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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 197 235
Rank change year-on-year -86 +38 -15
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 154 189 154
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.76% 1.39% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 1.50% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 124 108
10th Percentile £423 £415 £329
25th Percentile £547 £536 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £750 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £788 £778 £841
90th Percentile £858 £1,044 £883
England median daily rate £550 £700 £550
% change year-on-year -21.43% +27.27% -18.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 7
10th Percentile - £25.17 £44.25
25th Percentile £19.03 £28.79 £47.75
Median hourly rate £36.00 £43.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% -13.86% -71.14%
75th Percentile £56.25 £56.25 £52.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £60.75 £63.75
England median hourly rate £24.00 £15.14 £16.23
% change year-on-year +58.52% -6.72% +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 17,923 12,563 14,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.03% 92.23% 88.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,813 8,414 10,214
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £541 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% -1.59% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £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 296 248 196
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.97
25th Percentile £20.02 £24.62 £22.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £29.50 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.03% -16.31% -14.59%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.56 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.88
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -24 13 £778 +17.36% 54
West London -17 5 £700 +40.00% 12
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 (2.60%) Apache Spark
1 4 (2.60%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.95%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.65%) IIS
3 1 (0.65%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (3.25%) CPLEX
2 4 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.30%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.95%) Aladdin
1 3 (1.95%) Orchestrade
2 1 (0.65%) Aligne
2 1 (0.65%) Endur
2 1 (0.65%) ZaiNet
Cloud Services
1 40 (25.97%) AWS
2 19 (12.34%) Azure
3 15 (9.74%) GCP
4 10 (6.49%) Power Platform
5 9 (5.84%) Snowflake
6 6 (3.90%) Amazon Bedrock
6 6 (3.90%) Amazon SageMaker
7 5 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (3.25%) SaaS
7 5 (3.25%) Serverless
8 4 (2.60%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.60%) Anthropic Claude
8 4 (2.60%) GitHub
9 3 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.95%) dbt
9 3 (1.95%) Google Gemini
10 2 (1.30%) AWS KMS
11 1 (0.65%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.65%) Amazon Neptune
11 1 (0.65%) AWS CodeDeploy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.79%) MongoDB
2 10 (6.49%) Power BI
3 9 (5.84%) SQL Server
4 8 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.90%) Tableau
6 4 (2.60%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.95%) Big Data
7 3 (1.95%) Data Mining
7 3 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.30%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.30%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.30%) Power Query
8 2 (1.30%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.65%) Kdb+
9 1 (0.65%) Looker
9 1 (0.65%) Metadata
9 1 (0.65%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.65%) Stardog
9 1 (0.65%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 15 (9.74%) Git
2 4 (2.60%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.30%) GitLab
3 2 (1.30%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio
General
1 55 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 52 (33.77%) Analytical Skills
2 52 (33.77%) Finance
3 28 (18.18%) Banking
4 21 (13.64%) Front Office
5 12 (7.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (7.14%) Investment Banking
6 11 (7.14%) Public Sector
7 9 (5.84%) Marketing
8 7 (4.55%) Retail
9 6 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.60%) Legal
10 4 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.95%) Advertising
11 3 (1.95%) Aviation
11 3 (1.95%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.30%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (21.43%) Data Scientist
1 33 (21.43%) Developer
2 32 (20.78%) Senior
3 16 (10.39%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 13 (8.44%) Analyst
4 13 (8.44%) C# Developer
4 13 (8.44%) Data Engineer
4 13 (8.44%) Quantitative Developer
5 12 (7.79%) Software Engineer
6 10 (6.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 10 (6.49%) Senior Data Scientist
7 9 (5.84%) Java Engineer
7 9 (5.84%) Python Developer
8 8 (5.19%) Senior Data Engineer
9 7 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 7 (4.55%) Data Analyst
10 6 (3.90%) Lead
11 5 (3.25%) Business Analyst
11 5 (3.25%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (3.25%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.79%) React
2 10 (6.49%) Kafka
3 9 (5.84%) .NET
3 9 (5.84%) LangGraph
4 7 (4.55%) LangChain
4 7 (4.55%) Pandas
4 7 (4.55%) PyTorch
5 5 (3.25%) FastAPI
5 5 (3.25%) Model Context Protocol
5 5 (3.25%) NumPy
5 5 (3.25%) XML
6 4 (2.60%) scikit-learn
6 4 (2.60%) TensorFlow
7 3 (1.95%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.95%) JSON
7 3 (1.95%) JSON Schema
7 3 (1.95%) pydantic
7 3 (1.95%) Web Services
8 2 (1.30%) ASP.NET
8 2 (1.30%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 24 (15.58%) Algorithms
1 24 (15.58%) Derivative
2 17 (11.04%) Cloud Native
3 13 (8.44%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (8.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 11 (7.14%) AI Agents
5 10 (6.49%) Equities
5 10 (6.49%) Fixed Income
6 8 (5.19%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (5.19%) Data Structures
6 8 (5.19%) Product Ownership
7 6 (3.90%) Onboarding
8 5 (3.25%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (3.25%) Exotic Derivative
8 5 (3.25%) Hedge funds
8 5 (3.25%) OTC Derivatives
9 4 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.60%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.95%) Credit Derivative
10 3 (1.95%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.55%) Linux
2 3 (1.95%) Windows
3 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (48.05%) Computer Science
2 64 (41.56%) AI
3 60 (38.96%) Machine Learning
4 51 (33.12%) Decision-Making
5 50 (32.47%) Data Science
6 49 (31.82%) Analytics
7 48 (31.17%) Software Engineering
8 46 (29.87%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (24.68%) Statistics
10 30 (19.48%) Physics
11 26 (16.88%) Agile
11 26 (16.88%) Data Engineering
12 25 (16.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (16.23%) Data Pipeline
12 25 (16.23%) LLM
13 22 (14.29%) Validation
14 21 (13.64%) Asset Management
15 19 (12.34%) Full-Stack Development
16 18 (11.69%) Visualisation
17 17 (11.04%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 109 (70.78%) Python
2 42 (27.27%) SQL
3 22 (14.29%) Java
4 18 (11.69%) C++
5 17 (11.04%) C#
6 15 (9.74%) R
7 6 (3.90%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.95%) Bash
8 3 (1.95%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.95%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.30%) MATLAB
9 2 (1.30%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.65%) C
10 1 (0.65%) Cypher
10 1 (0.65%) Gremlin
10 1 (0.65%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.65%) Scala
10 1 (0.65%) SHACL
10 1 (0.65%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 83 (53.90%) Degree
2 25 (16.23%) Master's Degree
2 25 (16.23%) PhD
3 24 (15.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (5.19%) Security Cleared
5 7 (4.55%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.25%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (1.95%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.65%) MBA
8 1 (0.65%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.65%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.95%) QA
3 2 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (5.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (3.90%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.25%) Terraform
3 1 (0.65%) Ansible
3 1 (0.65%) Grafana
3 1 (0.65%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (5.84%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.55%) Databricks
3 4 (2.60%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.95%) Alteryx
4 3 (1.95%) Google
4 3 (1.95%) Murex
5 2 (1.30%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.30%) Charles River
5 2 (1.30%) Oracle
6 1 (0.65%) Adobe
6 1 (0.65%) Calypso
6 1 (0.65%) Citrix
6 1 (0.65%) Plaid
6 1 (0.65%) Reuters
6 1 (0.65%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.65%) Sitecore