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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 232 210
Rank change year-on-year -5 -22 +16
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 143 120 194
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.99% 0.87% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.96% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 70 144
10th Percentile £411 £361 £426
25th Percentile £537 £453 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £663 £640
Median % change year-on-year +20.75% +3.52% -17.42%
75th Percentile £1,000 £834 £725
90th Percentile £1,120 £875 £850
England median daily rate £650 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +23.81% -12.50% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 15
10th Percentile £39.86 £22.00 £19.49
25th Percentile £40.26 £30.59 £31.74
Median hourly rate £42.12 £39.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.99% -22.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £44.03 £53.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £44.46 - £69.30
England median hourly rate £22.00 £16.23 £14.16
% change year-on-year +35.55% +14.62% -75.10%

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 13,151 12,474 16,212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.19% 90.40% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,703 7,941 11,571
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -6.67%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 153 290
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.15 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.61 £24.66 £19.48
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £30.63
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +14.29% -14.93%
75th Percentile £55.00 £53.75 £53.69
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.60 £73.66
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -12.50% +14.29%

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 20 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 20 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 -5 17 £700 +27.27% 34
East London - 6 £1,000 - 1
South London - 4 £750 - 7
West London -19 1 - - 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 11 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.50%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.40%) SAS
4 1 (0.70%) Apache
4 1 (0.70%) Apache Pig
4 1 (0.70%) Confluence
4 1 (0.70%) Luigi
4 1 (0.70%) WebSphere
Applications
1 18 (12.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.40%) Adobe Premiere
2 2 (1.40%) Blender
2 2 (1.40%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.70%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.70%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.70%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (0.70%) IntelliMatch
Cloud Services
1 30 (20.98%) AWS
2 22 (15.38%) Azure
3 10 (6.99%) Power Platform
4 7 (4.90%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (4.20%) Amazon S3
5 6 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.50%) Azure Machine Learning
6 5 (3.50%) GCP
6 5 (3.50%) GitHub
7 4 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.80%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (2.80%) IaaS
7 4 (2.80%) Serverless
8 3 (2.10%) Amazon Bedrock
8 3 (2.10%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.10%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (2.10%) Azure AI
8 3 (2.10%) Azure Pipelines
8 3 (2.10%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.40%) 3GPP
1 2 (1.40%) HTTP
1 2 (1.40%) Intelligent Network
1 2 (1.40%) Wireless
2 1 (0.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.99%) Power BI
1 10 (6.99%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.50%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (3.50%) MongoDB
2 5 (3.50%) NoSQL
2 5 (3.50%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.10%) Big Data
4 3 (2.10%) KDB
4 3 (2.10%) Kdb+
5 2 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.40%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.40%) Metadata
6 1 (0.70%) AllegroGraph
6 1 (0.70%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.70%) MySQL
6 1 (0.70%) Pentaho
6 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (17.48%) Git
2 5 (3.50%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.50%) Visual Studio
3 4 (2.80%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.40%) JIRA
4 2 (1.40%) Maven
4 2 (1.40%) MSBuild
4 2 (1.40%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.70%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.70%) ERwin
5 1 (0.70%) GitLab
5 1 (0.70%) QUnit
5 1 (0.70%) RStudio
General
1 83 (58.04%) Finance
2 50 (34.97%) Front Office
3 42 (29.37%) Banking
4 34 (23.78%) Social Skills
5 29 (20.28%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (18.18%) Investment Banking
7 18 (12.59%) Financial Institution
8 6 (4.20%) Marketing
9 3 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.40%) Back Office
10 2 (1.40%) Games
10 2 (1.40%) Law
10 2 (1.40%) Military
10 2 (1.40%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.40%) Retail
10 2 (1.40%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 68 (47.55%) Developer
2 27 (18.88%) Senior
3 26 (18.18%) Quantitative Developer
4 21 (14.69%) Python Developer
5 17 (11.89%) Senior Developer
6 15 (10.49%) Analyst
7 11 (7.69%) Data Scientist
8 10 (6.99%) AWS Developer
8 10 (6.99%) JavaScript Developer
9 9 (6.29%) C++ Developer
10 8 (5.59%) Senior C++ Developer
11 6 (4.20%) C# Developer
11 6 (4.20%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 6 (4.20%) Qualitative Analyst
11 6 (4.20%) Quantitative Analyst
12 5 (3.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 4 (2.80%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
13 4 (2.80%) Data Engineer
13 4 (2.80%) Front Office Developer
13 4 (2.80%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (16.78%) Pandas
2 21 (14.69%) NumPy
3 16 (11.19%) SciPy
4 13 (9.09%) React
5 11 (7.69%) FastAPI
5 11 (7.69%) Flask
5 11 (7.69%) Vue
6 10 (6.99%) AngularJS
6 10 (6.99%) Polars
7 8 (5.59%) Kafka
8 7 (4.90%) scikit-learn
9 6 (4.20%) .NET
9 6 (4.20%) Dask
9 6 (4.20%) REST
10 5 (3.50%) Hugging Face
10 5 (3.50%) LangChain
10 5 (3.50%) Web Services
11 4 (2.80%) Plotly
11 4 (2.80%) PyTorch
11 4 (2.80%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 42 (29.37%) Derivative
2 39 (27.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 38 (26.57%) Algorithms
4 28 (19.58%) Equities
5 22 (15.38%) Equity Derivative
5 22 (15.38%) Hedge funds
6 19 (13.29%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (9.79%) Fixed Income
8 13 (9.09%) Distributed Computing
9 11 (7.69%) Cloud Native
9 11 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (3.50%) Data Structures
11 4 (2.80%) Data Fabric
12 3 (2.10%) AI Agents
12 3 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (2.10%) Multi-touch
13 2 (1.40%) Credit Derivative
13 2 (1.40%) Product Ownership
13 2 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
14 1 (0.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 25 (17.48%) Linux
2 9 (6.29%) Windows
3 4 (2.80%) Unix
4 2 (1.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (37.06%) Computer Science
2 42 (29.37%) CI/CD
3 39 (27.27%) Risk Management
4 34 (23.78%) Machine Learning
5 33 (23.08%) Physics
5 33 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (22.38%) Analytics
6 32 (22.38%) Data Pipeline
7 30 (20.98%) Quantitative Finance
8 28 (19.58%) Data Science
9 27 (18.88%) AI
9 27 (18.88%) Software Engineering
10 23 (16.08%) Agile
11 22 (15.38%) Decision-Making
11 22 (15.38%) Statistics
12 19 (13.29%) Data Engineering
13 17 (11.89%) Systematic Trading
14 16 (11.19%) DevOps
14 16 (11.19%) Validation
15 15 (10.49%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 101 (70.63%) Python
2 53 (37.06%) C++
3 44 (30.77%) C#
4 34 (23.78%) SQL
5 18 (12.59%) Java
6 16 (11.19%) JavaScript
7 11 (7.69%) Rust
8 7 (4.90%) R
9 4 (2.80%) Bash
9 4 (2.80%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.80%) VBA
10 2 (1.40%) C
10 2 (1.40%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.40%) VC++
11 1 (0.70%) Go
11 1 (0.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 77 (53.85%) Degree
2 31 (21.68%) Master's Degree
3 22 (15.38%) PhD
4 18 (12.59%) Numerate Degree
5 17 (11.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.20%) MCP
7 5 (3.50%) Postgraduate
8 3 (2.10%) Security Cleared
9 2 (1.40%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.70%) MBA
10 1 (0.70%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.50%) SLA
2 4 (2.80%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.80%) EMIR
2 4 (2.80%) QA
3 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.70%) Basel III
3 1 (0.70%) GDPR
3 1 (0.70%) IFRS
3 1 (0.70%) IFRS 9
3 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 26 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (13.99%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.80%) Puppet
3 3 (2.10%) Ansible
3 3 (2.10%) Grafana
3 3 (2.10%) Terraform
4 2 (1.40%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.70%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 7 (4.90%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.50%) Sophis
3 4 (2.80%) Databricks
3 4 (2.80%) Dataiku
3 4 (2.80%) Google
3 4 (2.80%) Oracle
4 3 (2.10%) Foundry
4 3 (2.10%) PagerDuty
5 2 (1.40%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.40%) IBM
5 2 (1.40%) Murex
5 2 (1.40%) Palantir
6 1 (0.70%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.70%) Charles River
6 1 (0.70%) Citrix
6 1 (0.70%) FIS
6 1 (0.70%) Informatica
6 1 (0.70%) SnapLogic
6 1 (0.70%) Splunk
6 1 (0.70%) TIBCO