Master's Degree Contracts in Hertfordshire

Master's Degree
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 66 69
Rank change year-on-year +33 +3 +1
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 13 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 4.08% 0.60% 1.00%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.56% 1.70% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 1
10th Percentile £621 - -
25th Percentile £625 - £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £300 £700
Median % change year-on-year +116.67% -57.14% +21.63%
75th Percentile £675 - £750
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £650 £700 £381
% change year-on-year -7.14% +83.85% -33.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
East of England median hourly rate - £17.46 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -73.14% -3.70%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 136 294 369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 42.63% 35.00% 46.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 116 204
10th Percentile £401 £206 £273
25th Percentile £479 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £500 £544
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -8.05% +20.83%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £700
90th Percentile £675 £719 £750
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 88 84
10th Percentile £39.30 £38.64 £49.00
25th Percentile £53.13 - £53.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £43.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.79% -31.20% +11.61%
75th Percentile £81.73 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £74.28
East of England median hourly rate £57.50 £35.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +64.29% +66.67% +7.69%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in Hertfordshire

Master's Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Master's Degree in Hertfordshire

Master's Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Master's Degree in Hertfordshire

Master's Degree
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 3 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
Stevenage +26 1 - - 17
Master's Degree
East of England

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 (92.31%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (92.31%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (92.31%) Big Data
1 12 (92.31%) Hadoop
1 12 (92.31%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 12 (92.31%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Data Science Developer
1 12 (92.31%) Developer
2 10 (76.92%) Senior
2 10 (76.92%) Senior Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (92.31%) Matplotlib
1 12 (92.31%) NumPy
1 12 (92.31%) Pandas
1 12 (92.31%) PyTorch
1 12 (92.31%) scikit-learn
1 12 (92.31%) Seaborn
1 12 (92.31%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (92.31%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Analytics
1 12 (92.31%) Artificial Intelligence
1 12 (92.31%) Computer Science
1 12 (92.31%) Data Analysis
1 12 (92.31%) Data Analytics
1 12 (92.31%) Data Munging
1 12 (92.31%) Data Science
1 12 (92.31%) Decision-Making
1 12 (92.31%) Feature Engineering
1 12 (92.31%) Generative AI
1 12 (92.31%) LLM
1 12 (92.31%) Machine Learning
1 12 (92.31%) Predictive Analytics
1 12 (92.31%) Reinforcement Learning
1 12 (92.31%) Statistical Modelling
1 12 (92.31%) Time Series Forecasting
1 12 (92.31%) Visualisation
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security
2 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (7.69%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) Python
1 12 (92.31%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) Degree
2 12 (92.31%) PhD
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (92.31%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.69%) OpenAI