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 7 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 206 203
Rank change year-on-year -18 -3 +65
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 180 151 205
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.11% 1.13% 1.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.75% 4.45% 4.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 94 136
10th Percentile £372 £383 £375
25th Percentile £423 £490 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -7.69% -6.38%
75th Percentile £700 £797 £775
90th Percentile £900 £989 £850
England median daily rate £525 £580 £625
% change year-on-year -9.48% -7.20% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 9
10th Percentile - £32.86 £10.42
25th Percentile £50.72 £36.13 £28.51
Median hourly rate £51.44 £45.67 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.63% -39.10% +54.64%
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 4,798 3,391 4,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.50% 25.29% 24.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,413 2,200 2,979
10th Percentile £359 £350 £325
25th Percentile £430 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% -4.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £774
England median daily rate £520 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 64 130
10th Percentile £20.44 £21.50 £14.27
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £36.00 £36.75 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +14.43% -20.70%
75th Percentile £72.50 £56.88 £60.94
90th Percentile £76.59 £78.40 £83.75
England median hourly rate £25.77 £52.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -50.91% +31.25% -18.37%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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 -7 23 £525 -19.23% 62
West London -12 8 £500 - 15
East London +3 1 £1,000 +250.88% 11
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 (8.89%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.67%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.11%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.11%) Hyperledger
3 2 (1.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.56%) Apache
4 1 (0.56%) Camunda
4 1 (0.56%) CMS
4 1 (0.56%) Confluence
4 1 (0.56%) Drupal
4 1 (0.56%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.56%) SAP Portal
4 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.56%) Camtasia
4 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.56%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.67%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (1.67%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.11%) Oracle FAH
2 2 (1.11%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (1.11%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.56%) Endur
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.56%) SAP FI-CA
3 1 (0.56%) SAP FI-GL
3 1 (0.56%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.56%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 50 (27.78%) Azure
2 32 (17.78%) AWS
3 22 (12.22%) SaaS
4 14 (7.78%) GCP
4 14 (7.78%) GitHub
5 10 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (4.44%) OCI
7 8 (4.44%) Power Platform
7 8 (4.44%) Serverless
8 7 (3.89%) Amazon S3
8 7 (3.89%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.33%) IaaS
10 5 (2.78%) Amazon SageMaker
10 5 (2.78%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (2.78%) PaaS
11 4 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.78%) CTI
1 5 (2.78%) VoIP
2 4 (2.22%) HTTP
3 3 (1.67%) Network Security
4 2 (1.11%) 3GPP
4 2 (1.11%) Intelligent Network
4 2 (1.11%) S/MIME
4 2 (1.11%) SSL
4 2 (1.11%) Wireless
5 1 (0.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.56%) Big Data
2 8 (4.44%) Power BI
3 5 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.78%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.22%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.22%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.67%) Pinecone
5 3 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.67%) Tableau
6 2 (1.11%) Redis
6 2 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.11%) Weaviate
7 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.56%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.56%) Essbase
7 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.56%) KDB
7 1 (0.56%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.56%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 22 (12.22%) Git
2 8 (4.44%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.33%) JIRA
3 6 (3.33%) MLflow
4 2 (1.11%) Appium
4 2 (1.11%) Charles Proxy
4 2 (1.11%) Hardhat
4 2 (1.11%) Katalon Studio
4 2 (1.11%) Postman
4 2 (1.11%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.11%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.11%) Vite
4 2 (1.11%) XCUITest
5 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.56%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.56%) GitLab
5 1 (0.56%) Hudson
5 1 (0.56%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
General
1 91 (50.56%) Social Skills
2 77 (42.78%) Finance
3 60 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (22.22%) Banking
5 23 (12.78%) Presentation Skills
6 16 (8.89%) Front Office
7 13 (7.22%) Investment Banking
8 10 (5.56%) Financial Institution
9 8 (4.44%) Legal
9 8 (4.44%) Marketing
10 4 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.22%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.22%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.22%) Retail
10 4 (2.22%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.67%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.11%) Aviation
12 2 (1.11%) Japanese Language
13 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (16.67%) Lead
2 24 (13.33%) Developer
3 23 (12.78%) Architect
4 15 (8.33%) Senior
5 14 (7.78%) Consultant
6 13 (7.22%) Integration Architect
7 12 (6.67%) Analyst
7 12 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (5.56%) Data Scientist
8 10 (5.56%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 9 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
9 9 (5.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
9 9 (5.00%) Project Manager
10 8 (4.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 8 (4.44%) Quantitative Developer
11 7 (3.89%) Business Analyst
12 6 (3.33%) Test Manager
13 5 (2.78%) Genesys Developer
13 5 (2.78%) Lead Data Scientist
13 5 (2.78%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.44%) Middleware
2 14 (7.78%) PyTorch
3 11 (6.11%) NumPy
3 11 (6.11%) TensorFlow
4 10 (5.56%) .NET
4 10 (5.56%) LangChain
4 10 (5.56%) Pandas
5 7 (3.89%) RESTful
6 6 (3.33%) Dask
6 6 (3.33%) Kafka
6 6 (3.33%) Model Context Protocol
6 6 (3.33%) scikit-learn
7 5 (2.78%) Hugging Face
7 5 (2.78%) LangGraph
7 5 (2.78%) PySpark
7 5 (2.78%) REST
7 5 (2.78%) Web Services
8 4 (2.22%) Node.js
8 4 (2.22%) SOAP
8 4 (2.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.00%) Derivative
2 16 (8.89%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.89%) Distributed Computing
3 15 (8.33%) Management Information System
4 13 (7.22%) Equities
5 12 (6.67%) Algorithms
6 10 (5.56%) Fixed Income
6 10 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 9 (5.00%) Product Ownership
8 8 (4.44%) AI Agents
8 8 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (4.44%) Hedge funds
9 6 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (3.33%) Equity Derivative
9 6 (3.33%) Life Science
9 6 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (2.78%) IVR
10 5 (2.78%) Onboarding
10 5 (2.78%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.78%) Windows
2 3 (1.67%) Linux
2 3 (1.67%) VMS
3 2 (1.11%) Android
3 2 (1.11%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.11%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (62.78%) Computer Science
2 58 (32.22%) AI
2 58 (32.22%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (29.44%) Agile
4 48 (26.67%) Machine Learning
5 42 (23.33%) Roadmaps
6 41 (22.78%) DevOps
7 39 (21.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 37 (20.56%) Decision-Making
9 34 (18.89%) Analytics
10 33 (18.33%) Mathematics
10 33 (18.33%) Risk Management
11 31 (17.22%) CI/CD
11 31 (17.22%) Data Science
12 29 (16.11%) LLM
12 29 (16.11%) Software Engineering
13 28 (15.56%) Generative AI
14 27 (15.00%) Validation
15 26 (14.44%) Use Case
16 25 (13.89%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 67 (37.22%) Python
2 31 (17.22%) SQL
3 19 (10.56%) Java
4 13 (7.22%) C++
5 7 (3.89%) C#
5 7 (3.89%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.33%) Bash
6 6 (3.33%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.78%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.22%) Go
9 3 (1.67%) Bicep
10 2 (1.11%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.11%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.11%) R
10 2 (1.11%) Scala
10 2 (1.11%) Solidity
10 2 (1.11%) Swift
10 2 (1.11%) VBA
11 1 (0.56%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 180 (100.00%) Degree
2 69 (38.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 37 (20.56%) PhD
4 17 (9.44%) MBA
5 13 (7.22%) CISSP
5 13 (7.22%) PMI Certification
6 10 (5.56%) PMP
7 7 (3.89%) Azure Certification
7 7 (3.89%) CISM
8 6 (3.33%) CRISC
9 4 (2.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (2.22%) CCSP
9 4 (2.22%) CISA
9 4 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (1.67%) Security Cleared
11 2 (1.11%) AWS Certification
11 2 (1.11%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.44%) GDPR
2 16 (8.89%) QA
3 11 (6.11%) NIST
4 9 (5.00%) IFRS
4 9 (5.00%) IFRS 17
4 9 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (4.44%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.78%) Data Quality
6 5 (2.78%) GRC
6 5 (2.78%) IFRS 9
6 5 (2.78%) SLA
7 4 (2.22%) PMO
8 3 (1.67%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (1.67%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (1.67%) SOC 2
9 2 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (1.11%) Basel III
9 2 (1.11%) GAAP
System Software
1 27 (15.00%) Docker
2 2 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (12.78%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.89%) Terraform
3 2 (1.11%) Control-M
3 2 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.00%) Databricks
3 13 (7.22%) SAP
4 12 (6.67%) Software AG
5 10 (5.56%) Oracle
6 8 (4.44%) Google
7 5 (2.78%) Genesys
8 4 (2.22%) Informatica
8 4 (2.22%) Workday
9 3 (1.67%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.11%) IBM
10 2 (1.11%) Rapid7
10 2 (1.11%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.11%) Splunk
11 1 (0.56%) Adobe
11 1 (0.56%) Apple
11 1 (0.56%) Ariba
11 1 (0.56%) BMC
11 1 (0.56%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.56%) Dell