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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 190 222
Rank change year-on-year -95 +32 +4
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 131 166 183
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.75% 1.30% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 1.41% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 112 126
10th Percentile £424 £376 £394
25th Percentile £522 £525 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £750 £638
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -17.74%
75th Percentile £825 £863 £819
90th Percentile £1,050 £1,023 £875
England median daily rate £550 £725 £600
% change year-on-year -24.14% +20.83% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 23
10th Percentile - £22.00 £13.20
25th Percentile - £23.08 £20.98
Median hourly rate - £34.41 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - -23.53% +9.09%
75th Percentile - £51.25 £57.75
90th Percentile - £56.25 £71.75
England median hourly rate £21.76 £16.23 £14.80
% change year-on-year +34.07% +9.66% -27.31%

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 15,562 11,733 15,787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.73% 92.06% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,427 7,976 11,319
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £440 £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 £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 172 330
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.53 £15.99
25th Percentile £25.11 £22.86 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.50 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% +20.00% -26.28%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £47.34
90th Percentile £73.38 £63.70 £65.78
England median hourly rate £42.69 £30.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year +40.18% -13.00% -8.74%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 14 £675 -10.00% 37
West London -19 6 £773 +54.60% 6
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 8 (6.11%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.29%) SAS
3 2 (1.53%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.76%) Confluence
4 1 (0.76%) IIS
4 1 (0.76%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 9 (6.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.53%) CPLEX
2 2 (1.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.53%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.76%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.76%) IntelliMatch
2 1 (0.76%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 28 (21.37%) AWS
2 17 (12.98%) Azure
3 9 (6.87%) Amazon S3
4 7 (5.34%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (5.34%) Serverless
5 6 (4.58%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (3.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (3.82%) Azure Machine Learning
6 5 (3.82%) GCP
7 4 (3.05%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.05%) SaaS
7 4 (3.05%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.29%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.29%) Azure AI
8 3 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.29%) GitHub
8 3 (2.29%) IaaS
9 2 (1.53%) AWS KMS
9 2 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.53%) 3GPP
1 2 (1.53%) HTTP
1 2 (1.53%) Intelligent Network
1 2 (1.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.63%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (6.87%) MongoDB
3 8 (6.11%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.05%) Power BI
5 3 (2.29%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.76%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.76%) KDB
6 1 (0.76%) Kdb+
6 1 (0.76%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.76%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.76%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.76%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (12.98%) Git
2 6 (4.58%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.29%) TeamCity
3 3 (2.29%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.53%) GitLab
4 2 (1.53%) JIRA
5 1 (0.76%) MSBuild
5 1 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 69 (52.67%) Finance
2 41 (31.30%) Social Skills
3 33 (25.19%) Front Office
4 30 (22.90%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (21.37%) Banking
6 14 (10.69%) Investment Banking
7 11 (8.40%) Marketing
8 9 (6.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (6.11%) Financial Institution
9 8 (6.11%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (4.58%) Retail
11 4 (3.05%) Aviation
12 3 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (2.29%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.53%) Legal
13 2 (1.53%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.76%) Advertising
14 1 (0.76%) Local Government
14 1 (0.76%) Military
14 1 (0.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 40 (30.53%) Developer
2 26 (19.85%) Senior
3 25 (19.08%) Data Scientist
4 17 (12.98%) Analyst
5 15 (11.45%) Quantitative Developer
6 14 (10.69%) Python Developer
7 10 (7.63%) Lead
7 10 (7.63%) Senior Data Scientist
8 9 (6.87%) Data Engineer
9 8 (6.11%) Java Engineer
9 8 (6.11%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (5.34%) C# Developer
10 7 (5.34%) Senior Developer
11 6 (4.58%) Business Analyst
11 6 (4.58%) C++ Developer
11 6 (4.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 6 (4.58%) Lead Data Scientist
12 5 (3.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 5 (3.82%) Senior Analyst
12 5 (3.82%) Senior C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.98%) Pandas
2 13 (9.92%) NumPy
3 9 (6.87%) Kafka
3 9 (6.87%) React
4 8 (6.11%) PyTorch
4 8 (6.11%) TensorFlow
5 7 (5.34%) Model Context Protocol
6 6 (4.58%) scikit-learn
6 6 (4.58%) SciPy
7 5 (3.82%) .NET
7 5 (3.82%) LangChain
7 5 (3.82%) LangGraph
8 3 (2.29%) A2A Protocol
8 3 (2.29%) AngularJS
8 3 (2.29%) Django
8 3 (2.29%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (2.29%) Keras
8 3 (2.29%) Polars
8 3 (2.29%) Web Services
8 3 (2.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (19.08%) Algorithms
1 25 (19.08%) Derivative
2 23 (17.56%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (14.50%) Cloud Native
4 18 (13.74%) Equities
5 15 (11.45%) Data Protection Act
6 14 (10.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 12 (9.16%) Equity Derivative
8 9 (6.87%) Fixed Income
9 7 (5.34%) Data Structures
9 7 (5.34%) Hedge funds
10 6 (4.58%) Product Ownership
11 5 (3.82%) Onboarding
12 4 (3.05%) AI Agents
12 4 (3.05%) Multi-touch
13 3 (2.29%) Distributed Computing
14 2 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
14 2 (1.53%) Credit Derivative
14 2 (1.53%) Credit Risk
14 2 (1.53%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.40%) Linux
2 2 (1.53%) Windows
3 1 (0.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (44.27%) Computer Science
2 41 (31.30%) Data Science
3 40 (30.53%) Machine Learning
4 39 (29.77%) AI
4 39 (29.77%) Analytics
5 33 (25.19%) Decision-Making
6 29 (22.14%) Physics
6 29 (22.14%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (22.14%) Statistics
7 27 (20.61%) CI/CD
8 26 (19.85%) Agile
9 25 (19.08%) Risk Management
10 24 (18.32%) Software Engineering
11 22 (16.79%) Data Pipeline
12 21 (16.03%) Quantitative Finance
13 19 (14.50%) Model Validation
14 18 (13.74%) LLM
15 17 (12.98%) Asset Management
15 17 (12.98%) Data Engineering
15 17 (12.98%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 88 (67.18%) Python
2 34 (25.95%) SQL
3 26 (19.85%) C++
4 25 (19.08%) C#
5 18 (13.74%) Java
6 11 (8.40%) R
7 5 (3.82%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.05%) Bash
8 4 (3.05%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.53%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.76%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.76%) Rust
Qualifications
1 78 (59.54%) Degree
2 27 (20.61%) Master's Degree
3 24 (18.32%) PhD
4 15 (11.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (11.45%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (1.53%) Postgraduate
6 2 (1.53%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.76%) MBA
7 1 (0.76%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.76%) PMP
7 1 (0.76%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.76%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.58%) QA
2 3 (2.29%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.29%) SLA
3 1 (0.76%) GDPR
3 1 (0.76%) IFRS
3 1 (0.76%) IFRS 9
3 1 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (9.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.34%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.58%) Terraform
3 3 (2.29%) Ansible
3 3 (2.29%) Grafana
3 3 (2.29%) Puppet
4 1 (0.76%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (5.34%) Databricks
2 4 (3.05%) Charles River
2 4 (3.05%) Google
2 4 (3.05%) Murex
3 3 (2.29%) Citrix
3 3 (2.29%) PagerDuty
4 2 (1.53%) Bloomberg
4 2 (1.53%) Foundry
4 2 (1.53%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.76%) FIS
5 1 (0.76%) Greenplum
5 1 (0.76%) Netezza
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle
5 1 (0.76%) Palantir
5 1 (0.76%) Reuters
5 1 (0.76%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.76%) Teradata
5 1 (0.76%) UiPath