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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 217 255 216
Rank change year-on-year +38 -39 +19
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 159 133 221
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.13% 0.85% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 0.95% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 83 170
10th Percentile £405 £329 £425
25th Percentile £528 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £650 £653
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -0.38% -10.00%
75th Percentile £997 £829 £801
90th Percentile £1,050 £863 £953
England median daily rate £575 £500 £629
% change year-on-year +15.00% -20.51% -3.23%
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% -11.50%
75th Percentile £49.50 £53.25 £61.75
90th Percentile £58.05 £53.75 £62.85
England median hourly rate £43.50 £16.23 £14.16
% change year-on-year +168.02% +14.62% -75.34%

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 12,904 14,060 17,647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.94% 89.70% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,504 9,083 12,650
10th Percentile £335 £350 £353
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £567
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.96% -3.72%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £764 £800 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 169 237
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.54
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.25 £37.00 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -20.95% +3.85% -9.80%
75th Percentile £47.38 £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% +19.14%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 0 22 £600 -4.00% 20
East London - 6 £1,000 - 3
South London - 5 £775 - 1
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 16 (10.06%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.14%) Jupyter
3 4 (2.52%) SAS
4 3 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.26%) Luigi
6 1 (0.63%) Apache
6 1 (0.63%) Apache Pig
6 1 (0.63%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (6.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.26%) Adobe Premiere
2 2 (1.26%) Blender
2 2 (1.26%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.63%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 43 (27.04%) AWS
2 33 (20.75%) Azure
3 11 (6.92%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (6.92%) Power Platform
4 9 (5.66%) GCP
5 6 (3.77%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (3.14%) Amazon S3
6 5 (3.14%) Amazon SageMaker
6 5 (3.14%) Azure Machine Learning
6 5 (3.14%) GitHub
7 4 (2.52%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (2.52%) IaaS
8 3 (1.89%) Amazon Bedrock
8 3 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.89%) Azure Pipelines
8 3 (1.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.89%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.26%) Internet
3 1 (0.63%) DNS
3 1 (0.63%) Firewall
3 1 (0.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.92%) Power BI
2 10 (6.29%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (6.29%) SQL Server
3 8 (5.03%) NoSQL
4 6 (3.77%) Geospatial Data
4 6 (3.77%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.14%) Redis
5 5 (3.14%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.52%) Big Data
6 4 (2.52%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.89%) KDB
7 3 (1.89%) Kdb+
7 3 (1.89%) Metadata
7 3 (1.89%) Tableau
8 2 (1.26%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.26%) Apache Hive
8 2 (1.26%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.26%) GIS
Development Applications
1 32 (20.13%) Git
2 4 (2.52%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.52%) TeamCity
3 3 (1.89%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.26%) Maven
4 2 (1.26%) MLflow
4 2 (1.26%) MSBuild
4 2 (1.26%) 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 86 (54.09%) Finance
2 52 (32.70%) Banking
3 51 (32.08%) Front Office
4 43 (27.04%) Social Skills
5 37 (23.27%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (22.01%) Investment Banking
7 17 (10.69%) Financial Institution
8 6 (3.77%) Marketing
9 5 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.52%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.89%) Retail
12 2 (1.26%) Back Office
12 2 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.26%) Games
12 2 (1.26%) Law
12 2 (1.26%) Military
12 2 (1.26%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.63%) Legal
13 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (44.03%) Developer
2 26 (16.35%) Python Developer
3 24 (15.09%) Senior
4 21 (13.21%) Quantitative Developer
5 19 (11.95%) Data Scientist
6 18 (11.32%) Analyst
7 16 (10.06%) AWS Developer
7 16 (10.06%) JavaScript Developer
8 15 (9.43%) Senior Developer
9 11 (6.92%) Data Engineer
10 9 (5.66%) Lead
10 9 (5.66%) Qualitative Analyst
10 9 (5.66%) Quantitative Analyst
11 6 (3.77%) C# Developer
11 6 (3.77%) Java Developer
12 5 (3.14%) C++ Developer
12 5 (3.14%) Lead Developer
12 5 (3.14%) Lead Java Developer
12 5 (3.14%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 5 (3.14%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (18.24%) Pandas
2 25 (15.72%) NumPy
3 21 (13.21%) SciPy
4 19 (11.95%) React
5 17 (10.69%) FastAPI
5 17 (10.69%) Flask
5 17 (10.69%) Vue
6 16 (10.06%) AngularJS
6 16 (10.06%) Polars
7 15 (9.43%) Kafka
8 6 (3.77%) .NET
8 6 (3.77%) REST
8 6 (3.77%) scikit-learn
9 5 (3.14%) ActiveMQ
9 5 (3.14%) Dask
10 4 (2.52%) CSS
10 4 (2.52%) Plotly
10 4 (2.52%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (2.52%) TensorFlow
10 4 (2.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 46 (28.93%) Derivative
2 39 (24.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 35 (22.01%) Algorithms
4 27 (16.98%) Hedge funds
5 22 (13.84%) Equity Derivative
6 20 (12.58%) Equities
7 15 (9.43%) Distributed Computing
8 13 (8.18%) Fixed Income
9 10 (6.29%) Cloud Native
9 10 (6.29%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (4.40%) Data Structures
11 6 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (3.14%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (3.14%) Multi-touch
13 4 (2.52%) Data Fabric
14 3 (1.89%) Credit Risk
14 3 (1.89%) Social Media
15 2 (1.26%) Credit Derivative
15 2 (1.26%) Product Ownership
15 2 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 32 (20.13%) Linux
2 8 (5.03%) Windows
3 4 (2.52%) Unix
4 2 (1.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (41.51%) Computer Science
2 44 (27.67%) CI/CD
3 39 (24.53%) Physics
4 38 (23.90%) Machine Learning
5 37 (23.27%) Software Engineering
6 35 (22.01%) Data Science
7 34 (21.38%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (20.13%) Agile
9 31 (19.50%) Risk Management
10 30 (18.87%) Analytics
11 29 (18.24%) Data Pipeline
12 28 (17.61%) Data Engineering
13 24 (15.09%) Statistics
14 23 (14.47%) Systematic Trading
14 23 (14.47%) Validation
15 22 (13.84%) AI
16 21 (13.21%) Quantitative Finance
17 20 (12.58%) DevOps
18 18 (11.32%) Data Analysis
18 18 (11.32%) Model Validation
Programming Languages
1 124 (77.99%) Python
2 53 (33.33%) C++
3 45 (28.30%) SQL
4 43 (27.04%) C#
5 32 (20.13%) Java
6 22 (13.84%) JavaScript
7 17 (10.69%) Rust
8 12 (7.55%) R
9 5 (3.14%) Bash
10 4 (2.52%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.52%) VBA
11 3 (1.89%) C
12 2 (1.26%) Go
12 2 (1.26%) MATLAB
12 2 (1.26%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.26%) Scala
12 2 (1.26%) VC++
13 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 86 (54.09%) Degree
2 37 (23.27%) Master's Degree
3 28 (17.61%) PhD
4 21 (13.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (8.81%) Numerate Degree
6 5 (3.14%) Security Cleared
7 4 (2.52%) Postgraduate
8 3 (1.89%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.26%) MCP
10 1 (0.63%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.77%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.14%) QA
3 4 (2.52%) EMIR
3 4 (2.52%) SLA
4 2 (1.26%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.26%) 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 (20.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (16.35%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.14%) Terraform
3 4 (2.52%) Grafana
3 4 (2.52%) Puppet
4 3 (1.89%) Ansible
5 2 (1.26%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.63%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 10 (6.29%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.14%) Sophis
3 4 (2.52%) Databricks
3 4 (2.52%) Dataiku
3 4 (2.52%) Foundry
3 4 (2.52%) Oracle
4 3 (1.89%) Google
4 3 (1.89%) PagerDuty
4 3 (1.89%) Palantir
5 2 (1.26%) 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