Mathematics Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Mathematics (Maths)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Mathematics skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 154 187
Rank change year-on-year -21 +33 +55
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 17 17 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.43% 0.41% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.49% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 7
10th Percentile £314 £151 £225
25th Percentile £413 £152 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £538 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.91% +19.44% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £705 £550
90th Percentile £646 £725 £600
England median daily rate £700 £500 £675
% change year-on-year +40.00% -25.93% +11.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £81.00 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +362.86% - -
England median hourly rate £15.23 £16.23 £13.66
% change year-on-year -6.19% +18.81% -59.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,510 3,480 4,477
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.95% 84.14% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,265 2,059 2,986
10th Percentile £268 £313 £285
25th Percentile £375 £405 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 205 203
10th Percentile £12.88 £11.56 £15.73
25th Percentile £17.44 £15.17 £17.75
Median hourly rate £22.60 £31.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.25% +14.55% +37.50%
75th Percentile £36.56 £51.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £71.32 £69.35 £57.17
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.35
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.55% +46.02%

Mathematics
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Mathematics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Mathematics in the North of England

Mathematics
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Mathematics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Mathematics

Mathematics
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mathematics in the North of England over the 6 months to 3 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mathematics in the North of England

Mathematics
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Mathematics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Mathematics

Mathematics
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mathematics within the North of England region over the 6 months to 3 September 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
North West 0 13 £500 -13.04% 86
Yorkshire -15 4 £425 +163.94% 37
Mathematics
England

Mathematics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (17.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (11.76%) Simulink
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (5.88%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) AWS
1 5 (29.41%) Azure
1 5 (29.41%) Power Platform
2 4 (23.53%) Anthropic Claude
2 4 (23.53%) Azure AI
2 4 (23.53%) GCP
2 4 (23.53%) Google Gemini
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) tcpdump
1 1 (5.88%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Power BI
2 4 (23.53%) Neo4j
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 2 (11.76%) Star Schema
4 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Git
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 7 (41.18%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (41.18%) Finance
3 4 (23.53%) Legal
3 4 (23.53%) Manufacturing
3 4 (23.53%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (17.65%) Local Government
5 2 (11.76%) Aeronautics
5 2 (11.76%) Aerospace
6 1 (5.88%) Banking
6 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.88%) Retail
6 1 (5.88%) Retail Banking
6 1 (5.88%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Data Scientist
3 2 (11.76%) Design Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Development Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Graduate
4 1 (5.88%) Head of Performance Improvement
4 1 (5.88%) Portfolio Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Power BI Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Power BI Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) TensorFlow
2 4 (23.53%) PyTorch
2 4 (23.53%) Streamlit
3 2 (11.76%) Pandas
3 2 (11.76%) pytest
3 2 (11.76%) scikit-learn
3 2 (11.76%) XGBoost
4 1 (5.88%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Algorithms
2 3 (17.65%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (11.76%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (5.88%) Credit Risk
4 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.88%) MISP
4 1 (5.88%) Operational Technology
4 1 (5.88%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Decision-Making
2 8 (47.06%) Agile
2 8 (47.06%) Statistics
3 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (35.29%) Analytics
4 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
4 6 (35.29%) Computer Science
4 6 (35.29%) Machine Learning
5 5 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (29.41%) Data Science
6 4 (23.53%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (23.53%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (23.53%) Business Analysis
6 4 (23.53%) Computer Vision
6 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
6 4 (23.53%) Data Analysis
6 4 (23.53%) Generative AI
6 4 (23.53%) LLM
6 4 (23.53%) Multi-Agent System
6 4 (23.53%) RDF
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) Python
2 6 (35.29%) SQL
3 3 (17.65%) Scala
4 2 (11.76%) R
5 1 (5.88%) Bash
5 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Postgraduate
3 1 (5.88%) CISSP
3 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Nessus
2 1 (5.88%) OpenVAS
2 1 (5.88%) QRadar
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Capita
2 2 (11.76%) MathWorks
3 1 (5.88%) ArcSight
3 1 (5.88%) Ariba
3 1 (5.88%) Carbon Black
3 1 (5.88%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (5.88%) IBM
3 1 (5.88%) LogRhythm
3 1 (5.88%) Qualys
3 1 (5.88%) Rapid7
3 1 (5.88%) SAP
3 1 (5.88%) Siemens
3 1 (5.88%) Splunk