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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 232 248 218
Rank change year-on-year +16 -30 +15
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 151 124 198
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.05% 0.82% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 0.91% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 74 151
10th Percentile £363 £334 £450
25th Percentile £525 £423 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £638 £666
Median % change year-on-year +13.73% -4.28% -11.20%
75th Percentile £1,000 £834 £800
90th Percentile £1,110 £874 £950
England median daily rate £625 £525 £625
% change year-on-year +19.05% -16.00% -9.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 8
10th Percentile £40.13 £22.00 £35.30
25th Percentile £40.92 £31.88 £42.50
Median hourly rate £43.50 £40.75 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +6.75% -18.91% -8.64%
75th Percentile £44.75 £53.25 £61.75
90th Percentile - £53.75 £62.58
England median hourly rate £26.96 £16.23 £14.16
% change year-on-year +66.10% +14.62% -75.10%

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 13,151 13,572 16,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.42% 90.07% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,661 8,737 12,135
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £794
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 164 237
10th Percentile £18.14 £18.03 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.49 £36.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.53% +5.88% -12.54%
75th Percentile £53.13 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.90 £80.75 £74.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

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 19 December 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
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 December 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 17 £650 +18.18% 18
East London - 6 £1,000 - 4
South London - 4 £750 - 5
West London -18 1 - - 10
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 12 (7.95%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.31%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.32%) Luigi
4 2 (1.32%) SAS
5 1 (0.66%) Apache
5 1 (0.66%) Apache Pig
5 1 (0.66%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (9.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.32%) Adobe Premiere
2 2 (1.32%) Blender
2 2 (1.32%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.66%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.66%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 40 (26.49%) AWS
2 29 (19.21%) Azure
3 10 (6.62%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (6.62%) Power Platform
4 9 (5.96%) GCP
5 7 (4.64%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (3.97%) Amazon S3
6 6 (3.97%) Azure Machine Learning
6 6 (3.97%) GitHub
7 5 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (2.65%) Amazon SageMaker
8 4 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.65%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (2.65%) IaaS
8 4 (2.65%) Serverless
9 3 (1.99%) Amazon Bedrock
9 3 (1.99%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.99%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.99%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.32%) Internet
2 1 (0.66%) DNS
2 1 (0.66%) Firewall
2 1 (0.66%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.66%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.28%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.62%) Power BI
3 8 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (4.64%) MongoDB
4 7 (4.64%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.31%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.65%) Big Data
6 4 (2.65%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.99%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.99%) KDB
7 3 (1.99%) Kdb+
7 3 (1.99%) Redis
8 2 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.32%) Metadata
9 1 (0.66%) CrateDB
9 1 (0.66%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.66%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 30 (19.87%) Git
2 5 (3.31%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.31%) TeamCity
2 5 (3.31%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.32%) Maven
3 2 (1.32%) MSBuild
3 2 (1.32%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.66%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.66%) ERwin
4 1 (0.66%) GitLab
4 1 (0.66%) JIRA
4 1 (0.66%) MLflow
4 1 (0.66%) QUnit
4 1 (0.66%) RStudio
4 1 (0.66%) TensorBoard
General
1 83 (54.97%) Finance
2 50 (33.11%) Banking
2 50 (33.11%) Front Office
3 41 (27.15%) Social Skills
4 33 (21.85%) Investment Banking
5 31 (20.53%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (11.92%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.65%) Marketing
8 3 (1.99%) Retail
9 2 (1.32%) Back Office
9 2 (1.32%) Games
9 2 (1.32%) Law
9 2 (1.32%) Military
9 2 (1.32%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.66%) Aviation
10 1 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (47.02%) Developer
2 25 (16.56%) Python Developer
2 25 (16.56%) Senior
3 22 (14.57%) Quantitative Developer
4 16 (10.60%) Analyst
4 16 (10.60%) Data Scientist
4 16 (10.60%) Senior Developer
5 14 (9.27%) AWS Developer
5 14 (9.27%) JavaScript Developer
6 8 (5.30%) Data Engineer
7 7 (4.64%) C# Developer
7 7 (4.64%) C++ Developer
7 7 (4.64%) Qualitative Analyst
7 7 (4.64%) Quantitative Analyst
8 6 (3.97%) Lead
8 6 (3.97%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 6 (3.97%) Senior C++ Developer
9 5 (3.31%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
9 5 (3.31%) Java Developer
10 4 (2.65%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (18.54%) Pandas
2 25 (16.56%) NumPy
3 20 (13.25%) SciPy
4 17 (11.26%) React
5 15 (9.93%) FastAPI
5 15 (9.93%) Flask
5 15 (9.93%) Vue
6 14 (9.27%) AngularJS
6 14 (9.27%) Polars
7 13 (8.61%) Kafka
8 7 (4.64%) .NET
8 7 (4.64%) scikit-learn
9 6 (3.97%) Dask
9 6 (3.97%) REST
10 5 (3.31%) Hugging Face
10 5 (3.31%) LangChain
10 5 (3.31%) PyTorch
10 5 (3.31%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (3.31%) RESTful
10 5 (3.31%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 42 (27.81%) Derivative
2 38 (25.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 36 (23.84%) Algorithms
4 27 (17.88%) Hedge funds
5 26 (17.22%) Equities
6 20 (13.25%) Equity Derivative
7 13 (8.61%) Distributed Computing
7 13 (8.61%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (7.95%) Fixed Income
9 11 (7.28%) Cloud Native
10 10 (6.62%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (3.97%) Data Structures
12 5 (3.31%) Data Fabric
13 4 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (1.99%) Multi-touch
15 2 (1.32%) Credit Derivative
15 2 (1.32%) Credit Risk
15 2 (1.32%) Product Ownership
15 2 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
15 2 (1.32%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 29 (19.21%) Linux
2 9 (5.96%) Windows
3 4 (2.65%) Unix
4 2 (1.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (40.40%) Computer Science
2 46 (30.46%) CI/CD
3 37 (24.50%) Machine Learning
3 37 (24.50%) Risk Management
4 36 (23.84%) Physics
5 35 (23.18%) Software Engineering
6 34 (22.52%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (21.19%) Data Pipeline
7 32 (21.19%) Data Science
8 31 (20.53%) Analytics
9 27 (17.88%) Agile
9 27 (17.88%) Quantitative Finance
10 26 (17.22%) AI
11 25 (16.56%) Data Engineering
12 21 (13.91%) DevOps
12 21 (13.91%) Statistics
12 21 (13.91%) Systematic Trading
13 20 (13.25%) Validation
14 19 (12.58%) Decision-Making
15 17 (11.26%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 113 (74.83%) Python
2 54 (35.76%) C++
3 46 (30.46%) C#
4 35 (23.18%) SQL
5 28 (18.54%) Java
6 20 (13.25%) JavaScript
7 15 (9.93%) Rust
8 8 (5.30%) R
9 5 (3.31%) Bash
9 5 (3.31%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.65%) VBA
11 3 (1.99%) C
12 2 (1.32%) Go
12 2 (1.32%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.32%) Scala
12 2 (1.32%) VC++
Qualifications
1 83 (54.97%) Degree
2 33 (21.85%) Master's Degree
3 23 (15.23%) PhD
4 20 (13.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (11.26%) Numerate Degree
6 4 (2.65%) MCP
6 4 (2.65%) Postgraduate
6 4 (2.65%) Security Cleared
7 3 (1.99%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.66%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.97%) Data Quality
1 6 (3.97%) SLA
2 4 (2.65%) EMIR
2 4 (2.65%) QA
3 2 (1.32%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.66%) Basel III
4 1 (0.66%) GDPR
4 1 (0.66%) IFRS
4 1 (0.66%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.66%) NIST
4 1 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (20.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (16.56%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.65%) Grafana
2 4 (2.65%) Puppet
2 4 (2.65%) Terraform
3 3 (1.99%) Ansible
4 2 (1.32%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.66%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.66%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 7 (4.64%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.31%) Google
2 5 (3.31%) Sophis
3 4 (2.65%) Databricks
3 4 (2.65%) Dataiku
3 4 (2.65%) Foundry
3 4 (2.65%) Oracle
4 3 (1.99%) PagerDuty
4 3 (1.99%) Palantir
5 2 (1.32%) IBM
6 1 (0.66%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.66%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.66%) Informatica
6 1 (0.66%) Murex
6 1 (0.66%) SnapLogic
6 1 (0.66%) Splunk
6 1 (0.66%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.66%) UiPath
6 1 (0.66%) Zoomdata