Numerate Degree Contract Job Trends in London

Numerate Degree (Degree in Mathematics)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Numerate Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 333 407
Rank change year-on-year -1 +74 +104
Contract jobs citing Numerate Degree 27 47 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.20% 0.29% 0.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.77% 1.20% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 36 41
10th Percentile £735 £326 £450
25th Percentile - £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £675 £620
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +8.96% -14.55%
75th Percentile £975 £850 £800
90th Percentile £1,050 £863 £813
England median daily rate £750 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +36.36% -5.94% -19.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £162.50
Median hourly rate - - £175.00
75th Percentile - - £187.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £65.00

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

Numerate Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,502 3,926 5,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.45% 24.41% 22.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,350 2,573 3,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £355
25th Percentile £431 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.09% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £759 £788
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 57 87
10th Percentile £18.87 £18.03 £19.34
25th Percentile - £22.00 £25.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.29 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.11% -41.29% +22.22%
75th Percentile £35.00 £53.75 £66.30
90th Percentile £65.00 £66.20 £81.20
England median hourly rate £25.15 £54.00 £54.78
% change year-on-year -53.43% -1.42% +21.73%

Numerate Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Numerate Degree in London

Numerate Degree
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Numerate Degree.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Numerate Degree

Numerate Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Numerate Degree in London over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Numerate Degree in London

Numerate Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Numerate Degree.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Numerate Degree

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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 3 (11.11%) GemFire
1 3 (11.11%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 14 (51.85%) Azure
1 14 (51.85%) Azure DevOps
2 12 (44.44%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
1 12 (44.44%) Redis
2 3 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (70.37%) Social Skills
2 17 (62.96%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (59.26%) Banking
3 16 (59.26%) Investment Banking
4 12 (44.44%) Finance
5 1 (3.70%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 24 (88.89%) Developer
2 15 (55.56%) Java Developer
3 12 (44.44%) Lead
3 12 (44.44%) Lead Developer
3 12 (44.44%) Lead Java Developer
4 7 (25.93%) Quantitative Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Oracle Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Senior
5 3 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Senior Oracle Developer
6 2 (7.41%) C# Developer
7 1 (3.70%) C++ Developer
7 1 (3.70%) C++ Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (44.44%) ActiveMQ
1 12 (44.44%) Kafka
2 5 (18.52%) .NET
3 3 (11.11%) AngularJS
3 3 (11.11%) ASP.NET
4 2 (7.41%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (37.04%) Derivative
2 8 (29.63%) Equity Derivative
3 7 (25.93%) Equities
4 6 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (7.41%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (7.41%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (92.59%) Mathematics
2 18 (66.67%) Computer Science
3 17 (62.96%) DevOps
3 17 (62.96%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (59.26%) Economics
5 15 (55.56%) TDD
6 14 (51.85%) Agile
6 14 (51.85%) Architectural Design
6 14 (51.85%) BDD
7 8 (29.63%) CI/CD
7 8 (29.63%) Risk Management
8 6 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
9 3 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
9 3 (11.11%) Software Engineering
10 2 (7.41%) Data Analysis
10 2 (7.41%) Data Protection
10 2 (7.41%) Physics
10 2 (7.41%) Quantitative Finance
10 2 (7.41%) Risk Analysis
10 2 (7.41%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 15 (55.56%) Java
2 8 (29.63%) C++
2 8 (29.63%) Python
3 3 (11.11%) SQL
4 2 (7.41%) C#
4 2 (7.41%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 27 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) COBIT
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) GridGain
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) Oracle