Mathematics Contracts

Mathematics (Maths)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 280 292 304
Rank change year-on-year +12 +12 -24
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 363 514 802
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.85% 0.90% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 1.00% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 290 459
10th Percentile £312 £400 £350
25th Percentile £431 £500 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% +7.87%
75th Percentile £772 £875 £750
90th Percentile £875 £1,025 £890
UK excluding London median daily rate £390 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -22.00% +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 66 126
10th Percentile £11.77 £13.35 £13.25
25th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £13.41
Median hourly rate £14.84 £19.49 £19.26
Median % change year-on-year -23.86% +1.19% -3.16%
75th Percentile £16.85 £65.00 £54.87
90th Percentile £54.88 - £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.80 £18.14 £14.51
% change year-on-year -18.41% +25.02% +11.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,679 51,168 79,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.19% 89.82% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,608 35,479 55,636
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £479
% change year-on-year - +4.38% +9.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,436 1,692 1,900
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.94 £16.10 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.21%

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 16 May 2024.

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 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Mathematics in the UK

Mathematics
Top 15 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 16 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
England +4 339 £600 -14.29% 2,020
London +5 179 £638 -15.00% 470
UK excluding London +30 158 £390 -22.00% 1,530
East of England +42 92 £375 -28.57% 185
Work from Home +63 78 £700 - 377
South East -22 31 £390 -43.27% 363
North of England +16 11 - - 425
North West +16 8 - - 203
South West -5 8 £600 +26.32% 290
Scotland +38 7 £200 -68.00% 21
West Midlands +21 6 £550 +2.33% 182
Midlands +13 6 £550 +37.50% 324
Yorkshire +9 3 - - 164
Wales +16 2 £465 -19.13% 25
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 8

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 13 (3.58%) SAS
2 10 (2.75%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.10%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.55%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.28%) Apache
5 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 88 (24.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (15.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 25 (6.89%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (2.75%) Simulink
4 10 (2.75%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (1.93%) SPSS
6 6 (1.65%) MS Visio
7 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.55%) Stata
8 2 (0.55%) Stateflow
9 1 (0.28%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Loan IQ
2 3 (0.83%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (0.83%) iTrent
2 3 (0.83%) Orchestrade
2 3 (0.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.28%) Hyperion Planning
3 1 (0.28%) Primavera
3 1 (0.28%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 50 (13.77%) Azure
2 26 (7.16%) AWS
3 20 (5.51%) Power Platform
4 14 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (3.58%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (3.31%) GitHub
6 12 (3.31%) Snowflake
7 5 (1.38%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (1.38%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (1.38%) GCP
7 5 (1.38%) Serverless
8 4 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (0.83%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.55%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.55%) Google Docs
10 2 (0.55%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.28%) Amazon Cognito
11 1 (0.28%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.58%) Wi-Fi
2 9 (2.48%) Network Security
3 8 (2.20%) Internet
4 5 (1.38%) Wireless
5 4 (1.10%) Firewall
6 3 (0.83%) SAN
6 3 (0.83%) WAN
7 2 (0.55%) BGP
7 2 (0.55%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (0.55%) IPsec
7 2 (0.55%) LAN
7 2 (0.55%) MPLS
7 2 (0.55%) OSPF
7 2 (0.55%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.28%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.28%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.28%) FCoE
8 1 (0.28%) Junos
8 1 (0.28%) NGFW
8 1 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (10.47%) Tableau
2 22 (6.06%) Big Data
3 20 (5.51%) Hadoop
4 17 (4.68%) Power BI
5 14 (3.86%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (3.58%) NoSQL
7 9 (2.48%) SQL Server
8 7 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.38%) Data Mining
9 5 (1.38%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.10%) GIS
10 4 (1.10%) Presto
11 3 (0.83%) Qlik Sense
11 3 (0.83%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.55%) BusinessObjects
12 2 (0.55%) DynamoDB
13 1 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
13 1 (0.28%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 18 (4.96%) Git
2 7 (1.93%) Visual Studio
3 5 (1.38%) GitLab
3 5 (1.38%) JIRA
3 5 (1.38%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (1.10%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.10%) Sourcetree
5 3 (0.83%) RStudio
6 2 (0.55%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.55%) Rational Team Concert
7 1 (0.28%) Ant
7 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.28%) ERwin
7 1 (0.28%) git-flow
7 1 (0.28%) Gradle
7 1 (0.28%) JUnit
7 1 (0.28%) Maven
7 1 (0.28%) Poetry
7 1 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 134 (36.91%) Social Skills
2 109 (30.03%) Finance
3 100 (27.55%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (9.37%) Front Office
5 30 (8.26%) Banking
6 16 (4.41%) Investment Banking
7 15 (4.13%) Marketing
8 14 (3.86%) Public Sector
9 13 (3.58%) Legal
10 12 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (3.03%) Local Government
12 10 (2.75%) Financial Institution
12 10 (2.75%) German Language
13 8 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (1.93%) Retail
15 6 (1.65%) Advertising
16 5 (1.38%) Electronics
16 5 (1.38%) Games
16 5 (1.38%) Hungarian Language
Job Titles
1 97 (26.72%) Analyst
2 66 (18.18%) Developer
3 43 (11.85%) Service Analyst
4 42 (11.57%) Senior
5 35 (9.64%) Data Scientist
6 30 (8.26%) Service Desk Analyst
7 26 (7.16%) Customer Analyst
7 26 (7.16%) Customer Service Analyst
8 21 (5.79%) Quantitative Developer
9 17 (4.68%) Python Engineer
10 14 (3.86%) C# Developer
10 14 (3.86%) Software Engineer
11 13 (3.58%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
11 13 (3.58%) Administrator
11 13 (3.58%) Call Centre Analyst
12 12 (3.31%) Java Developer
12 12 (3.31%) Lead
12 12 (3.31%) Qualitative Analyst
12 12 (3.31%) Quantitative Analyst
13 11 (3.03%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (9.92%) Pandas
2 31 (8.54%) NumPy
3 25 (6.89%) SciPy
4 11 (3.03%) .NET
5 10 (2.75%) HTML
5 10 (2.75%) React
6 9 (2.48%) CSS
7 8 (2.20%) scikit-learn
8 7 (1.93%) .NET Framework
8 7 (1.93%) PyTorch
8 7 (1.93%) TensorFlow
9 5 (1.38%) .NET Core
9 5 (1.38%) ASP.NET
9 5 (1.38%) ASP.NET Core
9 5 (1.38%) Matplotlib
9 5 (1.38%) PySpark
10 4 (1.10%) D3.js
10 4 (1.10%) DirectX
10 4 (1.10%) Kafka
10 4 (1.10%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 58 (15.98%) Algorithms
2 46 (12.67%) Derivative
3 26 (7.16%) Management Information System
4 22 (6.06%) Credit Risk
5 21 (5.79%) Fixed Income
6 14 (3.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 11 (3.03%) Data Structures
7 11 (3.03%) Equity Derivative
8 10 (2.75%) Equities
8 10 (2.75%) Hedge funds
9 9 (2.48%) Distributed Computing
9 9 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (2.20%) Market Risk
11 7 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.65%) Blockchain
12 6 (1.65%) Credit Derivative
12 6 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.65%) Social Media
13 5 (1.38%) CMDB
13 5 (1.38%) Multi-touch
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.34%) Linux
2 10 (2.75%) Windows
3 8 (2.20%) Unix
4 5 (1.38%) Android
5 2 (0.55%) Solaris
6 1 (0.28%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (40.22%) Problem-Solving
2 126 (34.71%) Computer Science
3 86 (23.69%) Customer Service
4 69 (19.01%) Statistics
5 67 (18.46%) Incident Management
6 64 (17.63%) Analytics
6 64 (17.63%) Data Science
6 64 (17.63%) Service Delivery
7 53 (14.60%) Data Analysis
7 53 (14.60%) Software Engineering
8 51 (14.05%) Machine Learning
9 42 (11.57%) Physics
10 41 (11.29%) Visualisation
11 39 (10.74%) Agile
11 39 (10.74%) ITIL
12 38 (10.47%) Data Modelling
13 34 (9.37%) Mathematical Modelling
14 28 (7.71%) Business Intelligence
14 28 (7.71%) Data Visualisation
15 27 (7.44%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 158 (43.53%) Python
2 76 (20.94%) SQL
3 54 (14.88%) C++
4 52 (14.33%) Java
5 40 (11.02%) R
6 32 (8.82%) C#
7 18 (4.96%) JavaScript
8 14 (3.86%) Rust
9 13 (3.58%) C
9 13 (3.58%) MATLAB
10 10 (2.75%) PowerShell
11 9 (2.48%) Perl
11 9 (2.48%) Shell Script
12 7 (1.93%) Scala
13 5 (1.38%) VBA
14 4 (1.10%) Clojure
15 3 (0.83%) Haskell
15 3 (0.83%) VB
16 2 (0.55%) AWK
16 2 (0.55%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 172 (47.38%) Degree
2 52 (14.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 40 (11.02%) Numerate Degree
4 26 (7.16%) Master's Degree
5 19 (5.23%) PhD
6 17 (4.68%) MCP
7 14 (3.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (3.86%) Security Cleared
8 13 (3.58%) A+ Certification
8 13 (3.58%) MCSA
8 13 (3.58%) SC Cleared
9 4 (1.10%) APMP
9 4 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.10%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.83%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.83%) Postgraduate
11 2 (0.55%) HNC
11 2 (0.55%) MBA
11 2 (0.55%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.06%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.75%) SLA
3 8 (2.20%) QA
4 7 (1.93%) GDPR
5 4 (1.10%) NCSC
5 4 (1.10%) PMO
6 3 (0.83%) GRC
6 3 (0.83%) NIST
7 2 (0.55%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.55%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.28%) GMP
8 1 (0.28%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.28%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.28%) RMADS
System Software
1 16 (4.41%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.20%) Docker
3 5 (1.38%) Firmware
4 2 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.28%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (1.10%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.83%) SCCM
2 3 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.55%) Ansible
3 2 (0.55%) NetBackup
3 2 (0.55%) Oracle ZFS
3 2 (0.55%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (0.55%) WSUS
3 2 (0.55%) yum
4 1 (0.28%) AirWatch
4 1 (0.28%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (0.28%) Nessus
4 1 (0.28%) SolarWinds Orion
4 1 (0.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 99 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.23%) Oracle
2 19 (5.23%) ServiceNow
3 16 (4.41%) Citrix
4 11 (3.03%) Alteryx
5 7 (1.93%) SAP
6 6 (1.65%) Cisco
6 6 (1.65%) Databricks
7 5 (1.38%) Foundry
7 5 (1.38%) Palantir
8 4 (1.10%) Google
8 4 (1.10%) Sparx
9 3 (0.83%) Civica
9 3 (0.83%) NetApp
9 3 (0.83%) VMware
10 2 (0.55%) Ariba
10 2 (0.55%) CA
10 2 (0.55%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.55%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.55%) Veritas