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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 204 245
Rank change year-on-year -87 +41 -35
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 158 171 146
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.79% 1.29% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 1.39% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 107 104
10th Percentile £413 £438 £326
25th Percentile £544 £550 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £725 £622
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +16.56% -11.14%
75th Percentile £788 £813 £825
90th Percentile £888 £1,000 £853
England median daily rate £550 £700 £504
% change year-on-year -21.43% +38.96% -25.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 7
10th Percentile - £25.17 £36.99
25th Percentile £19.03 £28.79 £43.75
Median hourly rate £36.00 £43.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% -13.86% -57.56%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.25 £52.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £57.75 £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 17,851 12,273 14,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.10% 92.44% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,673 8,157 9,874
10th Percentile £360 £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 £688
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 289 254 194
10th Percentile £17.53 £17.00 £17.33
25th Percentile £20.02 £24.83 £22.28
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.75 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -11.81% -10.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.43 £63.75 £71.69
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -26 14 £755 +0.67% 62
West London -9 7 £750 - 39
North London - 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 5 (3.16%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.90%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.63%) IIS
4 1 (0.63%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (4.43%) CPLEX
2 4 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.90%) Aladdin
1 3 (1.90%) Orchestrade
2 1 (0.63%) Aligne
2 1 (0.63%) Endur
2 1 (0.63%) ZaiNet
Cloud Services
1 35 (22.15%) AWS
2 21 (13.29%) Azure
3 15 (9.49%) GCP
4 10 (6.33%) Power Platform
5 9 (5.70%) Snowflake
6 7 (4.43%) Amazon Bedrock
6 7 (4.43%) Amazon SageMaker
7 5 (3.16%) Anthropic Claude
7 5 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (3.16%) GitHub
7 5 (3.16%) SaaS
7 5 (3.16%) Serverless
8 4 (2.53%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.90%) dbt
9 3 (1.90%) Google Gemini
10 2 (1.27%) Adobe Analytics
11 1 (0.63%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.63%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.96%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.33%) Power BI
3 7 (4.43%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.80%) Tableau
5 5 (3.16%) Data Mining
5 5 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.53%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.90%) Big Data
7 3 (1.90%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.90%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.90%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.27%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.27%) KDB
8 2 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.27%) Power Query
8 2 (1.27%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.63%) Metadata
9 1 (0.63%) Stardog
9 1 (0.63%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 15 (9.49%) Git
2 2 (1.27%) JIRA
2 2 (1.27%) Selenium
3 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.63%) MLflow
3 1 (0.63%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 60 (37.97%) Social Skills
2 59 (37.34%) Analytical Skills
3 55 (34.81%) Finance
4 27 (17.09%) Banking
5 25 (15.82%) Front Office
6 12 (7.59%) Investment Banking
6 12 (7.59%) Public Sector
7 10 (6.33%) Retail
8 9 (5.70%) Marketing
9 8 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (4.43%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (3.80%) Manufacturing
12 5 (3.16%) Aviation
12 5 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (2.53%) Legal
13 4 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.90%) Advertising
15 2 (1.27%) Back Office
15 2 (1.27%) Financial Institution
15 2 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (22.15%) Developer
2 32 (20.25%) Data Scientist
3 31 (19.62%) Senior
4 17 (10.76%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 16 (10.13%) Analyst
6 13 (8.23%) Quantitative Developer
7 12 (7.59%) C# Developer
8 11 (6.96%) Senior Data Scientist
9 10 (6.33%) Data Engineer
9 10 (6.33%) Python Developer
10 9 (5.70%) Software Engineer
11 8 (5.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 8 (5.06%) Data Analyst
12 7 (4.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 7 (4.43%) Lead
12 7 (4.43%) Senior Developer
13 6 (3.80%) Java Engineer
14 5 (3.16%) Junior
14 5 (3.16%) Lead Data Scientist
15 4 (2.53%) Front Office Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.59%) .NET
2 11 (6.96%) React
3 10 (6.33%) LangGraph
4 8 (5.06%) LangChain
5 7 (4.43%) Kafka
6 6 (3.80%) FastAPI
6 6 (3.80%) Pandas
7 5 (3.16%) Model Context Protocol
7 5 (3.16%) NumPy
7 5 (3.16%) PyTorch
7 5 (3.16%) XML
8 4 (2.53%) pydantic
8 4 (2.53%) Terraform
9 3 (1.90%) .NET Core
9 3 (1.90%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.90%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.90%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (1.90%) JSON
9 3 (1.90%) JSON Schema
9 3 (1.90%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.46%) Algorithms
2 24 (15.19%) Derivative
3 16 (10.13%) Cloud Native
4 15 (9.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 14 (8.86%) Equities
6 12 (7.59%) AI Agents
6 12 (7.59%) Fixed Income
7 10 (6.33%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (5.70%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (4.43%) Data Structures
9 7 (4.43%) Product Ownership
10 6 (3.80%) Hedge funds
11 5 (3.16%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (3.16%) Exotic Derivative
11 5 (3.16%) OTC Derivatives
12 4 (2.53%) Management Information System
12 4 (2.53%) Onboarding
13 3 (1.90%) e-Learning
13 3 (1.90%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.16%) Windows
2 3 (1.90%) Linux
3 2 (1.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (44.94%) Computer Science
2 68 (43.04%) AI
3 62 (39.24%) Machine Learning
4 56 (35.44%) Data Science
5 54 (34.18%) Analytics
5 54 (34.18%) Decision-Making
6 51 (32.28%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (31.65%) Software Engineering
8 43 (27.22%) Statistics
9 32 (20.25%) Physics
10 29 (18.35%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (15.82%) Validation
12 24 (15.19%) Agile
12 24 (15.19%) Data Engineering
12 24 (15.19%) Data Pipeline
12 24 (15.19%) LLM
13 18 (11.39%) CI/CD
14 16 (10.13%) Actionable Insight
14 16 (10.13%) Applied Mathematics
15 15 (9.49%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 113 (71.52%) Python
2 43 (27.22%) SQL
3 21 (13.29%) C++
4 20 (12.66%) C#
5 15 (9.49%) Java
5 15 (9.49%) R
6 7 (4.43%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.90%) Bash
7 3 (1.90%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.90%) Scala
7 3 (1.90%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.27%) C
8 2 (1.27%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.63%) Cypher
9 1 (0.63%) Gremlin
9 1 (0.63%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.63%) Perl
9 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.63%) SHACL
9 1 (0.63%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 86 (54.43%) Degree
2 26 (16.46%) Master's Degree
3 24 (15.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (15.19%) PhD
4 9 (5.70%) Numerate Degree
4 9 (5.70%) Security Cleared
5 8 (5.06%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.90%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.27%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.63%) MBA
8 1 (0.63%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.96%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.16%) QA
3 4 (2.53%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.63%) GRC
4 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (6.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.16%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.63%) Ansible
2 1 (0.63%) Grafana
2 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (6.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.80%) Databricks
3 5 (3.16%) OpenAI
4 4 (2.53%) Google
4 4 (2.53%) Oracle
5 3 (1.90%) Alteryx
5 3 (1.90%) Murex
6 2 (1.27%) Adobe
6 2 (1.27%) Charles River
6 2 (1.27%) UiPath
7 1 (0.63%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.63%) Calypso
7 1 (0.63%) Citrix
7 1 (0.63%) Foundry
7 1 (0.63%) Mistral
7 1 (0.63%) Plaid
7 1 (0.63%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.63%) Sitecore