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 25 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 197 216
Rank change year-on-year -14 +19 +44
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 175 167 190
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.20% 1.20% 1.03%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.07% 4.68% 4.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 101 122
10th Percentile £379 £391 £350
25th Percentile £425 £487 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £797
90th Percentile £913 £863 £998
England median daily rate £525 £570 £619
% change year-on-year -7.89% -7.84% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 8
10th Percentile £53.58 - £10.42
25th Percentile £57.86 £30.67 £23.99
Median hourly rate £65.00 £31.35 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.37% -43.01% +28.65%
75th Percentile - £32.02 £83.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £33.50 £27.67 £53.75
% change year-on-year +21.07% -48.52% +19.44%

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 4,302 3,570 4,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.50% 25.66% 24.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,025 2,219 3,029
10th Percentile £363 £352 £325
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £763
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 62 118
10th Percentile £20.14 £21.50 £15.08
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £34.27 £37.25 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +5.48% +0.90%
75th Percentile £65.00 £55.81 £64.88
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.40 £83.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £47.50
% change year-on-year -45.54% -2.78% +5.56%

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 25 January 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 25 January 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 25 January 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 -7 24 £600 +4.35% 30
West London -12 5 £500 +657.58% 10
East London - 1 £1,000 - 3
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 (9.14%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.71%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.14%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.14%) Hyperledger
3 2 (1.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.57%) CMS
4 1 (0.57%) Confluence
4 1 (0.57%) Drupal
4 1 (0.57%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.57%) SAP Portal
4 1 (0.57%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (4.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.57%) Camtasia
4 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.57%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.57%) Navisworks
4 1 (0.57%) ProjectWise
4 1 (0.57%) Revit
4 1 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.71%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (1.71%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 3 (1.71%) SAP IBP
3 2 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.14%) Oracle FAH
3 2 (1.14%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (1.14%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.57%) Endur
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.57%) SAP FI-CA
4 1 (0.57%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.57%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 52 (29.71%) Azure
2 32 (18.29%) AWS
3 20 (11.43%) SaaS
4 16 (9.14%) GCP
5 13 (7.43%) GitHub
6 10 (5.71%) Power Platform
7 9 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (5.14%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (4.57%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (4.57%) OCI
9 7 (4.00%) Serverless
10 6 (3.43%) Amazon S3
10 6 (3.43%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (3.43%) Azure Machine Learning
10 6 (3.43%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (3.43%) IaaS
11 5 (2.86%) Azure AI
11 5 (2.86%) PaaS
11 5 (2.86%) Sentry
12 4 (2.29%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.00%) HTTP
2 5 (2.86%) CTI
2 5 (2.86%) VoIP
3 4 (2.29%) Network Security
4 2 (1.14%) 3GPP
4 2 (1.14%) Intelligent Network
4 2 (1.14%) S/MIME
4 2 (1.14%) SSL
4 2 (1.14%) Wireless
5 1 (0.57%) Firewall
5 1 (0.57%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.71%) Power BI
2 8 (4.57%) Big Data
3 6 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (3.43%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.86%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.29%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.29%) Pinecone
5 4 (2.29%) Tableau
6 2 (1.14%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.14%) Weaviate
7 1 (0.57%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.57%) Essbase
7 1 (0.57%) Flink
7 1 (0.57%) KDB
7 1 (0.57%) MySQL
7 1 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.57%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (8.00%) Git
2 6 (3.43%) JIRA
3 5 (2.86%) Appium
3 5 (2.86%) Charles Proxy
3 5 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.86%) Katalon Studio
3 5 (2.86%) Postman
3 5 (2.86%) XCUITest
4 4 (2.29%) IntelliJ
5 3 (1.71%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.14%) Hardhat
6 2 (1.14%) MLflow
6 2 (1.14%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.57%) Gatling
7 1 (0.57%) GitLab
7 1 (0.57%) JMeter
7 1 (0.57%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.57%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.57%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.57%) Vite
General
1 82 (46.86%) Social Skills
2 77 (44.00%) Finance
3 55 (31.43%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (21.14%) Banking
5 23 (13.14%) Presentation Skills
6 17 (9.71%) Front Office
7 15 (8.57%) Investment Banking
8 11 (6.29%) Financial Institution
9 9 (5.14%) Legal
10 7 (4.00%) Manufacturing
11 6 (3.43%) Marketing
11 6 (3.43%) Telecoms
12 5 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (2.86%) Public Sector
12 5 (2.86%) Retail
13 4 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (1.71%) General Ledger
15 2 (1.14%) French Language
15 2 (1.14%) Japanese Language
15 2 (1.14%) Law
Job Titles
1 26 (14.86%) Lead
2 24 (13.71%) Developer
3 18 (10.29%) Architect
3 18 (10.29%) Senior
4 15 (8.57%) Analyst
5 12 (6.86%) Project Manager
6 11 (6.29%) Consultant
6 11 (6.29%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 10 (5.71%) Business Analyst
7 10 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (5.14%) Cloud Architect
8 9 (5.14%) Cloud Solutions Architect
8 9 (5.14%) Integration Architect
8 9 (5.14%) Quantitative Developer
9 7 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 7 (4.00%) Data Scientist
10 5 (2.86%) Genesys Developer
10 5 (2.86%) Senior Manager
10 5 (2.86%) Test Manager
11 4 (2.29%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.43%) Middleware
1 13 (7.43%) PyTorch
2 12 (6.86%) TensorFlow
3 11 (6.29%) .NET
4 10 (5.71%) NumPy
5 9 (5.14%) LangChain
6 8 (4.57%) Pandas
7 7 (4.00%) RESTful
7 7 (4.00%) Web Services
8 6 (3.43%) Dask
8 6 (3.43%) Hugging Face
8 6 (3.43%) Kafka
9 5 (2.86%) LangGraph
9 5 (2.86%) scikit-learn
10 4 (2.29%) REST
10 4 (2.29%) XML
11 3 (1.71%) Node.js
11 3 (1.71%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (1.71%) SciPy
11 3 (1.71%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.71%) Derivative
2 15 (8.57%) Cloud Native
3 14 (8.00%) Distributed Computing
3 14 (8.00%) Management Information System
4 12 (6.86%) Equities
5 11 (6.29%) Product Ownership
6 10 (5.71%) Algorithms
6 10 (5.71%) Fixed Income
6 10 (5.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (5.71%) Hedge funds
6 10 (5.71%) PMI
7 9 (5.14%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (4.57%) AI Agents
9 7 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (4.00%) Mobile App
10 6 (3.43%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (2.86%) Equity Derivative
11 5 (2.86%) IVR
11 5 (2.86%) Life Science
12 4 (2.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.86%) Android
1 5 (2.86%) Apple iOS
1 5 (2.86%) Windows
2 4 (2.29%) Linux
3 2 (1.14%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.57%) Unix
4 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (65.14%) Computer Science
2 57 (32.57%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (30.86%) Agile
4 53 (30.29%) AI
5 40 (22.86%) Machine Learning
5 40 (22.86%) Risk Management
5 40 (22.86%) Stakeholder Management
6 36 (20.57%) Analytics
6 36 (20.57%) DevOps
7 34 (19.43%) Roadmaps
8 33 (18.86%) Decision-Making
9 30 (17.14%) Mathematics
10 28 (16.00%) Software Engineering
11 27 (15.43%) LLM
11 27 (15.43%) Project Delivery
11 27 (15.43%) Validation
12 26 (14.86%) CI/CD
12 26 (14.86%) Generative AI
13 25 (14.29%) Data Science
14 23 (13.14%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 61 (34.86%) Python
2 29 (16.57%) SQL
3 18 (10.29%) Java
4 14 (8.00%) C++
5 10 (5.71%) C#
6 7 (4.00%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.43%) Bash
7 6 (3.43%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.86%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.86%) Swift
8 5 (2.86%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.71%) Bicep
9 3 (1.71%) Go
9 3 (1.71%) VBA
10 2 (1.14%) R
10 2 (1.14%) Solidity
11 1 (0.57%) F#
11 1 (0.57%) Jython
11 1 (0.57%) SOQL
11 1 (0.57%) VC++
Qualifications
1 175 (100.00%) Degree
2 63 (36.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (20.00%) PhD
4 20 (11.43%) PMI Certification
5 17 (9.71%) MBA
6 14 (8.00%) PMP
7 11 (6.29%) CISSP
8 6 (3.43%) CISM
8 6 (3.43%) MCP
9 5 (2.86%) CBAP
10 4 (2.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (2.29%) CCSP
10 4 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (2.29%) CRISC
10 4 (2.29%) Security Cleared
11 3 (1.71%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.71%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.71%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.71%) GDPR
2 16 (9.14%) QA
3 8 (4.57%) IFRS
3 8 (4.57%) IFRS 17
4 7 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (4.00%) NIST
4 7 (4.00%) PCI DSS
5 6 (3.43%) Accessibility
6 5 (2.86%) Data Quality
6 5 (2.86%) GRC
6 5 (2.86%) IFRS 9
7 3 (1.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (1.71%) GMP
7 3 (1.71%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (1.14%) Basel III
8 2 (1.14%) GAAP
8 2 (1.14%) SLA
9 1 (0.57%) Solvency II
System Software
1 22 (12.57%) Docker
2 2 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (11.43%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.57%) Terraform
3 2 (1.14%) Control-M
3 2 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.57%) Grafana
4 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (13.71%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.71%) Databricks
3 14 (8.00%) SAP
4 12 (6.86%) Oracle
5 9 (5.14%) Software AG
6 7 (4.00%) Google
7 6 (3.43%) Splunk
8 5 (2.86%) Genesys
8 5 (2.86%) Informatica
9 4 (2.29%) Workday
10 2 (1.14%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.14%) IBM
10 2 (1.14%) Rapid7
10 2 (1.14%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.57%) Anaplan
11 1 (0.57%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.57%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.57%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.57%) New Relic
11 1 (0.57%) Talend