Mathematics Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Mathematics (Maths)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Mathematics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 55 19
Rank change year-on-year -37 -36 +65
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 23 36 102
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.04% 2.83% 6.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 3.17% 7.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 3 4
10th Percentile - - £125
25th Percentile £153 £450 £134
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £500 £161
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +210.27% -59.54%
75th Percentile £228 £550 £274
90th Percentile - - £446
England median daily rate £550 £690 £540
% change year-on-year -20.29% +27.78% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 24 87
10th Percentile £13.00 - £14.16
25th Percentile £13.60 £14.84 £15.00
Median hourly rate £14.59 £15.14 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -3.63% -6.72% +18.81%
75th Percentile £44.80 £16.85 £16.85
90th Percentile £62.92 £18.85 -
England median hourly rate £24.00 £15.23 £16.23
% change year-on-year +57.64% -6.19% -3.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,730 1,134 1,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.28% 89.08% 82.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 830 503 495
10th Percentile £190 £200 £195
25th Percentile £381 £363 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £590 £575 £550
90th Percentile £675 £655 £638
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 406 289 440
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.84 £14.81
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.95 £15.62
Median hourly rate £47.25 £31.20 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.44% -27.44% +117.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £80.20 £70.00
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

Mathematics
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Mathematics job vacancy trend in the East of England

Mathematics
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Mathematics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Mathematics

Mathematics
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Mathematics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Mathematics

Mathematics
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Mathematics in the East of England over the 6 months to 24 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Mathematics in the East of England

Mathematics
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mathematics within the East of England region over the 6 months to 24 August 2026. 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
Cambridgeshire -12 12 £183 - 22
Hertfordshire -13 7 £200 - 18
Norfolk - 2 - - 10
Suffolk - 1 - - 5
Bedfordshire - 1 - - 6
Mathematics
England

Mathematics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.35%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.70%) Azure
1 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Git
2 2 (8.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.35%) Local Government
3 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (8.70%) .NET Developer
1 2 (8.70%) C# .NET Developer
1 2 (8.70%) C# Developer
1 2 (8.70%) C# WPF Developer
1 2 (8.70%) Developer
1 2 (8.70%) Systems Engineer
1 2 (8.70%) WPF Developer
2 1 (4.35%) Administrator
2 1 (4.35%) Customer Service Advisor
2 1 (4.35%) Data Scientist
2 1 (4.35%) Design Engineer
2 1 (4.35%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (4.35%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 1 (4.35%) Support Officer
2 1 (4.35%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) .NET
2 2 (8.70%) .NET Core
2 2 (8.70%) .NET Framework
2 2 (8.70%) Entity Framework
2 2 (8.70%) Managed Extensibility Framework
2 2 (8.70%) RESTful
2 2 (8.70%) Silverlight
2 2 (8.70%) WCF
2 2 (8.70%) Web Services
2 2 (8.70%) WPF
3 1 (4.35%) PyTorch
3 1 (4.35%) scikit-learn
3 1 (4.35%) TensorFlow
3 1 (4.35%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.35%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (4.35%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) Computer Science
2 4 (17.39%) Physics
3 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (13.04%) Software Engineering
3 3 (13.04%) Validation
4 2 (8.70%) Change Control
4 2 (8.70%) Code Quality
4 2 (8.70%) Customer Experience
4 2 (8.70%) Decision-Making
4 2 (8.70%) Dependency Injection
4 2 (8.70%) Design Patterns
4 2 (8.70%) Integration Testing
4 2 (8.70%) Inversion of Control
4 2 (8.70%) MVC
4 2 (8.70%) MVVM
4 2 (8.70%) Scrum
4 2 (8.70%) Systems Engineering
4 2 (8.70%) UML
4 2 (8.70%) Unit Testing
4 2 (8.70%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.70%) C#
1 2 (8.70%) MATLAB
1 2 (8.70%) XAML
2 1 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) Degree
2 5 (21.74%) DBS Check
3 3 (13.04%) Master's Degree
3 3 (13.04%) PhD
4 1 (4.35%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (4.35%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (4.35%) Capita
1 1 (4.35%) Civica
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft