Mathematics Contracts in the South East

Mathematics (Maths)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 130 171 154
Rank change year-on-year +41 -17 +26
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 29 34 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.96% 0.61% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 0.72% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 15 45
10th Percentile £210 £151 £146
25th Percentile £310 £276 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £380 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.29% -39.20% +60.26%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £1,025
90th Percentile £550 £605 £1,188
England median daily rate £725 £600 £700
% change year-on-year +20.83% -14.29% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.85 - £19.00
Median hourly rate £14.08 £7.43 £19.98
Median % change year-on-year +89.43% -62.81% +2.36%
75th Percentile £14.48 £22.45 £20.47
90th Percentile £14.79 £69.38 £23.40
England median hourly rate £16.23 £14.80 £19.49
% change year-on-year +9.66% -24.06% +25.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Mathematics
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Mathematics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Mathematics in the South East

Mathematics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mathematics in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Mathematics in the South East

Mathematics
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Mathematics in the South East

Mathematics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mathematics in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Mathematics in the South East

Mathematics
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mathematics within the South East 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
Thames Valley +43 15 £500 +55.04% 98
Berkshire +30 14 £500 +55.04% 49
Surrey +18 8 £365 -30.48% 47
Hampshire +20 3 £500 +100.00% 49
West Sussex - 2 - - 15
Sussex - 1 - - 13
Buckinghamshire - 1 - - 23
Mathematics
England

Mathematics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (6.90%) LightWave 3D
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.69%) Azure
1 6 (20.69%) SaaS
2 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (6.90%) Snowflake
4 1 (3.45%) AWS
4 1 (3.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Power BI
2 2 (6.90%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.45%) Big Data
3 1 (3.45%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (27.59%) Selenium
2 3 (10.34%) Cypress.io
2 3 (10.34%) SpecFlow
3 2 (6.90%) Balsamiq
3 2 (6.90%) Git
3 2 (6.90%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.45%) JIRA
4 1 (3.45%) JMeter
4 1 (3.45%) Mocha
General
1 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Electronics
2 3 (10.34%) Finance
3 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Legal
3 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (13.79%) Data Scientist
2 3 (10.34%) Senior
3 2 (6.90%) Administration Assistant
3 2 (6.90%) Administrator
3 2 (6.90%) Analyst
3 2 (6.90%) Coordinator
3 2 (6.90%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Desktop Support
3 2 (6.90%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Developer
3 2 (6.90%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (6.90%) IT Analyst
3 2 (6.90%) Product Owner
3 2 (6.90%) Senior Developer
3 2 (6.90%) Senior Front-End Developer
3 2 (6.90%) Service Analyst
3 2 (6.90%) Service Desk Analyst
3 2 (6.90%) Support Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) IT Administrator
4 1 (3.45%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) AngularJS
1 2 (6.90%) Bootstrap
1 2 (6.90%) CSS
1 2 (6.90%) HTML
1 2 (6.90%) React
1 2 (6.90%) RESTful
1 2 (6.90%) Vue
1 2 (6.90%) YAML
2 1 (3.45%) Playwright
2 1 (3.45%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 9 (31.03%) Algorithms
2 6 (20.69%) Cloud Native
3 5 (17.24%) Product Ownership
4 2 (6.90%) Driving Licence
5 1 (3.45%) FMCG
5 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (37.93%) Data Modelling
2 11 (37.93%) Test Automation
3 9 (31.03%) Agile
3 9 (31.03%) Exploratory Testing
3 9 (31.03%) Scenario Testing
4 8 (27.59%) Optimization Problems
5 7 (24.14%) Computer Science
5 7 (24.14%) Data Collection
6 6 (20.69%) Functional Testing
7 5 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (17.24%) Insurtech
8 4 (13.79%) Customer Service
8 4 (13.79%) Data Analysis
8 4 (13.79%) Data Science
8 4 (13.79%) Scrum
8 4 (13.79%) Service Delivery
8 4 (13.79%) Sprint Planning
8 4 (13.79%) Sprint Retrospective
8 4 (13.79%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 11 (37.93%) Python
2 6 (20.69%) Java
3 4 (13.79%) SQL
4 3 (10.34%) C#
4 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
4 3 (10.34%) R
4 3 (10.34%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (55.17%) Degree
2 6 (20.69%) Master's Degree
3 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
4 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
5 2 (6.90%) A+ Certification
5 2 (6.90%) Dell Certification
5 2 (6.90%) MCSA
5 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (6.90%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (3.45%) APMP
6 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.45%) DBS Check
6 1 (3.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (37.93%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.90%) SLA
3 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.45%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.24%) ServiceNow
3 2 (6.90%) Citrix
3 2 (6.90%) Databricks
3 2 (6.90%) Dell
3 2 (6.90%) HP
4 1 (3.45%) Alteryx
4 1 (3.45%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.45%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.45%) SAP