Master's Degree Contracts in Berkshire

Master's Degree
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Master's Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 108 98
Rank change year-on-year +36 -10 +23
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 19 11 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.66% 0.56% 0.88%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.69% 1.22% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 8
10th Percentile £362 £406 £400
25th Percentile £400 £475 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +23.53% -21.05%
75th Percentile £500 - £581
90th Percentile £648 £584 £733
South East median daily rate £450 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +73.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £87.05 £41.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +109.76% - -
South East median hourly rate £87.05 £65.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +33.92% +44.44% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Berkshire

Master's Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 405 902 579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 35.46% 45.74% 31.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 424 303
10th Percentile £313 £254 £340
25th Percentile £436 £460 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £716 £715
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 97 42
10th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £18.50
25th Percentile £55.31 £55.04 £49.94
Median hourly rate £72.00 £61.60 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.88% -6.67% +214.29%
75th Percentile £87.44 £85.65 £75.67
90th Percentile £88.87 £88.52 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £50.15 £57.35 £60.00
% change year-on-year -12.55% -4.42% +33.33%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in Berkshire

Master's Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Master's Degree in Berkshire

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in Berkshire over the 6 months to 28 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Master's Degree in Berkshire

Master's Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Master's Degree in Berkshire

Master's Degree
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 28 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
Reading +43 6 £500 +35.69% 27
Bracknell +12 6 £450 - 3
Wokingham -1 5 £538 -12.60% 2
Master's Degree
South East

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 2 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (10.53%) Camunda
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 2 (10.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) AWS
1 3 (15.79%) Azure
1 3 (15.79%) Cloud Computing
1 3 (15.79%) GCP
2 2 (10.53%) dbt
2 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.26%) OCI
3 1 (5.26%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) 4G
1 2 (10.53%) 5G
1 2 (10.53%) DOCSIS
1 2 (10.53%) GPON
1 2 (10.53%) LTE
1 2 (10.53%) MPLS
1 2 (10.53%) Radio Access Network
1 2 (10.53%) VoIP
1 2 (10.53%) xDSL
2 1 (5.26%) Converged Networks
2 1 (5.26%) Firewall
2 1 (5.26%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (5.26%) Network Security
2 1 (5.26%) SSL
2 1 (5.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (10.53%) Power BI
1 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
1 2 (10.53%) Tableau
2 1 (5.26%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Selenium
2 1 (5.26%) Burp Suite
2 1 (5.26%) CMake
2 1 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) Metasploit
General
1 14 (73.68%) Social Skills
2 7 (36.84%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (21.05%) Legal
3 4 (21.05%) Telecoms
4 3 (15.79%) Agriculture
4 3 (15.79%) Manufacturing
5 2 (10.53%) Finance
5 2 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Architect
2 2 (10.53%) Auditor
2 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) HR Manager
2 2 (10.53%) Information Security Auditor
2 2 (10.53%) OSS Architect
2 2 (10.53%) Payroll Manager
2 2 (10.53%) Project Manager
2 2 (10.53%) Security Auditor
3 1 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (5.26%) Lead
3 1 (5.26%) Penetration Tester
3 1 (5.26%) SAP Architect
3 1 (5.26%) SAP Enterprise Architect
3 1 (5.26%) Security Architect
3 1 (5.26%) Security Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.26%) Telecoms Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) OAuth
2 1 (5.26%) CNTK
2 1 (5.26%) Middleware
2 1 (5.26%) OAuth2
2 1 (5.26%) OpenVINO
2 1 (5.26%) PyTorch
2 1 (5.26%) REST
2 1 (5.26%) SOAP
2 1 (5.26%) TensorFlow
2 1 (5.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Cloud Native
2 4 (21.05%) Algorithms
3 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
4 2 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (10.53%) Life Science
4 2 (10.53%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (10.53%) TM Forum
5 1 (5.26%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (5.26%) Cyberattack
5 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (5.26%) PKI
5 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) Android
2 1 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (36.84%) Agile
2 7 (36.84%) Computer Science
3 5 (26.32%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (26.32%) Data Modelling
4 4 (21.05%) Decision-Making
4 4 (21.05%) Information Security
4 4 (21.05%) Machine Learning
4 4 (21.05%) Mathematics
4 4 (21.05%) Migration
4 4 (21.05%) Roadmaps
4 4 (21.05%) Scenario Testing
5 3 (15.79%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (15.79%) Analytics
5 3 (15.79%) Data Loss Prevention
5 3 (15.79%) Data Transformation
5 3 (15.79%) Exploratory Testing
5 3 (15.79%) Functional Testing
5 3 (15.79%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
5 3 (15.79%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) Python
2 4 (21.05%) Java
3 3 (15.79%) SQL
4 2 (10.53%) C++
5 1 (5.26%) C
5 1 (5.26%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 19 (100.00%) Degree
2 4 (21.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (15.79%) CISMP
4 2 (10.53%) PMI Certification
4 2 (10.53%) PMP
4 2 (10.53%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (5.26%) CCSK
5 1 (5.26%) CEH
5 1 (5.26%) CISSP
5 1 (5.26%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.26%) GIAC
5 1 (5.26%) GPEN
5 1 (5.26%) GWAPT
5 1 (5.26%) OSCE
5 1 (5.26%) OSCP
5 1 (5.26%) PhD
5 1 (5.26%) SANS
5 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) QA
2 3 (15.79%) Data Quality
3 2 (10.53%) GDPR
3 2 (10.53%) OASIS TOSCA
4 1 (5.26%) GRC
4 1 (5.26%) HIPAA
4 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (5.26%) NIST
4 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Amdocs OSS
1 2 (10.53%) Ansible
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) CASB
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) SAP
2 2 (10.53%) Amdocs
2 2 (10.53%) Ericsson
2 2 (10.53%) Huawei
2 2 (10.53%) NetCracker
2 2 (10.53%) Nokia
3 1 (5.26%) CyberArk
3 1 (5.26%) Forcepoint
3 1 (5.26%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) OpenAI
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) Salesforce