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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 98 117
Rank change year-on-year -5 +19 +41
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 21 20 14
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.09% 1.09% 0.59%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.98% 4.18% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 13 12
10th Percentile £394 £507 £463
25th Percentile £413 £518 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £650 £750
Median % change year-on-year -31.92% -13.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £1,000
90th Percentile £961 £817 -
Central London median daily rate £600 £635 £725
% change year-on-year -5.51% -12.41% -
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 527 478 465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.48% 26.09% 19.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 277 311
10th Percentile £375 £361 £363
25th Percentile £426 £458 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £530
% change year-on-year - -0.94% -9.98%
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 £72.25 £42.49
% change year-on-year -64.54% +70.06% +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 12 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 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (9.52%) GCP
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.76%) Figma
4 1 (4.76%) Power Automate
4 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.76%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Network Security
2 1 (4.76%) Firewall
2 1 (4.76%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Big Data
1 1 (4.76%) KDB
1 1 (4.76%) Kdb+
1 1 (4.76%) Pinecone
1 1 (4.76%) Power BI
1 1 (4.76%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) MLflow
General
1 10 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Finance
2 6 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
3 5 (23.81%) Banking
4 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (14.29%) Marketing
5 2 (9.52%) Front Office
5 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.76%) Electronics
6 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
6 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.76%) Law
6 1 (4.76%) Legal
6 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (4.76%) Retail
6 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (19.05%) Senior
2 3 (14.29%) Analyst
2 3 (14.29%) Support Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Technical Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Technical Support
2 3 (14.29%) Technical Support Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Banking Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Banking Business Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Business Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Consultant
3 2 (9.52%) Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Product Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Senior Banking Business Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Commercial Director
4 1 (4.76%) F# Developer
4 1 (4.76%) KDB Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Qualitative Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) PyTorch
1 3 (14.29%) TensorFlow
2 1 (4.76%) .NET
2 1 (4.76%) Faiss
2 1 (4.76%) Google JAX
2 1 (4.76%) Hugging Face
2 1 (4.76%) JAX
2 1 (4.76%) LangChain
2 1 (4.76%) LangGraph
2 1 (4.76%) Node.js
2 1 (4.76%) XML
2 1 (4.76%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Algorithms
1 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
1 2 (9.52%) Distributed Computing
1 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
1 2 (9.52%) PMI
1 2 (9.52%) Synthetic Data
2 1 (4.76%) AI Agents
2 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.76%) Derivative
2 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.76%) Equities
2 1 (4.76%) Fixed Income
2 1 (4.76%) FMCG
2 1 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (4.76%) PACS
2 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.76%) Social Media
2 1 (4.76%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) AI
1 7 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 5 (23.81%) Machine Learning
2 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (23.81%) Validation
3 4 (19.05%) Agile
3 4 (19.05%) Change Management
3 4 (19.05%) Data Science
3 4 (19.05%) Generative AI
3 4 (19.05%) LLM
3 4 (19.05%) Requirements Gathering
3 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (19.05%) Use Case
3 4 (19.05%) Workshop Facilitation
4 3 (14.29%) Analytics
4 3 (14.29%) Backlog Management
4 3 (14.29%) Mathematics
4 3 (14.29%) Process Management
4 3 (14.29%) Test Automation
4 3 (14.29%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) Python
2 3 (14.29%) C#
2 3 (14.29%) C++
2 3 (14.29%) SQL
3 2 (9.52%) Java
4 1 (4.76%) F#
4 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.76%) VBA
4 1 (4.76%) VC++
Qualifications
1 21 (100.00%) Degree
2 5 (23.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (14.29%) MBA
3 3 (14.29%) PhD
4 2 (9.52%) CBAP
4 2 (9.52%) CISSP
4 2 (9.52%) PMI Certification
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.76%) CISM
5 1 (4.76%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (4.76%) ISSMP
5 1 (4.76%) MPhil
5 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) GDPR
1 2 (9.52%) NIST
1 2 (9.52%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.76%) DICOM
2 1 (4.76%) EMIR
2 1 (4.76%) HL7
2 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
1 5 (23.81%) SAP
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) Ariba
3 1 (4.76%) Workday