Work from home jobs which require mathematically minded ?

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I consider myself good at maths. Love an excel spreadsheet! I have an engineering degree but don’t really want to go back in to that as been out for too long. Just wondering if there is any work from home type jobs where I can use my skills. Anyone on here any advice?

Data analyst.

Programming

You could study bookkeeping and qualify under ICB or AAT and then you can work from home if you can find enough clients. AAT Level 3 would give you a bookkeeping qualification and if you got on well with it, you could do Level 4 and do tax returns as well.

I have been AAT for over 20 years, licenced accountant, and have my own business. I work solely from home since covid and clients bring the work to me.

I would like to do bookkeeping but worried about finding clients. I will look at that though thanks for the information.

data analyst and programming I haven’t considered so off to google

Are you into statistics? You could look into impact evaluation as that's usually a consultancy gig that requires stats and research methods knowledge, survey design, data analysis and interpretation. I am familiar with it in the fields of public policy, government programmes and aid programmes where there is a good amount of impact evaluation taking place.

Permanent work from home or occasional go to office? There are almost no 100% work from home jobs but if you could go to the office 1-2 times per week this would hugely open up options.

Civil service analysts and statisticians or even policy roles

I could definitely go in to the office once or twice a week. Just need to work from home for flexibility with kids/dog. Statistics would be a whole new world for me to get in to. It’s not something I have any knowledge in

I would be happy to start on a low salary if the company taught me a bit on the job. Not sure if that’s wishful thinking

Great! There are so many careers where a love of Excel are helpful. I work in procurement, have an engineering degree and use Excel daily. It's a very analytical role with a lot of human interaction (remote video calls).

Also look at Gartner analyst roles - they are 100% remote and can be anywhere in the world.

What job did you used to do so people can point you in the right direction?

Media analyst, ie quantifying the effectiveness of media campaigns.

A rather niche area but check out pricing analyst jobs. Even the entry level positions are decent pay (£25k upwards) and strong math skills is the principle entry requirement for most of them backed up with a STEM degree normally.

I worked in oil and gas as a chemical engineer. I really like jobs which require me to
pour over numbers and look at graphs. All the stuff that lots of people find boring.

I hate any high powered meetings though anything that requires me to present my findings. I just want to do the work and produce a report

I completely agree - pricing analyst; procurement analyst; supplier manager - all of these are good jobs where analytics help and these jobs are in huge demand at entry/mid level. I work in this field and get contacted several times per week on linkedin from recruiters.

Do you think it would be a benefit to do a data analytics online course? Lots of universities seem to do this it takes up to 3 years part time though and costs £15000

Whereabouts are you? There are a decent number of jobs of that nature in insurance, and you could start with entry level/graduate management information roles. Talk to the insurance recruiters.

Catastrophe modeller is the one which leaps to mind, but you'd want to be within reach of London for your office days for most of those posts. Tbh the problem with those jobs is that the young graduates they hire to do the number crunching get bored and ambitious really quickly and move on so you keep needing to replace them. I'd have killed for a highly numerate mum who was happy to keep doing the job in return for a steady decently paid hybrid job and wasn't desperate to move up to my job.

Unfortunately not near london

Project controls analyst. I’m in construction consultancy and it’s a growing profession. Analysing data to improve projects and programmes. Take a look at the larger consultancies. Some of them (like mine) offer data apprenticeships courses which are free to you and supported around your work commitments. Your engineering and oil/gas background would get you in the door and most are wfh 3 days a week minimum

You could probably do some sort of data science/analysis boot camp - especially if you’re returning to work after a career break.

What does it take to become a Quantities Surveyor?

Thanks these are really great suggestions. I did think there must be something I could be quite reasonably well suited to as maths skills tend to be quite useful

Most of these jobs I would never have considered without your suggestions

You say you like spreadsheets - do you know VBA? I've seen quite a few Linkedin ads recently for VBA developers or data analysts with VBA, with remote working. Everyone seems to be doing Python or R these days and VBA seems to be a bit of a lost art, might be worth a look and if you're an Excel person you'll pick it up pretty easily.

No vba is not something I have done unfortunately