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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 247 202
Rank change year-on-year +26 -45 +35
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 166 128 243
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.20% 0.82% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 0.92% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 81 192
10th Percentile £421 £329 £401
25th Percentile £537 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £550 £675
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% -18.52% -6.90%
75th Percentile £980 £775 £828
90th Percentile £1,050 £850 £1,000
England median daily rate £625 £500 £645
% change year-on-year +25.00% -22.48% -0.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 5
10th Percentile £28.13 £33.69 £28.10
25th Percentile £35.42 £37.13 £42.50
Median hourly rate £43.50 £47.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% +5.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £49.25 £52.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £57.75 £53.75 £63.40
England median hourly rate £36.62 £16.23 £14.16
% change year-on-year +125.60% +14.62% -75.10%

All Process and 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 12,740 13,914 18,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.46% 89.10% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,386 8,952 13,004
10th Percentile £331 £350 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £799 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 165 235
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.35 £18.50
25th Percentile £25.01 £25.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.07 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.20% +0.18% +1.33%
75th Percentile £46.88 £58.75 £62.75
90th Percentile £64.90 £80.45 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +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 6 November 2025.

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 6 November 2025.

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 6 November 2025. 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 0 21 £575 -9.80% 221
South London - 6 £775 - 5
East London - 6 £1,000 - 4
West London -12 1 - - 7
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 19 (11.45%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.01%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.81%) SAS
4 2 (1.20%) Luigi
5 1 (0.60%) Apache
5 1 (0.60%) Apache Pig
5 1 (0.60%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (9.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.20%) Adobe Premiere
2 2 (1.20%) Blender
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.20%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.60%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.60%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 43 (25.90%) AWS
2 36 (21.69%) Azure
3 14 (8.43%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (7.23%) Power Platform
5 9 (5.42%) GCP
6 5 (3.01%) Amazon SageMaker
6 5 (3.01%) GitHub
7 4 (2.41%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.81%) Amazon Bedrock
8 3 (1.81%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (1.81%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (1.20%) Apigee
9 2 (1.20%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.60%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.60%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (0.60%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.60%) Google Docs
10 1 (0.60%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.61%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.81%) Internet
3 1 (0.60%) DNS
3 1 (0.60%) Firewall
3 1 (0.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.23%) Power BI
2 11 (6.63%) NoSQL
3 10 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (4.82%) Geospatial Data
4 8 (4.82%) Redis
5 7 (4.22%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.61%) MongoDB
7 5 (3.01%) Tableau
8 4 (2.41%) Big Data
8 4 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.41%) GIS
8 4 (2.41%) Hadoop
8 4 (2.41%) Metadata
8 4 (2.41%) QGIS
8 4 (2.41%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.81%) KDB
9 3 (1.81%) Kdb+
10 2 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.20%) Apache Hive
10 2 (1.20%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 32 (19.28%) Git
2 4 (2.41%) MLflow
2 4 (2.41%) TeamCity
3 2 (1.20%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.20%) Maven
3 2 (1.20%) MSBuild
3 2 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (1.20%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.60%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.60%) ERwin
4 1 (0.60%) GitLab
4 1 (0.60%) QUnit
4 1 (0.60%) RStudio
4 1 (0.60%) TensorBoard
General
1 87 (52.41%) Finance
2 54 (32.53%) Banking
3 49 (29.52%) Front Office
3 49 (29.52%) Social Skills
4 41 (24.70%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (24.10%) Investment Banking
6 16 (9.64%) Financial Institution
7 6 (3.61%) Marketing
7 6 (3.61%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.41%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.81%) Games
11 2 (1.20%) Back Office
11 2 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.20%) Law
11 2 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.20%) Retail
12 1 (0.60%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (46.99%) Developer
2 30 (18.07%) Python Developer
3 25 (15.06%) Senior
4 22 (13.25%) Quantitative Developer
5 19 (11.45%) Analyst
6 18 (10.84%) AWS Developer
6 18 (10.84%) Data Scientist
6 18 (10.84%) JavaScript Developer
7 15 (9.04%) Senior Developer
8 13 (7.83%) Data Engineer
9 12 (7.23%) Lead
10 9 (5.42%) Java Developer
10 9 (5.42%) Qualitative Analyst
10 9 (5.42%) Quantitative Analyst
11 8 (4.82%) Lead Developer
11 8 (4.82%) Lead Java Developer
12 6 (3.61%) C# Developer
12 6 (3.61%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 6 (3.61%) Python Engineer
13 5 (3.01%) C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (18.07%) Pandas
2 24 (14.46%) NumPy
3 21 (12.65%) React
3 21 (12.65%) SciPy
4 19 (11.45%) FastAPI
4 19 (11.45%) Flask
4 19 (11.45%) Kafka
4 19 (11.45%) Vue
5 18 (10.84%) AngularJS
5 18 (10.84%) Polars
6 8 (4.82%) ActiveMQ
6 8 (4.82%) REST
7 7 (4.22%) FIX Protocol
7 7 (4.22%) scikit-learn
8 6 (3.61%) .NET
9 5 (3.01%) FpML
9 5 (3.01%) Middleware
9 5 (3.01%) TensorFlow
10 4 (2.41%) Plotly
10 4 (2.41%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 46 (27.71%) Derivative
2 43 (25.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 41 (24.70%) Algorithms
4 28 (16.87%) Hedge funds
5 22 (13.25%) Equity Derivative
6 20 (12.05%) Equities
7 16 (9.64%) Distributed Computing
8 15 (9.04%) Fixed Income
9 13 (7.83%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (7.23%) Data Structures
11 6 (3.61%) Cloud Native
12 5 (3.01%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (3.01%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (3.01%) Multi-touch
13 4 (2.41%) Data Fabric
13 4 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (2.41%) Social Media
14 3 (1.81%) Credit Risk
15 2 (1.20%) Credit Derivative
15 2 (1.20%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 32 (19.28%) Linux
2 8 (4.82%) Windows
3 4 (2.41%) Unix
4 2 (1.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (40.96%) Computer Science
2 45 (27.11%) CI/CD
3 43 (25.90%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (25.30%) Software Engineering
5 38 (22.89%) Machine Learning
6 37 (22.29%) Physics
7 34 (20.48%) Agile
7 34 (20.48%) Data Science
8 31 (18.67%) Data Pipeline
9 29 (17.47%) Analytics
9 29 (17.47%) Data Engineering
10 28 (16.87%) Risk Management
11 24 (14.46%) Systematic Trading
12 21 (12.65%) AI
12 21 (12.65%) DevOps
12 21 (12.65%) Statistics
13 20 (12.05%) Data Analysis
13 20 (12.05%) Validation
14 19 (11.45%) Clean Code
15 18 (10.84%) Quantitative Finance
Programming Languages
1 124 (74.70%) Python
2 57 (34.34%) C++
3 52 (31.33%) SQL
4 45 (27.11%) C#
5 41 (24.70%) Java
6 23 (13.86%) JavaScript
7 19 (11.45%) Rust
8 10 (6.02%) R
9 4 (2.41%) VBA
10 3 (1.81%) C
10 3 (1.81%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.20%) Bash
11 2 (1.20%) Go
11 2 (1.20%) MATLAB
11 2 (1.20%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.20%) Scala
11 2 (1.20%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.20%) VC++
Qualifications
1 85 (51.20%) Degree
2 32 (19.28%) Master's Degree
3 26 (15.66%) PhD
4 20 (12.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (10.84%) Numerate Degree
6 4 (2.41%) Postgraduate
6 4 (2.41%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.20%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.60%) MBA
8 1 (0.60%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.22%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.41%) EMIR
2 4 (2.41%) QA
2 4 (2.41%) SLA
3 2 (1.20%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.20%) NIST
4 1 (0.60%) Basel III
System Software
1 32 (19.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (16.27%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.20%) Kubeflow
2 2 (1.20%) Terraform
3 1 (0.60%) Grafana
3 1 (0.60%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.60%) Puppet
3 1 (0.60%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 13 (7.83%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.01%) Databricks
2 5 (3.01%) Sophis
3 4 (2.41%) Dataiku
3 4 (2.41%) Google
3 4 (2.41%) Oracle
4 3 (1.81%) Foundry
5 2 (1.20%) IBM
5 2 (1.20%) Palantir
6 1 (0.60%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.60%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.60%) Informatica
6 1 (0.60%) Murex
6 1 (0.60%) SnapLogic
6 1 (0.60%) Splunk
6 1 (0.60%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.60%) Zoomdata