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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 215 210 277
Rank change year-on-year -5 +67 +75
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 146 204 219
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.10% 1.16% 0.85%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.26% 4.91% 3.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 129 155
10th Percentile £375 £345 £475
25th Percentile £495 £400 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £740
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -25.68% +5.71%
75th Percentile £769 £751 £950
90th Percentile £875 £850 £1,000
England median daily rate £550 £550 £650
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 7
10th Percentile £57.75 £35.08 £31.25
25th Percentile £65.63 £46.25 £35.63
Median hourly rate £82.50 £75.00 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +45.63% +1.98%
75th Percentile £86.25 £83.75 £59.38
90th Percentile - - £66.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +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 3,428 4,154 5,518
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.81% 23.58% 21.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,307 2,858 3,798
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.82%
75th Percentile £661 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £771 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 107 84
10th Percentile £18.48 £14.96 £18.81
25th Percentile £25.00 £20.50 £26.31
Median hourly rate £26.32 £25.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.22% -52.78% +27.06%
75th Percentile £50.00 £42.75 £70.63
90th Percentile £66.34 £68.30 £87.50
England median hourly rate £28.18 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -33.69% -22.73% +34.38%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 5 July 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 +2 19 £704 +8.31% 283
East London +11 2 £285 -38.84% 10
West London +10 1 - - 46
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 22 (15.07%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.05%) Confluence
2 3 (2.05%) Jupyter
2 3 (2.05%) SAS
3 2 (1.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.37%) Apache
4 1 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.68%) CMS
4 1 (0.68%) Drupal
4 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.68%) Moodle
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.68%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.68%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (10.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (5.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.68%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.68%) Camtasia
5 1 (0.68%) InVision
5 1 (0.68%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.68%) Sketch
5 1 (0.68%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.37%) Endur
1 2 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.68%) Bankmaster
Cloud Services
1 39 (26.71%) AWS
2 25 (17.12%) Azure
3 17 (11.64%) GCP
4 7 (4.79%) GitHub
5 6 (4.11%) Amazon SageMaker
6 4 (2.74%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.05%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.05%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (2.05%) Vertex AI
8 2 (1.37%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.37%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 2 (1.37%) Canva
8 2 (1.37%) Miro
8 2 (1.37%) SaaS
9 1 (0.68%) Dagster
9 1 (0.68%) Figma
9 1 (0.68%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.68%) OCI
9 1 (0.68%) Prefect
9 1 (0.68%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.05%) Firewall
2 1 (0.68%) 4G
2 1 (0.68%) 5G
2 1 (0.68%) LTE
2 1 (0.68%) MQTT
2 1 (0.68%) Network Security
2 1 (0.68%) PPP
2 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.68%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.22%) Big Data
2 10 (6.85%) Hadoop
3 7 (4.79%) Apache Hive
4 6 (4.11%) Data Mining
4 6 (4.11%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.42%) Tableau
6 4 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.74%) Power BI
6 4 (2.74%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.05%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.05%) MySQL
8 2 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.37%) Metadata
8 2 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.37%) SAP HANA
8 2 (1.37%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.68%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.68%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 12 (8.22%) Git
2 8 (5.48%) JIRA
2 8 (5.48%) MLflow
3 5 (3.42%) Bitbucket
4 4 (2.74%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.37%) ERwin
5 2 (1.37%) GitLab
6 1 (0.68%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.68%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.68%) Hudson
6 1 (0.68%) MSTest
6 1 (0.68%) NSubstitute
6 1 (0.68%) NUnit
6 1 (0.68%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.68%) Selenium
6 1 (0.68%) Subversion
6 1 (0.68%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 82 (56.16%) Finance
2 59 (40.41%) Social Skills
3 50 (34.25%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (15.75%) Banking
5 14 (9.59%) Front Office
6 11 (7.53%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (6.85%) Financial Institution
8 9 (6.16%) Telecoms
9 8 (5.48%) Legal
9 8 (5.48%) Marketing
10 5 (3.42%) Electronics
10 5 (3.42%) Public Sector
11 4 (2.74%) Digital Health
11 4 (2.74%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.74%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (2.05%) Back Office
12 3 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (2.05%) Investment Banking
12 3 (2.05%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 23 (15.75%) Analyst
2 17 (11.64%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 15 (10.27%) Senior
4 13 (8.90%) Developer
5 10 (6.85%) Architect
6 9 (6.16%) Lead
7 8 (5.48%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (5.48%) Data Scientist
7 8 (5.48%) Project Manager
7 8 (5.48%) Software Engineer
8 7 (4.79%) Business Analyst
9 6 (4.11%) C++ Software Engineer
10 5 (3.42%) Data Analyst
10 5 (3.42%) Gen AI Specialist
10 5 (3.42%) Java Engineer
10 5 (3.42%) Python Developer
10 5 (3.42%) Quantitative Developer
10 5 (3.42%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (2.74%) Gen AI Engineer
11 4 (2.74%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.27%) TensorFlow
2 11 (7.53%) PySpark
3 8 (5.48%) Pandas
3 8 (5.48%) PyTorch
4 7 (4.79%) LangChain
4 7 (4.79%) NumPy
5 6 (4.11%) REST
6 5 (3.42%) Hugging Face
7 4 (2.74%) Kafka
8 3 (2.05%) Dask
8 3 (2.05%) HTML
8 3 (2.05%) React
8 3 (2.05%) scikit-learn
9 2 (1.37%) .NET
9 2 (1.37%) CSS
9 2 (1.37%) Django
9 2 (1.37%) FIX Protocol
9 2 (1.37%) Flask
9 2 (1.37%) GraphQL
9 2 (1.37%) Keras
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.64%) Algorithms
1 17 (11.64%) Distributed Computing
2 14 (9.59%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (8.90%) Derivative
4 10 (6.85%) Data Structures
4 10 (6.85%) Product Ownership
5 8 (5.48%) Hedge funds
6 7 (4.79%) Equity Derivative
7 6 (4.11%) Credit Risk
7 6 (4.11%) Virtual Team
8 4 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.74%) Life Science
8 4 (2.74%) Market Risk
9 3 (2.05%) e-Learning
9 3 (2.05%) FPGA
9 3 (2.05%) Grid Computing
9 3 (2.05%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.05%) Social Media
9 3 (2.05%) Verilog
9 3 (2.05%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.16%) Linux
2 1 (0.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 44 (30.14%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (26.71%) Machine Learning
4 38 (26.03%) Agile
5 35 (23.97%) Mathematics
6 31 (21.23%) Artificial Intelligence
7 25 (17.12%) Data Science
7 25 (17.12%) Technical Leadership
8 24 (16.44%) Analytics
9 23 (15.75%) Project Management
10 22 (15.07%) Software Engineering
11 21 (14.38%) Deep Learning
12 20 (13.70%) Generative AI
13 19 (13.01%) DevOps
14 18 (12.33%) CI/CD
14 18 (12.33%) Data Analysis
14 18 (12.33%) Risk Management
15 17 (11.64%) LLM
16 16 (10.96%) Scrum
17 15 (10.27%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 70 (47.95%) Python
2 31 (21.23%) Java
3 29 (19.86%) C++
4 28 (19.18%) SQL
5 12 (8.22%) C
6 6 (4.11%) R
7 5 (3.42%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.74%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.05%) C#
9 3 (2.05%) SystemVerilog
10 2 (1.37%) MATLAB
10 2 (1.37%) PHP
11 1 (0.68%) Ruby
11 1 (0.68%) Rust
11 1 (0.68%) Scala
11 1 (0.68%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.68%) VB
11 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 146 (100.00%) Degree
2 43 (29.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 38 (26.03%) PhD
4 13 (8.90%) PMI Certification
5 11 (7.53%) PMP
6 6 (4.11%) CISSP
6 6 (4.11%) MBA
7 4 (2.74%) CISM
7 4 (2.74%) SAP Certification
8 3 (2.05%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.37%) CBAP
9 2 (1.37%) CISA
10 1 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.68%) CCSP
10 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.68%) CSPO
10 1 (0.68%) ISEB
10 1 (0.68%) OSCP
10 1 (0.68%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.22%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.85%) QA
3 6 (4.11%) GDPR
3 6 (4.11%) NIST
4 5 (3.42%) MiFID
5 4 (2.74%) Accessibility
6 3 (2.05%) GRC
6 3 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.37%) Basel III
7 2 (1.37%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.37%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.68%) FINRA
8 1 (0.68%) PMO
8 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (6.85%) Docker
2 3 (2.05%) Firmware
3 1 (0.68%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 11 (7.53%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.42%) Terraform
3 2 (1.37%) Kubeflow
3 2 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.68%) Ansible
4 1 (0.68%) Grafana
4 1 (0.68%) Karpenter
4 1 (0.68%) Podman
4 1 (0.68%) QRadar
Vendors
1 12 (8.22%) SAP
2 9 (6.16%) Google
3 8 (5.48%) Databricks
4 6 (4.11%) Microsoft
5 5 (3.42%) Adobe
6 3 (2.05%) Murex
6 3 (2.05%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.05%) Splunk
6 3 (2.05%) Workday
7 2 (1.37%) Calypso
7 2 (1.37%) IBM
7 2 (1.37%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.37%) Oracle
8 1 (0.68%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.68%) Informatica
8 1 (0.68%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.68%) OpenLink
8 1 (0.68%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.68%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.68%) Talend