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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 211 244
Rank change year-on-year -86 +33 -25
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 152 166 137
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.75% 1.23% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 1.33% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 100 96
10th Percentile £360 £438 £319
25th Percentile £515 £563 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £725 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +28.89% -19.64%
75th Percentile £788 £833 £788
90th Percentile £894 £1,005 £850
England median daily rate £550 £680 £500
% change year-on-year -19.12% +36.00% -23.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 6
10th Percentile - £27.35 £38.42
25th Percentile £19.03 £34.00 £47.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £43.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% -13.86% -18.22%
75th Percentile £56.25 £51.50 £53.25
90th Percentile £62.00 £58.75 £53.75
England median hourly rate £19.03 £16.23 £16.23
% change year-on-year +17.25% - +18.81%

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 12,462 14,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.91% 92.53% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,758 8,244 9,685
10th Percentile £360 £327 £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 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 302 252 179
10th Percentile £16.52 £17.01 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% -9.29% -9.58%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.56 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -32 12 £755 +13.96% 106
West London -14 8 £700 - 45
North London - 1 - - 1
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 6 (3.95%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.63%) Jupyter
2 4 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.66%) IIS
3 1 (0.66%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (4.61%) CPLEX
1 7 (4.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.97%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.32%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.97%) Orchestrade
2 1 (0.66%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.66%) Aligne
2 1 (0.66%) Endur
2 1 (0.66%) ZaiNet
Cloud Services
1 30 (19.74%) AWS
2 20 (13.16%) Azure
3 14 (9.21%) GCP
4 10 (6.58%) Power Platform
5 7 (4.61%) Amazon Bedrock
5 7 (4.61%) Amazon SageMaker
5 7 (4.61%) Snowflake
6 6 (3.95%) Anthropic Claude
6 6 (3.95%) GitHub
7 5 (3.29%) SaaS
8 3 (1.97%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.97%) dbt
8 3 (1.97%) Google Gemini
8 3 (1.97%) Serverless
9 2 (1.32%) Adobe Analytics
9 2 (1.32%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.24%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.58%) Power BI
3 6 (3.95%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.29%) Data Mining
4 5 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (3.29%) Tableau
5 4 (2.63%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.97%) Big Data
6 3 (1.97%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.97%) Delta Lake
6 3 (1.97%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.97%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.32%) KDB
7 2 (1.32%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.32%) Power Query
8 1 (0.66%) Kdb+
8 1 (0.66%) Metadata
8 1 (0.66%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.66%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 16 (10.53%) Git
2 2 (1.32%) JIRA
2 2 (1.32%) MLflow
2 2 (1.32%) Selenium
3 1 (0.66%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.66%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio
General
1 60 (39.47%) Analytical Skills
2 57 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 53 (34.87%) Finance
4 26 (17.11%) Banking
5 22 (14.47%) Front Office
6 12 (7.89%) Public Sector
7 11 (7.24%) Investment Banking
8 8 (5.26%) Marketing
8 8 (5.26%) Retail
9 6 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (3.95%) Legal
9 6 (3.95%) Manufacturing
10 5 (3.29%) Aviation
10 5 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.32%) Advertising
12 2 (1.32%) Back Office
12 2 (1.32%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 33 (21.71%) Senior
2 31 (20.39%) Developer
3 30 (19.74%) Data Scientist
4 17 (11.18%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 15 (9.87%) Analyst
6 13 (8.55%) Quantitative Developer
7 11 (7.24%) C# Developer
7 11 (7.24%) Data Engineer
7 11 (7.24%) Senior Data Scientist
8 9 (5.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 9 (5.92%) Software Engineer
9 8 (5.26%) Data Analyst
10 7 (4.61%) Python Developer
10 7 (4.61%) Senior Developer
11 6 (3.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 5 (3.29%) Senior Data Engineer
13 4 (2.63%) Lead
13 4 (2.63%) Python Engineer
13 4 (2.63%) Qualitative Analyst
13 4 (2.63%) Research Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.24%) .NET
1 11 (7.24%) LangGraph
2 9 (5.92%) LangChain
2 9 (5.92%) React
3 7 (4.61%) PyTorch
4 6 (3.95%) Kafka
4 6 (3.95%) Pandas
5 5 (3.29%) FastAPI
5 5 (3.29%) Model Context Protocol
5 5 (3.29%) NumPy
5 5 (3.29%) pydantic
5 5 (3.29%) XML
6 3 (1.97%) .NET Core
6 3 (1.97%) .NET Framework
6 3 (1.97%) ASP.NET
6 3 (1.97%) JSON
6 3 (1.97%) JSON Schema
6 3 (1.97%) Middleware
6 3 (1.97%) Terraform
6 3 (1.97%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (17.76%) Algorithms
2 20 (13.16%) Derivative
3 15 (9.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 14 (9.21%) AI Agents
5 12 (7.89%) Equities
6 11 (7.24%) Cloud Native
7 9 (5.92%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (5.92%) Fixed Income
8 8 (5.26%) Hedge funds
9 7 (4.61%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (3.95%) Data Structures
11 5 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (3.29%) Exotic Derivative
11 5 (3.29%) OTC Derivatives
11 5 (3.29%) Product Ownership
12 4 (2.63%) Management Information System
12 4 (2.63%) Onboarding
13 3 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (1.97%) e-Learning
13 3 (1.97%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.29%) Windows
2 2 (1.32%) Linux
2 2 (1.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (44.08%) AI
2 66 (43.42%) Computer Science
3 65 (42.76%) Machine Learning
4 55 (36.18%) Data Science
5 52 (34.21%) Analytics
6 50 (32.89%) Software Engineering
7 49 (32.24%) Decision-Making
8 46 (30.26%) Problem-Solving
9 45 (29.61%) Statistics
10 29 (19.08%) Physics
11 28 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (17.76%) LLM
13 25 (16.45%) Validation
14 22 (14.47%) Data Pipeline
15 21 (13.82%) Agile
15 21 (13.82%) Data Engineering
16 16 (10.53%) Applied Mathematics
17 15 (9.87%) Actionable Insight
17 15 (9.87%) CI/CD
17 15 (9.87%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 107 (70.39%) Python
2 39 (25.66%) SQL
3 20 (13.16%) C++
4 19 (12.50%) C#
5 15 (9.87%) R
6 14 (9.21%) Java
7 5 (3.29%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.63%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.63%) Scala
9 3 (1.97%) Bash
9 3 (1.97%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.32%) C
10 2 (1.32%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.66%) Cypher
11 1 (0.66%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.66%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.66%) Perl
11 1 (0.66%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.66%) SHACL
11 1 (0.66%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 82 (53.95%) Degree
2 25 (16.45%) Master's Degree
2 25 (16.45%) PhD
3 21 (13.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (6.58%) Security Cleared
5 9 (5.92%) Numerate Degree
5 9 (5.92%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.95%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.32%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.66%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.66%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.58%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.29%) QA
3 4 (2.63%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.66%) GRC
4 1 (0.66%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (6.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.66%) Ansible
2 1 (0.66%) Grafana
2 1 (0.66%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (7.24%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.61%) Databricks
3 6 (3.95%) OpenAI
4 4 (2.63%) Google
4 4 (2.63%) Oracle
5 3 (1.97%) Alteryx
5 3 (1.97%) Veritas
6 2 (1.32%) Adobe
6 2 (1.32%) Foundry
6 2 (1.32%) Mistral
6 2 (1.32%) UiPath
7 1 (0.66%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.66%) Calypso
7 1 (0.66%) Citrix
7 1 (0.66%) Murex
7 1 (0.66%) Plaid
7 1 (0.66%) Sitecore