Mathematics Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Mathematics (Maths)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 230 262 334
Rank change year-on-year +32 +72 +5
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 74 83 144
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.75% 0.54% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.62% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 55 87
10th Percentile £308 £261 £318
25th Percentile £428 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £775 £788 £825
90th Percentile £788 £950 £1,025
UK median daily rate £700 £600 £700
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 16
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.64 -
25th Percentile £21.44 £12.86 £19.00
Median hourly rate £23.50 £38.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.15% -10.60% -8.94%
75th Percentile £27.98 £70.31 £65.00
90th Percentile £30.64 £75.38 -
UK median hourly rate £16.23 £14.80 £19.49
% change year-on-year +9.66% -24.06% +2.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Mathematics
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Mathematics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Mathematics trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Mathematics
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Mathematics.

Mathematics daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Mathematics
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Mathematics daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Mathematics
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Mathematics.

Mathematics hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Mathematics
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Mathematics over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Mathematics hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Mathematics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (10.81%) GemFire
1 8 (10.81%) Oracle Coherence
2 6 (8.11%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.70%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.35%) Apache
4 1 (1.35%) Confluence
4 1 (1.35%) IBM Domino
4 1 (1.35%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (13.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (6.76%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (4.05%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 18 (24.32%) AWS
2 15 (20.27%) Azure
3 8 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (9.46%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.05%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.70%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (2.70%) GCP
7 1 (1.35%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.35%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.35%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.51%) Relational Database
2 8 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (9.46%) Power BI
3 7 (9.46%) Redis
3 7 (9.46%) Tableau
4 5 (6.76%) Hadoop
5 4 (5.41%) Data Mining
6 3 (4.05%) Big Data
6 3 (4.05%) Metadata
7 2 (2.70%) Power Query
8 1 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.35%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.35%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.35%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.35%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.35%) MySQL
8 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.35%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (1.35%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.35%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Git
1 3 (4.05%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.35%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.35%) JIRA
2 1 (1.35%) MLflow
2 1 (1.35%) ReSharper
2 1 (1.35%) Selenium
General
1 35 (47.30%) Social Skills
2 33 (44.59%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (20.27%) Banking
4 12 (16.22%) Investment Banking
5 11 (14.86%) Finance
6 10 (13.51%) Public Sector
7 7 (9.46%) Marketing
8 4 (5.41%) Games
8 4 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (4.05%) Aerospace
9 3 (4.05%) Automotive
10 2 (2.70%) Manufacturing
10 2 (2.70%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.35%) Dutch Language
11 1 (1.35%) French Language
11 1 (1.35%) Front Office
11 1 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (27.03%) Developer
2 16 (21.62%) Data Scientist
3 15 (20.27%) Java Developer
4 11 (14.86%) Analyst
4 11 (14.86%) Senior
5 9 (12.16%) Lead
6 8 (10.81%) Lead Developer
6 8 (10.81%) Oracle Developer
6 8 (10.81%) Senior Developer
6 8 (10.81%) Senior Java Developer
6 8 (10.81%) Senior Oracle Developer
7 7 (9.46%) Lead Java Developer
8 5 (6.76%) Administrator
9 4 (5.41%) Animator
9 4 (5.41%) Data Analyst
10 3 (4.05%) Pensions Analyst
10 3 (4.05%) Quantitative Developer
11 2 (2.70%) Administration Assistant
11 2 (2.70%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 2 (2.70%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.16%) .NET
2 8 (10.81%) AngularJS
2 8 (10.81%) ASP.NET
3 7 (9.46%) ActiveMQ
3 7 (9.46%) Kafka
4 4 (5.41%) React
4 4 (5.41%) scikit-learn
4 4 (5.41%) Unreal Engine
5 3 (4.05%) D3.js
5 3 (4.05%) Django
5 3 (4.05%) OAuth
5 3 (4.05%) OAuth2
5 3 (4.05%) Pandas
5 3 (4.05%) Plotly
5 3 (4.05%) TensorFlow
6 2 (2.70%) Matplotlib
6 2 (2.70%) NumPy
6 2 (2.70%) PySpark
6 2 (2.70%) PyTorch
7 1 (1.35%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.22%) Algorithms
2 5 (6.76%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.41%) Animation
4 3 (4.05%) Derivative
5 2 (2.70%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.70%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.70%) Market Risk
5 2 (2.70%) Multi-touch
6 1 (1.35%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.35%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.35%) FMCG
6 1 (1.35%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 1 (1.35%) IoT
6 1 (1.35%) NHS
6 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.35%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.35%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.05%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (52.70%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (47.30%) Computer Science
3 26 (35.14%) Statistics
4 23 (31.08%) Data Science
5 22 (29.73%) Data Analysis
6 19 (25.68%) Visualisation
7 18 (24.32%) Machine Learning
8 16 (21.62%) DevOps
9 15 (20.27%) Artificial Intelligence
9 15 (20.27%) Data Visualisation
10 14 (18.92%) Analytics
11 13 (17.57%) Decision-Making
12 11 (14.86%) Agile
12 11 (14.86%) Business Intelligence
12 11 (14.86%) Data Modelling
12 11 (14.86%) Software Engineering
12 11 (14.86%) Statistical Modelling
13 10 (13.51%) Data Engineering
13 10 (13.51%) Economics
14 9 (12.16%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 37 (50.00%) Python
2 29 (39.19%) SQL
3 16 (21.62%) Java
4 8 (10.81%) R
5 3 (4.05%) C
5 3 (4.05%) C++
5 3 (4.05%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.35%) Bash
7 1 (1.35%) C#
7 1 (1.35%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 48 (64.86%) Degree
2 23 (31.08%) Numerate Degree
3 10 (13.51%) Master's Degree
4 6 (8.11%) SC Cleared
4 6 (8.11%) Security Cleared
5 5 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (6.76%) PhD
6 2 (2.70%) HNC
7 1 (1.35%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.35%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.35%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.11%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.41%) Actionable Recommendations
2 4 (5.41%) QA
3 2 (2.70%) Basel II
4 1 (1.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.35%) GDPR
4 1 (1.35%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (10.81%) GridGain
2 1 (1.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.35%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (10.81%) Oracle
2 5 (6.76%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.41%) Databricks
4 3 (4.05%) Google
4 3 (4.05%) TOWER Software
5 2 (2.70%) Alteryx
5 2 (2.70%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.35%) SAP
6 1 (1.35%) Siemens