Master's Degree Contracts in Reading

Master's Degree
Berkshire > Reading

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 93 79
Rank change year-on-year +40 -14 +19
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 7 3 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.29% 0.25% 0.90%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.24% 0.54% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile £383 - £400
25th Percentile £427 £359 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £369 £425
Median % change year-on-year +35.69% -13.29% -17.48%
75th Percentile £675 £378 £611
90th Percentile £780 - £754
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £525 £425
% change year-on-year -14.29% +23.53% -17.48%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 165 552 344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 30.33% 45.32% 31.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 267 198
10th Percentile £353 £213 £363
25th Percentile £475 £506 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £605 £560
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +8.04% +12.00%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £643
90th Percentile - £741 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 58 15
10th Percentile £44.05 £46.33 £59.76
25th Percentile - £56.31 £63.14
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.05 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.81% -16.15% +640.00%
75th Percentile - £87.49 £78.09
90th Percentile £74.31 £100.00 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £65.34
% change year-on-year +13.64% -5.72% +211.13%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in Reading

Master's Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Master's Degree in Reading

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in Reading over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Master's Degree in Reading

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 3 (42.86%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Computing
1 3 (42.86%) dbt
1 3 (42.86%) GCP
1 3 (42.86%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (42.86%) Power BI
1 3 (42.86%) Relational Database
1 3 (42.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Burp Suite
1 1 (14.29%) CMake
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Metasploit
General
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (42.86%) Telecoms
4 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Telecoms Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Penetration Tester
3 1 (14.29%) SAP Architect
3 1 (14.29%) SAP Enterprise Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) OAuth
2 1 (14.29%) CNTK
2 1 (14.29%) Middleware
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
2 1 (14.29%) OpenVINO
2 1 (14.29%) PyTorch
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) SOAP
2 1 (14.29%) TensorFlow
2 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Android
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) Computer Science
2 4 (57.14%) Data Transformation
2 4 (57.14%) Decision-Making
3 3 (42.86%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
3 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (42.86%) ETL
3 3 (42.86%) Validation
3 3 (42.86%) Visualisation
3 3 (42.86%) WFM
3 3 (42.86%) Workflow
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
5 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Security Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) C++
4 1 (14.29%) C
4 1 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
4 1 (14.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Degree
2 3 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) GPEN
3 1 (14.29%) GWAPT
3 1 (14.29%) OSCE
3 1 (14.29%) OSCP
3 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) HIPAA
2 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) SAP