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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 101 113
Rank change year-on-year -6 +12 +45
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 18 20 15
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.92% 1.09% 0.63%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.30% 4.20% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 11
10th Percentile - £513 £463
25th Percentile £413 £551 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £688 £775
Median % change year-on-year -35.64% -11.29% +6.90%
75th Percentile £619 £750 £1,000
90th Percentile £1,013 £821 -
Central London median daily rate £525 £643 £750
% change year-on-year -18.29% -14.33% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.72 - -
Median hourly rate £51.44 - -
75th Percentile £52.16 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £51.44 - -

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 545 476 459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.92% 25.90% 19.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 402 280 305
10th Percentile £395 £370 £363
25th Percentile £433 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £680
90th Percentile £738 £763 £777
Central London median daily rate £525 £527 £545
% change year-on-year -0.38% -3.30% -7.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 4
10th Percentile £20.65 £24.78 £19.32
25th Percentile £25.77 £28.94 £19.90
Median hourly rate £28.00 £72.25 £46.66
Median % change year-on-year -61.25% +54.85% +11.09%
75th Percentile £52.16 £112.00 £74.69
90th Percentile £59.86 - £76.38
Central London median hourly rate £25.62 £32.50 £42.49
% change year-on-year -21.17% -23.50% +1.15%

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 February 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) AWS
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.56%) Figma
3 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
3 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.56%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Big Data
1 1 (5.56%) KDB
1 1 (5.56%) Kdb+
1 1 (5.56%) Pinecone
1 1 (5.56%) Power BI
1 1 (5.56%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) MLflow
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Finance
2 6 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
3 5 (27.78%) Banking
4 3 (16.67%) Marketing
5 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.56%) Electronics
6 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
6 1 (5.56%) Front Office
6 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
6 1 (5.56%) Law
6 1 (5.56%) Legal
6 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
6 1 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (5.56%) Retail
6 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Senior
2 3 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Technical Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Technical Support
2 3 (16.67%) Technical Support Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Banking Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Banking Business Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Product Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Banking Business Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Commercial Director
4 1 (5.56%) Evangelist
4 1 (5.56%) Gen AI Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) KDB Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) PyTorch
1 3 (16.67%) TensorFlow
2 1 (5.56%) Faiss
2 1 (5.56%) Google JAX
2 1 (5.56%) Hugging Face
2 1 (5.56%) JAX
2 1 (5.56%) LangChain
2 1 (5.56%) LangGraph
2 1 (5.56%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
1 2 (11.11%) PMI
1 2 (11.11%) Synthetic Data
2 1 (5.56%) AI Agents
2 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.56%) Derivative
2 1 (5.56%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Equities
2 1 (5.56%) Fixed Income
2 1 (5.56%) FMCG
2 1 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.56%) PACS
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Social Media
2 1 (5.56%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
1 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) AI
2 5 (27.78%) Computer Science
2 5 (27.78%) Machine Learning
2 5 (27.78%) Validation
3 4 (22.22%) Change Management
3 4 (22.22%) Generative AI
3 4 (22.22%) LLM
3 4 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
3 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (22.22%) Use Case
3 4 (22.22%) Workshop Facilitation
4 3 (16.67%) Agile
4 3 (16.67%) Backlog Management
4 3 (16.67%) Data Science
4 3 (16.67%) DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (16.67%) Process Management
4 3 (16.67%) User Stories
5 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
5 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) Python
2 2 (11.11%) C++
2 2 (11.11%) Java
2 2 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (5.56%) C#
3 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (100.00%) Degree
2 3 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (16.67%) MBA
2 3 (16.67%) PhD
3 2 (11.11%) CBAP
3 2 (11.11%) PMI Certification
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (5.56%) CISM
4 1 (5.56%) CISSP
4 1 (5.56%) MPhil
4 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) NIST
2 1 (5.56%) DICOM
2 1 (5.56%) GDPR
2 1 (5.56%) HL7
2 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) SAP
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Ariba
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) Workday