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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 225 205
Rank change year-on-year -30 -20 +19
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 141 133 197
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.89% 0.99% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.09% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 79 135
10th Percentile £354 £361 £425
25th Percentile £516 £488 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £725 £638
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% +13.73% -17.74%
75th Percentile £1,000 £863 £725
90th Percentile £1,140 £950 £840
England median daily rate £638 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +10.87% - -20.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 23
10th Percentile - £22.00 £13.20
25th Percentile £39.60 £28.88 £20.98
Median hourly rate £40.73 £39.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -13.33% +63.64%
75th Percentile £41.87 £48.75 £61.75
90th Percentile - £55.75 £71.75
England median hourly rate £17.50 £16.23 £14.22
% change year-on-year +7.83% +14.18% -72.92%

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 14,350 12,188 16,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.29% 90.83% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,627 7,901 11,629
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £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 218 159 347
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.69 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.40 £25.25 £19.42
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +21.67% -15.49%
75th Percentile £56.99 £54.50 £50.13
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.47 £72.20
England median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £34.77
% change year-on-year -18.57% +0.68% -0.67%

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 28 February 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 28 February 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 -11 14 £650 +4.00% 31
South London - 4 £750 - 6
West London -18 3 £773 +54.60% 6
East London - 3 £1,000 - 3
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 (7.09%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.55%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.42%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (1.42%) SAS
4 1 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.71%) Confluence
4 1 (0.71%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (9.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.42%) Adobe Premiere
2 2 (1.42%) Blender
2 2 (1.42%) Photoshop
2 2 (1.42%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.71%) CPLEX
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.71%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.71%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (0.71%) IntelliMatch
Cloud Services
1 27 (19.15%) AWS
2 16 (11.35%) Azure
3 8 (5.67%) Power Platform
4 7 (4.96%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (4.26%) Amazon S3
6 5 (3.55%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (3.55%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.84%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.84%) Serverless
8 3 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.13%) Azure AI
8 3 (2.13%) Azure Pipelines
8 3 (2.13%) GCP
8 3 (2.13%) GitHub
8 3 (2.13%) IaaS
8 3 (2.13%) SaaS
9 2 (1.42%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.42%) 3GPP
1 2 (1.42%) HTTP
1 2 (1.42%) Intelligent Network
1 2 (1.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.67%) Power BI
2 7 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (4.26%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.55%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.55%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.84%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.42%) KDB
6 2 (1.42%) Kdb+
6 2 (1.42%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.71%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.71%) Big Data
7 1 (0.71%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.71%) Metadata
7 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.71%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.71%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 23 (16.31%) Git
2 6 (4.26%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.84%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.42%) GitLab
4 2 (1.42%) JIRA
4 2 (1.42%) MSBuild
4 2 (1.42%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (1.42%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.71%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.71%) Maven
5 1 (0.71%) RStudio
General
1 78 (55.32%) Finance
2 45 (31.91%) Front Office
3 37 (26.24%) Social Skills
4 35 (24.82%) Banking
5 30 (21.28%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (13.48%) Investment Banking
7 14 (9.93%) Financial Institution
8 10 (7.09%) Marketing
9 7 (4.96%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.84%) Retail
11 2 (1.42%) Aviation
11 2 (1.42%) Games
11 2 (1.42%) Law
11 2 (1.42%) Military
11 2 (1.42%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.42%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.71%) Back Office
12 1 (0.71%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (39.72%) Developer
2 30 (21.28%) Senior
3 23 (16.31%) Quantitative Developer
4 19 (13.48%) Analyst
5 18 (12.77%) Python Developer
6 14 (9.93%) Senior Developer
7 13 (9.22%) Data Scientist
8 8 (5.67%) C++ Developer
8 8 (5.67%) Senior C++ Developer
9 7 (4.96%) Lead
10 6 (4.26%) AWS Developer
10 6 (4.26%) JavaScript Developer
10 6 (4.26%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 6 (4.26%) Senior Data Scientist
11 5 (3.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 5 (3.55%) Qualitative Analyst
11 5 (3.55%) Quantitative Analyst
11 5 (3.55%) Senior Python Developer
11 5 (3.55%) Software Engineer
12 4 (2.84%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (14.89%) Pandas
2 18 (12.77%) NumPy
3 12 (8.51%) React
3 12 (8.51%) SciPy
4 9 (6.38%) scikit-learn
5 8 (5.67%) Kafka
6 7 (4.96%) FastAPI
6 7 (4.96%) Flask
6 7 (4.96%) Vue
7 6 (4.26%) AngularJS
7 6 (4.26%) Dask
7 6 (4.26%) Model Context Protocol
7 6 (4.26%) Polars
7 6 (4.26%) PyTorch
7 6 (4.26%) REST
7 6 (4.26%) TensorFlow
7 6 (4.26%) Web Services
8 5 (3.55%) LangChain
9 4 (2.84%) Hugging Face
9 4 (2.84%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 38 (26.95%) Algorithms
2 37 (26.24%) Derivative
3 31 (21.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 26 (18.44%) Equities
5 23 (16.31%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (12.77%) Equity Derivative
7 17 (12.06%) Hedge funds
8 15 (10.64%) Cloud Native
9 14 (9.93%) Fixed Income
10 12 (8.51%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (7.09%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (4.26%) Data Structures
13 4 (2.84%) Onboarding
13 4 (2.84%) Product Ownership
14 3 (2.13%) AI Agents
14 3 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (2.13%) Multi-touch
15 2 (1.42%) Credit Derivative
15 2 (1.42%) Data Fabric
16 1 (0.71%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 20 (14.18%) Linux
2 5 (3.55%) Windows
3 3 (2.13%) Unix
4 1 (0.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (39.72%) Computer Science
2 39 (27.66%) Machine Learning
3 38 (26.95%) Risk Management
4 37 (26.24%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (24.82%) Analytics
5 35 (24.82%) CI/CD
6 33 (23.40%) AI
6 33 (23.40%) Data Science
7 31 (21.99%) Physics
8 28 (19.86%) Quantitative Finance
9 27 (19.15%) Data Pipeline
9 27 (19.15%) Software Engineering
9 27 (19.15%) Statistics
10 26 (18.44%) Agile
10 26 (18.44%) Decision-Making
11 18 (12.77%) Data Engineering
11 18 (12.77%) LLM
12 17 (12.06%) Systematic Trading
13 16 (11.35%) Stakeholder Management
14 15 (10.64%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 99 (70.21%) Python
2 42 (29.79%) C++
3 38 (26.95%) SQL
4 34 (24.11%) C#
5 19 (13.48%) Java
6 12 (8.51%) JavaScript
7 9 (6.38%) R
8 7 (4.96%) Rust
9 4 (2.84%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.13%) Bash
10 3 (2.13%) VBA
11 1 (0.71%) C
11 1 (0.71%) Go
11 1 (0.71%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.71%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.71%) VC++
Qualifications
1 82 (58.16%) Degree
2 32 (22.70%) Master's Degree
3 25 (17.73%) PhD
4 17 (12.06%) Numerate Degree
5 13 (9.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 3 (2.13%) Postgraduate
6 3 (2.13%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.42%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.71%) MBA
8 1 (0.71%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.71%) PMP
8 1 (0.71%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.26%) QA
2 4 (2.84%) SLA
3 3 (2.13%) EMIR
4 2 (1.42%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.71%) Basel III
5 1 (0.71%) GDPR
5 1 (0.71%) IFRS
5 1 (0.71%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (12.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (9.22%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.55%) Terraform
3 3 (2.13%) Ansible
3 3 (2.13%) Grafana
3 3 (2.13%) Puppet
4 2 (1.42%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (4.96%) Databricks
2 5 (3.55%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.84%) Dataiku
3 4 (2.84%) Google
4 3 (2.13%) Foundry
4 3 (2.13%) Oracle
4 3 (2.13%) PagerDuty
5 2 (1.42%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.42%) Charles River
5 2 (1.42%) Citrix
5 2 (1.42%) IBM
5 2 (1.42%) Murex
5 2 (1.42%) Palantir
5 2 (1.42%) Sophis
6 1 (0.71%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.71%) Greenplum
6 1 (0.71%) Netezza
6 1 (0.71%) Teradata
6 1 (0.71%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.71%) UiPath