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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 104 134
Rank change year-on-year -3 +30 +20
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 12 26 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.68% 1.24% 0.81%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.76% 5.16% 3.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 17 20
10th Percentile £474 £436 £489
25th Percentile £516 £505 £698
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £788
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -23.81% +43.18%
75th Percentile £728 £751 £959
90th Percentile £769 £837 £1,000
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £775
% change year-on-year -4.35% -25.81% +40.91%

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 435 504 606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.67% 24.02% 20.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 312 362
10th Percentile £328 £364 £341
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £553
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +1.81% -3.91%
75th Percentile £663 £664 £692
90th Percentile £738 £761 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 3
10th Percentile £22.28 £20.31 £16.89
25th Percentile £26.00 £20.43 £17.31
Median hourly rate £28.15 £24.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.29% +33.33% -58.26%
75th Percentile £64.66 £27.00 £47.75
90th Percentile £79.34 - £65.60
Central London median hourly rate £34.48 £24.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year +43.67% +33.33% -58.26%

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

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

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree 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 18 September 2025.

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 and Capabilities in the City of 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 2 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Machine Learning
2 2 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Apache Hive
1 2 (16.67%) Hadoop
1 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) MLflow
2 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (66.67%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Financial Institution
4 2 (16.67%) Banking
4 2 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Front Office
5 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Data Scientist
3 2 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Python Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) F# Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Data Scientist
4 1 (8.33%) Low Latency Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Operational Security Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Operations Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Product Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Qualitative Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Quantitative Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Quantitative Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Security Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Security Operations Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Scientist
4 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Django
1 2 (16.67%) Flask
1 2 (16.67%) NumPy
1 2 (16.67%) Pandas
1 2 (16.67%) PySpark
1 2 (16.67%) TensorFlow
2 1 (8.33%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (8.33%) Protocol Buffers
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) XML
2 1 (8.33%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (25.00%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (16.67%) Credit Risk
3 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (8.33%) Derivative
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (8.33%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (8.33%) Exotic Derivative
3 1 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Computer Science
2 7 (58.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (58.33%) Machine Learning
2 7 (58.33%) Mathematics
3 6 (50.00%) Data Science
4 4 (33.33%) Analytics
4 4 (33.33%) LLM
5 3 (25.00%) DevOps
5 3 (25.00%) Generative AI
5 3 (25.00%) Risk Management
5 3 (25.00%) Statistics
6 2 (16.67%) Agile
6 2 (16.67%) Asset Management
6 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (16.67%) Data Extraction
6 2 (16.67%) Financial Modelling
6 2 (16.67%) Investment Management
6 2 (16.67%) Multithreading
6 2 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
6 2 (16.67%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Python
2 5 (41.67%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) C#
3 2 (16.67%) C++
4 1 (8.33%) F#
4 1 (8.33%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) VBA
4 1 (8.33%) VC++
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) Degree
2 4 (33.33%) PhD
3 3 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (8.33%) CISSP
4 1 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (8.33%) ISSMP
4 1 (8.33%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (8.33%) EMIR
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle