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 22 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 228 266 264
Rank change year-on-year +38 -2 +24
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 180 166 271
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.84% 0.73% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 0.82% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 71 121
10th Percentile £201 £146 £140
25th Percentile £309 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% -4.76% +13.88%
75th Percentile £538 £634 £625
90th Percentile £615 £1,025 £688
UK median daily rate £575 £700 £600
% change year-on-year -17.86% +16.67% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 54 86
10th Percentile £11.77 - -
25th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £13.25
Median hourly rate £14.84 £15.90 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +9.66% -4.92%
75th Percentile £16.85 £53.75 £21.00
90th Percentile £20.35 £65.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £15.00 £19.49 £17.25
% change year-on-year -23.04% +12.99% -25.81%

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 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 22 June 2024.

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 22 June 2024.

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 22 June 2024. 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 +42 98 £375 -28.57% 148
South East +2 38 £385 -37.14% 349
North of England +12 15 £406 -15.52% 382
North West +15 10 £650 +62.50% 200
South West -13 9 £600 +26.32% 293
Scotland +50 7 £200 -68.00% 19
Midlands +5 6 £438 +9.38% 310
Wales +23 5 £465 -19.13% 21
West Midlands +14 5 £438 -25.53% 172
Yorkshire +11 5 £161 -66.45% 136
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 5
East Midlands 0 1 - - 139
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 6 (3.33%) SAS
2 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.11%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.56%) Apache
3 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 75 (41.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (36.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (7.78%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (5.56%) Simulink
5 9 (5.00%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (2.78%) SPSS
7 2 (1.11%) MS Visio
7 2 (1.11%) Stateflow
8 1 (0.56%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.56%) Stata
Business Applications
1 3 (1.67%) iTrent
2 1 (0.56%) Hyperion Planning
2 1 (0.56%) Primavera
2 1 (0.56%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 15 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (6.67%) Snowflake
3 7 (3.89%) Power Platform
4 6 (3.33%) Azure
5 3 (1.67%) AWS
6 2 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.56%) PaaS
7 1 (0.56%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.56%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.22%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (3.33%) Network Security
3 5 (2.78%) Wireless
4 4 (2.22%) Firewall
5 3 (1.67%) LAN
5 3 (1.67%) SAN
6 2 (1.11%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (1.11%) WAN
7 1 (0.56%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.56%) DHCP
7 1 (0.56%) DNS
7 1 (0.56%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.56%) FCoE
7 1 (0.56%) ISDN
7 1 (0.56%) Junos
7 1 (0.56%) MPLS
7 1 (0.56%) NGFW
7 1 (0.56%) SSL
7 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.56%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.89%) Tableau
2 7 (3.89%) Power BI
3 3 (1.67%) Qlik Sense
4 2 (1.11%) Big Data
4 2 (1.11%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (1.11%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.11%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.56%) Essbase
5 1 (0.56%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.56%) GIS
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.56%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.56%) Redash
5 1 (0.56%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 5 (2.78%) Git
2 2 (1.11%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (1.11%) Rational Team Concert
3 1 (0.56%) JIRA
3 1 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 81 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 39 (21.67%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (13.89%) Finance
4 13 (7.22%) German Language
5 12 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.56%) Legal
6 10 (5.56%) Local Government
7 7 (3.89%) Hungarian Language
7 7 (3.89%) Lithuanian Language
8 6 (3.33%) Marketing
9 5 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.22%) Dutch Language
10 4 (2.22%) Electronics
10 4 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.67%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.67%) Games
11 3 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.67%) Korean Language
11 3 (1.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 71 (39.44%) Analyst
2 38 (21.11%) Service Analyst
3 25 (13.89%) Service Desk Analyst
4 22 (12.22%) Customer Analyst
4 22 (12.22%) Customer Service Analyst
5 13 (7.22%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
5 13 (7.22%) Senior
6 12 (6.67%) Administrator
7 11 (6.11%) Data Analyst
7 11 (6.11%) IT Technician
7 11 (6.11%) Software Engineer
8 9 (5.00%) Call Centre Analyst
9 8 (4.44%) Developer
9 8 (4.44%) Lead
10 7 (3.89%) C Software Engineer
10 7 (3.89%) C++ Software Engineer
10 7 (3.89%) IT Support Technician
10 7 (3.89%) Performance Analyst
10 7 (3.89%) Support Technician
10 7 (3.89%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.22%) CSS
1 4 (2.22%) HTML
2 3 (1.67%) AngularJS
2 3 (1.67%) D3.js
2 3 (1.67%) DirectX
2 3 (1.67%) LDAP
2 3 (1.67%) OpenGL
2 3 (1.67%) OpenGL ES
2 3 (1.67%) Vulkan
3 2 (1.11%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 1 (0.56%) Dask
4 1 (0.56%) Entity Framework
4 1 (0.56%) GStreamer
4 1 (0.56%) Keras
4 1 (0.56%) Managed Extensibility Framework
4 1 (0.56%) NumPy
4 1 (0.56%) Pandas
4 1 (0.56%) PySpark
4 1 (0.56%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.56%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 15 (8.33%) Algorithms
3 12 (6.67%) Credit Risk
4 7 (3.89%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.78%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.22%) NHS
7 3 (1.67%) CCTV
7 3 (1.67%) CMDB
8 2 (1.11%) Animation
8 2 (1.11%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.11%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (1.11%) Mixed Reality
8 2 (1.11%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.11%) VHDL
9 1 (0.56%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.56%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.56%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.67%) Linux
2 6 (3.33%) Windows
3 5 (2.78%) Unix
4 3 (1.67%) Android
5 2 (1.11%) Solaris
5 2 (1.11%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.11%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (60.56%) Problem-Solving
2 78 (43.33%) Customer Service
3 73 (40.56%) Incident Management
4 70 (38.89%) Service Delivery
5 34 (18.89%) Computer Science
6 33 (18.33%) ITIL
7 29 (16.11%) Statistics
8 21 (11.67%) Software Engineering
9 20 (11.11%) Analytics
10 18 (10.00%) Data Analysis
11 16 (8.89%) Decision-Making
12 14 (7.78%) Data Protection
12 14 (7.78%) Data Science
12 14 (7.78%) Problem Management
13 13 (7.22%) Actionable Insight
13 13 (7.22%) Data Modelling
13 13 (7.22%) Performance Management
13 13 (7.22%) Physics
13 13 (7.22%) Visualisation
14 11 (6.11%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 27 (15.00%) Python
2 17 (9.44%) SQL
3 15 (8.33%) R
4 11 (6.11%) C
4 11 (6.11%) C++
4 11 (6.11%) MATLAB
5 9 (5.00%) Java
6 5 (2.78%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.22%) C#
7 4 (2.22%) Perl
7 4 (2.22%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.67%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.11%) AWK
9 2 (1.11%) Bourne shell
9 2 (1.11%) Fortran
9 2 (1.11%) GLSL
9 2 (1.11%) HLSL
9 2 (1.11%) Korn
9 2 (1.11%) Rust
9 2 (1.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 60 (33.33%) Degree
2 16 (8.89%) Microsoft Certification
3 13 (7.22%) A+ Certification
3 13 (7.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (7.22%) MCSA
4 12 (6.67%) MCP
5 9 (5.00%) Master's Degree
5 9 (5.00%) SC Cleared
5 9 (5.00%) Security Cleared
6 7 (3.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (3.89%) Numerate Degree
7 6 (3.33%) PhD
8 3 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.11%) HNC
9 2 (1.11%) RHCE
9 2 (1.11%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.56%) CESG Certified Professional
10 1 (0.56%) CISSP
10 1 (0.56%) CLAS
10 1 (0.56%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.78%) QA
3 4 (2.22%) GDPR
4 2 (1.11%) SLA
5 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.56%) GMP
5 1 (0.56%) GRC
5 1 (0.56%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.56%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.56%) NCSC
5 1 (0.56%) NIST
5 1 (0.56%) RMADS
System Software
1 15 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.11%) Firmware
3 1 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.11%) Ansible
2 2 (1.11%) NetBackup
2 2 (1.11%) Oracle ZFS
2 2 (1.11%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (1.11%) SCCM
2 2 (1.11%) yum
3 1 (0.56%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (0.56%) Nessus
3 1 (0.56%) SolarWinds Orion
3 1 (0.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 78 (43.33%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.44%) ServiceNow
3 15 (8.33%) Citrix
4 10 (5.56%) Alteryx
5 4 (2.22%) Cisco
6 3 (1.67%) Civica
7 2 (1.11%) EMC
7 2 (1.11%) MathWorks
7 2 (1.11%) NetApp
7 2 (1.11%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.11%) Veritas
8 1 (0.56%) Adobe
8 1 (0.56%) Avaya
8 1 (0.56%) Dell
8 1 (0.56%) Forcepoint
8 1 (0.56%) Hyperion
8 1 (0.56%) JDA
8 1 (0.56%) Juniper
8 1 (0.56%) Remedy
8 1 (0.56%) Salesforce