Master's Degree Contract Job Trends in London

Master's Degree
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 17 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 222 204
Rank change year-on-year -52 -18 +72
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 139 132 199
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.77% 1.06% 1.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.73% 4.09% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 85 124
10th Percentile £333 £375 £350
25th Percentile £423 £499 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £577 £635 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.13% +15.45% -21.43%
75th Percentile £719 £778 £747
90th Percentile £788 £888 £850
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 11
10th Percentile £33.00 £35.04 £10.42
25th Percentile £35.95 £41.59 £34.88
Median hourly rate £41.75 £60.00 £68.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.41% -11.76% +70.00%
75th Percentile £47.39 £76.88 £83.75
90th Percentile £50.25 £82.50 -
England median hourly rate £33.50 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -48.46% +18.18% +22.22%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,088 3,228 4,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.22% 25.81% 23.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,640 2,173 2,822
10th Percentile £363 £356 £325
25th Percentile £445 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £526 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -2.23% -6.52%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £740 £763 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 57 108
10th Percentile £20.79 £16.78 £14.19
25th Percentile £25.89 £22.27 £19.98
Median hourly rate £54.75 £29.07 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.34% +16.28% -44.75%
75th Percentile £76.58 £56.25 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £72.61 £68.23
England median hourly rate £50.00 £39.66 £40.00
% change year-on-year +26.07% -0.85% -23.81%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Master's Degree job vacancy trend in London

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Master's Degree.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Master's Degree

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Master's Degree in London

Master's Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Master's Degree.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Master's Degree

Master's Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Master's Degree in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Master's Degree in London

Master's Degree
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Central London -17 19 £450 -37.93% 54
West London -14 9 £575 - 4
Master's Degree
England

Master's Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 10 (7.19%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.44%) Confluence
3 2 (1.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.44%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.72%) Apache
4 1 (0.72%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.72%) Camunda
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.72%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (5.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (4.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.16%) UserZoom
5 2 (1.44%) CPLEX
5 2 (1.44%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.72%) Camtasia
6 1 (0.72%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.16%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (2.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (1.44%) Oracle FAH
3 2 (1.44%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (1.44%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.72%) SAP FI-GL
4 1 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.72%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 36 (25.90%) Azure
2 32 (23.02%) AWS
3 17 (12.23%) SaaS
4 12 (8.63%) GitHub
5 9 (6.47%) GCP
5 9 (6.47%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (5.76%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (5.76%) Serverless
7 7 (5.04%) Amazon S3
7 7 (5.04%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (4.32%) Amazon SageMaker
8 6 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (4.32%) IaaS
9 5 (3.60%) Dagster
9 5 (3.60%) OCI
9 5 (3.60%) PaaS
9 5 (3.60%) Power Platform
10 4 (2.88%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (2.16%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.88%) 3GPP
2 2 (1.44%) HTTP
2 2 (1.44%) Intelligent Network
2 2 (1.44%) Wireless
3 1 (0.72%) BGP
3 1 (0.72%) Firewall
3 1 (0.72%) IPsec
3 1 (0.72%) LAN
3 1 (0.72%) Network Security
3 1 (0.72%) OSPF
3 1 (0.72%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.72%) VPN
3 1 (0.72%) WAN
3 1 (0.72%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.47%) Big Data
2 6 (4.32%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (3.60%) MongoDB
3 5 (3.60%) NoSQL
3 5 (3.60%) Power BI
4 3 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.16%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.44%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.44%) Metadata
5 2 (1.44%) Neo4j
5 2 (1.44%) Redis
5 2 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.44%) Tableau
6 1 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.72%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.72%) Ataccama
6 1 (0.72%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.72%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.72%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 23 (16.55%) Git
2 10 (7.19%) MLflow
3 8 (5.76%) JIRA
4 7 (5.04%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.44%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.44%) Vite
6 1 (0.72%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.72%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.72%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.72%) GitLab
6 1 (0.72%) Hudson
6 1 (0.72%) Maven
6 1 (0.72%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.72%) Subversion
6 1 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.72%) VersionOne
6 1 (0.72%) Zephyr
General
1 73 (52.52%) Social Skills
2 54 (38.85%) Finance
3 49 (35.25%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (23.02%) Banking
5 21 (15.11%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (6.47%) Investment Banking
7 7 (5.04%) Front Office
7 7 (5.04%) Marketing
8 5 (3.60%) Legal
8 5 (3.60%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.60%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.88%) Aviation
10 3 (2.16%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.16%) General Ledger
10 3 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.16%) Japanese Language
10 3 (2.16%) Retail
10 3 (2.16%) Social Science
11 2 (1.44%) French Language
11 2 (1.44%) German Language
Job Titles
1 24 (17.27%) Architect
2 20 (14.39%) Lead
3 15 (10.79%) Data Scientist
3 15 (10.79%) Senior
4 13 (9.35%) Solutions Architect
5 12 (8.63%) Developer
5 12 (8.63%) Integration Architect
6 9 (6.47%) Cloud Architect
7 8 (5.76%) Cloud Solutions Architect
7 8 (5.76%) Consultant
8 7 (5.04%) Analyst
9 6 (4.32%) Project Manager
10 5 (3.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 5 (3.60%) Senior Data Scientist
11 4 (2.88%) Data Engineer
11 4 (2.88%) Implementation Consultant
11 4 (2.88%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 4 (2.88%) Quantitative Developer
11 4 (2.88%) Senior Consultant
11 4 (2.88%) Senior Implementation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.79%) Middleware
2 13 (9.35%) NumPy
2 13 (9.35%) Pandas
3 11 (7.91%) PyTorch
4 9 (6.47%) scikit-learn
5 8 (5.76%) REST
5 8 (5.76%) RESTful
6 7 (5.04%) LangChain
6 7 (5.04%) TensorFlow
7 6 (4.32%) .NET
8 5 (3.60%) Hugging Face
8 5 (3.60%) Kafka
8 5 (3.60%) Model Context Protocol
8 5 (3.60%) Web Services
9 4 (2.88%) Node.js
9 4 (2.88%) PySpark
9 4 (2.88%) SciPy
9 4 (2.88%) Seaborn
10 3 (2.16%) Oracle Fusion
10 3 (2.16%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.35%) Management Information System
2 10 (7.19%) Algorithms
3 9 (6.47%) Derivative
4 8 (5.76%) Distributed Computing
5 7 (5.04%) AI Agents
5 7 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (4.32%) Cloud Native
6 6 (4.32%) Equities
6 6 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (3.60%) Life Science
8 4 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.88%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.88%) Equity Derivative
8 4 (2.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (2.88%) Hedge funds
8 4 (2.88%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.16%) Data Centre
9 3 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (2.16%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.88%) Windows
2 3 (2.16%) Linux
2 3 (2.16%) VMS
3 2 (1.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (53.96%) Computer Science
2 44 (31.65%) AI
3 42 (30.22%) Agile
4 35 (25.18%) Machine Learning
5 34 (24.46%) DevOps
5 34 (24.46%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (23.02%) Roadmaps
7 30 (21.58%) Decision-Making
8 28 (20.14%) Data Science
9 27 (19.42%) Analytics
10 26 (18.71%) CI/CD
11 25 (17.99%) Validation
12 24 (17.27%) Mathematics
13 23 (16.55%) Software Engineering
14 21 (15.11%) Microservices
14 21 (15.11%) Stakeholder Management
15 20 (14.39%) Generative AI
16 19 (13.67%) Technical Leadership
17 18 (12.95%) Data Engineering
17 18 (12.95%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (36.69%) Python
2 29 (20.86%) SQL
3 15 (10.79%) Java
4 8 (5.76%) C#
4 8 (5.76%) C++
5 4 (2.88%) Go
5 4 (2.88%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.44%) Bash
6 2 (1.44%) Scala
6 2 (1.44%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.72%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.72%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.72%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.72%) R
7 1 (0.72%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 139 (100.00%) Degree
2 57 (41.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (20.14%) PhD
4 18 (12.95%) MBA
5 9 (6.47%) CISSP
5 9 (6.47%) PMI Certification
6 7 (5.04%) PMP
7 6 (4.32%) CRISC
7 6 (4.32%) Security Cleared
8 5 (3.60%) AWS Certification
8 5 (3.60%) CISM
9 4 (2.88%) Azure Certification
10 3 (2.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (2.16%) CISA
10 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (1.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (1.44%) OSCP
11 2 (1.44%) SANS
11 2 (1.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.63%) QA
2 11 (7.91%) GDPR
3 9 (6.47%) NIST
4 6 (4.32%) IFRS
4 6 (4.32%) IFRS 17
4 6 (4.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (4.32%) SLA
5 5 (3.60%) Data Quality
5 5 (3.60%) PCI DSS
5 5 (3.60%) PMO
6 3 (2.16%) Accessibility
6 3 (2.16%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.44%) Basel III
7 2 (1.44%) COBIT
7 2 (1.44%) GAAP
7 2 (1.44%) GRC
7 2 (1.44%) IFRS 9
7 2 (1.44%) ISO 31000
7 2 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.72%) MiFID
System Software
1 22 (15.83%) Docker
2 1 (0.72%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 15 (10.79%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.76%) Terraform
3 2 (1.44%) Control-M
4 1 (0.72%) CASB
4 1 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (17.99%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.35%) Databricks
3 11 (7.91%) Software AG
4 8 (5.76%) Oracle
5 7 (5.04%) Google
5 7 (5.04%) SAP
6 6 (4.32%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.16%) Adobe
8 2 (1.44%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.44%) Informatica
8 2 (1.44%) Rapid7
8 2 (1.44%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.44%) Workday
9 1 (0.72%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.72%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.72%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.72%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.72%) Remedy
9 1 (0.72%) Reuters
9 1 (0.72%) SolarWinds