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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 183 225
Rank change year-on-year -108 +42 -18
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 131 182 185
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.69% 1.47% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.59% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 125 127
10th Percentile £436 £423 £329
25th Percentile £545 £531 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £750 £638
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £800 £825 £813
90th Percentile £892 £1,042 £875
England median daily rate £550 £725 £575
% change year-on-year -24.14% +26.09% -17.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 20
10th Percentile - £24.89 £12.50
25th Percentile - £27.55 £20.98
Median hourly rate £19.03 £42.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -55.22% -2.86% -54.10%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £57.50
90th Percentile - £61.25 £72.75
England median hourly rate £19.03 £15.44 £15.00
% change year-on-year +23.25% +2.93% -4.00%

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 16,795 11,414 15,551
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.80% 92.28% 88.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,181 7,654 11,105
10th Percentile £360 £343 £343
25th Percentile £435 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £518 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.48% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 205 313
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £34.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.56% +13.33% -24.84%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.80
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.45 £37.75
% change year-on-year +71.22% -27.28% +7.09%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -33 12 £800 +6.67% 35
West London -16 5 £773 +54.60% 13
North London - 1 - - 2
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 7 (5.34%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.29%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.53%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.76%) Confluence
4 1 (0.76%) IIS
4 1 (0.76%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (5.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.53%) CPLEX
3 2 (1.53%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.76%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.29%) Orchestrade
2 2 (1.53%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.76%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.76%) IntelliMatch
Cloud Services
1 33 (25.19%) AWS
2 18 (13.74%) Azure
3 9 (6.87%) GCP
4 8 (6.11%) Power Platform
4 8 (6.11%) Snowflake
5 7 (5.34%) SaaS
6 4 (3.05%) Amazon Bedrock
6 4 (3.05%) Amazon SageMaker
6 4 (3.05%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (3.05%) Serverless
7 3 (2.29%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.53%) AWS KMS
8 2 (1.53%) dbt
8 2 (1.53%) GitHub
9 1 (0.76%) Anthropic Claude
9 1 (0.76%) AWS CodeDeploy
9 1 (0.76%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.76%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.53%) 3GPP
1 2 (1.53%) HTTP
1 2 (1.53%) Intelligent Network
1 2 (1.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.16%) MongoDB
2 9 (6.87%) SQL Server
3 8 (6.11%) Power BI
4 7 (5.34%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.82%) Tableau
6 3 (2.29%) Big Data
6 3 (2.29%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.53%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.53%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.53%) Power Query
7 2 (1.53%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.76%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.76%) DataStage
8 1 (0.76%) KDB
8 1 (0.76%) Kdb+
8 1 (0.76%) Metadata
8 1 (0.76%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (8.40%) Git
2 3 (2.29%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.53%) GitLab
3 2 (1.53%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.76%) JIRA
4 1 (0.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 57 (43.51%) Finance
2 49 (37.40%) Social Skills
3 37 (28.24%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (18.32%) Banking
5 22 (16.79%) Front Office
6 14 (10.69%) Marketing
7 12 (9.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (9.16%) Investment Banking
8 8 (6.11%) Public Sector
9 7 (5.34%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (3.82%) Retail
11 4 (3.05%) Legal
12 3 (2.29%) Advertising
12 3 (2.29%) Aviation
12 3 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (2.29%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 34 (25.95%) Developer
2 31 (23.66%) Senior
3 27 (20.61%) Data Scientist
4 15 (11.45%) Analyst
5 12 (9.16%) C# Developer
5 12 (9.16%) Data Engineer
5 12 (9.16%) Quantitative Developer
6 10 (7.63%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 9 (6.87%) Java Engineer
7 9 (6.87%) Python Developer
7 9 (6.87%) Senior Data Scientist
8 8 (6.11%) Lead
8 8 (6.11%) Senior Data Engineer
8 8 (6.11%) Senior Developer
9 6 (4.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 6 (4.58%) Business Analyst
9 6 (4.58%) Data Analyst
9 6 (4.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (3.82%) C++ Developer
10 5 (3.82%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.63%) Kafka
1 10 (7.63%) Pandas
1 10 (7.63%) React
2 7 (5.34%) .NET
3 6 (4.58%) Model Context Protocol
3 6 (4.58%) NumPy
4 5 (3.82%) FastAPI
4 5 (3.82%) LangGraph
4 5 (3.82%) Web Services
5 4 (3.05%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (3.05%) LangChain
5 4 (3.05%) PyTorch
5 4 (3.05%) TensorFlow
6 3 (2.29%) Django
6 3 (2.29%) scikit-learn
7 2 (1.53%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.53%) Keras
7 2 (1.53%) Prophet
7 2 (1.53%) SciPy
7 2 (1.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.03%) Derivative
2 20 (15.27%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (12.98%) Algorithms
4 15 (11.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 14 (10.69%) Cloud Native
6 11 (8.40%) Equities
7 10 (7.63%) Fixed Income
8 9 (6.87%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (6.11%) Onboarding
9 8 (6.11%) Product Ownership
10 7 (5.34%) Data Structures
11 6 (4.58%) AI Agents
11 6 (4.58%) Hedge funds
12 5 (3.82%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (3.82%) Equity Derivative
12 5 (3.82%) Management Information System
13 3 (2.29%) Credit Derivative
13 3 (2.29%) e-Learning
13 3 (2.29%) Multi-touch
14 2 (1.53%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.34%) Linux
2 2 (1.53%) Windows
3 1 (0.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (47.33%) Computer Science
2 48 (36.64%) AI
3 46 (35.11%) Data Science
4 44 (33.59%) Machine Learning
5 42 (32.06%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (31.30%) Decision-Making
7 39 (29.77%) Analytics
8 32 (24.43%) Software Engineering
9 30 (22.90%) Statistics
10 24 (18.32%) Agile
10 24 (18.32%) Data Pipeline
10 24 (18.32%) Physics
11 22 (16.79%) Asset Management
12 21 (16.03%) Data Engineering
13 18 (13.74%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (13.74%) LLM
14 16 (12.21%) CI/CD
15 15 (11.45%) SDLC
16 14 (10.69%) Validation
17 13 (9.92%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 82 (62.60%) Python
2 43 (32.82%) SQL
3 21 (16.03%) Java
4 19 (14.50%) C#
5 16 (12.21%) C++
6 10 (7.63%) R
7 5 (3.82%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.29%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.53%) Bash
9 2 (1.53%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.53%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.76%) C
10 1 (0.76%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 70 (53.44%) Degree
2 20 (15.27%) Master's Degree
3 19 (14.50%) PhD
4 17 (12.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (6.11%) Numerate Degree
6 4 (3.05%) Security Cleared
7 3 (2.29%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.53%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.76%) MBA
9 1 (0.76%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.76%) PMP
9 1 (0.76%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.11%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.05%) QA
3 1 (0.76%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (3.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.29%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (3.82%) Databricks
2 4 (3.05%) Charles River
2 4 (3.05%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.29%) Alteryx
3 3 (2.29%) Citrix
3 3 (2.29%) Murex
4 2 (1.53%) Bloomberg
4 2 (1.53%) Oracle
5 1 (0.76%) FIS
5 1 (0.76%) Google
5 1 (0.76%) Greenplum
5 1 (0.76%) Netezza
5 1 (0.76%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.76%) Reuters
5 1 (0.76%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.76%) Teradata