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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 201 215
Rank change year-on-year -80 +14 +9
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 140 158 182
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.81% 1.24% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 1.36% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 103 124
10th Percentile £396 £365 £404
25th Percentile £525 £513 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £750 £638
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +17.65% -17.74%
75th Percentile £919 £863 £781
90th Percentile £1,050 £1,025 £875
England median daily rate £600 £725 £590
% change year-on-year -17.24% +22.88% -18.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 22
10th Percentile - £22.00 £12.85
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 £59.75
90th Percentile - £56.25 £72.13
England median hourly rate £19.00 £16.23 £14.36
% change year-on-year +17.07% +13.02% -48.59%

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 15,405 11,613 15,827
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.35% 91.51% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,348 7,877 11,316
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £675
90th Percentile £760 £806 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 170 332
10th Percentile £18.09 £17.96 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.05 £23.90 £19.83
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.06
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.43% -22.92%
75th Percentile £56.00 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £66.98
England median hourly rate £38.25 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +17.69% -1.52% -12.00%

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 7 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 7 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 -30 13 £650 -13.33% 46
West London -16 6 £773 +54.60% 7
South London - 2 £525 - 9
East London - 1 £1,000 - 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 10 (7.14%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.29%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.43%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (1.43%) SAS
4 1 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.43%) CPLEX
2 2 (1.43%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.71%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (0.71%) Blender
3 1 (0.71%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.43%) Aladdin
1 2 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.71%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.71%) IntelliMatch
2 1 (0.71%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 33 (23.57%) AWS
2 20 (14.29%) Azure
3 9 (6.43%) Amazon S3
4 8 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (5.71%) Power Platform
4 8 (5.71%) Serverless
5 7 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (3.57%) Azure Machine Learning
6 5 (3.57%) GCP
7 4 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.86%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.14%) Azure AI
8 3 (2.14%) Azure Pipelines
8 3 (2.14%) GitHub
8 3 (2.14%) IaaS
8 3 (2.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.43%) 3GPP
1 2 (1.43%) HTTP
1 2 (1.43%) Intelligent Network
1 2 (1.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (6.43%) MongoDB
3 8 (5.71%) Power BI
4 7 (5.00%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.57%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.14%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.43%) KDB
7 2 (1.43%) Kdb+
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.71%) Big Data
8 1 (0.71%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.71%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.71%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.71%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.71%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (17.14%) Git
2 7 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.86%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.43%) GitLab
4 2 (1.43%) JIRA
4 2 (1.43%) MSBuild
4 2 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (1.43%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.71%) Maven
5 1 (0.71%) RStudio
General
1 73 (52.14%) Finance
2 40 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 38 (27.14%) Front Office
4 34 (24.29%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (24.29%) Banking
5 18 (12.86%) Investment Banking
6 11 (7.86%) Financial Institution
7 10 (7.14%) Marketing
8 7 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (4.29%) Retail
10 4 (2.86%) Aviation
11 3 (2.14%) Public Sector
11 3 (2.14%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.43%) Legal
12 2 (1.43%) Military
12 2 (1.43%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.71%) Advertising
13 1 (0.71%) Back Office
13 1 (0.71%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 48 (34.29%) Developer
2 36 (25.71%) Senior
3 22 (15.71%) Data Scientist
4 20 (14.29%) Python Developer
5 16 (11.43%) Analyst
6 15 (10.71%) Quantitative Developer
7 14 (10.00%) Senior Developer
8 10 (7.14%) Lead
8 10 (7.14%) Senior Data Scientist
9 9 (6.43%) C++ Developer
9 9 (6.43%) Data Engineer
10 8 (5.71%) Senior C++ Developer
10 8 (5.71%) Senior Data Engineer
11 6 (4.29%) Java Engineer
11 6 (4.29%) Lead Data Scientist
11 6 (4.29%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 5 (3.57%) Business Analyst
12 5 (3.57%) C# Developer
12 5 (3.57%) Senior Analyst
12 5 (3.57%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (14.29%) Pandas
2 17 (12.14%) NumPy
3 10 (7.14%) SciPy
4 9 (6.43%) Kafka
4 9 (6.43%) React
4 9 (6.43%) scikit-learn
5 7 (5.00%) PyTorch
5 7 (5.00%) TensorFlow
5 7 (5.00%) Web Services
6 6 (4.29%) Dask
6 6 (4.29%) Model Context Protocol
7 5 (3.57%) .NET
7 5 (3.57%) AngularJS
7 5 (3.57%) FastAPI
7 5 (3.57%) REST
8 4 (2.86%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (2.86%) Flask
8 4 (2.86%) Hugging Face
8 4 (2.86%) Plotly
8 4 (2.86%) Polars
Miscellaneous
1 33 (23.57%) Derivative
2 31 (22.14%) Algorithms
3 28 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (17.86%) Equities
5 21 (15.00%) Cloud Native
5 21 (15.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 16 (11.43%) Equity Derivative
7 14 (10.00%) Hedge funds
8 13 (9.29%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (9.29%) Fixed Income
9 8 (5.71%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (5.00%) Data Structures
11 6 (4.29%) Product Ownership
12 4 (2.86%) Onboarding
13 3 (2.14%) AI Agents
13 3 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (2.14%) Multi-touch
14 2 (1.43%) Credit Derivative
14 2 (1.43%) Data Fabric
14 2 (1.43%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.00%) Linux
2 2 (1.43%) Windows
3 1 (0.71%) Unix
3 1 (0.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (42.14%) Computer Science
2 41 (29.29%) Data Science
3 40 (28.57%) Analytics
4 38 (27.14%) Machine Learning
5 37 (26.43%) AI
6 35 (25.00%) CI/CD
7 33 (23.57%) Physics
8 32 (22.86%) Decision-Making
8 32 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (22.14%) Risk Management
10 29 (20.71%) Software Engineering
11 28 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
11 28 (20.00%) Quantitative Finance
12 27 (19.29%) Statistics
13 26 (18.57%) Agile
14 20 (14.29%) Data Engineering
15 19 (13.57%) LLM
16 16 (11.43%) Mentoring
16 16 (11.43%) Model Validation
16 16 (11.43%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 98 (70.00%) Python
2 37 (26.43%) SQL
3 33 (23.57%) C++
4 28 (20.00%) C#
5 20 (14.29%) Java
6 10 (7.14%) R
7 7 (5.00%) JavaScript
8 6 (4.29%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.86%) Rust
10 3 (2.14%) Bash
11 1 (0.71%) C
11 1 (0.71%) Go
11 1 (0.71%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.71%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 84 (60.00%) Degree
2 31 (22.14%) Master's Degree
3 26 (18.57%) PhD
4 18 (12.86%) Numerate Degree
5 16 (11.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 3 (2.14%) Postgraduate
6 3 (2.14%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.43%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.71%) MBA
8 1 (0.71%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.71%) PMP
8 1 (0.71%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.57%) QA
2 4 (2.86%) SLA
3 3 (2.14%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.71%) GDPR
4 1 (0.71%) IFRS
4 1 (0.71%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (11.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.29%) Terraform
3 3 (2.14%) Ansible
3 3 (2.14%) Grafana
3 3 (2.14%) Puppet
4 2 (1.43%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (5.00%) Databricks
2 4 (2.86%) Charles River
2 4 (2.86%) Dataiku
2 4 (2.86%) Google
2 4 (2.86%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.86%) Murex
3 3 (2.14%) Foundry
3 3 (2.14%) PagerDuty
4 2 (1.43%) Bloomberg
4 2 (1.43%) Citrix
4 2 (1.43%) Palantir
5 1 (0.71%) FIS
5 1 (0.71%) Greenplum
5 1 (0.71%) Netezza
5 1 (0.71%) Reuters
5 1 (0.71%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.71%) Teradata
5 1 (0.71%) UiPath