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

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 103 120
Rank change year-on-year -5 +17 +45
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 19 27 21
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.05% 1.25% 0.80%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.75% 4.85% 4.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 16 19
10th Percentile £400 £441 £330
25th Percentile £413 £505 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £800
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -28.13% +28.00%
75th Percentile £625 £738 £1,000
90th Percentile £789 £767 -
Central London median daily rate £544 £530 £788
% change year-on-year +2.59% -32.70% +26.00%

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 507 557 521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 28.00% 25.78% 19.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 327 318
10th Percentile £346 £343 £333
25th Percentile £425 £458 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.23%
75th Percentile £663 £647 £688
90th Percentile £738 £753 £800
Central London median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 3
10th Percentile £20.55 £21.25 £29.39
25th Percentile £25.75 £23.25 £45.09
Median hourly rate £27.50 £29.75 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% -58.97% +55.08%
75th Percentile £29.50 £92.44 £75.63
90th Percentile £51.14 £112.00 £76.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £29.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -7.56% -50.42% +28.34%

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 5 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) AWS
3 4 (21.05%) GCP
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.26%) Power Automate
5 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.26%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Network Security
2 1 (5.26%) Firewall
2 1 (5.26%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Apache Hive
1 1 (5.26%) Big Data
1 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
1 1 (5.26%) KDB
1 1 (5.26%) Kdb+
1 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.26%) Pinecone
1 1 (5.26%) Power BI
1 1 (5.26%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) MLflow
2 1 (5.26%) Git
General
1 11 (57.89%) Social Skills
2 8 (42.11%) Finance
3 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.79%) Front Office
4 3 (15.79%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (10.53%) Financial Institution
5 2 (10.53%) Marketing
5 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.26%) Banking
6 1 (5.26%) Electronics
6 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (5.26%) Law
6 1 (5.26%) Legal
6 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
6 1 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (15.79%) Developer
1 3 (15.79%) Support Engineer
1 3 (15.79%) Technical Engineer
1 3 (15.79%) Technical Support
1 3 (15.79%) Technical Support Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) Consultant
2 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) Data Scientist
2 2 (10.53%) Product Manager
2 2 (10.53%) Senior
3 1 (5.26%) Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Data Centre Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Managing Consultant
3 1 (5.26%) Operational Security Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Python Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Quantitative Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Security Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Security Operations Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Senior Product Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) TensorFlow
2 1 (5.26%) .NET
2 1 (5.26%) Django
2 1 (5.26%) Faiss
2 1 (5.26%) Flask
2 1 (5.26%) LangChain
2 1 (5.26%) LangGraph
2 1 (5.26%) NumPy
2 1 (5.26%) Pandas
2 1 (5.26%) PySpark
2 1 (5.26%) PyTorch
2 1 (5.26%) XML
2 1 (5.26%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Algorithms
1 3 (15.79%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.53%) Derivative
2 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.26%) Credit Risk
3 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.26%) Equities
3 1 (5.26%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (5.26%) Exotic Derivative
3 1 (5.26%) Fixed Income
3 1 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (5.26%) PACS
3 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
1 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Computer Science
2 7 (36.84%) AI
2 7 (36.84%) Mathematics
3 6 (31.58%) Data Science
3 6 (31.58%) Machine Learning
4 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (21.05%) Analytics
5 4 (21.05%) LLM
6 3 (15.79%) DevOps
6 3 (15.79%) Generative AI
6 3 (15.79%) Process Management
6 3 (15.79%) Risk Management
6 3 (15.79%) Statistics
6 3 (15.79%) Validation
7 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (10.53%) Business Strategy
7 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (10.53%) Mentoring
7 2 (10.53%) Roadmaps
7 2 (10.53%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) Python
2 4 (21.05%) SQL
3 3 (15.79%) C++
4 2 (10.53%) C#
5 1 (5.26%) F#
5 1 (5.26%) Java
5 1 (5.26%) VBA
5 1 (5.26%) VC++
Qualifications
1 19 (100.00%) Degree
2 4 (21.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (15.79%) PhD
4 2 (10.53%) CISSP
4 2 (10.53%) MBA
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (5.26%) CISM
5 1 (5.26%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (5.26%) ISSMP
5 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) NIST
2 2 (10.53%) GDPR
2 2 (10.53%) PCI DSS
3 1 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.26%) DICOM
3 1 (5.26%) EMIR
3 1 (5.26%) HL7
3 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 5 (26.32%) SAP
3 2 (10.53%) Oracle
4 1 (5.26%) Ariba
4 1 (5.26%) Workday