Mathematics Contracts in the North West

Mathematics (Maths)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Mathematics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mathematics over the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 116 137
Rank change year-on-year +1 +21 +32
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 14 6 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.63% 0.25% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.30% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 6
10th Percentile £333 - £204
25th Percentile £449 £600 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £388
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +67.74% -16.22%
75th Percentile £550 £700 £400
90th Percentile £632 - £488
England median daily rate £675 £550 £655
% change year-on-year +22.73% -16.03% +8.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £34.20 - -
25th Percentile £51.75 £16.25 -
Median hourly rate £81.00 £17.50 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year +362.86% -68.33% +281.03%
75th Percentile - £18.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £15.14 £16.23 £13.83
% change year-on-year -6.72% +17.35% -42.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,959 2,030 2,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.72% 84.30% 88.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,264 1,220 1,771
10th Percentile £282 £313 £285
25th Percentile £375 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £668 £680 £659
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 169 162
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £15.78
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.06 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.38 £35.00 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year -21.79% +14.20% +40.71%
75th Percentile £56.88 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.25 £70.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £40.85
% change year-on-year -41.51% +5.28% +54.13%

Mathematics
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Mathematics in the North West

Mathematics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mathematics in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Mathematics in the North West

Mathematics
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mathematics in the North West over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mathematics in the North West

Mathematics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mathematics in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Mathematics in the North West

Mathematics
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Mathematics in the North West over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Mathematics in the North West

Mathematics
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
Cheshire -22 4 £520 - 16
Merseyside - 4 £500 - 20
Manchester -5 3 £325 -50.00% 69
Lancashire -4 2 - - 64
Cumbria - 1 - - 5
Mathematics
England

Mathematics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (14.29%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Anthropic Claude
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
1 4 (28.57%) Azure AI
1 4 (28.57%) GCP
1 4 (28.57%) Google Gemini
2 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) tcpdump
1 1 (7.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Neo4j
2 3 (21.43%) Power BI
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 2 (14.29%) Star Schema
4 1 (7.14%) Metadata
4 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Git
General
1 6 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Finance
3 4 (28.57%) Legal
3 4 (28.57%) Manufacturing
3 4 (28.57%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (14.29%) Aeronautics
4 2 (14.29%) Aerospace
4 2 (14.29%) Local Government
5 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Design Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Development Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Data Scientist
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Graduate
4 1 (7.14%) Head of Performance Improvement
4 1 (7.14%) Power BI Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Power BI Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) TensorFlow
2 4 (28.57%) PyTorch
2 4 (28.57%) Streamlit
3 1 (7.14%) OLE
3 1 (7.14%) Pandas
3 1 (7.14%) pytest
3 1 (7.14%) scikit-learn
3 1 (7.14%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Algorithms
2 2 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) MISP
3 1 (7.14%) Operational Technology
3 1 (7.14%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Decision-Making
2 7 (50.00%) Agile
2 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (50.00%) Statistics
3 5 (35.71%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 5 (35.71%) Machine Learning
3 5 (35.71%) Pattern Recognition
4 4 (28.57%) Business Analysis
4 4 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
4 4 (28.57%) Computer Vision
4 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 4 (28.57%) Data Science
4 4 (28.57%) Generative AI
4 4 (28.57%) Linear Algebra
4 4 (28.57%) LLM
4 4 (28.57%) Multi-Agent System
4 4 (28.57%) Natural Language Processing
4 4 (28.57%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) Scala
2 3 (21.43%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) Bash
3 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.14%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) CISSP
3 1 (7.14%) Postgraduate
3 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Nessus
2 1 (7.14%) OpenVAS
2 1 (7.14%) QRadar
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Capita
2 2 (14.29%) MathWorks
3 1 (7.14%) ArcSight
3 1 (7.14%) Ariba
3 1 (7.14%) Carbon Black
3 1 (7.14%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (7.14%) IBM
3 1 (7.14%) LogRhythm
3 1 (7.14%) Qualys
3 1 (7.14%) Rapid7
3 1 (7.14%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) Siemens
3 1 (7.14%) Splunk