Mathematics Contracts in the City of London

Mathematics (Maths)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 108 107
Rank change year-on-year +15 -1 +20
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 26 18 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.48% 0.82% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 0.90% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 27
10th Percentile - £451 £525
25th Percentile £500 £475 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £563 £750
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -25.00% +23.97%
75th Percentile £810 £750 £831
90th Percentile £858 £766 £915
Central London median daily rate £750 £563 £738
% change year-on-year +33.33% -23.73% +21.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £22.00 - -
Central London median hourly rate £22.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,637 1,989 3,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.53% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 1,408 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Mathematics
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Mathematics in the City of London

Mathematics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mathematics in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Mathematics in the City of London

Mathematics
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mathematics in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mathematics in the City of London

Mathematics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mathematics in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Mathematics in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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%) Senior Quantitative Developer
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%) Code Quality
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