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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 188 232
Rank change year-on-year -107 +44 -14
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 152 189 164
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.76% 1.39% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 1.51% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 124 113
10th Percentile £423 £438 £329
25th Percentile £544 £537 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £750 £638
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +17.65% -12.07%
75th Percentile £788 £791 £825
90th Percentile £850 £1,044 £875
England median daily rate £550 £700 £550
% change year-on-year -21.43% +27.27% -18.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 13
10th Percentile - £25.17 £13.20
25th Percentile £19.03 £28.79 £20.98
Median hourly rate £36.00 £43.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% -13.86% -71.14%
75th Percentile £56.25 £56.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £64.88 £60.75 £68.75
England median hourly rate £24.00 £15.14 £15.79
% change year-on-year +58.52% -4.12% -4.74%

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 17,688 12,531 14,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.00% 92.21% 88.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,675 8,382 10,562
10th Percentile £363 £329 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 239 238
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £21.13
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -11.76% -20.93%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £53.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.35 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -8.32%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 13 £778 +17.36% 38
West London -9 7 £737 +47.30% 9
North London - 1 - - 2
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 6 (3.95%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.32%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.66%) IIS
4 1 (0.66%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (3.29%) CPLEX
2 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.32%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.97%) Aladdin
1 3 (1.97%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 40 (26.32%) AWS
2 19 (12.50%) Azure
3 14 (9.21%) GCP
4 10 (6.58%) Power Platform
4 10 (6.58%) Snowflake
5 6 (3.95%) Amazon Bedrock
5 6 (3.95%) Amazon SageMaker
6 5 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (3.29%) SaaS
6 5 (3.29%) Serverless
7 4 (2.63%) Amazon S3
7 4 (2.63%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.97%) dbt
8 3 (1.97%) GitHub
8 3 (1.97%) Google Gemini
9 2 (1.32%) AWS KMS
10 1 (0.66%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.66%) Amazon Neptune
10 1 (0.66%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.55%) MongoDB
2 10 (6.58%) Power BI
3 9 (5.92%) SQL Server
4 7 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.95%) Tableau
6 4 (2.63%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.97%) Big Data
7 3 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.32%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.32%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.32%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.32%) Power Query
8 2 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.66%) DataStage
9 1 (0.66%) Kdb+
9 1 (0.66%) Looker
9 1 (0.66%) Metadata
9 1 (0.66%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.66%) Stardog
9 1 (0.66%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 15 (9.87%) Git
2 3 (1.97%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.32%) GitLab
3 2 (1.32%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio
General
1 54 (35.53%) Social Skills
2 53 (34.87%) Finance
3 49 (32.24%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (17.11%) Banking
5 19 (12.50%) Front Office
6 12 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (7.24%) Investment Banking
7 11 (7.24%) Marketing
7 11 (7.24%) Public Sector
8 7 (4.61%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (4.61%) Retail
9 4 (2.63%) Aviation
9 4 (2.63%) Legal
9 4 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.97%) Advertising
10 3 (1.97%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.32%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (22.37%) Data Scientist
2 32 (21.05%) Senior
3 30 (19.74%) Developer
4 16 (10.53%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 14 (9.21%) Analyst
6 13 (8.55%) Data Engineer
7 12 (7.89%) C# Developer
7 12 (7.89%) Quantitative Developer
8 11 (7.24%) Senior Data Scientist
8 11 (7.24%) Software Engineer
9 10 (6.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 9 (5.92%) Java Engineer
11 8 (5.26%) Lead
11 8 (5.26%) Python Developer
11 8 (5.26%) Senior Data Engineer
12 7 (4.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 7 (4.61%) Data Analyst
13 5 (3.29%) Business Analyst
13 5 (3.29%) Junior
13 5 (3.29%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.24%) React
2 10 (6.58%) Kafka
3 9 (5.92%) LangGraph
3 9 (5.92%) Pandas
4 7 (4.61%) .NET
4 7 (4.61%) LangChain
5 6 (3.95%) NumPy
5 6 (3.95%) PyTorch
5 6 (3.95%) XML
6 5 (3.29%) FastAPI
6 5 (3.29%) Model Context Protocol
7 4 (2.63%) scikit-learn
7 4 (2.63%) TensorFlow
7 4 (2.63%) Web Services
8 3 (1.97%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.97%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (1.97%) JSON
8 3 (1.97%) JSON Schema
8 3 (1.97%) pydantic
9 2 (1.32%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 24 (15.79%) Algorithms
2 23 (15.13%) Derivative
3 17 (11.18%) Cloud Native
4 15 (9.87%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (8.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (6.58%) AI Agents
6 10 (6.58%) Fixed Income
7 8 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (5.26%) Data Structures
7 8 (5.26%) Equities
7 8 (5.26%) Product Ownership
8 7 (4.61%) Onboarding
9 6 (3.95%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (3.95%) Hedge funds
10 5 (3.29%) Exotic Derivative
10 5 (3.29%) Management Information System
10 5 (3.29%) OTC Derivatives
11 4 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.97%) Credit Risk
12 3 (1.97%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.61%) Linux
2 2 (1.32%) Windows
3 1 (0.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (49.34%) Computer Science
2 63 (41.45%) AI
3 61 (40.13%) Machine Learning
4 52 (34.21%) Data Science
5 49 (32.24%) Decision-Making
6 48 (31.58%) Analytics
7 45 (29.61%) Software Engineering
8 44 (28.95%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (25.66%) Statistics
10 28 (18.42%) Physics
11 27 (17.76%) Data Engineering
12 25 (16.45%) Data Pipeline
12 25 (16.45%) LLM
13 24 (15.79%) Agile
13 24 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (15.13%) Asset Management
14 23 (15.13%) Validation
15 18 (11.84%) Full-Stack Development
16 17 (11.18%) CI/CD
16 17 (11.18%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 106 (69.74%) Python
2 45 (29.61%) SQL
3 24 (15.79%) Java
4 17 (11.18%) C++
5 15 (9.87%) C#
6 14 (9.21%) R
7 5 (3.29%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.97%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.32%) Bash
9 2 (1.32%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.32%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.66%) C
10 1 (0.66%) Cypher
10 1 (0.66%) Gremlin
10 1 (0.66%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.66%) SHACL
10 1 (0.66%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 82 (53.95%) Degree
2 28 (18.42%) Master's Degree
3 27 (17.76%) PhD
4 22 (14.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (5.26%) Security Cleared
6 7 (4.61%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.97%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (1.32%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.66%) MBA
9 1 (0.66%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.66%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.66%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.24%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.29%) QA
3 2 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.66%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (3.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.63%) Kubernetes
1 4 (2.63%) Terraform
2 1 (0.66%) Grafana
2 1 (0.66%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (6.58%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.95%) Databricks
3 4 (2.63%) Google
3 4 (2.63%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.97%) Alteryx
4 3 (1.97%) Charles River
4 3 (1.97%) Murex
5 2 (1.32%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.32%) Citrix
5 2 (1.32%) Oracle
6 1 (0.66%) Calypso
6 1 (0.66%) Greenplum
6 1 (0.66%) Netezza
6 1 (0.66%) Plaid
6 1 (0.66%) Reuters
6 1 (0.66%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.66%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.66%) Teradata