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 15 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 223 188 232
Rank change year-on-year -35 +44 +66
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 161 204 204
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.15% 1.30% 1.01%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.12% 5.12% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 121 147
10th Percentile £386 £363 £358
25th Percentile £447 £473 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £575 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.83% -17.86% -
75th Percentile £688 £750 £862
90th Percentile £885 £863 £1,000
England median daily rate £537 £550 £650
% change year-on-year -2.36% -15.38% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile - £48.43 £57.50
25th Percentile - £51.69 £59.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.55% -11.15% +28.71%
75th Percentile £75.63 £63.19 £66.25
90th Percentile £82.00 £66.08 £67.00
England median hourly rate £33.50 £27.67 £57.50
% change year-on-year +21.07% -51.88% +27.78%

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 3,905 3,987 4,708
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.84% 25.35% 23.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,697 2,543 3,193
10th Percentile £353 £350 £350
25th Percentile £438 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.46% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £650 £670
90th Percentile £750 £760 £775
England median daily rate £525 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -0.47% -4.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 57 106
10th Percentile £19.44 £20.30 £19.00
25th Percentile - £30.00 £23.31
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.00 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.51% -28.44% +14.74%
75th Percentile £42.31 £60.75 £67.88
90th Percentile £66.46 £77.11 £86.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.63 £52.50
% change year-on-year -50.32% -3.57% +16.67%

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 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 15 November 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 -1 16 £575 +11.11% 175
East London +6 3 £1,000 +111.86% 4
West London -13 3 £350 +68.27% 11
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 19 (11.80%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.24%) Confluence
2 2 (1.24%) Ethereum
2 2 (1.24%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.62%) CMS
3 1 (0.62%) Drupal
3 1 (0.62%) Moodle
3 1 (0.62%) MQSeries
3 1 (0.62%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.62%) SAP Portal
3 1 (0.62%) SAS
3 1 (0.62%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.62%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.62%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (4.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.62%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.62%) Navisworks
3 1 (0.62%) ProjectWise
3 1 (0.62%) Revit
3 1 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.48%) Endur
1 4 (2.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.86%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.62%) SAP FI-CA
3 1 (0.62%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.62%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 45 (27.95%) Azure
2 38 (23.60%) AWS
3 21 (13.04%) GCP
4 11 (6.83%) GitHub
5 9 (5.59%) Power Platform
6 8 (4.97%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (4.97%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (3.73%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (3.73%) Miro
7 6 (3.73%) SaaS
8 5 (3.11%) Azure Machine Learning
8 5 (3.11%) Sentry
9 4 (2.48%) Amazon SageMaker
9 4 (2.48%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.48%) Vertex AI
10 3 (1.86%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.86%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.86%) OCI
11 2 (1.24%) Collibra
11 2 (1.24%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.11%) CTI
1 5 (3.11%) HTTP
1 5 (3.11%) Network Security
1 5 (3.11%) VoIP
2 2 (1.24%) Firewall
2 2 (1.24%) S/MIME
2 2 (1.24%) SSL
3 1 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.59%) Power BI
1 9 (5.59%) Tableau
2 7 (4.35%) Big Data
2 7 (4.35%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.73%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (3.11%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.48%) Data Mining
5 4 (2.48%) Metadata
6 3 (1.86%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.86%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.86%) Pinecone
6 3 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.24%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.24%) Flink
8 1 (0.62%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.62%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.62%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 8 (4.97%) Git
2 5 (3.11%) Appium
2 5 (3.11%) Charles Proxy
2 5 (3.11%) Katalon Studio
2 5 (3.11%) Postman
2 5 (3.11%) XCUITest
3 4 (2.48%) IntelliJ
3 4 (2.48%) MLflow
3 4 (2.48%) TeamCity
4 3 (1.86%) GitLab
4 3 (1.86%) JIRA
5 2 (1.24%) ERwin
5 2 (1.24%) Hardhat
5 2 (1.24%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.24%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (1.24%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.62%) Hudson
6 1 (0.62%) JMeter
6 1 (0.62%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.62%) NeoLoad
General
1 77 (47.83%) Finance
2 62 (38.51%) Social Skills
3 34 (21.12%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (16.77%) Banking
5 21 (13.04%) Front Office
6 14 (8.70%) Investment Banking
7 11 (6.83%) Financial Institution
8 9 (5.59%) Telecoms
9 7 (4.35%) Legal
9 7 (4.35%) Manufacturing
9 7 (4.35%) Marketing
10 6 (3.73%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (3.11%) Back Office
11 5 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (3.11%) Retail
12 4 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (2.48%) Public Sector
13 2 (1.24%) Automotive
13 2 (1.24%) Law
Job Titles
1 29 (18.01%) Developer
2 23 (14.29%) Analyst
3 19 (11.80%) Lead
3 19 (11.80%) Senior
4 16 (9.94%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 14 (8.70%) Business Analyst
6 13 (8.07%) Architect
7 8 (4.97%) Consultant
7 8 (4.97%) Data Scientist
7 8 (4.97%) Project Manager
8 6 (3.73%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (3.73%) Quantitative Developer
9 5 (3.11%) Azure Architect
9 5 (3.11%) Genesys Developer
9 5 (3.11%) Python Developer
9 5 (3.11%) Senior Developer
10 4 (2.48%) C# Developer
10 4 (2.48%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
10 4 (2.48%) Data Engineer
10 4 (2.48%) Telecoms Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.45%) .NET
1 12 (7.45%) TensorFlow
2 11 (6.83%) PyTorch
3 9 (5.59%) Kafka
4 8 (4.97%) Web Services
5 7 (4.35%) REST
5 7 (4.35%) RESTful
6 6 (3.73%) NumPy
6 6 (3.73%) PySpark
7 5 (3.11%) Dask
7 5 (3.11%) LangChain
7 5 (3.11%) Middleware
7 5 (3.11%) Pandas
8 4 (2.48%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (1.86%) ARM Templates
9 3 (1.86%) Faiss
9 3 (1.86%) HTML
9 3 (1.86%) Hugging Face
9 3 (1.86%) scikit-learn
9 3 (1.86%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (14.29%) Derivative
2 18 (11.18%) Distributed Computing
3 17 (10.56%) Product Ownership
4 14 (8.70%) Algorithms
5 12 (7.45%) Cloud Native
6 11 (6.83%) Equities
6 11 (6.83%) Fixed Income
7 10 (6.21%) Hedge funds
8 9 (5.59%) Equity Derivative
8 9 (5.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 9 (5.59%) Management Information System
9 8 (4.97%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (4.97%) Mobile App
9 8 (4.97%) PMI
10 7 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (3.73%) Virtual Team
12 5 (3.11%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (3.11%) Data Fabric
12 5 (3.11%) IVR
13 4 (2.48%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.11%) Android
1 5 (3.11%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.86%) Linux
3 2 (1.24%) Windows
4 1 (0.62%) Unix
4 1 (0.62%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (67.08%) Computer Science
2 49 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (28.57%) Agile
4 42 (26.09%) Machine Learning
5 40 (24.84%) AI
6 36 (22.36%) Risk Management
7 35 (21.74%) Analytics
8 34 (21.12%) Mathematics
9 31 (19.25%) Stakeholder Management
10 27 (16.77%) Roadmaps
11 26 (16.15%) DevOps
11 26 (16.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 24 (14.91%) Data Science
13 23 (14.29%) LLM
14 19 (11.80%) Data Governance
14 19 (11.80%) Generative AI
15 18 (11.18%) CI/CD
16 17 (10.56%) Data Engineering
16 17 (10.56%) Data Pipeline
16 17 (10.56%) Deep Learning
Programming Languages
1 67 (41.61%) Python
2 31 (19.25%) SQL
3 20 (12.42%) C++
4 18 (11.18%) Java
5 8 (4.97%) C#
6 7 (4.35%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.73%) Bash
7 6 (3.73%) PowerShell
8 5 (3.11%) C
8 5 (3.11%) Kotlin
8 5 (3.11%) Swift
9 4 (2.48%) R
10 3 (1.86%) Bicep
10 3 (1.86%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.86%) VBA
11 2 (1.24%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.24%) PHP
11 2 (1.24%) Scala
11 2 (1.24%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.24%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 161 (100.00%) Degree
2 51 (31.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 37 (22.98%) PhD
4 17 (10.56%) PMI Certification
5 13 (8.07%) MBA
6 12 (7.45%) PMP
7 6 (3.73%) CISSP
8 5 (3.11%) CBAP
9 4 (2.48%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.86%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.86%) CISM
10 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.86%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (1.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (1.24%) CCSP
11 2 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (1.24%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (1.24%) Security Cleared
12 1 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.18%) QA
2 15 (9.32%) GDPR
3 11 (6.83%) Data Quality
4 8 (4.97%) Accessibility
4 8 (4.97%) GRC
5 6 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (3.11%) NIST
7 4 (2.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (2.48%) HIPAA
7 4 (2.48%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.86%) GMP
8 3 (1.86%) IFRS
8 3 (1.86%) IFRS 17
8 3 (1.86%) IFRS 9
9 2 (1.24%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (1.24%) SLA
10 1 (0.62%) Basel III
10 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.62%) FINRA
10 1 (0.62%) NIST 800
System Software
1 18 (11.18%) Docker
2 2 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.62%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (9.94%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.83%) Terraform
3 2 (1.24%) Ansible
3 2 (1.24%) Grafana
3 2 (1.24%) Kubeflow
3 2 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.62%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.62%) QRadar
4 1 (0.62%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (8.07%) SAP
2 12 (7.45%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.59%) Databricks
3 9 (5.59%) Oracle
4 8 (4.97%) Splunk
5 5 (3.11%) Genesys
6 3 (1.86%) Google
6 3 (1.86%) IBM
6 3 (1.86%) Informatica
6 3 (1.86%) Murex
6 3 (1.86%) OpenLink
7 2 (1.24%) Calypso
7 2 (1.24%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.24%) Hitachi
7 2 (1.24%) ION Trading
7 2 (1.24%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.24%) Workday
8 1 (0.62%) Hotjar
8 1 (0.62%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.62%) UiPath