Mathematical Modelling Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Mathematical Modelling
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Mathematical Modelling skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 399 331 403
Rank change year-on-year -68 +72 +73
Contract jobs citing Mathematical Modelling 5 21 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.027% 0.14% 0.010%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.032% 0.16% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £453 - £448
25th Percentile £456 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £494
Median % change year-on-year - +1.21% -1.20%
75th Percentile £544 £525 £519
90th Percentile £548 - £530
UK median daily rate £650 £725 £563
% change year-on-year -10.34% +28.89% -19.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Mathematical Modelling 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,748 12,863 17,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.53% 87.30% 87.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,628 7,576 11,104
10th Percentile £220 £239 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,756 743 1,254
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.58 £30.88 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% -30.62% +48.33%
75th Percentile £51.21 £63.93 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.42 £73.35 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +21.43%

Mathematical Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Mathematical Modelling relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Mathematical Modelling job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Mathematical Modelling
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Mathematical Modelling.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Mathematical Modelling

Mathematical Modelling
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Mathematical Modelling.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Mathematical Modelling

Mathematical Modelling
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mathematical Modelling within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 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
East of England -33 3 £500 - 2
South West -5 1 £500 - 2
North of England -49 1 - - 3
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Mathematical Modelling
UK

Mathematical Modelling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Simulink
2 1 (20.00%) LaTeX
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) LabVIEW
General
1 2 (40.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Mathematician
1 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) CrewAI
1 1 (20.00%) LangChain
1 1 (20.00%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (20.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Mathematics
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) AI
3 2 (40.00%) LLM
3 2 (40.00%) Multithreading
4 1 (20.00%) API Design
4 1 (20.00%) Applied Mathematics
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) Data Science
4 1 (20.00%) Image Processing
4 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (20.00%) Prototyping
4 1 (20.00%) Quantitative Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (20.00%) Semantic Search
4 1 (20.00%) Use Case
4 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) MATLAB
2 3 (60.00%) C++
3 2 (40.00%) C
4 1 (20.00%) C#
4 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) MCP
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
1 1 (20.00%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) NVIDIA
1 1 (20.00%) OpenAI