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 26 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 99 121
Rank change year-on-year -12 +22 +29
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 15 24 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.81% 1.17% 0.72%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.94% 4.49% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 16 16
10th Percentile £388 £441 £416
25th Percentile £413 £505 £653
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £850
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -32.35% +32.04%
75th Percentile £675 £691 £1,000
90th Percentile £1,006 £781 -
Central London median daily rate £600 £530 £800
% change year-on-year +13.21% -33.75% +24.27%

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 510 534 504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.67% 25.99% 20.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 389 318 315
10th Percentile £353 £344 £355
25th Percentile £425 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% -1.92% -2.61%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £688
90th Percentile £738 £752 £796
Central London median daily rate £525 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -0.62% -3.95% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 3
10th Percentile £25.90 £24.78 £29.39
25th Percentile £26.13 £28.94 £45.09
Median hourly rate £27.75 £72.25 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.59% -0.34% +68.60%
75th Percentile £38.38 £112.00 £75.63
90th Percentile £54.35 - £76.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.50 £72.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year -63.32% +20.42% +39.53%

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 26 December 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 & 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 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (6.67%) Power Automate
4 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.67%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Network Security
2 1 (6.67%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Big Data
1 1 (6.67%) KDB
1 1 (6.67%) Kdb+
1 1 (6.67%) Pinecone
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
1 1 (6.67%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Finance
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Front Office
4 2 (13.33%) Marketing
4 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.67%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Electronics
5 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
5 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Law
5 1 (6.67%) Legal
5 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 1 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Support Engineer
1 3 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
1 3 (20.00%) Technical Support
1 3 (20.00%) Technical Support Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Consultant
2 2 (13.33%) Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Product Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Data Centre Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Evangelist
3 1 (6.67%) F# Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Gen AI Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) KDB Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Lead
3 1 (6.67%) Principal Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Procurement Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Quantitative Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Security Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) PyTorch
1 2 (13.33%) TensorFlow
2 1 (6.67%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) Faiss
2 1 (6.67%) LangChain
2 1 (6.67%) LangGraph
2 1 (6.67%) Node.js
2 1 (6.67%) XML
2 1 (6.67%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Algorithms
1 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (13.33%) Distributed Computing
1 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) AI Agents
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.67%) Derivative
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.67%) Equities
2 1 (6.67%) Fixed Income
2 1 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (6.67%) PACS
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.67%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Computer Science
2 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (26.67%) AI
3 4 (26.67%) Data Science
4 3 (20.00%) Analytics
4 3 (20.00%) DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) Generative AI
4 3 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 3 (20.00%) Mathematics
4 3 (20.00%) Process Management
4 3 (20.00%) Validation
5 2 (13.33%) Business Strategy
5 2 (13.33%) LLM
5 2 (13.33%) Presales
5 2 (13.33%) Product Roadmap
5 2 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
5 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (13.33%) Thought Leadership
5 2 (13.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) C#
1 3 (20.00%) C++
1 3 (20.00%) Python
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) F#
3 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
3 1 (6.67%) VBA
3 1 (6.67%) VC++
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) Degree
2 5 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (13.33%) CISSP
3 2 (13.33%) MBA
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (6.67%) CISM
4 1 (6.67%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (6.67%) ISSMP
4 1 (6.67%) PhD
4 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) GDPR
1 2 (13.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (6.67%) DICOM
2 1 (6.67%) EMIR
2 1 (6.67%) HL7
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 5 (33.33%) SAP
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) Ariba
3 1 (6.67%) Workday