Master's Degree Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Master's Degree
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 22 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 106 99
Rank change year-on-year -28 -7 +31
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 7 13 26
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.31% 0.75% 1.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.24% 3.03% 5.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 17
10th Percentile £656 £474 £436
25th Percentile £683 £516 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £755 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +37.27% -8.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £810 £728 £751
90th Percentile £827 £769 £837
Central London median daily rate £755 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +37.27% -4.35% -26.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.03 - -
Median hourly rate £32.07 - -
75th Percentile £33.10 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 566 429 501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.40% 24.84% 23.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 286 308
10th Percentile £406 £323 £360
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -0.23% +0.23%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £657
90th Percentile £735 £738 £764
Central London median daily rate £544 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 5
10th Percentile £23.30 £22.28 £23.10
25th Percentile £29.00 £26.00 -
Median hourly rate £32.07 £28.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.91% +4.26% +50.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.66 £112.00
90th Percentile £119.20 £79.34 -
Central London median hourly rate £56.00 £34.48 £27.00
% change year-on-year +62.41% +27.70% +50.00%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Master's Degree relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Master's Degree job vacancy trend in the City of London

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Master's Degree.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Master's Degree

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in the City of London over the 6 months to 22 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Master's Degree in the City of London

Master's Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Master's Degree.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Master's Degree

Master's Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Confluence
2 1 (14.29%) MQSeries
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Apigee
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Big Data
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 1 (14.29%) Data Mining
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Banking
3 2 (28.57%) Retail Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Head of Relationships Management
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Product Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Research Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) Node.js
1 1 (14.29%) PyTorch
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) SOAP
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Algorithms
1 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Derivative
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Exotic Derivative
2 1 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (14.29%) OTC Derivatives
2 1 (14.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (14.29%) Tandem
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Computer Science
2 3 (42.86%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (28.57%) AI
3 2 (28.57%) Anti-Money Laundering
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Client Onboarding
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Generative AI
3 2 (28.57%) KYC
3 2 (28.57%) LLM
3 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
3 2 (28.57%) Mathematics
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
3 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) Batch Processing
4 1 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (14.29%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Degree
2 3 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (28.57%) PhD
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
4 1 (14.29%) MBA
4 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
4 1 (14.29%) PMP
4 1 (14.29%) SAFe Agilist
4 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) PSD2
1 1 (14.29%) QA
1 1 (14.29%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 1 (14.29%) Calypso
2 1 (14.29%) FIS
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) MuleSoft
2 1 (14.29%) Murex
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 1 (14.29%) Sitecore
2 1 (14.29%) Temenos