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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 185 232
Rank change year-on-year -101 +47 -8
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 149 189 166
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.75% 1.39% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 1.51% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 125 115
10th Percentile £422 £418 £329
25th Percentile £544 £537 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £750 £638
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +17.65% -12.07%
75th Percentile £788 £800 £825
90th Percentile £850 £1,042 £875
England median daily rate £550 £700 £556
% change year-on-year -21.43% +25.84% -17.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 14
10th Percentile - £25.17 £13.55
25th Percentile £19.03 £28.79 £20.98
Median hourly rate £36.00 £43.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% -3.33% -74.29%
75th Percentile £46.13 £56.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £67.75 £60.75 £68.75
England median hourly rate £24.00 £15.14 £15.40
% change year-on-year +58.52% -1.66% +12.70%

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 17,625 12,495 14,990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.94% 92.13% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,646 8,354 10,656
10th Percentile £363 £330 £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 £650 £675 £680
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 277 234 247
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £21.05
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.90 £33.55
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -7.89% -21.98%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.98%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -26 13 £778 +17.36% 50
West London -6 7 £737 +47.30% 7
North London - 1 - - 5
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 (4.03%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.68%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.34%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.67%) IIS
4 1 (0.67%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.01%) CPLEX
2 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.34%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.01%) Aladdin
1 3 (2.01%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 40 (26.85%) AWS
2 19 (12.75%) Azure
3 14 (9.40%) GCP
4 10 (6.71%) Power Platform
4 10 (6.71%) Snowflake
5 6 (4.03%) Amazon Bedrock
5 6 (4.03%) Amazon SageMaker
5 6 (4.03%) SaaS
6 5 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (3.36%) Serverless
7 4 (2.68%) Amazon S3
7 4 (2.68%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (2.01%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.01%) dbt
8 3 (2.01%) GitHub
8 3 (2.01%) Google Gemini
9 2 (1.34%) AWS KMS
10 1 (0.67%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.67%) Amazon Neptune
10 1 (0.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.72%) MongoDB
2 10 (6.71%) Power BI
3 9 (6.04%) SQL Server
4 7 (4.70%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.03%) Tableau
6 4 (2.68%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.01%) Big Data
7 3 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.34%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.34%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.34%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.34%) Power Query
8 2 (1.34%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.67%) DataStage
9 1 (0.67%) Kdb+
9 1 (0.67%) Looker
9 1 (0.67%) Metadata
9 1 (0.67%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.67%) Stardog
9 1 (0.67%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 15 (10.07%) Git
2 3 (2.01%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.34%) GitLab
3 2 (1.34%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 54 (36.24%) Social Skills
2 53 (35.57%) Finance
3 47 (31.54%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (17.45%) Banking
5 19 (12.75%) Front Office
6 12 (8.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (8.05%) Marketing
7 11 (7.38%) Investment Banking
7 11 (7.38%) Public Sector
8 7 (4.70%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (4.03%) Retail
10 4 (2.68%) Aviation
10 4 (2.68%) Legal
10 4 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.01%) Advertising
11 3 (2.01%) Manufacturing
11 3 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.34%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (21.48%) Data Scientist
2 31 (20.81%) Senior
3 29 (19.46%) Developer
4 16 (10.74%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 14 (9.40%) Analyst
6 13 (8.72%) Data Engineer
7 12 (8.05%) C# Developer
8 11 (7.38%) Quantitative Developer
8 11 (7.38%) Software Engineer
9 10 (6.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 9 (6.04%) Java Engineer
10 9 (6.04%) Senior Data Scientist
11 8 (5.37%) Lead
11 8 (5.37%) Python Developer
11 8 (5.37%) Senior Data Engineer
12 7 (4.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 7 (4.70%) Data Analyst
13 5 (3.36%) Business Analyst
13 5 (3.36%) Junior
13 5 (3.36%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.38%) React
2 10 (6.71%) Kafka
3 9 (6.04%) LangGraph
3 9 (6.04%) Pandas
4 7 (4.70%) .NET
4 7 (4.70%) LangChain
5 6 (4.03%) NumPy
5 6 (4.03%) PyTorch
5 6 (4.03%) XML
6 5 (3.36%) FastAPI
6 5 (3.36%) Model Context Protocol
7 4 (2.68%) scikit-learn
7 4 (2.68%) TensorFlow
7 4 (2.68%) Web Services
8 3 (2.01%) AngularJS
8 3 (2.01%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (2.01%) JSON
8 3 (2.01%) JSON Schema
8 3 (2.01%) pydantic
9 2 (1.34%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.44%) Algorithms
2 22 (14.77%) Derivative
3 17 (11.41%) Cloud Native
4 15 (10.07%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (8.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (6.71%) AI Agents
6 10 (6.71%) Fixed Income
7 8 (5.37%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (5.37%) Data Structures
7 8 (5.37%) Equities
7 8 (5.37%) Product Ownership
8 7 (4.70%) Onboarding
9 6 (4.03%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (4.03%) Hedge funds
10 5 (3.36%) Management Information System
11 4 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (2.68%) Exotic Derivative
11 4 (2.68%) OTC Derivatives
12 3 (2.01%) Credit Risk
12 3 (2.01%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.70%) Linux
2 2 (1.34%) Windows
3 1 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (48.32%) Computer Science
2 62 (41.61%) AI
3 59 (39.60%) Machine Learning
4 51 (34.23%) Data Science
5 48 (32.21%) Decision-Making
6 46 (30.87%) Analytics
7 44 (29.53%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (29.53%) Software Engineering
8 38 (25.50%) Statistics
9 27 (18.12%) Data Engineering
9 27 (18.12%) Physics
10 25 (16.78%) Data Pipeline
10 25 (16.78%) LLM
11 24 (16.11%) Agile
11 24 (16.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (15.44%) Asset Management
12 23 (15.44%) Validation
13 18 (12.08%) Full-Stack Development
14 17 (11.41%) CI/CD
15 16 (10.74%) Applied Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 103 (69.13%) Python
2 44 (29.53%) SQL
3 23 (15.44%) Java
4 16 (10.74%) C++
5 15 (10.07%) C#
6 14 (9.40%) R
7 5 (3.36%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.01%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.34%) Bash
9 2 (1.34%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.34%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.67%) C
10 1 (0.67%) Cypher
10 1 (0.67%) Gremlin
10 1 (0.67%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.67%) SHACL
10 1 (0.67%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 80 (53.69%) Degree
2 25 (16.78%) Master's Degree
3 24 (16.11%) PhD
4 22 (14.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (5.37%) Security Cleared
6 7 (4.70%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.01%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.67%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.67%) MBA
8 1 (0.67%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.67%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.67%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.38%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.36%) QA
3 1 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.67%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (4.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.68%) Kubernetes
1 4 (2.68%) Terraform
2 1 (0.67%) Grafana
2 1 (0.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (6.71%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.03%) Databricks
3 4 (2.68%) Google
3 4 (2.68%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.01%) Alteryx
4 3 (2.01%) Charles River
4 3 (2.01%) Murex
5 2 (1.34%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.34%) Citrix
5 2 (1.34%) Oracle
6 1 (0.67%) Calypso
6 1 (0.67%) Greenplum
6 1 (0.67%) Netezza
6 1 (0.67%) Plaid
6 1 (0.67%) Reuters
6 1 (0.67%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.67%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.67%) Teradata