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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 185 233
Rank change year-on-year -101 +48 -9
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 144 190 166
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.73% 1.40% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 1.52% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 126 115
10th Percentile £425 £421 £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 £797 £825
90th Percentile £850 £1,040 £875
England median daily rate £523 £700 £556
% change year-on-year -25.36% +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 17,589 12,488 14,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.92% 92.12% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,618 8,349 10,661
10th Percentile £363 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% - -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 276 238 247
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £21.41 £24.66 £21.05
Median hourly rate £36.00 £30.40 £33.55
Median % change year-on-year +18.41% -9.38% -19.16%
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% -6.43%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -27 13 £778 +17.36% 50
West London -7 7 £737 +47.30% 4
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 (4.17%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.39%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.69%) IIS
4 1 (0.69%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.08%) CPLEX
2 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.39%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.08%) Aladdin
1 3 (2.08%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 39 (27.08%) AWS
2 18 (12.50%) Azure
3 12 (8.33%) GCP
4 10 (6.94%) Power Platform
4 10 (6.94%) Snowflake
5 6 (4.17%) Amazon Bedrock
5 6 (4.17%) Amazon SageMaker
5 6 (4.17%) SaaS
6 5 (3.47%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (3.47%) Serverless
7 4 (2.78%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.08%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.08%) dbt
8 3 (2.08%) GitHub
9 2 (1.39%) AWS KMS
9 2 (1.39%) Google Gemini
10 1 (0.69%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.69%) AWS CodeDeploy
10 1 (0.69%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.03%) MongoDB
2 10 (6.94%) Power BI
3 9 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 7 (4.86%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.17%) Tableau
6 3 (2.08%) Big Data
6 3 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.08%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.39%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.39%) Data Mining
7 2 (1.39%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.39%) Power Query
7 2 (1.39%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.69%) Kdb+
8 1 (0.69%) Looker
8 1 (0.69%) Metadata
8 1 (0.69%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.69%) Stardog
8 1 (0.69%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 14 (9.72%) Git
2 3 (2.08%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.39%) GitLab
3 2 (1.39%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 52 (36.11%) Finance
1 52 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 44 (30.56%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (18.06%) Banking
4 19 (13.19%) Front Office
5 12 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (8.33%) Marketing
6 11 (7.64%) Investment Banking
7 10 (6.94%) Public Sector
8 7 (4.86%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (4.17%) Retail
10 4 (2.78%) Aviation
10 4 (2.78%) Legal
11 3 (2.08%) Advertising
11 3 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.39%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.39%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (21.53%) Data Scientist
1 31 (21.53%) Senior
2 29 (20.14%) Developer
3 16 (11.11%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 14 (9.72%) Analyst
5 13 (9.03%) Data Engineer
6 12 (8.33%) C# Developer
7 11 (7.64%) Quantitative Developer
7 11 (7.64%) Software Engineer
8 9 (6.25%) Java Engineer
8 9 (6.25%) Senior Data Scientist
9 8 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 8 (5.56%) Lead
9 8 (5.56%) Python Developer
9 8 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (4.86%) Data Analyst
11 6 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 5 (3.47%) Business Analyst
12 5 (3.47%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (3.47%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.94%) Kafka
1 10 (6.94%) React
2 9 (6.25%) Pandas
3 8 (5.56%) LangGraph
4 7 (4.86%) .NET
5 6 (4.17%) LangChain
5 6 (4.17%) NumPy
5 6 (4.17%) PyTorch
5 6 (4.17%) XML
6 5 (3.47%) FastAPI
6 5 (3.47%) Model Context Protocol
7 4 (2.78%) scikit-learn
7 4 (2.78%) TensorFlow
7 4 (2.78%) Web Services
8 3 (2.08%) FIX Protocol
9 2 (1.39%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.39%) Django
9 2 (1.39%) JSON
9 2 (1.39%) JSON Schema
9 2 (1.39%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 22 (15.28%) Derivative
2 20 (13.89%) Algorithms
3 16 (11.11%) Cloud Native
4 14 (9.72%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (6.94%) Fixed Income
7 9 (6.25%) AI Agents
8 8 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (5.56%) Equities
8 8 (5.56%) Product Ownership
9 7 (4.86%) Data Structures
9 7 (4.86%) Onboarding
10 6 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (4.17%) Hedge funds
11 5 (3.47%) Management Information System
12 4 (2.78%) Exotic Derivative
12 4 (2.78%) OTC Derivatives
13 3 (2.08%) Credit Derivative
13 3 (2.08%) Credit Risk
13 3 (2.08%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.86%) Linux
2 2 (1.39%) Windows
3 1 (0.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (49.31%) Computer Science
2 57 (39.58%) AI
3 56 (38.89%) Machine Learning
4 50 (34.72%) Data Science
5 48 (33.33%) Decision-Making
6 46 (31.94%) Analytics
7 43 (29.86%) Software Engineering
8 41 (28.47%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (25.69%) Statistics
10 27 (18.75%) Data Engineering
10 27 (18.75%) Physics
11 25 (17.36%) Data Pipeline
12 24 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (16.67%) LLM
13 23 (15.97%) Agile
13 23 (15.97%) Asset Management
14 22 (15.28%) Validation
15 16 (11.11%) Applied Mathematics
15 16 (11.11%) CI/CD
16 15 (10.42%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 100 (69.44%) Python
2 43 (29.86%) SQL
3 23 (15.97%) Java
4 16 (11.11%) C++
5 15 (10.42%) C#
6 14 (9.72%) R
7 5 (3.47%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.08%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.39%) Bash
9 2 (1.39%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.69%) C
10 1 (0.69%) Cypher
10 1 (0.69%) Gremlin
10 1 (0.69%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.69%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.69%) SHACL
10 1 (0.69%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 75 (52.08%) Degree
2 25 (17.36%) Master's Degree
3 22 (15.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (15.28%) PhD
4 4 (2.78%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.08%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (2.08%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.69%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.69%) MBA
6 1 (0.69%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.69%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.69%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.64%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.47%) QA
3 1 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.69%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.78%) Kubernetes
1 4 (2.78%) Terraform
2 1 (0.69%) Grafana
2 1 (0.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.17%) Databricks
3 3 (2.08%) Alteryx
3 3 (2.08%) Charles River
3 3 (2.08%) Google
3 3 (2.08%) Murex
3 3 (2.08%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.39%) Bloomberg
4 2 (1.39%) Citrix
4 2 (1.39%) Oracle
5 1 (0.69%) Calypso
5 1 (0.69%) Greenplum
5 1 (0.69%) Netezza
5 1 (0.69%) Plaid
5 1 (0.69%) Reuters
5 1 (0.69%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.69%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.69%) Teradata