Master's Degree Contracts in the South East

Master's Degree
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Master's Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 153 154 188
Rank change year-on-year +1 +34 -18
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 47 72 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.85% 1.24% 0.94%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.90% 3.30% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 40 45
10th Percentile £421 £239 -
25th Percentile £481 £300 £140
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £425
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +14.71% -10.53%
75th Percentile £611 £571 £567
90th Percentile £650 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 20 10
10th Percentile £41.50 £20.47 -
25th Percentile £48.25 £42.50 £19.52
Median hourly rate £65.00 £45.00 £20.26
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% +122.11% -69.42%
75th Percentile £72.50 £47.50 £40.88
90th Percentile £90.00 - £47.50
England median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year +22.22% +60.71% -23.29%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,476 2,182 2,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 44.81% 37.43% 31.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,400 1,441 1,585
10th Percentile £313 £300 £299
25th Percentile £439 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +6.67%
75th Percentile £650 £623 £625
90th Percentile £735 £713 £688
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 144 85
10th Percentile £17.52 £21.30 £19.06
25th Percentile £27.50 £42.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £57.35 £57.32 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% +28.81% +11.25%
75th Percentile £67.02 £69.06 £56.03
90th Percentile £85.41 £75.00 £67.80
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.85%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in the South East

Master's Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Master's Degree in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Master's Degree in the South East

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Master's Degree in the South East

Master's Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Master's Degree in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Master's Degree in the South East

Master's Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Master's Degree in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Master's Degree in the South East

Master's Degree
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Master's Degree within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Surrey +12 26 £525 +5.00% 25
Thames Valley -6 16 £525 +16.67% 58
Berkshire -9 9 £525 -4.55% 17
Oxfordshire +4 5 - - 31
Hampshire -7 3 - - 25
Buckinghamshire +16 2 - - 10
West Sussex +5 2 £550 +91.30% 6
Master's Degree
England

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (8.51%) Confluence
2 2 (4.26%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (2.13%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (4.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.13%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.51%) Azure
2 3 (6.38%) AWS
3 1 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (2.13%) OpenShift
3 1 (2.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.51%) Wireless
2 2 (4.26%) SAN
2 2 (4.26%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.13%) NFC
3 1 (2.13%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.38%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.13%) MySQL
2 1 (2.13%) Power BI
2 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (21.28%) Git
1 10 (21.28%) JIRA
2 9 (19.15%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (8.51%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.51%) Subversion
4 3 (6.38%) TestRail
5 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.13%) CMake
5 1 (2.13%) Eclipse
5 1 (2.13%) GoogleTest
5 1 (2.13%) LabVIEW
5 1 (2.13%) Valgrind
5 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (25.53%) Marketing
1 12 (25.53%) Presentation Skills
1 12 (25.53%) Social Skills
2 9 (19.15%) Finance
3 8 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (14.89%) Telecoms
5 6 (12.77%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (12.77%) Manufacturing
6 5 (10.64%) Aerospace
6 5 (10.64%) Automotive
7 3 (6.38%) Electronics
8 2 (4.26%) Back Office
9 1 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (31.91%) Senior
2 10 (21.28%) Architect
2 10 (21.28%) Systems Engineer
3 9 (19.15%) Software Engineer
4 8 (17.02%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 8 (17.02%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (12.77%) DOORS Engineer
5 6 (12.77%) Embedded Engineer
5 6 (12.77%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 6 (12.77%) Integration Engineer
5 6 (12.77%) Senior Integration Engineer
5 6 (12.77%) Software Integration Engineer
5 6 (12.77%) Systems Integration Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Project Manager
7 3 (6.38%) C++ Software Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Telecoms Manager
8 2 (4.26%) Telecoms Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.51%) PyTorch
1 4 (8.51%) TensorFlow
2 2 (4.26%) DirectX
2 2 (4.26%) OpenGL
2 2 (4.26%) OpenGL ES
2 2 (4.26%) Vulkan
2 2 (4.26%) XML
3 1 (2.13%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.13%) CNTK
3 1 (2.13%) CSS
3 1 (2.13%) HTML
3 1 (2.13%) jQuery
3 1 (2.13%) JSON
3 1 (2.13%) LightGBM
3 1 (2.13%) Node.js
3 1 (2.13%) OpenVINO
3 1 (2.13%) React
3 1 (2.13%) REST
3 1 (2.13%) Statsmodels
3 1 (2.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.02%) Algorithms
2 5 (10.64%) Life Science
3 4 (8.51%) Device Driver
4 3 (6.38%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.38%) Photography
4 3 (6.38%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (6.38%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (4.26%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.26%) IoT
5 2 (4.26%) Smartcard
6 1 (2.13%) Analogue Electronics
6 1 (2.13%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 18 (38.30%) Windows
2 13 (27.66%) Unix
3 9 (19.15%) Linux
4 4 (8.51%) Android
4 4 (8.51%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (2.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (44.68%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (36.17%) Computer Science
3 14 (29.79%) Software Engineering
4 12 (25.53%) UML
4 12 (25.53%) Validation
5 11 (23.40%) Collaborative Working
6 10 (21.28%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (21.28%) Customer Requirements
7 9 (19.15%) Risk Management
7 9 (19.15%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (17.02%) Customer Engagement
8 8 (17.02%) Customer Service
8 8 (17.02%) ITIL
8 8 (17.02%) Process Improvement
8 8 (17.02%) Requirements Analysis
8 8 (17.02%) Requirements Management
8 8 (17.02%) Systems Engineering
8 8 (17.02%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (17.02%) Test Strategy
8 8 (17.02%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 15 (31.91%) Python
2 10 (21.28%) C++
3 7 (14.89%) SQL
4 6 (12.77%) Shell Script
5 5 (10.64%) C#
5 5 (10.64%) Java
6 4 (8.51%) Assembly Language
6 4 (8.51%) C
6 4 (8.51%) MATLAB
7 3 (6.38%) Bash
7 3 (6.38%) Perl
7 3 (6.38%) PL/SQL
8 2 (4.26%) JavaScript
9 1 (2.13%) R
Qualifications
1 47 (100.00%) Degree
2 10 (21.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (17.02%) ITIL Certification
3 8 (17.02%) PhD
4 3 (6.38%) Security Cleared
5 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.26%) HNC
5 2 (4.26%) ISTQB
5 2 (4.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (4.26%) MBA
5 2 (4.26%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.13%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (23.40%) PCI DSS
2 4 (8.51%) JTAG
3 3 (6.38%) QA
4 2 (4.26%) GDPR
5 1 (2.13%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (8.51%) Embedded Firmware
1 4 (8.51%) Firmware
2 2 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (6.38%) Oracle
2 2 (4.26%) Ariba
2 2 (4.26%) JDA
2 2 (4.26%) SAP
2 2 (4.26%) VMware
3 1 (2.13%) Databricks
3 1 (2.13%) Google
3 1 (2.13%) Red Hat