Master's Degree Contracts in the North of England

Master's Degree
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 164 201
Rank change year-on-year +14 +37 +21
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 15 19 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.45% 0.41% 0.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.38% 1.56% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 11
10th Percentile £313 £546 £400
25th Percentile £399 £572 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £676 £650
Median % change year-on-year -14.20% +4.00% +48.74%
75th Percentile - £716 £725
90th Percentile £650 £725 £850
England median daily rate £575 £550 £648
% change year-on-year +4.55% -15.12% +12.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £48.56 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% +22.22% +23.29%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,086 1,218 1,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 32.79% 26.05% 25.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 663 670 999
10th Percentile £230 £310 £320
25th Percentile £375 £418 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -4.33% +7.69%
75th Percentile £575 £614 £625
90th Percentile £662 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 170 69
10th Percentile £17.44 £10.95 £20.00
25th Percentile £21.29 £13.35 £25.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £16.06 £40.58
Median % change year-on-year +71.23% -60.42% +28.06%
75th Percentile £58.58 £38.43 £52.99
90th Percentile £78.74 £63.75 £67.60
England median hourly rate £40.55 £40.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +1.36% -23.81% +40.00%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in the North of England

Master's Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Master's Degree in the North of England

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in the North of England over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Master's Degree in the North of England

Master's Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Master's Degree in the North of England

Master's Degree
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
North West +10 11 £580 -14.20% 146
Yorkshire +15 4 £325 - 85
Master's Degree
England

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (6.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (46.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (6.67%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (6.67%) SAP CO
2 1 (6.67%) SAP FI
2 1 (6.67%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 6 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (33.33%) Snowflake
4 3 (20.00%) AWS
4 3 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) BGP
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
1 2 (13.33%) MPLS
1 2 (13.33%) Network Security
1 2 (13.33%) OSPF
1 2 (13.33%) VLAN
1 2 (13.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Power BI
2 5 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 5 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.67%) MySQL
3 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.67%) Power Query
3 1 (6.67%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA Agile
General
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
2 6 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Manufacturing
2 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
5 1 (6.67%) Automotive
5 1 (6.67%) Avionics
5 1 (6.67%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) General Ledger
5 1 (6.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Data Analytics Specialist
2 3 (20.00%) Lead
3 2 (13.33%) Designer
3 2 (13.33%) Information Assurance Leader
3 2 (13.33%) Network Designer
3 2 (13.33%) SAP Financial Specialist
3 2 (13.33%) Solutions Designer
4 1 (6.67%) Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Data Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (6.67%) HR Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) HR Data Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Service Management Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
1 1 (6.67%) CSS
1 1 (6.67%) CSS3
1 1 (6.67%) GraphQL
1 1 (6.67%) HTML
1 1 (6.67%) HTML5
1 1 (6.67%) Node.js
1 1 (6.67%) React
1 1 (6.67%) REST
1 1 (6.67%) RESTful
1 1 (6.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Life Science
2 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Industry 4.0
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing Execution System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Analytics
2 7 (46.67%) Data Modelling
2 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (40.00%) Computer Science
4 5 (33.33%) Agile
4 5 (33.33%) Logistics
5 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (26.67%) Inventory Management
5 4 (26.67%) Project Management
5 4 (26.67%) Quality Management
5 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (20.00%) Change Management
6 3 (20.00%) Community of Practice
6 3 (20.00%) Data Analysis
6 3 (20.00%) ITSM
6 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 3 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
7 2 (13.33%) Technology Strategy
7 2 (13.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (6.67%) Java
1 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (6.67%) Python
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) Degree
2 4 (26.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (13.33%) CCIE
3 2 (13.33%) CCNP
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (13.33%) JNCIE
4 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (6.67%) MBA
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) PMO
2 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (6.67%) COBIT
4 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) MOM
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) SAP
2 5 (33.33%) Ariba
3 2 (13.33%) Anaplan
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco
3 2 (13.33%) F5
3 2 (13.33%) Fortinet
3 2 (13.33%) Hyperion
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle
4 1 (6.67%) BMC
4 1 (6.67%) Remedy
4 1 (6.67%) Rockwell
4 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.67%) Siemens
4 1 (6.67%) Workday