Mathematics Contracts in Scotland

Mathematics (Maths)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 123 160
Rank change year-on-year +22 +37 0
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 15 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.92% 0.27% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 0.31% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 2
10th Percentile £193 £186 £493
25th Percentile £463 £192 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £200 £625
Median % change year-on-year +175.00% -68.00% +18.48%
75th Percentile £575 - £713
90th Percentile - - £758
UK median daily rate £700 £600 £700
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.64 -
UK median hourly rate £16.23 £14.80 £19.49
% change year-on-year +9.66% -24.06% +2.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Mathematics
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Mathematics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Mathematics in Scotland

Mathematics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mathematics in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Mathematics in Scotland

Mathematics
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mathematics in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mathematics in Scotland

Mathematics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mathematics in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Mathematics in Scotland

Mathematics
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mathematics within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Glasgow - 11 £550 - 11
Edinburgh +5 1 - - 38
Argyll and Bute -3 1 £166 -13.81%
Mathematics
UK

Mathematics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 8 (53.33%) Confluence
2 3 (20.00%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (20.00%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) AWS
1 8 (53.33%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Bitbucket
1 8 (53.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Administrator
2 3 (20.00%) Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Credit Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Credit Risk Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Risk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Credit Risk
2 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Computer Science
1 8 (53.33%) Containerisation
1 8 (53.33%) Continuous Delivery
1 8 (53.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 8 (53.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 8 (53.33%) Operational Stability
2 3 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (20.00%) Customer Experience
2 3 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (20.00%) Innovative Thinking
2 3 (20.00%) Scorecard
3 2 (13.33%) Line Management
3 2 (13.33%) Performance Management
3 2 (13.33%) Systems Analysis
4 1 (6.67%) Code Optimisation
4 1 (6.67%) Document Management
4 1 (6.67%) Mathematical Modelling
4 1 (6.67%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) AWS Certification
1 8 (53.33%) AWS Certified Developer
1 8 (53.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (20.00%) Numerate Degree
3 2 (13.33%) HNC
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Alteryx
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft