Mathematics Contract Job Trends in London

Mathematics (Maths)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Mathematics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 194 238
Rank change year-on-year -96 +44 -15
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 157 184 159
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.78% 1.36% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 1.47% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 121 112
10th Percentile £415 £438 £329
25th Percentile £544 £537 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £750 £647
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +15.92% -7.57%
75th Percentile £788 £775 £838
90th Percentile £888 £1,025 £875
England median daily rate £550 £690 £550
% change year-on-year -20.29% +25.45% -18.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 9
10th Percentile - £25.17 £39.12
25th Percentile £19.03 £28.79 £46.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £43.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% -13.86% -57.56%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £57.75 £58.75
England median hourly rate £24.00 £15.14 £16.23
% change year-on-year +58.52% -6.72% +17.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,900 12,495 14,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.11% 92.36% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 8,322 10,079
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £777 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 253 201
10th Percentile £17.07 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.71
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.39% -12.41%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.87%

Mathematics
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Mathematics job vacancy trend in London

Mathematics
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Mathematics

Mathematics
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mathematics in London over the 6 months to 14 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Mathematics in London

Mathematics
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Mathematics

Mathematics
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Mathematics in London over the 6 months to 14 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Mathematics in London

Mathematics
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mathematics within the London region over the 6 months to 14 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
Central London -32 14 £755 +13.96% 45
West London -13 6 £725 +45.00% 11
North London - 1 - - 4
Mathematics
England

Mathematics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.55%) Apache Spark
1 4 (2.55%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.91%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.64%) IIS
3 1 (0.64%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (3.82%) CPLEX
2 4 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.91%) Aladdin
1 3 (1.91%) Orchestrade
2 1 (0.64%) Aligne
2 1 (0.64%) Endur
2 1 (0.64%) ZaiNet
Cloud Services
1 37 (23.57%) AWS
2 19 (12.10%) Azure
3 16 (10.19%) GCP
4 10 (6.37%) Power Platform
5 8 (5.10%) Snowflake
6 7 (4.46%) Amazon Bedrock
6 7 (4.46%) Amazon SageMaker
7 5 (3.18%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (3.18%) GitHub
7 5 (3.18%) SaaS
7 5 (3.18%) Serverless
8 4 (2.55%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.55%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (1.91%) dbt
9 3 (1.91%) Google Gemini
10 2 (1.27%) Adobe Analytics
11 1 (0.64%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.64%) GitHub Copilot
11 1 (0.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.01%) MongoDB
2 10 (6.37%) Power BI
3 9 (5.73%) SQL Server
4 7 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.82%) Tableau
6 4 (2.55%) Data Mining
6 4 (2.55%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.91%) Big Data
7 3 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.27%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.27%) KDB
8 2 (1.27%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.27%) Power Query
8 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.27%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.64%) Kdb+
9 1 (0.64%) Metadata
9 1 (0.64%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.64%) Stardog
9 1 (0.64%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 16 (10.19%) Git
2 2 (1.27%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.27%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio
General
1 57 (36.31%) Social Skills
2 56 (35.67%) Analytical Skills
3 54 (34.39%) Finance
4 30 (19.11%) Banking
5 25 (15.92%) Front Office
6 12 (7.64%) Investment Banking
6 12 (7.64%) Public Sector
7 9 (5.73%) Marketing
8 8 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (5.10%) Retail
9 4 (2.55%) Aviation
9 4 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.55%) Legal
9 4 (2.55%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.91%) Advertising
11 2 (1.27%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (22.93%) Developer
2 33 (21.02%) Data Scientist
3 32 (20.38%) Senior
4 17 (10.83%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 14 (8.92%) C# Developer
5 14 (8.92%) Quantitative Developer
6 13 (8.28%) Analyst
7 12 (7.64%) Data Engineer
8 10 (6.37%) Python Developer
8 10 (6.37%) Senior Data Scientist
9 9 (5.73%) Java Engineer
9 9 (5.73%) Software Engineer
10 7 (4.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 7 (4.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 7 (4.46%) Senior Data Engineer
11 6 (3.82%) Data Analyst
11 6 (3.82%) Senior Developer
12 5 (3.18%) Business Analyst
12 5 (3.18%) Lead
12 5 (3.18%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.01%) React
2 10 (6.37%) .NET
2 10 (6.37%) Kafka
3 9 (5.73%) LangGraph
4 7 (4.46%) LangChain
4 7 (4.46%) Pandas
5 6 (3.82%) FastAPI
5 6 (3.82%) PyTorch
6 5 (3.18%) Model Context Protocol
6 5 (3.18%) NumPy
6 5 (3.18%) XML
7 3 (1.91%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.91%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.91%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (1.91%) JSON
7 3 (1.91%) JSON Schema
7 3 (1.91%) pydantic
7 3 (1.91%) scikit-learn
7 3 (1.91%) TensorFlow
7 3 (1.91%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 25 (15.92%) Algorithms
1 25 (15.92%) Derivative
2 15 (9.55%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (7.64%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (7.64%) Equities
3 12 (7.64%) Fixed Income
4 11 (7.01%) AI Agents
5 9 (5.73%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (5.10%) Data Structures
7 7 (4.46%) Product Ownership
8 5 (3.18%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (3.18%) Exotic Derivative
8 5 (3.18%) Hedge funds
8 5 (3.18%) OTC Derivatives
9 4 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.55%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.55%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.91%) Credit Risk
10 3 (1.91%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.82%) Linux
2 3 (1.91%) Windows
3 2 (1.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (46.50%) Computer Science
2 64 (40.76%) AI
3 61 (38.85%) Machine Learning
4 52 (33.12%) Data Science
4 52 (33.12%) Decision-Making
5 50 (31.85%) Analytics
6 49 (31.21%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (30.57%) Software Engineering
8 40 (25.48%) Statistics
9 32 (20.38%) Physics
10 27 (17.20%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (15.92%) Data Engineering
11 25 (15.92%) Data Pipeline
11 25 (15.92%) LLM
12 24 (15.29%) Agile
13 23 (14.65%) Validation
14 17 (10.83%) Asset Management
14 17 (10.83%) Visualisation
15 16 (10.19%) Applied Mathematics
15 16 (10.19%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 111 (70.70%) Python
2 40 (25.48%) SQL
3 19 (12.10%) C#
3 19 (12.10%) C++
3 19 (12.10%) Java
4 14 (8.92%) R
5 7 (4.46%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.91%) Bash
6 3 (1.91%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.91%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.27%) MATLAB
7 2 (1.27%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.64%) C
8 1 (0.64%) Cypher
8 1 (0.64%) Gremlin
8 1 (0.64%) Perl
8 1 (0.64%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.64%) Scala
8 1 (0.64%) SHACL
8 1 (0.64%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 85 (54.14%) Degree
2 26 (16.56%) Master's Degree
3 25 (15.92%) PhD
4 24 (15.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (5.10%) Numerate Degree
5 8 (5.10%) Security Cleared
6 7 (4.46%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.91%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.27%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.64%) MBA
9 1 (0.64%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.37%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.91%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (1.91%) QA
3 1 (0.64%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (5.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (3.82%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.55%) Terraform
3 1 (0.64%) Ansible
3 1 (0.64%) Grafana
3 1 (0.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (5.73%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.18%) Databricks
3 4 (2.55%) Google
3 4 (2.55%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.91%) Alteryx
4 3 (1.91%) Murex
5 2 (1.27%) Adobe
5 2 (1.27%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.27%) Charles River
5 2 (1.27%) Oracle
6 1 (0.64%) Calypso
6 1 (0.64%) Citrix
6 1 (0.64%) Plaid
6 1 (0.64%) Reuters
6 1 (0.64%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.64%) Sitecore