Master's Degree Contracts in the Midlands

Master's Degree
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 118 133
Rank change year-on-year -10 +15 +64
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 9 18 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.38% 0.62% 0.75%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.24% 2.00% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 21
10th Percentile £425 £450 -
25th Percentile - £471 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £524 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.69% +4.80% -2.91%
75th Percentile - £550 £738
90th Percentile £474 £825 -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £650
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £56.25 £92.50
Median hourly rate £30.29 £57.50 £95.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.32% -39.47% +291.91%
75th Percentile - £58.75 £97.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year +9.09% +12.82% +8.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 724 902 820
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.17% 31.23% 25.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 447 562 542
10th Percentile £168 £263 £313
25th Percentile £313 £358 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -4.76% +13.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £617
90th Percentile £693 £697 £724
England median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.32% -2.28% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 64 26
10th Percentile £18.08 £13.33 £11.13
25th Percentile £18.87 £17.00 £14.03
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.65 £21.84
Median % change year-on-year +2.03% +12.89% +7.80%
75th Percentile £31.00 £51.91 £57.52
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £26.50 £43.00 £55.29
% change year-on-year -38.37% -22.22% +33.45%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Master's Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in the Midlands

Master's Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Master's Degree in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Master's Degree in the Midlands

Master's Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Master's Degree in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Master's Degree in the Midlands

Master's Degree
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 July 2025. 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 Midlands +8 6 £447 -9.70% 53
West Midlands -9 3 - - 58
Master's Degree
England

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Chatbot
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 4 (44.44%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Big Data
1 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
1 1 (11.11%) Tableau
General
1 4 (44.44%) Marketing
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
4 1 (11.11%) Automotive
4 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Salesforce Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (11.11%) HR Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Trainer
3 1 (11.11%) Validation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Lightning Web Components
1 4 (44.44%) Middleware
1 4 (44.44%) REST
1 4 (44.44%) SOAP
1 4 (44.44%) Visualforce
2 1 (11.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Data Fabric
2 1 (11.11%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 6 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (55.56%) Data Governance
2 5 (55.56%) Data Migration
2 5 (55.56%) Data Modelling
2 5 (55.56%) Data Security
2 5 (55.56%) Migration
2 5 (55.56%) Roadmaps
3 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) Architecture Roadmap
3 4 (44.44%) Data Flow Diagram
3 4 (44.44%) Data Management
3 4 (44.44%) Design Patterns
3 4 (44.44%) Integration Patterns
3 4 (44.44%) Mentoring
3 4 (44.44%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
5 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
6 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Apex Code
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) Degree
2 6 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (11.11%) MBA
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (11.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) Data Quality
1 5 (55.56%) GDPR
2 4 (44.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Salesforce
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Citrix
3 1 (11.11%) PayPal
3 1 (11.11%) VMware