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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 210 203
Rank change year-on-year -15 -7 +64
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 178 143 206
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.09% 1.11% 1.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.67% 4.35% 4.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 94 135
10th Percentile £370 £383 £375
25th Percentile £425 £499 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% -2.00% -9.70%
75th Percentile £700 £800 £775
90th Percentile £925 £989 £850
England median daily rate £525 £580 £600
% change year-on-year -9.48% -3.33% -
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 £29.61 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -50.65% +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 4,844 3,284 4,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.56% 25.50% 24.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,442 2,184 2,951
10th Percentile £358 £350 £325
25th Percentile £430 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £657 £656
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 66 126
10th Percentile £20.57 £21.50 £14.26
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.93 £20.04
Median hourly rate £37.54 £37.25 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +15.99% -20.70%
75th Percentile £75.87 £56.19 £60.94
90th Percentile £77.43 £78.40 £83.75
England median hourly rate £28.50 £50.75 £38.95
% change year-on-year -43.84% +30.30% -22.10%

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 17 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 17 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 -10 22 £525 -25.43% 56
West London -10 10 £600 - 10
East London +1 1 £1,000 +250.88% 9
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 (8.99%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.69%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.12%) Ethereum
4 2 (1.12%) Hyperledger
4 2 (1.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.56%) Apache
5 1 (0.56%) Camunda
5 1 (0.56%) CMS
5 1 (0.56%) Confluence
5 1 (0.56%) Drupal
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (6.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (3.37%) 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%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.69%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (1.69%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (1.12%) Oracle FAH
2 2 (1.12%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (1.12%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.12%) 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 (28.09%) Azure
2 35 (19.66%) AWS
3 21 (11.80%) SaaS
4 15 (8.43%) GCP
4 15 (8.43%) GitHub
5 11 (6.18%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (5.06%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (5.06%) Serverless
7 8 (4.49%) Amazon S3
7 8 (4.49%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (4.49%) OCI
7 8 (4.49%) Power Platform
8 7 (3.93%) Amazon SageMaker
8 7 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.37%) Dagster
9 6 (3.37%) IaaS
10 5 (2.81%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (2.81%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (2.81%) PaaS
11 4 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.81%) CTI
1 5 (2.81%) VoIP
2 3 (1.69%) HTTP
2 3 (1.69%) Network Security
3 2 (1.12%) 3GPP
3 2 (1.12%) Intelligent Network
3 2 (1.12%) S/MIME
3 2 (1.12%) SSL
3 2 (1.12%) Wireless
4 1 (0.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.18%) Big Data
2 8 (4.49%) Power BI
3 6 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.81%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.81%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.25%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.25%) Tableau
6 3 (1.69%) Pinecone
6 3 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.12%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.12%) Metadata
7 2 (1.12%) Redis
7 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.12%) Weaviate
8 1 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.56%) Essbase
8 1 (0.56%) KDB
8 1 (0.56%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 23 (12.92%) Git
2 9 (5.06%) MLflow
3 8 (4.49%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.37%) JIRA
5 2 (1.12%) Hardhat
5 2 (1.12%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.12%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.12%) Vite
6 1 (0.56%) Appium
6 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.56%) Charles Proxy
6 1 (0.56%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.56%) GitLab
6 1 (0.56%) Hudson
6 1 (0.56%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (0.56%) Postman
6 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.56%) XCUITest
General
1 89 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 76 (42.70%) Finance
3 64 (35.96%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (23.03%) Banking
5 23 (12.92%) Presentation Skills
6 16 (8.99%) Front Office
7 15 (8.43%) Investment Banking
8 9 (5.06%) Financial Institution
8 9 (5.06%) Marketing
9 7 (3.93%) Legal
10 5 (2.81%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.81%) Telecoms
11 4 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (2.25%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.25%) Retail
12 3 (1.69%) Aviation
12 3 (1.69%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.69%) Japanese Language
13 2 (1.12%) Advertising
13 2 (1.12%) French Language
Job Titles
1 31 (17.42%) Lead
2 23 (12.92%) Developer
3 22 (12.36%) Architect
4 16 (8.99%) Senior
5 14 (7.87%) Data Scientist
6 13 (7.30%) Integration Architect
7 12 (6.74%) Analyst
7 12 (6.74%) Consultant
7 12 (6.74%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (5.06%) Cloud Architect
8 9 (5.06%) Cloud Solutions Architect
8 9 (5.06%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 8 (4.49%) Project Manager
9 8 (4.49%) Quantitative Developer
10 7 (3.93%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 7 (3.93%) Business Analyst
11 6 (3.37%) Senior Data Scientist
11 6 (3.37%) Test Manager
12 5 (2.81%) Genesys Developer
12 5 (2.81%) Lead Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.99%) Middleware
2 13 (7.30%) NumPy
2 13 (7.30%) Pandas
2 13 (7.30%) PyTorch
3 10 (5.62%) TensorFlow
4 9 (5.06%) LangChain
4 9 (5.06%) scikit-learn
5 8 (4.49%) .NET
6 7 (3.93%) Kafka
7 6 (3.37%) Dask
7 6 (3.37%) Model Context Protocol
8 5 (2.81%) Hugging Face
8 5 (2.81%) LangGraph
8 5 (2.81%) RESTful
9 4 (2.25%) Node.js
9 4 (2.25%) OAuth
9 4 (2.25%) REST
9 4 (2.25%) SciPy
9 4 (2.25%) Seaborn
9 4 (2.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.11%) Derivative
2 16 (8.99%) Distributed Computing
3 15 (8.43%) Management Information System
4 14 (7.87%) Cloud Native
5 13 (7.30%) Algorithms
5 13 (7.30%) Equities
6 10 (5.62%) Fixed Income
6 10 (5.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (4.49%) AI Agents
7 8 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (4.49%) Hedge funds
8 7 (3.93%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (3.37%) Equity Derivative
9 6 (3.37%) Life Science
9 6 (3.37%) Onboarding
10 5 (2.81%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (2.81%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (2.81%) Data Structures
10 5 (2.81%) IVR
10 5 (2.81%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.81%) Windows
2 3 (1.69%) Linux
2 3 (1.69%) VMS
3 2 (1.12%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.56%) Android
4 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (60.11%) Computer Science
2 57 (32.02%) AI
3 54 (30.34%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (27.53%) Agile
4 49 (27.53%) Machine Learning
5 43 (24.16%) Roadmaps
6 38 (21.35%) Decision-Making
6 38 (21.35%) DevOps
7 37 (20.79%) Stakeholder Management
8 34 (19.10%) Analytics
9 33 (18.54%) CI/CD
9 33 (18.54%) Mathematics
10 32 (17.98%) Data Science
11 31 (17.42%) Risk Management
12 28 (15.73%) LLM
12 28 (15.73%) Software Engineering
13 27 (15.17%) Generative AI
13 27 (15.17%) Validation
14 26 (14.61%) Data Engineering
14 26 (14.61%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 70 (39.33%) Python
2 34 (19.10%) SQL
3 19 (10.67%) Java
4 12 (6.74%) C++
5 7 (3.93%) C#
6 6 (3.37%) Bash
6 6 (3.37%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.25%) Go
7 4 (2.25%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.69%) Scala
8 3 (1.69%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.12%) R
9 2 (1.12%) Solidity
9 2 (1.12%) VBA
10 1 (0.56%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.56%) Bicep
10 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.56%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 178 (100.00%) Degree
2 69 (38.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 37 (20.79%) PhD
4 19 (10.67%) MBA
5 13 (7.30%) CISSP
6 12 (6.74%) PMI Certification
7 9 (5.06%) PMP
8 7 (3.93%) CISM
9 6 (3.37%) CRISC
10 5 (2.81%) Azure Certification
11 4 (2.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (2.25%) CCSP
11 4 (2.25%) CISA
11 4 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.69%) CFA
12 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (1.69%) Security Cleared
13 2 (1.12%) AWS Certification
13 2 (1.12%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.55%) GDPR
2 14 (7.87%) QA
3 11 (6.18%) NIST
4 9 (5.06%) IFRS
4 9 (5.06%) IFRS 17
4 9 (5.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (4.49%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.81%) Data Quality
6 5 (2.81%) GRC
6 5 (2.81%) IFRS 9
6 5 (2.81%) SLA
7 4 (2.25%) PMO
8 3 (1.69%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (1.69%) SOC 2
9 2 (1.12%) Accessibility
9 2 (1.12%) Basel III
9 2 (1.12%) COBIT
9 2 (1.12%) GAAP
9 2 (1.12%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 28 (15.73%) Docker
2 2 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 21 (11.80%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.43%) Terraform
3 2 (1.12%) Control-M
3 2 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (14.61%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.99%) Databricks
3 12 (6.74%) SAP
3 12 (6.74%) Software AG
4 11 (6.18%) Oracle
5 9 (5.06%) Google
6 5 (2.81%) Genesys
6 5 (2.81%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.25%) Informatica
7 4 (2.25%) Workday
8 2 (1.12%) Adobe
8 2 (1.12%) IBM
8 2 (1.12%) Rapid7
8 2 (1.12%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.56%) Avaloq
9 1 (0.56%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.56%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.56%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.56%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.56%) Talend