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 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 220 210
Rank change year-on-year -44 -10 +5
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 143 144 199
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.87% 1.10% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 1.21% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 92 138
10th Percentile £360 £375 £422
25th Percentile £522 £509 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £750 £639
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +17.42% -17.58%
75th Percentile £1,000 £865 £725
90th Percentile £1,050 £996 £875
England median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -17.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 23
10th Percentile - £22.00 £13.20
25th Percentile £39.60 £25.24 £20.98
Median hourly rate £40.73 £37.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -16.11% +63.64%
75th Percentile £41.87 £46.25 £57.75
90th Percentile - £55.25 £71.75
England median hourly rate £19.00 £21.46 £14.36
% change year-on-year -11.46% +49.44% -72.39%

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 14,719 11,874 16,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.80% 91.07% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,879 7,921 11,507
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 160 344
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.41 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.45
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.70 £30.08
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +18.67% -16.44%
75th Percentile £57.00 £54.06 £49.91
90th Percentile £70.50 £77.59 £69.28
England median hourly rate £30.50 £34.06 £32.50
% change year-on-year -10.44% +4.78% -12.16%

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 15 March 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 15 March 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 -21 14 £650 -13.33% 54
West London -12 5 £773 +54.60% 10
South London - 3 £638 - 9
East London - 1 £1,000 - 6
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 10 (6.99%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.50%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.40%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (1.40%) SAS
4 1 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.70%) Confluence
4 1 (0.70%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (9.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.40%) Adobe Premiere
2 2 (1.40%) Blender
2 2 (1.40%) Photoshop
2 2 (1.40%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.70%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 2 (1.40%) Aladdin
1 2 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.70%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.70%) IntelliMatch
Cloud Services
1 32 (22.38%) AWS
2 18 (12.59%) Azure
3 7 (4.90%) Amazon ECS
3 7 (4.90%) Amazon S3
3 7 (4.90%) Power Platform
4 6 (4.20%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (4.20%) Serverless
5 5 (3.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (3.50%) Azure Machine Learning
6 4 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.80%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (2.80%) GCP
6 4 (2.80%) Snowflake
7 3 (2.10%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.10%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.10%) Azure AI
7 3 (2.10%) Azure Pipelines
7 3 (2.10%) GitHub
7 3 (2.10%) IaaS
7 3 (2.10%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.40%) 3GPP
1 2 (1.40%) HTTP
1 2 (1.40%) Intelligent Network
1 2 (1.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.90%) MongoDB
2 7 (4.90%) Power BI
3 5 (3.50%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (3.50%) Relational Database
3 5 (3.50%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.10%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.40%) KDB
5 2 (1.40%) Kdb+
6 1 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.70%) Big Data
6 1 (0.70%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.70%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.70%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (17.48%) Git
2 7 (4.90%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.80%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.40%) GitLab
4 2 (1.40%) JIRA
4 2 (1.40%) MSBuild
4 2 (1.40%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (1.40%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.70%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.70%) Maven
5 1 (0.70%) RStudio
General
1 77 (53.85%) Finance
2 44 (30.77%) Front Office
3 40 (27.97%) Social Skills
4 36 (25.17%) Banking
5 31 (21.68%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (14.69%) Investment Banking
7 11 (7.69%) Financial Institution
8 10 (6.99%) Marketing
9 7 (4.90%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (4.20%) Retail
11 3 (2.10%) Aviation
11 3 (2.10%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.40%) Games
12 2 (1.40%) Law
12 2 (1.40%) Military
12 2 (1.40%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.70%) Back Office
13 1 (0.70%) Legal
13 1 (0.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (37.76%) Developer
2 31 (21.68%) Senior
3 21 (14.69%) Python Developer
4 19 (13.29%) Data Scientist
4 19 (13.29%) Quantitative Developer
5 17 (11.89%) Analyst
6 14 (9.79%) Senior Developer
7 9 (6.29%) Senior Data Scientist
8 8 (5.59%) C++ Developer
8 8 (5.59%) Lead
8 8 (5.59%) Senior C++ Developer
9 6 (4.20%) AWS Developer
9 6 (4.20%) JavaScript Developer
9 6 (4.20%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 5 (3.50%) Data Engineer
10 5 (3.50%) Lead Data Scientist
10 5 (3.50%) Senior Data Engineer
10 5 (3.50%) Senior Python Developer
11 4 (2.80%) Quantitative Analyst
11 4 (2.80%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (15.38%) Pandas
2 19 (13.29%) NumPy
3 13 (9.09%) React
3 13 (9.09%) SciPy
4 9 (6.29%) scikit-learn
5 8 (5.59%) FastAPI
6 7 (4.90%) AngularJS
6 7 (4.90%) Flask
6 7 (4.90%) Kafka
6 7 (4.90%) Polars
6 7 (4.90%) PyTorch
6 7 (4.90%) TensorFlow
6 7 (4.90%) Vue
7 6 (4.20%) Dask
7 6 (4.20%) Model Context Protocol
7 6 (4.20%) REST
7 6 (4.20%) Web Services
8 4 (2.80%) Hugging Face
8 4 (2.80%) LangChain
8 4 (2.80%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 36 (25.17%) Derivative
2 34 (23.78%) Algorithms
3 28 (19.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 27 (18.88%) Equities
5 25 (17.48%) Distributed Systems
6 20 (13.99%) Cloud Native
7 17 (11.89%) Equity Derivative
7 17 (11.89%) Hedge funds
8 16 (11.19%) Fixed Income
9 10 (6.99%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (5.59%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (4.90%) Data Structures
12 5 (3.50%) Product Ownership
13 4 (2.80%) Onboarding
14 3 (2.10%) AI Agents
14 3 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (2.10%) Multi-touch
15 2 (1.40%) Credit Derivative
15 2 (1.40%) Data Fabric
16 1 (0.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.59%) Linux
2 3 (2.10%) Windows
3 2 (1.40%) Unix
4 1 (0.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (41.26%) Computer Science
2 39 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 38 (26.57%) Machine Learning
4 37 (25.87%) Data Science
4 37 (25.87%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (25.87%) Risk Management
5 36 (25.17%) AI
5 36 (25.17%) Analytics
6 31 (21.68%) Decision-Making
6 31 (21.68%) Physics
7 29 (20.28%) Quantitative Finance
8 27 (18.88%) Data Pipeline
9 26 (18.18%) Agile
9 26 (18.18%) Software Engineering
9 26 (18.18%) Statistics
10 21 (14.69%) Data Engineering
11 18 (12.59%) LLM
12 16 (11.19%) Systematic Trading
13 15 (10.49%) Mentoring
13 15 (10.49%) Model Validation
Programming Languages
1 100 (69.93%) Python
2 39 (27.27%) SQL
3 37 (25.87%) C++
4 30 (20.98%) C#
5 21 (14.69%) Java
6 11 (7.69%) JavaScript
7 9 (6.29%) R
8 7 (4.90%) Rust
9 5 (3.50%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.10%) Bash
11 2 (1.40%) VBA
12 1 (0.70%) C
12 1 (0.70%) Go
12 1 (0.70%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 83 (58.04%) Degree
2 32 (22.38%) Master's Degree
3 25 (17.48%) PhD
4 18 (12.59%) Numerate Degree
5 17 (11.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 3 (2.10%) Postgraduate
6 3 (2.10%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.40%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.70%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.70%) PMP
8 1 (0.70%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.50%) QA
2 4 (2.80%) SLA
3 3 (2.10%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.70%) EMIR
4 1 (0.70%) GDPR
4 1 (0.70%) IFRS
4 1 (0.70%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (12.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.20%) Terraform
3 3 (2.10%) Ansible
3 3 (2.10%) Grafana
3 3 (2.10%) Puppet
4 2 (1.40%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (4.90%) Databricks
2 4 (2.80%) Charles River
2 4 (2.80%) Dataiku
2 4 (2.80%) Google
2 4 (2.80%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.80%) Murex
3 3 (2.10%) Foundry
3 3 (2.10%) PagerDuty
4 2 (1.40%) Bloomberg
4 2 (1.40%) Citrix
4 2 (1.40%) Palantir
5 1 (0.70%) FIS
5 1 (0.70%) Greenplum
5 1 (0.70%) IBM
5 1 (0.70%) Netezza
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle
5 1 (0.70%) Reuters
5 1 (0.70%) Teradata
5 1 (0.70%) TIBCO
5 1 (0.70%) UiPath