Mathematics Contracts

Mathematics (Maths)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 233 274 294
Rank change year-on-year +41 +20 +5
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 330 359 543
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.13% 0.82% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 0.95% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 167 305
10th Percentile £359 £305 £401
25th Percentile £488 £430 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £794 £725 £875
90th Percentile £950 £875 £1,025
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £380 £513
% change year-on-year +31.58% -25.85% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 118 70
10th Percentile £14.84 £11.77 £13.40
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
Median hourly rate £16.23 £14.80 £19.49
Median % change year-on-year +9.66% -24.06% +2.58%
75th Percentile £21.81 £24.66 £65.00
90th Percentile £28.88 £60.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.44 £14.22 £19.49
% change year-on-year +8.62% -27.07% +34.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Mathematics
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Mathematics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Mathematics in the UK

Mathematics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mathematics.

Daily rate trend for Mathematics in the UK

Mathematics
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Mathematics in the UK

Mathematics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mathematics.

Hourly rate trend for Mathematics in the UK

Mathematics
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Mathematics in the UK

Mathematics
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 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
England +37 295 £725 +20.83% 1,810
London +23 164 £750 +17.65% 838
UK excluding London +53 144 £500 +31.58% 1,163
Work from Home +32 74 £556 -20.54% 723
East of England +5 50 - - 154
South East +41 29 £368 -3.29% 374
South West +59 23 £538 - 148
North of England +25 17 £490 - 261
Scotland +22 15 £550 +175.00% 67
North West +23 14 £490 - 140
Midlands +19 5 £316 -42.55% 202
East Midlands - 4 £316 - 98
Yorkshire +8 3 £496 - 80
Northern Ireland -6 3 - - 10
Wales +1 2 - - 13
West Midlands +7 1 - - 104

Mathematics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 27 (8.18%) Apache Spark
2 10 (3.03%) Confluence
3 8 (2.42%) Apache
3 8 (2.42%) GemFire
3 8 (2.42%) Oracle Coherence
4 6 (1.82%) SAS
5 2 (0.61%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.30%) IBM Domino
6 1 (0.30%) Luigi
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 86 (26.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.61%) CPLEX
4 2 (0.61%) LightWave 3D
5 1 (0.30%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Bankmaster
1 3 (0.91%) iTrent
2 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 61 (18.48%) Azure
2 53 (16.06%) AWS
3 25 (7.58%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (7.27%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (4.24%) Power Platform
6 10 (3.03%) Serverless
7 9 (2.73%) GCP
8 6 (1.82%) GitHub
8 6 (1.82%) SaaS
9 4 (1.21%) Anthropic Claude
9 4 (1.21%) Azure AI
9 4 (1.21%) Google Gemini
9 4 (1.21%) Snowflake
10 3 (0.91%) Azure Machine Learning
10 3 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.61%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.61%) PowerApps
12 1 (0.30%) Amazon S3
12 1 (0.30%) Amazon SageMaker
12 1 (0.30%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 26 (7.88%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.61%) 3G
2 2 (0.61%) GPRS
2 2 (0.61%) LAN
2 2 (0.61%) WAN
3 1 (0.30%) Internet
3 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.30%) tcpdump
3 1 (0.30%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.67%) Hadoop
2 17 (5.15%) Relational Database
3 16 (4.85%) Big Data
4 14 (4.24%) Power BI
5 13 (3.94%) Tableau
6 12 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (3.03%) Redis
7 10 (3.03%) SQL Server
8 9 (2.73%) Data Mining
9 6 (1.82%) Apache Hive
10 5 (1.52%) Metadata
11 4 (1.21%) Neo4j
11 4 (1.21%) NoSQL
11 4 (1.21%) Power Query
12 3 (0.91%) MySQL
13 2 (0.61%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.61%) KDB
13 2 (0.61%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 1 (0.30%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 29 (8.79%) Git
2 12 (3.64%) JIRA
3 10 (3.03%) Bitbucket
4 8 (2.42%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.42%) Selenium
4 8 (2.42%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.91%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.91%) SpecFlow
5 3 (0.91%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.61%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.30%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.30%) Gradle
7 1 (0.30%) JMeter
7 1 (0.30%) JUnit
7 1 (0.30%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.30%) Mocha
7 1 (0.30%) Mockito
7 1 (0.30%) ReSharper
7 1 (0.30%) TeamCity
General
1 125 (37.88%) Social Skills
2 121 (36.67%) Finance
3 91 (27.58%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (17.88%) Banking
5 45 (13.64%) Investment Banking
6 23 (6.97%) Front Office
7 16 (4.85%) Public Sector
8 14 (4.24%) Marketing
9 10 (3.03%) German Language
10 6 (1.82%) Hungarian Language
10 6 (1.82%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.52%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.52%) Games
11 5 (1.52%) Legal
11 5 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.21%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.21%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.91%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 88 (26.67%) Developer
2 70 (21.21%) Analyst
3 40 (12.12%) Data Scientist
4 39 (11.82%) Senior
5 33 (10.00%) Service Analyst
6 25 (7.58%) Java Developer
6 25 (7.58%) Quantitative Developer
7 24 (7.27%) Service Desk Analyst
8 23 (6.97%) Desktop Engineer
8 23 (6.97%) Desktop Support
8 23 (6.97%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 23 (6.97%) Support Engineer
9 18 (5.45%) Senior Developer
9 18 (5.45%) Technical Analyst
9 18 (5.45%) Technical Services Analyst
10 17 (5.15%) Python Developer
11 16 (4.85%) C# Developer
12 14 (4.24%) Lead
13 13 (3.94%) Qualitative Analyst
13 13 (3.94%) Quantitative Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.36%) Pandas
2 19 (5.76%) AngularJS
3 18 (5.45%) NumPy
4 17 (5.15%) .NET
5 15 (4.55%) Kafka
5 15 (4.55%) React
5 15 (4.55%) TensorFlow
6 12 (3.64%) SciPy
7 11 (3.33%) Vue
8 10 (3.03%) ActiveMQ
8 10 (3.03%) FastAPI
8 10 (3.03%) PySpark
9 9 (2.73%) Flask
9 9 (2.73%) Polars
9 9 (2.73%) PyTorch
10 8 (2.42%) ASP.NET
10 8 (2.42%) scikit-learn
10 8 (2.42%) Spark Streaming
10 8 (2.42%) WPF
11 4 (1.21%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 42 (12.73%) Algorithms
2 34 (10.30%) Derivative
3 25 (7.58%) Driving Licence
4 20 (6.06%) Market Risk
5 17 (5.15%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (4.55%) Distributed Computing
6 15 (4.55%) Equities
7 12 (3.64%) Hedge funds
8 10 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 9 (2.73%) Credit Risk
9 9 (2.73%) Equity Derivative
9 9 (2.73%) Management Information System
9 9 (2.73%) Multi-touch
10 8 (2.42%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.82%) Cloud Native
12 5 (1.52%) Product Ownership
13 4 (1.21%) Animation
14 3 (0.91%) Fixed Income
14 3 (0.91%) Grid Computing
15 2 (0.61%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.33%) Linux
2 4 (1.21%) Unix
3 2 (0.61%) Windows
4 1 (0.30%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (43.94%) Problem-Solving
2 89 (26.97%) Computer Science
3 66 (20.00%) Statistics
4 58 (17.58%) Analytics
4 58 (17.58%) Data Science
5 57 (17.27%) Customer Service
6 54 (16.36%) Data Analysis
6 54 (16.36%) Service Delivery
7 53 (16.06%) Machine Learning
8 52 (15.76%) Incident Management
9 48 (14.55%) Agile
10 44 (13.33%) Decision-Making
10 44 (13.33%) Risk Management
11 40 (12.12%) CI/CD
12 38 (11.52%) Software Engineering
13 35 (10.61%) Artificial Intelligence
14 34 (10.30%) Visualisation
15 33 (10.00%) DevOps
16 29 (8.79%) Data Modelling
17 27 (8.18%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 164 (49.70%) Python
2 79 (23.94%) SQL
3 51 (15.45%) Java
4 40 (12.12%) C++
5 34 (10.30%) C#
6 30 (9.09%) R
7 13 (3.94%) JavaScript
8 10 (3.03%) Rust
9 7 (2.12%) VBA
10 6 (1.82%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.21%) C
11 4 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (1.21%) Haskell
11 4 (1.21%) Scala
12 3 (0.91%) Bash
12 3 (0.91%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.61%) Go
13 2 (0.61%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.30%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.30%) XAML
Qualifications
1 134 (40.61%) Degree
2 51 (15.45%) Security Cleared
3 49 (14.85%) SC Cleared
4 46 (13.94%) Numerate Degree
5 35 (10.61%) Master's Degree
6 24 (7.27%) A+ Certification
6 24 (7.27%) MCSA
6 24 (7.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 23 (6.97%) Dell Certification
8 19 (5.76%) PhD
9 15 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (3.03%) AWS Certification
10 10 (3.03%) AWS Certified Developer
10 10 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.61%) HNC
12 1 (0.30%) APMP
12 1 (0.30%) CISSP
12 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.30%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.27%) SLA
2 21 (6.36%) Data Quality
3 17 (5.15%) QA
4 5 (1.52%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (1.21%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.61%) Basel II
6 2 (0.61%) GDPR
7 1 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.30%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.30%) MISRA
7 1 (0.30%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.30%) NIST
7 1 (0.30%) PMO
7 1 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 24 (7.27%) Active Directory
2 17 (5.15%) Docker
3 8 (2.42%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 14 (4.24%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.94%) Terraform
3 1 (0.30%) Nessus
3 1 (0.30%) OpenVAS
3 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 91 (27.58%) Microsoft
2 27 (8.18%) ServiceNow
3 24 (7.27%) Citrix
4 23 (6.97%) Dell
4 23 (6.97%) HP
5 10 (3.03%) Oracle
6 8 (2.42%) Alteryx
7 6 (1.82%) Databricks
8 5 (1.52%) Google
9 3 (0.91%) SAP
9 3 (0.91%) TOWER Software
10 2 (0.61%) Spotify
11 1 (0.30%) Ariba
11 1 (0.30%) Carbon Black
11 1 (0.30%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (0.30%) FIS
11 1 (0.30%) IBM
11 1 (0.30%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.30%) QNX
11 1 (0.30%) Salesforce