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 24 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 99 115
Rank change year-on-year -22 +16 +37
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 14 24 12
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.62% 1.35% 0.54%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.30% 5.47% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 15 7
10th Percentile £406 £585 £440
25th Percentile £413 £622 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £725 £550
Median % change year-on-year -41.38% +31.82% -24.14%
75th Percentile £464 £763 £677
90th Percentile £590 £810 £797
Central London median daily rate £443 £725 £550
% change year-on-year -38.97% +31.82% -24.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £33.00 - -
25th Percentile £35.95 - -
Median hourly rate £41.75 - -
75th Percentile £47.39 - -
90th Percentile £50.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £41.75 - -

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 608 439 455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 26.88% 24.76% 20.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 295 297
10th Percentile £383 £402 £367
25th Percentile £454 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% -7.83%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £771 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 5
10th Percentile £18.71 £23.62 £19.45
25th Percentile £24.16 £26.04 £20.22
Median hourly rate £30.03 £45.33 £20.82
Median % change year-on-year -33.74% +117.75% -59.97%
75th Percentile £55.37 £72.81 £27.00
90th Percentile £68.53 £89.13 £55.05
Central London median hourly rate £26.89 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -7.52% +7.67% -48.08%

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 24 April 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Master's Degree in the City of London over the 6 months to 24 April 2026.

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

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (7.14%) AWS
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
1 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (7.14%) Figma
1 1 (7.14%) Power Automate
1 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Data Mining
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) MLflow
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Banking
2 5 (35.71%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Finance
4 2 (14.29%) Marketing
5 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Senior
1 3 (21.43%) Support Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Technical Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Technical Support
1 3 (21.43%) Technical Support Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Banking Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Banking Business Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Banking Business Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Commercial Director
3 1 (7.14%) Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Designer
3 1 (7.14%) Evangelist
3 1 (7.14%) Marketing Director
3 1 (7.14%) Research Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Product Manager
3 1 (7.14%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) PyTorch
2 2 (14.29%) TensorFlow
3 1 (7.14%) Google JAX
3 1 (7.14%) Hugging Face
3 1 (7.14%) JAX
3 1 (7.14%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) PMI
1 2 (14.29%) Synthetic Data
2 1 (7.14%) AI Agents
2 1 (7.14%) FMCG
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) PACS
2 1 (7.14%) Social Media
2 1 (7.14%) Tandem
2 1 (7.14%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
1 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) AI
2 4 (28.57%) LLM
2 4 (28.57%) Machine Learning
2 4 (28.57%) Validation
3 3 (21.43%) Agile
3 3 (21.43%) Backlog Management
3 3 (21.43%) Change Management
3 3 (21.43%) Generative AI
3 3 (21.43%) Process Management
3 3 (21.43%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (21.43%) Use Case
3 3 (21.43%) User Stories
3 3 (21.43%) Workshop Facilitation
4 2 (14.29%) Business Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 2 (14.29%) Product Management
4 2 (14.29%) Requirements Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) Requirements Management
4 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) C#
3 1 (7.14%) C++
3 1 (7.14%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) Degree
2 3 (21.43%) PhD
3 2 (14.29%) CBAP
3 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (14.29%) MBA
3 2 (14.29%) PMI Certification
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (7.14%) MPhil
4 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) DICOM
1 1 (7.14%) HL7
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
1 1 (7.14%) NIST
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) SAP
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle