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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 226 258 225
Rank change year-on-year +32 -33 +11
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 154 123 198
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.07% 0.81% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 0.90% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 74 151
10th Percentile £372 £334 £450
25th Percentile £525 £413 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £613 £666
Median % change year-on-year +18.37% -8.03% -11.20%
75th Percentile £1,000 £834 £800
90th Percentile £1,080 £871 £938
England median daily rate £625 £516 £625
% change year-on-year +21.07% -17.40% -9.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 8
10th Percentile £40.13 £22.00 £35.30
25th Percentile £40.92 £31.88 £42.50
Median hourly rate £43.50 £40.75 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +6.75% -18.91% -8.64%
75th Percentile £44.75 £53.25 £61.75
90th Percentile - £53.75 £62.58
England median hourly rate £28.50 £16.23 £14.16
% change year-on-year +75.60% +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 13,135 13,632 16,935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.46% 90.03% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,670 8,766 12,134
10th Percentile £343 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £792
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 164 235
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.65 £18.53
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.38
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.65 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% +4.71% -10.83%
75th Percentile £48.00 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.90 £80.75 £74.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

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 16 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
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 16 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 -6 17 £650 +18.18% 19
East London - 6 £1,000 - 5
South London - 4 £750 - 5
West London -16 1 - - 10
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 13 (8.44%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.25%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.30%) Luigi
4 2 (1.30%) SAS
5 1 (0.65%) Apache
5 1 (0.65%) Apache Pig
5 1 (0.65%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.30%) Adobe Premiere
2 2 (1.30%) Blender
2 2 (1.30%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.65%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 41 (26.62%) AWS
2 31 (20.13%) Azure
3 11 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 9 (5.84%) GCP
5 7 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (3.90%) Amazon S3
6 6 (3.90%) Azure Machine Learning
6 6 (3.90%) GitHub
7 5 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (2.60%) Amazon SageMaker
8 4 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (2.60%) IaaS
8 4 (2.60%) Serverless
9 3 (1.95%) Amazon Bedrock
9 3 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.95%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.95%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.30%) Internet
1 2 (1.30%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.65%) DNS
2 1 (0.65%) Firewall
2 1 (0.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.14%) Power BI
1 11 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 9 (5.84%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (5.19%) NoSQL
4 7 (4.55%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.25%) Geospatial Data
5 5 (3.25%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.60%) Big Data
6 4 (2.60%) Redis
7 3 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.95%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.95%) KDB
7 3 (1.95%) Kdb+
7 3 (1.95%) Metadata
8 2 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.30%) Tableau
9 1 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.65%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 31 (20.13%) Git
2 5 (3.25%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.25%) TeamCity
2 5 (3.25%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.30%) Maven
3 2 (1.30%) MSBuild
3 2 (1.30%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.65%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.65%) ERwin
4 1 (0.65%) GitLab
4 1 (0.65%) JIRA
4 1 (0.65%) MLflow
4 1 (0.65%) QUnit
4 1 (0.65%) RStudio
4 1 (0.65%) TensorBoard
General
1 83 (53.90%) Finance
2 51 (33.12%) Banking
2 51 (33.12%) Front Office
3 42 (27.27%) Social Skills
4 34 (22.08%) Investment Banking
5 33 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (11.69%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.60%) Marketing
8 3 (1.95%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.95%) Retail
9 2 (1.30%) Back Office
9 2 (1.30%) Games
9 2 (1.30%) Law
9 2 (1.30%) Military
10 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 72 (46.75%) Developer
2 26 (16.88%) Python Developer
3 25 (16.23%) Senior
4 22 (14.29%) Quantitative Developer
5 16 (10.39%) Analyst
5 16 (10.39%) Data Scientist
5 16 (10.39%) Senior Developer
6 14 (9.09%) AWS Developer
6 14 (9.09%) JavaScript Developer
7 9 (5.84%) Data Engineer
8 7 (4.55%) C# Developer
8 7 (4.55%) Lead
8 7 (4.55%) Qualitative Analyst
8 7 (4.55%) Quantitative Analyst
9 6 (3.90%) C++ Developer
9 6 (3.90%) Java Developer
9 6 (3.90%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 5 (3.25%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
10 5 (3.25%) Senior C++ Developer
11 4 (2.60%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (18.18%) Pandas
2 25 (16.23%) NumPy
3 20 (12.99%) SciPy
4 17 (11.04%) React
5 15 (9.74%) FastAPI
5 15 (9.74%) Flask
5 15 (9.74%) Kafka
5 15 (9.74%) Vue
6 14 (9.09%) AngularJS
6 14 (9.09%) Polars
7 7 (4.55%) .NET
7 7 (4.55%) scikit-learn
8 6 (3.90%) Dask
8 6 (3.90%) REST
9 5 (3.25%) Hugging Face
9 5 (3.25%) LangChain
9 5 (3.25%) PyTorch
9 5 (3.25%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (3.25%) RESTful
9 5 (3.25%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 42 (27.27%) Derivative
2 39 (25.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 37 (24.03%) Algorithms
4 27 (17.53%) Hedge funds
5 25 (16.23%) Equities
6 19 (12.34%) Equity Derivative
7 14 (9.09%) Distributed Computing
8 13 (8.44%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (8.44%) Fixed Income
9 11 (7.14%) Cloud Native
10 10 (6.49%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (4.55%) Data Structures
12 5 (3.25%) Data Fabric
13 4 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (1.95%) Multi-touch
15 2 (1.30%) Credit Derivative
15 2 (1.30%) Credit Risk
15 2 (1.30%) Product Ownership
15 2 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
15 2 (1.30%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 30 (19.48%) Linux
2 9 (5.84%) Windows
3 4 (2.60%) Unix
4 2 (1.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (40.91%) Computer Science
2 46 (29.87%) CI/CD
3 38 (24.68%) Machine Learning
4 37 (24.03%) Physics
5 36 (23.38%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (23.38%) Risk Management
5 36 (23.38%) Software Engineering
6 33 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
7 32 (20.78%) Analytics
7 32 (20.78%) Data Science
8 29 (18.83%) Agile
9 27 (17.53%) Data Engineering
10 26 (16.88%) AI
10 26 (16.88%) Quantitative Finance
11 22 (14.29%) DevOps
12 21 (13.64%) Statistics
12 21 (13.64%) Systematic Trading
13 20 (12.99%) Validation
14 19 (12.34%) Decision-Making
15 17 (11.04%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 115 (74.68%) Python
2 54 (35.06%) C++
3 46 (29.87%) C#
4 37 (24.03%) SQL
5 29 (18.83%) Java
6 20 (12.99%) JavaScript
7 15 (9.74%) Rust
8 8 (5.19%) R
9 5 (3.25%) Bash
9 5 (3.25%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.60%) VBA
11 3 (1.95%) C
12 2 (1.30%) Go
12 2 (1.30%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.30%) Scala
12 2 (1.30%) VC++
13 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 84 (54.55%) Degree
2 33 (21.43%) Master's Degree
3 23 (14.94%) PhD
4 21 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (11.04%) Numerate Degree
6 4 (2.60%) MCP
6 4 (2.60%) Postgraduate
6 4 (2.60%) Security Cleared
7 3 (1.95%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.65%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.90%) Data Quality
1 6 (3.90%) SLA
2 4 (2.60%) EMIR
2 4 (2.60%) QA
3 2 (1.30%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.65%) Basel III
4 1 (0.65%) GDPR
4 1 (0.65%) IFRS
4 1 (0.65%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.65%) NIST
4 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 32 (20.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (16.88%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.60%) Grafana
2 4 (2.60%) Puppet
2 4 (2.60%) Terraform
3 3 (1.95%) Ansible
4 2 (1.30%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.65%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.65%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 8 (5.19%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.25%) Databricks
2 5 (3.25%) Google
2 5 (3.25%) Sophis
3 4 (2.60%) Dataiku
3 4 (2.60%) Foundry
3 4 (2.60%) Oracle
4 3 (1.95%) PagerDuty
4 3 (1.95%) Palantir
5 2 (1.30%) IBM
6 1 (0.65%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.65%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.65%) Informatica
6 1 (0.65%) Murex
6 1 (0.65%) SnapLogic
6 1 (0.65%) Splunk
6 1 (0.65%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.65%) UiPath
6 1 (0.65%) Zoomdata