Mathematician Contract Job Trends

Mathematician
UK

The median Mathematician daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 589 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Mathematician 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.003% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.003% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 33,741 30,870 40,353
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.20% 92.72% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,345 18,959 27,051
10th Percentile £298 £300 £281
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £616 £638 £640
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,972 954 1,548
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.51 £14.50
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.63% -27.78% +40.82%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.41 £73.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -22.62% -29.62% +77.62%

Mathematician
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Mathematician' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Mathematician job vacancy trend in the UK

Mathematician
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Mathematician job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Mathematician job vacancies in the UK

Mathematician
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Mathematician job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Mathematician job vacancies in the UK

Mathematician
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mathematician within the UK over the 6 months to 30 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
South West - 1 £500 - 1
England - 1 £500 - 4
UK excluding London - 1 £500 - 4

Mathematician Skill Set
Top 18 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 December 2025, Mathematician contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Mathematician in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Applied Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Jupyter
1 1 (100.00%) LaTeX
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematical Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) MATLAB
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Research
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Search
1 1 (100.00%) Statistics
1 1 (100.00%) Validation

Mathematician Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (100.00%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) LaTeX
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Applied Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematical Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Research
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Search
1 1 (100.00%) Statistics
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) MATLAB
1 1 (100.00%) Python