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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 212 260
Rank change year-on-year -83 +48 -53
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 162 163 132
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.80% 1.22% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 1.32% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 94 90
10th Percentile £313 £438 £328
25th Percentile £493 £563 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £725 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +31.82% -21.43%
75th Percentile £788 £827 £775
90th Percentile £903 £1,000 £850
England median daily rate £550 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +30.00% -23.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 7
10th Percentile - £28.13 £33.69
25th Percentile £19.03 £35.42 £41.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £43.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% -13.86% -4.27%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.25 £52.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £57.75 £53.75
England median hourly rate £17.86 £18.85 £16.23
% change year-on-year -5.28% +16.14% +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 18,062 12,379 14,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.84% 92.57% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,844 8,171 9,350
10th Percentile £358 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £669 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.71% -2.64% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 241 178
10th Percentile £16.07 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.04 £25.01 £24.16
Median hourly rate £32.81 £30.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.58% -15.28% -4.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.38
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%

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 September 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 30 September 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 30 September 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 -37 13 £778 +35.22% 119
West London -15 9 £401 - 38
North London - 1 - - 1
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 6 (3.70%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.09%) Jupyter
3 4 (2.47%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.23%) Confluence
4 2 (1.23%) IIS
5 1 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.62%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.70%) CPLEX
3 4 (2.47%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (1.23%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.62%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.62%) Blender
6 1 (0.62%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.85%) Orchestrade
2 1 (0.62%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.62%) Aligne
2 1 (0.62%) Endur
2 1 (0.62%) ZaiNet
Cloud Services
1 31 (19.14%) AWS
2 23 (14.20%) Azure
3 14 (8.64%) GCP
4 10 (6.17%) Power Platform
5 7 (4.32%) Amazon Bedrock
5 7 (4.32%) Amazon SageMaker
5 7 (4.32%) Anthropic Claude
5 7 (4.32%) GitHub
5 7 (4.32%) Snowflake
6 5 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.09%) SaaS
7 4 (2.47%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.85%) dbt
8 3 (1.85%) Google Gemini
8 3 (1.85%) Serverless
9 2 (1.23%) Adobe Analytics
9 2 (1.23%) Azure AI
9 2 (1.23%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.79%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.17%) Power BI
3 6 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (3.70%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.70%) Tableau
4 5 (3.09%) Data Mining
4 5 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.47%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.85%) Big Data
6 3 (1.85%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.85%) Data Mart
6 3 (1.85%) Delta Lake
6 3 (1.85%) KDB
6 3 (1.85%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.85%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.23%) Kdb+
7 2 (1.23%) MySQL
7 2 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.23%) Power Query
8 1 (0.62%) Looker
Development Applications
1 19 (11.73%) Git
2 2 (1.23%) JIRA
2 2 (1.23%) MLflow
2 2 (1.23%) Selenium
3 1 (0.62%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.62%) GitLab
3 1 (0.62%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.62%) QUnit
3 1 (0.62%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.62%) Visual Studio
General
1 64 (39.51%) Analytical Skills
2 59 (36.42%) Social Skills
3 56 (34.57%) Finance
4 27 (16.67%) Banking
5 22 (13.58%) Front Office
6 12 (7.41%) Public Sector
7 10 (6.17%) Investment Banking
8 9 (5.56%) Marketing
9 8 (4.94%) Retail
10 7 (4.32%) Legal
10 7 (4.32%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (3.70%) Manufacturing
12 4 (2.47%) Aviation
12 4 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.85%) Advertising
14 2 (1.23%) Back Office
14 2 (1.23%) Financial Institution
14 2 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 35 (21.60%) Senior
2 32 (19.75%) Developer
3 30 (18.52%) Data Scientist
4 17 (10.49%) Analyst
4 17 (10.49%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 12 (7.41%) Data Engineer
5 12 (7.41%) Quantitative Developer
5 12 (7.41%) Senior Data Scientist
6 10 (6.17%) C# Developer
6 10 (6.17%) Software Engineer
7 9 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 8 (4.94%) Data Analyst
9 7 (4.32%) Python Developer
9 7 (4.32%) Senior Developer
10 6 (3.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 6 (3.70%) Python Engineer
10 6 (3.70%) Senior Data Engineer
11 5 (3.09%) Junior
12 4 (2.47%) Administrator
12 4 (2.47%) Front Office Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.79%) .NET
1 11 (6.79%) LangGraph
2 9 (5.56%) LangChain
2 9 (5.56%) PyTorch
2 9 (5.56%) React
3 7 (4.32%) NumPy
3 7 (4.32%) Pandas
4 6 (3.70%) Kafka
5 5 (3.09%) FastAPI
5 5 (3.09%) Model Context Protocol
5 5 (3.09%) pydantic
5 5 (3.09%) XML
6 4 (2.47%) Terraform
7 3 (1.85%) .NET Core
7 3 (1.85%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.85%) JSON Schema
7 3 (1.85%) scikit-learn
7 3 (1.85%) SciPy
7 3 (1.85%) Web Services
7 3 (1.85%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 25 (15.43%) Algorithms
2 20 (12.35%) Derivative
3 15 (9.26%) AI Agents
3 15 (9.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 12 (7.41%) Equities
5 11 (6.79%) Cloud Native
6 10 (6.17%) Fixed Income
7 9 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (4.94%) Hedge funds
9 7 (4.32%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (3.09%) Credit Risk
10 5 (3.09%) Data Structures
10 5 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (3.09%) Exotic Derivative
10 5 (3.09%) Management Information System
10 5 (3.09%) Market Risk
10 5 (3.09%) OTC Derivatives
10 5 (3.09%) Product Ownership
11 4 (2.47%) Onboarding
12 3 (1.85%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.70%) Linux
1 6 (3.70%) Windows
2 5 (3.09%) Unix
3 1 (0.62%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (44.44%) Computer Science
2 71 (43.83%) AI
3 67 (41.36%) Machine Learning
4 58 (35.80%) Data Science
5 53 (32.72%) Analytics
5 53 (32.72%) Software Engineering
6 49 (30.25%) Statistics
7 48 (29.63%) Decision-Making
7 48 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (19.75%) Physics
9 31 (19.14%) LLM
10 29 (17.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (16.05%) Validation
12 23 (14.20%) Agile
13 22 (13.58%) Data Engineering
13 22 (13.58%) Data Pipeline
14 17 (10.49%) Applied Mathematics
14 17 (10.49%) CI/CD
14 17 (10.49%) Generative AI
14 17 (10.49%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 110 (67.90%) Python
2 42 (25.93%) SQL
3 20 (12.35%) C++
4 19 (11.73%) C#
5 15 (9.26%) R
6 14 (8.64%) Java
7 5 (3.09%) Bash
7 5 (3.09%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.47%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.47%) Scala
9 3 (1.85%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.23%) C
10 2 (1.23%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.62%) Cypher
11 1 (0.62%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.62%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.62%) Perl
11 1 (0.62%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.62%) SHACL
11 1 (0.62%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 88 (54.32%) Degree
2 25 (15.43%) Computer Science Degree
2 25 (15.43%) Master's Degree
2 25 (15.43%) PhD
3 11 (6.79%) Security Cleared
4 10 (6.17%) SC Cleared
5 9 (5.56%) Numerate Degree
6 7 (4.32%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.85%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.62%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.62%) CCSP
8 1 (0.62%) CISA
8 1 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.62%) CISM
8 1 (0.62%) CISSP
8 1 (0.62%) CLAS
8 1 (0.62%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.62%) IISP
8 1 (0.62%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.09%) QA
3 4 (2.47%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.23%) GRC
5 1 (0.62%) GDPR
5 1 (0.62%) ISO 31000
5 1 (0.62%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (0.62%) NIST
5 1 (0.62%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.62%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (8.02%) Docker
2 1 (0.62%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 7 (4.32%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.23%) Control-M
3 1 (0.62%) Ansible
3 1 (0.62%) CASB
3 1 (0.62%) Grafana
3 1 (0.62%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.94%) Databricks
3 7 (4.32%) OpenAI
4 5 (3.09%) Google
5 4 (2.47%) Oracle
5 4 (2.47%) Veritas
6 3 (1.85%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.85%) Murex
7 2 (1.23%) Adobe
7 2 (1.23%) Foundry
7 2 (1.23%) Mistral
7 2 (1.23%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.23%) UiPath
8 1 (0.62%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.62%) Calypso
8 1 (0.62%) Cisco
8 1 (0.62%) Citrix
8 1 (0.62%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.62%) Plaid
8 1 (0.62%) Tripwire