Master's Degree Jobs in the North of England

Master's Degree
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Master's Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 272 42 281
Rank change year-on-year -230 +239 -61
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 120 1,197 180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.69% 6.94% 1.00%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.10% 23.19% 3.52%
Number of salaries quoted 75 54 83
10th Percentile £30,000 £16,800 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,125 £22,000 £40,749
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £44,345 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year +12.75% -11.61% -8.78%
75th Percentile £65,875 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £67,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.69%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

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 advertised in the North of England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,876 5,162 5,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 22.32% 29.93% 28.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,665 1,734 2,455
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,825 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,575
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £53,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.49% +11.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £54,800 £59,526 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.94% +8.23% -

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in the North of England

Master's Degree
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Master's Degree in the North of England.

Salary trend for Master's Degree in the North of England

Master's Degree
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in the North of England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Master's Degree in the North of England

Master's Degree
Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 7 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
North West -171 73 £63,750 +2.00% 94
North East -84 25 £50,000 +4.88% 31
Yorkshire -147 22 £48,750 +9.93% 42
Master's Degree
England

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 6 (5.00%) IIS
2 4 (3.33%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.83%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.83%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.50%) SAP APO
2 3 (2.50%) SAP MM
2 3 (2.50%) SAP PP
2 3 (2.50%) SAP SD
2 3 (2.50%) SAP WM
3 1 (0.83%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 28 (23.33%) Azure
2 18 (15.00%) AWS
3 17 (14.17%) Power Platform
4 12 (10.00%) GCP
5 9 (7.50%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.67%) FinancialForce
7 2 (1.67%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.67%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.83%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (0.83%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (0.83%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.83%) dbt
8 1 (0.83%) IaaS
8 1 (0.83%) PaaS
8 1 (0.83%) SaaS
8 1 (0.83%) Serverless
8 1 (0.83%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.50%) Network Security
2 6 (5.00%) Firewall
3 4 (3.33%) Ethernet
3 4 (3.33%) PPP
3 4 (3.33%) RS-232
3 4 (3.33%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.67%) Internet
4 2 (1.67%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.67%) LAN
4 2 (1.67%) VPN
4 2 (1.67%) WAN
5 1 (0.83%) tcpdump
5 1 (0.83%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.00%) Power BI
2 8 (6.67%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.83%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (5.83%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.33%) Big Data
4 4 (3.33%) Hadoop
4 4 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (2.50%) Data Mining
5 3 (2.50%) Tableau
6 2 (1.67%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.67%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.83%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.83%) MS Access
7 1 (0.83%) MySQL
7 1 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.83%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (10.83%) Git
2 4 (3.33%) Subversion
3 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 41 (34.17%) Social Skills
2 27 (22.50%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (15.83%) Finance
3 19 (15.83%) Manufacturing
3 19 (15.83%) Retail
4 8 (6.67%) Electronics
4 8 (6.67%) Marketing
5 6 (5.00%) Aerospace
5 6 (5.00%) Automotive
6 5 (4.17%) Back Office
6 5 (4.17%) Law
6 5 (4.17%) Legal
7 4 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.67%) Banking
9 2 (1.67%) Games
9 2 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (22.50%) Senior
2 22 (18.33%) Software Engineer
3 20 (16.67%) Graduate
4 14 (11.67%) Analyst
5 11 (9.17%) Developer
6 10 (8.33%) Quantity Surveyor
7 7 (5.83%) Architect
7 7 (5.83%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (5.00%) Data Analyst
8 6 (5.00%) Embedded Engineer
8 6 (5.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 6 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (4.17%) SAP Architect
10 4 (3.33%) Database Developer
10 4 (3.33%) Head of Architecture
10 4 (3.33%) Head of Enterprise Architecture
10 4 (3.33%) Network Engineer
10 4 (3.33%) Senior Network Engineer
11 3 (2.50%) Financial Analyst
11 3 (2.50%) Senior Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.17%) .NET
2 6 (5.00%) React
3 5 (4.17%) ASP.NET
4 4 (3.33%) ASP.NET Web API
4 4 (3.33%) WCF
4 4 (3.33%) Web Services
4 4 (3.33%) WinForms
5 3 (2.50%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.50%) Vue
6 2 (1.67%) Node.js
6 2 (1.67%) React Native
7 1 (0.83%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.83%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.83%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.83%) Express.js
7 1 (0.83%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.83%) Kafka
7 1 (0.83%) MEAN Stack
7 1 (0.83%) NestJS
7 1 (0.83%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.17%) Driving Licence
2 10 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.00%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (2.50%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.67%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.67%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.67%) Cyberattack
5 2 (1.67%) iPad
6 1 (0.83%) CCTV
6 1 (0.83%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.83%) CSOC
6 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.83%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.83%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.00%) FreeRTOS
2 4 (3.33%) Linux
2 4 (3.33%) Windows
3 2 (1.67%) Unix
3 2 (1.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (54.17%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (36.67%) Computer Science
3 36 (30.00%) Software Engineering
4 24 (20.00%) Analytics
4 24 (20.00%) Project Management
5 21 (17.50%) Mathematics
6 18 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
6 18 (15.00%) Decision-Making
7 16 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (11.67%) Agile
9 13 (10.83%) Collaborative Working
10 12 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
10 12 (10.00%) Business Strategy
10 12 (10.00%) Manufacturing Engineering
10 12 (10.00%) Project Delivery
11 11 (9.17%) Data Analytics
11 11 (9.17%) Roadmaps
11 11 (9.17%) Statistics
11 11 (9.17%) Visualisation
12 10 (8.33%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 25 (20.83%) SQL
2 24 (20.00%) Python
3 10 (8.33%) C#
4 9 (7.50%) C
5 7 (5.83%) Java
5 7 (5.83%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.33%) T-SQL
7 3 (2.50%) Scala
7 3 (2.50%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.67%) Bash
8 2 (1.67%) C++
9 1 (0.83%) R
9 1 (0.83%) VBA
Qualifications
1 120 (100.00%) Degree
2 22 (18.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (9.17%) PhD
4 8 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (5.00%) Chartered Engineer
5 6 (5.00%) MBA
6 5 (4.17%) CCIE
6 5 (4.17%) CCNP
6 5 (4.17%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (2.50%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.50%) CEH
7 3 (2.50%) SAP Certification
7 3 (2.50%) Security Cleared
8 2 (1.67%) CCNA
8 2 (1.67%) CISSP
8 2 (1.67%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.67%) MCSE
8 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.67%) OSCP
8 2 (1.67%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.33%) PCI DSS
2 4 (3.33%) PMO
3 3 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.50%) NIST
4 2 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.67%) GLP
4 2 (1.67%) Good Clinical Practice
4 2 (1.67%) QA
5 1 (0.83%) NCSC
5 1 (0.83%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.83%) Docker
3 1 (0.83%) Snort
Systems Management
1 2 (1.67%) CSIRT
2 1 (0.83%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (0.83%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.83%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (11.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.00%) SAP
3 4 (3.33%) Google
3 4 (3.33%) VMware
4 3 (2.50%) CA
5 2 (1.67%) Cisco
5 2 (1.67%) Citrix
5 2 (1.67%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.83%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.83%) Oracle