Master's Degree Contracts in the South East

Master's Degree
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 144 172
Rank change year-on-year +11 +28 +40
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 32 56 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.98% 0.98% 0.82%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.43% 2.20% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 28 31
10th Percentile £345 £328 £310
25th Percentile £400 £437 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.52% -4.55% +91.30%
75th Percentile £528 £623 £715
90th Percentile £566 £670 £825
England median daily rate £550 £550 £650
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 14 8
10th Percentile - £41.50 -
25th Percentile - £44.88 £42.50
Median hourly rate £87.05 £65.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.92% +44.44% -
75th Percentile - £87.50 £47.50
90th Percentile - £92.26 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% +22.22% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,315 2,540 2,111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 40.09% 44.62% 36.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 840 1,479 1,343
10th Percentile £262 £350 £305
25th Percentile £407 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £623
90th Percentile £661 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 223 128
10th Percentile £18.87 £17.80 £19.20
25th Percentile £24.66 £28.37 £42.50
Median hourly rate £46.90 £57.35 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.22% -4.42% +33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.04 £71.54
90th Percentile £80.50 £87.46 £75.67
England median hourly rate £28.18 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -33.69% -22.73% +34.38%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in the South East

Master's Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Master's Degree in the South East

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in the South East over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Master's Degree in the South East

Master's Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Master's Degree in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Master's Degree in the South East

Master's Degree
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 5 July 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
Thames Valley +24 24 £475 - 262
Berkshire +33 23 £450 -14.29% 158
Hampshire +30 4 £515 - 94
East Sussex - 2 - - 28
Buckinghamshire +7 1 £525 - 52
Surrey -6 1 £500 -4.76% 74
Kent - 1 £275 - 40
Master's Degree
England

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (9.38%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (6.25%) Camunda
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 2 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.13%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 9 (28.13%) GCP
2 8 (25.00%) AWS
3 6 (18.75%) Azure
3 6 (18.75%) Power Platform
4 4 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 3 (9.38%) dbt
5 3 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.13%) Asana
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (3.13%) OCI
6 1 (3.13%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.13%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) Firewall
2 2 (6.25%) 4G
2 2 (6.25%) 5G
2 2 (6.25%) DOCSIS
2 2 (6.25%) DSL
2 2 (6.25%) GPON
2 2 (6.25%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (6.25%) LTE
2 2 (6.25%) MPLS
2 2 (6.25%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (6.25%) VoIP
2 2 (6.25%) xDSL
3 1 (3.13%) Converged Networks
3 1 (3.13%) NAS
3 1 (3.13%) Network Security
3 1 (3.13%) SAN
3 1 (3.13%) SSL
3 1 (3.13%) VLAN
3 1 (3.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) Power BI
1 6 (18.75%) Tableau
2 4 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (9.38%) Relational Database
4 2 (6.25%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.13%) BigQuery
5 1 (3.13%) EDMS
5 1 (3.13%) QlikView
5 1 (3.13%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Selenium
2 2 (6.25%) JIRA
3 1 (3.13%) Burp Suite
3 1 (3.13%) CMake
3 1 (3.13%) Git
3 1 (3.13%) Metasploit
General
1 24 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (43.75%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Telecoms
4 4 (12.50%) Finance
4 4 (12.50%) Legal
5 3 (9.38%) Agriculture
5 3 (9.38%) Manufacturing
6 2 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.13%) Local Government
7 1 (3.13%) Marketing
7 1 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (25.00%) Architect
2 3 (9.38%) Data Engineer
2 3 (9.38%) Lead
2 3 (9.38%) Project Manager
3 2 (6.25%) Auditor
3 2 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (6.25%) HR Manager
3 2 (6.25%) Information Security Auditor
3 2 (6.25%) OSS Architect
3 2 (6.25%) Payroll Manager
3 2 (6.25%) Security Auditor
3 2 (6.25%) Telecoms Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) Data Manager
4 1 (3.13%) Information Manager
4 1 (3.13%) Information Officer
4 1 (3.13%) Information Security Manager
4 1 (3.13%) Product Manager
4 1 (3.13%) Security Architect
4 1 (3.13%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) OAuth
2 1 (3.13%) CNTK
2 1 (3.13%) Middleware
2 1 (3.13%) OAuth2
2 1 (3.13%) OpenVINO
2 1 (3.13%) PyTorch
2 1 (3.13%) REST
2 1 (3.13%) SOAP
2 1 (3.13%) TensorFlow
2 1 (3.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (15.63%) Algorithms
3 3 (9.38%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (6.25%) Life Science
4 2 (6.25%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (6.25%) TM Forum
5 1 (3.13%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (3.13%) Cyberattack
5 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.13%) NHS
5 1 (3.13%) PKI
5 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
5 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.75%) Windows
2 3 (9.38%) Mac OS
2 3 (9.38%) Windows 10
3 2 (6.25%) Linux
4 1 (3.13%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (59.38%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (46.88%) Computer Science
3 11 (34.38%) Decision-Making
4 10 (31.25%) Agile
4 10 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (25.00%) Analytics
5 8 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 8 (25.00%) Roadmaps
6 7 (21.88%) Actionable Insight
6 7 (21.88%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (21.88%) Visualisation
7 6 (18.75%) Enterprise Architecture
7 6 (18.75%) Migration
8 5 (15.63%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (15.63%) Data Management
8 5 (15.63%) Information Security
8 5 (15.63%) ITIL
8 5 (15.63%) Mathematics
8 5 (15.63%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (34.38%) Python
2 6 (18.75%) SQL
3 4 (12.50%) Java
4 2 (6.25%) Bash
4 2 (6.25%) C++
4 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.13%) C
5 1 (3.13%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 32 (100.00%) Degree
2 10 (31.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (9.38%) CISMP
3 3 (9.38%) Citrix Certification
3 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (9.38%) PMI Certification
3 3 (9.38%) PMP
4 2 (6.25%) CEH
4 2 (6.25%) CISSP
4 2 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (6.25%) PhD
4 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (3.13%) CCSK
5 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.13%) GIAC
5 1 (3.13%) GPEN
5 1 (3.13%) GWAPT
5 1 (3.13%) MBA
5 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) Data Quality
1 6 (18.75%) GDPR
1 6 (18.75%) QA
2 5 (15.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (9.38%) GRC
4 2 (6.25%) HIPAA
4 2 (6.25%) OASIS TOSCA
5 1 (3.13%) NIST
5 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 4 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) SCCM
2 2 (6.25%) Amdocs OSS
2 2 (6.25%) Ansible
2 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.13%) CASB
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.50%) SAP
2 4 (12.50%) VMware
3 3 (9.38%) Citrix
3 3 (9.38%) Google
4 2 (6.25%) Amdocs
4 2 (6.25%) Ericsson
4 2 (6.25%) Huawei
4 2 (6.25%) NetCracker
4 2 (6.25%) Nokia
5 1 (3.13%) Cisco
5 1 (3.13%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.13%) Dell
5 1 (3.13%) F5
5 1 (3.13%) Forcepoint
5 1 (3.13%) Isilon
5 1 (3.13%) NetApp
5 1 (3.13%) Oracle
5 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.13%) Veeam