Master's Degree Contracts in the North West

Master's Degree
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 122 143
Rank change year-on-year +18 +21 +20
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 16 15 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.81% 0.54% 0.44%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.27% 1.81% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 13
10th Percentile £424 £539 £410
25th Percentile £463 £635 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £676 £648
Median % change year-on-year -14.20% +4.32% +36.42%
75th Percentile - £725 £725
90th Percentile £642 - £825
England median daily rate £580 £550 £612
% change year-on-year +5.45% -10.06% +6.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 706 829 1,003
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 35.87% 30.09% 31.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 474 683
10th Percentile £230 £268 £325
25th Percentile £398 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.66% -1.44% +4.00%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £602
90th Percentile £650 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 124 67
10th Percentile £17.70 £10.95 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.26 £11.77 £25.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% -5.60%
75th Percentile £60.00 £39.54 £49.52
90th Percentile £83.13 £62.50 £66.13
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in the North West

Master's Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Master's Degree in the North West

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Master's Degree in the North West

Master's Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Master's Degree in the North West

Master's Degree
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Cheshire +1 13 £580 -14.20% 48
Manchester +18 2 £775 - 132
Lancashire - 1 - - 49
Master's Degree
England

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (6.25%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 11 (68.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (6.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) Power Platform
2 5 (31.25%) Snowflake
3 3 (18.75%) AWS
3 3 (18.75%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) BGP
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
1 2 (12.50%) MPLS
1 2 (12.50%) Network Security
1 2 (12.50%) OSPF
1 2 (12.50%) VLAN
1 2 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) Data Lake
1 5 (31.25%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (31.25%) Power BI
2 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.25%) MySQL
2 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
2 1 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA Agile
General
1 11 (68.75%) Manufacturing
2 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (37.50%) Automotive
3 6 (37.50%) Finance
4 4 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
6 1 (6.25%) Aerospace
6 1 (6.25%) Avionics
6 1 (6.25%) Banking
6 1 (6.25%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Data Analytics Specialist
2 2 (12.50%) Designer
2 2 (12.50%) Network Designer
2 2 (12.50%) SAP Financial Specialist
2 2 (12.50%) Solutions Designer
3 1 (6.25%) Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Service Management Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
1 1 (6.25%) CSS
1 1 (6.25%) CSS3
1 1 (6.25%) GraphQL
1 1 (6.25%) HTML
1 1 (6.25%) HTML5
1 1 (6.25%) Node.js
1 1 (6.25%) React
1 1 (6.25%) REST
1 1 (6.25%) RESTful
1 1 (6.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Industry 4.0
1 6 (37.50%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 4 (25.00%) Life Science
3 2 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Analytics
1 11 (68.75%) Data Modelling
2 10 (62.50%) Computer Science
3 9 (56.25%) Quality Management
4 8 (50.00%) Agile
4 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (50.00%) Roadmaps
5 7 (43.75%) Agile Project Management
5 7 (43.75%) Mentoring
5 7 (43.75%) Project Management
6 6 (37.50%) API Integration
6 6 (37.50%) Decision-Making
6 6 (37.50%) ERP
6 6 (37.50%) Lean Manufacturing
6 6 (37.50%) Operations Management
6 6 (37.50%) PLM
6 6 (37.50%) Presales
6 6 (37.50%) Product Roadmap
6 6 (37.50%) Supply Chain Management
6 6 (37.50%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Java
1 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
1 1 (6.25%) Python
1 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (100.00%) Degree
2 9 (56.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (31.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (12.50%) CCIE
4 2 (12.50%) CCNP
4 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (12.50%) JNCIE
4 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
5 1 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) Data Quality
1 3 (18.75%) PMO
2 1 (6.25%) COBIT
2 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) MOM
2 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) SAP
2 6 (37.50%) Rockwell
2 6 (37.50%) Siemens
3 4 (25.00%) Ariba
4 2 (12.50%) Anaplan
4 2 (12.50%) Cisco
4 2 (12.50%) F5
4 2 (12.50%) Fortinet
4 2 (12.50%) Hyperion
4 2 (12.50%) Oracle
5 1 (6.25%) BMC
5 1 (6.25%) Remedy
5 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow