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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 196 256
Rank change year-on-year -100 +60 -31
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 156 169 139
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.78% 1.28% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 1.38% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 105 99
10th Percentile £413 £438 £323
25th Percentile £544 £538 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £725 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +20.83% -14.29%
75th Percentile £788 £813 £813
90th Percentile £888 £1,000 £850
England median daily rate £550 £680 £500
% change year-on-year -19.12% +36.00% -25.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 6
10th Percentile - £27.35 £38.42
25th Percentile £19.03 £34.00 £47.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £43.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% -13.86% -57.56%
75th Percentile £56.25 £51.50 £53.25
90th Percentile £62.00 £58.75 £53.75
England median hourly rate £24.00 £15.23 £16.23
% change year-on-year +57.64% -6.19% +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 17,884 12,219 14,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.13% 92.48% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,701 8,101 9,738
10th Percentile £359 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £682
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 254 186
10th Percentile £17.18 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.98 £25.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.69 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.53 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -33 14 £755 +0.67% 57
West London -13 7 £750 - 37
North London - 1 - - 4
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 5 (3.21%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.92%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.64%) IIS
4 1 (0.64%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (4.49%) CPLEX
2 4 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.92%) Orchestrade
2 1 (0.64%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.64%) Aligne
2 1 (0.64%) Endur
2 1 (0.64%) ZaiNet
Cloud Services
1 33 (21.15%) AWS
2 21 (13.46%) Azure
3 15 (9.62%) GCP
4 10 (6.41%) Power Platform
5 7 (4.49%) Amazon Bedrock
5 7 (4.49%) Amazon SageMaker
5 7 (4.49%) Snowflake
6 5 (3.21%) Anthropic Claude
6 5 (3.21%) GitHub
6 5 (3.21%) SaaS
7 4 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.56%) Serverless
8 3 (1.92%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.92%) dbt
8 3 (1.92%) Google Gemini
9 2 (1.28%) Adobe Analytics
10 1 (0.64%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.05%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.41%) Power BI
3 7 (4.49%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.85%) Tableau
5 5 (3.21%) Data Mining
5 5 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.56%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.92%) Big Data
7 3 (1.92%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.92%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.92%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.28%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.28%) KDB
8 2 (1.28%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.28%) Power Query
9 1 (0.64%) Metadata
9 1 (0.64%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.64%) Stardog
9 1 (0.64%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 15 (9.62%) Git
2 2 (1.28%) JIRA
2 2 (1.28%) Selenium
3 1 (0.64%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.64%) MLflow
3 1 (0.64%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio
General
1 59 (37.82%) Analytical Skills
2 58 (37.18%) Social Skills
3 53 (33.97%) Finance
4 25 (16.03%) Banking
5 23 (14.74%) Front Office
6 12 (7.69%) Public Sector
7 10 (6.41%) Investment Banking
7 10 (6.41%) Retail
8 9 (5.77%) Marketing
9 8 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (3.85%) Manufacturing
11 5 (3.21%) Aviation
11 5 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (2.56%) Legal
12 4 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.92%) Advertising
14 2 (1.28%) Back Office
14 2 (1.28%) Financial Institution
14 2 (1.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (22.44%) Developer
2 32 (20.51%) Data Scientist
3 31 (19.87%) Senior
4 17 (10.90%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 16 (10.26%) Analyst
6 13 (8.33%) Quantitative Developer
7 12 (7.69%) C# Developer
8 11 (7.05%) Senior Data Scientist
9 10 (6.41%) Data Engineer
9 10 (6.41%) Python Developer
10 9 (5.77%) Software Engineer
11 8 (5.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 8 (5.13%) Data Analyst
12 7 (4.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 7 (4.49%) Senior Developer
13 6 (3.85%) Java Engineer
13 6 (3.85%) Lead
14 5 (3.21%) Junior
14 5 (3.21%) Lead Data Scientist
15 4 (2.56%) Front Office Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.69%) .NET
2 11 (7.05%) React
3 10 (6.41%) LangGraph
4 8 (5.13%) LangChain
5 7 (4.49%) Kafka
6 6 (3.85%) FastAPI
6 6 (3.85%) Pandas
7 5 (3.21%) Model Context Protocol
7 5 (3.21%) NumPy
7 5 (3.21%) PyTorch
7 5 (3.21%) XML
8 4 (2.56%) pydantic
8 4 (2.56%) Terraform
9 3 (1.92%) .NET Core
9 3 (1.92%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.92%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.92%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (1.92%) JSON
9 3 (1.92%) JSON Schema
9 3 (1.92%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 22 (14.10%) Derivative
3 15 (9.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 14 (8.97%) Cloud Native
5 12 (7.69%) AI Agents
5 12 (7.69%) Equities
6 10 (6.41%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (6.41%) Fixed Income
7 9 (5.77%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (4.49%) Data Structures
9 6 (3.85%) Hedge funds
10 5 (3.21%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (3.21%) Exotic Derivative
10 5 (3.21%) OTC Derivatives
10 5 (3.21%) Product Ownership
11 4 (2.56%) Management Information System
11 4 (2.56%) Onboarding
12 3 (1.92%) e-Learning
12 3 (1.92%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.21%) Windows
2 3 (1.92%) Linux
3 2 (1.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (44.23%) Computer Science
2 68 (43.59%) AI
3 62 (39.74%) Machine Learning
4 56 (35.90%) Data Science
5 54 (34.62%) Analytics
6 52 (33.33%) Decision-Making
7 50 (32.05%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (32.05%) Software Engineering
8 43 (27.56%) Statistics
9 32 (20.51%) Physics
10 27 (17.31%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (16.03%) Validation
12 24 (15.38%) LLM
13 23 (14.74%) Data Pipeline
14 22 (14.10%) Agile
14 22 (14.10%) Data Engineering
15 16 (10.26%) Actionable Insight
15 16 (10.26%) Applied Mathematics
15 16 (10.26%) CI/CD
16 15 (9.62%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 111 (71.15%) Python
2 41 (26.28%) SQL
3 21 (13.46%) C++
4 20 (12.82%) C#
5 15 (9.62%) Java
5 15 (9.62%) R
6 7 (4.49%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.92%) Bash
7 3 (1.92%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.92%) Scala
7 3 (1.92%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.28%) C
8 2 (1.28%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.64%) Cypher
9 1 (0.64%) Gremlin
9 1 (0.64%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.64%) Perl
9 1 (0.64%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.64%) SHACL
9 1 (0.64%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 84 (53.85%) Degree
2 26 (16.67%) Master's Degree
3 24 (15.38%) PhD
4 22 (14.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (5.77%) Numerate Degree
5 9 (5.77%) Security Cleared
6 8 (5.13%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.92%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.28%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.64%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.64%) MBA
9 1 (0.64%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.41%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.21%) QA
3 4 (2.56%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.64%) GRC
4 1 (0.64%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (6.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.21%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.64%) Ansible
2 1 (0.64%) Grafana
2 1 (0.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (6.41%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.85%) Databricks
3 5 (3.21%) OpenAI
4 4 (2.56%) Google
4 4 (2.56%) Oracle
5 3 (1.92%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.28%) Adobe
6 2 (1.28%) UiPath
7 1 (0.64%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.64%) Calypso
7 1 (0.64%) Citrix
7 1 (0.64%) Foundry
7 1 (0.64%) Mistral
7 1 (0.64%) Murex
7 1 (0.64%) Plaid
7 1 (0.64%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.64%) Sitecore