Master's Degree Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Master's Degree
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

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

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 1.69% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 10.87% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £425 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 - -
75th Percentile £492 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £470 £435 £775
% change year-on-year +7.93% -43.87% +175.07%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 46 25 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 15.54% 8.77% 24.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 21 41
10th Percentile £308 £306 £415
25th Percentile £350 £353 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £383 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.05% -19.37% -1.04%
75th Percentile £492 £400 £534
90th Percentile £610 £500 -
East Midlands median daily rate £437 £481 £510
% change year-on-year -9.30% -5.64% +7.37%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in Northamptonshire

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

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

Master's Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

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

Master's Degree
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Northampton - 5 £447 - 1
Master's Degree
East Midlands

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 4 (80.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 4 (80.00%) Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Architect
2 3 (60.00%) Salesforce Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 4 (80.00%) Middleware
1 4 (80.00%) REST
1 4 (80.00%) SOAP
1 4 (80.00%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 5 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 4 (80.00%) Data Flow Diagram
2 4 (80.00%) Data Governance
2 4 (80.00%) Data Migration
2 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (80.00%) Data Security
2 4 (80.00%) Design Patterns
2 4 (80.00%) Integration Patterns
2 4 (80.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (80.00%) Migration
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (60.00%) Data Management
3 3 (60.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) GDPR
2 4 (80.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 4 (80.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix
3 1 (20.00%) VMware