Mathematics Contracts in South Wales

Mathematics (Maths)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 40 54
Rank change year-on-year +7 +14 -4
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 2 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 0.83% 0.60% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.75% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £465 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -19.13% +9.52%
Wales median daily rate - £465 £575
% change year-on-year - -19.13% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £17.18
25th Percentile £20.12 - £17.48
Median hourly rate £20.24 - £18.82
75th Percentile £20.35 - £19.81
90th Percentile - - £19.91
Wales median hourly rate £20.24 - £18.82
% change year-on-year - - -5.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 218 268 461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 90.08% 80.00% 88.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 189 351
10th Percentile £185 £160 £190
25th Percentile £284 £356 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.25% +5.26% -3.85%
75th Percentile £530 £588 £575
90th Percentile £625 £668 £650
Wales median daily rate £415 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -17.00% +5.26% -2.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 23
10th Percentile £15.30 £11.21 £16.37
25th Percentile £19.09 £15.35 £16.98
Median hourly rate £20.62 £22.68 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +25.03% -16.12%
75th Percentile £41.25 £52.31 £22.11
90th Percentile £45.00 £87.62 £49.75
Wales median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
% change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -16.38%

Mathematics
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Mathematics in South Wales

Mathematics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Mathematics in South Wales

Mathematics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Mathematics in South Wales

Mathematics
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 2 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
Newport - 1 - - 4
Mathematics
Wales

Mathematics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (50.00%) Graduate
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Applied Mathematics
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Statistics
1 1 (50.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared