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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 196 241
Rank change year-on-year -96 +45 -28
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 159 181 156
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.79% 1.35% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 1.46% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 119 114
10th Percentile £415 £431 £326
25th Percentile £544 £537 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £725 £622
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +16.56% -11.14%
75th Percentile £788 £797 £825
90th Percentile £888 £1,005 £875
England median daily rate £550 £690 £533
% change year-on-year -20.29% +29.58% -21.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 8
10th Percentile - £25.17 £38.05
25th Percentile £19.03 £28.79 £45.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £43.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% -13.86% -57.56%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.25 £52.25
90th Percentile £62.00 £57.75 £53.75
England median hourly rate £24.00 £15.23 £16.23
% change year-on-year +57.64% -6.19% +15.93%

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 17,903 12,394 14,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.46% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,741 8,241 10,033
10th Percentile £361 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 256 196
10th Percentile £17.16 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.74 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.25 £47.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.56
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +3.61%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -22 14 £755 +0.67% 41
West London -17 6 £725 +45.00% 10
North London - 1 - - 4
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 4 (2.52%) Apache Spark
1 4 (2.52%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.89%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.63%) IIS
3 1 (0.63%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (3.77%) CPLEX
2 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.26%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.89%) Aladdin
1 3 (1.89%) Orchestrade
2 1 (0.63%) Aligne
2 1 (0.63%) Endur
2 1 (0.63%) ZaiNet
Cloud Services
1 36 (22.64%) AWS
2 20 (12.58%) Azure
3 15 (9.43%) GCP
4 10 (6.29%) Power Platform
5 8 (5.03%) Snowflake
6 7 (4.40%) Amazon Bedrock
6 7 (4.40%) Amazon SageMaker
7 5 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (3.14%) SaaS
7 5 (3.14%) Serverless
8 4 (2.52%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.52%) Anthropic Claude
8 4 (2.52%) GitHub
9 3 (1.89%) dbt
9 3 (1.89%) Google Gemini
10 2 (1.26%) Adobe Analytics
10 2 (1.26%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.63%) Zapier
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.29%) Power BI
1 10 (6.29%) SQL Server
2 9 (5.66%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.77%) Tableau
4 5 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.52%) Data Mining
5 4 (2.52%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.52%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.89%) Big Data
7 2 (1.26%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.26%) KDB
7 2 (1.26%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.26%) Power Query
7 2 (1.26%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.26%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.63%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.63%) DataStage
8 1 (0.63%) MySQL
8 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (8.81%) Git
2 2 (1.26%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.26%) JIRA
2 2 (1.26%) Selenium
3 1 (0.63%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 58 (36.48%) Social Skills
2 57 (35.85%) Analytical Skills
3 55 (34.59%) Finance
4 28 (17.61%) Banking
5 24 (15.09%) Front Office
6 12 (7.55%) Public Sector
7 11 (6.92%) Investment Banking
8 10 (6.29%) Marketing
9 9 (5.66%) Retail
10 8 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (2.52%) Aviation
12 4 (2.52%) Legal
12 4 (2.52%) Manufacturing
12 4 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.89%) Advertising
14 2 (1.26%) Back Office
14 2 (1.26%) Financial Institution
14 2 (1.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (23.27%) Developer
2 33 (20.75%) Data Scientist
2 33 (20.75%) Senior
3 17 (10.69%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 14 (8.81%) Analyst
4 14 (8.81%) Quantitative Developer
5 13 (8.18%) C# Developer
6 11 (6.92%) Data Engineer
6 11 (6.92%) Python Developer
7 10 (6.29%) Senior Data Scientist
8 9 (5.66%) Software Engineer
9 8 (5.03%) Java Engineer
10 7 (4.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 7 (4.40%) Data Analyst
10 7 (4.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 7 (4.40%) Senior Developer
11 6 (3.77%) Senior Data Engineer
12 5 (3.14%) Lead
13 4 (2.52%) Front Office Developer
13 4 (2.52%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.92%) .NET
1 11 (6.92%) React
2 9 (5.66%) LangGraph
3 8 (5.03%) Kafka
4 7 (4.40%) LangChain
4 7 (4.40%) Pandas
5 6 (3.77%) FastAPI
5 6 (3.77%) PyTorch
6 5 (3.14%) Model Context Protocol
6 5 (3.14%) NumPy
6 5 (3.14%) XML
7 4 (2.52%) Terraform
8 3 (1.89%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.89%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.89%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (1.89%) JSON
8 3 (1.89%) JSON Schema
8 3 (1.89%) scikit-learn
8 3 (1.89%) TensorFlow
8 3 (1.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.35%) Algorithms
2 24 (15.09%) Derivative
3 15 (9.43%) Cloud Native
3 15 (9.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 13 (8.18%) Equities
5 12 (7.55%) Fixed Income
6 11 (6.92%) AI Agents
6 11 (6.92%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (5.66%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (5.03%) Data Structures
9 7 (4.40%) Product Ownership
10 5 (3.14%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (3.14%) Exotic Derivative
10 5 (3.14%) OTC Derivatives
11 4 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (2.52%) Hedge funds
11 4 (2.52%) Management Information System
11 4 (2.52%) Onboarding
12 3 (1.89%) Educational Technology
12 3 (1.89%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.14%) Linux
1 5 (3.14%) Windows
2 2 (1.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (45.28%) Computer Science
2 67 (42.14%) AI
3 62 (38.99%) Machine Learning
4 55 (34.59%) Data Science
5 51 (32.08%) Analytics
5 51 (32.08%) Decision-Making
6 50 (31.45%) Software Engineering
7 48 (30.19%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (25.79%) Statistics
9 32 (20.13%) Physics
10 28 (17.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (15.72%) Validation
12 24 (15.09%) Data Engineering
12 24 (15.09%) Data Pipeline
12 24 (15.09%) LLM
13 23 (14.47%) Agile
14 17 (10.69%) Visualisation
15 16 (10.06%) Applied Mathematics
15 16 (10.06%) Asset Management
15 16 (10.06%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 111 (69.81%) Python
2 44 (27.67%) SQL
3 20 (12.58%) C#
3 20 (12.58%) C++
4 18 (11.32%) Java
5 15 (9.43%) R
6 7 (4.40%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.89%) Bash
7 3 (1.89%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.89%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.26%) C
8 2 (1.26%) MATLAB
8 2 (1.26%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.63%) Cypher
9 1 (0.63%) Gremlin
9 1 (0.63%) Perl
9 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.63%) Scala
9 1 (0.63%) SHACL
9 1 (0.63%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 88 (55.35%) Degree
2 27 (16.98%) Master's Degree
3 25 (15.72%) PhD
4 24 (15.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (5.66%) Numerate Degree
6 8 (5.03%) Security Cleared
7 7 (4.40%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.89%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.26%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.63%) MBA
10 1 (0.63%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.29%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.14%) QA
3 3 (1.89%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (5.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.63%) Ansible
2 1 (0.63%) Grafana
2 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (5.66%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.14%) Databricks
3 4 (2.52%) Google
3 4 (2.52%) OpenAI
3 4 (2.52%) Oracle
4 3 (1.89%) Alteryx
4 3 (1.89%) Murex
5 2 (1.26%) Adobe
5 2 (1.26%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.26%) Charles River
5 2 (1.26%) UiPath
6 1 (0.63%) Calypso
6 1 (0.63%) Citrix
6 1 (0.63%) Plaid
6 1 (0.63%) Reuters
6 1 (0.63%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.63%) Sitecore