Master's Degree Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Master's Degree
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 1 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 53 60
Rank change year-on-year -5 +7 +28
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 15 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.69% 0.34% 0.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.95% 1.43% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 2 1
10th Percentile £335 £387 -
25th Percentile £343 £405 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £435 £339
Median % change year-on-year -0.34% +28.32% +20.32%
75th Percentile £481 £465 -
90th Percentile £503 £483 -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -4.55% -12.00% +2.04%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 252 140 231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 28.38% 23.93% 31.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 72 151
10th Percentile £163 £228 £213
25th Percentile £332 £335 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £417 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -16.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £534 £591 £575
90th Percentile £613 £715 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 15 16
10th Percentile £16.35 - £17.72
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.50 £21.59 £18.97
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% +13.80% +12.73%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £20.13
90th Percentile £25.58 £29.92 £23.74
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £52.35
% change year-on-year -45.54% -11.79% +16.34%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Master's Degree relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Master's Degree job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Master's Degree.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Master's Degree

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Master's Degree in the East Midlands

Master's Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Master's Degree.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Master's Degree

Master's Degree
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Master's Degree within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire - 12 £411 - 6
Lincolnshire - 2 £603 - 6
Derbyshire +1 1 - - 2
Master's Degree
England

Master's Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 6 (40.00%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) Alfresco
2 1 (6.67%) CMS
2 1 (6.67%) Documentum
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (6.67%) FrameMaker
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 5 (33.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 5 (33.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 2 (13.33%) Azure
4 1 (6.67%) AWS
4 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Functions
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (6.67%) Big Data
2 1 (6.67%) Metadata
2 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
2 6 (40.00%) Banking
2 6 (40.00%) Corporate Banking
2 6 (40.00%) Retail Banking
3 5 (33.33%) Marketing
4 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
5 1 (6.67%) Agriculture
5 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Military
5 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Architect
2 6 (40.00%) Project Manager
3 4 (26.67%) Salesforce Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Banking Project Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Finance Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Finance Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) HR Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Junior
5 1 (6.67%) Junior Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) Lightning Web Components
1 5 (33.33%) Middleware
1 5 (33.33%) REST
1 5 (33.33%) SOAP
1 5 (33.33%) Visualforce
2 1 (6.67%) Express.js
2 1 (6.67%) MERN Stack
2 1 (6.67%) Node.js
2 1 (6.67%) React
2 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 6 (40.00%) PMI
3 4 (26.67%) Management Information System
4 2 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
5 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Mac OS
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Agile
2 8 (53.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (46.67%) Computer Science
3 7 (46.67%) Migration
3 7 (46.67%) Roadmaps
3 7 (46.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 6 (40.00%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
4 6 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (40.00%) Data Migration
4 6 (40.00%) Fintech
4 6 (40.00%) Kanban
4 6 (40.00%) Lean Six Sigma
4 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (40.00%) Process Improvement
4 6 (40.00%) Regulatory Change
4 6 (40.00%) Resource Allocation
4 6 (40.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 6 (40.00%) Scrum
4 6 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (40.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Apex Code
2 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) Degree
2 7 (46.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (46.67%) MBA
3 6 (40.00%) PMI Certification
3 6 (40.00%) PMP
3 6 (40.00%) SAFe Agilist
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
5 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (6.67%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) Basel III
1 6 (40.00%) GDPR
1 6 (40.00%) QA
2 5 (33.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 5 (33.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 5 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.67%) Citrix
2 1 (6.67%) Databricks
2 1 (6.67%) OpenText
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) VMware