Master's Degree Contract Job Trends in Northampton

Master's Degree
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northampton 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 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northampton 4.02% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 21.43% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £342 - -
25th Percentile £402 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £492 - -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £447 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 42 22 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 18.75% 19.30% 32.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 20 26
10th Percentile £329 £306 £400
25th Percentile £356 £352 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £378 £523
Median % change year-on-year +11.92% -27.75% +22.94%
75th Percentile £492 £400 £534
90th Percentile £569 £415 £551
Northamptonshire median daily rate £425 £375 £523
% change year-on-year +13.33% -28.23% +13.59%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Master's Degree relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Master's Degree job vacancy trend in Northampton

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Master's Degree.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Master's Degree

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in Northampton over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Master's Degree in Northampton

Master's Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in Northampton

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Master's Degree.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Master's Degree

Master's Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 5 (55.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Marketing
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 3 (33.33%) Banking
3 3 (33.33%) Corporate Banking
3 3 (33.33%) Retail Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Architect
2 4 (44.44%) Salesforce Architect
3 3 (33.33%) Project Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Banking Project Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Finance Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Finance Project Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Junior
4 1 (11.11%) Junior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Lightning Web Components
1 5 (55.56%) Middleware
1 5 (55.56%) REST
1 5 (55.56%) SOAP
1 5 (55.56%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Product Ownership
2 4 (44.44%) Management Information System
3 3 (33.33%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 6 (66.67%) Roadmaps
3 5 (55.56%) Architecture Roadmap
3 5 (55.56%) Data Flow Diagram
3 5 (55.56%) Data Governance
3 5 (55.56%) Data Migration
3 5 (55.56%) Data Modelling
3 5 (55.56%) Data Security
3 5 (55.56%) Design Patterns
3 5 (55.56%) Integration Patterns
3 5 (55.56%) Mentoring
3 5 (55.56%) Migration
3 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (55.56%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (44.44%) Data Management
4 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (44.44%) Workshop Facilitation
5 3 (33.33%) Digital Banking
5 3 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) Degree
2 6 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (33.33%) MBA
3 3 (33.33%) PMI Certification
3 3 (33.33%) PMP
3 3 (33.33%) SAFe Agilist
4 1 (11.11%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (66.67%) GDPR
2 5 (55.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 5 (55.56%) Data Quality
3 3 (33.33%) Basel III
3 3 (33.33%) QA
4 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Salesforce
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Citrix
3 1 (11.11%) VMware