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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 211 244 219
Rank change year-on-year +33 -25 +20
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 166 137 260
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.23% 0.84% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 0.94% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 96 205
10th Percentile £438 £319 £418
25th Percentile £563 £403 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £563 £700
Median % change year-on-year +28.89% -19.64% -
75th Percentile £833 £788 £863
90th Percentile £1,005 £850 £1,000
England median daily rate £680 £500 £650
% change year-on-year +36.00% -23.08% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 4
10th Percentile £27.35 £38.42 £30.73
25th Percentile £34.00 £47.00 £49.06
Median hourly rate £43.50 £50.50 £61.75
Median % change year-on-year -13.86% -18.22% +25.38%
75th Percentile £51.50 £53.25 £95.25
90th Percentile £58.75 £53.75 £150.60
England median hourly rate £16.23 £16.23 £13.66
% change year-on-year - +18.81% -64.97%

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 12,460 14,546 19,811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.52% 89.21% 90.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,243 9,682 14,351
10th Percentile £327 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £694
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 179 228
10th Percentile £17.01 £17.25 £18.11
25th Percentile £25.00 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.75 £35.00 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% -7.28% +4.86%
75th Percentile £49.56 £55.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £76.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.66%

Mathematics
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Mathematics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Mathematics 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 22 £663 +3.92% 101
South London +1 6 £775 -3.13% 9
East London - 5 £1,000 - 8
West London -7 1 - - 8
Mathematics
England

Mathematics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 27 (16.27%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.61%) Apache
3 3 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.81%) Luigi
4 2 (1.20%) GemFire
4 2 (1.20%) Oracle Coherence
4 2 (1.20%) SAS
5 1 (0.60%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 23 (13.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.60%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (1.81%) Bankmaster
2 1 (0.60%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 47 (28.31%) Azure
2 41 (24.70%) AWS
3 18 (10.84%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (6.02%) Power Platform
5 9 (5.42%) GCP
6 4 (2.41%) Amazon SageMaker
6 4 (2.41%) GitHub
6 4 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.20%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (1.20%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (0.60%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.60%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.60%) Google Docs
8 1 (0.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.60%) Google Sheets
8 1 (0.60%) IaaS
8 1 (0.60%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.60%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.60%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.61%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.81%) Internet
3 1 (0.60%) DNS
3 1 (0.60%) Firewall
3 1 (0.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.04%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (7.83%) Hadoop
2 13 (7.83%) SQL Server
3 12 (7.23%) NoSQL
3 12 (7.23%) Redis
4 10 (6.02%) Big Data
4 10 (6.02%) Power BI
5 9 (5.42%) Geospatial Data
6 7 (4.22%) MongoDB
6 7 (4.22%) Tableau
7 5 (3.01%) GIS
7 5 (3.01%) QGIS
8 4 (2.41%) Apache Hive
8 4 (2.41%) Data Mining
8 4 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.41%) Metadata
9 3 (1.81%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.20%) MySQL
11 1 (0.60%) KDB
11 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 31 (18.67%) Git
2 6 (3.61%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.41%) MLflow
3 4 (2.41%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.20%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.60%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.60%) ERwin
5 1 (0.60%) GitLab
5 1 (0.60%) Maven
5 1 (0.60%) QUnit
5 1 (0.60%) TensorBoard
General
1 87 (52.41%) Finance
2 56 (33.73%) Social Skills
3 54 (32.53%) Banking
4 49 (29.52%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (25.90%) Front Office
6 42 (25.30%) Investment Banking
7 11 (6.63%) Financial Institution
8 7 (4.22%) Marketing
9 6 (3.61%) Public Sector
10 5 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (3.01%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.60%) Fire and Rescue
13 1 (0.60%) Games
13 1 (0.60%) Legal
13 1 (0.60%) Local Government
13 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.60%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 85 (51.20%) Developer
2 25 (15.06%) Python Developer
3 22 (13.25%) Data Scientist
4 21 (12.65%) Quantitative Developer
5 20 (12.05%) Analyst
5 20 (12.05%) Java Developer
6 17 (10.24%) AWS Developer
6 17 (10.24%) JavaScript Developer
6 17 (10.24%) Senior
7 16 (9.64%) Lead
8 15 (9.04%) Data Engineer
9 14 (8.43%) C# Developer
10 12 (7.23%) Lead Developer
10 12 (7.23%) Lead Java Developer
11 10 (6.02%) Qualitative Analyst
11 10 (6.02%) Quantitative Analyst
11 10 (6.02%) Senior Developer
12 9 (5.42%) Front Office Developer
13 7 (4.22%) Python Engineer
14 5 (3.01%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (16.27%) Pandas
2 24 (14.46%) Kafka
3 20 (12.05%) React
4 19 (11.45%) AngularJS
4 19 (11.45%) NumPy
5 17 (10.24%) FastAPI
5 17 (10.24%) Flask
5 17 (10.24%) Polars
5 17 (10.24%) SciPy
5 17 (10.24%) Vue
6 12 (7.23%) ActiveMQ
7 8 (4.82%) .NET
8 6 (3.61%) FIX Protocol
8 6 (3.61%) TensorFlow
9 5 (3.01%) FpML
9 5 (3.01%) GeoPandas
9 5 (3.01%) Middleware
9 5 (3.01%) PostGIS
9 5 (3.01%) PySpark
9 5 (3.01%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 46 (27.71%) Derivative
2 33 (19.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 31 (18.67%) Algorithms
4 21 (12.65%) Hedge funds
5 20 (12.05%) Equity Derivative
6 18 (10.84%) Distributed Computing
7 17 (10.24%) Distributed Systems
8 15 (9.04%) Equities
9 11 (6.63%) Data Structures
10 9 (5.42%) Fixed Income
10 9 (5.42%) Market Risk
11 7 (4.22%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (3.61%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (3.61%) Multi-touch
13 5 (3.01%) Credit Risk
13 5 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (2.41%) Data Fabric
14 4 (2.41%) Social Media
15 2 (1.20%) Management Information System
16 1 (0.60%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 27 (16.27%) Linux
2 6 (3.61%) Windows
3 2 (1.20%) Unix
4 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (41.57%) Computer Science
2 46 (27.71%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (26.51%) CI/CD
4 38 (22.89%) Software Engineering
5 35 (21.08%) Physics
6 34 (20.48%) Agile
7 33 (19.88%) Machine Learning
8 31 (18.67%) Data Science
9 30 (18.07%) Data Pipeline
9 30 (18.07%) Risk Management
10 28 (16.87%) Analytics
10 28 (16.87%) Data Engineering
11 23 (13.86%) DevOps
11 23 (13.86%) Economics
12 22 (13.25%) Validation
13 20 (12.05%) Statistics
13 20 (12.05%) Systematic Trading
14 18 (10.84%) Data Analysis
15 17 (10.24%) Greeks
15 17 (10.24%) Structured Programming
Programming Languages
1 123 (74.10%) Python
2 54 (32.53%) C++
3 53 (31.93%) SQL
4 50 (30.12%) Java
5 45 (27.11%) C#
6 21 (12.65%) JavaScript
7 17 (10.24%) Rust
8 12 (7.23%) R
9 6 (3.61%) VBA
10 3 (1.81%) Scala
11 2 (1.20%) Bash
11 2 (1.20%) C
11 2 (1.20%) Haskell
11 2 (1.20%) MATLAB
11 2 (1.20%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.20%) VC++
12 1 (0.60%) Go
12 1 (0.60%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.60%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 91 (54.82%) Degree
2 27 (16.27%) Master's Degree
3 25 (15.06%) Numerate Degree
4 24 (14.46%) PhD
5 19 (11.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.41%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.20%) Postgraduate
7 2 (1.20%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.60%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.42%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.01%) QA
3 3 (1.81%) EMIR
3 3 (1.81%) SLA
4 2 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.20%) NIST
5 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.60%) Basel III
System Software
1 28 (16.87%) Docker
2 2 (1.20%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 25 (15.06%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.20%) Kubeflow
2 2 (1.20%) Terraform
3 1 (0.60%) Grafana
3 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.60%) Puppet
3 1 (0.60%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 12 (7.23%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.01%) Databricks
2 5 (3.01%) Oracle
2 5 (3.01%) Sophis
3 4 (2.41%) Google
4 1 (0.60%) Alteryx
4 1 (0.60%) Bloomberg
4 1 (0.60%) Foundry
4 1 (0.60%) IBM
4 1 (0.60%) Informatica
4 1 (0.60%) Palantir
4 1 (0.60%) SnapLogic
4 1 (0.60%) Splunk
4 1 (0.60%) Zoomdata