Master's Degree Contracts in the East of England

Master's Degree
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for Master's Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 90 128
Rank change year-on-year +9 +38 -29
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 29 24 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.54% 1.21% 0.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.04% 3.30% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 7
10th Percentile £300 £226 £418
25th Percentile £550 £342 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £381 £575
Median % change year-on-year +83.85% -33.78% +151.41%
75th Percentile £775 £509 £588
90th Percentile £800 £706 £614
England median daily rate £550 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £10.42 - £66.25
Median hourly rate £17.46 £65.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -73.14% -3.70% +2.27%
75th Percentile £26.92 - £68.75
90th Percentile £28.12 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +22.22% +23.29% -13.10%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East of England

Master's Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 575 727 741
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 30.60% 36.53% 28.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 359 360
10th Percentile £210 £225 £213
25th Percentile £350 £359 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £600 £644 £575
90th Percentile £725 £703 £651
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 189 200
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.25 £13.41
Median hourly rate £35.33 £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.21% +7.69% -43.92%
75th Percentile £44.81 £63.75 £49.50
90th Percentile £70.50 £70.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -1.06%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in the East of England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Master's Degree in the East of England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 7 May 2024. 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
Cambridgeshire +10 15 £675 +91.76% 81
Hertfordshire +2 5 £300 -57.14% 25
Essex +6 4 £700 +84.09% 16
Norfolk +8 2 £208 - 10
Suffolk - 2 £700 - 2
Bedfordshire -5 1 - - 6
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 2 (6.90%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Simulink
1 2 (6.90%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 4 (13.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (10.34%) SAP SD
3 2 (6.90%) SAP ERP
4 1 (3.45%) SAP CO
4 1 (3.45%) SAP FI
4 1 (3.45%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (3.45%) SAP MM
4 1 (3.45%) SAP SCM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) Internet
2 1 (3.45%) Firewall
2 1 (3.45%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (3.45%) RS-485
2 1 (3.45%) RTMP
2 1 (3.45%) RTP
2 1 (3.45%) RTSP
2 1 (3.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) MariaDB
1 2 (6.90%) MySQL
1 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
1 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
1 2 (6.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (3.45%) Big Data
2 1 (3.45%) Data Mining
2 1 (3.45%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Git
1 2 (6.90%) Rational DOORS
1 2 (6.90%) Rational Team Concert
2 1 (3.45%) CMake
2 1 (3.45%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (3.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (20.69%) Finance
4 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
5 4 (13.79%) Law
6 3 (10.34%) French Language
6 3 (10.34%) Manufacturing
7 2 (6.90%) Aerospace
7 2 (6.90%) Electronics
7 2 (6.90%) Legal
7 2 (6.90%) Marketing
7 2 (6.90%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (6.90%) Telecoms
8 1 (3.45%) Multimedia
8 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (44.83%) Architect
2 10 (34.48%) Software Architect
3 6 (20.69%) Senior
4 4 (13.79%) Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Applications Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Development Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Lead
6 2 (6.90%) SAP Architect
6 2 (6.90%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
6 2 (6.90%) SAP Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Applications Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Development Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Software Development Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Software Development Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Research Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (34.48%) DirectX
1 10 (34.48%) OpenGL
1 10 (34.48%) OpenGL ES
1 10 (34.48%) Vulkan
2 3 (10.34%) .NET
3 2 (6.90%) CSS
3 2 (6.90%) HTML
4 1 (3.45%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.45%) Entity Framework
4 1 (3.45%) FFmpeg
4 1 (3.45%) Flask
4 1 (3.45%) GStreamer
4 1 (3.45%) Managed Extensibility Framework
4 1 (3.45%) NumPy
4 1 (3.45%) PySpark
4 1 (3.45%) Silverlight
4 1 (3.45%) WCF
4 1 (3.45%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (34.48%) 3D Graphics
1 10 (34.48%) Ray Tracing
2 3 (10.34%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.90%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.45%) FPGA
4 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.45%) MPEG
4 1 (3.45%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Linux
1 3 (10.34%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (55.17%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (37.93%) Software Architecture
3 8 (27.59%) Computer Science
4 6 (20.69%) Agile
5 5 (17.24%) Validation
6 4 (13.79%) Mathematics
6 4 (13.79%) Software Engineering
7 3 (10.34%) Analytical Thinking
7 3 (10.34%) Critical Thinking
7 3 (10.34%) Data Science
7 3 (10.34%) Physics
7 3 (10.34%) Programme Management
7 3 (10.34%) Project Management
7 3 (10.34%) Roadmaps
8 2 (6.90%) Decision-Making
8 2 (6.90%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
8 2 (6.90%) Machine Learning
8 2 (6.90%) Market Research
8 2 (6.90%) Mentoring
8 2 (6.90%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 12 (41.38%) C
2 10 (34.48%) C++
3 5 (17.24%) C#
3 5 (17.24%) Python
4 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
4 3 (10.34%) SQL
5 2 (6.90%) Fortran
5 2 (6.90%) Java
5 2 (6.90%) MATLAB
6 1 (3.45%) R
6 1 (3.45%) Rust
6 1 (3.45%) XAML
Qualifications
1 29 (100.00%) Degree
2 14 (48.28%) PhD
3 3 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (10.34%) SAP Certification
4 1 (3.45%) CISSP
4 1 (3.45%) PMP
4 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.45%) PMO
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) SAP
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.90%) MathWorks
4 1 (3.45%) Cisco