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 20 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 444 348 343
Rank change year-on-year -96 -5 +56
Contract jobs citing Numerate Degree 10 27 47
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.049% 0.20% 0.29%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.18% 0.76% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 25 36
10th Percentile £544 £735 £326
25th Percentile £703 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £925 £750 £675
Median % change year-on-year +23.33% +11.11% +22.73%
75th Percentile £975 £975 £850
90th Percentile - £1,050 £863
England median daily rate £925 £750 £550
% change year-on-year +23.33% +36.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.53 - -
Median hourly rate £14.36 - -
75th Percentile £15.18 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £44.68 - -

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 5,697 3,554 3,981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.14% 26.41% 24.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,102 2,391 2,592
10th Percentile £369 £356 £350
25th Percentile £456 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £645 £653 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £763
England median daily rate £528 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +0.48% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 82 55
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £17.98
25th Percentile £26.25 - £23.08
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -24.93% -37.09%
75th Percentile £78.75 £37.81 £53.75
90th Percentile £98.63 £65.00 £66.80
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £54.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -53.43% -

Numerate Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Numerate Degree relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Numerate Degree job vacancy trend 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 20 September 2026.

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

Numerate Degree
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 Numerate Degree within the London region over the 6 months to 20 September 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 -24 1 £625 -16.67% 10
West London - 1 - - 3
Numerate Degree
England

Numerate Degree
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 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (10.00%) Copilot Studio
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Data Mining
1 1 (10.00%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) MLflow
1 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (50.00%) Front Office
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
3 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Banking
5 1 (10.00%) Marketing
5 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Python Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 4 (40.00%) Senior Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Senior Python Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) C++ Developer
4 1 (10.00%) C++ Quantitative Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Data Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Gen AI Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Principal Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Qualitative Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Quantitative Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Quantitative Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Risk Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) LangChain
1 1 (10.00%) LangGraph
1 1 (10.00%) pydantic
1 1 (10.00%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Equities
2 2 (20.00%) Derivative
3 1 (10.00%) AI Agents
3 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (10.00%) Credit Derivative
3 1 (10.00%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (10.00%) Hedge funds
3 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Mathematics
2 6 (60.00%) Physics
3 5 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 4 (40.00%) Backtesting
5 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (30.00%) Data Science
5 3 (30.00%) Statistics
6 2 (20.00%) Analytics
6 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (20.00%) Econometrics
6 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
6 2 (20.00%) Model Validation
6 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (20.00%) Quantitative Finance
7 1 (10.00%) Budgeting
7 1 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
7 1 (10.00%) Design Patterns
7 1 (10.00%) Intelligent Automation
7 1 (10.00%) Prompt Engineering
7 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) C++
3 1 (10.00%) Scala
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Databricks
1 1 (10.00%) Foundry
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) Mistral
1 1 (10.00%) OpenAI