Mathematics Contracts in England

Mathematics (Maths)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 221 258 258
Rank change year-on-year +37 0 +30
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 295 334 516
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.21% 0.90% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 1.04% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 158 300
10th Percentile £360 £313 £400
25th Percentile £500 £438 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £820 £725 £881
90th Percentile £959 £875 £1,025
UK median daily rate £700 £600 £700
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 114 67
10th Percentile £14.84 £11.77 £13.36
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
Median hourly rate £16.23 £14.80 £19.49
Median % change year-on-year +9.66% -24.06% +25.74%
75th Percentile £21.46 £16.85 £65.00
90th Percentile £28.57 £60.00 -
UK median hourly rate £16.23 £14.80 £19.49
% change year-on-year +9.66% -24.06% +2.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Mathematics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Mathematics in England

Mathematics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Mathematics in England

Mathematics
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Mathematics in England

Mathematics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Mathematics in England

Mathematics
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Mathematics in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Mathematics in England

Mathematics
Contract Job Locations in 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 England 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
London +23 164 £750 +17.65% 855
East of England +5 50 - - 166
South East +41 29 £368 -3.29% 398
South West +59 23 £538 - 156
North of England +25 17 £490 - 286
North West +23 14 £490 - 148
Midlands +19 5 £316 -42.55% 227
East Midlands - 4 £316 - 110
Yorkshire +8 3 £496 - 93
West Midlands +7 1 - - 117
Mathematics
UK

Mathematics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 26 (8.81%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.71%) Apache
2 8 (2.71%) GemFire
2 8 (2.71%) Oracle Coherence
3 2 (0.68%) Confluence
3 2 (0.68%) Jupyter
3 2 (0.68%) SAS
4 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.34%) Luigi
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 81 (27.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (22.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.68%) CPLEX
4 2 (0.68%) LightWave 3D
5 1 (0.34%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (1.02%) Bankmaster
2 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 58 (19.66%) Azure
2 41 (13.90%) AWS
3 25 (8.47%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (4.07%) Power Platform
6 9 (3.05%) GCP
7 6 (2.03%) GitHub
7 6 (2.03%) SaaS
8 4 (1.36%) Anthropic Claude
8 4 (1.36%) Azure AI
8 4 (1.36%) Google Gemini
9 3 (1.02%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.02%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.68%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.68%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.68%) Serverless
11 1 (0.34%) Amazon SageMaker
11 1 (0.34%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 24 (8.14%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.34%) Internet
2 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.34%) tcpdump
2 1 (0.34%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.78%) Hadoop
2 17 (5.76%) Relational Database
3 15 (5.08%) Big Data
4 12 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (4.07%) Power BI
4 12 (4.07%) Tableau
5 10 (3.39%) Redis
5 10 (3.39%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.03%) Apache Hive
6 6 (2.03%) Data Mining
7 5 (1.69%) Metadata
8 4 (1.36%) Neo4j
8 4 (1.36%) Power Query
9 3 (1.02%) MySQL
9 3 (1.02%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.68%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.68%) KDB
10 2 (0.68%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.34%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.34%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 25 (8.47%) Git
2 8 (2.71%) Jenkins
2 8 (2.71%) Selenium
3 6 (2.03%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.36%) JIRA
5 3 (1.02%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.02%) SpecFlow
5 3 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.68%) Balsamiq
6 2 (0.68%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.34%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.34%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.34%) Gradle
7 1 (0.34%) JUnit
7 1 (0.34%) Maven
7 1 (0.34%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.34%) Mocha
7 1 (0.34%) Mockito
7 1 (0.34%) NetBeans
7 1 (0.34%) TeamCity
General
1 118 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 114 (38.64%) Finance
3 86 (29.15%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (20.00%) Banking
5 45 (15.25%) Investment Banking
6 23 (7.80%) Front Office
7 12 (4.07%) Marketing
8 10 (3.39%) German Language
9 9 (3.05%) Public Sector
10 6 (2.03%) Hungarian Language
11 5 (1.69%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.69%) Games
11 5 (1.69%) Legal
11 5 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.36%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.36%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.02%) Electronics
14 2 (0.68%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.68%) Lithuanian Language
Job Titles
1 87 (29.49%) Developer
2 64 (21.69%) Analyst
3 37 (12.54%) Senior
4 33 (11.19%) Data Scientist
4 33 (11.19%) Service Analyst
5 25 (8.47%) Java Developer
5 25 (8.47%) Quantitative Developer
6 24 (8.14%) Service Desk Analyst
7 23 (7.80%) Desktop Engineer
7 23 (7.80%) Desktop Support
7 23 (7.80%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 23 (7.80%) Support Engineer
8 18 (6.10%) Senior Developer
8 18 (6.10%) Technical Analyst
8 18 (6.10%) Technical Services Analyst
9 17 (5.76%) Python Developer
10 15 (5.08%) C# Developer
11 13 (4.41%) Lead
11 13 (4.41%) Qualitative Analyst
11 13 (4.41%) Quantitative Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.44%) AngularJS
1 19 (6.44%) Pandas
2 16 (5.42%) NumPy
3 15 (5.08%) Kafka
3 15 (5.08%) TensorFlow
4 13 (4.41%) .NET
5 12 (4.07%) React
5 12 (4.07%) SciPy
6 11 (3.73%) Vue
7 10 (3.39%) ActiveMQ
7 10 (3.39%) FastAPI
7 10 (3.39%) PySpark
8 9 (3.05%) Flask
8 9 (3.05%) Polars
8 9 (3.05%) PyTorch
9 8 (2.71%) ASP.NET
9 8 (2.71%) Spark Streaming
10 6 (2.03%) scikit-learn
10 6 (2.03%) WPF
11 4 (1.36%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 39 (13.22%) Algorithms
2 34 (11.53%) Derivative
3 23 (7.80%) Driving Licence
4 20 (6.78%) Market Risk
5 17 (5.76%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (5.08%) Distributed Computing
6 15 (5.08%) Equities
7 12 (4.07%) Hedge funds
8 10 (3.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 9 (3.05%) Equity Derivative
9 9 (3.05%) Multi-touch
10 8 (2.71%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (2.37%) Management Information System
12 6 (2.03%) Cloud Native
12 6 (2.03%) Credit Risk
13 5 (1.69%) Product Ownership
14 4 (1.36%) Animation
15 3 (1.02%) Fixed Income
15 3 (1.02%) Grid Computing
16 2 (0.68%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.73%) Linux
2 4 (1.36%) Unix
3 1 (0.34%) Android
3 1 (0.34%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (46.78%) Problem-Solving
2 72 (24.41%) Computer Science
3 56 (18.98%) Customer Service
3 56 (18.98%) Statistics
4 54 (18.31%) Service Delivery
5 53 (17.97%) Analytics
6 52 (17.63%) Incident Management
7 51 (17.29%) Data Science
8 48 (16.27%) Machine Learning
9 47 (15.93%) Agile
10 46 (15.59%) Data Analysis
11 44 (14.92%) Risk Management
12 40 (13.56%) CI/CD
13 38 (12.88%) Decision-Making
14 36 (12.20%) Software Engineering
15 33 (11.19%) Artificial Intelligence
16 31 (10.51%) DevOps
17 27 (9.15%) Data Modelling
18 26 (8.81%) Economics
18 26 (8.81%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 143 (48.47%) Python
2 69 (23.39%) SQL
3 51 (17.29%) Java
4 40 (13.56%) C++
5 30 (10.17%) C#
6 29 (9.83%) R
7 12 (4.07%) JavaScript
8 10 (3.39%) Rust
9 4 (1.36%) C
9 4 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (1.36%) Haskell
9 4 (1.36%) Scala
9 4 (1.36%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.36%) VBA
10 3 (1.02%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.68%) Bash
11 2 (0.68%) Go
11 2 (0.68%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.34%) Fortran
12 1 (0.34%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 118 (40.00%) Degree
2 48 (16.27%) Security Cleared
3 46 (15.59%) SC Cleared
4 42 (14.24%) Numerate Degree
5 32 (10.85%) Master's Degree
6 24 (8.14%) A+ Certification
6 24 (8.14%) MCSA
6 24 (8.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 23 (7.80%) Dell Certification
8 17 (5.76%) PhD
9 13 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.68%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.34%) APMP
11 1 (0.34%) CISSP
11 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.34%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.14%) SLA
2 19 (6.44%) Data Quality
3 17 (5.76%) QA
4 4 (1.36%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.68%) Basel II
6 2 (0.68%) GDPR
7 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.34%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.34%) MISRA
7 1 (0.34%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.34%) NIST
7 1 (0.34%) PMO
7 1 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 24 (8.14%) Active Directory
2 17 (5.76%) Docker
3 8 (2.71%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 14 (4.75%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.69%) Terraform
3 1 (0.34%) Nessus
3 1 (0.34%) OpenVAS
3 1 (0.34%) QRadar
Vendors
1 85 (28.81%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.15%) ServiceNow
3 24 (8.14%) Citrix
4 23 (7.80%) Dell
4 23 (7.80%) HP
5 10 (3.39%) Oracle
6 5 (1.69%) Alteryx
6 5 (1.69%) Databricks
7 4 (1.36%) Google
8 3 (1.02%) TOWER Software
9 2 (0.68%) SAP
9 2 (0.68%) Spotify
10 1 (0.34%) Ariba
10 1 (0.34%) Carbon Black
10 1 (0.34%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.34%) IBM
10 1 (0.34%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.34%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.34%) Siebel
10 1 (0.34%) Siemens