Mathematics Contracts in Central London

Mathematics (Maths)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Mathematics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mathematics over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 114 103
Rank change year-on-year +11 -11 +32
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 26 19 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.30% 0.78% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 0.86% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 28
10th Percentile - £451 £503
25th Percentile £500 £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £563 £738
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -23.73% +21.90%
75th Percentile £810 £750 £828
90th Percentile £858 £766 £905
London median daily rate £750 £638 £775
% change year-on-year +17.65% -17.74% +24.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £22.00 - -
London median hourly rate £34.41 £47.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -27.56% +72.73% -42.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Mathematics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Mathematics
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Mathematics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Mathematics in Central London

Mathematics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mathematics in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Mathematics in Central London

Mathematics
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mathematics in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mathematics in Central London

Mathematics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mathematics in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Mathematics in Central London

Mathematics
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mathematics within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +16 26 £750 +33.33% 21
Mathematics
London

Mathematics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 11 (42.31%) Apache Spark
2 5 (19.23%) Apache
3 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.85%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (19.23%) Azure
2 3 (11.54%) GitHub
3 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.85%) AWS
4 1 (3.85%) GCP
4 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (42.31%) Hadoop
2 6 (23.08%) Big Data
3 5 (19.23%) Apache Hive
4 2 (7.69%) MySQL
5 1 (3.85%) KDB
5 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Git
1 6 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 16 (61.54%) Analytical Skills
1 16 (61.54%) Finance
2 7 (26.92%) Banking
3 5 (19.23%) Financial Institution
4 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
5 3 (11.54%) Front Office
6 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.85%) Aerospace
7 1 (3.85%) Automotive
7 1 (3.85%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Developer
2 5 (19.23%) Apache Spark Developer
2 5 (19.23%) Java Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Analyst
3 4 (15.38%) Data Scientist
4 3 (11.54%) Gen AI Specialist
4 3 (11.54%) Pensions Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) Senior
5 2 (7.69%) C# Developer
5 2 (7.69%) C# GUI Developer
5 2 (7.69%) C# WPF Developer
5 2 (7.69%) GUI Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Python Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Data Scientist
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 2 (7.69%) WPF Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Quantitative Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Report Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Python Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) PySpark
1 5 (19.23%) Spark Streaming
1 5 (19.23%) TensorFlow
2 2 (7.69%) Kafka
2 2 (7.69%) NumPy
2 2 (7.69%) Pandas
2 2 (7.69%) WPF
3 1 (3.85%) .NET
3 1 (3.85%) ADO
3 1 (3.85%) D3.js
3 1 (3.85%) Django
3 1 (3.85%) FastAPI
3 1 (3.85%) OAuth
3 1 (3.85%) OAuth2
3 1 (3.85%) React
3 1 (3.85%) scikit-learn
3 1 (3.85%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Distributed Computing
2 5 (19.23%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (19.23%) Market Risk
3 4 (15.38%) Algorithms
3 4 (15.38%) Credit Risk
4 2 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (3.85%) Derivative
5 1 (3.85%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 1 (3.85%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Unix
2 2 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) Risk Management
2 10 (38.46%) Analytics
3 9 (34.62%) Computer Science
3 9 (34.62%) Data Science
4 8 (30.77%) CI/CD
4 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (23.08%) Agile
5 6 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence
5 6 (23.08%) Greeks
5 6 (23.08%) LLM
5 6 (23.08%) Machine Learning
5 6 (23.08%) Test Automation
6 5 (19.23%) Batch Processing
6 5 (19.23%) Generative AI
6 5 (19.23%) Memory Management
6 5 (19.23%) Migration
6 5 (19.23%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (19.23%) Risk Analytics
6 5 (19.23%) Statistics
6 5 (19.23%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (76.92%) Python
2 10 (38.46%) Java
2 10 (38.46%) SQL
3 4 (15.38%) C++
4 3 (11.54%) C
4 3 (11.54%) C#
5 1 (3.85%) R
5 1 (3.85%) Rust
5 1 (3.85%) Scala
5 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (50.00%) Degree
2 8 (30.77%) Master's Degree
3 6 (23.08%) PhD
4 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.85%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) TOWER Software
2 1 (3.85%) Databricks