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 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 249 226
Rank change year-on-year +13 -23 -3
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 147 118 177
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.02% 0.82% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 0.91% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 71 133
10th Percentile £421 £341 £450
25th Percentile £538 £432 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £1,000 £834 £750
90th Percentile £1,090 £874 £948
England median daily rate £650 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +23.81% -12.50% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 8
10th Percentile £39.86 £22.00 £35.30
25th Percentile £40.26 £30.59 £42.50
Median hourly rate £42.12 £39.00 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +7.99% -22.39% -8.64%
75th Percentile £44.03 £53.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £44.46 - £62.58
England median hourly rate £26.96 £16.23 £14.16
% change year-on-year +66.10% +14.62% -75.10%

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 13,162 12,979 16,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.50% 90.20% 89.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,695 8,307 11,622
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 163 246
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.13 £17.11
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.45 £35.00 £32.60
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +7.38% -13.08%
75th Percentile £53.75 £54.50 £57.88
90th Percentile £69.12 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%

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 3 January 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
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 3 January 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 -7 16 £650 +18.18% 34
East London - 6 £1,000 - 3
South London - 4 £750 - 7
West London -17 1 - - 8
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 11 (7.48%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.40%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.36%) SAS
4 1 (0.68%) Apache
4 1 (0.68%) Apache Pig
4 1 (0.68%) Luigi
4 1 (0.68%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (11.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.36%) Adobe Premiere
2 2 (1.36%) Blender
2 2 (1.36%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.68%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.68%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 34 (23.13%) AWS
2 24 (16.33%) Azure
3 10 (6.80%) Power Platform
4 8 (5.44%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (4.08%) Amazon S3
6 6 (4.08%) GCP
6 6 (4.08%) GitHub
7 5 (3.40%) Azure Machine Learning
7 5 (3.40%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.72%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (2.72%) IaaS
8 4 (2.72%) Serverless
9 3 (2.04%) Amazon Bedrock
9 3 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (2.04%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.04%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.36%) 3GPP
1 2 (1.36%) HTTP
1 2 (1.36%) Intelligent Network
1 2 (1.36%) Wireless
2 1 (0.68%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.48%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.80%) Power BI
3 6 (4.08%) MongoDB
3 6 (4.08%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.40%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.40%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.72%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (2.04%) Big Data
6 3 (2.04%) KDB
6 3 (2.04%) Kdb+
7 2 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.36%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.36%) Metadata
8 1 (0.68%) AllegroGraph
8 1 (0.68%) Azkaban
8 1 (0.68%) CrateDB
8 1 (0.68%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 28 (19.05%) Git
2 5 (3.40%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.40%) TeamCity
2 5 (3.40%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.36%) Maven
3 2 (1.36%) MSBuild
3 2 (1.36%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.68%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.68%) ERwin
4 1 (0.68%) GitLab
4 1 (0.68%) JIRA
4 1 (0.68%) QUnit
4 1 (0.68%) RStudio
General
1 83 (56.46%) Finance
2 48 (32.65%) Front Office
3 45 (30.61%) Banking
4 36 (24.49%) Social Skills
5 29 (19.73%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (19.73%) Investment Banking
6 18 (12.24%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.72%) Marketing
8 3 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.36%) Back Office
9 2 (1.36%) Games
9 2 (1.36%) Law
9 2 (1.36%) Military
9 2 (1.36%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.36%) Retail
9 2 (1.36%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.68%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 70 (47.62%) Developer
2 27 (18.37%) Senior
3 25 (17.01%) Quantitative Developer
4 22 (14.97%) Python Developer
5 17 (11.56%) Senior Developer
6 16 (10.88%) Analyst
7 14 (9.52%) Data Scientist
8 12 (8.16%) AWS Developer
8 12 (8.16%) JavaScript Developer
9 9 (6.12%) C++ Developer
10 8 (5.44%) Senior C++ Developer
11 7 (4.76%) C# Developer
11 7 (4.76%) Qualitative Analyst
11 7 (4.76%) Quantitative Analyst
12 6 (4.08%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 5 (3.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 5 (3.40%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
13 5 (3.40%) Data Engineer
14 4 (2.72%) Lead
14 4 (2.72%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (17.69%) Pandas
2 23 (15.65%) NumPy
3 18 (12.24%) SciPy
4 15 (10.20%) React
5 13 (8.84%) FastAPI
5 13 (8.84%) Flask
5 13 (8.84%) Vue
6 12 (8.16%) AngularJS
6 12 (8.16%) Polars
7 10 (6.80%) Kafka
8 7 (4.76%) .NET
8 7 (4.76%) scikit-learn
9 6 (4.08%) Dask
9 6 (4.08%) REST
10 5 (3.40%) Hugging Face
10 5 (3.40%) LangChain
10 5 (3.40%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (3.40%) RESTful
10 5 (3.40%) Web Services
11 4 (2.72%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 43 (29.25%) Derivative
2 40 (27.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 38 (25.85%) Algorithms
4 28 (19.05%) Equities
5 25 (17.01%) Hedge funds
6 22 (14.97%) Equity Derivative
7 17 (11.56%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (8.84%) Distributed Computing
8 13 (8.84%) Fixed Income
9 11 (7.48%) Cloud Native
9 11 (7.48%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (4.08%) Data Structures
11 5 (3.40%) Data Fabric
12 4 (2.72%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (2.04%) AI Agents
13 3 (2.04%) Multi-touch
14 2 (1.36%) Credit Risk
14 2 (1.36%) Product Ownership
14 2 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
14 2 (1.36%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 27 (18.37%) Linux
2 9 (6.12%) Windows
3 4 (2.72%) Unix
4 2 (1.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (38.10%) Computer Science
2 45 (30.61%) CI/CD
3 39 (26.53%) Risk Management
4 35 (23.81%) Physics
5 34 (23.13%) Data Pipeline
5 34 (23.13%) Machine Learning
6 31 (21.09%) Analytics
6 31 (21.09%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (21.09%) Software Engineering
7 30 (20.41%) Data Science
7 30 (20.41%) Quantitative Finance
8 27 (18.37%) AI
9 23 (15.65%) Agile
10 21 (14.29%) Data Engineering
10 21 (14.29%) Decision-Making
11 20 (13.61%) Statistics
11 20 (13.61%) Validation
12 19 (12.93%) Systematic Trading
13 18 (12.24%) DevOps
14 17 (11.56%) Model Validation
Programming Languages
1 108 (73.47%) Python
2 55 (37.41%) C++
3 47 (31.97%) C#
4 31 (21.09%) SQL
5 21 (14.29%) Java
6 18 (12.24%) JavaScript
7 13 (8.84%) Rust
8 7 (4.76%) R
9 5 (3.40%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.72%) Bash
10 4 (2.72%) VBA
11 2 (1.36%) C
11 2 (1.36%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.36%) VC++
12 1 (0.68%) Go
12 1 (0.68%) Scala
Qualifications
1 79 (53.74%) Degree
2 33 (22.45%) Master's Degree
3 25 (17.01%) PhD
4 18 (12.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (11.56%) Numerate Degree
6 6 (4.08%) MCP
7 4 (2.72%) Postgraduate
7 4 (2.72%) Security Cleared
8 3 (2.04%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.68%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.40%) SLA
2 4 (2.72%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.72%) EMIR
2 4 (2.72%) QA
3 2 (1.36%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.68%) Basel III
4 1 (0.68%) GDPR
4 1 (0.68%) IFRS
4 1 (0.68%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 29 (19.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (15.65%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.72%) Puppet
3 3 (2.04%) Ansible
3 3 (2.04%) Grafana
3 3 (2.04%) Terraform
4 2 (1.36%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.68%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 7 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.40%) Sophis
3 4 (2.72%) Databricks
3 4 (2.72%) Dataiku
3 4 (2.72%) Foundry
3 4 (2.72%) Google
3 4 (2.72%) Oracle
4 3 (2.04%) PagerDuty
4 3 (2.04%) Palantir
5 2 (1.36%) IBM
6 1 (0.68%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.68%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.68%) Charles River
6 1 (0.68%) Citrix
6 1 (0.68%) Informatica
6 1 (0.68%) Murex
6 1 (0.68%) SnapLogic
6 1 (0.68%) Splunk
6 1 (0.68%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.68%) Zoomdata