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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 114 145
Rank change year-on-year +1 +31 +27
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 14 16 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.70% 0.57% 0.30%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.03% 2.08% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 9
10th Percentile - £539 £400
25th Percentile £463 £635 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £683 £650
Median % change year-on-year -15.02% +5.00% +44.44%
75th Percentile - £725 £725
90th Percentile £650 £729 £750
England median daily rate £563 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +2.27% -15.38% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £34.75 £45.22 -
Median hourly rate £35.50 £48.56 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.89% - -
75th Percentile £36.25 £51.91 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% +22.22% -

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 690 769 903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 34.47% 27.41% 29.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 406 420 594
10th Percentile £283 £300 £363
25th Percentile £400 £414 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £583 £607 £603
90th Percentile £700 £696 £699
England median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.32% -2.28% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 131 62
10th Percentile £17.44 £10.95 £19.44
25th Percentile £21.02 £11.89 £27.01
Median hourly rate £32.00 £16.06 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year +99.25% -60.43% +24.91%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.43 £49.52
90th Percentile £76.16 £62.50 £65.10
England median hourly rate £29.27 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -31.13% -22.73% +32.53%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -5 9 £475 -29.73% 21
Manchester +16 4 £713 -1.72% 95
Lancashire - 1 - - 42
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 (7.14%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (35.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (7.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) AWS
3 5 (35.71%) GCP
3 5 (35.71%) Power Platform
3 5 (35.71%) Snowflake
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) BGP
1 4 (28.57%) Firewall
1 4 (28.57%) MPLS
1 4 (28.57%) Network Security
1 4 (28.57%) OSPF
1 4 (28.57%) VLAN
1 4 (28.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Data Lake
1 5 (35.71%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (35.71%) Power BI
2 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.14%) MySQL
3 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.14%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) GitLab
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA Agile
General
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
1 6 (42.86%) Manufacturing
2 4 (28.57%) Pharmaceutical
2 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Aerospace
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Avionics
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Electronics
4 1 (7.14%) Military
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Data Analytics Specialist
1 4 (28.57%) Designer
1 4 (28.57%) Network Designer
1 4 (28.57%) Solutions Designer
2 2 (14.29%) SAP Financial Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Electronics Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Electronics Test Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Lead
3 1 (7.14%) Service Management Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Leader
3 1 (7.14%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
1 1 (7.14%) CSS
1 1 (7.14%) CSS3
1 1 (7.14%) GraphQL
1 1 (7.14%) HTML
1 1 (7.14%) HTML5
1 1 (7.14%) Node.js
1 1 (7.14%) React
1 1 (7.14%) REST
1 1 (7.14%) RESTful
1 1 (7.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (28.57%) Life Science
2 1 (7.14%) Analogue Electronics
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 5 (35.71%) Analytics
2 5 (35.71%) Data Modelling
2 5 (35.71%) ITSM
2 5 (35.71%) Logistics
3 4 (28.57%) High Availability
3 4 (28.57%) Inventory Management
3 4 (28.57%) IT Strategy
3 4 (28.57%) Network Architecture
3 4 (28.57%) Network Design
3 4 (28.57%) Network Monitoring
3 4 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
3 4 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 4 (28.57%) Service Design
3 4 (28.57%) Strategic Roadmap
3 4 (28.57%) Technology Strategy
3 4 (28.57%) TOGAF
3 4 (28.57%) Use Case
4 3 (21.43%) Community of Practice
4 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Java
1 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
1 1 (7.14%) Python
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) Degree
2 6 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (28.57%) CCIE
3 4 (28.57%) CCNP
3 4 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (28.57%) JNCIE
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) HNC
4 1 (7.14%) HND
4 1 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Data Quality
1 3 (21.43%) PMO
2 1 (7.14%) COBIT
2 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) SAP
2 4 (28.57%) Ariba
2 4 (28.57%) Cisco
2 4 (28.57%) F5
2 4 (28.57%) Fortinet
3 2 (14.29%) Anaplan
3 2 (14.29%) Hyperion
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (7.14%) BMC
4 1 (7.14%) IBM
4 1 (7.14%) Remedy
4 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow