The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mathematics in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Mathematics over the 3 months to 20 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.

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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Mathematics (Maths)
Rank 269 318 306
Rank change year-on-year
+49 -12
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 306 285 323
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.658% 0.489% 0.536%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.493% 1.990% 1.902%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 132 149
Average daily rate £450 £400 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £232 £229
10% offered a daily rate of more than £615 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
+11.11% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 43 30
Average hourly rate £12.42 £17.87 £19.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.47% -9.54%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.42 £12.63 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-1.62% -27.85%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
12273 14324 16984
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 26.38% 24.55% 28.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7382 8428 10080
Average daily rate £430 £425 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.17% -19.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £251 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £343 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.18% +0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 539 660 718
Average hourly rate £22.66 £23.00 £23.36
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.47% -1.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £11.36
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £46.05 £41.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £24.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year
-8.16% -9.25%

Mathematics
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Mathematics Daily Rate Trend

Mathematics
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Mathematics within the UK over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

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 within the UK.

Mathematics Hourly Rate Trend

Mathematics
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Mathematics within the UK over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Mathematics Hourly Rate Histogram

Mathematics
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 20 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
England +40 259 £465 +16.25%
London +27 156 £525 -
City of London +9 55 £488 -7.14%
South East +17 50 £350 -
Scotland +19 29 £276 -23.79%
South West +38 24 £440 +12.10%
Glasgow - 15 £325 -
Wiltshire +16 14 £450 +95.65%
Canary Wharf +2 13 £600 -
Surrey +15 11 £415 +18.57%
Hampshire -2 9 £330 +26.92%
North West +13 8 £304 +41.27%
Edinburgh +12 8 £240 -33.79%
Swindon +6 8 £450 -
East of England +5 8 - -
Bristol +17 7 £425 +8.28%
Yorkshire +4 7 £250 -
West Yorkshire +2 7 £250 +28.20%
Berkshire +12 6 £453 +23.97%
Buckinghamshire +10 6 £206 -
Leeds +5 6 £250 +28.20%
Milton Keynes +13 5 £163 -
Middlesex +6 5 £615 -
Oxfordshire +5 5 £350 -
Oxford +5 5 £350 -
Merseyside +4 5 - -
Guildford - 5 £430 -
Liverpool +8 4 - -
Hertfordshire +2 4 - -
East Midlands 0 4 - -

Mathematics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 306 (44.61%) Degree
2 236 (34.40%) Computer Science
3 197 (28.72%) C
4 181 (26.38%) Finance
5 154 (22.45%) C++
6 151 (22.01%) Physics
7 145 (21.14%) Java
8 124 (18.08%) SQL
9 101 (14.72%) Banking
10 100 (14.58%) Windows
11 99 (14.43%) C#
12 89 (12.97%) Statistics
13 83 (12.10%) Analytics
14 75 (10.93%) Microsoft
15 71 (10.35%) Linux
16 69 (10.06%) Investment Banking
17 68 (9.913%) Front Office
18 67 (9.767%) .NET
19 64 (9.329%) Oracle
20 61 (8.892%) Software Engineering
21 57 (8.309%) OO
22 56 (8.163%) SAS
22 56 (8.163%) Multithreading
23 49 (7.143%) SQL Server
24 48 (6.997%) UNIX
24 48 (6.997%) Python
24 48 (6.997%) Economics
25 45 (6.560%) MS Excel
25 45 (6.560%) Data Modelling
26 44 (6.414%) Agile Software Development

Mathematics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 67 (9.767%) .NET
2 26 (3.790%) Spring
3 24 (3.499%) XML
4 22 (3.207%) CSS
4 22 (3.207%) WCF
5 21 (3.061%) WPF
6 20 (2.915%) .NET Framework
6 20 (2.915%) J2EE
7 19 (2.770%) Web Services
8 17 (2.478%) MapReduce
9 16 (2.332%) OpenGL
10 15 (2.187%) HTML
11 13 (1.895%) ASP.NET
11 13 (1.895%) XSLT
11 13 (1.895%) JMS
12 12 (1.749%) Middleware
12 12 (1.749%) J2SE
12 12 (1.749%) Silverlight
13 11 (1.603%) jQuery
13 11 (1.603%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 56 (8.163%) SAS
2 19 (2.770%) Apache Pig
3 17 (2.478%) Apache
4 15 (2.187%) WebLogic
5 14 (2.041%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.603%) Tomcat
7 7 (1.020%) CMS
8 6 (0.875%) Lotus Notes
8 6 (0.875%) MS Exchange
9 5 (0.729%) IIS
9 5 (0.729%) Amazon AWS
10 4 (0.583%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.583%) Amazon S3
10 4 (0.583%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (0.583%) Lync
11 3 (0.437%) Exchange Server 2010
11 3 (0.437%) Exchange Server 2003
11 3 (0.437%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (0.437%) Rendezvous
11 3 (0.437%) TIBCO EMS
Applications
1 45 (6.560%) MS Excel
2 32 (4.665%) MS Office
3 24 (3.499%) SPSS
4 15 (2.187%) MS PowerPoint
5 8 (1.166%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.875%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.583%) PowerPivot
8 3 (0.437%) MS Project
9 1 (0.146%) S-PLUS
9 1 (0.146%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (0.729%) SunGard APT
2 4 (0.583%) Murex MxG2000
3 3 (0.437%) FastVal
4 2 (0.292%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 2 (0.292%) SyteLine
4 2 (0.292%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.146%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.146%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.146%) JDE OneWorld
5 1 (0.146%) PeopleSoft Financials
5 1 (0.146%) Tridion
5 1 (0.146%) SAP R/3
5 1 (0.146%) Adaptiv
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.061%) HTTP
2 16 (2.332%) TCP/IP
3 15 (2.187%) Internet
4 11 (1.603%) Firewall
5 10 (1.458%) SAN
6 8 (1.166%) DNS
7 7 (1.020%) VPN
8 6 (0.875%) 3GPP
9 5 (0.729%) DHCP
9 5 (0.729%) Fibre Channel
10 4 (0.583%) SNMP
10 4 (0.583%) Broadband
11 3 (0.437%) 3G
11 3 (0.437%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.437%) Wireless
12 2 (0.292%) 2G
12 2 (0.292%) IP Telephony
12 2 (0.292%) BSS
12 2 (0.292%) LTE
12 2 (0.292%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (7.143%) SQL Server
2 35 (5.102%) Big Data
3 33 (4.810%) Data Mining
4 27 (3.936%) Hadoop
5 24 (3.499%) RDBMS
6 20 (2.915%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (2.770%) Apache Hive
7 19 (2.770%) Apache Cassandra
7 19 (2.770%) NoSQL
8 18 (2.624%) MongoDB
9 17 (2.478%) HBase
9 17 (2.478%) Mahout
10 15 (2.187%) DB2
11 13 (1.895%) OLAP
11 13 (1.895%) MySQL
12 12 (1.749%) SQL Server 2008
13 8 (1.166%) Oracle 11g
14 7 (1.020%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 6 (0.875%) SQL Server 2005
15 6 (0.875%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (3.353%) Maven
2 19 (2.770%) TeamCity
3 11 (1.603%) Artifactory
3 11 (1.603%) Visual Studio
4 10 (1.458%) JUnit
5 9 (1.312%) LLVM
6 8 (1.166%) Team Foundation Server
6 8 (1.166%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
6 8 (1.166%) Ant
7 7 (1.020%) jMock
8 6 (0.875%) NUnit
8 6 (0.875%) ClearCase
8 6 (0.875%) Mercurial
8 6 (0.875%) GitHub
9 5 (0.729%) Jenkins
9 5 (0.729%) Selenium
10 4 (0.583%) Telelogic TAU
10 4 (0.583%) Visual Studio Team System
10 4 (0.583%) CruiseControl
10 4 (0.583%) JIRA
General
1 181 (26.38%) Finance
2 101 (14.72%) Banking
3 69 (10.06%) Investment Banking
4 68 (9.913%) Front Office
5 38 (5.539%) Marketing
6 21 (3.061%) Telecoms
7 17 (2.478%) Games
8 15 (2.187%) Retail
9 13 (1.895%) Electronics
10 11 (1.603%) Publishing
11 9 (1.312%) Back Office
12 5 (0.729%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.583%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.583%) Military
14 2 (0.292%) Multimedia
14 2 (0.292%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.146%) Automotive
15 1 (0.146%) Law
15 1 (0.146%) Legal
15 1 (0.146%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 230 (33.53%) Developer
2 138 (20.12%) Analyst
3 81 (11.81%) Customer Engineer
4 57 (8.309%) C++ Developer
5 44 (6.414%) Java Developer
6 41 (5.977%) Software Engineer
7 38 (5.539%) C# Developer
8 29 (4.227%) Programmer
9 27 (3.936%) Support Engineer
10 23 (3.353%) .NET Developer
10 23 (3.353%) Senior Developer
11 20 (2.915%) Consultant
11 20 (2.915%) Senior Analyst
12 19 (2.770%) Project Manager
12 19 (2.770%) Business Analyst
12 19 (2.770%) Quantitative Developer
13 17 (2.478%) SAS Analyst
13 17 (2.478%) Administrator
13 17 (2.478%) C++ Quantitative Developer
14 16 (2.332%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 236 (34.40%) Computer Science
2 151 (22.01%) Physics
3 89 (12.97%) Statistics
4 48 (6.997%) Economics
5 38 (5.539%) Derivative
6 35 (5.102%) Credit Risk
7 32 (4.665%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 20 (2.915%) Market Risk
9 19 (2.770%) Open Source
9 19 (2.770%) Management Information System
10 16 (2.332%) Fixed Income
10 16 (2.332%) Visualisation
11 15 (2.187%) Social Network
12 14 (2.041%) Digital Media
13 13 (1.895%) Machine Learning
13 13 (1.895%) Grid Computing
14 12 (1.749%) 3D Graphics
15 11 (1.603%) Data Integration
16 9 (1.312%) Animation
17 8 (1.166%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 100 (14.58%) Windows
2 71 (10.35%) Linux
3 48 (6.997%) UNIX
4 13 (1.895%) Android
5 10 (1.458%) Windows 7
6 5 (0.729%) Windows XP
7 4 (0.583%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (0.583%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.437%) Windows 2000
8 3 (0.437%) Solaris
8 3 (0.437%) Windows Vista
8 3 (0.437%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.292%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.292%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.292%) Windows 2000 Server
9 2 (0.292%) HPUX
10 1 (0.146%) AIX
10 1 (0.146%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.146%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.146%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (12.10%) Analytics
2 61 (8.892%) Software Engineering
3 57 (8.309%) OO
4 56 (8.163%) Multithreading
5 45 (6.560%) Data Modelling
6 44 (6.414%) Agile Software Development
7 38 (5.539%) Data Analysis
8 35 (5.102%) Risk Management
9 33 (4.810%) Scrum
10 30 (4.373%) TDD
10 30 (4.373%) ITIL
11 29 (4.227%) Business Analysis
12 23 (3.353%) Project Management
13 22 (3.207%) MVC
14 20 (2.915%) Unit Testing
14 20 (2.915%) Operations Research
15 19 (2.770%) Change Management
15 19 (2.770%) Business Intelligence
16 18 (2.624%) UML
16 18 (2.624%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 197 (28.72%) C
2 154 (22.45%) C++
3 145 (21.14%) Java
4 124 (18.08%) SQL
5 99 (14.43%) C#
6 48 (6.997%) Python
7 39 (5.685%) JavaScript
8 35 (5.102%) VBA
9 34 (4.956%) R
10 27 (3.936%) VC++
11 22 (3.207%) Perl
12 18 (2.624%) Scala
13 16 (2.332%) Ruby
14 11 (1.603%) PL/SQL
15 8 (1.166%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.875%) XPath
16 6 (0.875%) SAS Macro
16 6 (0.875%) Fortran
16 6 (0.875%) Bash shell
17 5 (0.729%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 306 (44.61%) Degree
2 42 (6.122%) PhD
3 30 (4.373%) Security Cleared
4 19 (2.770%) SC Cleared
5 18 (2.624%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (2.041%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.603%) GIAC
8 9 (1.312%) Postgraduate
9 7 (1.020%) GCIH
9 7 (1.020%) MBA
9 7 (1.020%) MCTS
10 5 (0.729%) MCITP
10 5 (0.729%) MCSE
10 5 (0.729%) MCP
11 4 (0.583%) ISEB
11 4 (0.583%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.583%) MCDST
12 3 (0.437%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.437%) MCAD
12 3 (0.437%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (2.624%) QA
2 13 (1.895%) SLA
3 6 (0.875%) PCI DSS
4 5 (0.729%) Basel III
5 4 (0.583%) Basel II
6 2 (0.292%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.146%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.146%) Solvency II
System Software
1 10 (1.458%) Active Directory
1 10 (1.458%) Snort
2 3 (0.437%) XenApp
3 2 (0.292%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 2 (0.292%) Veritas File System
3 2 (0.292%) Apache Flume
3 2 (0.292%) Terminal Services
4 1 (0.146%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.146%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.146%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.146%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.146%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.146%) vSphere
4 1 (0.146%) Forefront TMG
4 1 (0.146%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 7 (1.020%) SCOM
2 5 (0.729%) SolarWinds Orion
2 5 (0.729%) HP Quality Center
2 5 (0.729%) SCCM
3 4 (0.583%) Puppet
4 3 (0.437%) Backup Exec
5 2 (0.292%) ServiceCenter
5 2 (0.292%) BMC PATROL
5 2 (0.292%) DameWare
5 2 (0.292%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.146%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.146%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.146%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 1 (0.146%) MOM
6 1 (0.146%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.146%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 75 (10.93%) Microsoft
2 64 (9.329%) Oracle
3 18 (2.624%) Sybase
4 12 (1.749%) Symantec
5 11 (1.603%) HP
5 11 (1.603%) ArcSight
6 10 (1.458%) IBM
6 10 (1.458%) Remedy
6 10 (1.458%) TIBCO
7 9 (1.312%) Informatica
7 9 (1.312%) LogLogic
8 8 (1.166%) Q1 Labs
8 8 (1.166%) Murex
9 7 (1.020%) Adobe
9 7 (1.020%) SAP
9 7 (1.020%) JBoss
9 7 (1.020%) Perforce
10 6 (0.875%) Cisco
10 6 (0.875%) Lotus
10 6 (0.875%) SunGard
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