Mathematics Contracts with Work from Home Options

Mathematics (Maths)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Mathematics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Mathematics over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 270 328 338
Rank change year-on-year +58 +10 -8
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 80 140 315
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.53% 0.56% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.62% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 85 206
10th Percentile £274 £285 £399
25th Percentile £538 £463 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £700 £588
Median % change year-on-year - +19.15% +20.20%
75th Percentile £788 £825 £650
90th Percentile £950 £1,025 £775
UK median daily rate £600 £700 £600
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 15 12
10th Percentile £12.59 - £20.02
25th Percentile £12.74 £19.00 £39.94
Median hourly rate £12.99 £35.00 £46.67
Median % change year-on-year -62.89% -25.01% +134.67%
75th Percentile £45.87 £59.38 £51.69
90th Percentile £65.60 £65.00 £59.75
UK median hourly rate £14.84 £19.49 £19.52
% change year-on-year -23.86% -0.15% -10.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Mathematics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,243 22,460 40,020
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.02% 89.72% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,878 15,870 29,041
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 571 519 537
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.63 £13.90
25th Percentile £25.50 £29.31 £20.40
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +52.43% +42.86%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £70.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Mathematics
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Mathematics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Mathematics trend for jobs with a WFH option

Mathematics
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Mathematics.

Mathematics daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Mathematics
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Mathematics over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Mathematics daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Mathematics
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Mathematics.

Mathematics hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Mathematics
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Mathematics over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Mathematics hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Mathematics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (7.50%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.75%) SAS
3 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (8.75%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (5.00%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.25%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Loan IQ
2 3 (3.75%) Orchestrade
2 3 (3.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (2.50%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 24 (30.00%) Azure
2 8 (10.00%) AWS
3 4 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.75%) GCP
5 2 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.25%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.25%) GitHub
6 1 (1.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.75%) Network Security
2 1 (1.25%) Internet
2 1 (1.25%) WAN
2 1 (1.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.25%) SQL Server
2 7 (8.75%) Big Data
3 6 (7.50%) Hadoop
3 6 (7.50%) Tableau
4 3 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.50%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.25%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.25%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.25%) Power BI
6 1 (1.25%) Presto
6 1 (1.25%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 12 (15.00%) Git
2 5 (6.25%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.25%) git-flow
3 1 (1.25%) GitLab
3 1 (1.25%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 29 (36.25%) Finance
2 26 (32.50%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (22.50%) Social Skills
4 17 (21.25%) Banking
5 15 (18.75%) Front Office
6 11 (13.75%) Investment Banking
7 7 (8.75%) Marketing
8 6 (7.50%) Financial Institution
8 6 (7.50%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.50%) Local Government
10 1 (1.25%) Advertising
10 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.25%) Legal
10 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.25%) Retail
10 1 (1.25%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 21 (26.25%) Developer
2 16 (20.00%) Data Scientist
3 12 (15.00%) Analyst
4 11 (13.75%) C# Developer
5 9 (11.25%) Front Office Developer
6 8 (10.00%) Qualitative Analyst
6 8 (10.00%) Quantitative Analyst
7 7 (8.75%) Senior
8 6 (7.50%) Architect
8 6 (7.50%) Quantitative Developer
9 5 (6.25%) Credit Analyst
10 4 (5.00%) Project Manager
11 3 (3.75%) Consultant
11 3 (3.75%) Cryptography Engineer
11 3 (3.75%) Data Analyst
11 3 (3.75%) Lead
11 3 (3.75%) Lead Architect
11 3 (3.75%) Lead Security Architect
11 3 (3.75%) Security Architect
11 3 (3.75%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.75%) Pandas
2 6 (7.50%) TensorFlow
3 5 (6.25%) PyTorch
4 4 (5.00%) .NET
4 4 (5.00%) scikit-learn
5 3 (3.75%) .NET Framework
5 3 (3.75%) React
5 3 (3.75%) Smart Contracts
6 2 (2.50%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.50%) D3.js
6 2 (2.50%) NumPy
6 2 (2.50%) SciPy
6 2 (2.50%) Shiny
6 2 (2.50%) WPF
7 1 (1.25%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.25%) boto
7 1 (1.25%) Entity Framework
7 1 (1.25%) Kafka
7 1 (1.25%) Managed Extensibility Framework
7 1 (1.25%) Silverlight
Miscellaneous
1 24 (30.00%) Algorithms
2 23 (28.75%) Derivative
3 13 (16.25%) Fixed Income
4 9 (11.25%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (11.25%) Equity Derivative
5 8 (10.00%) Management Information System
6 7 (8.75%) Hedge funds
7 6 (7.50%) Credit Derivative
8 5 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (6.25%) Multi-touch
9 4 (5.00%) Data Structures
9 4 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (5.00%) Equities
9 4 (5.00%) Product Ownership
10 3 (3.75%) Blockchain
11 2 (2.50%) Credit Risk
11 2 (2.50%) Social Media
12 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
12 1 (1.25%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.25%) Windows
2 4 (5.00%) Linux
2 4 (5.00%) Unix
3 1 (1.25%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (36.25%) Computer Science
2 25 (31.25%) Data Science
2 25 (31.25%) Machine Learning
3 23 (28.75%) Statistics
4 21 (26.25%) Physics
5 19 (23.75%) Analytics
6 18 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (17.50%) Data Analysis
7 14 (17.50%) Quantitative Finance
8 13 (16.25%) Agile
8 13 (16.25%) Model Validation
9 12 (15.00%) Software Engineering
9 12 (15.00%) Statistical Modelling
10 11 (13.75%) Artificial Intelligence
10 11 (13.75%) Requirements Gathering
10 11 (13.75%) Risk Management
11 10 (12.50%) Bayesian Methods
11 10 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
11 10 (12.50%) Multithreading
11 10 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 60 (75.00%) Python
2 20 (25.00%) C#
3 19 (23.75%) C++
4 18 (22.50%) R
4 18 (22.50%) SQL
5 12 (15.00%) Java
6 5 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 5 (6.25%) Perl
7 4 (5.00%) Clojure
7 4 (5.00%) Shell Script
7 4 (5.00%) VBA
8 3 (3.75%) Rust
9 2 (2.50%) Scala
10 1 (1.25%) Haskell
10 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.25%) XAML
Qualifications
1 45 (56.25%) Degree
2 20 (25.00%) Numerate Degree
3 13 (16.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (11.25%) PhD
5 8 (10.00%) Master's Degree
6 5 (6.25%) SC Cleared
6 5 (6.25%) Security Cleared
7 4 (5.00%) APMP
8 3 (3.75%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.25%) CESG Certified Professional
9 1 (1.25%) CISM
9 1 (1.25%) CISSP
9 1 (1.25%) CLAS
9 1 (1.25%) HNC
9 1 (1.25%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.00%) NCSC
1 4 (5.00%) PMO
2 2 (2.50%) QA
3 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.25%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.25%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.25%) NIST
3 1 (1.25%) RMADS
System Software
1 1 (1.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.25%) Oracle
3 3 (3.75%) Sparx
4 2 (2.50%) Foundry
4 2 (2.50%) Palantir
5 1 (1.25%) CA
5 1 (1.25%) Databricks
5 1 (1.25%) Google
5 1 (1.25%) Remedy
5 1 (1.25%) SAP
5 1 (1.25%) Workday