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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 215 266
Rank change year-on-year -84 +51 -57
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 163 162 127
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.80% 1.21% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 1.31% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 93 83
10th Percentile £308 £443 £326
25th Percentile £495 £538 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £750 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +36.36% -18.52%
75th Percentile £788 £911 £781
90th Percentile £850 £1,050 £850
England median daily rate £588 £625 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% +25.00% -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 £18.93 £16.23
% change year-on-year +0.55% +16.61% +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 18,262 12,381 14,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.07% 92.48% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,971 8,179 9,290
10th Percentile £358 £334 £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 £668 £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 352 241 177
10th Percentile £15.89 £18.25 £17.40
25th Percentile £18.69 £25.15 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £31.49 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.21% -16.03% -6.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £48.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.13 £65.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £38.13 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +51.59% -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 16 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 16 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 16 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 11 £778 +32.34% 32
West London -14 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 (3.07%) Apache Spark
1 5 (3.07%) Confluence
1 5 (3.07%) Jupyter
2 4 (2.45%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.23%) CMS
3 2 (1.23%) SAS
4 1 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.61%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (5.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.68%) CPLEX
3 5 (3.07%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.45%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (1.84%) Adobe Premiere
5 3 (1.84%) Blender
5 3 (1.84%) Photoshop
6 2 (1.23%) Chatbot
6 2 (1.23%) LaTeX
7 1 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Orchestrade
2 1 (0.61%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.61%) Aligne
2 1 (0.61%) Endur
2 1 (0.61%) ZaiNet
Cloud Services
1 26 (15.95%) AWS
2 22 (13.50%) Azure
3 14 (8.59%) GCP
4 10 (6.13%) Power Platform
5 7 (4.29%) Amazon Bedrock
5 7 (4.29%) Amazon SageMaker
5 7 (4.29%) Anthropic Claude
5 7 (4.29%) GitHub
5 7 (4.29%) Snowflake
6 5 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.07%) SaaS
7 3 (1.84%) dbt
7 3 (1.84%) Google Gemini
8 2 (1.23%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (1.23%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.23%) Azure AI
8 2 (1.23%) Copilot Studio
8 2 (1.23%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.61%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.13%) Power BI
2 8 (4.91%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.29%) Tableau
4 6 (3.68%) Data Mart
4 6 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.07%) Data Mining
5 5 (3.07%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.45%) KDB
6 4 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.84%) Big Data
7 3 (1.84%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.84%) Delta Lake
7 3 (1.84%) Kdb+
7 3 (1.84%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.84%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.84%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.23%) GIS
8 2 (1.23%) MySQL
8 2 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.23%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 20 (12.27%) Git
2 2 (1.23%) JIRA
2 2 (1.23%) MLflow
2 2 (1.23%) 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 69 (42.33%) Analytical Skills
2 61 (37.42%) Social Skills
3 60 (36.81%) Finance
4 29 (17.79%) Banking
5 22 (13.50%) Front Office
6 11 (6.75%) Public Sector
7 10 (6.13%) Investment Banking
8 8 (4.91%) Marketing
8 8 (4.91%) Retail
9 6 (3.68%) Legal
9 6 (3.68%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (3.68%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (3.07%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (2.45%) Aviation
12 3 (1.84%) Advertising
12 3 (1.84%) Games
12 3 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.84%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (1.23%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 38 (23.31%) Senior
2 30 (18.40%) Data Scientist
3 28 (17.18%) Developer
4 18 (11.04%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 17 (10.43%) Analyst
6 12 (7.36%) Senior Data Scientist
7 10 (6.13%) Data Engineer
7 10 (6.13%) Quantitative Developer
7 10 (6.13%) Software Engineer
8 9 (5.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 8 (4.91%) C# Developer
9 8 (4.91%) Data Analyst
9 8 (4.91%) Senior Developer
10 7 (4.29%) Python Engineer
11 5 (3.07%) Consultant
11 5 (3.07%) Gen AI Engineer
11 5 (3.07%) Junior
11 5 (3.07%) Murex Consultant
11 5 (3.07%) Python Developer
11 5 (3.07%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.75%) LangGraph
2 10 (6.13%) .NET
3 9 (5.52%) LangChain
3 9 (5.52%) PyTorch
4 6 (3.68%) Kafka
4 6 (3.68%) React
5 5 (3.07%) ADO
5 5 (3.07%) FastAPI
5 5 (3.07%) Model Context Protocol
5 5 (3.07%) NumPy
5 5 (3.07%) pydantic
5 5 (3.07%) XML
6 4 (2.45%) Murex Flex
6 4 (2.45%) Pandas
6 4 (2.45%) Terraform
6 4 (2.45%) XGBoost
7 3 (1.84%) .NET Core
7 3 (1.84%) JSON Schema
7 3 (1.84%) scikit-learn
7 3 (1.84%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 25 (15.34%) Algorithms
2 21 (12.88%) Derivative
3 16 (9.82%) AI Agents
3 16 (9.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 12 (7.36%) Equities
5 11 (6.75%) Market Risk
6 10 (6.13%) Fixed Income
7 9 (5.52%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (5.52%) Credit Risk
8 8 (4.91%) Cloud Native
8 8 (4.91%) Hedge funds
9 6 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (3.07%) Data Structures
10 5 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (3.07%) Exotic Derivative
10 5 (3.07%) OTC Derivatives
10 5 (3.07%) Product Ownership
11 4 (2.45%) Management Information System
11 4 (2.45%) Onboarding
12 3 (1.84%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.91%) Linux
1 8 (4.91%) Unix
2 5 (3.07%) Windows
3 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (43.56%) Computer Science
2 68 (41.72%) AI
3 63 (38.65%) Machine Learning
4 58 (35.58%) Data Science
5 51 (31.29%) Analytics
5 51 (31.29%) Software Engineering
6 50 (30.67%) Statistics
7 49 (30.06%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (26.99%) Decision-Making
9 32 (19.63%) Physics
10 31 (19.02%) LLM
11 30 (18.40%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (17.79%) Validation
13 23 (14.11%) Data Engineering
13 23 (14.11%) Risk Management
14 21 (12.88%) Data Pipeline
15 20 (12.27%) Agile
15 20 (12.27%) Applied Mathematics
16 18 (11.04%) Stakeholder Management
17 17 (10.43%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 109 (66.87%) Python
2 44 (26.99%) SQL
3 19 (11.66%) C++
4 16 (9.82%) C#
5 14 (8.59%) R
6 12 (7.36%) Java
7 8 (4.91%) Bash
8 4 (2.45%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.45%) Scala
8 4 (2.45%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.23%) C
10 1 (0.61%) Bicep
10 1 (0.61%) Cypher
10 1 (0.61%) Gremlin
10 1 (0.61%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.61%) Perl
10 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.61%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.61%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 90 (55.21%) Degree
2 29 (17.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (15.34%) Master's Degree
4 24 (14.72%) PhD
5 11 (6.75%) Security Cleared
6 10 (6.13%) SC Cleared
7 9 (5.52%) Numerate Degree
8 7 (4.29%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.84%) Postgraduate
10 2 (1.23%) 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 14 (8.59%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.07%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (2.45%) QA
4 2 (1.23%) 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 (7.98%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 7 (4.29%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.07%) 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 (8.59%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.91%) Databricks
3 7 (4.29%) Google
3 7 (4.29%) OpenAI
4 6 (3.68%) Murex
5 5 (3.07%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.45%) Veritas
7 3 (1.84%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.84%) Oracle
8 2 (1.23%) Adobe
8 2 (1.23%) Foundry
8 2 (1.23%) Mistral
8 2 (1.23%) UiPath
9 1 (0.61%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.61%) Calypso
9 1 (0.61%) Cisco
9 1 (0.61%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.61%) Plaid
9 1 (0.61%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.61%) Tripwire