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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 191 219
Rank change year-on-year -84 +28 -4
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 129 161 179
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.71% 1.30% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 1.41% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 110 126
10th Percentile £425 £375 £388
25th Percentile £525 £525 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £750 £638
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £800 £846 £825
90th Percentile £984 £1,050 £888
England median daily rate £550 £725 £600
% change year-on-year -24.14% +20.83% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 21
10th Percentile - - £12.50
25th Percentile - £22.00 £20.98
Median hourly rate £19.03 £26.32 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.70% -41.51% +63.64%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile - £56.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £19.03 £15.78 £14.84
% change year-on-year +20.63% +6.30% -23.86%

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 15,948 11,394 15,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.35% 92.23% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,673 7,685 11,109
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £431 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £681
90th Percentile £760 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 187 308
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.24 £15.81
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.33 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £34.00 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +9.56% +21.78% -25.23%
75th Percentile £57.86 £50.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.83
England median hourly rate £46.80 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.78% -21.23% -0.11%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -19 13 £728 -3.00% 29
West London -23 6 £773 +54.60% 9
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 (6.20%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.55%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.55%) SAS
4 1 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.78%) Confluence
4 1 (0.78%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (8.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.55%) CPLEX
3 2 (1.55%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.78%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.55%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.78%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.78%) IntelliMatch
2 1 (0.78%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 29 (22.48%) AWS
2 17 (13.18%) Azure
3 7 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (5.43%) GCP
3 7 (5.43%) Serverless
4 6 (4.65%) Amazon S3
5 5 (3.88%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.88%) Snowflake
6 4 (3.10%) SaaS
7 3 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (2.33%) Azure AI
7 3 (2.33%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (2.33%) GitHub
8 2 (1.55%) Amazon Bedrock
8 2 (1.55%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.55%) AWS KMS
8 2 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.55%) dbt
8 2 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.55%) 3GPP
1 2 (1.55%) HTTP
1 2 (1.55%) Intelligent Network
1 2 (1.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.75%) MongoDB
2 7 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (5.43%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.88%) Power BI
4 4 (3.10%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.55%) Big Data
5 2 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.55%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.55%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.78%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.78%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.78%) DataStage
6 1 (0.78%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.78%) KDB
6 1 (0.78%) Kdb+
6 1 (0.78%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (11.63%) Git
2 6 (4.65%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.10%) Visual Studio
4 3 (2.33%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.55%) GitLab
5 2 (1.55%) JIRA
General
1 67 (51.94%) Finance
2 44 (34.11%) Social Skills
3 31 (24.03%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (20.93%) Banking
4 27 (20.93%) Front Office
5 12 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (9.30%) Investment Banking
6 10 (7.75%) Marketing
7 8 (6.20%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (4.65%) Public Sector
9 5 (3.88%) Retail
10 4 (3.10%) Aviation
11 3 (2.33%) Financial Institution
11 3 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (2.33%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.55%) Legal
12 2 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.55%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.78%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 39 (30.23%) Developer
2 28 (21.71%) Senior
3 27 (20.93%) Data Scientist
4 16 (12.40%) Quantitative Developer
5 15 (11.63%) Analyst
6 13 (10.08%) Python Developer
7 12 (9.30%) Data Engineer
8 10 (7.75%) Senior Data Scientist
9 9 (6.98%) Lead
10 8 (6.20%) C# Developer
10 8 (6.20%) Java Engineer
10 8 (6.20%) Senior Data Engineer
11 7 (5.43%) Senior Developer
12 6 (4.65%) Business Analyst
12 6 (4.65%) C++ Developer
12 6 (4.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 5 (3.88%) Full-Stack Developer
13 5 (3.88%) Junior
13 5 (3.88%) Lead Data Scientist
14 4 (3.10%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.40%) Pandas
2 12 (9.30%) NumPy
3 11 (8.53%) Kafka
4 8 (6.20%) React
5 7 (5.43%) PyTorch
5 7 (5.43%) TensorFlow
6 6 (4.65%) Model Context Protocol
6 6 (4.65%) scikit-learn
7 5 (3.88%) .NET
7 5 (3.88%) LangGraph
7 5 (3.88%) SciPy
8 4 (3.10%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (3.10%) LangChain
9 3 (2.33%) Django
9 3 (2.33%) Hugging Face
9 3 (2.33%) pydantic
9 3 (2.33%) Web Services
10 2 (1.55%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.55%) RESTful
10 2 (1.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (19.38%) Derivative
2 23 (17.83%) Algorithms
2 23 (17.83%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (12.40%) Equities
4 14 (10.85%) Cloud Native
4 14 (10.85%) Data Protection Act
5 13 (10.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 12 (9.30%) Equity Derivative
7 8 (6.20%) Data Structures
7 8 (6.20%) Fixed Income
7 8 (6.20%) Onboarding
8 6 (4.65%) Product Ownership
9 5 (3.88%) Hedge funds
9 5 (3.88%) Management Information System
10 3 (2.33%) AI Agents
10 3 (2.33%) Credit Derivative
10 3 (2.33%) e-Learning
10 3 (2.33%) Multi-touch
11 2 (1.55%) Data Fabric
11 2 (1.55%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.43%) Linux
2 3 (2.33%) Windows
3 1 (0.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (45.74%) Computer Science
2 43 (33.33%) Analytics
3 42 (32.56%) AI
4 41 (31.78%) Data Science
5 39 (30.23%) Decision-Making
5 39 (30.23%) Machine Learning
6 34 (26.36%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (21.71%) Statistics
8 27 (20.93%) Physics
9 25 (19.38%) Software Engineering
10 24 (18.60%) CI/CD
11 21 (16.28%) Agile
11 21 (16.28%) Asset Management
11 21 (16.28%) Data Pipeline
12 19 (14.73%) Risk Management
13 18 (13.95%) Data Engineering
14 17 (13.18%) LLM
14 17 (13.18%) Quantitative Finance
15 16 (12.40%) Model Validation
15 16 (12.40%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 83 (64.34%) Python
2 36 (27.91%) SQL
3 26 (20.16%) C++
4 22 (17.05%) C#
5 21 (16.28%) Java
6 9 (6.98%) R
7 4 (3.10%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.33%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.55%) Bash
9 2 (1.55%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.55%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.78%) C
10 1 (0.78%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 79 (61.24%) Degree
2 25 (19.38%) Master's Degree
3 24 (18.60%) PhD
4 13 (10.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (10.08%) Numerate Degree
5 4 (3.10%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 3 (2.33%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.55%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.78%) MBA
8 1 (0.78%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.78%) PMP
8 1 (0.78%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.20%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.88%) QA
3 3 (2.33%) SLA
4 1 (0.78%) IFRS
4 1 (0.78%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 8 (6.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (5.43%) Databricks
2 4 (3.10%) Charles River
2 4 (3.10%) Google
2 4 (3.10%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.33%) Citrix
3 3 (2.33%) Murex
4 2 (1.55%) Bloomberg
4 2 (1.55%) Oracle
5 1 (0.78%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.78%) FIS
5 1 (0.78%) Greenplum
5 1 (0.78%) Netezza
5 1 (0.78%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.78%) Reuters
5 1 (0.78%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.78%) Teradata