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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 226 218 277
Rank change year-on-year -8 +59 -6
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 128 178 168
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.95% 0.83% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.01% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 29 75
10th Percentile £155 £177 £151
25th Percentile £321 £235 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year +32.00% -25.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £638
90th Percentile £630 £625 £945
UK median daily rate £675 £575 £700
% change year-on-year +17.39% -17.86% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 116 53
10th Percentile £14.06 £11.77 -
25th Percentile £14.84 £14.16 £13.41
Median hourly rate £15.14 £15.00 £13.66
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% +9.81% -5.79%
75th Percentile £16.85 £16.85 £50.00
90th Percentile £25.77 £20.35 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £15.44 £15.00 £19.49
% change year-on-year +2.93% -23.04% +25.74%

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 12,235 17,586 20,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.46% 82.35% 89.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,495 10,292 13,879
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £368 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £502 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.33% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 996 2,217 1,273
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.50 £11.84
25th Percentile £16.90 £15.50 £15.21
Median hourly rate £25.08 £38.12 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.22% +17.29% +54.76%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.45 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -11 45 £500 +33.33% 393
South West +59 24 £813 +35.42% 398
South East +34 21 £365 -13.10% 807
North of England +17 17 £520 +222.94% 801
North West +6 13 £520 -20.00% 430
Scotland +8 12 £550 +175.00% 173
Midlands +7 5 £316 -2.77% 478
East Midlands +10 4 £316 - 185
Yorkshire +1 4 £496 +208.04% 282
Northern Ireland -5 3 - - 86
West Midlands +8 1 - - 288
Wales -1 1 - - 76
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 (4.69%) Confluence
2 3 (2.34%) SAS
3 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 55 (42.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (38.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (10.16%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.56%) LightWave 3D
4 2 (1.56%) Simulink
5 1 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.56%) iTrent
2 1 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (9.38%) AWS
3 10 (7.81%) Azure
4 6 (4.69%) Serverless
5 4 (3.13%) Anthropic Claude
5 4 (3.13%) Azure AI
5 4 (3.13%) GCP
5 4 (3.13%) Google Gemini
5 4 (3.13%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.34%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.56%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (14.84%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.78%) tcpdump
2 1 (0.78%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.91%) Tableau
2 4 (3.13%) Neo4j
2 4 (3.13%) Power BI
3 3 (2.34%) Metadata
4 2 (1.56%) Big Data
4 2 (1.56%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.56%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.78%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (4.69%) Bitbucket
1 6 (4.69%) JIRA
1 6 (4.69%) Selenium
2 5 (3.91%) Git
3 2 (1.56%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.78%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.78%) NetBeans
General
1 55 (42.97%) Social Skills
2 36 (28.13%) Finance
3 10 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (7.81%) German Language
4 8 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.69%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.91%) Legal
7 4 (3.13%) Electronics
7 4 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.34%) Spanish Language
9 2 (1.56%) Aeronautics
9 2 (1.56%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.56%) Games
9 2 (1.56%) Hungarian Language
9 2 (1.56%) Lithuanian Language
9 2 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Banking
10 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Retail
10 1 (0.78%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 35 (27.34%) Analyst
2 29 (22.66%) Service Analyst
3 23 (17.97%) Desktop Engineer
3 23 (17.97%) Desktop Support
3 23 (17.97%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 23 (17.97%) Support Engineer
4 19 (14.84%) Service Desk Analyst
5 16 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
5 16 (12.50%) Technical Services Analyst
6 10 (7.81%) Customer Analyst
6 10 (7.81%) Customer Service Analyst
7 9 (7.03%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
8 6 (4.69%) Administrator
9 5 (3.91%) Data Scientist
9 5 (3.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (3.91%) Senior
10 4 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 3 (2.34%) Credit Analyst
11 3 (2.34%) IT Analyst
11 3 (2.34%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.91%) PyTorch
1 5 (3.91%) TensorFlow
2 2 (1.56%) Unreal Engine
3 1 (0.78%) OLE
3 1 (0.78%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.75%) Driving Licence
2 18 (14.06%) Algorithms
3 7 (5.47%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.69%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.13%) Credit Risk
6 3 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.56%) Animation
7 2 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.56%) Robotics
8 1 (0.78%) IoT
8 1 (0.78%) MISP
8 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.78%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.78%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (51.56%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (37.50%) Customer Service
2 48 (37.50%) Service Delivery
3 46 (35.94%) Incident Management
4 26 (20.31%) Customer Experience
5 20 (15.63%) ITIL
6 16 (12.50%) Decision-Making
7 15 (11.72%) Artificial Intelligence
8 13 (10.16%) Computer Science
9 12 (9.38%) Agile
9 12 (9.38%) Statistics
10 11 (8.59%) Data Modelling
10 11 (8.59%) Data Science
10 11 (8.59%) Machine Learning
11 10 (7.81%) Containerisation
12 9 (7.03%) Analytics
12 9 (7.03%) Business Intelligence
12 9 (7.03%) Data Analysis
12 9 (7.03%) Physics
12 9 (7.03%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 30 (23.44%) Python
2 11 (8.59%) SQL
3 8 (6.25%) R
4 6 (4.69%) Java
5 3 (2.34%) Scala
5 3 (2.34%) VBA
6 2 (1.56%) C#
6 2 (1.56%) C++
6 2 (1.56%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.56%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.78%) Bash
7 1 (0.78%) C
7 1 (0.78%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (30.47%) Security Cleared
2 37 (28.91%) SC Cleared
3 23 (17.97%) Dell Certification
4 22 (17.19%) Degree
5 19 (14.84%) A+ Certification
5 19 (14.84%) MCSA
5 19 (14.84%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (4.69%) AWS Certification
6 6 (4.69%) AWS Certified Developer
6 6 (4.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (3.91%) Numerate Degree
8 4 (3.13%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.78%) CISSP
10 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.78%) HNC
10 1 (0.78%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (17.97%) SLA
2 9 (7.03%) QA
3 3 (2.34%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (1.56%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.78%) GDPR
5 1 (0.78%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.78%) MISRA
5 1 (0.78%) MISRA C
System Software
1 19 (14.84%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.69%) Terraform
2 4 (3.13%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.78%) Nessus
3 1 (0.78%) OpenVAS
3 1 (0.78%) QRadar
Vendors
1 81 (63.28%) Microsoft
2 23 (17.97%) Dell
2 23 (17.97%) HP
3 22 (17.19%) ServiceNow
4 19 (14.84%) Citrix
5 3 (2.34%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.56%) Databricks
6 2 (1.56%) MathWorks
7 1 (0.78%) Ariba
7 1 (0.78%) Carbon Black
7 1 (0.78%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.78%) IBM
7 1 (0.78%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.78%) Oracle
7 1 (0.78%) QNX
7 1 (0.78%) Rapid7
7 1 (0.78%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.78%) SAP
7 1 (0.78%) Siemens
7 1 (0.78%) Teradata