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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 240 231
Rank change year-on-year +18 -9 -7
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 144 119 180
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.02% 0.85% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 0.94% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 70 135
10th Percentile £414 £340 £426
25th Percentile £538 £450 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £663 £650
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% +1.92% -16.13%
75th Percentile £1,000 £834 £738
90th Percentile £1,110 £875 £875
England median daily rate £650 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +23.81% -12.50% -17.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 12
10th Percentile £39.86 £22.00 -
25th Percentile £40.26 £30.59 £42.50
Median hourly rate £42.12 £39.00 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.99% -24.27% -6.36%
75th Percentile £44.03 £53.75 £62.44
90th Percentile £44.46 - £71.70
England median hourly rate £22.00 £16.23 £14.16
% change year-on-year +35.55% +14.62% -75.10%

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 12,887 12,677 16,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.35% 90.27% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,501 8,101 11,545
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -5.46%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 155 258
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.94 £16.52
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.99 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.59 £54.50 £54.03
90th Percentile £69.30 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -27.63% -18.24% +21.43%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 16 £650 +23.81% 29
East London - 6 £1,000 - 2
South London - 4 £750 - 8
West London -17 1 - - 3
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 (6.94%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.47%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.39%) SAS
4 1 (0.69%) Apache
4 1 (0.69%) Apache Pig
4 1 (0.69%) Confluence
4 1 (0.69%) Luigi
4 1 (0.69%) WebSphere
Applications
1 18 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.39%) Adobe Premiere
2 2 (1.39%) Blender
2 2 (1.39%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.69%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.69%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.69%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (0.69%) IntelliMatch
Cloud Services
1 32 (22.22%) AWS
2 22 (15.28%) Azure
3 10 (6.94%) Power Platform
4 7 (4.86%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (4.86%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (4.17%) Amazon S3
5 6 (4.17%) GCP
5 6 (4.17%) GitHub
6 5 (3.47%) Azure Machine Learning
6 5 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.78%) IaaS
7 4 (2.78%) Serverless
8 3 (2.08%) Amazon Bedrock
8 3 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.08%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.08%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.39%) 3GPP
1 2 (1.39%) HTTP
1 2 (1.39%) Intelligent Network
1 2 (1.39%) Wireless
2 1 (0.69%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.64%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.94%) Power BI
3 6 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 6 (4.17%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.47%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (3.47%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.08%) Big Data
6 3 (2.08%) KDB
6 3 (2.08%) Kdb+
7 2 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.39%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (1.39%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.39%) Metadata
8 1 (0.69%) Azkaban
8 1 (0.69%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.69%) MySQL
8 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (18.75%) Git
2 5 (3.47%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.47%) TeamCity
2 5 (3.47%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.39%) JIRA
3 2 (1.39%) Maven
3 2 (1.39%) MSBuild
3 2 (1.39%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.69%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.69%) ERwin
4 1 (0.69%) GitLab
4 1 (0.69%) QUnit
4 1 (0.69%) RStudio
General
1 83 (57.64%) Finance
2 49 (34.03%) Front Office
3 44 (30.56%) Banking
4 36 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 29 (20.14%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (19.44%) Investment Banking
7 18 (12.50%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.78%) Marketing
9 3 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.39%) Back Office
10 2 (1.39%) Games
10 2 (1.39%) Law
10 2 (1.39%) Military
10 2 (1.39%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.39%) Retail
10 2 (1.39%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.69%) Aviation
11 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 68 (47.22%) Developer
2 27 (18.75%) Senior
3 25 (17.36%) Quantitative Developer
4 21 (14.58%) Python Developer
5 17 (11.81%) Analyst
5 17 (11.81%) Senior Developer
6 11 (7.64%) AWS Developer
6 11 (7.64%) Data Scientist
6 11 (7.64%) JavaScript Developer
7 9 (6.25%) C++ Developer
8 8 (5.56%) Senior C++ Developer
9 7 (4.86%) C# Developer
9 7 (4.86%) Qualitative Analyst
9 7 (4.86%) Quantitative Analyst
10 6 (4.17%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 5 (3.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 5 (3.47%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
11 5 (3.47%) Data Engineer
12 4 (2.78%) Front Office Developer
12 4 (2.78%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (16.67%) Pandas
2 22 (15.28%) NumPy
3 17 (11.81%) SciPy
4 14 (9.72%) React
5 12 (8.33%) FastAPI
5 12 (8.33%) Flask
5 12 (8.33%) Vue
6 11 (7.64%) AngularJS
6 11 (7.64%) Polars
7 9 (6.25%) Kafka
8 7 (4.86%) .NET
8 7 (4.86%) scikit-learn
9 6 (4.17%) Dask
9 6 (4.17%) REST
10 5 (3.47%) Hugging Face
10 5 (3.47%) LangChain
10 5 (3.47%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (3.47%) RESTful
10 5 (3.47%) Web Services
11 4 (2.78%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 43 (29.86%) Derivative
2 39 (27.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 38 (26.39%) Algorithms
4 28 (19.44%) Equities
5 24 (16.67%) Hedge funds
6 22 (15.28%) Equity Derivative
7 18 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
8 14 (9.72%) Fixed Income
9 13 (9.03%) Distributed Computing
10 11 (7.64%) Cloud Native
10 11 (7.64%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (4.17%) Data Structures
12 5 (3.47%) Data Fabric
13 4 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (2.08%) AI Agents
15 2 (1.39%) Credit Derivative
15 2 (1.39%) Credit Risk
15 2 (1.39%) Multi-touch
15 2 (1.39%) Product Ownership
15 2 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (18.06%) Linux
2 9 (6.25%) Windows
3 4 (2.78%) Unix
4 2 (1.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (37.50%) Computer Science
2 44 (30.56%) CI/CD
3 39 (27.08%) Risk Management
4 35 (24.31%) Physics
5 34 (23.61%) Data Pipeline
6 33 (22.92%) Machine Learning
7 32 (22.22%) Analytics
8 31 (21.53%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (20.83%) Quantitative Finance
9 30 (20.83%) Software Engineering
10 28 (19.44%) Data Science
11 27 (18.75%) AI
12 23 (15.97%) Agile
13 21 (14.58%) Decision-Making
14 20 (13.89%) Data Engineering
14 20 (13.89%) Statistics
15 18 (12.50%) Systematic Trading
16 17 (11.81%) DevOps
16 17 (11.81%) Validation
17 15 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 104 (72.22%) Python
2 54 (37.50%) C++
3 46 (31.94%) C#
4 32 (22.22%) SQL
5 19 (13.19%) Java
6 17 (11.81%) JavaScript
7 12 (8.33%) Rust
8 6 (4.17%) R
9 5 (3.47%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.78%) Bash
10 4 (2.78%) VBA
11 2 (1.39%) C
11 2 (1.39%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.39%) VC++
12 1 (0.69%) Go
12 1 (0.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 77 (53.47%) Degree
2 33 (22.92%) Master's Degree
3 22 (15.28%) PhD
4 18 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (11.81%) Numerate Degree
6 6 (4.17%) MCP
7 4 (2.78%) Postgraduate
7 4 (2.78%) Security Cleared
8 3 (2.08%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.69%) MBA
9 1 (0.69%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.47%) QA
1 5 (3.47%) SLA
2 4 (2.78%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.78%) EMIR
3 2 (1.39%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.69%) Basel III
4 1 (0.69%) GDPR
4 1 (0.69%) IFRS
4 1 (0.69%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 28 (19.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (15.28%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.78%) Puppet
3 3 (2.08%) Ansible
3 3 (2.08%) Grafana
3 3 (2.08%) Terraform
4 2 (1.39%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.69%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 7 (4.86%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.47%) Sophis
3 4 (2.78%) Databricks
3 4 (2.78%) Dataiku
3 4 (2.78%) Foundry
3 4 (2.78%) Google
3 4 (2.78%) Oracle
4 3 (2.08%) PagerDuty
4 3 (2.08%) Palantir
5 2 (1.39%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.39%) IBM
6 1 (0.69%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.69%) Charles River
6 1 (0.69%) Citrix
6 1 (0.69%) Informatica
6 1 (0.69%) Murex
6 1 (0.69%) SnapLogic
6 1 (0.69%) Splunk
6 1 (0.69%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.69%) Zoomdata