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 19 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 204 205
Rank change year-on-year -13 +1 +59
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 188 153 202
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.21% 1.13% 1.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.11% 4.47% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 88 136
10th Percentile £363 £357 £375
25th Percentile £424 £478 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £563 £650
Median % change year-on-year +0.27% -13.46% -4.41%
75th Percentile £706 £776 £778
90th Percentile £880 £924 £850
England median daily rate £525 £570 £619
% change year-on-year -7.89% -7.84% +3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 8
10th Percentile - £32.86 £10.42
25th Percentile £50.72 £36.13 £23.99
Median hourly rate £51.44 £45.67 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.63% -32.34% +45.16%
75th Percentile £52.16 £58.63 £83.75
90th Percentile - £63.95 -
England median hourly rate £33.50 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -44.17% +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 4,578 3,423 4,442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.37% 25.28% 24.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,250 2,156 2,969
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £430 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £772 £769
England median daily rate £520 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 60 129
10th Percentile £19.94 £21.48 £14.27
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £35.00 £38.25 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% +7.75% -11.25%
75th Percentile £65.88 £56.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.88 £83.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% +5.56% -0.55%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 -11 25 £525 -17.32% 44
West London -16 8 £500 +657.58% 8
East London -1 1 £1,000 +250.88% 6
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 17 (9.04%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.60%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.06%) Confluence
3 2 (1.06%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.06%) Hyperledger
3 2 (1.06%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.53%) Apache
4 1 (0.53%) Camunda
4 1 (0.53%) CMS
4 1 (0.53%) Drupal
4 1 (0.53%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.53%) SAP Portal
4 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.53%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (5.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.53%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.53%) Camtasia
4 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.53%) Navisworks
4 1 (0.53%) ProjectWise
4 1 (0.53%) Revit
4 1 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.60%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (1.60%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.06%) Oracle FAH
3 2 (1.06%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.06%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (1.06%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.06%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.53%) Endur
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.53%) SAP FI-CA
4 1 (0.53%) SAP FI-GL
4 1 (0.53%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.53%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 52 (27.66%) Azure
2 33 (17.55%) AWS
3 23 (12.23%) SaaS
4 15 (7.98%) GCP
5 14 (7.45%) GitHub
6 10 (5.32%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (5.32%) Power Platform
7 9 (4.79%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (4.26%) OCI
8 8 (4.26%) Serverless
9 7 (3.72%) Amazon S3
9 7 (3.72%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (3.19%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (3.19%) IaaS
11 5 (2.66%) Amazon SageMaker
11 5 (2.66%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (2.66%) PaaS
12 4 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.19%) HTTP
2 5 (2.66%) CTI
2 5 (2.66%) VoIP
3 3 (1.60%) Network Security
4 2 (1.06%) 3GPP
4 2 (1.06%) Intelligent Network
4 2 (1.06%) S/MIME
4 2 (1.06%) SSL
4 2 (1.06%) Wireless
5 1 (0.53%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.32%) Big Data
1 10 (5.32%) Power BI
2 6 (3.19%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.66%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.13%) Tableau
5 3 (1.60%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.60%) Pinecone
5 3 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.06%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.06%) Redis
6 2 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.06%) Weaviate
7 1 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.53%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.53%) Essbase
7 1 (0.53%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.53%) KDB
7 1 (0.53%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.53%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 20 (10.64%) Git
2 7 (3.72%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.72%) JIRA
3 6 (3.19%) MLflow
4 4 (2.13%) Appium
4 4 (2.13%) Charles Proxy
4 4 (2.13%) Katalon Studio
4 4 (2.13%) Postman
4 4 (2.13%) XCUITest
5 3 (1.60%) IntelliJ
6 2 (1.06%) Hardhat
6 2 (1.06%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.06%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.06%) Vite
7 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.53%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.53%) Gatling
7 1 (0.53%) GitLab
7 1 (0.53%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
General
1 92 (48.94%) Social Skills
2 83 (44.15%) Finance
3 62 (32.98%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (21.28%) Banking
5 23 (12.23%) Presentation Skills
6 16 (8.51%) Front Office
7 12 (6.38%) Investment Banking
8 10 (5.32%) Financial Institution
9 8 (4.26%) Legal
10 7 (3.72%) Marketing
11 6 (3.19%) Manufacturing
12 5 (2.66%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (2.66%) Retail
12 5 (2.66%) Telecoms
13 4 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (2.13%) Public Sector
14 3 (1.60%) General Ledger
15 2 (1.06%) Aviation
15 2 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (1.06%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 30 (15.96%) Lead
2 23 (12.23%) Architect
2 23 (12.23%) Developer
3 19 (10.11%) Senior
4 15 (7.98%) Analyst
5 14 (7.45%) Consultant
6 13 (6.91%) Integration Architect
7 12 (6.38%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (5.85%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 10 (5.32%) Project Manager
10 9 (4.79%) Business Analyst
10 9 (4.79%) Cloud Architect
10 9 (4.79%) Cloud Solutions Architect
10 9 (4.79%) Data Scientist
11 8 (4.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 8 (4.26%) Quantitative Developer
12 6 (3.19%) Test Manager
13 5 (2.66%) Genesys Developer
13 5 (2.66%) Lead Data Scientist
13 5 (2.66%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.57%) Middleware
2 15 (7.98%) PyTorch
3 12 (6.38%) TensorFlow
4 11 (5.85%) .NET
4 11 (5.85%) NumPy
5 10 (5.32%) LangChain
6 9 (4.79%) Pandas
7 7 (3.72%) RESTful
7 7 (3.72%) Web Services
8 6 (3.19%) Dask
8 6 (3.19%) Hugging Face
8 6 (3.19%) Kafka
8 6 (3.19%) Model Context Protocol
8 6 (3.19%) REST
8 6 (3.19%) scikit-learn
9 5 (2.66%) LangGraph
9 5 (2.66%) SOAP
9 5 (2.66%) XML
10 4 (2.13%) Node.js
10 4 (2.13%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.04%) Derivative
1 17 (9.04%) Distributed Computing
2 16 (8.51%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.51%) Management Information System
3 13 (6.91%) Algorithms
4 12 (6.38%) Equities
5 10 (5.32%) Fixed Income
5 10 (5.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (4.79%) Product Ownership
7 8 (4.26%) AI Agents
7 8 (4.26%) Hedge funds
7 8 (4.26%) Life Science
7 8 (4.26%) PMI
8 7 (3.72%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (3.19%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (3.19%) Mobile App
10 5 (2.66%) Equity Derivative
10 5 (2.66%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.66%) Windows
2 4 (2.13%) Android
2 4 (2.13%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.60%) Linux
3 3 (1.60%) VMS
4 2 (1.06%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (62.77%) Computer Science
2 60 (31.91%) Agile
3 59 (31.38%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (30.32%) AI
5 45 (23.94%) Machine Learning
6 41 (21.81%) DevOps
6 41 (21.81%) Roadmaps
6 41 (21.81%) Stakeholder Management
7 38 (20.21%) Risk Management
8 36 (19.15%) Analytics
8 36 (19.15%) Decision-Making
9 32 (17.02%) Mathematics
10 31 (16.49%) CI/CD
10 31 (16.49%) Data Science
11 30 (15.96%) Validation
12 29 (15.43%) LLM
12 29 (15.43%) Software Engineering
13 28 (14.89%) Generative AI
14 26 (13.83%) Use Case
15 25 (13.30%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 65 (34.57%) Python
2 32 (17.02%) SQL
3 18 (9.57%) Java
4 13 (6.91%) C++
5 9 (4.79%) C#
6 8 (4.26%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.19%) Bash
7 6 (3.19%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.66%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.13%) Go
9 4 (2.13%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.13%) Swift
10 3 (1.60%) Bicep
10 3 (1.60%) VBA
11 2 (1.06%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.06%) R
11 2 (1.06%) Scala
11 2 (1.06%) Solidity
12 1 (0.53%) F#
12 1 (0.53%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 188 (100.00%) Degree
2 69 (36.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 37 (19.68%) PhD
4 17 (9.04%) PMI Certification
5 16 (8.51%) MBA
6 12 (6.38%) CISSP
7 11 (5.85%) PMP
8 7 (3.72%) Azure Certification
9 6 (3.19%) CISM
9 6 (3.19%) CRISC
10 5 (2.66%) CBAP
11 4 (2.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (2.13%) CCSP
11 4 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (2.13%) Security Cleared
12 3 (1.60%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.60%) CISA
12 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.57%) QA
2 17 (9.04%) GDPR
3 10 (5.32%) NIST
4 9 (4.79%) IFRS
4 9 (4.79%) IFRS 17
4 9 (4.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (4.26%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.66%) Accessibility
6 5 (2.66%) Data Quality
6 5 (2.66%) GRC
6 5 (2.66%) IFRS 9
6 5 (2.66%) SLA
7 3 (1.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (1.60%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.60%) PMO
7 3 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (1.60%) SOC 2
8 2 (1.06%) Basel III
8 2 (1.06%) COBIT
8 2 (1.06%) GAAP
System Software
1 27 (14.36%) Docker
2 2 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.53%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (12.23%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.51%) Terraform
3 2 (1.06%) Control-M
3 2 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.53%) Grafana
4 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (13.83%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.57%) Databricks
3 15 (7.98%) SAP
4 12 (6.38%) Oracle
4 12 (6.38%) Software AG
5 7 (3.72%) Google
6 5 (2.66%) Genesys
6 5 (2.66%) Splunk
7 4 (2.13%) Informatica
7 4 (2.13%) Workday
8 3 (1.60%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.06%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.06%) IBM
9 2 (1.06%) Rapid7
9 2 (1.06%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.53%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.53%) Hotjar
10 1 (0.53%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.53%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.53%) UiPath