Master's Degree Contracts in Central London

Master's Degree
London > Central London

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 145 168
Rank change year-on-year +30 +23 -32
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 16 29 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.66% 0.76% 0.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.22% 3.80% 3.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 11
10th Percentile £457 £554 £515
25th Percentile £480 £709 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £738 £517
Median % change year-on-year -20.34% +42.65% -19.22%
75th Percentile £691 £950 £634
90th Percentile £863 £984 £738
London median daily rate £550 £700 £650
% change year-on-year -21.43% +7.69% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - £50.35 -
25th Percentile - £50.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate - £52.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - +173.68% -43.28%
75th Percentile - £53.50 £20.00
90th Percentile - £53.65 £36.05
London median hourly rate £63.75 £45.25 £45.50
% change year-on-year +40.88% -0.55% +8.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 497 763 861
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 20.41% 19.91% 18.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 451 568
10th Percentile £363 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% +5.77%
75th Percentile £644 £700 £638
90th Percentile £775 £820 £725
London median daily rate £538 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.43% +4.55% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 18
10th Percentile £20.22 £18.06 £18.50
25th Percentile £21.41 £20.22 £28.56
Median hourly rate £25.99 £51.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.54% +15.73% +122.50%
75th Percentile £39.56 £53.75 £57.88
90th Percentile £54.38 £71.75 £67.55
London median hourly rate £25.00 £50.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -50.00% +12.36% +22.62%

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 6 May 2024.

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 6 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +32 16 £588 -20.34% 35
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 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Chatbot
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
3 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) GCP
3 2 (12.50%) Serverless
4 1 (6.25%) Azure API Management
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.25%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) CTI
1 2 (12.50%) VoIP
2 1 (6.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (43.75%) Finance
3 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Retail
5 1 (6.25%) Marketing
5 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.25%) Publishing
5 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Quantitative Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Python Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Administrator
4 1 (6.25%) Applications Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Data Scientist
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Architect
4 1 (6.25%) IT Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) IT Risk Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Product Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Qualitative Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Quantitative Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Risk Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Matplotlib
1 2 (12.50%) NumPy
1 2 (12.50%) Pandas
2 1 (6.25%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) HTML
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) Middleware
2 1 (6.25%) PyTorch
2 1 (6.25%) scikit-learn
2 1 (6.25%) TensorFlow
2 1 (6.25%) Web Services
2 1 (6.25%) XML
2 1 (6.25%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (12.50%) Derivative
2 2 (12.50%) Equities
2 2 (12.50%) IVR
3 1 (6.25%) Blog
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) DataPower
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.25%) Market Risk
3 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.25%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.25%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) Computer Science
2 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (25.00%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (25.00%) DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) Mathematics
4 3 (18.75%) Analytics
4 3 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (18.75%) Data Analysis
4 3 (18.75%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (18.75%) Quantitative Research
4 3 (18.75%) Roadmaps
4 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (18.75%) Visualisation
5 2 (12.50%) Code Quality
5 2 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (12.50%) SDLC
5 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) C++
3 2 (12.50%) C#
3 2 (12.50%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) SQL
4 1 (6.25%) C
4 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.25%) R
4 1 (6.25%) Scala
4 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.25%) VBA
4 1 (6.25%) VC++
Qualifications
1 16 (100.00%) Degree
2 8 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (18.75%) Azure Certification
3 3 (18.75%) PhD
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) CISM
4 1 (6.25%) CISSP
4 1 (6.25%) MBA
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
4 1 (6.25%) PMP
4 1 (6.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
1 1 (6.25%) HIPAA
1 1 (6.25%) NIST
1 1 (6.25%) NIST 800
1 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
1 1 (6.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Genesys
3 1 (6.25%) Avaya
3 1 (6.25%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco
3 1 (6.25%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.25%) Zoho