Master's Degree Contracts in the North West

Master's Degree
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Master's Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 150 168
Rank change year-on-year +27 +18 -36
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 15 11 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.56% 0.35% 0.27%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.86% 1.17% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 3
10th Percentile £539 £400 £401
25th Percentile £635 £450 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £676 £650 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +36.84% -5.47%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £510
90th Percentile - £850 £524
England median daily rate £550 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.22 - -
Median hourly rate £48.56 - £28.00
75th Percentile £51.91 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year +22.22% +60.71% -33.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

Master's Degree 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 the North West with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 806 941 913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 30.09% 30.27% 22.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 630 597
10th Percentile £285 £325 £263
25th Percentile £422 £427 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £625
90th Percentile £725 £684 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 67 69
10th Percentile £10.95 £20.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £11.77 £25.75 £22.58
Median hourly rate £16.06 £40.58 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year -60.42% -1.89% -0.95%
75th Percentile £39.54 £52.56 £58.75
90th Percentile £70.34 £68.20 £76.20
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £39.29
% change year-on-year -23.81% +33.62% +4.77%

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 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
Cheshire +19 12 £676 +69.00% 11
Cumbria - 2 - - 2
Manchester +16 1 - - 58
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 (6.67%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (6.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) SAP MDG
2 1 (6.67%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (6.67%) AWS
1 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
1 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Metadata
1 3 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 3 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (13.33%) Big Data
2 2 (13.33%) Data Lake
2 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.67%) Essbase
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Selenium
General
1 4 (26.67%) Pharmaceutical
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Publishing
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Project Manager
1 4 (26.67%) Security Manager
1 4 (26.67%) Security Project Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Data Governance Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Data Governance Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Data Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Data Modeller
2 2 (13.33%) Governance Manager
2 2 (13.33%) PLC Software Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) SAP Data Manager
2 2 (13.33%) SAP Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Portfolio Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Portfolio Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Project Portfolio Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Supply Chain Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Life Science
2 1 (6.67%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Data Strategy
2 6 (40.00%) Application Security
2 6 (40.00%) Business Case
2 6 (40.00%) Business Development
2 6 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 6 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 6 (40.00%) Pricing Strategy
2 6 (40.00%) Threat Management
3 4 (26.67%) Computer Science
3 4 (26.67%) Data Science
4 3 (20.00%) Analytics
4 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (20.00%) Conceptual Models
4 3 (20.00%) Data Management
4 3 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
4 3 (20.00%) Visualisation
5 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
5 2 (13.33%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) Groovy
3 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.67%) Julia
3 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.67%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) Degree
2 6 (40.00%) CISA
2 6 (40.00%) CISM
2 6 (40.00%) CISSP
2 6 (40.00%) MBA
3 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (13.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.67%) GDPR
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (6.67%) Databricks
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) Hyperion
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle