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 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 242 207
Rank change year-on-year -1 -35 +19
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 144 117 200
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.97% 0.84% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 0.93% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 69 145
10th Percentile £391 £346 £429
25th Percentile £536 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £625 £640
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -2.34% -17.42%
75th Percentile £1,000 £834 £725
90th Percentile £1,100 £876 £840
England median daily rate £650 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +23.81% -12.50% -17.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 21
10th Percentile £39.86 £22.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £40.26 £28.44 £20.98
Median hourly rate £42.12 £37.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.56% -16.11% +24.14%
75th Percentile £44.03 £46.25 £61.75
90th Percentile £44.46 £53.75 £68.75
England median hourly rate £21.76 £16.23 £14.16
% change year-on-year +34.07% +14.62% -74.68%

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 13,486 12,571 16,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.07% 90.51% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,936 7,985 11,699
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% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 158 330
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.24
25th Percentile £24.81 £24.81 £19.52
Median hourly rate £34.27 £35.00 £30.33
Median % change year-on-year -2.09% +15.40% -19.12%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.11 £52.50
90th Percentile £72.00 £79.13 £72.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.31 £36.34
% change year-on-year -26.69% -5.59% +3.81%

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 30 January 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 30 January 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 -12 16 £700 +27.27% 38
East London - 6 £1,000 - 4
South London - 4 £750 - 5
West London -20 2 £773 +47.24% 7
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 12 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.47%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.39%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (1.39%) SAS
4 1 (0.69%) Apache
4 1 (0.69%) Apache Pig
4 1 (0.69%) Confluence
4 1 (0.69%) Luigi
4 1 (0.69%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (11.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.39%) Adobe Premiere
2 2 (1.39%) Blender
2 2 (1.39%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.69%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.69%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.69%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (0.69%) IntelliMatch
Cloud Services
1 30 (20.83%) AWS
2 20 (13.89%) Azure
3 10 (6.94%) Power Platform
4 7 (4.86%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (4.17%) Amazon S3
6 5 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.47%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.78%) GCP
7 4 (2.78%) GitHub
7 4 (2.78%) IaaS
7 4 (2.78%) SaaS
7 4 (2.78%) Serverless
8 3 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.08%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.08%) Azure Pipelines
8 3 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.39%) 3GPP
1 2 (1.39%) HTTP
1 2 (1.39%) Intelligent Network
1 2 (1.39%) Wireless
2 1 (0.69%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.94%) Power BI
2 9 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.47%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (3.47%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.78%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.78%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.08%) Big Data
5 3 (2.08%) KDB
5 3 (2.08%) Kdb+
6 2 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.39%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.39%) Metadata
7 1 (0.69%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.69%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.69%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.69%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.69%) Pentaho
7 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (16.67%) Git
2 5 (3.47%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.47%) Visual Studio
3 3 (2.08%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.39%) JIRA
4 2 (1.39%) Maven
4 2 (1.39%) MSBuild
4 2 (1.39%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.69%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.69%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.69%) ERwin
5 1 (0.69%) GitLab
5 1 (0.69%) QUnit
5 1 (0.69%) RStudio
General
1 83 (57.64%) Finance
2 50 (34.72%) Front Office
3 41 (28.47%) Banking
4 33 (22.92%) Social Skills
5 28 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (17.36%) Investment Banking
7 18 (12.50%) Financial Institution
8 7 (4.86%) Marketing
9 3 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.39%) Games
10 2 (1.39%) Law
10 2 (1.39%) Military
10 2 (1.39%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.39%) Retail
10 2 (1.39%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.69%) Aviation
11 1 (0.69%) Back Office
11 1 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 67 (46.53%) Developer
2 28 (19.44%) Senior
3 26 (18.06%) Quantitative Developer
4 22 (15.28%) Python Developer
5 17 (11.81%) Senior Developer
6 16 (11.11%) Analyst
7 12 (8.33%) Data Scientist
8 10 (6.94%) AWS Developer
8 10 (6.94%) JavaScript Developer
9 9 (6.25%) C++ Developer
10 8 (5.56%) Senior C++ Developer
11 6 (4.17%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 6 (4.17%) Qualitative Analyst
11 6 (4.17%) Quantitative Analyst
12 5 (3.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 5 (3.47%) C# Developer
12 5 (3.47%) Senior Python Developer
13 4 (2.78%) Front Office Developer
13 4 (2.78%) Lead
13 4 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (17.36%) Pandas
2 22 (15.28%) NumPy
3 16 (11.11%) SciPy
4 13 (9.03%) React
5 11 (7.64%) FastAPI
5 11 (7.64%) Flask
5 11 (7.64%) Vue
6 10 (6.94%) AngularJS
6 10 (6.94%) Polars
7 7 (4.86%) Kafka
7 7 (4.86%) scikit-learn
8 6 (4.17%) Dask
8 6 (4.17%) Model Context Protocol
8 6 (4.17%) REST
8 6 (4.17%) Web Services
9 5 (3.47%) .NET
9 5 (3.47%) Hugging Face
9 5 (3.47%) LangChain
9 5 (3.47%) XML
10 4 (2.78%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 42 (29.17%) Derivative
2 40 (27.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 39 (27.08%) Algorithms
4 28 (19.44%) Equities
5 22 (15.28%) Equity Derivative
6 21 (14.58%) Hedge funds
7 20 (13.89%) Distributed Systems
8 15 (10.42%) Fixed Income
9 13 (9.03%) Distributed Computing
10 12 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (7.64%) Cloud Native
12 5 (3.47%) Data Structures
13 3 (2.08%) AI Agents
13 3 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (2.08%) Data Fabric
13 3 (2.08%) Multi-touch
14 2 (1.39%) Credit Derivative
14 2 (1.39%) Onboarding
14 2 (1.39%) Product Ownership
14 2 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (17.36%) Linux
2 9 (6.25%) Windows
3 4 (2.78%) Unix
4 2 (1.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (36.81%) Computer Science
2 41 (28.47%) CI/CD
3 39 (27.08%) Risk Management
4 35 (24.31%) Machine Learning
5 32 (22.22%) Analytics
5 32 (22.22%) Physics
5 32 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (21.53%) Data Pipeline
7 30 (20.83%) Data Science
7 30 (20.83%) Quantitative Finance
8 29 (20.14%) AI
9 26 (18.06%) Software Engineering
10 24 (16.67%) Statistics
11 23 (15.97%) Decision-Making
12 22 (15.28%) Agile
13 18 (12.50%) Data Engineering
14 17 (11.81%) Systematic Trading
15 16 (11.11%) Economics
15 16 (11.11%) Validation
16 15 (10.42%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 101 (70.14%) Python
2 52 (36.11%) C++
3 42 (29.17%) C#
4 36 (25.00%) SQL
5 19 (13.19%) Java
6 16 (11.11%) JavaScript
7 11 (7.64%) Rust
8 7 (4.86%) R
9 4 (2.78%) Bash
9 4 (2.78%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.78%) VBA
10 2 (1.39%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.39%) VC++
11 1 (0.69%) C
11 1 (0.69%) Go
11 1 (0.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 79 (54.86%) Degree
2 31 (21.53%) Master's Degree
3 23 (15.97%) PhD
4 18 (12.50%) Numerate Degree
5 15 (10.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.47%) Postgraduate
7 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 3 (2.08%) Security Cleared
8 2 (1.39%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.69%) MBA
9 1 (0.69%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.69%) PMP
9 1 (0.69%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.47%) QA
1 5 (3.47%) SLA
2 4 (2.78%) EMIR
3 3 (2.08%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.69%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.69%) Basel III
4 1 (0.69%) GDPR
4 1 (0.69%) IFRS
4 1 (0.69%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 25 (17.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (13.19%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.78%) Puppet
3 3 (2.08%) Ansible
3 3 (2.08%) Grafana
3 3 (2.08%) Terraform
4 2 (1.39%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.69%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 7 (4.86%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.47%) Google
2 5 (3.47%) Sophis
3 4 (2.78%) Databricks
3 4 (2.78%) Dataiku
3 4 (2.78%) Oracle
4 3 (2.08%) Foundry
4 3 (2.08%) PagerDuty
5 2 (1.39%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.39%) Charles River
5 2 (1.39%) Citrix
5 2 (1.39%) IBM
5 2 (1.39%) Murex
5 2 (1.39%) Palantir
6 1 (0.69%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.69%) Greenplum
6 1 (0.69%) Informatica
6 1 (0.69%) Netezza
6 1 (0.69%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.69%) UiPath