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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 223 188
Rank change year-on-year -114 -35 +59
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 109 148 216
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.54% 1.10% 1.33%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.90% 4.16% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 91 132
10th Percentile £310 £405 £350
25th Percentile £461 £455 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +6.98% -25.86%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £713
90th Percentile £783 £800 £862
England median daily rate £577 £525 £531
% change year-on-year +9.90% -1.18% -18.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile - - £42.25
25th Percentile - £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 £60.50 £86.25 £58.38
90th Percentile £75.20 - £64.15
England median hourly rate £36.75 £33.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +9.70% -21.18% -34.62%

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 5,738 3,561 4,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.36% 26.48% 24.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,155 2,400 2,585
10th Percentile £363 £351 £350
25th Percentile £456 £442 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £775
England median daily rate £530 £525 £530
% change year-on-year +0.95% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 80 61
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £18.13
25th Percentile £25.63 - £24.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -28.14% -26.32%
75th Percentile £81.88 £34.48 £56.00
90th Percentile £155.00 £63.43 £71.25
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £53.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -52.55% -1.43%

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 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 27 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 27 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 -28 6 £755 +37.27% 106
West London -24 2 £460 +31.43% 47
East London +2 1 £775 -
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 (6.42%) Apache Spark
2 6 (5.50%) Confluence
3 3 (2.75%) Apache
4 1 (0.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.92%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.92%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.92%) PowerExchange
4 1 (0.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.67%) UserZoom
2 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.75%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.83%) CPLEX
3 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.83%) Workfront
2 1 (0.92%) Endur
2 1 (0.92%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.92%) SAP IBP
2 1 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.92%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 24 (22.02%) Azure
2 22 (20.18%) GCP
3 16 (14.68%) AWS
4 8 (7.34%) Snowflake
5 7 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (5.50%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.67%) GitHub
7 4 (3.67%) Miro
8 3 (2.75%) Asana
8 3 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.75%) Serverless
8 3 (2.75%) Smartsheet
9 2 (1.83%) Amazon Neptune
9 2 (1.83%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.83%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.83%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.83%) dbt
9 2 (1.83%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.42%) 3GPP
2 5 (4.59%) 5G
2 5 (4.59%) NGN
2 5 (4.59%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (4.59%) tcpdump
2 5 (4.59%) Wireshark
3 3 (2.75%) Firewall
3 3 (2.75%) Network Security
4 2 (1.83%) IPv4
4 2 (1.83%) IPv6
5 1 (0.92%) BGP
5 1 (0.92%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.92%) IPsec
5 1 (0.92%) LAN
5 1 (0.92%) OSPF
5 1 (0.92%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.92%) VoIP
5 1 (0.92%) VPN
5 1 (0.92%) WAN
5 1 (0.92%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.34%) Big Data
1 8 (7.34%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (6.42%) SQL Server
3 6 (5.50%) Data Lake
3 6 (5.50%) Neo4j
3 6 (5.50%) Power BI
4 5 (4.59%) Data Mining
4 5 (4.59%) Metadata
4 5 (4.59%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.67%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.75%) BigQuery
6 3 (2.75%) Delta Lake
6 3 (2.75%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.83%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (1.83%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.83%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (1.83%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (1.83%) Tableau
8 1 (0.92%) OLAP
8 1 (0.92%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (11.01%) JIRA
2 9 (8.26%) Git
3 4 (3.67%) MLflow
4 2 (1.83%) Selenium
5 1 (0.92%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.92%) ERwin
5 1 (0.92%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.92%) Mocha
5 1 (0.92%) Zephyr
General
1 52 (47.71%) Finance
2 49 (44.95%) Social Skills
3 31 (28.44%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (17.43%) Banking
5 13 (11.93%) Public Sector
6 9 (8.26%) Telecoms
7 8 (7.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (6.42%) Marketing
9 6 (5.50%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (5.50%) Front Office
9 6 (5.50%) Manufacturing
10 5 (4.59%) Publishing
11 4 (3.67%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (3.67%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (3.67%) Social Science
12 3 (2.75%) Investment Banking
12 3 (2.75%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (2.75%) Retail Banking
13 2 (1.83%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (1.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (20.18%) Senior
2 16 (14.68%) Developer
3 13 (11.93%) Architect
4 10 (9.17%) Lead
5 9 (8.26%) Analyst
6 6 (5.50%) Data Scientist
7 5 (4.59%) Data Engineer
7 5 (4.59%) Engineering Manager
7 5 (4.59%) Enterprise Architect
7 5 (4.59%) Junior
7 5 (4.59%) Senior Manager
7 5 (4.59%) Software Engineering Manager
7 5 (4.59%) Software Manager
7 5 (4.59%) Technologist
8 4 (3.67%) C# Developer
8 4 (3.67%) E-Commerce Manager
8 4 (3.67%) Front Office Developer
8 4 (3.67%) Programme Manager
8 4 (3.67%) Quantitative Developer
8 4 (3.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.26%) .NET
2 8 (7.34%) REST
3 7 (6.42%) Kafka
3 7 (6.42%) PyTorch
4 6 (5.50%) PySpark
4 6 (5.50%) Terraform
5 5 (4.59%) NumPy
5 5 (4.59%) Pandas
5 5 (4.59%) XGBoost
6 4 (3.67%) LangChain
6 4 (3.67%) React
6 4 (3.67%) scikit-learn
6 4 (3.67%) TensorFlow
7 3 (2.75%) GraphQL
7 3 (2.75%) React Native
8 2 (1.83%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.83%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.83%) Middleware
8 2 (1.83%) Node.js
8 2 (1.83%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.76%) Algorithms
2 11 (10.09%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (10.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (9.17%) Derivative
4 7 (6.42%) Credit Risk
5 6 (5.50%) Cloud Native
5 6 (5.50%) Data Structures
6 5 (4.59%) AI Agents
6 5 (4.59%) Equities
6 5 (4.59%) Exotic Derivative
6 5 (4.59%) Fixed Income
6 5 (4.59%) OTC Derivatives
6 5 (4.59%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.67%) Graphic Design
7 4 (3.67%) Hedge funds
7 4 (3.67%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.67%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.75%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.83%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.59%) Unix
2 2 (1.83%) Linux
2 2 (1.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (56.88%) Computer Science
2 44 (40.37%) AI
3 36 (33.03%) Analytics
4 34 (31.19%) Agile
5 31 (28.44%) Software Engineering
6 29 (26.61%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (25.69%) Stakeholder Management
8 27 (24.77%) Machine Learning
9 25 (22.94%) Mathematics
10 24 (22.02%) Data Science
11 22 (20.18%) CI/CD
12 20 (18.35%) Risk Management
12 20 (18.35%) Roadmaps
13 17 (15.60%) Decision-Making
14 15 (13.76%) Data Modelling
14 15 (13.76%) Validation
15 14 (12.84%) Data Engineering
15 14 (12.84%) ETL
15 14 (12.84%) Generative AI
15 14 (12.84%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 39 (35.78%) Python
2 30 (27.52%) SQL
3 13 (11.93%) Java
4 9 (8.26%) C#
5 7 (6.42%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.59%) C++
6 5 (4.59%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.75%) Bicep
7 3 (2.75%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.75%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.83%) Bash
8 2 (1.83%) Cypher
8 2 (1.83%) SPARQL
9 1 (0.92%) C
9 1 (0.92%) Gremlin
9 1 (0.92%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.92%) Scala
9 1 (0.92%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 109 (100.00%) Degree
2 35 (32.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (24.77%) PhD
4 16 (14.68%) MBA
5 6 (5.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (5.50%) PMI Certification
5 6 (5.50%) SC Cleared
5 6 (5.50%) Security Cleared
6 5 (4.59%) PMP
7 3 (2.75%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.83%) CISM
8 2 (1.83%) CISSP
9 1 (0.92%) CESG Certified Professional
9 1 (0.92%) CISA
9 1 (0.92%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.92%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 1 (0.92%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.92%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.92%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.84%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.59%) Basel III
3 4 (3.67%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.67%) QA
4 3 (2.75%) GDPR
5 2 (1.83%) SLA
6 1 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.92%) GMP
6 1 (0.92%) GRC
6 1 (0.92%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.92%) NCSC
6 1 (0.92%) NIST
6 1 (0.92%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.92%) PMO
6 1 (0.92%) PSD2
6 1 (0.92%) SEPA
System Software
1 11 (10.09%) Docker
2 1 (0.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (7.34%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.92%) CASB
2 1 (0.92%) Grafana
2 1 (0.92%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (20.18%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.09%) Oracle
3 10 (9.17%) Google
4 7 (6.42%) Salesforce
5 6 (5.50%) Databricks
6 3 (2.75%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.83%) Adobe
7 2 (1.83%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.83%) Calypso
7 2 (1.83%) Duck Creek
7 2 (1.83%) Foundry
7 2 (1.83%) Guidewire
7 2 (1.83%) Murex
7 2 (1.83%) SAP
7 2 (1.83%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.83%) UiPath
8 1 (0.92%) Avaloq
8 1 (0.92%) Cisco
8 1 (0.92%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.92%) Temenos