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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 197 221
Rank change year-on-year -69 +24 -3
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 136 164 184
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.78% 1.29% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 1.40% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 110 125
10th Percentile £425 £374 £405
25th Percentile £519 £516 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £750 £638
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +17.65% -17.74%
75th Percentile £888 £863 £801
90th Percentile £1,050 £1,025 £875
England median daily rate £550 £725 £595
% change year-on-year -24.14% +21.85% -17.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 23
10th Percentile - £22.00 £13.20
25th Percentile - £23.08 £20.98
Median hourly rate - £34.41 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - -23.53% +9.09%
75th Percentile - £51.25 £57.75
90th Percentile - £56.25 £71.75
England median hourly rate £21.76 £16.23 £14.80
% change year-on-year +34.07% +9.66% -27.70%

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 15,459 11,674 15,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 91.93% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,346 7,928 11,348
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £684 £675
90th Percentile £756 £800 £799
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 166 336
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £15.97
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.64 £19.98
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +15.25% -22.83%
75th Percentile £56.99 £50.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.65 £63.50 £66.88
England median hourly rate £41.86 £31.64 £34.21
% change year-on-year +32.29% -7.51% -6.66%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 -27 14 £675 -10.00% 45
West London -21 6 £773 +54.60% 7
South London - 2 £525 - 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 9 (6.62%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.21%) Jupyter
2 3 (2.21%) SAS
3 1 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.74%) Confluence
3 1 (0.74%) IIS
3 1 (0.74%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 10 (7.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.47%) CPLEX
2 2 (1.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.47%) Aladdin
1 2 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.74%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.74%) IntelliMatch
2 1 (0.74%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 30 (22.06%) AWS
2 19 (13.97%) Azure
3 9 (6.62%) Amazon S3
4 7 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (5.15%) Serverless
5 6 (4.41%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (3.68%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (3.68%) Azure Machine Learning
6 5 (3.68%) GCP
6 5 (3.68%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.94%) SaaS
7 4 (2.94%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.21%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.21%) Azure AI
8 3 (2.21%) GitHub
8 3 (2.21%) IaaS
9 2 (1.47%) AWS KMS
9 2 (1.47%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.47%) 3GPP
1 2 (1.47%) HTTP
1 2 (1.47%) Intelligent Network
1 2 (1.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.35%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (6.62%) MongoDB
3 8 (5.88%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.68%) Power BI
5 4 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.21%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.47%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.74%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.74%) KDB
8 1 (0.74%) Kdb+
8 1 (0.74%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.74%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.74%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.74%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (13.24%) Git
2 6 (4.41%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.21%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.47%) GitLab
4 2 (1.47%) JIRA
4 2 (1.47%) MSBuild
4 2 (1.47%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (1.47%) TeamCity
General
1 72 (52.94%) Finance
2 42 (30.88%) Social Skills
3 34 (25.00%) Front Office
4 33 (24.26%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (22.79%) Banking
6 16 (11.76%) Investment Banking
7 11 (8.09%) Marketing
8 9 (6.62%) Financial Institution
8 9 (6.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (4.41%) Retail
11 4 (2.94%) Aviation
12 3 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (2.21%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.47%) Legal
13 2 (1.47%) Public Sector
13 2 (1.47%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.74%) Advertising
14 1 (0.74%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.74%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 43 (31.62%) Developer
2 30 (22.06%) Senior
3 25 (18.38%) Data Scientist
4 17 (12.50%) Analyst
5 16 (11.76%) Python Developer
6 15 (11.03%) Quantitative Developer
7 10 (7.35%) Lead
7 10 (7.35%) Senior Data Scientist
8 9 (6.62%) Data Engineer
8 9 (6.62%) Senior Developer
9 8 (5.88%) Java Engineer
9 8 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (5.15%) C# Developer
10 7 (5.15%) C++ Developer
11 6 (4.41%) Business Analyst
11 6 (4.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 6 (4.41%) Lead Data Scientist
11 6 (4.41%) Senior C++ Developer
12 5 (3.68%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (3.68%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.97%) Pandas
2 15 (11.03%) NumPy
3 10 (7.35%) React
4 9 (6.62%) Kafka
5 8 (5.88%) PyTorch
5 8 (5.88%) SciPy
5 8 (5.88%) TensorFlow
6 7 (5.15%) Model Context Protocol
6 7 (5.15%) scikit-learn
7 6 (4.41%) .NET
8 5 (3.68%) LangChain
9 4 (2.94%) AngularJS
9 4 (2.94%) Dask
9 4 (2.94%) FastAPI
9 4 (2.94%) LangGraph
9 4 (2.94%) Polars
9 4 (2.94%) Web Services
10 3 (2.21%) Django
10 3 (2.21%) FIX Protocol
10 3 (2.21%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (19.85%) Derivative
2 25 (18.38%) Algorithms
2 25 (18.38%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (15.44%) Cloud Native
4 20 (14.71%) Equities
5 16 (11.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 15 (11.03%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (9.56%) Equity Derivative
8 10 (7.35%) Fixed Income
8 10 (7.35%) Hedge funds
9 7 (5.15%) Data Structures
10 6 (4.41%) Product Ownership
11 5 (3.68%) Onboarding
12 4 (2.94%) AI Agents
12 4 (2.94%) Distributed Computing
12 4 (2.94%) Multi-touch
13 3 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
14 2 (1.47%) Credit Derivative
14 2 (1.47%) Credit Risk
14 2 (1.47%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.82%) Linux
2 2 (1.47%) Windows
3 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (43.38%) Computer Science
2 42 (30.88%) Data Science
3 41 (30.15%) Machine Learning
4 40 (29.41%) AI
5 39 (28.68%) Analytics
6 34 (25.00%) Decision-Making
7 32 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (22.06%) CI/CD
8 30 (22.06%) Statistics
9 29 (21.32%) Physics
10 27 (19.85%) Risk Management
11 26 (19.12%) Agile
11 26 (19.12%) Software Engineering
12 24 (17.65%) Data Pipeline
13 23 (16.91%) Quantitative Finance
14 20 (14.71%) Model Validation
15 18 (13.24%) Data Engineering
15 18 (13.24%) LLM
15 18 (13.24%) Validation
16 17 (12.50%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 91 (66.91%) Python
2 35 (25.74%) SQL
3 28 (20.59%) C++
4 27 (19.85%) C#
5 19 (13.97%) Java
6 11 (8.09%) R
7 5 (3.68%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.68%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.21%) Bash
8 3 (2.21%) Rust
9 2 (1.47%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.74%) C
10 1 (0.74%) Go
10 1 (0.74%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 80 (58.82%) Degree
2 28 (20.59%) Master's Degree
3 25 (18.38%) PhD
4 16 (11.76%) Numerate Degree
5 15 (11.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (1.47%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.74%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.74%) MBA
8 1 (0.74%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.74%) PMP
8 1 (0.74%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.74%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.41%) QA
2 4 (2.94%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.21%) SLA
4 1 (0.74%) GDPR
4 1 (0.74%) IFRS
4 1 (0.74%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (9.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.41%) Terraform
3 3 (2.21%) Ansible
3 3 (2.21%) Grafana
3 3 (2.21%) Puppet
4 1 (0.74%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (5.15%) Databricks
2 4 (2.94%) Charles River
2 4 (2.94%) Google
2 4 (2.94%) Murex
3 3 (2.21%) Citrix
3 3 (2.21%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.21%) PagerDuty
4 2 (1.47%) Bloomberg
4 2 (1.47%) Foundry
5 1 (0.74%) Dataiku
5 1 (0.74%) FIS
5 1 (0.74%) Greenplum
5 1 (0.74%) Netezza
5 1 (0.74%) Oracle
5 1 (0.74%) Palantir
5 1 (0.74%) Reuters
5 1 (0.74%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.74%) Teradata
5 1 (0.74%) UiPath