Mathematics Contracts in London

Mathematics (Maths)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Mathematics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mathematics over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 227 208
Rank change year-on-year +44 -19 +61
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 189 188 319
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.44% 1.07% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.21% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 128 230
10th Percentile £411 £329 £425
25th Percentile £531 £442 £595
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £638 £750
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £813 £825 £934
90th Percentile £1,034 £875 £1,000
England median daily rate £725 £575 £700
% change year-on-year +26.09% -17.86% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 21 2
10th Percentile £25.17 £12.50 £29.58
25th Percentile £28.79 £20.98 £51.73
Median hourly rate £43.50 £45.00 £95.31
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -52.79% +135.34%
75th Percentile £56.25 £53.75 £144.73
90th Percentile £60.75 £72.50 £170.39
England median hourly rate £15.44 £15.00 £14.64
% change year-on-year +2.93% +2.44% +0.91%

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 12,082 15,598 22,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.19% 88.50% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,067 11,123 16,628
10th Percentile £331 £341 £372
25th Percentile £425 £445 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £799 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 298 259
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.98 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.02 £23.18
Median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -25.93% +12.50%
75th Percentile £50.50 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.60 £68.75 £82.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%

Mathematics
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Mathematics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Mathematics in London

Mathematics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mathematics in London.

Daily rate trend for Mathematics in London

Mathematics
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mathematics in London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mathematics in London

Mathematics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mathematics in London.

Hourly rate trend for Mathematics in London

Mathematics
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Mathematics in London over the 6 months to 3 July 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 3 July 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 +7 25 £750 +23.71% 222
South London +2 4 £738 -7.81% 29
West London +8 2 £500 -24.53% 29
Mathematics
England

Mathematics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 33 (17.46%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.23%) Apache
2 8 (4.23%) GemFire
2 8 (4.23%) Oracle Coherence
3 4 (2.12%) SAS
4 2 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.06%) Luigi
5 1 (0.53%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 25 (13.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.53%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (1.59%) Bankmaster
Cloud Services
1 53 (28.04%) Azure
2 44 (23.28%) AWS
3 21 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (5.29%) Power Platform
5 6 (3.17%) GCP
6 3 (1.59%) Amazon SageMaker
6 3 (1.59%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (1.06%) GitHub
7 2 (1.06%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.06%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.53%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.53%) Google Docs
8 1 (0.53%) Google Sheets
8 1 (0.53%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.17%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.06%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.58%) Hadoop
2 19 (10.05%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (8.47%) Redis
4 14 (7.41%) Big Data
4 14 (7.41%) Relational Database
5 10 (5.29%) Power BI
5 10 (5.29%) SQL Server
6 8 (4.23%) NoSQL
6 8 (4.23%) Tableau
7 7 (3.70%) Apache Hive
8 6 (3.17%) Data Mining
9 5 (2.65%) Geospatial Data
9 5 (2.65%) GIS
9 5 (2.65%) QGIS
10 3 (1.59%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.59%) MySQL
11 2 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.06%) Metadata
12 1 (0.53%) Kdb+
12 1 (0.53%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 27 (14.29%) Git
2 7 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.65%) MLflow
4 4 (2.12%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.53%) Gradle
5 1 (0.53%) JIRA
5 1 (0.53%) JUnit
5 1 (0.53%) Maven
5 1 (0.53%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.53%) Mockito
5 1 (0.53%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.53%) TensorBoard
5 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 101 (53.44%) Finance
2 73 (38.62%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (35.45%) Banking
3 67 (35.45%) Social Skills
4 52 (27.51%) Investment Banking
5 37 (19.58%) Front Office
6 8 (4.23%) Financial Institution
6 8 (4.23%) Marketing
7 6 (3.17%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.65%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.59%) Games
10 3 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.53%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.53%) Legal
12 1 (0.53%) Social Housing
12 1 (0.53%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 101 (53.44%) Developer
2 32 (16.93%) Java Developer
3 29 (15.34%) Analyst
4 27 (14.29%) Python Developer
5 25 (13.23%) Senior
6 23 (12.17%) Quantitative Developer
7 22 (11.64%) Data Scientist
8 21 (11.11%) Lead
9 17 (8.99%) Lead Developer
10 16 (8.47%) Lead Java Developer
11 15 (7.94%) C# Developer
11 15 (7.94%) Qualitative Analyst
11 15 (7.94%) Quantitative Analyst
12 14 (7.41%) Senior Developer
13 13 (6.88%) AWS Developer
13 13 (6.88%) JavaScript Developer
14 11 (5.82%) Senior Java Developer
15 10 (5.29%) Data Engineer
16 9 (4.76%) Front Office Developer
17 8 (4.23%) Senior Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (13.76%) Pandas
2 23 (12.17%) AngularJS
3 22 (11.64%) Kafka
4 18 (9.52%) NumPy
5 16 (8.47%) ActiveMQ
5 16 (8.47%) SciPy
6 15 (7.94%) FastAPI
6 15 (7.94%) Flask
6 15 (7.94%) Polars
6 15 (7.94%) React
6 15 (7.94%) Vue
7 13 (6.88%) TensorFlow
8 12 (6.35%) .NET
9 11 (5.82%) PySpark
10 8 (4.23%) ASP.NET
10 8 (4.23%) Spark Streaming
11 6 (3.17%) Middleware
11 6 (3.17%) PyTorch
11 6 (3.17%) scikit-learn
11 6 (3.17%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 46 (24.34%) Derivative
2 25 (13.23%) Algorithms
3 23 (12.17%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 19 (10.05%) Distributed Computing
6 18 (9.52%) Equities
6 18 (9.52%) Equity Derivative
7 16 (8.47%) Hedge funds
7 16 (8.47%) Market Risk
8 9 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (4.23%) Data Structures
9 8 (4.23%) Fixed Income
10 7 (3.70%) Multi-touch
11 6 (3.17%) Credit Risk
12 4 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (1.59%) Animation
13 3 (1.59%) Grid Computing
13 3 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
14 2 (1.06%) FMCG
14 2 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.52%) Linux
2 1 (0.53%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (41.27%) Computer Science
2 58 (30.69%) Problem-Solving
3 42 (22.22%) Risk Management
4 40 (21.16%) CI/CD
4 40 (21.16%) Software Engineering
5 38 (20.11%) Agile
6 37 (19.58%) Machine Learning
7 36 (19.05%) Analytics
7 36 (19.05%) Data Science
8 31 (16.40%) Statistics
9 29 (15.34%) DevOps
9 29 (15.34%) Economics
10 28 (14.81%) Data Analysis
10 28 (14.81%) Physics
11 27 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
12 26 (13.76%) Data Engineering
13 22 (11.64%) Greeks
14 20 (10.58%) Artificial Intelligence
14 20 (10.58%) BDD
14 20 (10.58%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 132 (69.84%) Python
2 64 (33.86%) SQL
3 59 (31.22%) Java
4 52 (27.51%) C++
5 35 (18.52%) C#
6 18 (9.52%) R
7 15 (7.94%) JavaScript
8 14 (7.41%) Rust
9 4 (2.12%) Haskell
9 4 (2.12%) MATLAB
9 4 (2.12%) VBA
10 2 (1.06%) Scala
10 2 (1.06%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.53%) Bash
11 1 (0.53%) C
11 1 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.53%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.53%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 108 (57.14%) Degree
2 42 (22.22%) Numerate Degree
3 35 (18.52%) Master's Degree
4 25 (13.23%) PhD
5 14 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.59%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.06%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.17%) QA
3 3 (1.59%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (1.59%) NIST
4 2 (1.06%) Basel II
4 2 (1.06%) SLA
5 1 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.53%) GDPR
System Software
1 21 (11.11%) Docker
2 8 (4.23%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 18 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.06%) Kubeflow
2 2 (1.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (5.29%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.76%) Oracle
3 8 (4.23%) Databricks
4 5 (2.65%) Google
5 2 (1.06%) Spotify
6 1 (0.53%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.53%) FIS
6 1 (0.53%) Siebel
6 1 (0.53%) WorldPay