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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 242 205
Rank change year-on-year +21 -37 +29
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 166 133 236
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.17% 0.85% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 0.95% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 83 182
10th Percentile £425 £329 £425
25th Percentile £537 £403 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £575 £671
Median % change year-on-year +26.09% -14.24% -6.22%
75th Percentile £984 £788 £813
90th Percentile £1,050 £860 £1,000
England median daily rate £575 £500 £640
% change year-on-year +15.00% -21.88% -1.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 7
10th Percentile £28.13 £33.69 £32.90
25th Percentile £35.42 £37.13 £42.50
Median hourly rate £43.50 £42.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.35% -15.00% -11.50%
75th Percentile £49.25 £52.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £57.75 £53.75 £62.85
England median hourly rate £42.12 £16.23 £14.16
% change year-on-year +159.49% +14.62% -75.34%

All Process and 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 13,068 14,030 17,858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.28% 89.29% 89.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,592 9,056 12,811
10th Percentile £334 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £569
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% -3.34% -3.56%
75th Percentile £655 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 166 246
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.38 £18.68
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.98 £21.56
Median hourly rate £28.50 £37.50 £36.33
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +3.21% -6.54%
75th Percentile £47.25 £55.94 £61.75
90th Percentile £67.87 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +23.61%

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025. 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 -2 21 £575 -9.80% 138
South London - 8 £750 - 5
East London - 6 £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 18 (10.84%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.01%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.81%) SAS
4 2 (1.20%) Luigi
5 1 (0.60%) Apache
5 1 (0.60%) Apache Pig
5 1 (0.60%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (7.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.20%) Adobe Premiere
2 2 (1.20%) Blender
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.20%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.60%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.60%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 44 (26.51%) AWS
2 35 (21.08%) Azure
3 13 (7.83%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (6.63%) Power Platform
5 9 (5.42%) GCP
6 5 (3.01%) Amazon SageMaker
6 5 (3.01%) GitHub
7 4 (2.41%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (2.41%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (2.41%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (2.41%) IaaS
8 3 (1.81%) Amazon Bedrock
8 3 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.81%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (1.81%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.81%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (1.20%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.61%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.81%) Internet
3 1 (0.60%) DNS
3 1 (0.60%) Firewall
3 1 (0.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (6.63%) NoSQL
2 11 (6.63%) Power BI
3 10 (6.02%) SQL Server
4 7 (4.22%) Redis
5 6 (3.61%) Geospatial Data
5 6 (3.61%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (3.01%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.41%) Big Data
7 4 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.41%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.81%) KDB
8 3 (1.81%) Kdb+
8 3 (1.81%) Metadata
8 3 (1.81%) Tableau
9 2 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.20%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.20%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 31 (18.67%) Git
2 4 (2.41%) TeamCity
3 3 (1.81%) MLflow
4 2 (1.20%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.20%) Maven
4 2 (1.20%) MSBuild
4 2 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (1.20%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.60%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.60%) ERwin
5 1 (0.60%) GitLab
5 1 (0.60%) QUnit
5 1 (0.60%) RStudio
5 1 (0.60%) TensorBoard
General
1 87 (52.41%) Finance
2 53 (31.93%) Banking
3 52 (31.33%) Front Office
4 49 (29.52%) Social Skills
5 39 (23.49%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (23.49%) Investment Banking
6 19 (11.45%) Financial Institution
7 7 (4.22%) Marketing
8 5 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (3.01%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.20%) Back Office
9 2 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.20%) Games
9 2 (1.20%) Law
9 2 (1.20%) Military
9 2 (1.20%) Retail
9 2 (1.20%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.60%) Legal
10 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 75 (45.18%) Developer
2 29 (17.47%) Python Developer
3 24 (14.46%) Senior
4 21 (12.65%) Quantitative Developer
5 20 (12.05%) Analyst
6 19 (11.45%) Data Scientist
7 17 (10.24%) AWS Developer
7 17 (10.24%) JavaScript Developer
8 15 (9.04%) Senior Developer
9 12 (7.23%) Data Engineer
10 11 (6.63%) Lead
11 10 (6.02%) Qualitative Analyst
11 10 (6.02%) Quantitative Analyst
12 8 (4.82%) Java Developer
13 7 (4.22%) Lead Developer
13 7 (4.22%) Lead Java Developer
14 6 (3.61%) C# Developer
14 6 (3.61%) Machine Learning Engineer
15 5 (3.01%) C++ Developer
15 5 (3.01%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (17.47%) Pandas
2 23 (13.86%) NumPy
3 20 (12.05%) React
3 20 (12.05%) SciPy
4 18 (10.84%) FastAPI
4 18 (10.84%) Flask
4 18 (10.84%) Vue
5 17 (10.24%) AngularJS
5 17 (10.24%) Kafka
5 17 (10.24%) Polars
6 7 (4.22%) ActiveMQ
6 7 (4.22%) FIX Protocol
6 7 (4.22%) REST
7 6 (3.61%) .NET
7 6 (3.61%) scikit-learn
8 5 (3.01%) Dask
8 5 (3.01%) FpML
8 5 (3.01%) Middleware
9 4 (2.41%) CSS
9 4 (2.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 47 (28.31%) Derivative
2 43 (25.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 39 (23.49%) Algorithms
4 28 (16.87%) Hedge funds
5 20 (12.05%) Equity Derivative
6 19 (11.45%) Equities
7 16 (9.64%) Fixed Income
8 15 (9.04%) Distributed Computing
9 11 (6.63%) Data Structures
10 10 (6.02%) Cloud Native
10 10 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (3.61%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (3.61%) Multi-touch
12 5 (3.01%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (2.41%) Data Fabric
13 4 (2.41%) Social Media
14 3 (1.81%) Credit Risk
15 2 (1.20%) Credit Derivative
15 2 (1.20%) Management Information System
15 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (19.88%) Linux
2 8 (4.82%) Windows
3 4 (2.41%) Unix
4 2 (1.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (43.98%) Computer Science
2 43 (25.90%) CI/CD
3 40 (24.10%) Physics
3 40 (24.10%) Software Engineering
4 39 (23.49%) Machine Learning
4 39 (23.49%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (21.69%) Agile
6 34 (20.48%) Data Science
7 29 (17.47%) Data Pipeline
7 29 (17.47%) Risk Management
8 28 (16.87%) Analytics
8 28 (16.87%) Data Engineering
9 24 (14.46%) Statistics
9 24 (14.46%) Systematic Trading
10 23 (13.86%) Validation
11 21 (12.65%) AI
12 20 (12.05%) Data Analysis
12 20 (12.05%) DevOps
12 20 (12.05%) Quantitative Finance
13 18 (10.84%) Model Validation
Programming Languages
1 127 (76.51%) Python
2 55 (33.13%) C++
3 52 (31.33%) SQL
4 45 (27.11%) C#
5 39 (23.49%) Java
6 23 (13.86%) JavaScript
7 18 (10.84%) Rust
8 13 (7.83%) R
9 5 (3.01%) Bash
10 4 (2.41%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.41%) VBA
11 3 (1.81%) C
12 2 (1.20%) Go
12 2 (1.20%) MATLAB
12 2 (1.20%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.20%) Scala
12 2 (1.20%) VC++
13 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 88 (53.01%) Degree
2 34 (20.48%) Master's Degree
3 27 (16.27%) PhD
4 23 (13.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (9.64%) Numerate Degree
6 5 (3.01%) Security Cleared
7 4 (2.41%) Postgraduate
8 3 (1.81%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.60%) MBA
9 1 (0.60%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.22%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.01%) QA
3 4 (2.41%) EMIR
3 4 (2.41%) SLA
4 2 (1.20%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.20%) NIST
5 1 (0.60%) Basel III
5 1 (0.60%) GDPR
5 1 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 32 (19.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (15.06%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.01%) Terraform
3 4 (2.41%) Grafana
3 4 (2.41%) Puppet
4 3 (1.81%) Ansible
5 2 (1.20%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.60%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.60%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 11 (6.63%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.01%) Sophis
3 4 (2.41%) Dataiku
3 4 (2.41%) Foundry
3 4 (2.41%) Oracle
4 3 (1.81%) Databricks
4 3 (1.81%) Google
4 3 (1.81%) PagerDuty
4 3 (1.81%) Palantir
5 2 (1.20%) IBM
6 1 (0.60%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.60%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.60%) Informatica
6 1 (0.60%) Murex
6 1 (0.60%) SnapLogic
6 1 (0.60%) Splunk
6 1 (0.60%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.60%) UiPath
6 1 (0.60%) Zoomdata