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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 205 246
Rank change year-on-year -91 +41 -20
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 154 167 134
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.76% 1.26% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 1.36% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 100 93
10th Percentile £374 £438 £315
25th Percentile £539 £556 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £725 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +26.09% -17.86%
75th Percentile £788 £826 £788
90th Percentile £891 £1,000 £850
England median daily rate £550 £678 £500
% change year-on-year -18.82% +35.50% -23.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 6
10th Percentile - £27.35 £38.42
25th Percentile £19.03 £34.00 £47.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £43.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% -13.86% -18.22%
75th Percentile £56.25 £51.50 £53.25
90th Percentile £62.00 £58.75 £53.75
England median hourly rate £19.03 £16.23 £16.23
% change year-on-year +17.25% - +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 17,996 12,259 14,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.86% 92.58% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,759 8,104 9,616
10th Percentile £359 £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 £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 254 180
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £34.62 £31.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.02% -9.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.44 £48.44 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.02 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.81%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -32 12 £755 +31.30% 105
West London -10 8 £725 - 47
North London - 1 - - 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 (3.25%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.60%) Jupyter
2 4 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.65%) IIS
3 1 (0.65%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (4.55%) CPLEX
2 6 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.30%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.95%) Orchestrade
2 1 (0.65%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.65%) Aligne
2 1 (0.65%) Endur
2 1 (0.65%) ZaiNet
Cloud Services
1 30 (19.48%) AWS
2 20 (12.99%) Azure
3 14 (9.09%) GCP
4 10 (6.49%) Power Platform
5 7 (4.55%) Amazon Bedrock
5 7 (4.55%) Amazon SageMaker
5 7 (4.55%) Snowflake
6 6 (3.90%) GitHub
7 5 (3.25%) Anthropic Claude
7 5 (3.25%) SaaS
8 3 (1.95%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.95%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.95%) dbt
8 3 (1.95%) Google Gemini
8 3 (1.95%) Serverless
9 2 (1.30%) Adobe Analytics
10 1 (0.65%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.65%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.49%) Power BI
3 7 (4.55%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.90%) Tableau
5 5 (3.25%) Data Mining
5 5 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.60%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.95%) Big Data
7 3 (1.95%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.95%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.95%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.30%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.30%) KDB
8 2 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.30%) Power Query
9 1 (0.65%) Kdb+
9 1 (0.65%) Metadata
9 1 (0.65%) Stardog
9 1 (0.65%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 16 (10.39%) Git
2 2 (1.30%) JIRA
2 2 (1.30%) Selenium
3 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.65%) MLflow
3 1 (0.65%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio
General
1 61 (39.61%) Analytical Skills
2 59 (38.31%) Social Skills
3 54 (35.06%) Finance
4 27 (17.53%) Banking
5 23 (14.94%) Front Office
6 12 (7.79%) Public Sector
7 11 (7.14%) Investment Banking
8 9 (5.84%) Marketing
9 8 (5.19%) Retail
10 6 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (3.90%) Manufacturing
11 5 (3.25%) Aviation
11 5 (3.25%) Legal
11 5 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.95%) Advertising
14 2 (1.30%) Back Office
14 2 (1.30%) Financial Institution
14 2 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 33 (21.43%) Developer
2 32 (20.78%) Senior
3 30 (19.48%) Data Scientist
4 17 (11.04%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 16 (10.39%) Analyst
6 13 (8.44%) Quantitative Developer
7 12 (7.79%) C# Developer
8 11 (7.14%) Data Engineer
9 10 (6.49%) Senior Data Scientist
10 9 (5.84%) Software Engineer
11 8 (5.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 8 (5.19%) Data Analyst
11 8 (5.19%) Python Developer
12 7 (4.55%) Senior Developer
13 6 (3.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 5 (3.25%) Java Engineer
14 5 (3.25%) Junior
14 5 (3.25%) Lead
14 5 (3.25%) Senior Data Engineer
15 4 (2.60%) Research Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.79%) .NET
2 10 (6.49%) LangGraph
3 9 (5.84%) React
4 8 (5.19%) LangChain
5 7 (4.55%) Kafka
6 6 (3.90%) Pandas
6 6 (3.90%) PyTorch
7 5 (3.25%) FastAPI
7 5 (3.25%) Model Context Protocol
7 5 (3.25%) NumPy
7 5 (3.25%) XML
8 4 (2.60%) pydantic
9 3 (1.95%) .NET Core
9 3 (1.95%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.95%) ASP.NET
9 3 (1.95%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (1.95%) JSON
9 3 (1.95%) JSON Schema
9 3 (1.95%) Middleware
9 3 (1.95%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (17.53%) Algorithms
2 22 (14.29%) Derivative
3 15 (9.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 13 (8.44%) AI Agents
5 12 (7.79%) Equities
6 11 (7.14%) Cloud Native
7 10 (6.49%) Fixed Income
8 9 (5.84%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (5.84%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (4.55%) Data Structures
9 7 (4.55%) Hedge funds
10 5 (3.25%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (3.25%) Exotic Derivative
10 5 (3.25%) OTC Derivatives
10 5 (3.25%) Product Ownership
11 4 (2.60%) Management Information System
11 4 (2.60%) Onboarding
12 3 (1.95%) e-Learning
12 3 (1.95%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.25%) Windows
2 3 (1.95%) Linux
3 2 (1.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (43.51%) Computer Science
2 65 (42.21%) AI
3 62 (40.26%) Machine Learning
4 54 (35.06%) Data Science
5 52 (33.77%) Analytics
6 50 (32.47%) Software Engineering
7 49 (31.82%) Decision-Making
8 48 (31.17%) Problem-Solving
9 44 (28.57%) Statistics
10 32 (20.78%) Physics
11 28 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (16.88%) LLM
13 25 (16.23%) Validation
14 22 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
15 21 (13.64%) Agile
15 21 (13.64%) Data Engineering
16 16 (10.39%) Actionable Insight
16 16 (10.39%) Applied Mathematics
17 15 (9.74%) Visualisation
18 14 (9.09%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 108 (70.13%) Python
2 41 (26.62%) SQL
3 21 (13.64%) C++
4 20 (12.99%) C#
5 15 (9.74%) Java
5 15 (9.74%) R
6 6 (3.90%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.60%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.95%) Bash
8 3 (1.95%) Scala
8 3 (1.95%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.30%) C
9 2 (1.30%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.65%) Cypher
10 1 (0.65%) Gremlin
10 1 (0.65%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.65%) Perl
10 1 (0.65%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.65%) SHACL
10 1 (0.65%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 84 (54.55%) Degree
2 25 (16.23%) Master's Degree
3 24 (15.58%) PhD
4 21 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (5.84%) Numerate Degree
5 9 (5.84%) Security Cleared
6 8 (5.19%) SC Cleared
7 5 (3.25%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.30%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.65%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.65%) MBA
9 1 (0.65%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.49%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.25%) QA
3 4 (2.60%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.65%) GRC
4 1 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (6.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.65%) Ansible
2 1 (0.65%) Grafana
2 1 (0.65%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (6.49%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.90%) Databricks
3 5 (3.25%) OpenAI
4 4 (2.60%) Google
4 4 (2.60%) Oracle
5 3 (1.95%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.30%) Adobe
6 2 (1.30%) UiPath
6 2 (1.30%) Veritas
7 1 (0.65%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.65%) Calypso
7 1 (0.65%) Citrix
7 1 (0.65%) Foundry
7 1 (0.65%) Mistral
7 1 (0.65%) Murex
7 1 (0.65%) Plaid
7 1 (0.65%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.65%) Sitecore