Master's Degree Contracts in England

Master's Degree
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 277 231 305
Rank change year-on-year -46 +74 +106
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 221 360 398
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.91% 0.99% 0.82%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.90% 3.22% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 203 267
10th Percentile £360 £350 £392
25th Percentile £463 £441 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% +10.17%
75th Percentile £718 £718 £800
90th Percentile £838 £800 £950
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +5.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 47 33
10th Percentile £48.13 £21.70 £31.25
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.42 £42.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +22.22% +21.21%
75th Percentile £86.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £88.14 £83.75 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% +22.22% +53.85%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,623 11,179 13,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.46% 30.71% 27.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,841 6,938 8,950
10th Percentile £281 £313 £335
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £713 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 437 970 675
10th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £40.00 £53.35
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -25.02% +30.35%
75th Percentile £67.50 £62.28 £68.25
90th Percentile £81.15 £77.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -12.50% -27.27% +25.14%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in England

Master's Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Master's Degree in England

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Master's Degree in England

Master's Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Master's Degree in England

Master's Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Master's Degree in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Master's Degree in England

Master's Degree
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 21 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
London -18 131 £638 +15.91% 1,581
South East +19 28 £500 -4.76% 513
South West +33 21 £550 -6.38% 152
East of England +15 18 £650 +4.00% 217
North of England +14 15 £528 -17.32% 279
North West +6 11 £580 -14.20% 157
Yorkshire +14 4 £325 -41.34% 85
Midlands +2 3 £447 -18.73% 170
East Midlands +12 2 £447 - 67
West Midlands -5 1 - - 97
Master's Degree
UK

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 30 (13.57%) Apache Spark
2 17 (7.69%) Confluence
3 3 (1.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.36%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.36%) SAS
4 2 (0.90%) Apache
4 2 (0.90%) Camunda
4 2 (0.90%) CMS
4 2 (0.90%) Drupal
4 2 (0.90%) Sitecore CMS
4 2 (0.90%) WordPress
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle Service Bus
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 19 (8.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 16 (7.24%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (4.07%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.36%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.36%) Trello
6 1 (0.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.45%) Camtasia
6 1 (0.45%) InVision
6 1 (0.45%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.45%) Simulink
6 1 (0.45%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 13 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.90%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.90%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.45%) Bankmaster
3 1 (0.45%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.45%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.45%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.45%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.45%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.45%) SAP MDG-S
3 1 (0.45%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 50 (22.62%) AWS
2 48 (21.72%) Azure
3 19 (8.60%) GCP
4 14 (6.33%) Power Platform
5 8 (3.62%) Snowflake
6 7 (3.17%) GitHub
7 4 (1.81%) Amazon SageMaker
7 4 (1.81%) SaaS
8 3 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.36%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.36%) Smartsheet
9 2 (0.90%) Asana
9 2 (0.90%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 2 (0.90%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.90%) OCI
9 2 (0.90%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 2 (0.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (0.90%) Vertex AI
10 1 (0.45%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.62%) Firewall
2 5 (2.26%) MPLS
2 5 (2.26%) VPN
3 4 (1.81%) Network Security
4 3 (1.36%) 4G
4 3 (1.36%) 5G
4 3 (1.36%) BGP
4 3 (1.36%) LTE
4 3 (1.36%) OSPF
4 3 (1.36%) VLAN
4 3 (1.36%) Wireless
5 2 (0.90%) DOCSIS
5 2 (0.90%) DSL
5 2 (0.90%) GPON
5 2 (0.90%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.90%) iSCSI
5 2 (0.90%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.90%) SAN
5 2 (0.90%) VoIP
5 2 (0.90%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.95%) Big Data
2 20 (9.05%) Hadoop
3 19 (8.60%) Tableau
4 14 (6.33%) Power BI
5 9 (4.07%) Data Lake
5 9 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (3.17%) MySQL
7 6 (2.71%) Apache Hive
7 6 (2.71%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.81%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.81%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.36%) Data Mining
9 3 (1.36%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.90%) PowerPivot
10 2 (0.90%) SAP BW
10 2 (0.90%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 25 (11.31%) JIRA
2 16 (7.24%) Git
3 6 (2.71%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.26%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.26%) MLflow
5 4 (1.81%) Selenium
6 2 (0.90%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.90%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.45%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.45%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.45%) CMake
7 1 (0.45%) ERwin
7 1 (0.45%) GitLab
7 1 (0.45%) JIRA Agile
7 1 (0.45%) MSTest
7 1 (0.45%) NSubstitute
7 1 (0.45%) NUnit
7 1 (0.45%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 98 (44.34%) Social Skills
2 95 (42.99%) Analytical Skills
3 90 (40.72%) Finance
4 23 (10.41%) Public Sector
5 21 (9.50%) Banking
6 18 (8.14%) Marketing
7 15 (6.79%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (6.33%) Manufacturing
9 12 (5.43%) Legal
10 11 (4.98%) Financial Institution
11 10 (4.52%) Front Office
12 9 (4.07%) Pharmaceutical
12 9 (4.07%) Telecoms
13 7 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (2.71%) Electronics
15 4 (1.81%) Digital Health
16 3 (1.36%) Automotive
16 3 (1.36%) Military
17 2 (0.90%) Aerospace
17 2 (0.90%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 27 (12.22%) Senior
2 24 (10.86%) Developer
3 23 (10.41%) Analyst
4 19 (8.60%) Architect
5 14 (6.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 13 (5.88%) Data Science Developer
6 13 (5.88%) Project Manager
7 12 (5.43%) Lead
7 12 (5.43%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 10 (4.52%) Senior Developer
9 9 (4.07%) Software Engineer
10 8 (3.62%) Data Scientist
11 7 (3.17%) Business Analyst
11 7 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (2.71%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (2.71%) C++ Software Engineer
12 6 (2.71%) Data Analyst
12 6 (2.71%) Gen AI Engineer
12 6 (2.71%) Python Engineer
13 5 (2.26%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (11.76%) TensorFlow
2 22 (9.95%) Pandas
3 21 (9.50%) NumPy
4 20 (9.05%) PyTorch
5 15 (6.79%) scikit-learn
6 12 (5.43%) Flash
6 12 (5.43%) Matplotlib
6 12 (5.43%) Seaborn
7 11 (4.98%) PySpark
8 9 (4.07%) REST
9 8 (3.62%) LangChain
10 5 (2.26%) Dask
10 5 (2.26%) React
11 4 (1.81%) AngularJS
11 4 (1.81%) HTML
11 4 (1.81%) Hugging Face
11 4 (1.81%) OAuth
12 3 (1.36%) CSS
12 3 (1.36%) Middleware
12 3 (1.36%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 32 (14.48%) Algorithms
2 13 (5.88%) Distributed Computing
3 12 (5.43%) Clustering
3 12 (5.43%) Data Structures
3 12 (5.43%) Management Information System
4 11 (4.98%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.98%) Life Science
5 9 (4.07%) Cloud Native
6 8 (3.62%) Hedge funds
7 7 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (3.17%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.26%) Credit Risk
8 5 (2.26%) Derivative
9 4 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.81%) PKI
9 4 (1.81%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (1.81%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.81%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.36%) FPGA
10 3 (1.36%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.52%) Linux
2 5 (2.26%) Windows
3 3 (1.36%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.36%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (0.90%) VMS
5 1 (0.45%) Android
5 1 (0.45%) Unix
5 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (49.77%) Computer Science
2 72 (32.58%) Problem-Solving
3 68 (30.77%) Agile
4 51 (23.08%) Analytics
5 48 (21.72%) Machine Learning
6 45 (20.36%) Artificial Intelligence
7 41 (18.55%) Project Management
8 38 (17.19%) Data Analysis
8 38 (17.19%) Data Science
9 36 (16.29%) Decision-Making
10 33 (14.93%) Generative AI
11 29 (13.12%) Mathematics
11 29 (13.12%) Risk Management
11 29 (13.12%) Stakeholder Management
12 27 (12.22%) Software Engineering
13 26 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
14 25 (11.31%) DevOps
14 25 (11.31%) LLM
15 24 (10.86%) CI/CD
15 24 (10.86%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 82 (37.10%) Python
2 36 (16.29%) Java
3 29 (13.12%) C++
4 28 (12.67%) SQL
5 17 (7.69%) R
6 14 (6.33%) C
7 6 (2.71%) JavaScript
7 6 (2.71%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.36%) C#
8 3 (1.36%) SystemVerilog
9 2 (0.90%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.90%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.90%) Ruby
9 2 (0.90%) Rust
10 1 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.45%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.45%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 220 (99.55%) Degree
2 50 (22.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 42 (19.00%) PhD
4 25 (11.31%) Security Cleared
5 22 (9.95%) PMI Certification
6 20 (9.05%) PMP
6 20 (9.05%) SC Cleared
7 17 (7.69%) MBA
8 16 (7.24%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 12 (5.43%) CCNA
11 10 (4.52%) CISSP
12 6 (2.71%) CISM
12 6 (2.71%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (2.26%) CCNP
13 5 (2.26%) CISA
13 5 (2.26%) SAP Certification
14 4 (1.81%) DV Cleared
15 3 (1.36%) CompTIA Security+
15 3 (1.36%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (12.67%) Data Quality
2 15 (6.79%) QA
3 10 (4.52%) GDPR
3 10 (4.52%) PMO
4 8 (3.62%) NIST
5 7 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.81%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.81%) MiFID
6 4 (1.81%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.36%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.36%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.90%) OASIS TOSCA
9 1 (0.45%) Basel III
9 1 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.45%) COBIT
9 1 (0.45%) FINRA
9 1 (0.45%) GRC
9 1 (0.45%) HAZOP
9 1 (0.45%) PMBOK
9 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (5.88%) Docker
1 13 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (5.43%) VMware ESXi
2 12 (5.43%) VMware NSX
3 3 (1.36%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.36%) Firmware
4 1 (0.45%) Lustre
4 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (8.60%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.43%) vCenter Server
3 7 (3.17%) Terraform
4 3 (1.36%) Ansible
5 2 (0.90%) Amdocs OSS
5 2 (0.90%) SCOM
5 2 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.45%) CASB
6 1 (0.45%) Grafana
6 1 (0.45%) Karpenter
6 1 (0.45%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.45%) Podman
Vendors
1 25 (11.31%) SAP
2 19 (8.60%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.79%) Cisco
4 13 (5.88%) Atlassian
4 13 (5.88%) VMware
5 12 (5.43%) Google
6 10 (4.52%) Salesforce
7 8 (3.62%) Databricks
8 6 (2.71%) Oracle
9 5 (2.26%) Adobe
9 5 (2.26%) Ariba
10 4 (1.81%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.81%) Workday
11 3 (1.36%) F5
11 3 (1.36%) Fortinet
12 2 (0.90%) Amdocs
12 2 (0.90%) Huawei
12 2 (0.90%) NEC
12 2 (0.90%) NetCracker
12 2 (0.90%) Sitecore