Mathematics Contracts in the UK excluding London

Mathematics (Maths)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 241 261 243
Rank change year-on-year +20 -18 +27
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 153 188 307
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.75% 0.80% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.90% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 85 128
10th Percentile £200 £159 £140
25th Percentile £314 £400 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -21.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £581 £788 £600
90th Percentile £615 £1,025 £670
UK median daily rate £600 £700 £600
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 61 105
10th Percentile £10.42 £13.29 -
25th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £13.25
Median hourly rate £14.80 £19.49 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.06% +25.74% -2.44%
75th Percentile £15.21 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £17.80 - £60.00
UK median hourly rate £14.84 £19.49 £19.52
% change year-on-year -23.86% -0.15% -10.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,295 20,910 27,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.44% 89.50% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,314 14,450 18,900
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,280 1,343
10th Percentile £12.32 £10.99 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £47.11
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £61.45
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Mathematics
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Mathematics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Mathematics in the UK excluding London

Mathematics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mathematics in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Mathematics in the UK excluding London

Mathematics
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mathematics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mathematics in the UK excluding London

Mathematics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mathematics in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Mathematics in the UK excluding London

Mathematics
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Mathematics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Mathematics in the UK excluding London

Mathematics
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mathematics within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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
East of England +36 88 £375 -28.57% 199
South East -20 29 £420 -38.91% 374
North of England +24 11 - - 408
North West +14 8 - - 198
South West -3 8 £600 +26.32% 292
Scotland +46 7 £200 -68.00% 20
Midlands +16 7 £550 +37.50% 312
West Midlands +12 7 £550 +2.33% 186
Yorkshire +13 3 - - 151
Wales +18 2 £465 -19.13% 29
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 4
Mathematics
UK

Mathematics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (3.27%) SAS
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 56 (36.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (30.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (6.54%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (6.54%) Simulink
4 8 (5.23%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (3.27%) SPSS
6 2 (1.31%) Stateflow
7 1 (0.65%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.96%) iTrent
2 1 (0.65%) Hyperion Planning
2 1 (0.65%) Primavera
2 1 (0.65%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 13 (8.50%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (6.54%) Snowflake
3 4 (2.61%) Power Platform
4 2 (1.31%) Azure
5 1 (0.65%) AWS
5 1 (0.65%) Power Automate
5 1 (0.65%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.50%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (3.92%) Network Security
3 3 (1.96%) SAN
3 3 (1.96%) WAN
3 3 (1.96%) Wireless
4 2 (1.31%) BGP
4 2 (1.31%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (1.31%) Firewall
4 2 (1.31%) IPsec
4 2 (1.31%) LAN
4 2 (1.31%) MPLS
4 2 (1.31%) OSPF
4 2 (1.31%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.65%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.65%) DDNS
5 1 (0.65%) DSL
5 1 (0.65%) FCoE
5 1 (0.65%) Junos
5 1 (0.65%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.80%) Tableau
2 4 (2.61%) Power BI
3 3 (1.96%) Qlik Sense
4 2 (1.31%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (1.31%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.65%) Big Data
5 1 (0.65%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.65%) Essbase
5 1 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.65%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (1.31%) Rational DOORS
1 2 (1.31%) Rational Team Concert
2 1 (0.65%) Git
2 1 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio
General
1 64 (41.83%) Social Skills
2 32 (20.92%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (15.03%) Finance
4 10 (6.54%) Legal
4 10 (6.54%) Local Government
4 10 (6.54%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.88%) German Language
6 6 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.61%) Electronics
7 4 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.96%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.96%) Hungarian Language
8 3 (1.96%) Law
8 3 (1.96%) Marketing
8 3 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.31%) Advertising
9 2 (1.31%) Dutch Language
9 2 (1.31%) Games
9 2 (1.31%) Lithuanian Language
9 2 (1.31%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 71 (46.41%) Analyst
2 43 (28.10%) Service Analyst
3 30 (19.61%) Service Desk Analyst
4 26 (16.99%) Customer Analyst
4 26 (16.99%) Customer Service Analyst
5 13 (8.50%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
5 13 (8.50%) Administrator
5 13 (8.50%) Call Centre Analyst
6 11 (7.19%) Software Engineer
7 10 (6.54%) Senior
8 9 (5.88%) IT Technician
9 8 (5.23%) Data Analyst
9 8 (5.23%) Lead
10 7 (4.58%) C Software Engineer
10 7 (4.58%) C/C++ Software Engineer
10 7 (4.58%) C++ Software Engineer
10 7 (4.58%) IT Support
10 7 (4.58%) Linux Engineer
10 7 (4.58%) Support Technician
10 7 (4.58%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.96%) AngularJS
1 3 (1.96%) CSS
1 3 (1.96%) D3.js
1 3 (1.96%) DirectX
1 3 (1.96%) HTML
1 3 (1.96%) LDAP
1 3 (1.96%) OpenGL
1 3 (1.96%) OpenGL ES
1 3 (1.96%) Vulkan
2 2 (1.31%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 1 (0.65%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.65%) Dask
3 1 (0.65%) Keras
3 1 (0.65%) Middleware
3 1 (0.65%) Pandas
3 1 (0.65%) PySpark
3 1 (0.65%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.65%) scikit-learn
3 1 (0.65%) Shiny
3 1 (0.65%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.07%) Management Information System
2 13 (8.50%) Algorithms
3 12 (7.84%) Credit Risk
4 7 (4.58%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.61%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.96%) CMDB
6 3 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.31%) Animation
7 2 (1.31%) Augmented Reality
7 2 (1.31%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.31%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.31%) Mixed Reality
7 2 (1.31%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.31%) VHDL
8 1 (0.65%) CCTV
8 1 (0.65%) Digital TV
8 1 (0.65%) FPGA
8 1 (0.65%) NHS
8 1 (0.65%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.19%) Linux
2 5 (3.27%) Windows
3 4 (2.61%) Unix
4 3 (1.96%) Android
5 2 (1.31%) Solaris
6 1 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.65%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (62.09%) Problem-Solving
2 67 (43.79%) Customer Service
3 63 (41.18%) Incident Management
4 60 (39.22%) Service Delivery
5 39 (25.49%) ITIL
6 29 (18.95%) Computer Science
7 21 (13.73%) Software Engineering
8 19 (12.42%) Problem Management
8 19 (12.42%) Statistics
9 17 (11.11%) Analytics
10 15 (9.80%) Decision-Making
11 14 (9.15%) Data Protection
12 13 (8.50%) Data Analysis
13 12 (7.84%) Actionable Insight
13 12 (7.84%) Data Modelling
13 12 (7.84%) Visualisation
14 11 (7.19%) Dashboard Development
14 11 (7.19%) Performance Analysis
14 11 (7.19%) Performance Management
14 11 (7.19%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 22 (14.38%) Python
2 13 (8.50%) MATLAB
3 12 (7.84%) C++
4 11 (7.19%) C
4 11 (7.19%) R
4 11 (7.19%) SQL
5 7 (4.58%) Java
6 5 (3.27%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.61%) Perl
7 4 (2.61%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.96%) C#
8 3 (1.96%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.31%) AWK
9 2 (1.31%) Bourne shell
9 2 (1.31%) Fortran
9 2 (1.31%) GLSL
9 2 (1.31%) HLSL
9 2 (1.31%) Korn
9 2 (1.31%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.31%) Rust
Qualifications
1 51 (33.33%) Degree
2 17 (11.11%) MCP
3 14 (9.15%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (8.50%) A+ Certification
4 13 (8.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (8.50%) MCSA
5 7 (4.58%) SC Cleared
5 7 (4.58%) Security Cleared
6 5 (3.27%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.61%) PhD
8 3 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.96%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.31%) HNC
9 2 (1.31%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (1.31%) RHCE
9 2 (1.31%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.65%) CCNA
10 1 (0.65%) CESG Certified Professional
10 1 (0.65%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.19%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.92%) QA
3 4 (2.61%) GDPR
4 2 (1.31%) SLA
5 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.65%) GMP
5 1 (0.65%) GRC
5 1 (0.65%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.65%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.65%) NCSC
5 1 (0.65%) NIST
5 1 (0.65%) RMADS
System Software
1 14 (9.15%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.31%) Firmware
3 1 (0.65%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.65%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.31%) Ansible
2 2 (1.31%) NetBackup
2 2 (1.31%) Oracle ZFS
2 2 (1.31%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (1.31%) yum
3 1 (0.65%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (0.65%) SCCM
3 1 (0.65%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 62 (40.52%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.46%) Citrix
2 16 (10.46%) ServiceNow
3 10 (6.54%) Alteryx
4 5 (3.27%) Cisco
5 3 (1.96%) Civica
5 3 (1.96%) NetApp
6 2 (1.31%) EMC
6 2 (1.31%) Forcepoint
6 2 (1.31%) MathWorks
6 2 (1.31%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.31%) Veritas
7 1 (0.65%) Barracuda Networks
7 1 (0.65%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.65%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.65%) Remedy
7 1 (0.65%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.65%) VMware
7 1 (0.65%) Workday
7 1 (0.65%) Xilinx