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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 182 229
Rank change year-on-year -121 +47 -25
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 136 195 188
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.69% 1.44% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.57% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 131 128
10th Percentile £425 £413 £329
25th Percentile £544 £528 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £750 £638
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £796 £813 £825
90th Percentile £888 £1,030 £875
England median daily rate £550 £713 £575
% change year-on-year -22.81% +23.91% -17.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 20
10th Percentile - £25.17 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.03 £28.79 £20.98
Median hourly rate £27.52 £43.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -36.75% -0.57% -54.10%
75th Percentile £36.00 £56.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £60.50 £60.75 £72.75
England median hourly rate £21.52 £15.78 £15.00
% change year-on-year +36.42% +5.17% +2.44%

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 17,532 12,440 15,649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.99% 92.14% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,643 8,309 11,135
10th Percentile £360 £331 £340
25th Percentile £440 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.58%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £769 £798 £800
England median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 234 293
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.96
25th Percentile £22.87 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £36.75 £32.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.84% +6.67% -27.31%
75th Percentile £58.98 £50.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.07%

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 9 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Mathematics in London over the 6 months to 9 July 2026.

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 9 July 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 -15 14 £800 +6.67% 36
West London -15 5 £773 +54.60% 45
North London - 1 - - 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 7 (5.15%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.47%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.74%) IIS
4 1 (0.74%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.47%) CPLEX
3 1 (0.74%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.21%) Orchestrade
2 2 (1.47%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 35 (25.74%) AWS
2 18 (13.24%) Azure
3 10 (7.35%) Snowflake
4 9 (6.62%) GCP
4 9 (6.62%) Power Platform
5 6 (4.41%) SaaS
6 5 (3.68%) Amazon Bedrock
6 5 (3.68%) Amazon SageMaker
6 5 (3.68%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (3.68%) Serverless
7 4 (2.94%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.21%) dbt
9 2 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.47%) AWS KMS
9 2 (1.47%) GitHub
10 1 (0.74%) Amazon Neptune
10 1 (0.74%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.74%) Zapier
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.56%) MongoDB
2 9 (6.62%) Power BI
2 9 (6.62%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (4.41%) Tableau
5 3 (2.21%) Big Data
5 3 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.21%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.47%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.47%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.47%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.47%) Power Query
6 2 (1.47%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.74%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.74%) Looker
7 1 (0.74%) Metadata
7 1 (0.74%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.74%) Stardog
7 1 (0.74%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 13 (9.56%) Git
2 3 (2.21%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.47%) GitLab
3 2 (1.47%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio
General
1 53 (38.97%) Finance
2 50 (36.76%) Social Skills
3 41 (30.15%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (18.38%) Banking
5 21 (15.44%) Front Office
6 13 (9.56%) Marketing
7 12 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (8.09%) Investment Banking
9 9 (6.62%) Public Sector
10 7 (5.15%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (3.68%) Retail
12 4 (2.94%) Legal
13 3 (2.21%) Advertising
13 3 (2.21%) Aviation
13 3 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (1.47%) Financial Institution
14 2 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.74%) Local Government
15 1 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (22.79%) Developer
2 30 (22.06%) Senior
3 29 (21.32%) Data Scientist
4 14 (10.29%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 13 (9.56%) Analyst
6 12 (8.82%) C# Developer
6 12 (8.82%) Data Engineer
6 12 (8.82%) Quantitative Developer
7 10 (7.35%) Software Engineer
8 9 (6.62%) Java Engineer
8 9 (6.62%) Python Developer
8 9 (6.62%) Senior Data Scientist
9 8 (5.88%) Lead
9 8 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
10 6 (4.41%) Data Analyst
10 6 (4.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 5 (3.68%) Business Analyst
11 5 (3.68%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (3.68%) Senior Developer
11 5 (3.68%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.35%) Kafka
1 10 (7.35%) Pandas
1 10 (7.35%) React
2 7 (5.15%) .NET
3 6 (4.41%) NumPy
3 6 (4.41%) PyTorch
4 5 (3.68%) FastAPI
4 5 (3.68%) LangGraph
5 4 (2.94%) LangChain
5 4 (2.94%) Model Context Protocol
5 4 (2.94%) TensorFlow
5 4 (2.94%) Web Services
5 4 (2.94%) XML
6 3 (2.21%) Django
6 3 (2.21%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (2.21%) scikit-learn
7 2 (1.47%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.47%) Keras
7 2 (1.47%) Polars
7 2 (1.47%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.18%) Derivative
2 18 (13.24%) Algorithms
3 14 (10.29%) Cloud Native
3 14 (10.29%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (9.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 9 (6.62%) Fixed Income
6 8 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (5.88%) Equities
6 8 (5.88%) Product Ownership
7 7 (5.15%) Data Structures
7 7 (5.15%) Onboarding
8 6 (4.41%) AI Agents
8 6 (4.41%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (4.41%) Hedge funds
9 5 (3.68%) Management Information System
10 4 (2.94%) Exotic Derivative
10 4 (2.94%) OTC Derivatives
11 3 (2.21%) Credit Derivative
11 3 (2.21%) e-Learning
11 3 (2.21%) Multi-touch
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.15%) Linux
2 2 (1.47%) Windows
3 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (49.26%) Computer Science
2 51 (37.50%) AI
2 51 (37.50%) Machine Learning
3 48 (35.29%) Data Science
4 44 (32.35%) Decision-Making
5 43 (31.62%) Analytics
6 42 (30.88%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (29.41%) Software Engineering
8 34 (25.00%) Statistics
9 28 (20.59%) Physics
10 26 (19.12%) Data Engineering
11 24 (17.65%) Data Pipeline
12 23 (16.91%) Agile
13 22 (16.18%) Asset Management
13 22 (16.18%) Continuous Improvement
14 21 (15.44%) LLM
15 19 (13.97%) Validation
16 14 (10.29%) Applied Mathematics
16 14 (10.29%) Data Analysis
16 14 (10.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 91 (66.91%) Python
2 43 (31.62%) SQL
3 23 (16.91%) Java
4 16 (11.76%) C#
5 15 (11.03%) C++
6 13 (9.56%) R
7 5 (3.68%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.21%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.47%) Bash
9 2 (1.47%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.47%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.74%) C
10 1 (0.74%) Cypher
10 1 (0.74%) Gremlin
10 1 (0.74%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.74%) SHACL
10 1 (0.74%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 72 (52.94%) Degree
2 24 (17.65%) Master's Degree
3 22 (16.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (15.44%) PhD
5 4 (2.94%) Numerate Degree
5 4 (2.94%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.21%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.47%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.74%) MBA
8 1 (0.74%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.74%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.35%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.94%) QA
3 1 (0.74%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.21%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.21%) Terraform
2 1 (0.74%) Grafana
2 1 (0.74%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (5.15%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.41%) Databricks
3 4 (2.94%) Murex
4 3 (2.21%) Alteryx
4 3 (2.21%) Charles River
5 2 (1.47%) Citrix
5 2 (1.47%) Oracle
6 1 (0.74%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.74%) Calypso
6 1 (0.74%) Google
6 1 (0.74%) Greenplum
6 1 (0.74%) Netezza
6 1 (0.74%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.74%) Reuters
6 1 (0.74%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.74%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.74%) Teradata