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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 190 224
Rank change year-on-year -88 +34 -16
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 129 166 180
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.72% 1.33% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 1.44% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 112 127
10th Percentile £419 £376 £388
25th Percentile £525 £525 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £750 £638
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £800 £850 £825
90th Percentile £984 £1,030 £885
England median daily rate £550 £725 £600
% change year-on-year -24.14% +20.83% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 21
10th Percentile - - £12.50
25th Percentile - £22.00 £20.98
Median hourly rate £19.03 £26.32 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.70% -41.51% +63.64%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile - £56.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £19.86 £15.78 £14.84
% change year-on-year +25.91% +6.30% -23.86%

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 15,848 11,538 15,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.29% 92.22% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,602 7,808 11,112
10th Percentile £356 £350 £343
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £756 £813 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 178 307
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £15.77
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.11 £20.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +7.35% +22.13% -27.22%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.85
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% +0.69%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -25 13 £728 -3.00% 47
West London -20 6 £773 +54.60% 5
South London - 1 - -
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 (5.43%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.55%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.55%) SAS
2 2 (1.55%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.78%) Confluence
3 1 (0.78%) IIS
3 1 (0.78%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 10 (7.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.55%) CPLEX
2 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.55%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.78%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.55%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.78%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.78%) IntelliMatch
2 1 (0.78%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 29 (22.48%) AWS
2 16 (12.40%) Azure
3 7 (5.43%) Amazon S3
3 7 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (5.43%) Serverless
4 6 (4.65%) GCP
5 5 (3.88%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.88%) Snowflake
6 4 (3.10%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (3.10%) SaaS
7 3 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.33%) Azure AI
7 3 (2.33%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (2.33%) GitHub
8 2 (1.55%) Amazon Bedrock
8 2 (1.55%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (1.55%) AWS KMS
8 2 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.55%) dbt
8 2 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.55%) 3GPP
1 2 (1.55%) HTTP
1 2 (1.55%) Intelligent Network
1 2 (1.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.75%) MongoDB
2 8 (6.20%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (6.20%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.88%) Power BI
4 3 (2.33%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.55%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.78%) Big Data
6 1 (0.78%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.78%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.78%) DataStage
6 1 (0.78%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.78%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.78%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.78%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (12.40%) Git
2 6 (4.65%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.10%) Visual Studio
4 3 (2.33%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.55%) GitLab
5 2 (1.55%) JIRA
General
1 67 (51.94%) Finance
2 44 (34.11%) Social Skills
3 30 (23.26%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (21.71%) Front Office
5 26 (20.16%) Banking
6 12 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (8.53%) Investment Banking
8 10 (7.75%) Marketing
9 8 (6.20%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (4.65%) Public Sector
11 5 (3.88%) Financial Institution
11 5 (3.88%) Retail
12 4 (3.10%) Aviation
13 3 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (2.33%) Telecoms
14 2 (1.55%) Legal
14 2 (1.55%) Military
14 2 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (1.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 37 (28.68%) Developer
2 27 (20.93%) Senior
3 26 (20.16%) Data Scientist
4 16 (12.40%) Analyst
5 14 (10.85%) Quantitative Developer
6 13 (10.08%) Python Developer
7 12 (9.30%) Data Engineer
8 10 (7.75%) Senior Data Scientist
9 9 (6.98%) Lead
10 8 (6.20%) C# Developer
10 8 (6.20%) Java Engineer
10 8 (6.20%) Senior Data Engineer
11 6 (4.65%) Business Analyst
11 6 (4.65%) C++ Developer
11 6 (4.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 6 (4.65%) Senior Developer
12 5 (3.88%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (3.88%) Junior
12 5 (3.88%) Lead Data Scientist
13 4 (3.10%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.63%) Pandas
2 11 (8.53%) NumPy
3 10 (7.75%) Kafka
4 8 (6.20%) React
5 7 (5.43%) PyTorch
5 7 (5.43%) TensorFlow
6 6 (4.65%) Model Context Protocol
6 6 (4.65%) scikit-learn
7 5 (3.88%) .NET
7 5 (3.88%) LangGraph
7 5 (3.88%) SciPy
8 4 (3.10%) LangChain
9 3 (2.33%) Django
9 3 (2.33%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (2.33%) Hugging Face
9 3 (2.33%) pydantic
9 3 (2.33%) Web Services
10 2 (1.55%) FastAPI
10 2 (1.55%) Prophet
10 2 (1.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (19.38%) Derivative
2 23 (17.83%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (17.05%) Algorithms
4 16 (12.40%) Equities
5 15 (11.63%) Cloud Native
5 15 (11.63%) Data Protection Act
6 12 (9.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 11 (8.53%) Equity Derivative
8 8 (6.20%) Data Structures
8 8 (6.20%) Fixed Income
9 7 (5.43%) Onboarding
10 6 (4.65%) Product Ownership
11 5 (3.88%) Hedge funds
12 4 (3.10%) Management Information System
13 3 (2.33%) AI Agents
13 3 (2.33%) Credit Derivative
13 3 (2.33%) Multi-touch
14 2 (1.55%) Credit Risk
14 2 (1.55%) Data Fabric
14 2 (1.55%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.20%) Linux
2 3 (2.33%) Windows
3 1 (0.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (45.74%) Computer Science
2 42 (32.56%) Analytics
3 41 (31.78%) AI
4 40 (31.01%) Data Science
5 39 (30.23%) Machine Learning
6 38 (29.46%) Decision-Making
7 33 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (22.48%) Statistics
9 27 (20.93%) Physics
10 25 (19.38%) Software Engineering
11 24 (18.60%) CI/CD
12 22 (17.05%) Agile
13 20 (15.50%) Asset Management
13 20 (15.50%) Data Pipeline
13 20 (15.50%) Risk Management
14 18 (13.95%) Model Validation
15 17 (13.18%) Data Engineering
15 17 (13.18%) Data Protection
15 17 (13.18%) LLM
15 17 (13.18%) Quantitative Finance
Programming Languages
1 84 (65.12%) Python
2 36 (27.91%) SQL
3 26 (20.16%) C++
4 22 (17.05%) C#
5 20 (15.50%) Java
6 10 (7.75%) R
7 5 (3.88%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.33%) Bash
8 3 (2.33%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.33%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.55%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.78%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 78 (60.47%) Degree
2 24 (18.60%) Master's Degree
3 22 (17.05%) PhD
4 14 (10.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (10.85%) Numerate Degree
5 5 (3.88%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 3 (2.33%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.55%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.78%) MBA
8 1 (0.78%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.78%) PMP
8 1 (0.78%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.20%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.65%) QA
3 3 (2.33%) SLA
4 1 (0.78%) IFRS
4 1 (0.78%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 8 (6.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.65%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.10%) Terraform
3 1 (0.78%) Ansible
3 1 (0.78%) Grafana
3 1 (0.78%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.78%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (5.43%) Databricks
2 4 (3.10%) Charles River
2 4 (3.10%) Google
3 3 (2.33%) Citrix
3 3 (2.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.33%) Murex
4 2 (1.55%) Bloomberg
4 2 (1.55%) Oracle
5 1 (0.78%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.78%) FIS
5 1 (0.78%) Foundry
5 1 (0.78%) Greenplum
5 1 (0.78%) Netezza
5 1 (0.78%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.78%) PagerDuty
5 1 (0.78%) Palantir
5 1 (0.78%) Reuters
5 1 (0.78%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.78%) Teradata