Master's Degree Contracts in the East of England

Master's Degree
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 85 99
Rank change year-on-year +20 +14 +28
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 17 27 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.81% 1.41% 1.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.31% 4.54% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 8
10th Percentile £580 £300 £226
25th Percentile £582 £550 £342
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £381
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +83.85% -33.78%
75th Percentile £675 £775 £509
90th Percentile - £800 £706
England median daily rate £580 £550 £612
% change year-on-year +5.45% -10.06% +6.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 6
Median hourly rate - £17.46 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -73.14% -3.70%
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% +22.22% +23.29%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 320 595 767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 34.12% 31.17% 37.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 224 380
10th Percentile £189 £206 £222
25th Percentile £231 £349 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £645
90th Percentile £675 £721 £735
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 220 195
10th Percentile £15.23 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £21.46 £16.30 £15.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% +66.67% +7.69%
75th Percentile £75.94 £43.19 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Master's Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in the East of England

Master's Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Master's Degree in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Master's Degree in the East of England

Master's Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Master's Degree in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Master's Degree in the East of England

Master's Degree
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Hertfordshire +36 13 £650 +116.67% 91
Bedfordshire +5 4 £580 - 56
Master's Degree
England

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (70.59%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 4 (23.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (70.59%) AWS
3 4 (23.53%) Power Platform
3 4 (23.53%) Snowflake
4 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (70.59%) Big Data
1 12 (70.59%) Hadoop
1 12 (70.59%) Tableau
2 4 (23.53%) Data Lake
2 4 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (23.53%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 12 (70.59%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Manufacturing
2 4 (23.53%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (70.59%) Data Science Developer
1 12 (70.59%) Developer
2 10 (58.82%) Senior
2 10 (58.82%) Senior Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Data Analytics Specialist
4 2 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 2 (11.76%) SAP Financial Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (70.59%) Matplotlib
1 12 (70.59%) NumPy
1 12 (70.59%) Pandas
1 12 (70.59%) PyTorch
1 12 (70.59%) scikit-learn
1 12 (70.59%) Seaborn
1 12 (70.59%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (70.59%) Algorithms
2 4 (23.53%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) Analytics
2 12 (70.59%) Artificial Intelligence
2 12 (70.59%) Computer Science
2 12 (70.59%) Data Analysis
2 12 (70.59%) Data Analytics
2 12 (70.59%) Data Munging
2 12 (70.59%) Data Science
2 12 (70.59%) Decision-Making
2 12 (70.59%) Feature Engineering
2 12 (70.59%) Generative AI
2 12 (70.59%) LLM
2 12 (70.59%) Machine Learning
2 12 (70.59%) Predictive Analytics
2 12 (70.59%) Reinforcement Learning
2 12 (70.59%) Statistical Modelling
2 12 (70.59%) Time Series Forecasting
2 12 (70.59%) Visualisation
3 4 (23.53%) Data Modelling
3 4 (23.53%) Inventory Management
3 4 (23.53%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) Python
1 12 (70.59%) R
Qualifications
1 17 (100.00%) Degree
2 12 (70.59%) PhD
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (82.35%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.76%) PMO
3 1 (5.88%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Ariba
1 4 (23.53%) SAP
2 2 (11.76%) Anaplan
2 2 (11.76%) Hyperion
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) OpenAI