Mathematics Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Mathematics (Maths)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Mathematics skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 106 108
Rank change year-on-year -15 +2 +49
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 5 6 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.27% 0.31% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.38% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 9
10th Percentile - - £412
25th Percentile £438 £106 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £159 £600
Median % change year-on-year +207.40% -73.54% +33.33%
75th Percentile £538 £211 £650
90th Percentile £598 £218 £740
England median daily rate £650 £500 £650
% change year-on-year +30.00% -23.08% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,637 1,570 1,766
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 89.11% 82.41% 85.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,045 993 1,184
10th Percentile £249 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £725 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 39 51
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £14.54
25th Percentile £16.30 £16.38 £20.43
Median hourly rate £23.05 £26.13 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.77% -5.00% +56.16%
75th Percentile £33.88 £40.25 £43.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.65 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.85
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.94% +51.21%

Mathematics
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Mathematics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Mathematics in the West Midlands

Mathematics
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Mathematics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Mathematics

Mathematics
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mathematics in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mathematics in the West Midlands

Mathematics
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Mathematics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Mathematics

Mathematics
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mathematics within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 September 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
Warwickshire - 3 £475 - 11
Solihull -4 1 £625 +204.88% 2
Birmingham - 1 £488 - 12
Mathematics
England

Mathematics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Power BI
2 2 (40.00%) QlikView
3 1 (20.00%) Apache Hive
3 1 (20.00%) Data Mining
3 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Data Scientist
2 2 (40.00%) Accountant
2 2 (40.00%) Management Accountant
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Accountant
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Management Accountant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Analytics
1 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Data Science
1 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (60.00%) Predictive Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (40.00%) Business Forecasting
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) Financial Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Linear Algebra
2 2 (40.00%) Naive Bayes
2 2 (40.00%) Statistics
2 2 (40.00%) Support Vector Machines
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) R
2 2 (40.00%) Scala
3 1 (20.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) ACCA
1 2 (40.00%) CIMA
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk