Mathematics Contracts with Work from Home Options

Mathematics (Maths)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Mathematics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Mathematics over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 273 331 323
Rank change year-on-year +58 -8 +11
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 81 151 315
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.53% 0.58% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.65% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 92 202
10th Percentile £316 £328 £400
25th Percentile £538 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% +24.35%
75th Percentile £788 £863 £650
90th Percentile £950 £1,025 £772
UK median daily rate £600 £700 £600
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 17 13
10th Percentile £12.64 - £14.07
25th Percentile £12.86 £19.00 £19.91
Median hourly rate £38.00 £50.00 £46.67
Median % change year-on-year -24.01% +7.14% +110.11%
75th Percentile £70.31 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.38 - £55.95
UK median hourly rate £14.80 £19.49 £19.00
% change year-on-year -24.06% +2.58% -15.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Mathematics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,547 23,386 40,461
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.81% 89.84% 91.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,028 16,509 29,350
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 563 544 541
10th Percentile £15.03 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £24.00 £30.54 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.18 £67.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

Mathematics
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Mathematics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Mathematics trend for jobs with a WFH option

Mathematics
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Mathematics over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Mathematics over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

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 6 (7.41%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.23%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (24.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (4.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (3.70%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (1.23%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (4.94%) Loan IQ
2 3 (3.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (1.23%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 24 (29.63%) Azure
2 8 (9.88%) AWS
3 6 (7.41%) Power Platform
4 5 (6.17%) GCP
5 2 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.47%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.23%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.23%) GitHub
6 1 (1.23%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.70%) Network Security
2 2 (2.47%) WAN
2 2 (2.47%) Wireless
3 1 (1.23%) BGP
3 1 (1.23%) DDNS
3 1 (1.23%) DHCP
3 1 (1.23%) DNS
3 1 (1.23%) DSL
3 1 (1.23%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.23%) Firewall
3 1 (1.23%) Internet
3 1 (1.23%) IPsec
3 1 (1.23%) ISDN
3 1 (1.23%) Junos
3 1 (1.23%) LAN
3 1 (1.23%) MPLS
3 1 (1.23%) OSPF
3 1 (1.23%) SAN
3 1 (1.23%) SSL
3 1 (1.23%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.58%) SQL Server
2 8 (9.88%) Tableau
3 7 (8.64%) Big Data
4 6 (7.41%) Hadoop
5 3 (3.70%) Power BI
6 2 (2.47%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.47%) Looker
6 2 (2.47%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.23%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.23%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.23%) Metadata
7 1 (1.23%) Presto
7 1 (1.23%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 11 (13.58%) Git
2 4 (4.94%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.23%) git-flow
3 1 (1.23%) GitLab
General
1 25 (30.86%) Finance
2 23 (28.40%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (20.99%) Social Skills
4 16 (19.75%) Front Office
5 12 (14.81%) Banking
6 9 (11.11%) Marketing
7 8 (9.88%) Investment Banking
8 6 (7.41%) Financial Institution
8 6 (7.41%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.47%) Local Government
9 2 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.23%) Advertising
10 1 (1.23%) Electronics
10 1 (1.23%) Legal
10 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 22 (27.16%) Developer
2 18 (22.22%) Data Scientist
3 11 (13.58%) Analyst
3 11 (13.58%) C# Developer
4 10 (12.35%) Front Office Developer
5 8 (9.88%) Qualitative Analyst
5 8 (9.88%) Quantitative Analyst
5 8 (9.88%) Senior
6 7 (8.64%) Architect
7 4 (4.94%) Credit Analyst
7 4 (4.94%) Project Manager
7 4 (4.94%) Quantitative Developer
8 3 (3.70%) Blockchain Engineer
8 3 (3.70%) Cryptography Engineer
8 3 (3.70%) Data Analyst
8 3 (3.70%) Lead
8 3 (3.70%) Lead Architect
8 3 (3.70%) Lead Security Architect
8 3 (3.70%) Security Architect
8 3 (3.70%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.88%) Pandas
2 6 (7.41%) TensorFlow
3 5 (6.17%) PyTorch
4 4 (4.94%) scikit-learn
5 3 (3.70%) .NET
5 3 (3.70%) NumPy
5 3 (3.70%) React
5 3 (3.70%) Smart Contracts
6 2 (2.47%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.47%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.47%) D3.js
6 2 (2.47%) SciPy
6 2 (2.47%) Shiny
7 1 (1.23%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.23%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (1.23%) boto
7 1 (1.23%) FastAPI
7 1 (1.23%) Kafka
7 1 (1.23%) PySpark
7 1 (1.23%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 24 (29.63%) Derivative
2 20 (24.69%) Algorithms
3 10 (12.35%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (12.35%) Equity Derivative
3 10 (12.35%) Fixed Income
4 8 (9.88%) Management Information System
5 6 (7.41%) Credit Derivative
6 5 (6.17%) Equities
6 5 (6.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (6.17%) Multi-touch
7 4 (4.94%) Data Structures
7 4 (4.94%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (4.94%) Hedge funds
7 4 (4.94%) Product Ownership
8 3 (3.70%) Blockchain
9 2 (2.47%) Social Media
10 1 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (1.23%) Hackathon
10 1 (1.23%) PKI
10 1 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.17%) Linux
1 5 (6.17%) Unix
2 4 (4.94%) Windows
3 1 (1.23%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 27 (33.33%) Data Science
2 25 (30.86%) Machine Learning
3 21 (25.93%) Statistics
4 20 (24.69%) Analytics
5 15 (18.52%) Physics
5 15 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (18.52%) Software Engineering
6 13 (16.05%) Data Analysis
7 12 (14.81%) Agile
7 12 (14.81%) Data Modelling
7 12 (14.81%) Data Visualisation
7 12 (14.81%) Model Validation
7 12 (14.81%) Requirements Gathering
7 12 (14.81%) Visualisation
8 11 (13.58%) Artificial Intelligence
8 11 (13.58%) Multithreading
8 11 (13.58%) Quantitative Finance
8 11 (13.58%) Risk Management
8 11 (13.58%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 60 (74.07%) Python
2 20 (24.69%) C#
2 20 (24.69%) R
3 19 (23.46%) SQL
4 18 (22.22%) C++
5 13 (16.05%) Java
6 5 (6.17%) JavaScript
7 4 (4.94%) Clojure
7 4 (4.94%) Perl
7 4 (4.94%) Rust
7 4 (4.94%) Shell Script
7 4 (4.94%) VBA
8 2 (2.47%) MATLAB
8 2 (2.47%) Scala
8 2 (2.47%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.23%) Haskell
9 1 (1.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 43 (53.09%) Degree
2 20 (24.69%) Numerate Degree
3 14 (17.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (8.64%) PhD
5 6 (7.41%) Master's Degree
6 5 (6.17%) SC Cleared
6 5 (6.17%) Security Cleared
7 4 (4.94%) APMP
8 3 (3.70%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.23%) CESG Certified Professional
9 1 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.23%) CISM
9 1 (1.23%) CISSP
9 1 (1.23%) CLAS
9 1 (1.23%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.94%) NCSC
1 4 (4.94%) PMO
2 2 (2.47%) QA
3 1 (1.23%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.23%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.23%) NIST
3 1 (1.23%) RMADS
System Software
1 1 (1.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.23%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (1.23%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.23%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 11 (13.58%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.17%) Oracle
3 3 (3.70%) Google
3 3 (3.70%) Sparx
4 2 (2.47%) Foundry
4 2 (2.47%) Palantir
4 2 (2.47%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.23%) Barracuda Networks
5 1 (1.23%) Cisco
5 1 (1.23%) Databricks
5 1 (1.23%) F5
5 1 (1.23%) Forcepoint
5 1 (1.23%) Juniper
5 1 (1.23%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.23%) Remedy
5 1 (1.23%) SAP
5 1 (1.23%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.23%) Workday