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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 183 228
Rank change year-on-year -104 +45 -8
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 158 188 158
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.78% 1.39% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 1.50% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 124 111
10th Percentile £415 £415 £329
25th Percentile £544 £537 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £738 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% +13.46% -7.14%
75th Percentile £788 £775 £844
90th Percentile £854 £1,029 £878
England median daily rate £550 £680 £533
% change year-on-year -19.12% +27.70% -21.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 9
10th Percentile - £25.17 £39.12
25th Percentile £19.03 £28.79 £46.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £43.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% -13.86% -57.56%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £57.75 £58.75
England median hourly rate £24.00 £15.14 £16.23
% change year-on-year +58.52% -6.72% +15.93%

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 17,959 12,532 14,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.08% 92.33% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,817 8,377 10,112
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 248 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.15% -13.73%
75th Percentile £56.25 £47.81 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.08 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.78%

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 11 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Mathematics in London over the 6 months to 11 August 2026.

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 11 August 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 -33 14 £755 +13.96% 60
West London -14 5 £700 +40.00% 9
North London - 1 - - 4
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 4 (2.53%) Apache Spark
1 4 (2.53%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.90%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.63%) IIS
3 1 (0.63%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (3.16%) CPLEX
2 4 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.90%) Aladdin
1 3 (1.90%) Orchestrade
2 1 (0.63%) Aligne
2 1 (0.63%) Endur
2 1 (0.63%) ZaiNet
Cloud Services
1 41 (25.95%) AWS
2 19 (12.03%) Azure
3 16 (10.13%) GCP
4 10 (6.33%) Power Platform
5 8 (5.06%) Snowflake
6 7 (4.43%) Amazon Bedrock
6 7 (4.43%) Amazon SageMaker
7 5 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (3.16%) GitHub
7 5 (3.16%) SaaS
7 5 (3.16%) Serverless
8 4 (2.53%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.53%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.90%) dbt
9 3 (1.90%) Google Gemini
10 2 (1.27%) Adobe Analytics
10 2 (1.27%) AWS KMS
11 1 (0.63%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 1 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.96%) MongoDB
2 10 (6.33%) Power BI
3 9 (5.70%) SQL Server
4 7 (4.43%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.80%) Tableau
6 4 (2.53%) Data Mining
6 4 (2.53%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.90%) Big Data
7 3 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.27%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.27%) KDB
8 2 (1.27%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.27%) Power Query
8 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.27%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.63%) Kdb+
9 1 (0.63%) Metadata
9 1 (0.63%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.63%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 16 (10.13%) Git
2 4 (2.53%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.27%) GitLab
3 2 (1.27%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 57 (36.08%) Social Skills
2 54 (34.18%) Analytical Skills
2 54 (34.18%) Finance
3 30 (18.99%) Banking
4 23 (14.56%) Front Office
5 12 (7.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (7.59%) Investment Banking
5 12 (7.59%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.70%) Marketing
7 7 (4.43%) Retail
8 6 (3.80%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.53%) Legal
9 4 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.90%) Advertising
10 3 (1.90%) Aviation
10 3 (1.90%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.27%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (22.15%) Developer
2 32 (20.25%) Data Scientist
3 31 (19.62%) Senior
4 17 (10.76%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 14 (8.86%) Quantitative Developer
6 13 (8.23%) Analyst
6 13 (8.23%) C# Developer
7 12 (7.59%) Data Engineer
7 12 (7.59%) Software Engineer
8 10 (6.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 10 (6.33%) Python Developer
9 9 (5.70%) Java Engineer
9 9 (5.70%) Senior Data Scientist
10 7 (4.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 7 (4.43%) Senior Data Engineer
11 6 (3.80%) Data Analyst
11 6 (3.80%) Lead
12 5 (3.16%) Business Analyst
12 5 (3.16%) Senior Developer
12 5 (3.16%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.23%) React
2 9 (5.70%) .NET
2 9 (5.70%) Kafka
2 9 (5.70%) LangGraph
3 7 (4.43%) LangChain
3 7 (4.43%) Pandas
4 6 (3.80%) FastAPI
4 6 (3.80%) PyTorch
5 5 (3.16%) Model Context Protocol
5 5 (3.16%) NumPy
5 5 (3.16%) XML
6 3 (1.90%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.90%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (1.90%) JSON
6 3 (1.90%) JSON Schema
6 3 (1.90%) pydantic
6 3 (1.90%) scikit-learn
6 3 (1.90%) TensorFlow
6 3 (1.90%) Web Services
7 2 (1.27%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 25 (15.82%) Algorithms
1 25 (15.82%) Derivative
2 19 (12.03%) Cloud Native
3 14 (8.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 12 (7.59%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (7.59%) Fixed Income
5 11 (6.96%) AI Agents
5 11 (6.96%) Equities
6 9 (5.70%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (5.06%) Data Structures
8 7 (4.43%) Product Ownership
9 6 (3.80%) Onboarding
10 5 (3.16%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (3.16%) Exotic Derivative
10 5 (3.16%) Hedge funds
10 5 (3.16%) OTC Derivatives
11 4 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (2.53%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.90%) Educational Technology
12 3 (1.90%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.80%) Linux
2 3 (1.90%) Windows
3 2 (1.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (48.10%) Computer Science
2 66 (41.77%) AI
3 63 (39.87%) Machine Learning
4 53 (33.54%) Decision-Making
5 51 (32.28%) Data Science
5 51 (32.28%) Software Engineering
6 49 (31.01%) Analytics
6 49 (31.01%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (25.32%) Statistics
8 31 (19.62%) Physics
9 28 (17.72%) Agile
10 27 (17.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (15.82%) Data Engineering
11 25 (15.82%) Data Pipeline
11 25 (15.82%) LLM
12 23 (14.56%) Validation
13 20 (12.66%) Asset Management
14 19 (12.03%) Full-Stack Development
15 18 (11.39%) CI/CD
16 17 (10.76%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 113 (71.52%) Python
2 40 (25.32%) SQL
3 22 (13.92%) Java
4 18 (11.39%) C#
4 18 (11.39%) C++
5 14 (8.86%) R
6 6 (3.80%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.90%) Bash
7 3 (1.90%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.90%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.27%) MATLAB
8 2 (1.27%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.63%) C
9 1 (0.63%) Cypher
9 1 (0.63%) Gremlin
9 1 (0.63%) Perl
9 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.63%) Scala
9 1 (0.63%) SHACL
9 1 (0.63%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 85 (53.80%) Degree
2 26 (16.46%) Master's Degree
3 25 (15.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (15.82%) PhD
4 8 (5.06%) Security Cleared
5 7 (4.43%) Numerate Degree
5 7 (4.43%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.90%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.27%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.63%) MBA
8 1 (0.63%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.33%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.90%) QA
3 2 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (5.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (3.80%) Kubernetes
1 6 (3.80%) Terraform
2 1 (0.63%) Ansible
2 1 (0.63%) Grafana
2 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (5.70%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.16%) Databricks
3 4 (2.53%) Google
3 4 (2.53%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.90%) Alteryx
4 3 (1.90%) Murex
5 2 (1.27%) Adobe
5 2 (1.27%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.27%) Charles River
5 2 (1.27%) Oracle
6 1 (0.63%) Calypso
6 1 (0.63%) Citrix
6 1 (0.63%) Plaid
6 1 (0.63%) Reuters
6 1 (0.63%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.63%) Sitecore