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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 193 223
Rank change year-on-year -91 +30 -18
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 133 162 181
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.72% 1.33% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 1.44% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 110 125
10th Percentile £425 £410 £357
25th Percentile £525 £534 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £750 £638
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £800 £846 £825
90th Percentile £906 £1,050 £890
England median daily rate £550 £725 £600
% change year-on-year -24.14% +20.83% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 21
10th Percentile - £24.60 £12.50
25th Percentile - £26.32 £20.98
Median hourly rate £19.03 £32.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.45% -27.78% +63.64%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile - £56.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £19.03 £15.44 £15.00
% change year-on-year +23.25% +2.93% -23.04%

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 16,373 11,226 15,458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.63% 92.27% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,935 7,534 11,094
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £434 £431 £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 £800 £800
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 192 316
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.09 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.19% +14.29% -28.97%
75th Percentile £59.00 £49.56 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.13 £62.90 £66.88
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.55 £37.18
% change year-on-year +64.62% -23.21% -0.85%

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 30 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 30 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 -24 11 £778 +3.67% 25
West London -23 6 £773 +54.60% 7
North London - 1 - - 3
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 8 (6.02%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.26%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.50%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.75%) Confluence
4 1 (0.75%) IIS
4 1 (0.75%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (7.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.50%) CPLEX
3 2 (1.50%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.75%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.75%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.75%) IntelliMatch
2 1 (0.75%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 31 (23.31%) AWS
2 18 (13.53%) Azure
3 7 (5.26%) GCP
3 7 (5.26%) Power Platform
3 7 (5.26%) Snowflake
4 5 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (3.76%) Serverless
5 4 (3.01%) Amazon S3
5 4 (3.01%) SaaS
6 3 (2.26%) Amazon Bedrock
6 3 (2.26%) Amazon SageMaker
6 3 (2.26%) GitHub
7 2 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.50%) AWS KMS
7 2 (1.50%) Azure AI
7 2 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.50%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (1.50%) dbt
7 2 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.75%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.50%) 3GPP
1 2 (1.50%) HTTP
1 2 (1.50%) Intelligent Network
1 2 (1.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.27%) MongoDB
2 8 (6.02%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.26%) Power BI
4 4 (3.01%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.26%) Tableau
6 2 (1.50%) Big Data
6 2 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.50%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.50%) Power Query
6 2 (1.50%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.75%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.75%) DataStage
7 1 (0.75%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.75%) KDB
7 1 (0.75%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.75%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (9.77%) Git
2 4 (3.01%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.26%) TeamCity
3 3 (2.26%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.50%) GitLab
5 1 (0.75%) JIRA
General
1 65 (48.87%) Finance
2 47 (35.34%) Social Skills
3 34 (25.56%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (19.55%) Banking
4 26 (19.55%) Front Office
5 13 (9.77%) Marketing
6 12 (9.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (9.02%) Investment Banking
7 8 (6.02%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (5.26%) Public Sector
9 4 (3.01%) Aviation
9 4 (3.01%) Retail
10 3 (2.26%) Advertising
10 3 (2.26%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.26%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.50%) Legal
11 2 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 37 (27.82%) Developer
2 29 (21.80%) Senior
3 27 (20.30%) Data Scientist
4 17 (12.78%) Analyst
5 14 (10.53%) Quantitative Developer
6 12 (9.02%) Data Engineer
6 12 (9.02%) Python Developer
7 10 (7.52%) Senior Data Scientist
8 9 (6.77%) C# Developer
8 9 (6.77%) Java Engineer
8 9 (6.77%) Lead
9 8 (6.02%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 8 (6.02%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (5.26%) Data Analyst
10 7 (5.26%) Senior Developer
11 6 (4.51%) Business Analyst
11 6 (4.51%) C++ Developer
11 6 (4.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 5 (3.76%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (3.76%) Lead Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.77%) Pandas
2 11 (8.27%) Kafka
3 9 (6.77%) NumPy
4 8 (6.02%) React
5 6 (4.51%) .NET
5 6 (4.51%) PyTorch
5 6 (4.51%) TensorFlow
6 5 (3.76%) Model Context Protocol
6 5 (3.76%) scikit-learn
7 4 (3.01%) FIX Protocol
7 4 (3.01%) LangGraph
8 3 (2.26%) Django
8 3 (2.26%) LangChain
8 3 (2.26%) SciPy
8 3 (2.26%) Web Services
9 2 (1.50%) A2A Protocol
9 2 (1.50%) Hugging Face
9 2 (1.50%) Plotly
9 2 (1.50%) Polars
9 2 (1.50%) pydantic
Miscellaneous
1 23 (17.29%) Derivative
1 23 (17.29%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (16.54%) Algorithms
3 15 (11.28%) Cloud Native
4 14 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (10.53%) Equities
4 14 (10.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 9 (6.77%) Equity Derivative
5 9 (6.77%) Fixed Income
6 8 (6.02%) Data Structures
6 8 (6.02%) Onboarding
6 8 (6.02%) Product Ownership
7 6 (4.51%) Hedge funds
8 5 (3.76%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.26%) AI Agents
9 3 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (2.26%) Credit Derivative
9 3 (2.26%) e-Learning
9 3 (2.26%) Multi-touch
10 2 (1.50%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.26%) Linux
2 3 (2.26%) Windows
3 1 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (45.86%) Computer Science
2 46 (34.59%) AI
3 43 (32.33%) Analytics
3 43 (32.33%) Data Science
3 43 (32.33%) Machine Learning
4 41 (30.83%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (29.32%) Decision-Making
6 29 (21.80%) Statistics
7 28 (21.05%) Software Engineering
8 26 (19.55%) Physics
9 24 (18.05%) Data Pipeline
10 23 (17.29%) Agile
11 21 (15.79%) Asset Management
11 21 (15.79%) CI/CD
11 21 (15.79%) Data Engineering
12 19 (14.29%) LLM
13 17 (12.78%) Risk Management
14 16 (12.03%) Data Protection
14 16 (12.03%) Validation
15 15 (11.28%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 83 (62.41%) Python
2 40 (30.08%) SQL
3 22 (16.54%) C++
3 22 (16.54%) Java
4 21 (15.79%) C#
5 9 (6.77%) R
6 4 (3.01%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.26%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.50%) Bash
8 2 (1.50%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.50%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.75%) C
9 1 (0.75%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 77 (57.89%) Degree
2 23 (17.29%) Master's Degree
3 22 (16.54%) PhD
4 15 (11.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (9.02%) Numerate Degree
6 4 (3.01%) Security Cleared
7 3 (2.26%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (1.50%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.75%) MBA
9 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.75%) PMP
9 1 (0.75%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.02%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.76%) QA
3 3 (2.26%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (4.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.76%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (4.51%) Databricks
2 4 (3.01%) Charles River
2 4 (3.01%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.26%) Alteryx
3 3 (2.26%) Citrix
3 3 (2.26%) Google
3 3 (2.26%) Murex
4 2 (1.50%) Bloomberg
4 2 (1.50%) Oracle
5 1 (0.75%) FIS
5 1 (0.75%) Greenplum
5 1 (0.75%) Netezza
5 1 (0.75%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.75%) Reuters
5 1 (0.75%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.75%) Teradata