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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 213 200
Rank change year-on-year +4 -13 +60
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 186 151 206
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.19% 1.12% 1.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.07% 4.45% 4.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 86 136
10th Percentile £376 £355 £375
25th Percentile £425 £476 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -13.46% -5.80%
75th Percentile £700 £777 £778
90th Percentile £885 £931 £850
England median daily rate £525 £570 £625
% change year-on-year -7.89% -8.80% +4.17%
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 4,571 3,394 4,480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.36% 25.14% 24.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,251 2,144 2,993
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £430 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.19% -2.41% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £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 £21.50 £14.27
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £35.00 £38.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% +9.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £65.88 £56.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.88 £83.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -49.70% +11.11% -2.17%

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 22 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 22 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 -4 23 £525 -18.29% 48
West London -15 8 £500 +657.58% 5
East London +5 1 £1,000 +250.88% 7
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 (9.14%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.61%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.08%) Confluence
3 2 (1.08%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.08%) Hyperledger
3 2 (1.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.54%) Apache
4 1 (0.54%) Camunda
4 1 (0.54%) CMS
4 1 (0.54%) Drupal
4 1 (0.54%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.54%) SAP Portal
4 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.54%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (5.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.54%) Camtasia
4 1 (0.54%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.54%) Navisworks
4 1 (0.54%) ProjectWise
4 1 (0.54%) Revit
4 1 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.61%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (1.61%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.08%) Oracle FAH
3 2 (1.08%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.08%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (1.08%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.08%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.54%) Endur
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.54%) SAP FI-CA
4 1 (0.54%) SAP FI-GL
4 1 (0.54%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.54%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 51 (27.42%) Azure
2 33 (17.74%) AWS
3 23 (12.37%) SaaS
4 15 (8.06%) GCP
5 14 (7.53%) GitHub
6 11 (5.91%) Power Platform
7 10 (5.38%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (4.84%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (4.30%) OCI
9 8 (4.30%) Serverless
10 7 (3.76%) Amazon S3
10 7 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (3.23%) IaaS
12 5 (2.69%) Amazon SageMaker
12 5 (2.69%) Azure Machine Learning
12 5 (2.69%) PaaS
13 4 (2.15%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (2.15%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.69%) CTI
1 5 (2.69%) HTTP
1 5 (2.69%) VoIP
2 3 (1.61%) Network Security
3 2 (1.08%) 3GPP
3 2 (1.08%) Intelligent Network
3 2 (1.08%) S/MIME
3 2 (1.08%) SSL
3 2 (1.08%) Wireless
4 1 (0.54%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.91%) Power BI
2 10 (5.38%) Big Data
3 6 (3.23%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.69%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.69%) Tableau
5 3 (1.61%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.61%) Pinecone
5 3 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.08%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.08%) Redis
6 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.08%) Weaviate
7 1 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.54%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.54%) Essbase
7 1 (0.54%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.54%) KDB
7 1 (0.54%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.54%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 20 (10.75%) Git
2 7 (3.76%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.76%) JIRA
3 6 (3.23%) MLflow
4 3 (1.61%) Appium
4 3 (1.61%) Charles Proxy
4 3 (1.61%) Katalon Studio
4 3 (1.61%) Postman
4 3 (1.61%) XCUITest
5 2 (1.08%) Hardhat
5 2 (1.08%) IntelliJ
5 2 (1.08%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.08%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.08%) Vite
6 1 (0.54%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.54%) Gatling
6 1 (0.54%) GitLab
6 1 (0.54%) JMeter
6 1 (0.54%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.54%) SonarQube
General
1 92 (49.46%) Social Skills
2 82 (44.09%) Finance
3 63 (33.87%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (21.51%) Banking
5 23 (12.37%) Presentation Skills
6 16 (8.60%) Front Office
7 13 (6.99%) Investment Banking
8 10 (5.38%) Financial Institution
9 8 (4.30%) Legal
10 7 (3.76%) Marketing
11 6 (3.23%) Manufacturing
12 5 (2.69%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (2.69%) Retail
13 4 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (2.15%) Public Sector
13 4 (2.15%) Telecoms
14 3 (1.61%) General Ledger
15 2 (1.08%) Aviation
15 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (1.08%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 31 (16.67%) Lead
2 23 (12.37%) Architect
3 22 (11.83%) Developer
4 16 (8.60%) Senior
5 15 (8.06%) Analyst
6 14 (7.53%) Consultant
7 13 (6.99%) Integration Architect
8 12 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (5.91%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 10 (5.38%) Business Analyst
10 10 (5.38%) Project Manager
11 9 (4.84%) Cloud Architect
11 9 (4.84%) Cloud Solutions Architect
11 9 (4.84%) Data Scientist
12 8 (4.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 8 (4.30%) Quantitative Developer
13 6 (3.23%) Test Manager
14 5 (2.69%) Genesys Developer
14 5 (2.69%) Lead Data Scientist
14 5 (2.69%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.68%) Middleware
2 15 (8.06%) PyTorch
3 12 (6.45%) TensorFlow
4 11 (5.91%) NumPy
5 10 (5.38%) .NET
5 10 (5.38%) LangChain
6 9 (4.84%) Pandas
7 7 (3.76%) RESTful
8 6 (3.23%) Dask
8 6 (3.23%) Hugging Face
8 6 (3.23%) Kafka
8 6 (3.23%) Model Context Protocol
8 6 (3.23%) REST
8 6 (3.23%) scikit-learn
8 6 (3.23%) Web Services
9 5 (2.69%) LangGraph
9 5 (2.69%) SOAP
10 4 (2.15%) Node.js
10 4 (2.15%) OAuth
10 4 (2.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.14%) Derivative
1 17 (9.14%) Management Information System
2 16 (8.60%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.60%) Distributed Computing
3 12 (6.45%) Algorithms
3 12 (6.45%) Equities
4 10 (5.38%) Fixed Income
4 10 (5.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 9 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.84%) Product Ownership
6 8 (4.30%) AI Agents
6 8 (4.30%) Hedge funds
6 8 (4.30%) Life Science
6 8 (4.30%) PMI
7 7 (3.76%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (3.76%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.69%) Mobile App
9 5 (2.69%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.69%) Windows
2 3 (1.61%) Android
2 3 (1.61%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.61%) Linux
2 3 (1.61%) VMS
3 2 (1.08%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (61.83%) Computer Science
2 59 (31.72%) Agile
2 59 (31.72%) Problem-Solving
3 58 (31.18%) AI
4 46 (24.73%) Machine Learning
5 41 (22.04%) DevOps
5 41 (22.04%) Roadmaps
5 41 (22.04%) Stakeholder Management
6 38 (20.43%) Decision-Making
7 37 (19.89%) Risk Management
8 36 (19.35%) Analytics
9 31 (16.67%) CI/CD
9 31 (16.67%) Data Science
9 31 (16.67%) Mathematics
10 30 (16.13%) Validation
11 29 (15.59%) LLM
11 29 (15.59%) Software Engineering
12 28 (15.05%) Generative AI
13 27 (14.52%) Use Case
14 25 (13.44%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 66 (35.48%) Python
2 32 (17.20%) SQL
3 18 (9.68%) Java
4 12 (6.45%) C++
5 8 (4.30%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.76%) C#
7 6 (3.23%) Bash
7 6 (3.23%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.69%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.15%) Go
10 3 (1.61%) Bicep
10 3 (1.61%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.61%) Swift
11 2 (1.08%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.08%) R
11 2 (1.08%) Scala
11 2 (1.08%) Solidity
11 2 (1.08%) VBA
12 1 (0.54%) ABAP
12 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 186 (100.00%) Degree
2 68 (36.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 37 (19.89%) PhD
4 17 (9.14%) PMI Certification
5 16 (8.60%) MBA
6 13 (6.99%) CISSP
7 11 (5.91%) PMP
8 7 (3.76%) Azure Certification
8 7 (3.76%) CISM
9 6 (3.23%) CRISC
10 5 (2.69%) CBAP
11 4 (2.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (2.15%) CCSP
11 4 (2.15%) CISA
11 4 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.61%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (1.61%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.14%) GDPR
1 17 (9.14%) QA
2 11 (5.91%) NIST
3 9 (4.84%) IFRS
3 9 (4.84%) IFRS 17
3 9 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (4.30%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.69%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.69%) GRC
5 5 (2.69%) IFRS 9
5 5 (2.69%) SLA
6 4 (2.15%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (1.61%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.61%) PMO
7 3 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (1.61%) SOC 2
8 2 (1.08%) Basel III
8 2 (1.08%) GAAP
8 2 (1.08%) GMP
System Software
1 27 (14.52%) Docker
2 2 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.54%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (12.37%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.60%) Terraform
3 2 (1.08%) Control-M
3 2 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.54%) Grafana
4 1 (0.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.68%) Databricks
3 15 (8.06%) SAP
4 12 (6.45%) Software AG
5 11 (5.91%) Oracle
6 7 (3.76%) Google
7 5 (2.69%) Genesys
8 4 (2.15%) Informatica
8 4 (2.15%) Splunk
8 4 (2.15%) Workday
9 3 (1.61%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.08%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.08%) IBM
10 2 (1.08%) Rapid7
10 2 (1.08%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.54%) Anaplan
11 1 (0.54%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.54%) Hotjar
11 1 (0.54%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.54%) UiPath