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 29 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 201 209
Rank change year-on-year -7 +8 +57
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 181 168 190
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.22% 1.21% 1.04%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.15% 4.72% 4.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 103 121
10th Percentile £373 £393 £350
25th Percentile £424 £494 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £706 £750 £788
90th Percentile £894 £858 £975
England median daily rate £525 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -8.70% -8.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 9
10th Percentile £53.58 - £10.42
25th Percentile £57.86 £30.67 £28.51
Median hourly rate £65.00 £31.35 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +107.37% -45.49% +34.50%
75th Percentile - £32.02 £83.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £33.50 £27.67 £55.00
% change year-on-year +21.07% -49.69% +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 4,361 3,561 4,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.51% 25.62% 24.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,056 2,217 2,985
10th Percentile £363 £352 £325
25th Percentile £431 £450 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.28% -0.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £639 £656 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £763
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.10% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 62 122
10th Percentile £20.24 £21.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £31.14 £37.25 £35.57
Median % change year-on-year -16.42% +4.74% -1.51%
75th Percentile £65.00 £55.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.40 £83.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £47.50
% change year-on-year -45.54% -2.78% +5.56%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 29 January 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 24 £600 +2.13% 29
West London -11 6 £550 +733.33% 10
East London - 1 £1,000 - 4
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 16 (8.84%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.66%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.10%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.10%) Hyperledger
3 2 (1.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.55%) Camunda
4 1 (0.55%) CMS
4 1 (0.55%) Confluence
4 1 (0.55%) Drupal
4 1 (0.55%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.55%) SAP Portal
4 1 (0.55%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.55%) Camtasia
4 1 (0.55%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.55%) Navisworks
4 1 (0.55%) ProjectWise
4 1 (0.55%) Revit
4 1 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.66%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (1.66%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 3 (1.66%) SAP IBP
3 2 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.10%) Oracle FAH
3 2 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.10%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (1.10%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.55%) Endur
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.55%) SAP FI-CA
4 1 (0.55%) SAP FI-GL
4 1 (0.55%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.55%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 54 (29.83%) Azure
2 34 (18.78%) AWS
3 21 (11.60%) SaaS
4 16 (8.84%) GCP
5 13 (7.18%) GitHub
6 10 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (5.52%) Power Platform
7 9 (4.97%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (4.97%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (4.42%) OCI
8 8 (4.42%) Serverless
9 7 (3.87%) Amazon S3
9 7 (3.87%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (3.31%) Azure Machine Learning
10 6 (3.31%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (3.31%) IaaS
11 5 (2.76%) Azure AI
11 5 (2.76%) PaaS
11 5 (2.76%) Sentry
12 4 (2.21%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.87%) HTTP
2 5 (2.76%) CTI
2 5 (2.76%) VoIP
3 4 (2.21%) Network Security
4 2 (1.10%) 3GPP
4 2 (1.10%) Intelligent Network
4 2 (1.10%) S/MIME
4 2 (1.10%) SSL
4 2 (1.10%) Wireless
5 1 (0.55%) Firewall
5 1 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.52%) Power BI
2 9 (4.97%) Big Data
3 7 (3.87%) SQL Server
4 6 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (3.31%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.21%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.21%) Pinecone
5 4 (2.21%) Tableau
6 3 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.10%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.10%) Redis
7 2 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.10%) Weaviate
8 1 (0.55%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
8 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.55%) Flink
8 1 (0.55%) Kdb+
8 1 (0.55%) Metadata
8 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (9.39%) Git
2 6 (3.31%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.31%) JIRA
3 5 (2.76%) Appium
3 5 (2.76%) Charles Proxy
3 5 (2.76%) Katalon Studio
3 5 (2.76%) Postman
3 5 (2.76%) XCUITest
4 4 (2.21%) IntelliJ
5 3 (1.66%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.10%) Hardhat
6 2 (1.10%) MLflow
6 2 (1.10%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.10%) Vite
7 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.55%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.55%) GitLab
7 1 (0.55%) JMeter
7 1 (0.55%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.55%) SonarQube
General
1 86 (47.51%) Social Skills
2 79 (43.65%) Finance
3 56 (30.94%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (21.55%) Banking
5 23 (12.71%) Presentation Skills
6 17 (9.39%) Front Office
7 15 (8.29%) Investment Banking
8 11 (6.08%) Financial Institution
9 9 (4.97%) Legal
10 7 (3.87%) Manufacturing
11 6 (3.31%) Marketing
11 6 (3.31%) Telecoms
12 5 (2.76%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (2.76%) Public Sector
12 5 (2.76%) Retail
13 4 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (1.66%) General Ledger
15 2 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (1.10%) French Language
15 2 (1.10%) Law
Job Titles
1 27 (14.92%) Lead
2 26 (14.36%) Developer
3 19 (10.50%) Architect
4 18 (9.94%) Senior
5 15 (8.29%) Analyst
6 12 (6.63%) Project Manager
7 11 (6.08%) Consultant
7 11 (6.08%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 11 (6.08%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (5.52%) Business Analyst
8 10 (5.52%) Integration Architect
9 9 (4.97%) Cloud Architect
9 9 (4.97%) Cloud Solutions Architect
9 9 (4.97%) Quantitative Developer
10 8 (4.42%) Data Scientist
11 7 (3.87%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 6 (3.31%) Test Manager
13 5 (2.76%) Data Engineer
13 5 (2.76%) Genesys Developer
13 5 (2.76%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.29%) Middleware
2 13 (7.18%) PyTorch
3 12 (6.63%) TensorFlow
4 11 (6.08%) .NET
5 10 (5.52%) NumPy
6 9 (4.97%) LangChain
7 8 (4.42%) Pandas
7 8 (4.42%) RESTful
7 8 (4.42%) Web Services
8 7 (3.87%) Kafka
9 6 (3.31%) Dask
9 6 (3.31%) Hugging Face
10 5 (2.76%) LangGraph
10 5 (2.76%) REST
10 5 (2.76%) scikit-learn
10 5 (2.76%) XML
11 4 (2.21%) Node.js
11 4 (2.21%) OAuth
11 4 (2.21%) PySpark
11 4 (2.21%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.39%) Derivative
2 15 (8.29%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.29%) Distributed Computing
2 15 (8.29%) Management Information System
3 12 (6.63%) Equities
4 11 (6.08%) Algorithms
4 11 (6.08%) Product Ownership
5 10 (5.52%) Fixed Income
5 10 (5.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (5.52%) Hedge funds
5 10 (5.52%) PMI
6 9 (4.97%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (4.42%) AI Agents
8 7 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (3.87%) Mobile App
9 6 (3.31%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (2.76%) Equity Derivative
10 5 (2.76%) IVR
10 5 (2.76%) Life Science
11 4 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.76%) Android
1 5 (2.76%) Apple iOS
1 5 (2.76%) Windows
2 4 (2.21%) Linux
3 2 (1.10%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.55%) Unix
4 1 (0.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (65.75%) Computer Science
2 59 (32.60%) Problem-Solving
3 56 (30.94%) Agile
4 54 (29.83%) AI
5 41 (22.65%) Machine Learning
5 41 (22.65%) Stakeholder Management
6 40 (22.10%) Risk Management
7 39 (21.55%) DevOps
8 36 (19.89%) Analytics
9 35 (19.34%) Roadmaps
10 33 (18.23%) Decision-Making
11 31 (17.13%) Mathematics
12 29 (16.02%) Software Engineering
13 28 (15.47%) CI/CD
13 28 (15.47%) Validation
14 27 (14.92%) Data Science
14 27 (14.92%) Generative AI
14 27 (14.92%) LLM
14 27 (14.92%) Project Delivery
15 25 (13.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 63 (34.81%) Python
2 31 (17.13%) SQL
3 19 (10.50%) Java
4 14 (7.73%) C++
5 10 (5.52%) C#
6 8 (4.42%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.31%) Bash
7 6 (3.31%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.76%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.76%) Swift
8 5 (2.76%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.21%) Go
10 3 (1.66%) Bicep
10 3 (1.66%) VBA
11 2 (1.10%) R
11 2 (1.10%) Solidity
12 1 (0.55%) F#
12 1 (0.55%) Jython
12 1 (0.55%) SOQL
12 1 (0.55%) VC++
Qualifications
1 181 (100.00%) Degree
2 66 (36.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 36 (19.89%) PhD
4 20 (11.05%) PMI Certification
5 17 (9.39%) MBA
6 14 (7.73%) PMP
7 11 (6.08%) CISSP
8 6 (3.31%) CISM
8 6 (3.31%) MCP
9 5 (2.76%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.76%) CBAP
10 4 (2.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (2.21%) AWS Certification
10 4 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (2.21%) CCSP
10 4 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (2.21%) CRISC
10 4 (2.21%) Security Cleared
11 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.66%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.94%) QA
2 17 (9.39%) GDPR
3 9 (4.97%) IFRS
3 9 (4.97%) IFRS 17
4 7 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.87%) NIST
4 7 (3.87%) PCI DSS
5 6 (3.31%) Accessibility
6 5 (2.76%) Data Quality
6 5 (2.76%) GRC
6 5 (2.76%) IFRS 9
7 3 (1.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (1.66%) GMP
7 3 (1.66%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (1.10%) Basel III
8 2 (1.10%) GAAP
8 2 (1.10%) SLA
9 1 (0.55%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (13.26%) Docker
2 2 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (11.60%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.84%) Terraform
3 2 (1.10%) Control-M
3 2 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.55%) Grafana
4 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (13.81%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.39%) Databricks
3 15 (8.29%) SAP
4 13 (7.18%) Oracle
5 10 (5.52%) Software AG
6 7 (3.87%) Google
7 6 (3.31%) Splunk
8 5 (2.76%) Genesys
8 5 (2.76%) Informatica
9 4 (2.21%) Workday
10 2 (1.10%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.10%) IBM
10 2 (1.10%) Rapid7
10 2 (1.10%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.55%) Adobe
11 1 (0.55%) Anaplan
11 1 (0.55%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.55%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.55%) Dell
11 1 (0.55%) HP