Postgraduate Contracts in London

Postgraduate
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Postgraduate qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 391 480 611
Rank change year-on-year +89 +131 -143
Contract jobs citing Postgraduate 4 8 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.023% 0.030% 0.018%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.095% 0.14% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 5
10th Percentile £385 £294 £178
25th Percentile £413 - £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £400 £375
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% +6.67% -24.05%
75th Percentile £460 £600 £450
90th Percentile - £653 £630
England median daily rate £555 £400 £338
% change year-on-year +38.75% +18.52% -33.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.99
Median hourly rate - - £19.46
75th Percentile - - £20.93
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £26.00 - £23.48
% change year-on-year - - -16.08%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

Postgraduate is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,218 5,718 6,722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.90% 21.67% 17.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,856 3,874 4,598
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 80 152
10th Percentile £14.21 £19.94 £23.17
25th Percentile £20.22 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £25.00 £47.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.37% +6.74% +21.92%
75th Percentile £42.75 £64.63 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.35 £84.13 £65.65
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £39.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +32.91% +4.50%

Postgraduate
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Postgraduate as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Postgraduate in London

Postgraduate
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Postgraduate in London.

Daily rate trend for Postgraduate in London

Postgraduate
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Postgraduate in London.

Hourly rate trend for Postgraduate in London

Postgraduate
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 Postgraduate within the London region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. 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
East London - 2 £460 -
Postgraduate
England

Postgraduate
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Tableau
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Advertising
3 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (25.00%) Local Government
3 1 (25.00%) Marketing
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Credit Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Research Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Research Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Data Scientist
3 1 (25.00%) Marketing Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Marketing Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Credit Risk
1 2 (50.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Science
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Financial Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Portfolio Management
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Applied Mathematics
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Economics
3 1 (25.00%) Information Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Statistics
3 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Web Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) MATLAB
2 2 (50.00%) VBA
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) CFA
2 2 (50.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (50.00%) MBA
3 1 (25.00%) PhD
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe