Mathematics Contract Job Trends in Central London

Mathematics (Maths)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Mathematics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 108 131
Rank change year-on-year 0 +23 0
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 21 25 23
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.11% 1.07% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 1.16% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 16
10th Percentile £465 £418 £445
25th Percentile £517 £491 £648
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £638 £748
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% -14.72% +35.91%
75th Percentile £772 £800 £884
90th Percentile £886 £877 £917
London median daily rate £725 £550 £675
% change year-on-year +31.82% -18.52% -6.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £43.50 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -8.42% +5.56% -18.18%

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 1,777 2,148 2,661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.72% 91.79% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,229 1,348 1,865
10th Percentile £331 £363 £358
25th Percentile £424 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £750 £775 £806
London median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 26 18
10th Percentile £17.79 £19.50 £16.18
25th Percentile £20.18 £28.06 £17.48
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +6.87% -24.26%
75th Percentile £36.00 £74.38 £52.88
90th Percentile £60.95 £124.75 £70.25
London median hourly rate £30.00 £38.07 £38.00
% change year-on-year -21.20% +0.18% +1.33%

Mathematics
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Mathematics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Mathematics job vacancy trend in Central London

Mathematics
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Mathematics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Mathematics

Mathematics
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

Daily rate histogram for Mathematics in Central London

Mathematics
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Mathematics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Mathematics

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 6 November 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 0 21 £575 -9.80% 203
Mathematics
London

Mathematics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (19.05%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.76%) Luigi
2 1 (4.76%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) AWS
2 4 (19.05%) GCP
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (9.52%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) KDB
1 3 (14.29%) Kdb+
2 2 (9.52%) Big Data
2 2 (9.52%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.76%) Apache Hive
3 1 (4.76%) Data Mining
3 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) MLflow
2 1 (4.76%) Artifactory
2 1 (4.76%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) GitLab
2 1 (4.76%) QUnit
General
1 14 (66.67%) Finance
2 9 (42.86%) Front Office
3 7 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
5 3 (14.29%) Financial Institution
6 2 (9.52%) Banking
6 2 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (9.52%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (9.52%) Law
7 1 (4.76%) Back Office
7 1 (4.76%) Marketing
7 1 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Developer
2 5 (23.81%) Data Scientist
3 4 (19.05%) Senior
4 3 (14.29%) Analyst
4 3 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) KDB Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Qualitative Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Quantitative Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Front Office Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Pricing Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Product Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Quantitative Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Quantitative Specialist
6 1 (4.76%) React Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Data Scientist
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) Pandas
1 2 (9.52%) scikit-learn
1 2 (9.52%) TensorFlow
2 1 (4.76%) Altair
2 1 (4.76%) CSS
2 1 (4.76%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (4.76%) HTML
2 1 (4.76%) Kafka
2 1 (4.76%) NumPy
2 1 (4.76%) PySpark
2 1 (4.76%) PyTorch
2 1 (4.76%) React
2 1 (4.76%) REST
2 1 (4.76%) Swing
2 1 (4.76%) XGBoost
2 1 (4.76%) XML
2 1 (4.76%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (42.86%) Algorithms
2 5 (23.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (19.05%) Derivative
4 3 (14.29%) Data Structures
4 3 (14.29%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (14.29%) Fixed Income
5 2 (9.52%) Credit Risk
6 1 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (4.76%) Credit Derivative
6 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (4.76%) Equities
6 1 (4.76%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (4.76%) Exotic Derivative
6 1 (4.76%) Multi-touch
6 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
6 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Unix
2 1 (4.76%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Computer Science
2 9 (42.86%) Machine Learning
3 8 (38.10%) Data Science
4 7 (33.33%) Statistics
5 6 (28.57%) Analytics
5 6 (28.57%) Risk Management
6 5 (23.81%) Agile
7 4 (19.05%) AI
7 4 (19.05%) Physics
7 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (19.05%) Quantitative Finance
7 4 (19.05%) Visualisation
8 3 (14.29%) Data Engineering
8 3 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
8 3 (14.29%) LLM
8 3 (14.29%) Low Latency
8 3 (14.29%) Quantitative Research
8 3 (14.29%) Scrum
8 3 (14.29%) Software Engineering
8 3 (14.29%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 14 (66.67%) Python
2 9 (42.86%) SQL
3 6 (28.57%) C++
4 4 (19.05%) C#
5 3 (14.29%) Java
5 3 (14.29%) R
6 1 (4.76%) C
6 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.76%) MATLAB
6 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.76%) Scala
6 1 (4.76%) VBA
6 1 (4.76%) VC++
Qualifications
1 15 (71.43%) Degree
2 7 (33.33%) Master's Degree
3 4 (19.05%) PhD
4 3 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (9.52%) Postgraduate
6 1 (4.76%) MBA
6 1 (4.76%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) EMIR
1 2 (9.52%) NIST
2 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Kubeflow
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.76%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle