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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 504 528 633
Rank change year-on-year +24 +105 +135
Contract jobs citing Numerate Degree 49 68 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.16% 0.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.49% 0.54% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 50 35
10th Percentile - £319 -
25th Percentile £725 £481 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £508
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +57.64% -34.52%
75th Percentile £775 £869 £700
90th Percentile £1,050 £950 £855
UK excluding London median daily rate £368 £450 £400
% change year-on-year -18.33% +12.50% -27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £60.50
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £138.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +215.79%

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 10,064 12,584 14,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.87% 29.88% 26.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,224 7,879 9,865
10th Percentile £278 £310 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% +3.38%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £704 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 729 1,036 729
10th Percentile £17.87 £14.16 £15.45
25th Percentile £19.38 £20.75 £24.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% -24.77% +26.94%
75th Percentile £56.00 £65.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.75 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% -21.82% +39.24%

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 18 July 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 7 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 18 July 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 +36 44 £750 -6.25% 159
London +19 41 £750 -6.25% 86
Work from Home +38 27 £750 -9.09% 56
UK excluding London +25 7 £368 -18.33% 80
Scotland - 4 £425 - 3
South East +33 2 £321 -35.75% 20
South West +38 1 - - 2

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
Applications
1 11 (22.45%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 22 (44.90%) Azure
2 20 (40.82%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (34.69%) AWS
4 3 (6.12%) 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 17 (34.69%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (32.65%) Redis
3 8 (16.33%) Relational Database
4 3 (6.12%) Power BI
5 2 (4.08%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.04%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.04%) Git
General
1 32 (65.31%) Social Skills
2 29 (59.18%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (46.94%) Banking
3 23 (46.94%) Investment Banking
4 20 (40.82%) Finance
5 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 37 (75.51%) Developer
2 24 (48.98%) Java Developer
3 17 (34.69%) Lead
4 16 (32.65%) Lead Developer
4 16 (32.65%) Lead Java Developer
5 10 (20.41%) Senior
6 9 (18.37%) Quantitative Developer
7 8 (16.33%) Oracle Developer
7 8 (16.33%) Senior Developer
7 8 (16.33%) Senior Java Developer
7 8 (16.33%) Senior Oracle Developer
8 6 (12.24%) Analyst
9 4 (8.16%) C# Developer
9 4 (8.16%) Credit Analyst
10 3 (6.12%) Data Scientist
11 2 (4.08%) Qualitative Analyst
11 2 (4.08%) Quantitative Analyst
11 2 (4.08%) Senior Analyst
12 1 (2.04%) Analyst Developer
12 1 (2.04%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (32.65%) ActiveMQ
1 16 (32.65%) Kafka
2 12 (24.49%) .NET
3 8 (16.33%) AngularJS
3 8 (16.33%) ASP.NET
4 4 (8.16%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 14 (28.57%) Derivative
2 10 (20.41%) Equities
2 10 (20.41%) Equity Derivative
3 8 (16.33%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (8.16%) Market Risk
5 3 (6.12%) Credit Risk
6 1 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (2.04%) Fixed Income
6 1 (2.04%) Freedom of Information
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (91.84%) Mathematics
2 30 (61.22%) Computer Science
3 28 (57.14%) DevOps
3 28 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (44.90%) Agile
4 22 (44.90%) Economics
5 20 (40.82%) Architectural Design
5 20 (40.82%) BDD
5 20 (40.82%) TDD
6 13 (26.53%) Risk Management
7 10 (20.41%) CI/CD
7 10 (20.41%) Data Pipeline
8 8 (16.33%) Performance Tuning
8 8 (16.33%) Software Engineering
9 5 (10.20%) Data Analysis
9 5 (10.20%) Decision-Making
10 4 (8.16%) Actionable Insight
10 4 (8.16%) Analytics
10 4 (8.16%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (8.16%) Risk Analysis
Programming Languages
1 24 (48.98%) Java
2 18 (36.73%) Python
3 15 (30.61%) SQL
4 11 (22.45%) C++
5 4 (8.16%) C#
5 4 (8.16%) Haskell
6 3 (6.12%) VBA
7 2 (4.08%) R
8 1 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 49 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.04%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) COBIT
2 1 (2.04%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (16.33%) GridGain
Vendors
1 8 (16.33%) Oracle
2 3 (6.12%) Alteryx
3 2 (4.08%) Databricks
3 2 (4.08%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.04%) Google
4 1 (2.04%) Jaspersoft