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 27 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 225 206
Rank change year-on-year -96 -19 +61
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 113 140 192
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.56% 1.05% 1.18%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.02% 3.96% 4.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 87 123
10th Percentile £318 £380 £350
25th Percentile £445 £495 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £590 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% +9.77% -28.09%
75th Percentile £719 £733 £700
90th Percentile £781 £832 £825
England median daily rate £575 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -20.15%
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 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -44.62% +36.84% -26.92%

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 5,600 3,533 3,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.85% 26.40% 24.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,010 2,380 2,701
10th Percentile £375 £338 £350
25th Percentile £456 £425 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £763
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 83 67
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.83 £17.88
25th Percentile £26.06 £25.09 £22.00
Median hourly rate £53.00 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +110.74% -16.17% -45.45%
75th Percentile £73.00 £46.25 £46.25
90th Percentile £88.75 £65.00 £64.70
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £48.56
% change year-on-year +108.75% -48.21% -11.71%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -32 5 £755 +22.02% 33
West London -17 4 £550 +57.14% 60
East London +2 1 £775 - 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 6 (5.31%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.42%) Confluence
3 4 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.65%) Apache
5 1 (0.88%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.88%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.88%) PowerExchange
5 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.88%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (5.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.54%) UserZoom
4 3 (2.65%) CPLEX
4 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.77%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
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%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 24 (21.24%) AWS
1 24 (21.24%) Azure
2 18 (15.93%) GCP
3 5 (4.42%) GitHub
3 5 (4.42%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (4.42%) Power Platform
3 5 (4.42%) Snowflake
4 4 (3.54%) Amazon SageMaker
4 4 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (3.54%) Miro
4 4 (3.54%) Serverless
5 3 (2.65%) Asana
5 3 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (2.65%) Dagster
5 3 (2.65%) Smartsheet
6 2 (1.77%) Amazon Neptune
6 2 (1.77%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (1.77%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.77%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.54%) 3GPP
2 3 (2.65%) Firewall
2 3 (2.65%) Network Security
3 2 (1.77%) 5G
3 2 (1.77%) IPv4
3 2 (1.77%) IPv6
3 2 (1.77%) NGN
3 2 (1.77%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (1.77%) tcpdump
3 2 (1.77%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.88%) BGP
4 1 (0.88%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.88%) IPsec
4 1 (0.88%) LAN
4 1 (0.88%) OSPF
4 1 (0.88%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.88%) VoIP
4 1 (0.88%) VPN
4 1 (0.88%) WAN
4 1 (0.88%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.19%) Big Data
1 7 (6.19%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (5.31%) Data Mining
2 6 (5.31%) Metadata
2 6 (5.31%) Neo4j
2 6 (5.31%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.42%) MongoDB
3 5 (4.42%) Power BI
4 4 (3.54%) Data Lake
4 4 (3.54%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.54%) Oracle Database
5 3 (2.65%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.65%) Tableau
6 2 (1.77%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (1.77%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (1.77%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.88%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.88%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.88%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.88%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 12 (10.62%) JIRA
2 6 (5.31%) Git
2 6 (5.31%) MLflow
3 2 (1.77%) Selenium
4 1 (0.88%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.88%) Hudson
4 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.88%) Maven
4 1 (0.88%) Mocha
4 1 (0.88%) Subversion
4 1 (0.88%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.88%) VersionOne
4 1 (0.88%) Zephyr
General
1 51 (45.13%) Social Skills
2 45 (39.82%) Finance
3 27 (23.89%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (11.50%) Banking
5 11 (9.73%) Public Sector
6 9 (7.96%) Marketing
7 7 (6.19%) Telecoms
8 6 (5.31%) Front Office
9 5 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (4.42%) Publishing
10 4 (3.54%) Investment Banking
10 4 (3.54%) Social Science
11 3 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (2.65%) Manufacturing
11 3 (2.65%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (2.65%) Retail
12 2 (1.77%) Aviation
12 2 (1.77%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 21 (18.58%) Senior
2 17 (15.04%) Developer
3 15 (13.27%) Architect
4 12 (10.62%) Lead
5 9 (7.96%) Analyst
5 9 (7.96%) Data Scientist
6 5 (4.42%) Engineering Manager
6 5 (4.42%) Junior
6 5 (4.42%) Python Developer
6 5 (4.42%) Senior Manager
6 5 (4.42%) Software Engineering Manager
6 5 (4.42%) Software Manager
6 5 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.54%) C# Developer
7 4 (3.54%) E-Commerce Manager
7 4 (3.54%) Enterprise Architect
7 4 (3.54%) Front Office Developer
7 4 (3.54%) Programme Manager
7 4 (3.54%) Project Manager
7 4 (3.54%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.96%) REST
2 8 (7.08%) NumPy
2 8 (7.08%) Pandas
3 7 (6.19%) .NET
3 7 (6.19%) PySpark
3 7 (6.19%) PyTorch
4 6 (5.31%) scikit-learn
5 5 (4.42%) Kafka
5 5 (4.42%) RESTful
5 5 (4.42%) Terraform
6 4 (3.54%) React
6 4 (3.54%) TensorFlow
7 3 (2.65%) GraphQL
7 3 (2.65%) LangChain
7 3 (2.65%) React Native
7 3 (2.65%) Web Services
8 2 (1.77%) Flutter
8 2 (1.77%) Middleware
8 2 (1.77%) Playwright
8 2 (1.77%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.50%) Algorithms
2 11 (9.73%) Derivative
2 11 (9.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (8.85%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (6.19%) Data Structures
4 7 (6.19%) Management Information System
5 6 (5.31%) Equities
6 5 (4.42%) Exotic Derivative
6 5 (4.42%) Fixed Income
6 5 (4.42%) OTC Derivatives
6 5 (4.42%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.54%) AI Agents
7 4 (3.54%) Cloud Native
7 4 (3.54%) Graphic Design
7 4 (3.54%) Hedge funds
7 4 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.65%) Marketing Technology
8 3 (2.65%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.77%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.77%) Linux
1 2 (1.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (56.64%) Computer Science
2 38 (33.63%) Agile
3 37 (32.74%) AI
4 33 (29.20%) Analytics
5 31 (27.43%) Software Engineering
6 30 (26.55%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (23.01%) Machine Learning
7 26 (23.01%) Mathematics
8 24 (21.24%) Stakeholder Management
9 23 (20.35%) Data Science
10 19 (16.81%) Decision-Making
10 19 (16.81%) Roadmaps
11 17 (15.04%) CI/CD
12 15 (13.27%) Data Engineering
12 15 (13.27%) Generative AI
13 14 (12.39%) Data Modelling
13 14 (12.39%) LLM
13 14 (12.39%) Physics
14 13 (11.50%) Risk Management
14 13 (11.50%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 40 (35.40%) Python
2 31 (27.43%) SQL
3 15 (13.27%) Java
4 8 (7.08%) C#
4 8 (7.08%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.31%) C++
6 3 (2.65%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.65%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.77%) Bash
7 2 (1.77%) Bicep
7 2 (1.77%) Cypher
7 2 (1.77%) SPARQL
8 1 (0.88%) C
8 1 (0.88%) Gremlin
8 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.88%) Scala
8 1 (0.88%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 113 (100.00%) Degree
2 40 (35.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (23.89%) PhD
4 23 (20.35%) MBA
5 8 (7.08%) Security Cleared
6 7 (6.19%) SC Cleared
7 5 (4.42%) PMI Certification
8 4 (3.54%) PMP
9 3 (2.65%) AWS Certification
9 3 (2.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.77%) CISM
10 2 (1.77%) CISSP
10 2 (1.77%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.88%) CESG Certified Professional
11 1 (0.88%) CFA
11 1 (0.88%) CISA
11 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.88%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.08%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.42%) QA
3 4 (3.54%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.65%) GDPR
5 2 (1.77%) PMO
5 2 (1.77%) SLA
6 1 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.88%) EMIR
6 1 (0.88%) GMP
6 1 (0.88%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.88%) MiFID
6 1 (0.88%) NCSC
6 1 (0.88%) NIST
6 1 (0.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (9.73%) Docker
2 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (5.31%) 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 (20.35%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.73%) Oracle
3 10 (8.85%) Google
4 9 (7.96%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.65%) Databricks
6 2 (1.77%) Adobe
6 2 (1.77%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.77%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.77%) Duck Creek
6 2 (1.77%) Guidewire
6 2 (1.77%) SAP
6 2 (1.77%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.77%) UiPath
7 1 (0.88%) Apple
7 1 (0.88%) Avaloq
7 1 (0.88%) Cisco
7 1 (0.88%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.88%) Plaid
7 1 (0.88%) Reuters
7 1 (0.88%) VMware