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 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 210 223
Rank change year-on-year -59 +13 +3
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 138 149 186
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.82% 1.17% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 1.28% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 95 130
10th Percentile £394 £368 £413
25th Percentile £522 £513 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £750 £638
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +17.65% -17.74%
75th Percentile £1,000 £868 £772
90th Percentile £1,050 £1,025 £875
England median daily rate £580 £725 £600
% change year-on-year -20.00% +20.83% -17.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 22
10th Percentile - £22.00 £12.85
25th Percentile - £24.16 £20.98
Median hourly rate - £39.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - -13.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile - £48.75 £59.75
90th Percentile - £55.75 £72.13
England median hourly rate £17.50 £16.23 £14.32
% change year-on-year +7.83% +13.38% -64.21%

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 15,132 11,625 15,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.60% 91.41% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,139 7,889 11,403
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £679 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 170 336
10th Percentile £18.14 £18.91 £15.97
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.05% -22.67%
75th Percentile £57.25 £51.07 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.25 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +10.77% -1.52% -12.00%

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 29 March 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 29 March 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 -25 12 £650 -13.33% 46
West London -14 6 £773 +54.60% 7
South London - 2 £525 - 9
East London - 1 £1,000 - 5
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 10 (7.25%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.62%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.45%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (1.45%) SAS
4 1 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.72%) Confluence
4 1 (0.72%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.45%) CPLEX
2 2 (1.45%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.72%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (0.72%) Blender
3 1 (0.72%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.45%) Aladdin
1 2 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.72%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.72%) IntelliMatch
Cloud Services
1 31 (22.46%) AWS
2 20 (14.49%) Azure
3 7 (5.07%) Amazon ECS
3 7 (5.07%) Amazon S3
3 7 (5.07%) Power Platform
4 6 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (4.35%) Serverless
5 5 (3.62%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (3.62%) Azure Machine Learning
5 5 (3.62%) GCP
6 4 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.90%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (2.90%) GitHub
6 4 (2.90%) Snowflake
7 3 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.17%) Azure AI
7 3 (2.17%) Azure Pipelines
7 3 (2.17%) IaaS
7 3 (2.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.45%) 3GPP
1 2 (1.45%) HTTP
1 2 (1.45%) Intelligent Network
1 2 (1.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (5.80%) MongoDB
3 7 (5.07%) Power BI
4 5 (3.62%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (3.62%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.62%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.17%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.45%) KDB
6 2 (1.45%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.72%) Big Data
7 1 (0.72%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.72%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.72%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (17.39%) Git
2 7 (5.07%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.90%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.45%) GitLab
4 2 (1.45%) JIRA
4 2 (1.45%) MSBuild
4 2 (1.45%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (1.45%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.72%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.72%) Maven
5 1 (0.72%) RStudio
General
1 73 (52.90%) Finance
2 40 (28.99%) Front Office
3 39 (28.26%) Social Skills
4 34 (24.64%) Banking
5 32 (23.19%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (13.04%) Investment Banking
7 11 (7.97%) Financial Institution
8 10 (7.25%) Marketing
9 6 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (4.35%) Retail
10 4 (2.90%) Aviation
11 3 (2.17%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.45%) Military
12 2 (1.45%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.45%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.72%) Back Office
13 1 (0.72%) Games
13 1 (0.72%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.72%) Law
Job Titles
1 49 (35.51%) Developer
2 32 (23.19%) Senior
3 21 (15.22%) Data Scientist
4 20 (14.49%) Python Developer
5 16 (11.59%) Quantitative Developer
6 15 (10.87%) Analyst
7 14 (10.14%) Senior Developer
8 9 (6.52%) C++ Developer
8 9 (6.52%) Lead
8 9 (6.52%) Senior Data Scientist
9 8 (5.80%) Senior C++ Developer
10 6 (4.35%) Data Engineer
10 6 (4.35%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 5 (3.62%) C# Developer
11 5 (3.62%) Java Engineer
11 5 (3.62%) Lead Data Scientist
11 5 (3.62%) Senior Data Engineer
11 5 (3.62%) Senior Python Developer
12 4 (2.90%) JavaScript Developer
12 4 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (14.49%) Pandas
2 17 (12.32%) NumPy
3 11 (7.97%) SciPy
4 9 (6.52%) React
4 9 (6.52%) scikit-learn
5 8 (5.80%) Kafka
6 7 (5.07%) PyTorch
6 7 (5.07%) TensorFlow
7 6 (4.35%) AngularJS
7 6 (4.35%) Dask
7 6 (4.35%) FastAPI
7 6 (4.35%) Model Context Protocol
7 6 (4.35%) REST
7 6 (4.35%) Web Services
8 5 (3.62%) .NET
8 5 (3.62%) Flask
8 5 (3.62%) Polars
8 5 (3.62%) Vue
9 4 (2.90%) Hugging Face
9 4 (2.90%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 33 (23.91%) Derivative
2 32 (23.19%) Algorithms
3 27 (19.57%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (18.12%) Equities
5 22 (15.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 20 (14.49%) Cloud Native
7 17 (12.32%) Equity Derivative
8 15 (10.87%) Hedge funds
9 13 (9.42%) Fixed Income
10 12 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (5.80%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (5.07%) Data Structures
13 5 (3.62%) Product Ownership
14 4 (2.90%) Onboarding
15 3 (2.17%) AI Agents
15 3 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
15 3 (2.17%) Multi-touch
16 2 (1.45%) Credit Derivative
16 2 (1.45%) Data Fabric
17 1 (0.72%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.87%) Linux
2 3 (2.17%) Windows
3 2 (1.45%) Unix
4 1 (0.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (41.30%) Computer Science
2 39 (28.26%) Data Science
3 37 (26.81%) CI/CD
3 37 (26.81%) Machine Learning
4 36 (26.09%) AI
4 36 (26.09%) Analytics
5 32 (23.19%) Physics
5 32 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (22.46%) Risk Management
7 29 (21.01%) Decision-Making
7 29 (21.01%) Quantitative Finance
8 27 (19.57%) Data Pipeline
8 27 (19.57%) Statistics
9 25 (18.12%) Software Engineering
10 24 (17.39%) Agile
11 20 (14.49%) Data Engineering
12 19 (13.77%) LLM
13 16 (11.59%) Mentoring
14 15 (10.87%) Model Validation
14 15 (10.87%) Systematic Trading
Programming Languages
1 95 (68.84%) Python
2 37 (26.81%) SQL
3 33 (23.91%) C++
4 27 (19.57%) C#
5 20 (14.49%) Java
6 9 (6.52%) R
7 8 (5.80%) JavaScript
8 6 (4.35%) TypeScript
9 5 (3.62%) Rust
10 3 (2.17%) Bash
11 1 (0.72%) C
11 1 (0.72%) Go
11 1 (0.72%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.72%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 84 (60.87%) Degree
2 32 (23.19%) Master's Degree
3 26 (18.84%) PhD
4 18 (13.04%) Numerate Degree
5 16 (11.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 3 (2.17%) Postgraduate
6 3 (2.17%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.45%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.72%) MBA
8 1 (0.72%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.72%) PMP
8 1 (0.72%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.62%) QA
2 4 (2.90%) SLA
3 3 (2.17%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.72%) GDPR
4 1 (0.72%) IFRS
4 1 (0.72%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (12.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (7.97%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.35%) Terraform
3 3 (2.17%) Ansible
3 3 (2.17%) Grafana
3 3 (2.17%) Puppet
4 2 (1.45%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (5.07%) Databricks
2 4 (2.90%) Charles River
2 4 (2.90%) Dataiku
2 4 (2.90%) Google
2 4 (2.90%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.90%) Murex
3 3 (2.17%) Foundry
3 3 (2.17%) PagerDuty
4 2 (1.45%) Bloomberg
4 2 (1.45%) Citrix
4 2 (1.45%) Palantir
5 1 (0.72%) Greenplum
5 1 (0.72%) IBM
5 1 (0.72%) Netezza
5 1 (0.72%) Oracle
5 1 (0.72%) Reuters
5 1 (0.72%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.72%) Teradata
5 1 (0.72%) TIBCO
5 1 (0.72%) UiPath