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 10 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 225 211
Rank change year-on-year -4 -14 +63
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 177 141 203
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.10% 1.09% 1.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.72% 4.28% 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 90 134
10th Percentile £364 £374 £375
25th Percentile £422 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £600 £638
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -5.88% -8.55%
75th Percentile £700 £800 £775
90th Percentile £907 £1,000 £850
England median daily rate £522 £575 £614
% change year-on-year -9.21% -6.28% +2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 9
10th Percentile - £32.86 £10.42
25th Percentile £50.72 £36.13 £28.51
Median hourly rate £51.44 £45.67 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.63% -39.10% +54.64%
75th Percentile £52.16 £58.63 £83.75
90th Percentile - £63.95 -
England median hourly rate £33.50 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -44.17% +9.09% +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 4,759 3,291 4,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.54% 25.38% 24.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,393 2,169 2,942
10th Percentile £359 £350 £325
25th Percentile £430 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 64 129
10th Percentile £20.44 £21.50 £14.27
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £37.00 £36.75 £34.23
Median % change year-on-year +0.68% +7.36% -15.48%
75th Percentile £72.81 £56.88 £61.25
90th Percentile £76.68 £78.40 £83.75
England median hourly rate £27.50 £53.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -48.11% +32.50% -20.00%

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 10 March 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
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 10 March 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 -13 22 £525 -22.45% 21
West London -12 8 £500 - 14
East London +1 1 £1,000 +250.88% 12
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 16 (9.04%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.69%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.13%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.13%) Hyperledger
3 2 (1.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.56%) Apache
4 1 (0.56%) Camunda
4 1 (0.56%) CMS
4 1 (0.56%) Confluence
4 1 (0.56%) Drupal
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.56%) Camtasia
4 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.56%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (1.69%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.13%) Oracle FAH
2 2 (1.13%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (1.13%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.56%) Endur
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.56%) SAP FI-GL
3 1 (0.56%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.56%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 50 (28.25%) Azure
2 32 (18.08%) AWS
3 22 (12.43%) SaaS
4 14 (7.91%) GCP
4 14 (7.91%) GitHub
5 10 (5.65%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (4.52%) OCI
7 8 (4.52%) Power Platform
7 8 (4.52%) Serverless
8 7 (3.95%) Amazon S3
8 7 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.39%) IaaS
10 5 (2.82%) Amazon SageMaker
10 5 (2.82%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (2.82%) PaaS
11 4 (2.26%) Azure AI
11 4 (2.26%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.82%) CTI
1 5 (2.82%) VoIP
2 4 (2.26%) HTTP
3 3 (1.69%) Network Security
4 2 (1.13%) 3GPP
4 2 (1.13%) Intelligent Network
4 2 (1.13%) S/MIME
4 2 (1.13%) SSL
4 2 (1.13%) Wireless
5 1 (0.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.65%) Big Data
2 8 (4.52%) Power BI
3 6 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.82%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.26%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.26%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.69%) Pinecone
6 3 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.69%) Tableau
7 2 (1.13%) Redis
7 2 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.13%) Weaviate
8 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.56%) Essbase
8 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.56%) KDB
8 1 (0.56%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 22 (12.43%) Git
2 8 (4.52%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.39%) JIRA
3 6 (3.39%) MLflow
4 2 (1.13%) Appium
4 2 (1.13%) Charles Proxy
4 2 (1.13%) Hardhat
4 2 (1.13%) Katalon Studio
4 2 (1.13%) Postman
4 2 (1.13%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.13%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.13%) Vite
4 2 (1.13%) XCUITest
5 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.56%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.56%) GitLab
5 1 (0.56%) Hudson
5 1 (0.56%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
General
1 89 (50.28%) Social Skills
2 76 (42.94%) Finance
3 60 (33.90%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (22.60%) Banking
5 23 (12.99%) Presentation Skills
6 16 (9.04%) Front Office
7 13 (7.34%) Investment Banking
8 10 (5.65%) Financial Institution
9 8 (4.52%) Legal
10 7 (3.95%) Marketing
11 4 (2.26%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.26%) Public Sector
11 4 (2.26%) Retail
11 4 (2.26%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.69%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.13%) Aviation
13 2 (1.13%) Japanese Language
13 2 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (16.95%) Lead
2 24 (13.56%) Developer
3 22 (12.43%) Architect
4 15 (8.47%) Senior
5 13 (7.34%) Consultant
5 13 (7.34%) Integration Architect
6 12 (6.78%) Analyst
6 12 (6.78%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (5.65%) Data Scientist
7 10 (5.65%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 9 (5.08%) Cloud Architect
8 9 (5.08%) Cloud Solutions Architect
8 9 (5.08%) Project Manager
9 8 (4.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 8 (4.52%) Quantitative Developer
10 7 (3.95%) Business Analyst
11 6 (3.39%) Test Manager
12 5 (2.82%) Genesys Developer
12 5 (2.82%) Lead Data Scientist
12 5 (2.82%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.04%) Middleware
2 14 (7.91%) PyTorch
3 11 (6.21%) NumPy
3 11 (6.21%) TensorFlow
4 10 (5.65%) .NET
4 10 (5.65%) LangChain
4 10 (5.65%) Pandas
5 7 (3.95%) RESTful
6 6 (3.39%) Dask
6 6 (3.39%) Kafka
6 6 (3.39%) Model Context Protocol
6 6 (3.39%) scikit-learn
7 5 (2.82%) Hugging Face
7 5 (2.82%) LangGraph
7 5 (2.82%) PySpark
7 5 (2.82%) Web Services
8 4 (2.26%) Node.js
8 4 (2.26%) REST
8 4 (2.26%) SciPy
8 4 (2.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.17%) Derivative
2 16 (9.04%) Cloud Native
2 16 (9.04%) Distributed Computing
3 14 (7.91%) Management Information System
4 13 (7.34%) Equities
5 12 (6.78%) Algorithms
6 10 (5.65%) Fixed Income
6 10 (5.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (4.52%) AI Agents
7 8 (4.52%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (4.52%) Hedge funds
8 6 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (3.39%) Equity Derivative
8 6 (3.39%) Life Science
8 6 (3.39%) Product Ownership
8 6 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.82%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.82%) IVR
9 5 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.82%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.82%) Windows
2 3 (1.69%) Linux
2 3 (1.69%) VMS
3 2 (1.13%) Android
3 2 (1.13%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.13%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (62.71%) Computer Science
2 57 (32.20%) AI
3 56 (31.64%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (28.81%) Agile
5 47 (26.55%) Machine Learning
6 41 (23.16%) DevOps
7 39 (22.03%) Roadmaps
8 38 (21.47%) Stakeholder Management
9 36 (20.34%) Decision-Making
10 33 (18.64%) Analytics
11 32 (18.08%) Mathematics
11 32 (18.08%) Risk Management
12 31 (17.51%) CI/CD
13 30 (16.95%) Data Science
14 29 (16.38%) LLM
15 28 (15.82%) Software Engineering
16 27 (15.25%) Generative AI
16 27 (15.25%) Validation
17 25 (14.12%) Data Engineering
17 25 (14.12%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 67 (37.85%) Python
2 31 (17.51%) SQL
3 19 (10.73%) Java
4 13 (7.34%) C++
5 7 (3.95%) C#
5 7 (3.95%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.39%) Bash
6 6 (3.39%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.82%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.26%) Go
9 3 (1.69%) Bicep
10 2 (1.13%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.13%) R
10 2 (1.13%) Scala
10 2 (1.13%) Solidity
10 2 (1.13%) Swift
10 2 (1.13%) VBA
11 1 (0.56%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.56%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 177 (100.00%) Degree
2 69 (38.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 37 (20.90%) PhD
4 16 (9.04%) MBA
5 13 (7.34%) CISSP
5 13 (7.34%) PMI Certification
6 10 (5.65%) PMP
7 7 (3.95%) Azure Certification
7 7 (3.95%) CISM
8 6 (3.39%) CRISC
9 4 (2.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (2.26%) CCSP
9 4 (2.26%) CISA
9 4 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (1.69%) Security Cleared
11 2 (1.13%) AWS Certification
11 2 (1.13%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.04%) GDPR
1 16 (9.04%) QA
2 11 (6.21%) NIST
3 9 (5.08%) IFRS
3 9 (5.08%) IFRS 17
3 9 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (4.52%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.82%) GRC
5 5 (2.82%) IFRS 9
5 5 (2.82%) SLA
6 4 (2.26%) Data Quality
6 4 (2.26%) PMO
7 3 (1.69%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.69%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (1.69%) SOC 2
8 2 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (1.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (1.13%) ISO 31000
8 2 (1.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 27 (15.25%) Docker
2 2 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (12.99%) Kubernetes
2 16 (9.04%) Terraform
3 2 (1.13%) Control-M
3 2 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (13.56%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.17%) Databricks
3 12 (6.78%) SAP
3 12 (6.78%) Software AG
4 10 (5.65%) Oracle
5 8 (4.52%) Google
6 5 (2.82%) Genesys
7 4 (2.26%) Informatica
7 4 (2.26%) Workday
8 2 (1.13%) IBM
8 2 (1.13%) Rapid7
8 2 (1.13%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.13%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.13%) Splunk
9 1 (0.56%) Avaloq
9 1 (0.56%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.56%) Foundry
9 1 (0.56%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.56%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.56%) Talend