Numerate Degree Contracts

Numerate Degree (Degree in Mathematics)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Numerate Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 470 552 649
Rank change year-on-year +82 +97 +106
Contract jobs citing Numerate Degree 49 48 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.55% 0.36% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 39 31
10th Percentile £608 £303 £400
25th Percentile £725 £454 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £712 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.34% +35.62% -27.59%
75th Percentile £863 £875 £766
90th Percentile £1,035 £950 £875
UK excluding London median daily rate £368 £450 £400
% change year-on-year -18.33% +12.50% -33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £41.75
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £138.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

Numerate Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 8,989 13,363 16,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.75% 30.65% 27.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,678 8,219 10,866
10th Percentile £288 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £707 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £530 £530
% change year-on-year -5.57% - +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 516 1,077 849
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.87 £15.25
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.88 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.72 £40.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% -25.93% +29.75%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.60 £68.25
90th Percentile £80.34 £75.25 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £40.94 £49.57
% change year-on-year +9.92% -17.41% +55.44%

Numerate Degree
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Numerate Degree in the UK

Numerate Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Numerate Degree in the UK

Numerate Degree
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Numerate Degree over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Numerate Degree in the UK

Numerate Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Numerate Degree in the UK

Numerate Degree
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Numerate Degree within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +65 45 £750 +5.34% 182
London +38 41 £750 -6.25% 89
Work from Home +52 25 £750 -9.09% 112
UK excluding London +58 7 £368 -18.33% 97
Scotland - 3 - - 4
South East - 2 £321 - 24
South West +43 1 - - 2
Midlands - 1 £725 - 30
West Midlands - 1 £725 - 15

Numerate Degree
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 8 (16.33%) GemFire
1 8 (16.33%) Oracle Coherence
2 3 (6.12%) SAS
3 1 (2.04%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.04%) Jupyter
Applications
1 11 (22.45%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 16 (32.65%) Azure
2 14 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (26.53%) AWS
4 7 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.08%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (4.08%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.04%) GitHub
6 1 (2.04%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (24.49%) Relational Database
2 11 (22.45%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (20.41%) Redis
4 7 (14.29%) Power BI
5 4 (8.16%) Power Query
6 2 (4.08%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (4.08%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.04%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (2.04%) MySQL
7 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (12.24%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.04%) Git
General
1 28 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (53.06%) Social Skills
3 22 (44.90%) Finance
4 21 (42.86%) Banking
5 20 (40.82%) Investment Banking
6 3 (6.12%) Marketing
7 2 (4.08%) Telecoms
8 1 (2.04%) Aviation
8 1 (2.04%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 33 (67.35%) Developer
2 18 (36.73%) Java Developer
3 14 (28.57%) Senior
4 11 (22.45%) Lead
5 10 (20.41%) Lead Developer
5 10 (20.41%) Lead Java Developer
5 10 (20.41%) Quantitative Developer
5 10 (20.41%) Senior Developer
6 8 (16.33%) Oracle Developer
6 8 (16.33%) Senior Java Developer
6 8 (16.33%) Senior Oracle Developer
7 7 (14.29%) Analyst
8 4 (8.16%) C# Developer
8 4 (8.16%) Credit Analyst
8 4 (8.16%) Data Scientist
9 2 (4.08%) Market Analyst
9 2 (4.08%) Qualitative Analyst
9 2 (4.08%) Quantitative Analyst
9 2 (4.08%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (4.08%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (24.49%) .NET
2 10 (20.41%) ActiveMQ
2 10 (20.41%) Kafka
3 9 (18.37%) AngularJS
4 8 (16.33%) ASP.NET
5 4 (8.16%) WPF
6 3 (6.12%) Java Concurrency
7 1 (2.04%) CSS
7 1 (2.04%) HTML
7 1 (2.04%) Node.js
7 1 (2.04%) Protocol Buffers
7 1 (2.04%) REST
7 1 (2.04%) RESTful
7 1 (2.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (38.78%) Derivative
2 9 (18.37%) Equity Derivative
2 9 (18.37%) Market Risk
3 7 (14.29%) Equities
4 4 (8.16%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (8.16%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (6.12%) Credit Risk
6 2 (4.08%) Hedge funds
7 1 (2.04%) Fixed Income
7 1 (2.04%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 1 (2.04%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (93.88%) Mathematics
2 29 (59.18%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (55.10%) Computer Science
4 22 (44.90%) DevOps
5 18 (36.73%) Economics
6 17 (34.69%) Agile
7 14 (28.57%) Architectural Design
7 14 (28.57%) BDD
7 14 (28.57%) Risk Management
7 14 (28.57%) TDD
8 11 (22.45%) Analytics
8 11 (22.45%) CI/CD
9 10 (20.41%) Data Analysis
9 10 (20.41%) Software Engineering
10 8 (16.33%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (16.33%) Data Modelling
10 8 (16.33%) Data Pipeline
10 8 (16.33%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (16.33%) Risk Analysis
10 8 (16.33%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 25 (51.02%) Python
2 18 (36.73%) Java
3 17 (34.69%) SQL
4 11 (22.45%) C++
5 5 (10.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (8.16%) C#
6 4 (8.16%) Haskell
7 3 (6.12%) VBA
8 2 (4.08%) R
9 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
9 1 (2.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 49 (100.00%) Degree
2 3 (6.12%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.04%) MRICS
3 1 (2.04%) PhD
3 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.16%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (16.33%) GridGain
2 1 (2.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (16.33%) Oracle
2 7 (14.29%) Alteryx
3 2 (4.08%) Databricks
3 2 (4.08%) Google
3 2 (4.08%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.04%) Jaspersoft