Mathematics Contracts in London

Mathematics (Maths)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 193 216 217
Rank change year-on-year +23 +1 +61
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 164 180 324
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.31% 1.01% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 1.14% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 121 215
10th Percentile £375 £400 £488
25th Percentile £525 £488 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £638 £775
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -17.74% +24.00%
75th Percentile £863 £825 £950
90th Percentile £1,025 £875 £1,015
England median daily rate £725 £600 £700
% change year-on-year +20.83% -14.29% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 22 3
10th Percentile £22.00 £12.85 £17.10
25th Percentile £23.08 £20.98 £20.53
Median hourly rate £34.41 £47.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.56% +72.73% -42.11%
75th Percentile £51.25 £59.75 £108.13
90th Percentile £56.25 £72.13 £155.75
England median hourly rate £16.23 £14.80 £19.49
% change year-on-year +9.66% -24.06% +25.74%

All Process and 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 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Mathematics
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Mathematics in London

Mathematics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Mathematics in London

Mathematics
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Mathematics in London

Mathematics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Mathematics in London

Mathematics
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

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

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 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
Central London +11 26 £750 +33.33% 28
West London +10 1 £500 -24.53% 11
Mathematics
England

Mathematics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 21 (12.80%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.88%) Apache
2 8 (4.88%) GemFire
2 8 (4.88%) Oracle Coherence
3 2 (1.22%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.22%) SAS
4 1 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.61%) Luigi
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 26 (15.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (6.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.22%) CPLEX
3 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.83%) Bankmaster
Cloud Services
1 40 (24.39%) Azure
2 31 (18.90%) AWS
3 19 (11.59%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (4.88%) Power Platform
5 6 (3.66%) GitHub
6 3 (1.83%) GCP
6 3 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.22%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.22%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.61%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.61%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (0.61%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.61%) Internet
1 1 (0.61%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.59%) Hadoop
2 17 (10.37%) Relational Database
3 14 (8.54%) Big Data
4 12 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (6.10%) Redis
5 10 (6.10%) SQL Server
6 8 (4.88%) Power BI
7 6 (3.66%) Apache Hive
8 5 (3.05%) Tableau
9 4 (2.44%) Power Query
10 3 (1.83%) Data Mining
10 3 (1.83%) MySQL
10 3 (1.83%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.22%) KDB
11 2 (1.22%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.61%) QGIS
12 1 (0.61%) Qlik Sense
12 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (10.37%) Git
2 8 (4.88%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.66%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.61%) Gradle
4 1 (0.61%) JIRA
4 1 (0.61%) JUnit
4 1 (0.61%) Maven
4 1 (0.61%) Mercurial
4 1 (0.61%) MLflow
4 1 (0.61%) Mockito
4 1 (0.61%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 83 (50.61%) Finance
2 74 (45.12%) Analytical Skills
3 61 (37.20%) Social Skills
4 57 (34.76%) Banking
5 45 (27.44%) Investment Banking
6 23 (14.02%) Front Office
7 7 (4.27%) Marketing
8 5 (3.05%) Financial Institution
8 5 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.05%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.44%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.83%) Games
11 2 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.61%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.61%) Automotive
12 1 (0.61%) Retail
12 1 (0.61%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.61%) Social Housing
12 1 (0.61%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 85 (51.83%) Developer
2 30 (18.29%) Analyst
3 26 (15.85%) Senior
4 25 (15.24%) Java Developer
4 25 (15.24%) Quantitative Developer
5 19 (11.59%) Data Scientist
6 17 (10.37%) Python Developer
7 16 (9.76%) Senior Developer
8 15 (9.15%) C# Developer
9 13 (7.93%) Lead
9 13 (7.93%) Qualitative Analyst
9 13 (7.93%) Quantitative Analyst
10 11 (6.71%) Lead Developer
11 10 (6.10%) Lead Java Developer
11 10 (6.10%) Senior Java Developer
12 9 (5.49%) Front Office Developer
13 8 (4.88%) Oracle Developer
13 8 (4.88%) Senior Oracle Developer
14 7 (4.27%) AWS Developer
14 7 (4.27%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (11.59%) Pandas
2 17 (10.37%) AngularJS
3 16 (9.76%) NumPy
4 15 (9.15%) Kafka
5 13 (7.93%) .NET
6 12 (7.32%) SciPy
7 10 (6.10%) ActiveMQ
7 10 (6.10%) FastAPI
7 10 (6.10%) React
8 9 (5.49%) Flask
8 9 (5.49%) Polars
8 9 (5.49%) PySpark
8 9 (5.49%) TensorFlow
8 9 (5.49%) Vue
9 8 (4.88%) ASP.NET
9 8 (4.88%) Spark Streaming
10 6 (3.66%) scikit-learn
10 6 (3.66%) WPF
11 3 (1.83%) Java Concurrency
11 3 (1.83%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 34 (20.73%) Derivative
2 20 (12.20%) Market Risk
3 17 (10.37%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (9.76%) Algorithms
5 15 (9.15%) Distributed Computing
5 15 (9.15%) Equities
6 12 (7.32%) Hedge funds
7 10 (6.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 9 (5.49%) Equity Derivative
9 8 (4.88%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (3.05%) Credit Risk
11 4 (2.44%) Multi-touch
12 3 (1.83%) Fixed Income
12 3 (1.83%) Grid Computing
13 2 (1.22%) Animation
13 2 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (1.22%) Renewable Energy
13 2 (1.22%) Solar Panel
14 1 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
14 1 (0.61%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.10%) Linux
2 4 (2.44%) Unix
3 1 (0.61%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (35.37%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (34.15%) Computer Science
3 43 (26.22%) Analytics
3 43 (26.22%) Risk Management
4 38 (23.17%) Statistics
5 33 (20.12%) Agile
5 33 (20.12%) CI/CD
5 33 (20.12%) Data Analysis
6 32 (19.51%) Data Science
6 32 (19.51%) Software Engineering
7 30 (18.29%) Machine Learning
8 27 (16.46%) DevOps
9 26 (15.85%) Economics
10 23 (14.02%) Decision-Making
10 23 (14.02%) Greeks
11 19 (11.59%) Data Pipeline
12 17 (10.37%) Mathematical Modelling
12 17 (10.37%) Physics
13 16 (9.76%) BDD
13 16 (9.76%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 113 (68.90%) Python
2 55 (33.54%) SQL
3 45 (27.44%) Java
4 39 (23.78%) C++
5 27 (16.46%) C#
6 17 (10.37%) R
7 10 (6.10%) Rust
8 9 (5.49%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (2.44%) Haskell
9 4 (2.44%) VBA
10 3 (1.83%) C
11 2 (1.22%) Go
11 2 (1.22%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.61%) Bash
12 1 (0.61%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.61%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.61%) Scala
12 1 (0.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 87 (53.05%) Degree
2 40 (24.39%) Numerate Degree
3 26 (15.85%) Master's Degree
4 11 (6.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (6.71%) PhD
5 3 (1.83%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.83%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.15%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.44%) QA
3 3 (1.83%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.22%) Basel II
5 1 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.61%) GDPR
5 1 (0.61%) NIST
5 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (7.93%) Docker
2 8 (4.88%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 10 (6.10%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.83%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (5.49%) Oracle
2 5 (3.05%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.44%) Alteryx
4 3 (1.83%) Databricks
4 3 (1.83%) Google
4 3 (1.83%) TOWER Software
5 2 (1.22%) Spotify
6 1 (0.61%) FIS
6 1 (0.61%) Siebel
6 1 (0.61%) WorldPay