Mathematics Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Mathematics (Maths)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Mathematics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 50 47
Rank change year-on-year -36 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 9 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.95% 0.32% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.33% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £375 - -
25th Percentile £400 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £642 -
Median % change year-on-year -32.87% - -
75th Percentile £484 - -
90th Percentile £640 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £431 £642 -
% change year-on-year -32.87% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 872 303 326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 92.28% 95.58% 92.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 587 199 188
10th Percentile £358 £281 £360
25th Percentile £413 £388 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £550 £599 £588
90th Percentile £669 £650 £658
South Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +1.47% +5.56% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 10
10th Percentile £15.74 - £10.90
25th Percentile £16.34 £18.10 £11.33
Median hourly rate £18.01 £18.21 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% -17.25% +91.30%
75th Percentile £19.01 £18.41 £23.75
90th Percentile £19.21 £18.47 -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £16.67 £18.21 £17.62
% change year-on-year -8.43% +3.35% +65.71%

Mathematics
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Mathematics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Mathematics job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Mathematics
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Mathematics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Mathematics

Mathematics
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mathematics in Sheffield over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Mathematics in Sheffield

Mathematics
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Mathematics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Mathematics

Mathematics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (11.11%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Power BI
1 5 (55.56%) Tableau
2 1 (11.11%) Metadata
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
General
1 7 (77.78%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Analyst
2 6 (66.67%) Data Analyst
3 5 (55.56%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Insight Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) A2A Protocol
1 2 (22.22%) CrewAI
1 2 (22.22%) LangChain
1 2 (22.22%) LangGraph
1 2 (22.22%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (22.22%) AI Agents
3 1 (11.11%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Analytical Thinking
1 6 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (66.67%) Statistical Analysis
1 6 (66.67%) Validation
1 6 (66.67%) Visualisation
2 5 (55.56%) Actionable Insight
2 5 (55.56%) Data Collection
2 5 (55.56%) Decision-Making
3 4 (44.44%) Data Protection
3 4 (44.44%) Statistics
4 2 (22.22%) AI
4 2 (22.22%) Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) Generative AI
4 2 (22.22%) LLM
4 2 (22.22%) Mathematical Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (22.22%) Quantitative Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
4 2 (22.22%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Python
1 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 6 (66.67%) R
3 2 (22.22%) C#
3 2 (22.22%) C++
4 1 (11.11%) VBA
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) NVIDIA
1 2 (22.22%) OpenAI
2 1 (11.11%) Teradata