Master's Degree
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Master's Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 190 63 200
Rank change year-on-year -127 +137 +51
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 1,551 4,837 3,426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.51% 4.97% 2.05%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.60% 14.91% 7.56%
Number of salaries quoted 821 811 1,007
10th Percentile £34,500 £37,235 £35,000
25th Percentile £49,750 £47,500 £49,950
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £69,500
Median % change year-on-year - -6.47% +11.20%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £132,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +6.02%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

Master's Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,701 32,451 45,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.99% 33.33% 27.16%
Number of salaries quoted 17,227 14,614 19,248
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £40,853
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,555 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.74% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Master's Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in the UK

Master's Degree
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Master's Degree.

Salary trend for Master's Degree in the UK

Master's Degree
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Master's Degree in the UK

Master's Degree
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Master's Degree within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -126 1,357 £65,000 - 1,217
UK excluding London -204 846 £55,000 - 749
London +34 641 £80,000 +2.89% 516
Work from Home +2 420 £65,000 +4.00% 436
South East -94 298 £60,000 -4.00% 179
North of England -231 114 £50,000 +11.93% 139
Scotland -111 109 £82,000 +47.09% 58
Midlands -173 104 £55,000 +25.71% 141
East of England -115 103 £55,000 -4.35% 125
South West -174 88 £50,000 -12.58% 92
North West -185 68 £66,440 +6.30% 82
West Midlands -129 62 £50,000 -13.04% 91
East Midlands -129 40 £63,220 +110.73% 50
Northern Ireland +20 25 £65,000 - 12
North East -83 24 £50,000 +4.88% 29
Yorkshire -146 22 £48,750 +9.93% 29
Wales -71 6 £35,000 -53.33% 24

Master's Degree
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 77 (4.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (1.87%) FileNet
3 25 (1.61%) Skype for Business
4 21 (1.35%) Apache Spark
5 18 (1.16%) SharePoint
6 16 (1.03%) Apache
7 13 (0.84%) IIS
8 9 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.39%) Confluence
9 6 (0.39%) nginx
10 4 (0.26%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 3 (0.19%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.19%) SAS
11 3 (0.19%) WordPress
12 2 (0.13%) CMS
13 1 (0.064%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.064%) Luigi
13 1 (0.064%) Umbraco
Applications
1 57 (3.68%) Microsoft Office
2 51 (3.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.77%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.52%) Simulink
7 6 (0.39%) InVision
7 6 (0.39%) Sketch
7 6 (0.39%) Trello
7 6 (0.39%) UserZoom
8 5 (0.32%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.26%) EPLAN
9 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.19%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.064%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.064%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.064%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.064%) Blender
11 1 (0.064%) InDesign
11 1 (0.064%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 10 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.32%) Distributed Ledger
2 5 (0.32%) SAP MM
3 4 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.26%) Shopify
4 3 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (0.19%) Primavera
4 3 (0.19%) SAP APO
4 3 (0.19%) SAP PP
4 3 (0.19%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.19%) SAP WM
5 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payroll
5 2 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.064%) Data Workbench
6 1 (0.064%) Endur
6 1 (0.064%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.064%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.064%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 231 (14.89%) AWS
2 197 (12.70%) Azure
3 124 (7.99%) Microsoft 365
4 93 (6.00%) Power Platform
5 73 (4.71%) GCP
6 57 (3.68%) SaaS
7 52 (3.35%) GitHub
8 50 (3.22%) Cloud Computing
9 43 (2.77%) Amazon S3
10 39 (2.51%) Figma
11 38 (2.45%) SurveyMonkey
12 29 (1.87%) Serverless
13 24 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
14 23 (1.48%) IaaS
15 21 (1.35%) PaaS
16 20 (1.29%) PowerApps
17 19 (1.23%) WhatsApp
18 14 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
18 14 (0.90%) Power Automate
19 13 (0.84%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 97 (6.25%) Cisco IOS
2 84 (5.42%) Wireless
3 77 (4.96%) WebEx
4 74 (4.77%) WAN
5 72 (4.64%) SD-WAN
6 30 (1.93%) 5G
6 30 (1.93%) Broadband
7 29 (1.87%) Firewall
8 28 (1.81%) TCP/IP
9 25 (1.61%) Skype
9 25 (1.61%) Telepresence
10 17 (1.10%) HTTP
10 17 (1.10%) Internet
11 15 (0.97%) Network Security
12 13 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
13 12 (0.77%) Intranet
14 10 (0.64%) MQTT
15 9 (0.58%) SNMP
16 8 (0.52%) Ethernet
17 4 (0.26%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (6.45%) Tableau
2 87 (5.61%) Power BI
3 64 (4.13%) SQL Server
4 62 (4.00%) NoSQL
5 52 (3.35%) Big Data
6 45 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
7 41 (2.64%) Relational Database
8 37 (2.39%) Redis
9 36 (2.32%) MySQL
10 35 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
11 32 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
12 30 (1.93%) Apache Cassandra
13 19 (1.23%) Hadoop
14 17 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 13 (0.84%) Data Lake
16 11 (0.71%) GIS
17 10 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
18 9 (0.58%) Data Mining
18 9 (0.58%) DynamoDB
19 8 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 124 (7.99%) Git
2 54 (3.48%) Jenkins
3 31 (2.00%) GitLab
4 30 (1.93%) JUnit
5 29 (1.87%) Jasmine
5 29 (1.87%) Mockito
6 19 (1.23%) JIRA
7 6 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (0.26%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.26%) CMake
8 4 (0.26%) Snakemake
8 4 (0.26%) Subversion
9 3 (0.19%) Babel
9 3 (0.19%) MLflow
9 3 (0.19%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.19%) TestRail
9 3 (0.19%) webpack
10 2 (0.13%) ERwin
10 2 (0.13%) Maven
10 2 (0.13%) Rational DOORS
General
1 722 (46.55%) Social Skills
2 403 (25.98%) Finance
3 299 (19.28%) Analytical Skills
4 193 (12.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 179 (11.54%) Marketing
6 148 (9.54%) Law
7 100 (6.45%) Pharmaceutical
8 91 (5.87%) Legal
9 80 (5.16%) Manufacturing
10 61 (3.93%) Banking
10 61 (3.93%) Telecoms
11 56 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
12 55 (3.55%) Retail
13 53 (3.42%) Automotive
14 49 (3.16%) Public Sector
15 40 (2.58%) Social Science
16 39 (2.51%) Electronics
17 32 (2.06%) Games
18 27 (1.74%) Aerospace
19 22 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 307 (19.79%) Senior
2 157 (10.12%) Software Engineer
3 153 (9.86%) Developer
4 141 (9.09%) Lead
5 117 (7.54%) Analyst
6 108 (6.96%) Data Scientist
7 101 (6.51%) Architect
8 84 (5.42%) Senior Data Scientist
9 75 (4.84%) IT Support
10 73 (4.71%) Support Specialist
11 72 (4.64%) IT Support Specialist
12 65 (4.19%) Systems Engineer
13 51 (3.29%) Principal Engineer
14 50 (3.22%) Graduate
15 43 (2.77%) Senior Software Engineer
16 40 (2.58%) Consultant
16 40 (2.58%) Principal Systems Engineer
17 39 (2.51%) Senior Developer
18 36 (2.32%) Data Engineer
19 33 (2.13%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (6.06%) .NET
2 93 (6.00%) React
3 86 (5.54%) AngularJS
4 79 (5.09%) TensorFlow
5 76 (4.90%) Kafka
6 59 (3.80%) scikit-learn
7 56 (3.61%) Pandas
8 48 (3.09%) PySpark
9 44 (2.84%) Web Services
10 41 (2.64%) PyTorch
10 41 (2.64%) Spring
11 38 (2.45%) Hibernate
12 37 (2.39%) ASP.NET
13 32 (2.06%) GraphQL
13 32 (2.06%) RESTful
14 31 (2.00%) HTML
15 29 (1.87%) J2EE
15 29 (1.87%) Spring Integration
16 24 (1.55%) CSS
17 23 (1.48%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 273 (17.60%) Algorithms
2 109 (7.03%) Management Information System
3 98 (6.32%) Video Conferencing
4 72 (4.64%) Wiki
5 66 (4.26%) Data Structures
6 55 (3.55%) Cloud Native
6 55 (3.55%) Onboarding
7 51 (3.29%) Product Ownership
8 49 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
9 36 (2.32%) IoT
9 36 (2.32%) Life Science
10 28 (1.81%) Market Risk
11 27 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
12 26 (1.68%) CUDA
13 22 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
13 22 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
13 22 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
14 18 (1.16%) Embedded Systems
15 16 (1.03%) Hedge funds
15 16 (1.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 145 (9.35%) Windows
2 129 (8.32%) Linux
3 100 (6.45%) Windows 10
4 80 (5.16%) Android
5 42 (2.71%) Unix
6 25 (1.61%) Windows 7
7 10 (0.64%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.45%) FreeRTOS
9 6 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (0.26%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.26%) DC/OS
10 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.064%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.064%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 795 (51.26%) Computer Science
2 474 (30.56%) Problem-Solving
3 312 (20.12%) Agile
4 308 (19.86%) Software Engineering
5 291 (18.76%) Mathematics
6 255 (16.44%) Machine Learning
7 253 (16.31%) Artificial Intelligence
8 251 (16.18%) Data Science
9 241 (15.54%) Analytics
10 208 (13.41%) Decision-Making
11 193 (12.44%) Roadmaps
12 186 (11.99%) Statistics
12 186 (11.99%) Visualisation
13 166 (10.70%) Project Management
14 165 (10.64%) Physics
15 152 (9.80%) Data Analysis
16 147 (9.48%) Mentoring
17 141 (9.09%) Actionable Insight
18 132 (8.51%) DevOps
19 130 (8.38%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 488 (31.46%) Python
2 303 (19.54%) SQL
3 165 (10.64%) C#
4 130 (8.38%) Java
5 125 (8.06%) C++
6 114 (7.35%) C
7 108 (6.96%) R
8 86 (5.54%) JavaScript
9 59 (3.80%) Fortran
10 35 (2.26%) TypeScript
11 34 (2.19%) Bash
12 29 (1.87%) MATLAB
13 25 (1.61%) Go
14 22 (1.42%) PowerShell
15 19 (1.23%) T-SQL
16 16 (1.03%) Rust
17 12 (0.77%) Scala
18 7 (0.45%) Haskell
18 7 (0.45%) Shell Script
19 6 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,551 (100.00%) Degree
2 430 (27.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 380 (24.50%) PhD
4 164 (10.57%) MBA
5 99 (6.38%) Security Cleared
6 61 (3.93%) CISSP
7 60 (3.87%) DBS Check
8 47 (3.03%) CISM
9 46 (2.97%) Chartered Engineer
10 33 (2.13%) SC Cleared
11 25 (1.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 22 (1.42%) AWS Certification
12 22 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
13 21 (1.35%) DV Cleared
14 17 (1.10%) PMP
15 16 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 16 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
15 16 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
15 16 (1.03%) Numerate Degree
15 16 (1.03%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (4.71%) QA
2 72 (4.64%) Data Quality
3 47 (3.03%) GDPR
4 30 (1.93%) Accessibility
5 28 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (1.55%) NIST
7 18 (1.16%) PCI DSS
8 16 (1.03%) NCSC
9 15 (0.97%) PMO
10 13 (0.84%) HIPAA
11 12 (0.77%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 10 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 8 (0.52%) COBIT
14 7 (0.45%) ISO 13485
15 6 (0.39%) WCAG
15 6 (0.39%) Web Application Security Consortium
16 5 (0.32%) ISO 26262
17 4 (0.26%) Automotive SPICE
18 3 (0.19%) ISO 31000
18 3 (0.19%) NIST 800
System Software
1 93 (6.00%) Docker
2 88 (5.67%) Active Directory
3 75 (4.84%) VMware ESXi
4 72 (4.64%) Microsoft App-V
4 72 (4.64%) XenApp
4 72 (4.64%) XenDesktop
5 17 (1.10%) Firmware
6 12 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
7 7 (0.45%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.13%) HDFS
9 1 (0.064%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.064%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.064%) Snort
9 1 (0.064%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.064%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.064%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 102 (6.58%) Kubernetes
2 73 (4.71%) SCCM
3 72 (4.64%) AirWatch
4 38 (2.45%) Terraform
5 14 (0.90%) Ansible
6 9 (0.58%) CASB
7 7 (0.45%) Kubeflow
8 6 (0.39%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 5 (0.32%) Functional Safety
10 4 (0.26%) Argo
11 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.13%) Cisco Prime
12 2 (0.13%) Core Impact
12 2 (0.13%) CSIRT
12 2 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.064%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.064%) EMC NetWorker
13 1 (0.064%) Grafana
13 1 (0.064%) Puppet
13 1 (0.064%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 252 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 113 (7.29%) Cisco
3 75 (4.84%) Citrix
4 56 (3.61%) Databricks
5 51 (3.29%) Google
6 49 (3.16%) Oracle
7 44 (2.84%) Qualtrics
8 42 (2.71%) EMC
8 42 (2.71%) SAP
9 30 (1.93%) Virgin Media
10 28 (1.81%) Apple
11 25 (1.61%) Polycom
12 13 (0.84%) Atlassian
13 12 (0.77%) VMware
14 11 (0.71%) Aruba
14 11 (0.71%) HP
14 11 (0.71%) Nintex
15 10 (0.64%) Salesforce
16 9 (0.58%) CA
17 6 (0.39%) Sage