Mathematics Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Mathematics (Maths)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Mathematics skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 - 72
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.27% - 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% - 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £455 - -
25th Percentile £467 - £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £499 - £165
Median % change year-on-year - - -61.74%
75th Percentile £543 - £173
90th Percentile £562 - -
Scotland median daily rate £499 £186 £400
% change year-on-year +168.01% -53.50% -11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 663 609 750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 91.07% 89.56% 91.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 434 501
10th Percentile £300 £269 £338
25th Percentile £370 £363 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £558 £580
90th Percentile £613 £670 £688
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 15 25
10th Percentile £14.32 £15.77 £12.05
25th Percentile £16.84 £19.05 £12.13
Median hourly rate £17.45 £24.15 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.76% +66.55% -61.26%
75th Percentile £25.15 £38.50 £47.73
90th Percentile £26.21 £55.12 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £20.94 £19.59
% change year-on-year -4.48% +6.88% -8.88%

Mathematics
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Mathematics in Glasgow

Mathematics
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Mathematics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Mathematics

Mathematics
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mathematics in Glasgow over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mathematics in Glasgow

Mathematics
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Mathematics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Mathematics

Mathematics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Case
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Stability
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Teradata