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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 193 247
Rank change year-on-year -90 +54 -35
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 158 180 153
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.79% 1.35% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 1.45% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 117 111
10th Percentile £415 £425 £329
25th Percentile £544 £538 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £725 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -7.14%
75th Percentile £791 £806 £831
90th Percentile £891 £1,000 £875
England median daily rate £550 £700 £540
% change year-on-year -21.43% +29.63% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 8
10th Percentile - £25.17 £38.05
25th Percentile £19.03 £28.79 £45.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £43.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% -13.86% -57.56%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.25 £52.25
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% -3.08%

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 17,874 12,372 14,467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.11% 92.51% 88.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,706 8,225 9,980
10th Percentile £360 £325 £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 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.74% -2.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 254 190
10th Percentile £17.25 £16.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.75 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +15.47% -12.78% -11.88%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.44 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.31
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 25 August 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 25 August 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 25 August 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 -30 14 £755 +0.67% 41
West London -14 6 £725 - 35
North London - 1 - - 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 4 (2.53%) Apache Spark
1 4 (2.53%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.90%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.63%) IIS
3 1 (0.63%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (3.16%) 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 36 (22.78%) AWS
2 20 (12.66%) Azure
3 15 (9.49%) GCP
4 10 (6.33%) Power Platform
5 8 (5.06%) Snowflake
6 7 (4.43%) Amazon Bedrock
6 7 (4.43%) Amazon SageMaker
7 5 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (3.16%) SaaS
7 5 (3.16%) Serverless
8 4 (2.53%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.53%) Anthropic Claude
8 4 (2.53%) GitHub
9 3 (1.90%) dbt
9 3 (1.90%) Google Gemini
10 2 (1.27%) Adobe Analytics
10 2 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.63%) Zapier
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.33%) Power BI
1 10 (6.33%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.06%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.80%) Tableau
4 5 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.53%) Data Mining
5 4 (2.53%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.53%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.90%) Big Data
7 2 (1.27%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.27%) KDB
7 2 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.27%) Power Query
7 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.27%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.63%) Looker
8 1 (0.63%) Metadata
8 1 (0.63%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.63%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 13 (8.23%) Git
2 2 (1.27%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.27%) JIRA
2 2 (1.27%) Selenium
3 1 (0.63%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 57 (36.08%) Analytical Skills
1 57 (36.08%) Social Skills
2 55 (34.81%) Finance
3 27 (17.09%) Banking
4 25 (15.82%) Front Office
5 12 (7.59%) Public Sector
6 11 (6.96%) Investment Banking
7 10 (6.33%) Marketing
8 9 (5.70%) Retail
9 8 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (2.53%) Aviation
11 4 (2.53%) Legal
11 4 (2.53%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.90%) Advertising
13 2 (1.27%) Back Office
13 2 (1.27%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (23.42%) Developer
2 32 (20.25%) Data Scientist
2 32 (20.25%) Senior
3 17 (10.76%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 15 (9.49%) Analyst
5 14 (8.86%) Quantitative Developer
6 13 (8.23%) C# Developer
7 11 (6.96%) Python Developer
8 10 (6.33%) Data Engineer
8 10 (6.33%) Senior Data Scientist
9 9 (5.70%) Software Engineer
10 7 (4.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 7 (4.43%) Data Analyst
10 7 (4.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 7 (4.43%) Java Engineer
10 7 (4.43%) Senior Developer
11 5 (3.16%) Lead
11 5 (3.16%) Senior Data Engineer
12 4 (2.53%) Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (2.53%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.96%) .NET
1 11 (6.96%) React
2 9 (5.70%) LangGraph
3 7 (4.43%) Kafka
3 7 (4.43%) LangChain
3 7 (4.43%) Pandas
4 6 (3.80%) FastAPI
4 6 (3.80%) PyTorch
5 5 (3.16%) Model Context Protocol
5 5 (3.16%) NumPy
5 5 (3.16%) XML
6 4 (2.53%) Terraform
7 3 (1.90%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.90%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.90%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (1.90%) JSON
7 3 (1.90%) JSON Schema
7 3 (1.90%) scikit-learn
7 3 (1.90%) TensorFlow
7 3 (1.90%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.46%) Algorithms
2 25 (15.82%) Derivative
3 15 (9.49%) Cloud Native
3 15 (9.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 14 (8.86%) Equities
5 12 (7.59%) Fixed Income
6 11 (6.96%) AI Agents
7 10 (6.33%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (5.70%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (5.06%) Data Structures
10 7 (4.43%) Product Ownership
11 5 (3.16%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (3.16%) Exotic Derivative
11 5 (3.16%) Hedge funds
11 5 (3.16%) OTC Derivatives
12 4 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (2.53%) Management Information System
12 4 (2.53%) Onboarding
13 3 (1.90%) Educational Technology
13 3 (1.90%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.16%) Windows
2 4 (2.53%) Linux
3 2 (1.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (45.57%) Computer Science
2 66 (41.77%) AI
3 61 (38.61%) Machine Learning
4 54 (34.18%) Data Science
5 51 (32.28%) Analytics
5 51 (32.28%) Decision-Making
6 49 (31.01%) Software Engineering
7 47 (29.75%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (25.95%) Statistics
9 32 (20.25%) Physics
10 28 (17.72%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (15.82%) Validation
12 24 (15.19%) Data Pipeline
13 23 (14.56%) Agile
13 23 (14.56%) Data Engineering
13 23 (14.56%) LLM
14 16 (10.13%) Applied Mathematics
14 16 (10.13%) CI/CD
14 16 (10.13%) Visualisation
15 15 (9.49%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 110 (69.62%) Python
2 44 (27.85%) SQL
3 21 (13.29%) C++
4 20 (12.66%) C#
5 17 (10.76%) Java
6 15 (9.49%) R
7 7 (4.43%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.90%) Bash
8 3 (1.90%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.90%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.27%) C
9 2 (1.27%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.63%) Cypher
10 1 (0.63%) Gremlin
10 1 (0.63%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.63%) Perl
10 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.63%) Scala
10 1 (0.63%) SHACL
10 1 (0.63%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 87 (55.06%) Degree
2 26 (16.46%) Master's Degree
3 25 (15.82%) PhD
4 24 (15.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (6.33%) Numerate Degree
6 8 (5.06%) Security Cleared
7 7 (4.43%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.90%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.27%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.63%) MBA
10 1 (0.63%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.33%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.16%) QA
3 3 (1.90%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (5.06%) 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 9 (5.70%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.16%) Databricks
3 4 (2.53%) Google
3 4 (2.53%) OpenAI
3 4 (2.53%) Oracle
4 3 (1.90%) Alteryx
4 3 (1.90%) Murex
5 2 (1.27%) Adobe
5 2 (1.27%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.27%) Charles River
5 2 (1.27%) UiPath
6 1 (0.63%) Calypso
6 1 (0.63%) Citrix
6 1 (0.63%) Plaid
6 1 (0.63%) Reuters
6 1 (0.63%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.63%) Sitecore