Mathematics Contracts

Mathematics (Maths)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 240 258 280
Rank change year-on-year +18 +22 +36
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 328 394 510
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.10% 0.90% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.06% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 171 304
10th Percentile £366 £265 £400
25th Percentile £490 £393 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £575 £700
Median % change year-on-year +15.22% -17.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £775 £775 £875
90th Percentile £1,018 £855 £1,018
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £380 £500
% change year-on-year +31.58% -24.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 140 60
10th Percentile £14.84 £11.77 -
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
Median hourly rate £15.44 £15.00 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year +2.93% -20.28% +21.39%
75th Percentile £21.15 £20.35 £63.13
90th Percentile £33.75 £51.95 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.14 £14.84 £13.66
% change year-on-year +2.02% +8.64% -5.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,057 37,061 49,739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.99% 85.02% 89.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,140 23,606 34,377
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,245 2,596 1,680
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £16.02 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.50 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +7.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £55.25 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.08 £38.12 £32.50
% change year-on-year -34.22% +17.29% +54.76%

Mathematics
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Mathematics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Mathematics in the UK

Mathematics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mathematics.

Daily rate trend for Mathematics in the UK

Mathematics
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mathematics over the 6 months to 17 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mathematics in the UK

Mathematics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mathematics.

Hourly rate trend for Mathematics in the UK

Mathematics
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Mathematics over the 6 months to 17 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Mathematics in the UK

Mathematics
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 17 June 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 +29 299 £725 +26.09% 10,571
London +42 182 £750 +17.65% 3,510
UK excluding London -16 129 £500 +31.58% 8,005
Work from Home +32 75 £625 -7.41% 3,703
East of England -11 45 £500 +33.33% 1,141
South West +50 24 £813 +35.42% 931
South East +24 20 £365 -5.19% 2,080
North of England +8 17 £520 +28.23% 1,832
Scotland +10 14 £550 +175.00% 404
North West +17 13 £520 -20.00% 900
Midlands +9 5 £316 -27.77% 1,310
East Midlands +12 4 £316 - 563
Yorkshire +7 4 £496 +208.04% 754
Northern Ireland -4 3 - - 167
West Midlands +7 1 - - 743
Wales +1 1 - - 211

Mathematics
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 39 (11.89%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.44%) Apache
2 8 (2.44%) Confluence
2 8 (2.44%) GemFire
2 8 (2.44%) Oracle Coherence
2 8 (2.44%) SAS
3 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.30%) IBM Domino
3 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.30%) Luigi
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 83 (25.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (18.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.61%) LightWave 3D
4 2 (0.61%) Simulink
5 1 (0.30%) Revit
5 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Bankmaster
2 2 (0.61%) iTrent
3 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 70 (21.34%) Azure
2 55 (16.77%) AWS
3 22 (6.71%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (4.88%) Power Platform
6 8 (2.44%) GCP
6 8 (2.44%) Serverless
7 4 (1.22%) Anthropic Claude
7 4 (1.22%) Azure AI
7 4 (1.22%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (1.22%) GitHub
7 4 (1.22%) Google Gemini
7 4 (1.22%) Snowflake
8 3 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.61%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (0.61%) Google Docs
9 2 (0.61%) Power Automate
9 2 (0.61%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.30%) Google Sheets
10 1 (0.30%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.71%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (1.83%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.61%) 3G
3 2 (0.61%) GPRS
3 2 (0.61%) LAN
3 2 (0.61%) WAN
4 1 (0.30%) Internet
4 1 (0.30%) tcpdump
4 1 (0.30%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.40%) Hadoop
2 16 (4.88%) Big Data
2 16 (4.88%) Power BI
3 15 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (4.57%) Relational Database
4 14 (4.27%) Tableau
5 13 (3.96%) Redis
6 11 (3.35%) SQL Server
7 9 (2.74%) Data Mining
8 8 (2.44%) NoSQL
9 7 (2.13%) Apache Hive
10 5 (1.52%) Geospatial Data
10 5 (1.52%) GIS
10 5 (1.52%) QGIS
11 4 (1.22%) Metadata
11 4 (1.22%) Neo4j
12 3 (0.91%) MySQL
13 2 (0.61%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.61%) Power Query
13 2 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 34 (10.37%) Git
2 9 (2.74%) JIRA
3 8 (2.44%) Bitbucket
4 7 (2.13%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.83%) Selenium
5 6 (1.83%) Visual Studio
6 4 (1.22%) MLflow
7 1 (0.30%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.30%) Gradle
7 1 (0.30%) JUnit
7 1 (0.30%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.30%) Maven
7 1 (0.30%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.30%) Mockito
7 1 (0.30%) NetBeans
7 1 (0.30%) ReSharper
7 1 (0.30%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 136 (41.46%) Finance
2 119 (36.28%) Social Skills
3 83 (25.30%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (19.51%) Banking
5 48 (14.63%) Investment Banking
6 35 (10.67%) Front Office
7 15 (4.57%) Marketing
7 15 (4.57%) Public Sector
8 10 (3.05%) German Language
9 8 (2.44%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.83%) Legal
10 6 (1.83%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.52%) Games
11 5 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.52%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.91%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 99 (30.18%) Developer
2 65 (19.82%) Analyst
3 37 (11.28%) Data Scientist
4 36 (10.98%) Senior
5 30 (9.15%) Service Analyst
6 28 (8.54%) Java Developer
7 27 (8.23%) Python Developer
8 24 (7.32%) Quantitative Developer
9 23 (7.01%) Desktop Engineer
9 23 (7.01%) Desktop Support
9 23 (7.01%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 23 (7.01%) Support Engineer
10 20 (6.10%) Lead
10 20 (6.10%) Service Desk Analyst
11 17 (5.18%) C# Developer
11 17 (5.18%) Technical Analyst
11 17 (5.18%) Technical Services Analyst
12 15 (4.57%) Qualitative Analyst
12 15 (4.57%) Quantitative Analyst
13 14 (4.27%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (8.84%) Pandas
2 22 (6.71%) AngularJS
3 19 (5.79%) NumPy
4 18 (5.49%) Kafka
5 17 (5.18%) SciPy
5 17 (5.18%) TensorFlow
6 16 (4.88%) .NET
7 15 (4.57%) React
8 14 (4.27%) FastAPI
8 14 (4.27%) Flask
8 14 (4.27%) Polars
8 14 (4.27%) Vue
9 13 (3.96%) ActiveMQ
9 13 (3.96%) PySpark
10 10 (3.05%) PyTorch
11 8 (2.44%) ASP.NET
11 8 (2.44%) Spark Streaming
11 8 (2.44%) WPF
12 6 (1.83%) Middleware
12 6 (1.83%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 47 (14.33%) Derivative
2 46 (14.02%) Algorithms
3 27 (8.23%) Driving Licence
4 23 (7.01%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (6.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 19 (5.79%) Distributed Computing
7 18 (5.49%) Equities
7 18 (5.49%) Equity Derivative
8 16 (4.88%) Market Risk
9 15 (4.57%) Hedge funds
10 13 (3.96%) Multi-touch
11 10 (3.05%) Credit Risk
12 9 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (2.44%) Data Structures
13 8 (2.44%) Fixed Income
13 8 (2.44%) Management Information System
14 6 (1.83%) Cloud Native
14 6 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
15 5 (1.52%) Animation
16 3 (0.91%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.18%) Linux
2 1 (0.30%) Android
2 1 (0.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (38.41%) Problem-Solving
2 100 (30.49%) Computer Science
3 57 (17.38%) Data Science
3 57 (17.38%) Machine Learning
4 54 (16.46%) Statistics
5 52 (15.85%) Customer Service
6 51 (15.55%) Service Delivery
7 50 (15.24%) Analytics
8 48 (14.63%) Data Analysis
9 47 (14.33%) CI/CD
9 47 (14.33%) Incident Management
10 46 (14.02%) Agile
10 46 (14.02%) Risk Management
11 45 (13.72%) Software Engineering
12 37 (11.28%) Physics
13 34 (10.37%) Artificial Intelligence
13 34 (10.37%) Decision-Making
14 31 (9.45%) DevOps
15 30 (9.15%) Data Pipeline
16 29 (8.84%) Economics
Programming Languages
1 172 (52.44%) Python
2 85 (25.91%) SQL
3 61 (18.60%) Java
4 53 (16.16%) C++
5 41 (12.50%) C#
6 31 (9.45%) R
7 17 (5.18%) JavaScript
8 15 (4.57%) Rust
9 7 (2.13%) VBA
10 5 (1.52%) MATLAB
11 4 (1.22%) Haskell
11 4 (1.22%) Scala
12 3 (0.91%) Bash
13 2 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.61%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.30%) Go
14 1 (0.30%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.30%) XAML
Qualifications
1 136 (41.46%) Degree
2 46 (14.02%) Numerate Degree
3 44 (13.41%) Security Cleared
4 41 (12.50%) Master's Degree
4 41 (12.50%) SC Cleared
5 34 (10.37%) PhD
6 23 (7.01%) Dell Certification
7 20 (6.10%) A+ Certification
7 20 (6.10%) MCSA
7 20 (6.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (2.44%) AWS Certification
9 8 (2.44%) AWS Certified Developer
9 8 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.30%) CISSP
10 1 (0.30%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.30%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.32%) SLA
2 16 (4.88%) Data Quality
3 14 (4.27%) QA
4 5 (1.52%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.61%) Basel II
5 2 (0.61%) GDPR
5 2 (0.61%) NIST
5 2 (0.61%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.30%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.30%) MISRA
6 1 (0.30%) MISRA C
System Software
1 25 (7.62%) Docker
2 20 (6.10%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.44%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 20 (6.10%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.66%) Terraform
3 2 (0.61%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.30%) Nessus
4 1 (0.30%) OpenVAS
4 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 92 (28.05%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.01%) Dell
2 23 (7.01%) HP
2 23 (7.01%) ServiceNow
3 20 (6.10%) Citrix
4 10 (3.05%) Databricks
4 10 (3.05%) Oracle
5 7 (2.13%) Google
6 5 (1.52%) Alteryx
7 2 (0.61%) MathWorks
7 2 (0.61%) Spotify
8 1 (0.30%) ArcSight
8 1 (0.30%) Ariba
8 1 (0.30%) IBM
8 1 (0.30%) QNX
8 1 (0.30%) Qualys
8 1 (0.30%) SAP
8 1 (0.30%) Siebel
8 1 (0.30%) Splunk
8 1 (0.30%) Teradata
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