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 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 112 122
Rank change year-on-year +9 +10 -8
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Mathematics 24 16 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.33% 0.77% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 0.84% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 26
10th Percentile £493 £313 £395
25th Percentile £527 £398 £655
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £650 £800
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -18.75% +45.45%
75th Percentile £763 £795 £882
90th Percentile £821 £862 £963
Central London median daily rate £663 £650 £800
% change year-on-year +1.92% -18.75% +45.45%
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 - - -
Central London median hourly rate £62.50 - -

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,697 1,905 2,911
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.28% 91.85% 91.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,116 1,249 1,997
10th Percentile £323 £375 £363
25th Percentile £424 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £774 £790 £820
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 15
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £19.79 £14.75
Median hourly rate £28.33 £26.63 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -3.18% -36.40%
75th Percentile £53.50 £82.19 £47.41
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £62.45
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +7.67% -22.86% -17.65%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Mathematics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Mathematics

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 27 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mathematics in the City of London

Mathematics
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Mathematics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Mathematics

Mathematics
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 15 (62.50%) Apache Spark
2 5 (20.83%) Apache
3 2 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (8.33%) Luigi
4 1 (4.17%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) AWS
2 4 (16.67%) GCP
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (54.17%) Hadoop
2 7 (29.17%) Big Data
3 6 (25.00%) Apache Hive
4 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
4 2 (8.33%) MySQL
4 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
4 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.17%) Data Mining
5 1 (4.17%) KDB
5 1 (4.17%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Git
1 5 (20.83%) Jenkins
2 3 (12.50%) MLflow
3 1 (4.17%) Artifactory
3 1 (4.17%) GitLab
3 1 (4.17%) QUnit
3 1 (4.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 20 (83.33%) Finance
2 14 (58.33%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (25.00%) Banking
4 5 (20.83%) Financial Institution
5 3 (12.50%) Front Office
5 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
6 2 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (4.17%) Back Office
7 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (4.17%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Developer
2 7 (29.17%) Data Scientist
3 5 (20.83%) Apache Spark Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Java Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Data Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Gen AI Specialist
5 3 (12.50%) Senior
5 3 (12.50%) Senior Data Scientist
6 2 (8.33%) Lead
6 2 (8.33%) Lead Data Scientist
7 1 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
7 1 (4.17%) AWS Data Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Data Science Developer
7 1 (4.17%) KDB Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Python Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Qualitative Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Quantitative Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Quantitative Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (29.17%) TensorFlow
2 6 (25.00%) PySpark
3 5 (20.83%) Spark Streaming
4 2 (8.33%) Kafka
4 2 (8.33%) Pandas
4 2 (8.33%) scikit-learn
5 1 (4.17%) NumPy
5 1 (4.17%) PyTorch
5 1 (4.17%) REST
5 1 (4.17%) XGBoost
5 1 (4.17%) XML
5 1 (4.17%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Distributed Computing
2 7 (29.17%) Algorithms
3 6 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (25.00%) Credit Risk
4 5 (20.83%) Market Risk
5 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
5 1 (4.17%) Derivative
5 1 (4.17%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (4.17%) Exotic Derivative
5 1 (4.17%) Fixed Income
5 1 (4.17%) Multi-touch
5 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Computer Science
1 13 (54.17%) Machine Learning
1 13 (54.17%) Risk Management
2 12 (50.00%) Data Science
3 9 (37.50%) Analytics
3 9 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence
4 8 (33.33%) LLM
5 7 (29.17%) Statistics
6 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 6 (25.00%) Generative AI
6 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (20.83%) Batch Processing
7 5 (20.83%) Code Quality
7 5 (20.83%) Credit Risk Management
7 5 (20.83%) Data Extraction
7 5 (20.83%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (20.83%) Memory Management
7 5 (20.83%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (20.83%) Regulatory Compliance
7 5 (20.83%) Risk Analytics
Programming Languages
1 22 (91.67%) Python
2 13 (54.17%) SQL
3 7 (29.17%) Java
4 4 (16.67%) R
5 3 (12.50%) C++
6 2 (8.33%) C#
6 2 (8.33%) Scala
7 1 (4.17%) C
7 1 (4.17%) MATLAB
7 1 (4.17%) VBA
7 1 (4.17%) VC++
Qualifications
1 16 (66.67%) Degree
2 10 (41.67%) Master's Degree
3 9 (37.50%) PhD
4 3 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.17%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (8.33%) NIST
2 1 (4.17%) EMIR
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Kubeflow
1 1 (4.17%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) Databricks
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle