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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 225 248 205
Rank change year-on-year +23 -43 +20
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 158 131 214
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.11% 0.84% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 0.93% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 81 163
10th Percentile £410 £329 £432
25th Percentile £525 £413 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £600 £666
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -9.91% -8.14%
75th Percentile £1,000 £834 £800
90th Percentile £1,050 £863 £948
England median daily rate £575 £500 £627
% change year-on-year +15.00% -20.26% -7.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 7
10th Percentile £40.39 £22.00 £32.90
25th Percentile £41.59 £31.88 £42.50
Median hourly rate £43.50 £40.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.75% -18.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £49.50 £53.25 £61.75
90th Percentile £58.05 £53.75 £62.85
England median hourly rate £34.62 £16.23 £14.16
% change year-on-year +113.28% +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 13,110 14,014 17,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.71% 89.83% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,647 9,052 12,526
10th Percentile £338 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £766 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 165 236
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.68
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £29.25 £37.50 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +6.19% -11.16%
75th Percentile £47.56 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

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 8 December 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 8 December 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 8 December 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 +3 22 £625 +13.64% 10
East London - 6 £1,000 - 4
South London - 4 £750 - 11
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 14 (8.86%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.16%) Jupyter
3 4 (2.53%) SAS
4 3 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.27%) Luigi
6 1 (0.63%) Apache
6 1 (0.63%) Apache Pig
6 1 (0.63%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (7.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.27%) Adobe Premiere
2 2 (1.27%) Blender
2 2 (1.27%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.63%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 42 (26.58%) AWS
2 31 (19.62%) Azure
3 11 (6.96%) Power Platform
4 10 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (5.70%) GCP
6 7 (4.43%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (3.80%) Amazon S3
7 6 (3.80%) Azure Machine Learning
8 5 (3.16%) Amazon SageMaker
8 5 (3.16%) GitHub
9 4 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.53%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.53%) IaaS
9 4 (2.53%) Serverless
10 3 (1.90%) Amazon Bedrock
10 3 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.90%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.27%) Internet
1 2 (1.27%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.63%) DNS
2 1 (0.63%) Firewall
2 1 (0.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.96%) Power BI
2 10 (6.33%) SQL Server
3 9 (5.70%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (4.43%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.80%) Geospatial Data
5 6 (3.80%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (3.16%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.53%) Big Data
7 4 (2.53%) Hadoop
7 4 (2.53%) Redis
8 3 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.90%) KDB
8 3 (1.90%) Kdb+
8 3 (1.90%) Metadata
8 3 (1.90%) Tableau
9 2 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.27%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.27%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.27%) GIS
Development Applications
1 32 (20.25%) Git
2 5 (3.16%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.53%) TeamCity
3 4 (2.53%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.27%) Maven
4 2 (1.27%) MLflow
4 2 (1.27%) MSBuild
4 2 (1.27%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.63%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.63%) ERwin
5 1 (0.63%) GitLab
5 1 (0.63%) JIRA
5 1 (0.63%) QUnit
5 1 (0.63%) RStudio
5 1 (0.63%) TensorBoard
General
1 87 (55.06%) Finance
2 51 (32.28%) Banking
3 50 (31.65%) Front Office
4 43 (27.22%) Social Skills
5 37 (23.42%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (20.89%) Investment Banking
7 18 (11.39%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.53%) Marketing
8 4 (2.53%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.90%) Retail
10 2 (1.27%) Back Office
10 2 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.27%) Games
10 2 (1.27%) Law
10 2 (1.27%) Military
10 2 (1.27%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.63%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 69 (43.67%) Developer
2 25 (15.82%) Python Developer
3 24 (15.19%) Senior
4 22 (13.92%) Quantitative Developer
5 18 (11.39%) Data Scientist
6 17 (10.76%) Analyst
7 15 (9.49%) AWS Developer
7 15 (9.49%) JavaScript Developer
7 15 (9.49%) Senior Developer
8 11 (6.96%) Data Engineer
9 9 (5.70%) Qualitative Analyst
9 9 (5.70%) Quantitative Analyst
10 8 (5.06%) Lead
11 6 (3.80%) C# Developer
12 5 (3.16%) C++ Developer
12 5 (3.16%) Java Developer
12 5 (3.16%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 5 (3.16%) Python Engineer
13 4 (2.53%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
13 4 (2.53%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (17.72%) Pandas
2 26 (16.46%) NumPy
3 21 (13.29%) SciPy
4 18 (11.39%) React
5 16 (10.13%) FastAPI
5 16 (10.13%) Flask
5 16 (10.13%) Vue
6 15 (9.49%) AngularJS
6 15 (9.49%) Polars
7 14 (8.86%) Kafka
8 7 (4.43%) scikit-learn
9 6 (3.80%) .NET
9 6 (3.80%) REST
10 5 (3.16%) Dask
10 5 (3.16%) TensorFlow
11 4 (2.53%) Hugging Face
11 4 (2.53%) LangChain
11 4 (2.53%) Plotly
11 4 (2.53%) PyTorch
11 4 (2.53%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 47 (29.75%) Derivative
2 37 (23.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 35 (22.15%) Algorithms
4 26 (16.46%) Hedge funds
5 24 (15.19%) Equity Derivative
6 22 (13.92%) Equities
7 15 (9.49%) Distributed Computing
8 12 (7.59%) Fixed Income
9 11 (6.96%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (6.33%) Cloud Native
11 6 (3.80%) Data Structures
12 5 (3.16%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (3.16%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (2.53%) Data Fabric
14 3 (1.90%) Credit Risk
14 3 (1.90%) Multi-touch
14 3 (1.90%) Social Media
15 2 (1.27%) Credit Derivative
15 2 (1.27%) Product Ownership
15 2 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (19.62%) Linux
2 9 (5.70%) Windows
3 4 (2.53%) Unix
4 2 (1.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (40.51%) Computer Science
2 45 (28.48%) CI/CD
3 40 (25.32%) Physics
4 38 (24.05%) Machine Learning
5 36 (22.78%) Software Engineering
6 35 (22.15%) Data Science
7 33 (20.89%) Analytics
7 33 (20.89%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (20.89%) Risk Management
8 30 (18.99%) Data Pipeline
9 29 (18.35%) Agile
10 28 (17.72%) Data Engineering
11 24 (15.19%) AI
12 22 (13.92%) Quantitative Finance
12 22 (13.92%) Statistics
12 22 (13.92%) Systematic Trading
12 22 (13.92%) Validation
13 21 (13.29%) DevOps
14 18 (11.39%) Decision-Making
15 17 (10.76%) Model Validation
Programming Languages
1 123 (77.85%) Python
2 54 (34.18%) C++
3 43 (27.22%) C#
4 41 (25.95%) SQL
5 29 (18.35%) Java
6 21 (13.29%) JavaScript
7 16 (10.13%) Rust
8 10 (6.33%) R
9 5 (3.16%) Bash
9 5 (3.16%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.53%) VBA
11 3 (1.90%) C
12 2 (1.27%) Go
12 2 (1.27%) MATLAB
12 2 (1.27%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.27%) Scala
12 2 (1.27%) VC++
13 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 88 (55.70%) Degree
2 39 (24.68%) Master's Degree
3 28 (17.72%) PhD
4 21 (13.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (9.49%) Numerate Degree
6 5 (3.16%) Security Cleared
7 4 (2.53%) Postgraduate
8 3 (1.90%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.90%) MCP
9 1 (0.63%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.80%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.16%) QA
2 5 (3.16%) SLA
3 4 (2.53%) EMIR
4 2 (1.27%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.27%) NIST
5 1 (0.63%) Basel III
5 1 (0.63%) GDPR
5 1 (0.63%) IFRS
5 1 (0.63%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 32 (20.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (16.46%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.16%) Terraform
3 4 (2.53%) Grafana
3 4 (2.53%) Puppet
4 3 (1.90%) Ansible
5 2 (1.27%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.63%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 10 (6.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.16%) Databricks
2 5 (3.16%) Sophis
3 4 (2.53%) Dataiku
3 4 (2.53%) Foundry
3 4 (2.53%) Google
3 4 (2.53%) Oracle
4 3 (1.90%) PagerDuty
4 3 (1.90%) Palantir
5 2 (1.27%) IBM
6 1 (0.63%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.63%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.63%) Informatica
6 1 (0.63%) Murex
6 1 (0.63%) SnapLogic
6 1 (0.63%) Splunk
6 1 (0.63%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.63%) UiPath
6 1 (0.63%) Zoomdata