Mathematics Contract Job Trends in South London

Mathematics (Maths)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Mathematics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South London 1.90% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.21% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £560 - -
25th Percentile £631 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
75th Percentile £788 - -
90th Percentile £810 - -
London median daily rate £750 £625 £650
% change year-on-year +20.00% -3.85% -13.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 181 210 224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 85.78% 88.98% 84.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 141 156
10th Percentile £288 £238 £189
25th Percentile £450 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £596
90th Percentile £645 £788 £675
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 17
10th Percentile £17.98 - £18.20
25th Percentile £54.41 £17.25 £21.75
Median hourly rate £61.22 £46.55 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.51% +55.17% -31.99%
75th Percentile £66.50 £78.40 £49.88
90th Percentile £66.62 £80.80 £69.50
London median hourly rate £30.00 £36.65 £33.35
% change year-on-year -18.14% +9.91% -13.95%

Mathematics
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Mathematics job vacancy trend in South London

Mathematics
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Mathematics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Mathematics

Mathematics
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mathematics in South London over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mathematics in South London

Mathematics
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Mathematics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Mathematics

Mathematics
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 25 December 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
Bromley - 2 £775 - 4
Sutton - 2 £525 -
Mathematics
London

Mathematics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (50.00%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Front Office
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) React Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (50.00%) Derivative
1 2 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Kanban
3 2 (50.00%) OOP
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) Physics
4 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
1 2 (50.00%) Puppet
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) PagerDuty