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 28 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 209 210
Rank change year-on-year -88 +1 +70
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 126 144 207
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.66% 1.12% 1.18%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.37% 4.33% 4.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 89 132
10th Percentile £310 £373 £350
25th Percentile £450 £491 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% +6.82% -26.17%
75th Percentile £713 £763 £757
90th Percentile £777 £863 £850
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 9
10th Percentile £33.00 £57.75 £35.08
25th Percentile £35.95 £65.63 £46.25
Median hourly rate £41.75 £82.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.39% +10.00% +87.50%
75th Percentile £47.39 £86.25 £83.75
90th Percentile £50.25 - -
England median hourly rate £32.78 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -49.57% +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 5,318 3,327 4,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.73% 25.97% 23.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,842 2,235 2,842
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £436 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.25%
75th Percentile £638 £661 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 73 109
10th Percentile £19.12 £18.15 £15.19
25th Percentile £28.00 £24.66 £20.50
Median hourly rate £54.00 £26.32 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +105.17% +3.22% -52.78%
75th Percentile £75.87 £52.16 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.11 £68.15
England median hourly rate £53.00 £29.27 £42.50
% change year-on-year +81.07% -31.13% -22.73%

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 28 June 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 28 June 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 28 June 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 -26 9 £715 +1.56% 16
West London -11 8 £575 - 2
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 5 (3.97%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.17%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.38%) Confluence
4 2 (1.59%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.79%) Apache
5 1 (0.79%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.79%) Camunda
5 1 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.79%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.79%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.79%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.17%) UserZoom
4 2 (1.59%) CPLEX
4 2 (1.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.59%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (1.59%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (1.59%) Oracle Receivables
1 2 (1.59%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.79%) SAP FI-GL
2 1 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.79%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 31 (24.60%) AWS
2 25 (19.84%) Azure
3 13 (10.32%) GCP
4 11 (8.73%) GitHub
5 10 (7.94%) SaaS
6 9 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (5.56%) Amazon SageMaker
8 6 (4.76%) Power Platform
8 6 (4.76%) Serverless
9 5 (3.97%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.97%) Dagster
10 4 (3.17%) Amazon S3
10 4 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (3.17%) Miro
10 4 (3.17%) OCI
10 4 (3.17%) PaaS
11 3 (2.38%) IaaS
11 3 (2.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.38%) 3GPP
1 3 (2.38%) Firewall
1 3 (2.38%) Network Security
2 1 (0.79%) BGP
2 1 (0.79%) HTTP
2 1 (0.79%) Intelligent Network
2 1 (0.79%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.79%) IPsec
2 1 (0.79%) LAN
2 1 (0.79%) OSPF
2 1 (0.79%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.79%) VoIP
2 1 (0.79%) VPN
2 1 (0.79%) WAN
2 1 (0.79%) Wireless
2 1 (0.79%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.35%) MongoDB
2 7 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.76%) Neo4j
3 6 (4.76%) Power BI
4 5 (3.97%) Big Data
4 5 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (3.97%) Metadata
4 5 (3.97%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.38%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.38%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.38%) Tableau
6 2 (1.59%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.59%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.59%) Redis
6 2 (1.59%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.79%) KDB
7 1 (0.79%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (14.29%) Git
2 11 (8.73%) MLflow
3 8 (6.35%) JIRA
4 3 (2.38%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.59%) Vite
6 1 (0.79%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.79%) Hudson
6 1 (0.79%) Maven
6 1 (0.79%) Mocha
6 1 (0.79%) Subversion
6 1 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.79%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.79%) VersionOne
6 1 (0.79%) Zephyr
General
1 55 (43.65%) Social Skills
2 48 (38.10%) Finance
3 37 (29.37%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (16.67%) Banking
5 10 (7.94%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (6.35%) Marketing
6 8 (6.35%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.97%) Front Office
7 5 (3.97%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.17%) Publishing
8 4 (3.17%) Social Science
8 4 (3.17%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.38%) Aviation
9 3 (2.38%) Retail
10 2 (1.59%) French Language
10 2 (1.59%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.59%) German Language
10 2 (1.59%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.59%) Legal
10 2 (1.59%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 21 (16.67%) Architect
2 19 (15.08%) Senior
3 17 (13.49%) Lead
4 16 (12.70%) Developer
5 11 (8.73%) Data Scientist
6 9 (7.14%) Analyst
6 9 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (6.35%) Consultant
8 7 (5.56%) Integration Architect
9 5 (3.97%) C# Developer
10 4 (3.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 4 (3.17%) Business Analyst
10 4 (3.17%) Cloud Architect
10 4 (3.17%) Enterprise Architect
10 4 (3.17%) Front Office Developer
10 4 (3.17%) Implementation Consultant
10 4 (3.17%) Junior
10 4 (3.17%) Senior Consultant
10 4 (3.17%) Senior Implementation Consultant
10 4 (3.17%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.94%) NumPy
1 10 (7.94%) Pandas
2 9 (7.14%) .NET
2 9 (7.14%) Middleware
3 8 (6.35%) PySpark
3 8 (6.35%) REST
3 8 (6.35%) RESTful
3 8 (6.35%) scikit-learn
4 5 (3.97%) Kafka
4 5 (3.97%) PyTorch
4 5 (3.97%) React
4 5 (3.97%) Web Services
5 4 (3.17%) Seaborn
6 3 (2.38%) LangChain
6 3 (2.38%) Node.js
6 3 (2.38%) React Native
7 2 (1.59%) GraphQL
7 2 (1.59%) OAuth
7 2 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.59%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.52%) Management Information System
2 11 (8.73%) Algorithms
3 8 (6.35%) Derivative
3 8 (6.35%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (3.97%) Equities
5 5 (3.97%) Hedge funds
5 5 (3.97%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.97%) Life Science
6 4 (3.17%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.17%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (3.17%) Fixed Income
6 4 (3.17%) Graphic Design
6 4 (3.17%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.17%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.38%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.38%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.38%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.38%) Linux
2 2 (1.59%) VMS
3 1 (0.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (49.21%) Computer Science
2 43 (34.13%) Agile
3 37 (29.37%) AI
4 32 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (21.43%) Roadmaps
6 26 (20.63%) CI/CD
7 25 (19.84%) Analytics
7 25 (19.84%) Machine Learning
8 24 (19.05%) Data Science
8 24 (19.05%) Decision-Making
9 22 (17.46%) DevOps
10 20 (15.87%) Mathematics
11 19 (15.08%) Data Engineering
12 18 (14.29%) Software Engineering
13 17 (13.49%) Stakeholder Management
13 17 (13.49%) Use Case
14 16 (12.70%) Microservices
15 15 (11.90%) Technical Leadership
16 14 (11.11%) Data Governance
16 14 (11.11%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (33.33%) Python
2 31 (24.60%) SQL
3 13 (10.32%) Java
4 6 (4.76%) C#
4 6 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.17%) C++
6 3 (2.38%) Go
7 2 (1.59%) Bash
7 2 (1.59%) Bicep
7 2 (1.59%) Cypher
7 2 (1.59%) Scala
7 2 (1.59%) SPARQL
7 2 (1.59%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.79%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.79%) C
8 1 (0.79%) Gremlin
8 1 (0.79%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.79%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.79%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 126 (100.00%) Degree
2 47 (37.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (19.05%) PhD
4 19 (15.08%) MBA
5 9 (7.14%) CISSP
5 9 (7.14%) Security Cleared
6 7 (5.56%) SC Cleared
7 5 (3.97%) Azure Certification
7 5 (3.97%) CISM
7 5 (3.97%) PMI Certification
8 4 (3.17%) AWS Certification
8 4 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (3.17%) CISA
8 4 (3.17%) CRISC
9 3 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (2.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 3 (2.38%) PMP
10 2 (1.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.59%) CCSP
10 2 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.14%) GDPR
2 8 (6.35%) NIST
2 8 (6.35%) QA
3 7 (5.56%) Data Quality
4 6 (4.76%) PCI DSS
4 6 (4.76%) SLA
5 5 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (3.97%) PMO
6 4 (3.17%) Accessibility
6 4 (3.17%) IFRS
6 4 (3.17%) IFRS 17
7 3 (2.38%) SOC 2
8 2 (1.59%) COBIT
8 2 (1.59%) GRC
8 2 (1.59%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.79%) Basel III
9 1 (0.79%) EMIR
9 1 (0.79%) GAAP
9 1 (0.79%) MiFID
9 1 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (15.87%) Docker
2 1 (0.79%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.79%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 12 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.14%) Terraform
3 1 (0.79%) CASB
3 1 (0.79%) Control-M
3 1 (0.79%) Grafana
3 1 (0.79%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (19.84%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.73%) Oracle
3 8 (6.35%) Google
4 7 (5.56%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.76%) Software AG
6 4 (3.17%) Databricks
6 4 (3.17%) SAP
6 4 (3.17%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.59%) Adobe
7 2 (1.59%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.59%) Guidewire
7 2 (1.59%) Rapid7
8 1 (0.79%) Apple
8 1 (0.79%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.79%) BMC
8 1 (0.79%) Cisco
8 1 (0.79%) Dell
8 1 (0.79%) Informatica
8 1 (0.79%) Remedy
8 1 (0.79%) Reuters