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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 246 209
Rank change year-on-year -4 -37 +13
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 146 116 198
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.98% 0.85% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 0.93% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 65 141
10th Percentile £372 £339 £431
25th Percentile £533 £450 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £787 £600 £638
Median % change year-on-year +31.08% -5.88% -17.74%
75th Percentile £1,000 £834 £725
90th Percentile £1,080 £898 £825
England median daily rate £675 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +28.57% -12.50% -17.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 23
10th Percentile £39.86 £22.00 £13.20
25th Percentile £40.26 £28.44 £20.98
Median hourly rate £42.12 £37.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.56% -16.11% +24.14%
75th Percentile £44.03 £46.25 £61.75
90th Percentile £44.46 £53.75 £68.75
England median hourly rate £21.76 £16.23 £14.16
% change year-on-year +34.07% +14.62% -74.25%

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 13,562 12,418 16,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.85% 90.52% 88.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,022 7,884 11,754
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 154 346
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.08 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.04 £25.48 £19.10
Median hourly rate £34.00 £36.65 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.23% +22.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £55.75 £53.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £70.25 £79.63 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +2.66%

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 6 February 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 6 February 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 -10 17 £700 +33.33% 48
East London - 6 £1,000 - 4
South London - 4 £750 - 6
West London -19 3 £773 +47.24% 11
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 11 (7.53%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.42%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.37%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (1.37%) SAS
4 1 (0.68%) Apache
4 1 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.68%) Apache Pig
4 1 (0.68%) Confluence
4 1 (0.68%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (11.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.37%) Adobe Premiere
2 2 (1.37%) Blender
2 2 (1.37%) Photoshop
2 2 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.68%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.68%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (0.68%) IntelliMatch
Cloud Services
1 27 (18.49%) AWS
2 19 (13.01%) Azure
3 9 (6.16%) Power Platform
4 7 (4.79%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (4.11%) Amazon S3
6 5 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.42%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.74%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.74%) GCP
7 4 (2.74%) GitHub
7 4 (2.74%) Serverless
8 3 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.05%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.05%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.05%) Azure AI
8 3 (2.05%) Azure Pipelines
8 3 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.05%) IaaS
8 3 (2.05%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.37%) 3GPP
1 2 (1.37%) HTTP
1 2 (1.37%) Intelligent Network
1 2 (1.37%) Wireless
2 1 (0.68%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.16%) Power BI
2 8 (5.48%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.42%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.74%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.05%) KDB
5 3 (2.05%) Kdb+
5 3 (2.05%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.37%) Big Data
6 2 (1.37%) Metadata
7 1 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.68%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.68%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.68%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.68%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 24 (16.44%) Git
2 5 (3.42%) Visual Studio
3 4 (2.74%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.05%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.37%) JIRA
5 2 (1.37%) MSBuild
5 2 (1.37%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.68%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.68%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.68%) GitLab
6 1 (0.68%) Maven
6 1 (0.68%) QUnit
6 1 (0.68%) RStudio
General
1 85 (58.22%) Finance
2 51 (34.93%) Front Office
3 41 (28.08%) Banking
4 36 (24.66%) Social Skills
5 30 (20.55%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (16.44%) Investment Banking
7 18 (12.33%) Financial Institution
8 8 (5.48%) Marketing
9 4 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.37%) Aviation
10 2 (1.37%) Games
10 2 (1.37%) Law
10 2 (1.37%) Military
10 2 (1.37%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.37%) Retail
10 2 (1.37%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.68%) Back Office
11 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 67 (45.89%) Developer
2 29 (19.86%) Senior
3 27 (18.49%) Quantitative Developer
4 21 (14.38%) Python Developer
5 18 (12.33%) Analyst
6 17 (11.64%) Senior Developer
7 12 (8.22%) Data Scientist
8 9 (6.16%) AWS Developer
8 9 (6.16%) C++ Developer
8 9 (6.16%) JavaScript Developer
9 8 (5.48%) Senior C++ Developer
10 6 (4.11%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 6 (4.11%) Qualitative Analyst
10 6 (4.11%) Quantitative Analyst
11 5 (3.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 5 (3.42%) C# Developer
11 5 (3.42%) Lead
11 5 (3.42%) Senior Python Developer
12 4 (2.74%) Front Office Developer
12 4 (2.74%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (16.44%) Pandas
2 21 (14.38%) NumPy
3 15 (10.27%) SciPy
4 12 (8.22%) React
5 10 (6.85%) FastAPI
5 10 (6.85%) Flask
5 10 (6.85%) Vue
6 9 (6.16%) AngularJS
6 9 (6.16%) Polars
7 7 (4.79%) Kafka
7 7 (4.79%) scikit-learn
8 6 (4.11%) Dask
8 6 (4.11%) Model Context Protocol
8 6 (4.11%) REST
8 6 (4.11%) Web Services
9 5 (3.42%) .NET
9 5 (3.42%) LangChain
9 5 (3.42%) XML
10 4 (2.74%) Hugging Face
10 4 (2.74%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 42 (28.77%) Derivative
2 40 (27.40%) Algorithms
3 39 (26.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 29 (19.86%) Equities
5 22 (15.07%) Distributed Systems
5 22 (15.07%) Equity Derivative
6 21 (14.38%) Hedge funds
7 15 (10.27%) Fixed Income
8 13 (8.90%) Distributed Computing
9 12 (8.22%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (7.53%) Cloud Native
11 5 (3.42%) Data Structures
12 3 (2.05%) AI Agents
12 3 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (2.05%) Data Fabric
12 3 (2.05%) Multi-touch
13 2 (1.37%) Credit Derivative
13 2 (1.37%) Onboarding
13 2 (1.37%) Product Ownership
13 2 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (16.44%) Linux
2 9 (6.16%) Windows
3 4 (2.74%) Unix
4 2 (1.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (36.30%) Computer Science
2 39 (26.71%) CI/CD
2 39 (26.71%) Risk Management
3 35 (23.97%) Analytics
3 35 (23.97%) Machine Learning
4 34 (23.29%) Physics
4 34 (23.29%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (21.92%) Data Science
6 30 (20.55%) AI
6 30 (20.55%) Data Pipeline
6 30 (20.55%) Quantitative Finance
7 25 (17.12%) Software Engineering
7 25 (17.12%) Statistics
8 23 (15.75%) Decision-Making
9 22 (15.07%) Agile
10 19 (13.01%) Data Engineering
11 17 (11.64%) Systematic Trading
11 17 (11.64%) Validation
12 15 (10.27%) Economics
12 15 (10.27%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 101 (69.18%) Python
2 51 (34.93%) C++
3 41 (28.08%) C#
4 38 (26.03%) SQL
5 18 (12.33%) Java
6 15 (10.27%) JavaScript
7 10 (6.85%) Rust
8 7 (4.79%) R
9 4 (2.74%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.74%) VBA
10 3 (2.05%) Bash
11 2 (1.37%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.37%) VC++
12 1 (0.68%) C
12 1 (0.68%) Go
Qualifications
1 81 (55.48%) Degree
2 33 (22.60%) Master's Degree
3 24 (16.44%) PhD
4 18 (12.33%) Numerate Degree
5 14 (9.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.42%) Postgraduate
7 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 3 (2.05%) Security Cleared
8 2 (1.37%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.68%) MBA
9 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.68%) PMP
9 1 (0.68%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.11%) QA
2 5 (3.42%) SLA
3 4 (2.74%) EMIR
4 3 (2.05%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.68%) Basel III
5 1 (0.68%) GDPR
5 1 (0.68%) IFRS
5 1 (0.68%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (15.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (12.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.05%) Ansible
2 3 (2.05%) Grafana
2 3 (2.05%) Puppet
2 3 (2.05%) Terraform
3 2 (1.37%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.68%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 7 (4.79%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.42%) Databricks
2 5 (3.42%) Sophis
3 4 (2.74%) Dataiku
3 4 (2.74%) Google
3 4 (2.74%) Oracle
4 3 (2.05%) Foundry
4 3 (2.05%) PagerDuty
5 2 (1.37%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.37%) Charles River
5 2 (1.37%) Citrix
5 2 (1.37%) IBM
5 2 (1.37%) Murex
5 2 (1.37%) Palantir
6 1 (0.68%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.68%) Greenplum
6 1 (0.68%) Netezza
6 1 (0.68%) Splunk
6 1 (0.68%) Teradata
6 1 (0.68%) TIBCO