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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 218 266
Rank change year-on-year -73 +48 -66
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 165 160 126
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.81% 1.20% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 1.30% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 91 83
10th Percentile £311 £438 £326
25th Percentile £490 £538 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £725 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +31.82% -17.42%
75th Percentile £788 £875 £781
90th Percentile £873 £1,050 £850
England median daily rate £569 £638 £500
% change year-on-year -10.78% +27.50% -23.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 7
10th Percentile £19.03 £28.13 £33.69
25th Percentile £21.22 £35.42 £37.13
Median hourly rate £36.00 £43.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% -8.42% -9.95%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.25 £52.75
90th Percentile - £57.75 £53.75
England median hourly rate £19.03 £18.85 £16.23
% change year-on-year +0.95% +16.14% +14.62%

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 18,128 12,293 14,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.49% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,864 8,121 9,276
10th Percentile £360 £332 £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 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 242 178
10th Percentile £15.90 £18.25 £17.43
25th Percentile £18.81 £25.02 £24.18
Median hourly rate £33.30 £30.25 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +10.08% -17.46% -8.38%
75th Percentile £58.75 £47.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £79.88 £64.98 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -31 13 £778 +35.22% 79
West London -12 9 £401 - 14
North London - 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 5 (3.03%) Apache Spark
1 5 (3.03%) Jupyter
2 4 (2.42%) Confluence
2 4 (2.42%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.21%) CMS
3 2 (1.21%) IIS
4 1 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.61%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.64%) CPLEX
3 5 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.42%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.21%) Adobe Premiere
5 2 (1.21%) Blender
5 2 (1.21%) Chatbot
5 2 (1.21%) LaTeX
5 2 (1.21%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.21%) Orchestrade
2 1 (0.61%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.61%) Aligne
2 1 (0.61%) Endur
2 1 (0.61%) ZaiNet
Cloud Services
1 28 (16.97%) AWS
2 22 (13.33%) Azure
3 14 (8.48%) GCP
4 9 (5.45%) Power Platform
5 7 (4.24%) Amazon Bedrock
5 7 (4.24%) Amazon SageMaker
5 7 (4.24%) Anthropic Claude
5 7 (4.24%) GitHub
5 7 (4.24%) Snowflake
6 5 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.03%) SaaS
7 3 (1.82%) dbt
7 3 (1.82%) Google Gemini
8 2 (1.21%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (1.21%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.21%) Azure AI
8 2 (1.21%) Copilot Studio
8 2 (1.21%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.45%) Power BI
1 9 (5.45%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (3.64%) Tableau
3 5 (3.03%) Data Mart
3 5 (3.03%) Data Mining
3 5 (3.03%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.42%) Oracle Database
4 4 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.82%) Big Data
5 3 (1.82%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.82%) Delta Lake
5 3 (1.82%) KDB
5 3 (1.82%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.82%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.21%) GIS
6 2 (1.21%) Kdb+
6 2 (1.21%) MySQL
6 2 (1.21%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (1.21%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 20 (12.12%) Git
2 2 (1.21%) JIRA
2 2 (1.21%) MLflow
2 2 (1.21%) Selenium
3 1 (0.61%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.61%) GitLab
3 1 (0.61%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.61%) QUnit
3 1 (0.61%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.61%) Visual Studio
General
1 68 (41.21%) Analytical Skills
2 62 (37.58%) Finance
2 62 (37.58%) Social Skills
3 30 (18.18%) Banking
4 23 (13.94%) Front Office
5 11 (6.67%) Investment Banking
5 11 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.85%) Marketing
6 8 (4.85%) Retail
7 6 (3.64%) Legal
7 6 (3.64%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.42%) Aviation
10 3 (1.82%) Advertising
11 2 (1.21%) Back Office
11 2 (1.21%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.21%) Games
Job Titles
1 37 (22.42%) Senior
2 30 (18.18%) Data Scientist
2 30 (18.18%) Developer
3 18 (10.91%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 17 (10.30%) Analyst
5 12 (7.27%) Quantitative Developer
5 12 (7.27%) Senior Data Scientist
6 10 (6.06%) C# Developer
6 10 (6.06%) Data Engineer
6 10 (6.06%) Software Engineer
7 9 (5.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 8 (4.85%) Data Analyst
9 7 (4.24%) Python Engineer
9 7 (4.24%) Senior Developer
10 6 (3.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 6 (3.64%) Python Developer
11 5 (3.03%) Gen AI Engineer
11 5 (3.03%) Junior
12 4 (2.42%) Administrator
12 4 (2.42%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.67%) .NET
1 11 (6.67%) LangGraph
2 10 (6.06%) PyTorch
3 9 (5.45%) LangChain
4 8 (4.85%) React
5 6 (3.64%) NumPy
6 5 (3.03%) FastAPI
6 5 (3.03%) Kafka
6 5 (3.03%) Model Context Protocol
6 5 (3.03%) Pandas
6 5 (3.03%) pydantic
6 5 (3.03%) XML
7 4 (2.42%) ADO
7 4 (2.42%) Terraform
7 4 (2.42%) XGBoost
8 3 (1.82%) .NET Core
8 3 (1.82%) ASP.NET
8 3 (1.82%) JSON Schema
8 3 (1.82%) scikit-learn
8 3 (1.82%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.76%) Algorithms
2 21 (12.73%) Derivative
3 16 (9.70%) AI Agents
3 16 (9.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 12 (7.27%) Equities
5 10 (6.06%) Cloud Native
5 10 (6.06%) Fixed Income
5 10 (6.06%) Market Risk
6 9 (5.45%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (5.45%) Credit Risk
7 8 (4.85%) Hedge funds
8 6 (3.64%) Data Structures
8 6 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (3.03%) Exotic Derivative
9 5 (3.03%) OTC Derivatives
9 5 (3.03%) Product Ownership
10 4 (2.42%) Management Information System
10 4 (2.42%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.82%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.24%) Linux
1 7 (4.24%) Unix
2 6 (3.64%) Windows
3 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (43.64%) Computer Science
2 71 (43.03%) AI
3 66 (40.00%) Machine Learning
4 58 (35.15%) Data Science
5 52 (31.52%) Analytics
5 52 (31.52%) Software Engineering
6 51 (30.91%) Statistics
7 50 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (27.27%) Decision-Making
9 31 (18.79%) LLM
9 31 (18.79%) Physics
10 30 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 29 (17.58%) Validation
12 23 (13.94%) Agile
12 23 (13.94%) Data Engineering
13 22 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
13 22 (13.33%) Risk Management
14 20 (12.12%) Applied Mathematics
15 18 (10.91%) CI/CD
15 18 (10.91%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 109 (66.06%) Python
2 44 (26.67%) SQL
3 19 (11.52%) C++
4 17 (10.30%) C#
5 13 (7.88%) Java
5 13 (7.88%) R
6 7 (4.24%) Bash
7 4 (2.42%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.42%) Scala
7 4 (2.42%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.21%) C
8 2 (1.21%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.21%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.61%) Cypher
9 1 (0.61%) Gremlin
9 1 (0.61%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.61%) Perl
9 1 (0.61%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.61%) SHACL
9 1 (0.61%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 90 (54.55%) Degree
2 28 (16.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (15.15%) Master's Degree
4 24 (14.55%) PhD
5 11 (6.67%) Security Cleared
6 10 (6.06%) SC Cleared
7 9 (5.45%) Numerate Degree
8 7 (4.24%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.82%) Postgraduate
10 2 (1.21%) HND
11 1 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.61%) CCSP
11 1 (0.61%) CISA
11 1 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.61%) CISM
11 1 (0.61%) CISSP
11 1 (0.61%) CLAS
11 1 (0.61%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.61%) IISP
11 1 (0.61%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.88%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.03%) QA
3 4 (2.42%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.21%) GRC
5 1 (0.61%) GDPR
5 1 (0.61%) ISO 31000
5 1 (0.61%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (0.61%) NIST
5 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (7.88%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 7 (4.24%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.42%) Control-M
3 1 (0.61%) Ansible
3 1 (0.61%) CASB
3 1 (0.61%) Grafana
3 1 (0.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (8.48%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.85%) Databricks
3 7 (4.24%) Google
3 7 (4.24%) OpenAI
4 5 (3.03%) Murex
5 4 (2.42%) Oracle
5 4 (2.42%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.42%) Veritas
6 3 (1.82%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.21%) Adobe
7 2 (1.21%) Foundry
7 2 (1.21%) Mistral
7 2 (1.21%) UiPath
8 1 (0.61%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.61%) Calypso
8 1 (0.61%) Cisco
8 1 (0.61%) Citrix
8 1 (0.61%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.61%) Plaid
8 1 (0.61%) Tripwire