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 25 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 230 199
Rank change year-on-year -121 -31 +52
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 114 143 218
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.56% 1.06% 1.34%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.98% 4.01% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 86 133
10th Percentile £310 £383 £350
25th Percentile £461 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +6.98% -25.86%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £710
90th Percentile £780 £805 £861
England median daily rate £600 £525 £531
% change year-on-year +14.29% -1.18% -18.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 3
10th Percentile £32.52 - £42.25
25th Percentile £34.76 £65.00 £43.75
Median hourly rate £36.00 £73.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.19% +55.26% -26.92%
75th Percentile £48.25 £86.25 £58.38
90th Percentile £70.30 - £64.15
England median hourly rate £36.00 £33.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year +7.46% -19.28% -36.15%

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 5,766 3,569 4,007
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.37% 26.49% 24.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,168 2,403 2,583
10th Percentile £366 £358 £350
25th Percentile £457 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £775
England median daily rate £530 £525 £535
% change year-on-year +0.95% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 81 60
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £18.10
25th Percentile £26.25 - £24.17
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -29.65% -24.74%
75th Percentile £85.00 £34.48 £56.38
90th Percentile £155.00 £65.00 £71.63
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £54.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -53.43% +0.24%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -30 7 £755 +37.27% 118
West London -23 2 £460 +31.43% 61
East London +1 1 £775 - 1
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 7 (6.14%) Apache Spark
2 6 (5.26%) Confluence
3 3 (2.63%) Apache
4 1 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.88%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.88%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.88%) PowerExchange
4 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.51%) UserZoom
2 3 (2.63%) CPLEX
2 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.63%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.75%) Workfront
2 1 (0.88%) Endur
2 1 (0.88%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.88%) SAP IBP
2 1 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 25 (21.93%) Azure
2 23 (20.18%) GCP
3 20 (17.54%) AWS
4 8 (7.02%) Snowflake
5 7 (6.14%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (5.26%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.51%) GitHub
7 4 (3.51%) Miro
8 3 (2.63%) Asana
8 3 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.63%) Serverless
8 3 (2.63%) Smartsheet
9 2 (1.75%) Amazon Neptune
9 2 (1.75%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (1.75%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.75%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.75%) dbt
9 2 (1.75%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.75%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.14%) 3GPP
2 5 (4.39%) 5G
2 5 (4.39%) NGN
2 5 (4.39%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (4.39%) tcpdump
2 5 (4.39%) Wireshark
3 3 (2.63%) Firewall
3 3 (2.63%) Network Security
4 2 (1.75%) IPv4
4 2 (1.75%) IPv6
5 1 (0.88%) BGP
5 1 (0.88%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.88%) IPsec
5 1 (0.88%) LAN
5 1 (0.88%) OSPF
5 1 (0.88%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.88%) VoIP
5 1 (0.88%) VPN
5 1 (0.88%) WAN
5 1 (0.88%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.02%) Big Data
1 8 (7.02%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (6.14%) SQL Server
3 6 (5.26%) Data Lake
3 6 (5.26%) Data Mining
3 6 (5.26%) Neo4j
3 6 (5.26%) Power BI
4 5 (4.39%) Metadata
4 5 (4.39%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.51%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.63%) BigQuery
6 3 (2.63%) Delta Lake
6 3 (2.63%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.63%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.75%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (1.75%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.75%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (1.75%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (1.75%) Tableau
8 1 (0.88%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (10.53%) JIRA
2 9 (7.89%) Git
3 4 (3.51%) MLflow
4 2 (1.75%) Selenium
5 1 (0.88%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.88%) ERwin
5 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.88%) Mocha
5 1 (0.88%) Zephyr
General
1 52 (45.61%) Finance
1 52 (45.61%) Social Skills
2 31 (27.19%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (16.67%) Banking
4 13 (11.40%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.89%) Telecoms
6 8 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (6.14%) Marketing
8 6 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (5.26%) Front Office
8 6 (5.26%) Manufacturing
9 5 (4.39%) Publishing
10 4 (3.51%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (3.51%) Social Science
11 3 (2.63%) Investment Banking
11 3 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (2.63%) Retail Banking
12 2 (1.75%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.75%) Legal
Job Titles
1 22 (19.30%) Senior
2 16 (14.04%) Architect
2 16 (14.04%) Developer
3 10 (8.77%) Lead
4 9 (7.89%) Analyst
5 7 (6.14%) Data Scientist
6 5 (4.39%) Data Engineer
6 5 (4.39%) Engineering Manager
6 5 (4.39%) Enterprise Architect
6 5 (4.39%) Junior
6 5 (4.39%) Senior Manager
6 5 (4.39%) Software Engineering Manager
6 5 (4.39%) Software Manager
6 5 (4.39%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (4.39%) Technologist
7 4 (3.51%) C# Developer
7 4 (3.51%) E-Commerce Manager
7 4 (3.51%) Front Office Developer
7 4 (3.51%) Quantitative Developer
7 4 (3.51%) Senior User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.65%) REST
2 9 (7.89%) .NET
3 8 (7.02%) PyTorch
4 7 (6.14%) Kafka
5 6 (5.26%) PySpark
5 6 (5.26%) Terraform
6 5 (4.39%) NumPy
6 5 (4.39%) Pandas
6 5 (4.39%) XGBoost
7 4 (3.51%) LangChain
7 4 (3.51%) React
7 4 (3.51%) RESTful
7 4 (3.51%) scikit-learn
7 4 (3.51%) TensorFlow
8 3 (2.63%) GraphQL
8 3 (2.63%) React Native
8 3 (2.63%) Web Services
9 2 (1.75%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.75%) Middleware
9 2 (1.75%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.04%) Algorithms
2 11 (9.65%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (9.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (8.77%) Derivative
4 8 (7.02%) Product Ownership
5 7 (6.14%) Credit Risk
6 6 (5.26%) Cloud Native
6 6 (5.26%) Data Structures
6 6 (5.26%) Management Information System
7 5 (4.39%) AI Agents
7 5 (4.39%) Equities
7 5 (4.39%) Exotic Derivative
7 5 (4.39%) Fixed Income
7 5 (4.39%) OTC Derivatives
8 4 (3.51%) Graphic Design
8 4 (3.51%) Hedge funds
8 4 (3.51%) Onboarding
8 4 (3.51%) Virtual Team
9 3 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.75%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.39%) Unix
2 2 (1.75%) Linux
2 2 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (57.89%) Computer Science
2 45 (39.47%) AI
3 37 (32.46%) Agile
3 37 (32.46%) Analytics
4 34 (29.82%) Software Engineering
5 29 (25.44%) Machine Learning
5 29 (25.44%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (24.56%) Stakeholder Management
7 26 (22.81%) Mathematics
8 25 (21.93%) Data Science
9 22 (19.30%) CI/CD
10 21 (18.42%) Roadmaps
11 20 (17.54%) Risk Management
12 18 (15.79%) Decision-Making
13 16 (14.04%) DevOps
14 15 (13.16%) Data Modelling
14 15 (13.16%) Generative AI
14 15 (13.16%) LLM
14 15 (13.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 15 (13.16%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 41 (35.96%) Python
2 30 (26.32%) SQL
3 13 (11.40%) Java
4 9 (7.89%) C#
5 7 (6.14%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.39%) C++
6 5 (4.39%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.63%) Bicep
7 3 (2.63%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.63%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.75%) Bash
8 2 (1.75%) Cypher
8 2 (1.75%) SPARQL
9 1 (0.88%) C
9 1 (0.88%) Gremlin
9 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.88%) Scala
9 1 (0.88%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 114 (100.00%) Degree
2 39 (34.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (25.44%) PhD
4 19 (16.67%) MBA
5 8 (7.02%) SC Cleared
5 8 (7.02%) Security Cleared
6 6 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (5.26%) PMI Certification
7 5 (4.39%) PMP
8 3 (2.63%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.63%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.75%) CISM
9 2 (1.75%) CISSP
10 1 (0.88%) CBAP
10 1 (0.88%) CESG Certified Professional
10 1 (0.88%) CISA
10 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.88%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.28%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.39%) Basel III
3 4 (3.51%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.51%) QA
4 3 (2.63%) GDPR
5 2 (1.75%) SLA
6 1 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.88%) GMP
6 1 (0.88%) GRC
6 1 (0.88%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.88%) NCSC
6 1 (0.88%) NIST
6 1 (0.88%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.88%) PMO
6 1 (0.88%) PSD2
6 1 (0.88%) SEPA
System Software
1 11 (9.65%) Docker
2 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (7.02%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.88%) CASB
2 1 (0.88%) Grafana
2 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (20.18%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.65%) Oracle
3 10 (8.77%) Google
4 7 (6.14%) Salesforce
5 6 (5.26%) Databricks
6 3 (2.63%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.75%) Adobe
7 2 (1.75%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.75%) Calypso
7 2 (1.75%) Duck Creek
7 2 (1.75%) Foundry
7 2 (1.75%) Guidewire
7 2 (1.75%) Murex
7 2 (1.75%) SAP
7 2 (1.75%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.75%) UiPath
8 1 (0.88%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.88%) Cisco
8 1 (0.88%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.88%) Temenos