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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 188 224
Rank change year-on-year -105 +36 -8
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 125 166 185
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.70% 1.32% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 1.43% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 111 125
10th Percentile £409 £375 £405
25th Percentile £496 £529 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £750 £638
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +17.65% -16.39%
75th Percentile £819 £856 £825
90th Percentile £1,050 £1,025 £890
England median daily rate £550 £725 £600
% change year-on-year -24.14% +20.83% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 22
10th Percentile - £22.00 £12.85
25th Percentile - £23.08 £20.98
Median hourly rate - £34.41 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - -27.56% +72.73%
75th Percentile - £51.25 £59.75
90th Percentile - £56.25 £72.13
England median hourly rate £21.11 £16.23 £14.80
% change year-on-year +30.05% +9.66% -24.06%

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 15,708 11,595 15,776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.55% 92.16% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,519 7,858 11,305
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £509 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 168 326
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.08 £22.73 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% +19.30% -26.92%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £46.77
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.75 £65.88
England median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £35.95
% change year-on-year +50.00% -16.55% -4.13%

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 2 May 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
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 2 May 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 -28 12 £700 -6.67% 65
West London -20 6 £773 +54.60% 4
South London - 2 £525 -
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 9 (7.20%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.40%) SAS
3 2 (1.60%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.80%) Confluence
4 1 (0.80%) IIS
4 1 (0.80%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (6.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.60%) CPLEX
2 2 (1.60%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.80%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.80%) IntelliMatch
2 1 (0.80%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 28 (22.40%) AWS
2 17 (13.60%) Azure
3 9 (7.20%) Amazon S3
4 7 (5.60%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (5.60%) Serverless
5 6 (4.80%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (4.80%) GCP
6 5 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (3.20%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (3.20%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.20%) SaaS
7 4 (3.20%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.40%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.40%) Azure AI
8 3 (2.40%) GitHub
8 3 (2.40%) IaaS
9 2 (1.60%) AWS KMS
9 2 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.60%) 3GPP
1 2 (1.60%) HTTP
1 2 (1.60%) Intelligent Network
1 2 (1.60%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (7.20%) MongoDB
3 8 (6.40%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.20%) Power BI
5 3 (2.40%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.80%) Big Data
6 1 (0.80%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.80%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.80%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.80%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.80%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.80%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (13.60%) Git
2 6 (4.80%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.40%) TeamCity
3 3 (2.40%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.60%) GitLab
4 2 (1.60%) JIRA
General
1 64 (51.20%) Finance
2 38 (30.40%) Social Skills
3 31 (24.80%) Front Office
4 28 (22.40%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (20.80%) Banking
6 12 (9.60%) Investment Banking
7 11 (8.80%) Marketing
8 10 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (6.40%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (5.60%) Financial Institution
11 5 (4.00%) Retail
12 4 (3.20%) Aviation
13 3 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (2.40%) Public Sector
13 3 (2.40%) Telecoms
14 2 (1.60%) Legal
14 2 (1.60%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.80%) Advertising
15 1 (0.80%) Back Office
15 1 (0.80%) Military
Job Titles
1 37 (29.60%) Developer
2 25 (20.00%) Data Scientist
3 24 (19.20%) Senior
4 16 (12.80%) Analyst
5 15 (12.00%) Quantitative Developer
6 13 (10.40%) Python Developer
7 10 (8.00%) Data Engineer
8 9 (7.20%) Lead
8 9 (7.20%) Senior Data Scientist
9 8 (6.40%) Java Engineer
9 8 (6.40%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (5.60%) C# Developer
11 6 (4.80%) Business Analyst
11 6 (4.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 6 (4.80%) Senior Developer
12 5 (4.00%) C++ Developer
12 5 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (4.00%) Lead Data Scientist
12 5 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
13 4 (3.20%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.00%) Pandas
2 11 (8.80%) NumPy
3 9 (7.20%) Kafka
4 8 (6.40%) React
5 7 (5.60%) PyTorch
5 7 (5.60%) TensorFlow
6 6 (4.80%) Model Context Protocol
7 5 (4.00%) LangGraph
7 5 (4.00%) scikit-learn
7 5 (4.00%) SciPy
8 4 (3.20%) .NET
8 4 (3.20%) LangChain
9 3 (2.40%) Django
9 3 (2.40%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (2.40%) Hugging Face
9 3 (2.40%) pydantic
9 3 (2.40%) Web Services
9 3 (2.40%) XML
10 2 (1.60%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.60%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 23 (18.40%) Algorithms
1 23 (18.40%) Derivative
2 22 (17.60%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (13.60%) Cloud Native
4 16 (12.80%) Equities
5 15 (12.00%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (8.80%) Equity Derivative
6 11 (8.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (6.40%) Fixed Income
8 7 (5.60%) Data Structures
9 6 (4.80%) Product Ownership
10 5 (4.00%) Hedge funds
10 5 (4.00%) Onboarding
11 4 (3.20%) Multi-touch
12 3 (2.40%) AI Agents
13 2 (1.60%) Credit Derivative
13 2 (1.60%) Credit Risk
13 2 (1.60%) Data Fabric
13 2 (1.60%) Distributed Computing
13 2 (1.60%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.00%) Linux
2 2 (1.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (45.60%) Computer Science
2 40 (32.00%) Data Science
3 39 (31.20%) Analytics
3 39 (31.20%) Machine Learning
4 37 (29.60%) AI
5 34 (27.20%) Decision-Making
6 28 (22.40%) Statistics
7 27 (21.60%) Physics
7 27 (21.60%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (20.00%) CI/CD
9 23 (18.40%) Agile
10 22 (17.60%) Risk Management
11 21 (16.80%) Data Pipeline
11 21 (16.80%) Software Engineering
12 19 (15.20%) Model Validation
13 18 (14.40%) Quantitative Finance
14 17 (13.60%) Asset Management
14 17 (13.60%) Data Engineering
14 17 (13.60%) LLM
14 17 (13.60%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 84 (67.20%) Python
2 35 (28.00%) SQL
3 24 (19.20%) C++
4 23 (18.40%) C#
5 18 (14.40%) Java
6 12 (9.60%) R
7 5 (4.00%) Bash
7 5 (4.00%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.40%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.60%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.80%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.80%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (60.00%) Degree
2 24 (19.20%) Master's Degree
3 22 (17.60%) PhD
4 14 (11.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (11.20%) Numerate Degree
5 4 (3.20%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 3 (2.40%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.60%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.80%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.80%) MBA
8 1 (0.80%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.80%) PMP
8 1 (0.80%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.80%) QA
2 4 (3.20%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.40%) SLA
4 1 (0.80%) GDPR
4 1 (0.80%) IFRS
4 1 (0.80%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.80%) Kubernetes
1 6 (4.80%) Terraform
2 3 (2.40%) Ansible
2 3 (2.40%) Grafana
2 3 (2.40%) Puppet
3 1 (0.80%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (4.80%) Databricks
2 4 (3.20%) Charles River
2 4 (3.20%) Google
2 4 (3.20%) Murex
3 3 (2.40%) Citrix
3 3 (2.40%) PagerDuty
4 2 (1.60%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.80%) FIS
5 1 (0.80%) Foundry
5 1 (0.80%) Greenplum
5 1 (0.80%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.80%) Netezza
5 1 (0.80%) Oracle
5 1 (0.80%) Palantir
5 1 (0.80%) Reuters
5 1 (0.80%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.80%) Teradata
5 1 (0.80%) UiPath