insight
20 184 (7.03%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 785 (29.97%) Python
2 560 (21.38%) SQL
3 289 (11.03%) Java
4 260 (9.93%) C++
5 232 (8.86%) C#
6 222 (8.48%) C
7 136 (5.19%) R
8 95 (3.63%) JavaScript
9 83 (3.17%) MATLAB
10 61 (2.33%) Fortran
11 45 (1.72%) Embedded C
12 38 (1.45%) VBA
13 33 (1.26%) Bash
14 32 (1.22%) TypeScript
15 25 (0.95%) Go
16 23 (0.88%) Haskell
17 21 (0.80%) PowerShell
18 18 (0.69%) T-SQL
19 16 (0.61%) GLSL
20 13 (0.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,535 (58.61%) Degree
2 266 (10.16%) Master's Degree
3 213 (8.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 203 (7.75%) PhD
5 188 (7.18%) Security Cleared
6 171 (6.53%) DBS Check
7 92 (3.51%) Numerate Degree
8 62 (2.37%) HNC
9 57 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 55 (2.10%) SC Cleared
11 41 (1.57%) HND
12 37 (1.41%) DV Cleared
13 31 (1.18%) PMI Certification
14 16 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
14 16 (0.61%) NVQ Level 3
15 15 (0.57%) MBA
16 12 (0.46%) Azure Certification
17 11 (0.42%) CCNA
17 11 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
18 10 (0.38%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (3.97%) QA
2 61 (2.33%) Data Quality
3 38 (1.45%) GDPR
4 31 (1.18%) SLA
5 28 (1.07%) ISO 9001
6 25 (0.95%) Accessibility
7 21 (0.80%) CDISC
8 16 (0.61%) IFRS
8 16 (0.61%) IFRS 9
9 15 (0.57%) CRD IV
10 14 (0.53%) Good Clinical Practice
10 14 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 11 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 17025
12 10 (0.38%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 9 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
13 9 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 9 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.31%) ISO 9002
14 8 (0.31%) PMO
14 8 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 55 (2.10%) Firmware
2 43 (1.64%) Docker
3 23 (0.88%) Active Directory
4 19 (0.73%) Embedded Firmware
5 16 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.15%) VMware Server
8 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.11%) IAG
9 2 (0.076%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.038%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 45 (1.72%) Kubernetes
2 20 (0.76%) Terraform
3 6 (0.23%) Grafana
4 3 (0.11%) Ansible
4 3 (0.11%) Progress Chef
4 3 (0.11%) Puppet
5 2 (0.076%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.076%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.038%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.038%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (0.038%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.038%) SCCM
6 1 (0.038%) yum
Vendors
1 354 (13.52%) Microsoft
2 146 (5.57%) Databricks
3 78 (2.98%) Google
4 31 (1.18%) Apple
5 24 (0.92%) SAP
6 21 (0.80%) Oracle
7 18 (0.69%) OpenAI
8 14 (0.53%) Alteryx
9 13 (0.50%) Cisco
10 10 (0.38%) IFS
11 9 (0.34%) ServiceNow
12 8 (0.31%) VMware
13 7 (0.27%) CA
13 7 (0.27%) Salesforce
13 7 (0.27%) Veeam
14 6 (0.23%) Bloomberg
14 6 (0.23%) Red Hat
14 6 (0.23%) Sage
14 6 (0.23%) Sophos
14 6 (0.23%) Splunk