The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mathematics in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Mathematics over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category for the London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Mathematics (Maths)
Rank 226 263 239
Rank change year-on-year
+37 -24
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 164 157 215
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.757% 0.583% 0.692%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.281% 1.815% 1.827%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 83 121
Average daily rate £525 £539 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.59% -6.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £260 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £350 £300
% change year-on-year
-2.85% +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 18 4
Average hourly rate £18.68 £17.87 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.57% -52.36%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.90 £14.51 £35.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.75 £60.00 £46.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.42 £13.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
-4.46% -22.38%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
7191 8651 11771
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 33.20% 32.11% 37.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4968 5870 7935
Average daily rate £475 £475 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £283 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 209 196
Average hourly rate £23.00 £22.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.22% +7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £13.49 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £52.40 £52.50 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Mathematics
England

Mathematics
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Mathematics across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

London Mathematics Jobs Demand Trend

Mathematics
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Mathematics across the London region.

London Mathematics Daily Rate Trend

Mathematics
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Mathematics across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London Mathematics Daily Rate Histogram

Mathematics
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Mathematics across the London region.

London Mathematics Hourly Rate Trend

Mathematics
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mathematics within the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London +13 63 £525 -1.63%
Canary Wharf +8 13 £600 -
Uxbridge - 1 - -
Mathematics
England

Mathematics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Mathematics also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Mathematics.

1 199 (57.02%) Degree
2 163 (46.70%) Computer Science
3 136 (38.97%) Finance
4 123 (35.24%) Physics
5 104 (29.80%) Java
6 100 (28.65%) C++
7 92 (26.36%) Banking
8 85 (24.36%) SQL
9 75 (21.49%) Statistics
10 73 (20.92%) Front Office
11 69 (19.77%) C#
12 68 (19.48%) Investment Banking
13 65 (18.62%) Analytics
14 58 (16.62%) Windows
15 53 (15.19%) Linux
16 52 (14.90%) Multithreading
17 44 (12.61%) Software Engineering
18 42 (12.03%) Economics
19 41 (11.75%) C
20 40 (11.46%) OO
20 40 (11.46%) PhD
21 39 (11.17%) .NET
21 39 (11.17%) Derivative
22 38 (10.89%) Python
23 37 (10.60%) SAS
23 37 (10.60%) Microsoft
24 35 (10.03%) Risk Management
25 34 (9.742%) UNIX
26 32 (9.169%) Agile Software Development
26 32 (9.169%) Credit Risk

Mathematics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Mathematics also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Mathematics. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 39 (11.17%) .NET
2 21 (6.017%) WPF
3 20 (5.731%) CSS
4 18 (5.158%) Spring
5 17 (4.871%) XML
6 16 (4.585%) MapReduce
7 15 (4.298%) WCF
8 14 (4.011%) Web Services
9 13 (3.725%) .NET Framework
10 12 (3.438%) J2EE
11 11 (3.152%) XSLT
12 10 (2.865%) JMS
13 9 (2.579%) ASP.NET
13 9 (2.579%) jQuery
14 8 (2.292%) Silverlight
14 8 (2.292%) Middleware
14 8 (2.292%) ASP
14 8 (2.292%) HTML
14 8 (2.292%) J2SE
15 7 (2.006%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 37 (10.60%) SAS
2 18 (5.158%) Apache Pig
3 10 (2.865%) Apache
4 8 (2.292%) CMS
4 8 (2.292%) WebLogic
5 5 (1.433%) Tomcat
5 5 (1.433%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (1.433%) Amazon AWS
6 4 (1.146%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (1.146%) Amazon S3
7 3 (0.860%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.860%) Rendezvous
7 3 (0.860%) TIBCO EMS
7 3 (0.860%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (0.573%) Exchange Server 2000
8 2 (0.573%) Exchange Server 2003
8 2 (0.573%) MS Exchange
9 1 (0.287%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.287%) IIS
9 1 (0.287%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 18 (5.158%) SPSS
2 14 (4.011%) MS Excel
3 8 (2.292%) MS Office
3 8 (2.292%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.860%) PowerPivot
5 2 (0.573%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.573%) MS PowerPoint
5 2 (0.573%) MS Project
6 1 (0.287%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 5 (1.433%) SunGard APT
2 4 (1.146%) Murex MxG2000
3 3 (0.860%) FastVal
4 2 (0.573%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.573%) Bond Adapt
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.298%) HTTP
2 9 (2.579%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.146%) SAN
4 3 (0.860%) Internet
5 2 (0.573%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.573%) DNS
5 2 (0.573%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.573%) VPN
6 1 (0.287%) LAN
6 1 (0.287%) VoIP
6 1 (0.287%) WAN
6 1 (0.287%) FTP
6 1 (0.287%) Wireless
6 1 (0.287%) BSS
6 1 (0.287%) IP Telephony
6 1 (0.287%) SPDY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.883%) Big Data
2 26 (7.450%) Data Mining
2 26 (7.450%) Hadoop
3 24 (6.877%) SQL Server
4 19 (5.444%) MongoDB
5 18 (5.158%) Apache Cassandra
5 18 (5.158%) NoSQL
5 18 (5.158%) Apache Hive
6 16 (4.585%) RDBMS
6 16 (4.585%) Mahout
6 16 (4.585%) HBase
7 10 (2.865%) MySQL
7 10 (2.865%) OLAP
8 7 (2.006%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.719%) SQL Server 2008
9 6 (1.719%) DB2
10 5 (1.433%) Oracle 11g
11 3 (0.860%) KDB
11 3 (0.860%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (0.860%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 19 (5.444%) Maven
2 16 (4.585%) TeamCity
3 10 (2.865%) LLVM
3 10 (2.865%) Artifactory
4 8 (2.292%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
4 8 (2.292%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (2.006%) Ant
6 6 (1.719%) GitHub
6 6 (1.719%) jMock
6 6 (1.719%) JUnit
7 5 (1.433%) Jenkins
8 4 (1.146%) Rhino Mocks
8 4 (1.146%) MSTest
8 4 (1.146%) Visual Studio Team System
8 4 (1.146%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.860%) CruiseControl
9 3 (0.860%) EasyMock
10 2 (0.573%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.573%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.573%) Selenium
General
1 136 (38.97%) Finance
2 92 (26.36%) Banking
3 73 (20.92%) Front Office
4 68 (19.48%) Investment Banking
5 26 (7.450%) Marketing
6 13 (3.725%) Retail
7 11 (3.152%) Publishing
8 8 (2.292%) Back Office
9 7 (2.006%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.433%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.573%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.573%) Games
12 1 (0.287%) Advertising
12 1 (0.287%) Law
12 1 (0.287%) Legal
12 1 (0.287%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 179 (51.29%) Developer
2 76 (21.78%) Analyst
3 42 (12.03%) C++ Developer
4 36 (10.32%) Java Developer
5 25 (7.163%) C# Developer
6 24 (6.877%) Quantitative Developer
7 21 (6.017%) C++ Quantitative Developer
8 20 (5.731%) Senior Developer
9 19 (5.444%) Software Engineer
10 16 (4.585%) Project Manager
11 14 (4.011%) Senior Analyst
11 14 (4.011%) Quantitative Analyst
11 14 (4.011%) .NET Developer
12 13 (3.725%) Data Scientist
12 13 (3.725%) Senior Java Developer
13 12 (3.438%) SAS Analyst
13 12 (3.438%) Programmer
14 11 (3.152%) Architect
15 10 (2.865%) Credit Risk Project Manager
15 10 (2.865%) Risk Manager
Miscellaneous
1 163 (46.70%) Computer Science
2 123 (35.24%) Physics
3 75 (21.49%) Statistics
4 42 (12.03%) Economics
5 39 (11.17%) Derivative
6 32 (9.169%) Credit Risk
7 31 (8.883%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 19 (5.444%) Fixed Income
9 17 (4.871%) Market Risk
10 14 (4.011%) Social Network
10 14 (4.011%) Digital Media
11 13 (3.725%) Open Source
12 12 (3.438%) Visualisation
12 12 (3.438%) Grid Computing
12 12 (3.438%) Machine Learning
13 10 (2.865%) Management Information System
14 8 (2.292%) Data Integration
15 7 (2.006%) Hedge funds
16 6 (1.719%) Neural Network
16 6 (1.719%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 58 (16.62%) Windows
2 53 (15.19%) Linux
3 34 (9.742%) UNIX
4 5 (1.433%) Windows 7
5 4 (1.146%) Android
5 4 (1.146%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.573%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.573%) Windows 2000 Server
6 2 (0.573%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (0.573%) Windows 2000
6 2 (0.573%) Windows XP
7 1 (0.287%) AIX
7 1 (0.287%) Solaris
7 1 (0.287%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.287%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (18.62%) Analytics
2 52 (14.90%) Multithreading
3 44 (12.61%) Software Engineering
4 40 (11.46%) OO
5 35 (10.03%) Risk Management
6 32 (9.169%) Agile Software Development
7 31 (8.883%) Data Analysis
8 30 (8.596%) Data Modelling
9 22 (6.304%) TDD
10 18 (5.158%) Business Analysis
11 17 (4.871%) Project Management
11 17 (4.871%) Predictive Modelling
12 16 (4.585%) Change Management
13 15 (4.298%) Unit Testing
14 14 (4.011%) Continuous Integration
14 14 (4.011%) Waterfall
15 13 (3.725%) Customer Insight
15 13 (3.725%) Scrum
15 13 (3.725%) Asset Management
15 13 (3.725%) Stochastic Calculus
Programming Languages
1 104 (29.80%) Java
2 100 (28.65%) C++
3 85 (24.36%) SQL
4 69 (19.77%) C#
5 41 (11.75%) C
6 38 (10.89%) Python
7 29 (8.309%) VBA
8 22 (6.304%) JavaScript
8 22 (6.304%) VC++
9 21 (6.017%) R
10 14 (4.011%) Scala
11 12 (3.438%) Ruby
12 10 (2.865%) Perl
13 6 (1.719%) Shell Script
14 4 (1.146%) Bash shell
14 4 (1.146%) Groovy
14 4 (1.146%) XPath
14 4 (1.146%) XQuery
15 3 (0.860%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.860%) VB
Qualifications
1 199 (57.02%) Degree
2 40 (11.46%) PhD
3 12 (3.438%) Postgraduate
4 5 (1.433%) MBA
5 3 (0.860%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (0.860%) MCSE
5 3 (0.860%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.573%) MOS
6 2 (0.573%) MCITP
6 2 (0.573%) MCDST
6 2 (0.573%) ISEB
7 1 (0.287%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.287%) PMP
7 1 (0.287%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.287%) HND
7 1 (0.287%) MCP
7 1 (0.287%) MCTS
7 1 (0.287%) CFA
7 1 (0.287%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.287%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.438%) QA
2 4 (1.146%) Basel III
3 3 (0.860%) SLA
3 3 (0.860%) Basel II
4 2 (0.573%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.573%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.287%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (1.146%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.573%) Apache Flume
2 2 (0.573%) XenApp
2 2 (0.573%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.287%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.287%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 4 (1.146%) Puppet
2 2 (0.573%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (0.573%) SCCM
2 2 (0.573%) Backup Exec
2 2 (0.573%) DameWare
3 1 (0.287%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (0.287%) CA Wily
3 1 (0.287%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 37 (10.60%) Microsoft
2 30 (8.596%) Oracle
3 16 (4.585%) Sybase
4 9 (2.579%) TIBCO
5 8 (2.292%) Murex
6 6 (1.719%) Bloomberg
6 6 (1.719%) HP
7 5 (1.433%) IBM
7 5 (1.433%) SunGard
7 5 (1.433%) Sitecore
8 4 (1.146%) Google
8 4 (1.146%) webMethods
8 4 (1.146%) Adobe
9 3 (0.860%) Cisco
9 3 (0.860%) Calypso
9 3 (0.860%) Tableau
10 2 (0.573%) Jaspersoft
10 2 (0.573%) SimCorp
10 2 (0.573%) Omniture
10 2 (0.573%) Juniper
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