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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 232 249 224
Rank change year-on-year +17 -25 +1
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 148 120 188
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.02% 0.81% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 0.90% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 72 144
10th Percentile £414 £342 £435
25th Percentile £538 £441 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £613 £650
Median % change year-on-year +22.45% -5.77% -13.33%
75th Percentile £1,000 £834 £750
90th Percentile £1,110 £874 £946
England median daily rate £650 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +23.81% -12.50% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 8
10th Percentile £39.86 £22.00 £35.30
25th Percentile £40.26 £30.59 £42.50
Median hourly rate £42.12 £39.00 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +7.99% -22.39% -8.64%
75th Percentile £44.03 £53.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £44.46 - £62.58
England median hourly rate £26.96 £16.23 £14.16
% change year-on-year +66.10% +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 13,190 13,384 16,568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.29% 90.13% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,688 8,584 11,883
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £681
90th Percentile £756 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 164 245
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.03 £17.85
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £20.02
Median hourly rate £31.49 £36.65 £32.69
Median % change year-on-year -14.08% +12.11% -14.80%
75th Percentile £53.44 £55.38 £58.75
90th Percentile £67.70 £80.75 £74.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.64%

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 27 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 27 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 -11 15 £650 +18.18% 125
East London - 6 £1,000 - 8
South London - 4 £750 - 16
West London -18 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 11 (7.43%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.38%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.35%) SAS
4 1 (0.68%) Apache
4 1 (0.68%) Apache Pig
4 1 (0.68%) Luigi
4 1 (0.68%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (10.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.35%) Adobe Premiere
2 2 (1.35%) Blender
2 2 (1.35%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.68%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.68%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 36 (24.32%) AWS
2 26 (17.57%) Azure
3 10 (6.76%) Power Platform
4 9 (6.08%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (4.73%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (4.73%) GCP
6 6 (4.05%) Amazon S3
6 6 (4.05%) GitHub
7 5 (3.38%) Azure Machine Learning
7 5 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (2.70%) IaaS
8 4 (2.70%) Serverless
9 3 (2.03%) Amazon Bedrock
9 3 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (2.03%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.03%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.68%) 3GPP
1 1 (0.68%) DNS
1 1 (0.68%) Firewall
1 1 (0.68%) HTTP
1 1 (0.68%) Intelligent Network
1 1 (0.68%) Internet
1 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.68%) VPN
1 1 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.43%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.76%) Power BI
3 6 (4.05%) MongoDB
3 6 (4.05%) NoSQL
3 6 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.38%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (3.38%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.70%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (2.03%) Big Data
6 3 (2.03%) KDB
6 3 (2.03%) Kdb+
7 2 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.35%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.35%) Metadata
7 2 (1.35%) Redis
8 1 (0.68%) Azkaban
8 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.68%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 29 (19.59%) Git
2 5 (3.38%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.38%) TeamCity
2 5 (3.38%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.35%) Maven
3 2 (1.35%) MSBuild
3 2 (1.35%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.68%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.68%) ERwin
4 1 (0.68%) GitLab
4 1 (0.68%) JIRA
4 1 (0.68%) QUnit
4 1 (0.68%) RStudio
General
1 82 (55.41%) Finance
2 47 (31.76%) Banking
2 47 (31.76%) Front Office
3 37 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 31 (20.95%) Investment Banking
5 30 (20.27%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (12.16%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.70%) Marketing
8 3 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.03%) Retail
9 2 (1.35%) Back Office
9 2 (1.35%) Games
9 2 (1.35%) Law
9 2 (1.35%) Military
9 2 (1.35%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.68%) Aviation
10 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 70 (47.30%) Developer
2 26 (17.57%) Senior
3 24 (16.22%) Quantitative Developer
4 23 (15.54%) Python Developer
5 16 (10.81%) Analyst
5 16 (10.81%) Senior Developer
6 15 (10.14%) Data Scientist
7 13 (8.78%) AWS Developer
7 13 (8.78%) JavaScript Developer
8 8 (5.41%) C++ Developer
9 7 (4.73%) C# Developer
9 7 (4.73%) Qualitative Analyst
9 7 (4.73%) Quantitative Analyst
9 7 (4.73%) Senior C++ Developer
10 6 (4.05%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 5 (3.38%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
11 5 (3.38%) Data Engineer
11 5 (3.38%) Lead
12 4 (2.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 4 (2.70%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (18.24%) Pandas
2 24 (16.22%) NumPy
3 19 (12.84%) SciPy
4 16 (10.81%) React
5 14 (9.46%) FastAPI
5 14 (9.46%) Flask
5 14 (9.46%) Vue
6 13 (8.78%) AngularJS
6 13 (8.78%) Polars
7 11 (7.43%) Kafka
8 7 (4.73%) .NET
8 7 (4.73%) scikit-learn
9 6 (4.05%) Dask
9 6 (4.05%) REST
10 5 (3.38%) Hugging Face
10 5 (3.38%) LangChain
10 5 (3.38%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (3.38%) RESTful
10 5 (3.38%) Web Services
11 4 (2.70%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 42 (28.38%) Derivative
2 40 (27.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 37 (25.00%) Algorithms
4 27 (18.24%) Equities
5 26 (17.57%) Hedge funds
6 21 (14.19%) Equity Derivative
7 15 (10.14%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (8.78%) Distributed Computing
8 13 (8.78%) Fixed Income
9 11 (7.43%) Cloud Native
9 11 (7.43%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (4.05%) Data Structures
11 5 (3.38%) Data Fabric
12 4 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (2.03%) Multi-touch
14 2 (1.35%) AI Agents
14 2 (1.35%) Credit Risk
14 2 (1.35%) Product Ownership
14 2 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
14 2 (1.35%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 28 (18.92%) Linux
2 9 (6.08%) Windows
3 4 (2.70%) Unix
4 2 (1.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (39.19%) Computer Science
2 46 (31.08%) CI/CD
3 38 (25.68%) Risk Management
4 35 (23.65%) Machine Learning
4 35 (23.65%) Physics
5 33 (22.30%) Data Pipeline
5 33 (22.30%) Software Engineering
6 32 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (20.95%) Analytics
7 31 (20.95%) Data Science
8 29 (19.59%) Quantitative Finance
9 26 (17.57%) AI
10 24 (16.22%) Agile
11 22 (14.86%) Data Engineering
12 20 (13.51%) Decision-Making
12 20 (13.51%) DevOps
12 20 (13.51%) Statistics
12 20 (13.51%) Systematic Trading
12 20 (13.51%) Validation
13 16 (10.81%) Model Validation
Programming Languages
1 109 (73.65%) Python
2 54 (36.49%) C++
3 47 (31.76%) C#
4 32 (21.62%) SQL
5 23 (15.54%) Java
6 19 (12.84%) JavaScript
7 14 (9.46%) Rust
8 7 (4.73%) R
9 5 (3.38%) Bash
9 5 (3.38%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.70%) VBA
11 2 (1.35%) C
11 2 (1.35%) Go
11 2 (1.35%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.35%) VC++
12 1 (0.68%) Scala
Qualifications
1 80 (54.05%) Degree
2 32 (21.62%) Master's Degree
3 24 (16.22%) PhD
4 20 (13.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (11.49%) Numerate Degree
6 5 (3.38%) MCP
7 4 (2.70%) Postgraduate
7 4 (2.70%) Security Cleared
8 3 (2.03%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.68%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.38%) SLA
2 4 (2.70%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.70%) EMIR
2 4 (2.70%) QA
3 2 (1.35%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.68%) Basel III
4 1 (0.68%) GDPR
4 1 (0.68%) IFRS
4 1 (0.68%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (20.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (16.22%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.70%) Grafana
2 4 (2.70%) Puppet
2 4 (2.70%) Terraform
3 3 (2.03%) Ansible
4 2 (1.35%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.68%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 7 (4.73%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.38%) Google
2 5 (3.38%) Sophis
3 4 (2.70%) Databricks
3 4 (2.70%) Dataiku
3 4 (2.70%) Foundry
3 4 (2.70%) Oracle
4 3 (2.03%) PagerDuty
4 3 (2.03%) Palantir
5 2 (1.35%) IBM
6 1 (0.68%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.68%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.68%) Charles River
6 1 (0.68%) Citrix
6 1 (0.68%) Informatica
6 1 (0.68%) Murex
6 1 (0.68%) SnapLogic
6 1 (0.68%) Splunk
6 1 (0.68%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.68%) Zoomdata