Mathematics Contracts in the UK excluding London

Mathematics (Maths)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 196 249 277
Rank change year-on-year +53 +28 -34
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 144 152 189
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.13% 0.73% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 0.86% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 33 84
10th Percentile £190 £177 £156
25th Percentile £333 £300 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £380 £513
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -25.85% +13.89%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £797
90th Percentile £603 £610 £1,025
UK median daily rate £700 £600 £700
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 94 63
10th Percentile £14.84 £10.42 £13.31
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
Median hourly rate £15.44 £14.22 £19.49
Median % change year-on-year +8.62% -27.07% +34.41%
75th Percentile £18.85 £15.12 £65.00
90th Percentile £28.15 £27.49 -
UK median hourly rate £16.23 £14.80 £19.49
% change year-on-year +9.66% -24.06% +2.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Mathematics
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Mathematics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Mathematics in the UK excluding London

Mathematics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mathematics in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Mathematics in the UK excluding London

Mathematics
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mathematics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mathematics in the UK excluding London

Mathematics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mathematics in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Mathematics in the UK excluding London

Mathematics
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Mathematics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Mathematics in the UK excluding London

Mathematics
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 Mathematics within the UK excluding London 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
East of England +5 50 - - 168
South East +41 29 £368 -3.29% 401
South West +59 23 £538 - 158
North of England +25 17 £490 - 289
Scotland +22 15 £550 +175.00% 72
North West +23 14 £490 - 151
Midlands +19 5 £316 -42.55% 228
East Midlands - 4 £316 - 110
Yorkshire +8 3 £496 - 93
Northern Ireland -6 3 - - 12
Wales +1 2 - - 15
West Midlands +7 1 - - 118
Mathematics
UK

Mathematics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (6.94%) Confluence
2 3 (2.08%) SAS
3 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 58 (40.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (37.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (6.94%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.39%) LightWave 3D
5 1 (0.69%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (2.08%) iTrent
2 1 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 25 (17.36%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (11.81%) AWS
3 13 (9.03%) Azure
4 10 (6.94%) Serverless
5 6 (4.17%) SaaS
6 5 (3.47%) GCP
7 4 (2.78%) Anthropic Claude
7 4 (2.78%) Azure AI
7 4 (2.78%) Google Gemini
7 4 (2.78%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.39%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (1.39%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.69%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 24 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.69%) tcpdump
2 1 (0.69%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.86%) Tableau
2 5 (3.47%) Metadata
3 4 (2.78%) Neo4j
3 4 (2.78%) Power BI
4 3 (2.08%) Data Mining
5 2 (1.39%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.69%) Big Data
6 1 (0.69%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (7.64%) JIRA
2 10 (6.94%) Bitbucket
3 8 (5.56%) Git
3 8 (5.56%) Selenium
4 3 (2.08%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.08%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.39%) Balsamiq
5 2 (1.39%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.69%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.69%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.69%) JMeter
6 1 (0.69%) Mocha
6 1 (0.69%) NetBeans
General
1 59 (40.97%) Social Skills
2 36 (25.00%) Finance
3 13 (9.03%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (6.94%) German Language
5 8 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.17%) Hungarian Language
7 5 (3.47%) Legal
8 4 (2.78%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.08%) Electronics
10 2 (1.39%) Games
10 2 (1.39%) Lithuanian Language
10 2 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.69%) Banking
11 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Retail
11 1 (0.69%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.69%) Retail Finance
11 1 (0.69%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 38 (26.39%) Analyst
2 33 (22.92%) Service Analyst
3 24 (16.67%) Service Desk Analyst
4 23 (15.97%) Desktop Engineer
4 23 (15.97%) Desktop Support
4 23 (15.97%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 23 (15.97%) Support Engineer
5 18 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
5 18 (12.50%) Technical Services Analyst
6 9 (6.25%) Customer Analyst
6 9 (6.25%) Customer Service Analyst
6 9 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (6.25%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
7 8 (5.56%) Data Scientist
7 8 (5.56%) Senior
8 7 (4.86%) Administrator
9 4 (2.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 3 (2.08%) Credit Analyst
11 2 (1.39%) Help Desk Administrator
11 2 (1.39%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.17%) PyTorch
1 6 (4.17%) TensorFlow
2 2 (1.39%) AngularJS
2 2 (1.39%) Bootstrap
2 2 (1.39%) CSS
2 2 (1.39%) HTML
2 2 (1.39%) React
2 2 (1.39%) RESTful
2 2 (1.39%) Unreal Engine
2 2 (1.39%) Vue
2 2 (1.39%) YAML
3 1 (0.69%) OLE
3 1 (0.69%) Playwright
3 1 (0.69%) POSIX
3 1 (0.69%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.97%) Algorithms
1 23 (15.97%) Driving Licence
2 9 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.47%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.78%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.39%) Animation
6 2 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.69%) FMCG
7 1 (0.69%) IoT
7 1 (0.69%) MISP
7 1 (0.69%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.69%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.69%) SCADA
7 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.69%) Linux
1 1 (0.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (37.50%) Customer Service
2 54 (37.50%) Service Delivery
3 52 (36.11%) Incident Management
4 26 (18.06%) Customer Experience
5 25 (17.36%) ITIL
6 20 (13.89%) Computer Science
7 19 (13.19%) Decision-Making
8 18 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
9 14 (9.72%) Agile
9 14 (9.72%) Containerisation
9 14 (9.72%) Data Modelling
9 14 (9.72%) Statistics
10 13 (9.03%) Data Science
11 12 (8.33%) Test Automation
11 12 (8.33%) Visualisation
12 11 (7.64%) Business Intelligence
12 11 (7.64%) Machine Learning
13 10 (6.94%) Continuous Delivery
13 10 (6.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 36 (25.00%) Python
2 12 (8.33%) SQL
3 8 (5.56%) R
4 6 (4.17%) Java
5 3 (2.08%) C#
5 3 (2.08%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.08%) Scala
5 3 (2.08%) TypeScript
5 3 (2.08%) VBA
6 1 (0.69%) Bash
6 1 (0.69%) C
6 1 (0.69%) C++
6 1 (0.69%) Fortran
6 1 (0.69%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.69%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 43 (29.86%) SC Cleared
3 31 (21.53%) Degree
4 24 (16.67%) A+ Certification
4 24 (16.67%) MCSA
4 24 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 23 (15.97%) Dell Certification
6 10 (6.94%) AWS Certification
6 10 (6.94%) AWS Certified Developer
6 10 (6.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (4.17%) Master's Degree
8 5 (3.47%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.39%) HNC
10 1 (0.69%) APMP
10 1 (0.69%) CISSP
10 1 (0.69%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.69%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (15.97%) SLA
2 12 (8.33%) QA
3 5 (3.47%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.78%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.69%) GDPR
5 1 (0.69%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.69%) MISRA
5 1 (0.69%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.69%) PMO
5 1 (0.69%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 24 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (6.94%) Terraform
2 4 (2.78%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.69%) Nessus
3 1 (0.69%) OpenVAS
3 1 (0.69%) QRadar
Vendors
1 85 (59.03%) Microsoft
2 27 (18.75%) ServiceNow
3 24 (16.67%) Citrix
4 23 (15.97%) Dell
4 23 (15.97%) HP
5 4 (2.78%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.39%) Databricks
6 2 (1.39%) SAP
7 1 (0.69%) Ariba
7 1 (0.69%) Carbon Black
7 1 (0.69%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.69%) IBM
7 1 (0.69%) LogRhythm
7 1 (0.69%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.69%) Oracle
7 1 (0.69%) QNX
7 1 (0.69%) Qualys
7 1 (0.69%) Rapid7
7 1 (0.69%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.69%) Siemens