Master's Degree Contracts in the South West

Master's Degree
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Master's Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 133 159
Rank change year-on-year +5 +26 -46
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 26 33 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.82% 0.94% 0.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.46% 1.79% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 23 9
10th Percentile - £458 £215
25th Percentile £513 £519 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% +15.79% -24.00%
75th Percentile £672 £579 £500
90th Percentile £768 £705 £608
England median daily rate £550 £625 £583
% change year-on-year -12.00% +7.30% +6.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.60 - £49.25
Median hourly rate £44.03 £65.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.26% +28.71% -
75th Percentile £57.50 - £51.75
90th Percentile - £72.50 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £29.25
% change year-on-year +22.22% +53.85% -14.60%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South West

Master's Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,785 1,848 1,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 56.08% 52.37% 40.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,134 1,365 1,045
10th Percentile £353 £400 £324
25th Percentile £465 £475 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £579 £524
Median % change year-on-year -5.01% +10.60% +10.21%
75th Percentile £655 £675 £625
90th Percentile £725 £729 £680
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 143 89
10th Percentile £22.31 £37.91 £42.15
25th Percentile £40.00 £56.77 £52.00
Median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £63.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +2.36% +41.11%
75th Percentile £72.50 £78.88 £69.05
90th Percentile £80.00 £86.00 £75.20
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £39.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +32.91% +3.95%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

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

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

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

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

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in the South West over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

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

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

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

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

Master's Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Master's Degree in the South West over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Master's Degree in the South West

Master's Degree
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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
Wiltshire -10 8 £525 -7.00% 7
Bristol +15 6 £800 +68.42% 34
Gloucestershire +2 4 £588 +7.80% 6
Somerset - 4 - - 11
Cornwall - 4 - - 1
Master's Degree
England

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 9 (34.62%) Confluence
2 1 (3.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Primavera
1 1 (3.85%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 7 (26.92%) Azure
2 3 (11.54%) AWS
3 2 (7.69%) GCP
3 2 (7.69%) OpenShift
3 2 (7.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (23.08%) VSAN
2 2 (7.69%) VPN
3 1 (3.85%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) MySQL
2 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (38.46%) JIRA
2 3 (11.54%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (3.85%) Maven
3 1 (3.85%) Subversion
General
1 13 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (38.46%) Public Sector
3 4 (15.38%) Aerospace
4 2 (7.69%) Legal
5 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Architect
2 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Embedded Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Senior
3 4 (15.38%) Senior Manager
3 4 (15.38%) Software Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Technical Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Automation Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Commercial Officer
4 2 (7.69%) Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Office Automation Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Mechanical Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Principal Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) Flash
2 3 (11.54%) .NET
2 3 (11.54%) .NET Framework
3 2 (7.69%) ModSecurity
4 1 (3.85%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.85%) CSS
4 1 (3.85%) CSS3
4 1 (3.85%) Hibernate
4 1 (3.85%) HTML
4 1 (3.85%) HTML5
4 1 (3.85%) J2EE
4 1 (3.85%) OSGi
4 1 (3.85%) React
4 1 (3.85%) Spring
4 1 (3.85%) Spring MVC
4 1 (3.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Clustering
1 5 (19.23%) Management Information System
2 4 (15.38%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (11.54%) PKI
4 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 2 (7.69%) Public Cloud
4 2 (7.69%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Linux
1 4 (15.38%) SafeRTOS
2 1 (3.85%) Android
2 1 (3.85%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) Agile
2 13 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 11 (42.31%) Validation
4 7 (26.92%) NsoIT
4 7 (26.92%) Waterfall
5 6 (23.08%) Architectural Patterns
5 6 (23.08%) Critical Thinking
5 6 (23.08%) Project Management
6 5 (19.23%) High Availability
6 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (19.23%) Network Virtualisation
6 5 (19.23%) Power Management
6 5 (19.23%) PRINCE2
6 5 (19.23%) Service Management
6 5 (19.23%) Software Engineering
6 5 (19.23%) System Testing
7 4 (15.38%) Cost Management
7 4 (15.38%) Roadmaps
7 4 (15.38%) Strategic Thinking
7 4 (15.38%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (15.38%) C
2 3 (11.54%) PowerShell
2 3 (11.54%) Python
3 1 (3.85%) Bash
3 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 26 (100.00%) Degree
2 9 (34.62%) SC Cleared
2 9 (34.62%) Security Cleared
3 6 (23.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (19.23%) CCNA
4 5 (19.23%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (19.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (15.38%) Chartered Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
7 1 (3.85%) PMI Certification
7 1 (3.85%) PMP
System Software
1 8 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (30.77%) VMware NSX
2 5 (19.23%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (7.69%) Docker
4 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) vCenter Server
2 3 (11.54%) PowerCLI
3 2 (7.69%) Ansible
3 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 2 (7.69%) OPNET
3 2 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (34.62%) Atlassian
1 9 (34.62%) VMware
2 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 7 (26.92%) Cisco
4 2 (7.69%) Google
5 1 (3.85%) Adobe
5 1 (3.85%) Foundry