Master's Degree Contracts 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 228 201 267
Rank change year-on-year -27 +66 +91
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 125 200 245
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.00% 1.12% 0.91%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.89% 4.66% 4.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 125 172
10th Percentile £368 £350 £464
25th Percentile £490 £413 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £647 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year +17.64% -21.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £790 £738 £881
90th Percentile £913 £850 £950
England median daily rate £580 £550 £612
% change year-on-year +5.45% -10.06% +6.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 7
10th Percentile £35.04 £10.42 £31.25
25th Percentile £41.59 £31.70 £35.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £63.75 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +57.41% -19.80%
75th Percentile £76.88 £83.75 £52.25
90th Percentile £82.50 - £53.15
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% +22.22% +23.29%

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 3,210 4,292 5,821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.58% 24.07% 21.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,169 2,903 3,919
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £653 £661 £688
90th Percentile £754 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 111 80
10th Percentile £19.20 £14.25 £19.94
25th Percentile £22.27 £20.74 £21.24
Median hourly rate £29.07 £26.00 £45.25
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -42.54% +1.69%
75th Percentile £55.50 £43.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £69.72 £68.75 £82.55
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Master's Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in London

Master's Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Master's Degree in London.

Daily rate trend for Master's Degree in London

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Master's Degree in London

Master's Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Master's Degree in London.

Hourly rate trend for Master's Degree in London

Master's Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Master's Degree in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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 +15 24 £725 +33.33% 47
East London +12 1 £285 -51.90% 9
West London +9 1 - - 57
Master's Degree
England

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 19 (15.20%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.60%) Apache
3 2 (1.60%) CMS
3 2 (1.60%) Confluence
3 2 (1.60%) Drupal
3 2 (1.60%) SAS
3 2 (1.60%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (1.60%) WordPress
4 1 (0.80%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.80%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 15 (12.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (7.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (2.40%) Trello
5 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.80%) Camtasia
6 1 (0.80%) InVision
6 1 (0.80%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.80%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.80%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (2.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.80%) Bankmaster
2 1 (0.80%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.80%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.80%) SAP MDG-S
Cloud Services
1 26 (20.80%) AWS
2 14 (11.20%) Azure
3 10 (8.00%) GCP
4 6 (4.80%) GitHub
5 4 (3.20%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (3.20%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.40%) Asana
6 3 (2.40%) SaaS
7 2 (1.60%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 2 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.60%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.60%) Vertex AI
8 1 (0.80%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (0.80%) Canva
8 1 (0.80%) Figma
8 1 (0.80%) Google Sheets
8 1 (0.80%) OCI
8 1 (0.80%) Slack
8 1 (0.80%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.60%) Firewall
2 1 (0.80%) MQTT
2 1 (0.80%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.80%) Big Data
2 8 (6.40%) Hadoop
3 6 (4.80%) Apache Hive
4 5 (4.00%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.00%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.20%) Data Mining
5 4 (3.20%) Power BI
5 4 (3.20%) Tableau
6 3 (2.40%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.40%) MySQL
7 2 (1.60%) PowerPivot
7 2 (1.60%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.80%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.80%) KDB
8 1 (0.80%) Metadata
8 1 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.80%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.80%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (10.40%) Git
2 6 (4.80%) Bitbucket
2 6 (4.80%) JIRA
3 3 (2.40%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.60%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.60%) ERwin
4 2 (1.60%) MLflow
4 2 (1.60%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.80%) Axure RP
5 1 (0.80%) Gatling
5 1 (0.80%) JMeter
5 1 (0.80%) Maven
5 1 (0.80%) MSTest
5 1 (0.80%) NSubstitute
5 1 (0.80%) NUnit
5 1 (0.80%) Selenium
5 1 (0.80%) Subversion
5 1 (0.80%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.80%) TestDirector
5 1 (0.80%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 64 (51.20%) Finance
2 51 (40.80%) Social Skills
3 47 (37.60%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (19.20%) Banking
5 14 (11.20%) Marketing
6 12 (9.60%) Financial Institution
6 12 (9.60%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (7.20%) Front Office
8 6 (4.80%) Investment Banking
8 6 (4.80%) Legal
9 5 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (4.00%) Public Sector
10 4 (3.20%) Digital Health
10 4 (3.20%) Electronics
10 4 (3.20%) Manufacturing
10 4 (3.20%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.60%) Automotive
12 1 (0.80%) Advertising
12 1 (0.80%) Law
12 1 (0.80%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (15.20%) Analyst
2 13 (10.40%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 12 (9.60%) Senior
4 11 (8.80%) Developer
5 8 (6.40%) Architect
5 8 (6.40%) Python Engineer
6 7 (5.60%) Lead
6 7 (5.60%) Project Manager
6 7 (5.60%) Quantitative Developer
6 7 (5.60%) Software Engineer
7 6 (4.80%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (4.80%) C++ Software Engineer
7 6 (4.80%) Data Scientist
7 6 (4.80%) Gen AI Engineer
8 5 (4.00%) Business Analyst
8 5 (4.00%) Java Engineer
9 4 (3.20%) Business Manager
9 4 (3.20%) Financial Analyst
9 4 (3.20%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.20%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.80%) PySpark
2 9 (7.20%) TensorFlow
3 8 (6.40%) LangChain
3 8 (6.40%) NumPy
3 8 (6.40%) Pandas
4 5 (4.00%) Dask
4 5 (4.00%) REST
5 3 (2.40%) Kafka
5 3 (2.40%) PyTorch
5 3 (2.40%) Ray
6 2 (1.60%) CSS
6 2 (1.60%) HTML
6 2 (1.60%) Hugging Face
6 2 (1.60%) React
6 2 (1.60%) scikit-learn
6 2 (1.60%) SciPy
6 2 (1.60%) Spring
7 1 (0.80%) .NET
7 1 (0.80%) Middleware
7 1 (0.80%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.60%) Distributed Computing
2 13 (10.40%) Algorithms
3 12 (9.60%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (8.80%) Data Structures
5 8 (6.40%) Hedge funds
6 7 (5.60%) Derivative
7 6 (4.80%) Product Ownership
8 5 (4.00%) Credit Risk
8 5 (4.00%) Management Information System
9 4 (3.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (3.20%) Life Science
10 3 (2.40%) Grid Computing
10 3 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (2.40%) PMI
10 3 (2.40%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.60%) Data Centre
11 2 (1.60%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.60%) Operational Technology
11 2 (1.60%) Solar Panel
11 2 (1.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.20%) Linux
2 1 (0.80%) Android
2 1 (0.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (48.00%) Computer Science
2 35 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (24.00%) Agile
4 29 (23.20%) Machine Learning
5 27 (21.60%) Project Management
6 26 (20.80%) Mathematics
7 24 (19.20%) Analytics
8 22 (17.60%) Software Engineering
9 20 (16.00%) Artificial Intelligence
9 20 (16.00%) CI/CD
9 20 (16.00%) Data Analysis
9 20 (16.00%) Technical Leadership
10 19 (15.20%) Data Science
10 19 (15.20%) Risk Management
11 17 (13.60%) Deep Learning
11 17 (13.60%) Generative AI
12 16 (12.80%) Statistics
13 13 (10.40%) Decision-Making
13 13 (10.40%) Fintech
14 12 (9.60%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 54 (43.20%) Python
2 32 (25.60%) Java
3 30 (24.00%) C++
4 20 (16.00%) SQL
5 13 (10.40%) C
6 9 (7.20%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.40%) C#
7 3 (2.40%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.60%) R
8 2 (1.60%) Rust
8 2 (1.60%) SystemVerilog
9 1 (0.80%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.80%) Go
9 1 (0.80%) Groovy
9 1 (0.80%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.80%) Perl
9 1 (0.80%) Ruby
9 1 (0.80%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.80%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.80%) VBA
Qualifications
1 124 (99.20%) Degree
2 33 (26.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (22.40%) PhD
4 13 (10.40%) PMI Certification
5 11 (8.80%) PMP
6 10 (8.00%) MBA
7 3 (2.40%) CFA
7 3 (2.40%) CISSP
7 3 (2.40%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (1.60%) CISA
8 2 (1.60%) CISM
8 2 (1.60%) PgMP
8 2 (1.60%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.80%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.80%) CAPM
9 1 (0.80%) CBAP
9 1 (0.80%) CCSP
9 1 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.80%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.80%) Data Quality
2 9 (7.20%) QA
3 4 (3.20%) MiFID
4 3 (2.40%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.60%) GDPR
5 2 (1.60%) NIST
5 2 (1.60%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.80%) Basel III
6 1 (0.80%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (6.40%) Docker
2 2 (1.60%) Firmware
2 2 (1.60%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 11 (8.80%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.60%) Terraform
3 2 (1.60%) Karpenter
3 2 (1.60%) Podman
4 1 (0.80%) Ansible
4 1 (0.80%) Grafana
4 1 (0.80%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (7.20%) Google
1 9 (7.20%) SAP
2 6 (4.80%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.00%) Adobe
3 5 (4.00%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.20%) Databricks
5 3 (2.40%) Workday
6 2 (1.60%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.60%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.60%) Splunk
7 1 (0.80%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.80%) Calypso
7 1 (0.80%) Criteo
7 1 (0.80%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.80%) Informatica
7 1 (0.80%) Murex
7 1 (0.80%) NEC
7 1 (0.80%) Oracle
7 1 (0.80%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.80%) Talend