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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 220 212 217
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 +66
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 163 179 198
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.14% 1.17% 1.04%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.03% 4.57% 4.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 112 132
10th Percentile £383 £392 £351
25th Percentile £425 £478 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £575 £675
Median % change year-on-year -3.83% -14.81% -3.57%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £794
90th Percentile £919 £838 £1,000
England median daily rate £525 £570 £625
% change year-on-year -7.89% -8.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile - - £52.75
25th Percentile - £30.67 £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £31.35 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +107.37% -48.82% +33.88%
75th Percentile - £32.02 £65.63
90th Percentile - - £66.75
England median hourly rate £33.50 £27.67 £57.50
% change year-on-year +21.07% -51.88% +27.78%

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 4,041 3,913 4,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.33% 25.62% 23.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,817 2,474 3,025
10th Percentile £357 £350 £350
25th Percentile £426 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £668
90th Percentile £750 £768 £775
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.99% -3.59% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 57 89
10th Percentile £19.49 £20.75 £19.20
25th Percentile - £27.00 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -28.57% +11.70%
75th Percentile £54.06 £60.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £83.20 £86.30
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 14 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 14 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 -5 21 £600 +13.21% 17
West London -11 4 £350 +68.27% 5
East London - 3 £1,000 - 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 17 (10.43%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.23%) Ethereum
2 2 (1.23%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.61%) CMS
3 1 (0.61%) Confluence
3 1 (0.61%) Drupal
3 1 (0.61%) MQSeries
3 1 (0.61%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.61%) SAP Portal
3 1 (0.61%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.61%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.61%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.61%) Camtasia
3 1 (0.61%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.61%) Navisworks
3 1 (0.61%) ProjectWise
3 1 (0.61%) Revit
3 1 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.45%) Endur
1 4 (2.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.84%) SAP IBP
3 2 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.61%) SAP FI-CA
4 1 (0.61%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.61%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 53 (32.52%) Azure
2 34 (20.86%) AWS
3 18 (11.04%) GCP
4 12 (7.36%) GitHub
5 11 (6.75%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (6.75%) Power Platform
6 10 (6.13%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (6.13%) SaaS
7 7 (4.29%) Azure Machine Learning
8 6 (3.68%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (3.68%) Miro
8 6 (3.68%) Serverless
9 5 (3.07%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (3.07%) Amazon S3
9 5 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.07%) Azure AI
9 5 (3.07%) Sentry
10 4 (2.45%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.45%) Vertex AI
11 3 (1.84%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.07%) CTI
1 5 (3.07%) HTTP
1 5 (3.07%) VoIP
2 4 (2.45%) Network Security
3 2 (1.23%) S/MIME
3 2 (1.23%) SSL
4 1 (0.61%) Firewall
4 1 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.75%) Power BI
2 10 (6.13%) Big Data
3 8 (4.91%) Tableau
4 7 (4.29%) NoSQL
4 7 (4.29%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.68%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.45%) Metadata
7 4 (2.45%) Pinecone
8 3 (1.84%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.23%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.23%) Weaviate
10 1 (0.61%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.61%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.61%) Essbase
10 1 (0.61%) Flink
10 1 (0.61%) Kdb+
10 1 (0.61%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (7.98%) Git
2 6 (3.68%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.07%) Appium
3 5 (3.07%) Charles Proxy
3 5 (3.07%) Katalon Studio
3 5 (3.07%) Postman
3 5 (3.07%) TeamCity
3 5 (3.07%) XCUITest
4 4 (2.45%) IntelliJ
5 2 (1.23%) ERwin
5 2 (1.23%) GitLab
5 2 (1.23%) Hardhat
5 2 (1.23%) JIRA
5 2 (1.23%) MLflow
5 2 (1.23%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (1.23%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.61%) Gatling
6 1 (0.61%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.61%) SonarQube
General
1 77 (47.24%) Finance
2 75 (46.01%) Social Skills
3 41 (25.15%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (20.86%) Banking
5 22 (13.50%) Front Office
6 19 (11.66%) Investment Banking
7 12 (7.36%) Financial Institution
8 9 (5.52%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (4.91%) Telecoms
10 7 (4.29%) Marketing
11 6 (3.68%) Manufacturing
11 6 (3.68%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (3.07%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (3.07%) Legal
12 5 (3.07%) Retail
13 4 (2.45%) Back Office
14 3 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.84%) Public Sector
15 2 (1.23%) Automotive
15 2 (1.23%) Law
Job Titles
1 28 (17.18%) Developer
2 20 (12.27%) Lead
3 18 (11.04%) Senior
4 17 (10.43%) Analyst
4 17 (10.43%) Architect
5 13 (7.98%) Business Analyst
6 11 (6.75%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 10 (6.13%) Consultant
8 9 (5.52%) Data Scientist
9 8 (4.91%) Project Manager
9 8 (4.91%) Quantitative Developer
10 5 (3.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 5 (3.07%) Azure Architect
10 5 (3.07%) C# Developer
10 5 (3.07%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
10 5 (3.07%) Cloud Architect
10 5 (3.07%) Genesys Developer
10 5 (3.07%) Senior Developer
10 5 (3.07%) Senior Manager
10 5 (3.07%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.20%) PyTorch
2 14 (8.59%) TensorFlow
3 12 (7.36%) .NET
4 10 (6.13%) LangChain
4 10 (6.13%) NumPy
5 9 (5.52%) Kafka
6 8 (4.91%) Middleware
6 8 (4.91%) Pandas
6 8 (4.91%) RESTful
7 7 (4.29%) Hugging Face
7 7 (4.29%) Web Services
8 6 (3.68%) Dask
8 6 (3.68%) REST
9 5 (3.07%) LangGraph
9 5 (3.07%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (3.07%) scikit-learn
10 4 (2.45%) Faiss
10 4 (2.45%) PySpark
10 4 (2.45%) SOAP
11 3 (1.84%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.27%) Derivative
2 15 (9.20%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.20%) Product Ownership
3 14 (8.59%) Distributed Computing
3 14 (8.59%) Equities
4 12 (7.36%) Algorithms
4 12 (7.36%) Hedge funds
5 11 (6.75%) Fixed Income
6 10 (6.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 9 (5.52%) Management Information System
8 8 (4.91%) PMI
9 7 (4.29%) AI Agents
9 7 (4.29%) Mobile App
10 6 (3.68%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (3.68%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (3.68%) Virtual Team
11 5 (3.07%) Data Fabric
11 5 (3.07%) Equity Derivative
11 5 (3.07%) IVR
12 4 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.07%) Android
1 5 (3.07%) Apple iOS
2 4 (2.45%) Windows
3 3 (1.84%) Linux
4 2 (1.23%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.61%) Unix
5 1 (0.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (67.48%) Computer Science
2 53 (32.52%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (30.67%) Agile
4 47 (28.83%) AI
5 42 (25.77%) Machine Learning
6 40 (24.54%) Analytics
7 38 (23.31%) Risk Management
8 35 (21.47%) Stakeholder Management
9 34 (20.86%) DevOps
10 33 (20.25%) Mathematics
11 31 (19.02%) Roadmaps
12 28 (17.18%) LLM
13 27 (16.56%) Data Science
13 27 (16.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 26 (15.95%) Decision-Making
14 26 (15.95%) Generative AI
15 24 (14.72%) CI/CD
16 22 (13.50%) Software Engineering
17 21 (12.88%) Data Engineering
17 21 (12.88%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 60 (36.81%) Python
2 33 (20.25%) SQL
3 17 (10.43%) C++
4 14 (8.59%) C#
4 14 (8.59%) Java
5 7 (4.29%) Bash
5 7 (4.29%) JavaScript
5 7 (4.29%) PowerShell
6 5 (3.07%) Kotlin
6 5 (3.07%) Swift
6 5 (3.07%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.45%) R
8 3 (1.84%) Bicep
8 3 (1.84%) VBA
9 2 (1.23%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.23%) Solidity
10 1 (0.61%) F#
10 1 (0.61%) Go
10 1 (0.61%) Scala
10 1 (0.61%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 163 (100.00%) Degree
2 58 (35.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 31 (19.02%) PhD
4 16 (9.82%) MBA
5 14 (8.59%) PMI Certification
6 9 (5.52%) PMP
7 5 (3.07%) CISSP
8 4 (2.45%) CBAP
8 4 (2.45%) MCP
9 3 (1.84%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.84%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.84%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (1.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.23%) CCSP
10 2 (1.23%) CFA
10 2 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.23%) CISM
10 2 (1.23%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (11.66%) QA
2 16 (9.82%) GDPR
3 9 (5.52%) Data Quality
4 7 (4.29%) GRC
5 6 (3.68%) Accessibility
6 5 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (2.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (2.45%) HIPAA
7 4 (2.45%) IFRS
7 4 (2.45%) IFRS 17
7 4 (2.45%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.84%) GMP
8 3 (1.84%) IFRS 9
8 3 (1.84%) NIST
9 2 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (1.23%) SLA
10 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.61%) GxP
10 1 (0.61%) ISO 19650
10 1 (0.61%) NIST 800
System Software
1 20 (12.27%) Docker
2 2 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (11.66%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.98%) Terraform
3 2 (1.23%) Grafana
3 2 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.61%) Ansible
4 1 (0.61%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.61%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (11.66%) Databricks
1 19 (11.66%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.59%) SAP
3 10 (6.13%) Oracle
4 7 (4.29%) Splunk
5 6 (3.68%) Google
6 5 (3.07%) Genesys
7 4 (2.45%) Software AG
8 3 (1.84%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.84%) Informatica
8 3 (1.84%) OpenLink
8 3 (1.84%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.23%) Adobe
9 2 (1.23%) Hitachi
9 2 (1.23%) ION Trading
9 2 (1.23%) Workday
10 1 (0.61%) Hotjar
10 1 (0.61%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.61%) Sophis
10 1 (0.61%) UiPath