Master's Degree Contracts in Central London

Master's Degree
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 116 145
Rank change year-on-year +13 +29 +20
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 24 13 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.20% 0.53% 0.75%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.90% 2.63% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 11
10th Percentile £585 £445 £538
25th Percentile £622 £463 £706
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £544 £725
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -25.00% +40.23%
75th Percentile £763 £664 £863
90th Percentile £810 £774 £950
London median daily rate £650 £550 £700
% change year-on-year +18.18% -21.43% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £50.35
25th Percentile - - £50.50
Median hourly rate - - £52.00
75th Percentile - - £53.50
90th Percentile - - £53.65
London median hourly rate £60.00 £63.75 £40.50
% change year-on-year -5.88% +57.41% -19.80%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 490 494 777
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 24.49% 20.27% 20.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 314 457
10th Percentile £366 £363 £325
25th Percentile £456 £441 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -6.67% +2.27%
75th Percentile £663 £643 £700
90th Percentile £763 £775 £817
London median daily rate £525 £540 £575
% change year-on-year -2.78% -6.09% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 5
10th Percentile £24.16 £20.22 £18.06
25th Percentile £27.39 £21.41 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.99 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.87% -49.54% +9.57%
75th Percentile £63.75 £39.56 £53.75
90th Percentile £85.50 £54.38 £71.75
London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.25 £47.50
% change year-on-year +15.13% -46.84% +6.74%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in Central London

Master's Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Master's Degree in Central London

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in Central London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Master's Degree in Central London

Master's Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Master's Degree in Central London

Master's Degree
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
City of London +15 24 £725 +33.33% 37
Southwark - 1 - -
Master's Degree
London

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 5 (20.83%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (8.33%) Trello
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) SAP MDG
1 1 (4.17%) SAP MDG-S
1 1 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.50%) Asana
2 1 (4.17%) AWS
2 1 (4.17%) GCP
2 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Apache Hive
1 5 (20.83%) Hadoop
2 2 (8.33%) MySQL
3 1 (4.17%) Big Data
3 1 (4.17%) KDB
3 1 (4.17%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Git
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.17%) TeamCity
General
1 18 (75.00%) Finance
2 14 (58.33%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (50.00%) Banking
4 9 (37.50%) Financial Institution
5 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
6 4 (16.67%) Front Office
7 2 (8.33%) Investment Banking
7 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
8 1 (4.17%) Advertising
8 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (4.17%) Marketing
8 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (4.17%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Analyst
2 4 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 4 (16.67%) Lead
3 3 (12.50%) Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Gen AI Specialist
4 2 (8.33%) Front Office Business Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Gen AI Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Data Science Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Lead Data Scientist
5 1 (4.17%) Low Latency Java Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Programme Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Quantitative Strategist
5 1 (4.17%) Report Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Senior
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) PySpark
1 5 (20.83%) TensorFlow
2 2 (8.33%) Dask
2 2 (8.33%) LangChain
2 2 (8.33%) NumPy
2 2 (8.33%) Pandas
3 1 (4.17%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (4.17%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (4.17%) REST
3 1 (4.17%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Credit Risk
1 4 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
2 3 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 3 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (8.33%) Equities
3 2 (8.33%) Fixed Income
3 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.17%) Derivative
4 1 (4.17%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.17%) Hedge funds
4 1 (4.17%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 1 (4.17%) Market Risk
4 1 (4.17%) PMI
4 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Computer Science
2 10 (41.67%) Agile
3 8 (33.33%) Analytics
3 8 (33.33%) Mathematics
4 7 (29.17%) Artificial Intelligence
4 7 (29.17%) Generative AI
4 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (29.17%) Project Management
5 6 (25.00%) Data Science
5 6 (25.00%) LLM
5 6 (25.00%) Risk Management
6 5 (20.83%) Machine Learning
7 4 (16.67%) Credit Risk Management
7 4 (16.67%) Data Analysis
7 4 (16.67%) Data Analytics
7 4 (16.67%) Deep Learning
8 3 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
8 3 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
8 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) Python
2 5 (20.83%) SQL
3 4 (16.67%) Java
4 3 (12.50%) C++
Qualifications
1 24 (100.00%) Degree
2 7 (29.17%) PhD
2 7 (29.17%) PMI Certification
3 6 (25.00%) PMP
4 4 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (12.50%) MBA
6 2 (8.33%) CFA
6 2 (8.33%) PgMP
7 1 (4.17%) CAPM
7 1 (4.17%) CBAP
7 1 (4.17%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (4.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) MiFID
2 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.17%) PMO
2 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Karpenter
2 1 (4.17%) Podman
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (4.17%) BiZZdesign
1 1 (4.17%) Google
1 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
1 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
1 1 (4.17%) SAP