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 7 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 216 199 211
Rank change year-on-year -17 +12 +69
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 169 187 207
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.18% 1.20% 1.06%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.22% 4.69% 4.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 114 140
10th Percentile £383 £394 £361
25th Percentile £420 £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £675
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -18.52% -3.57%
75th Percentile £675 £729 £800
90th Percentile £863 £855 £1,000
England median daily rate £525 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -4.55% -12.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile - - £52.75
25th Percentile - - £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £61.25
75th Percentile - - £65.63
90th Percentile - - £66.75
England median hourly rate £33.50 £27.67 £55.00
% change year-on-year +21.07% -49.69% +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 4,003 3,988 4,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.00% 25.56% 23.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,799 2,531 3,069
10th Percentile £353 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £665
90th Percentile £745 £763 £775
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 53 95
10th Percentile £19.33 £20.25 £19.35
25th Percentile - £27.00 £23.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.51% -25.71% +11.70%
75th Percentile £43.31 £60.75 £65.43
90th Percentile £72.91 £83.20 £85.05
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -49.70% -4.76% +16.67%

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 7 December 2025.

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
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 7 December 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
Central London +1 24 £550 +3.77% 21
East London +6 3 £1,000 +111.86% 3
West London -10 3 £350 +68.27% 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 14 (8.28%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.18%) Ethereum
2 2 (1.18%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.59%) CMS
3 1 (0.59%) Confluence
3 1 (0.59%) Drupal
3 1 (0.59%) MQSeries
3 1 (0.59%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.59%) SAP Portal
3 1 (0.59%) SAS
3 1 (0.59%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.59%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.59%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (4.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.59%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.59%) Camtasia
3 1 (0.59%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.59%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.59%) Navisworks
3 1 (0.59%) ProjectWise
3 1 (0.59%) Revit
3 1 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.37%) Endur
1 4 (2.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.78%) SAP IBP
3 2 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.59%) SAP FI-CA
4 1 (0.59%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.59%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 49 (28.99%) Azure
2 35 (20.71%) AWS
3 19 (11.24%) GCP
4 11 (6.51%) GitHub
4 11 (6.51%) Power Platform
5 10 (5.92%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (5.33%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (5.33%) SaaS
7 7 (4.14%) Azure Machine Learning
8 6 (3.55%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (3.55%) Miro
8 6 (3.55%) Serverless
9 5 (2.96%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (2.96%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.96%) Sentry
10 4 (2.37%) Amazon SageMaker
10 4 (2.37%) Azure AI
10 4 (2.37%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.37%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.96%) CTI
1 5 (2.96%) HTTP
1 5 (2.96%) VoIP
2 4 (2.37%) Network Security
3 2 (1.18%) S/MIME
3 2 (1.18%) SSL
4 1 (0.59%) Firewall
4 1 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.51%) Power BI
2 9 (5.33%) Tableau
3 8 (4.73%) Big Data
4 7 (4.14%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.55%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.96%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.37%) Metadata
7 4 (2.37%) Pinecone
8 3 (1.78%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.18%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.18%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.18%) Weaviate
10 1 (0.59%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 1 (0.59%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.59%) Flink
10 1 (0.59%) KDB
10 1 (0.59%) Kdb+
10 1 (0.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (7.10%) Git
2 6 (3.55%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.96%) Appium
3 5 (2.96%) Charles Proxy
3 5 (2.96%) Katalon Studio
3 5 (2.96%) Postman
3 5 (2.96%) XCUITest
4 4 (2.37%) IntelliJ
4 4 (2.37%) TeamCity
5 3 (1.78%) JIRA
5 3 (1.78%) MLflow
6 2 (1.18%) ERwin
6 2 (1.18%) Hardhat
6 2 (1.18%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (1.18%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.59%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.59%) GitLab
7 1 (0.59%) JMeter
7 1 (0.59%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.59%) NeoLoad
General
1 84 (49.70%) Finance
2 71 (42.01%) Social Skills
3 44 (26.04%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (19.53%) Banking
5 23 (13.61%) Front Office
6 16 (9.47%) Investment Banking
7 12 (7.10%) Financial Institution
8 9 (5.33%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (4.73%) Telecoms
10 7 (4.14%) Marketing
11 6 (3.55%) Legal
11 6 (3.55%) Manufacturing
11 6 (3.55%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (2.96%) Retail
13 4 (2.37%) Back Office
13 4 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (2.37%) Public Sector
14 2 (1.18%) Automotive
14 2 (1.18%) Law
Job Titles
1 30 (17.75%) Developer
2 22 (13.02%) Analyst
3 19 (11.24%) Lead
4 18 (10.65%) Senior
5 16 (9.47%) Architect
6 13 (7.69%) Business Analyst
7 10 (5.92%) Consultant
7 10 (5.92%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 9 (5.33%) Data Scientist
8 9 (5.33%) Quantitative Developer
9 8 (4.73%) Project Manager
10 5 (2.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 5 (2.96%) Azure Architect
10 5 (2.96%) Genesys Developer
10 5 (2.96%) Senior Developer
10 5 (2.96%) Senior Manager
11 4 (2.37%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
11 4 (2.37%) Data Engineer
11 4 (2.37%) Qualitative Analyst
11 4 (2.37%) Telecoms Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.69%) PyTorch
1 13 (7.69%) TensorFlow
2 12 (7.10%) .NET
3 10 (5.92%) NumPy
4 9 (5.33%) Kafka
4 9 (5.33%) LangChain
5 8 (4.73%) Pandas
5 8 (4.73%) Web Services
6 7 (4.14%) Middleware
6 7 (4.14%) REST
6 7 (4.14%) RESTful
7 6 (3.55%) Hugging Face
8 5 (2.96%) Dask
8 5 (2.96%) PySpark
9 4 (2.37%) Faiss
9 4 (2.37%) LangGraph
9 4 (2.37%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (2.37%) scikit-learn
9 4 (2.37%) SOAP
10 3 (1.78%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (15.98%) Derivative
2 17 (10.06%) Product Ownership
3 14 (8.28%) Cloud Native
3 14 (8.28%) Distributed Computing
4 13 (7.69%) Algorithms
4 13 (7.69%) Equities
5 12 (7.10%) Equity Derivative
6 10 (5.92%) Fixed Income
6 10 (5.92%) Hedge funds
7 9 (5.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 9 (5.33%) Management Information System
8 8 (4.73%) Mobile App
8 8 (4.73%) PMI
9 6 (3.55%) AI Agents
9 6 (3.55%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (3.55%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (3.55%) Virtual Team
10 5 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (2.96%) IVR
11 4 (2.37%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.96%) Android
1 5 (2.96%) Apple iOS
2 4 (2.37%) Windows
3 3 (1.78%) Linux
4 2 (1.18%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.59%) Unix
5 1 (0.59%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (64.50%) Computer Science
2 53 (31.36%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (29.59%) Agile
4 45 (26.63%) AI
5 41 (24.26%) Analytics
5 41 (24.26%) Machine Learning
6 39 (23.08%) Mathematics
6 39 (23.08%) Risk Management
7 36 (21.30%) Stakeholder Management
8 33 (19.53%) DevOps
9 30 (17.75%) Roadmaps
10 27 (15.98%) LLM
11 26 (15.38%) Data Science
11 26 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 24 (14.20%) Decision-Making
13 23 (13.61%) CI/CD
13 23 (13.61%) Generative AI
14 22 (13.02%) Validation
15 21 (12.43%) Data Engineering
15 21 (12.43%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 69 (40.83%) Python
2 32 (18.93%) SQL
3 19 (11.24%) C++
4 12 (7.10%) C#
4 12 (7.10%) Java
5 7 (4.14%) Bash
5 7 (4.14%) JavaScript
5 7 (4.14%) PowerShell
6 5 (2.96%) Kotlin
6 5 (2.96%) R
6 5 (2.96%) Swift
7 4 (2.37%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.78%) Bicep
8 3 (1.78%) VBA
9 2 (1.18%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.18%) PHP
9 2 (1.18%) Solidity
10 1 (0.59%) F#
10 1 (0.59%) Go
10 1 (0.59%) Scala
Qualifications
1 169 (100.00%) Degree
2 54 (31.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 36 (21.30%) PhD
4 16 (9.47%) MBA
5 15 (8.88%) PMI Certification
6 10 (5.92%) PMP
7 5 (2.96%) CISSP
8 4 (2.37%) CBAP
9 3 (1.78%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.78%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.78%) MCP
9 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.78%) Security Cleared
9 3 (1.78%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.18%) CCSP
10 2 (1.18%) CFA
10 2 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.18%) CISM
10 2 (1.18%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (11.24%) QA
2 16 (9.47%) GDPR
3 10 (5.92%) Data Quality
4 8 (4.73%) GRC
5 6 (3.55%) Accessibility
6 5 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (2.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (2.37%) HIPAA
7 4 (2.37%) IFRS
7 4 (2.37%) IFRS 17
7 4 (2.37%) NIST
7 4 (2.37%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.78%) GMP
8 3 (1.78%) IFRS 9
9 2 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (1.18%) SLA
10 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.59%) GxP
10 1 (0.59%) ISO 19650
10 1 (0.59%) NIST 800
System Software
1 20 (11.83%) Docker
2 2 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (10.65%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.10%) Terraform
3 2 (1.18%) Ansible
3 2 (1.18%) Grafana
3 2 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.59%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.59%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (9.47%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.88%) Databricks
3 14 (8.28%) SAP
4 10 (5.92%) Oracle
5 7 (4.14%) Splunk
6 5 (2.96%) Genesys
6 5 (2.96%) Google
7 3 (1.78%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.78%) Informatica
7 3 (1.78%) OpenLink
7 3 (1.78%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.78%) Software AG
8 2 (1.18%) Adobe
8 2 (1.18%) Hitachi
8 2 (1.18%) ION Trading
8 2 (1.18%) Murex
8 2 (1.18%) Workday
9 1 (0.59%) Calypso
9 1 (0.59%) HP
9 1 (0.59%) Sophis