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 30 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 229 204
Rank change year-on-year -29 -25 +64
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 147 126 201
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.83% 1.00% 1.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.89% 3.92% 4.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 77 126
10th Percentile £357 £369 £350
25th Percentile £425 £499 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -21.43%
75th Percentile £725 £800 £738
90th Percentile £800 £913 £850
England median daily rate £525 £580 £550
% change year-on-year -9.48% +5.45% -10.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 10
10th Percentile £33.00 £35.04 £10.42
25th Percentile £35.95 £41.59 £31.70
Median hourly rate £41.75 £60.00 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year -30.41% -5.88% +57.41%
75th Percentile £47.39 £76.88 £83.75
90th Percentile £50.25 £82.50 -
England median hourly rate £33.50 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -48.46% +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 5,082 3,212 4,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.72% 25.59% 24.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,638 2,170 2,915
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £440 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -6.09%
75th Percentile £638 £652 £660
90th Percentile £750 £753 £775
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 62 113
10th Percentile £20.79 £20.02 £14.49
25th Percentile £25.31 £22.27 £20.50
Median hourly rate £53.50 £29.54 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.14% +13.60% -42.54%
75th Percentile £76.58 £56.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £68.63 £69.75
England median hourly rate £47.50 £46.30 £40.00
% change year-on-year +2.59% +15.75% -23.51%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -13 20 £446 -38.45% 33
West London -15 9 £575 - 2
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 12 (8.16%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.40%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.36%) Confluence
3 2 (1.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.36%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.68%) Apache
4 1 (0.68%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.68%) Camunda
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.68%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (4.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (3.40%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.36%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.68%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.68%) Camtasia
4 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.68%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.68%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 3 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.04%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (2.04%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (1.36%) Oracle FAH
2 2 (1.36%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (1.36%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.68%) SAP FI-GL
3 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 40 (27.21%) Azure
2 32 (21.77%) AWS
3 19 (12.93%) SaaS
4 13 (8.84%) GitHub
5 11 (7.48%) GCP
6 9 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (5.44%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (5.44%) Serverless
8 7 (4.76%) Amazon S3
8 7 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (4.76%) OCI
9 6 (4.08%) Amazon SageMaker
9 6 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (4.08%) IaaS
9 6 (4.08%) Power Platform
10 5 (3.40%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (3.40%) Dagster
10 5 (3.40%) PaaS
11 4 (2.72%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.72%) 3GPP
2 2 (1.36%) CTI
2 2 (1.36%) HTTP
2 2 (1.36%) Intelligent Network
2 2 (1.36%) VoIP
2 2 (1.36%) Wireless
3 1 (0.68%) Firewall
3 1 (0.68%) LAN
3 1 (0.68%) Network Security
3 1 (0.68%) WAN
3 1 (0.68%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.12%) Big Data
2 6 (4.08%) Power BI
3 5 (3.40%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (3.40%) NoSQL
3 5 (3.40%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.72%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.04%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.36%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.36%) Metadata
6 2 (1.36%) Neo4j
6 2 (1.36%) Pinecone
6 2 (1.36%) Redis
6 2 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.36%) Tableau
7 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.68%) Ataccama
7 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.68%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 24 (16.33%) Git
2 10 (6.80%) MLflow
3 8 (5.44%) JIRA
4 7 (4.76%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.36%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.36%) Vite
6 1 (0.68%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.68%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.68%) GitLab
6 1 (0.68%) Hudson
6 1 (0.68%) Maven
6 1 (0.68%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.68%) Subversion
6 1 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.68%) VersionOne
6 1 (0.68%) Zephyr
General
1 77 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 58 (39.46%) Finance
3 52 (35.37%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (23.81%) Banking
5 22 (14.97%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (7.48%) Investment Banking
7 8 (5.44%) Front Office
8 6 (4.08%) Marketing
9 5 (3.40%) Financial Institution
9 5 (3.40%) Legal
9 5 (3.40%) Public Sector
9 5 (3.40%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.72%) Aviation
11 3 (2.04%) General Ledger
11 3 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (2.04%) Japanese Language
11 3 (2.04%) Retail
12 2 (1.36%) Advertising
12 2 (1.36%) French Language
13 1 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (16.33%) Architect
2 22 (14.97%) Lead
3 15 (10.20%) Data Scientist
3 15 (10.20%) Senior
4 14 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
5 13 (8.84%) Developer
5 13 (8.84%) Integration Architect
6 10 (6.80%) Cloud Architect
7 9 (6.12%) Cloud Solutions Architect
7 9 (6.12%) Consultant
8 7 (4.76%) Analyst
9 6 (4.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 6 (4.08%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 6 (4.08%) Project Manager
10 5 (3.40%) Senior Data Scientist
10 5 (3.40%) Test Manager
11 4 (2.72%) Business Analyst
11 4 (2.72%) Senior Consultant
11 4 (2.72%) Senior Implementation Consultant
11 4 (2.72%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.88%) Middleware
2 14 (9.52%) NumPy
2 14 (9.52%) Pandas
3 12 (8.16%) PyTorch
4 10 (6.80%) scikit-learn
5 8 (5.44%) LangChain
5 8 (5.44%) RESTful
5 8 (5.44%) TensorFlow
6 7 (4.76%) REST
7 6 (4.08%) Kafka
7 6 (4.08%) Model Context Protocol
8 5 (3.40%) .NET
8 5 (3.40%) Hugging Face
8 5 (3.40%) Web Services
9 4 (2.72%) LangGraph
9 4 (2.72%) Node.js
9 4 (2.72%) PySpark
9 4 (2.72%) SciPy
9 4 (2.72%) Seaborn
9 4 (2.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.52%) Management Information System
2 10 (6.80%) Distributed Computing
3 9 (6.12%) Algorithms
3 9 (6.12%) Derivative
4 8 (5.44%) AI Agents
4 8 (5.44%) Cloud Native
5 7 (4.76%) Equities
6 6 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (3.40%) Hedge funds
7 5 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (3.40%) Life Science
7 5 (3.40%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.72%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.72%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.72%) Equity Derivative
8 4 (2.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (2.72%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.72%) Windows
2 3 (2.04%) VMS
3 2 (1.36%) Linux
3 2 (1.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (55.78%) Computer Science
2 47 (31.97%) AI
3 45 (30.61%) Agile
4 40 (27.21%) Machine Learning
5 38 (25.85%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (25.17%) DevOps
6 37 (25.17%) Roadmaps
7 33 (22.45%) Decision-Making
8 31 (21.09%) Data Science
9 26 (17.69%) Analytics
9 26 (17.69%) CI/CD
9 26 (17.69%) Mathematics
9 26 (17.69%) Software Engineering
9 26 (17.69%) Validation
10 25 (17.01%) Stakeholder Management
11 22 (14.97%) Microservices
12 21 (14.29%) Generative AI
12 21 (14.29%) LLM
12 21 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
13 19 (12.93%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 54 (36.73%) Python
2 29 (19.73%) SQL
3 15 (10.20%) Java
4 7 (4.76%) C#
4 7 (4.76%) C++
5 4 (2.72%) Go
5 4 (2.72%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.04%) Scala
7 2 (1.36%) R
7 2 (1.36%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.68%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.68%) Bash
8 1 (0.68%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.68%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 147 (100.00%) Degree
2 61 (41.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (19.05%) PhD
4 17 (11.56%) MBA
5 10 (6.80%) CISSP
6 9 (6.12%) PMI Certification
7 7 (4.76%) PMP
8 6 (4.08%) CISM
8 6 (4.08%) CRISC
8 6 (4.08%) Security Cleared
9 5 (3.40%) AWS Certification
10 4 (2.72%) Azure Certification
10 4 (2.72%) CISA
11 3 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (1.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (1.36%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (1.36%) OSCP
12 2 (1.36%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.52%) QA
2 12 (8.16%) GDPR
3 10 (6.80%) NIST
4 8 (5.44%) IFRS
4 8 (5.44%) IFRS 17
5 6 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (4.08%) SLA
6 5 (3.40%) PCI DSS
6 5 (3.40%) PMO
7 4 (2.72%) Data Quality
7 4 (2.72%) IFRS 9
8 3 (2.04%) GRC
8 3 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (2.04%) SOC 2
9 2 (1.36%) Basel III
9 2 (1.36%) COBIT
9 2 (1.36%) GAAP
9 2 (1.36%) ISO 31000
9 2 (1.36%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.68%) EMIR
System Software
1 22 (14.97%) Docker
2 1 (0.68%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 15 (10.20%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.44%) Terraform
3 2 (1.36%) Control-M
Vendors
1 25 (17.01%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.52%) Databricks
3 12 (8.16%) Software AG
4 9 (6.12%) Oracle
5 8 (5.44%) Google
5 8 (5.44%) SAP
6 5 (3.40%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.36%) Adobe
7 2 (1.36%) Genesys
7 2 (1.36%) Informatica
7 2 (1.36%) Rapid7
7 2 (1.36%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.36%) Workday
8 1 (0.68%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.68%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.68%) Foundry
8 1 (0.68%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.68%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.68%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.68%) UiPath