Mathematics Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Mathematics (Maths)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Mathematics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 46 51
Rank change year-on-year -51 +5 +7
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 4 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.40% 0.30% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.31% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £438 - -
25th Percentile £495 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £642 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% - -
75th Percentile £710 - -
90th Percentile £752 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £496 -
% change year-on-year -9.27% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 932 322 377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 92.83% 96.12% 89.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 213 219
10th Percentile £352 £231 £353
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £550 £584 £588
90th Percentile £655 £650 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £489 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.89% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 12
10th Percentile £15.27 £16.08 £10.90
25th Percentile £15.29 £17.38 £12.19
Median hourly rate £16.67 £18.21 £13.23
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% +37.60% +24.46%
75th Percentile £18.67 £18.36 £23.75
90th Percentile £19.07 £18.45 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £21.24 £13.50
% change year-on-year +7.39% +57.33% +27.00%

Mathematics
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Mathematics job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Mathematics
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Mathematics
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mathematics in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 26 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Mathematics in South Yorkshire

Mathematics
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Mathematics
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 26 March 2026. 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
Sheffield -45 4 £615 -4.21% 1
Mathematics
Yorkshire

Mathematics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (25.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Metadata
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Insight Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) A2A Protocol
1 2 (50.00%) CrewAI
1 2 (50.00%) LangChain
1 2 (50.00%) LangGraph
1 2 (50.00%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (50.00%) AI Agents
3 1 (25.00%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) API Design
2 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 2 (50.00%) LLM
2 2 (50.00%) Mathematical Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (50.00%) Quantitative Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (50.00%) Use Case
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
2 2 (50.00%) Value Proposition
2 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Data Collection
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Pricing Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) C++
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) R
2 1 (25.00%) VBA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) NVIDIA
1 2 (50.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (25.00%) Teradata