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 23 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 105 93
Rank change year-on-year -24 -12 +49
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 5 17 27
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.21% 0.93% 1.31%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.84% 3.76% 5.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 18
10th Percentile £656 £497 £440
25th Percentile £683 £525 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £755 £619 £606
Median % change year-on-year +22.02% +2.06% -23.02%
75th Percentile £810 £763 £775
90th Percentile £827 - £857
Central London median daily rate £755 £619 £588
% change year-on-year +22.02% +5.32% -25.40%
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 597 452 498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.53% 24.62% 24.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 303 317
10th Percentile £413 £316 £390
25th Percentile £463 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% +2.73%
75th Percentile £644 £672 £660
90th Percentile £733 £758 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 4
10th Percentile £19.42 £22.28 £20.31
25th Percentile £21.88 £26.00 £20.43
Median hourly rate £31.03 £28.15 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% +17.29% +33.33%
75th Percentile £57.02 £64.66 £27.00
90th Percentile £70.88 £79.34 -
Central London median hourly rate £42.53 £34.48 £27.00
% change year-on-year +23.35% +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 23 August 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Head of Relationships Management
1 1 (20.00%) Lead
1 1 (20.00%) Product Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Research Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Derivative
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Exotic Derivative
2 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (20.00%) OTC Derivatives
2 1 (20.00%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) AI
2 2 (40.00%) Generative AI
2 2 (40.00%) LLM
2 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (40.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Commercial Awareness
3 1 (20.00%) Curve Construction
3 1 (20.00%) Emotional Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Low Latency
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Model Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Monte Carlo Method
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Supplier Relationship Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (40.00%) PhD
3 1 (20.00%) MBA
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (20.00%) Sitecore