Master's Degree Contracts in the UK excluding London

Master's Degree
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 208 244 285
Rank change year-on-year +36 +41 +61
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 127 153 171
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.99% 0.74% 0.71%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.79% 2.00% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 84 107
10th Percentile £305 £379 £258
25th Percentile £365 £488 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £650 £658 £579
90th Percentile £744 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £560 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +1.82% -8.33% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 34 34
10th Percentile £44.77 £27.97 £27.08
25th Percentile £45.00 £41.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +22.22% +81.71%
75th Percentile £69.44 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.04 £75.50 -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £55.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% +22.22% +60.71%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,548 7,661 7,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.60% 37.01% 33.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,780 4,410 5,340
10th Percentile £210 £269 £280
25th Percentile £390 £425 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £531 £530
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% +0.19% +6.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £688 £725 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 412 936 667
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.60 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.46 £16.50 £19.96
Median hourly rate £40.72 £40.94 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% -18.12% +54.46%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £80.09 £77.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +28.57%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Master's Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in the UK excluding London

Master's Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Master's Degree in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Master's Degree in the UK excluding London

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Master's Degree in the UK excluding London

Master's Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Master's Degree in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Master's Degree in the UK excluding London

Master's Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Master's Degree in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Master's Degree in the UK excluding London

Master's Degree
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Wales - 30 £305 - 33
South East +13 26 £500 -4.76% 430
South West +29 23 £563 -4.26% 136
North of England +12 20 £580 -14.20% 265
East of England +27 17 £650 -7.14% 206
North West +11 16 £580 -14.20% 130
Scotland +6 7 £550 +15.79% 89
Midlands +6 5 £775 +40.91% 179
Yorkshire +11 4 £325 - 93
West Midlands 0 3 £775 +40.91% 98
Northern Ireland -7 3 £525 -2.33% 38
East Midlands +15 2 £447 - 75
Master's Degree
UK

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 15 (11.81%) Confluence
2 13 (10.24%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.79%) Apache
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 15 (11.81%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.57%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.79%) CATIA
5 1 (0.79%) Trello
5 1 (0.79%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 14 (11.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.57%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.79%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.79%) ENOVIA
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.79%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.79%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.79%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.79%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 42 (33.07%) Azure
2 32 (25.20%) AWS
3 17 (13.39%) GCP
4 8 (6.30%) Power Platform
5 6 (4.72%) Snowflake
6 2 (1.57%) Asana
6 2 (1.57%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.57%) PaaS
7 1 (0.79%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.79%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.79%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.79%) GitHub
7 1 (0.79%) Lucidchart
7 1 (0.79%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.79%) OCI
7 1 (0.79%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (0.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (0.79%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.66%) Firewall
2 5 (3.94%) Network Security
3 3 (2.36%) VPN
4 2 (1.57%) BGP
4 2 (1.57%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.57%) iSCSI
4 2 (1.57%) MPLS
4 2 (1.57%) OSPF
4 2 (1.57%) SAN
4 2 (1.57%) VLAN
5 1 (0.79%) DSL
5 1 (0.79%) Internet
5 1 (0.79%) SSL
5 1 (0.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.02%) Big Data
1 14 (11.02%) Tableau
2 13 (10.24%) Hadoop
3 8 (6.30%) Power BI
4 7 (5.51%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (4.72%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.15%) Metadata
6 4 (3.15%) Metadata Repository
7 2 (1.57%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.57%) MySQL
7 2 (1.57%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.79%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.79%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.79%) HBase
8 1 (0.79%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.79%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.79%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.79%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 20 (15.75%) JIRA
2 6 (4.72%) Selenium
3 3 (2.36%) Git
3 3 (2.36%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (1.57%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.57%) Burp Suite
4 2 (1.57%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.79%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.79%) CMake
5 1 (0.79%) GitLab
5 1 (0.79%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.79%) JIRA Agile
General
1 67 (52.76%) Social Skills
2 52 (40.94%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (29.13%) Public Sector
4 18 (14.17%) Finance
5 15 (11.81%) Manufacturing
6 12 (9.45%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (6.30%) Pharmaceutical
8 7 (5.51%) Legal
9 6 (4.72%) Automotive
10 5 (3.94%) Marketing
10 5 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (3.94%) Welsh Language
11 4 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (2.36%) Aerospace
12 3 (2.36%) Military
13 2 (1.57%) Agriculture
13 2 (1.57%) Banking
13 2 (1.57%) Digital Health
13 2 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (17.32%) Senior
2 19 (14.96%) Architect
3 17 (13.39%) Lead
4 15 (11.81%) Developer
5 12 (9.45%) Data Science Developer
5 12 (9.45%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 11 (8.66%) Senior Developer
7 8 (6.30%) Designer
8 6 (4.72%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.94%) Lead Designer
9 5 (3.94%) Project Manager
10 4 (3.15%) Auditor
10 4 (3.15%) Data Analytics Specialist
10 4 (3.15%) Interaction Designer
10 4 (3.15%) Research Scientist
10 4 (3.15%) Technical Architect
11 3 (2.36%) Cloud Architect
11 3 (2.36%) Consultant
11 3 (2.36%) Security Architect
11 3 (2.36%) Security Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.24%) PyTorch
1 13 (10.24%) TensorFlow
2 12 (9.45%) Flash
2 12 (9.45%) Matplotlib
2 12 (9.45%) NumPy
2 12 (9.45%) Pandas
2 12 (9.45%) scikit-learn
2 12 (9.45%) Seaborn
3 4 (3.15%) CSS
3 4 (3.15%) HTML
4 3 (2.36%) Middleware
4 3 (2.36%) REST
5 2 (1.57%) Blazor
5 2 (1.57%) GWT
5 2 (1.57%) OAuth
5 2 (1.57%) React
5 2 (1.57%) SOAP
5 2 (1.57%) Vue
6 1 (0.79%) CNTK
6 1 (0.79%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.54%) Algorithms
2 12 (9.45%) Clustering
2 12 (9.45%) NHS
3 11 (8.66%) Management Information System
4 10 (7.87%) Cloud Native
5 6 (4.72%) Industry 4.0
5 6 (4.72%) Life Science
5 6 (4.72%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 5 (3.94%) Cyberattack
7 4 (3.15%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (3.15%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.36%) Blog
8 3 (2.36%) PKI
9 2 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.57%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.57%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.79%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.51%) Windows
2 3 (2.36%) Linux
2 3 (2.36%) Unix
2 3 (2.36%) Windows Server
2 3 (2.36%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (1.57%) VMS
4 1 (0.79%) Android
4 1 (0.79%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (55.12%) Computer Science
2 53 (41.73%) Agile
3 43 (33.86%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (30.71%) Analytics
5 29 (22.83%) Decision-Making
6 27 (21.26%) Roadmaps
7 25 (19.69%) Project Management
8 23 (18.11%) Data Analytics
8 23 (18.11%) Data Modelling
9 21 (16.54%) Artificial Intelligence
10 20 (15.75%) Mentoring
11 19 (14.96%) Machine Learning
12 18 (14.17%) Data Science
13 17 (13.39%) Data Analysis
13 17 (13.39%) Stakeholder Management
14 16 (12.60%) Cloud Security
15 15 (11.81%) Risk Management
15 15 (11.81%) Validation
15 15 (11.81%) Visualisation
15 15 (11.81%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 32 (25.20%) Python
2 12 (9.45%) R
3 7 (5.51%) Java
4 5 (3.94%) Rust
5 3 (2.36%) C#
5 3 (2.36%) C++
5 3 (2.36%) SQL
6 2 (1.57%) C
6 2 (1.57%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.57%) Ruby
7 1 (0.79%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.79%) Bash
7 1 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.79%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 127 (100.00%) Degree
2 35 (27.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (20.47%) Security Cleared
4 23 (18.11%) PhD
5 20 (15.75%) Cisco Certification
5 20 (15.75%) SC Cleared
6 16 (12.60%) CCNA
7 14 (11.02%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (10.24%) AWS Certification
8 13 (10.24%) Azure Certification
8 13 (10.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 9 (7.09%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (6.30%) CISSP
11 7 (5.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (5.51%) MBA
11 7 (5.51%) PMI Certification
12 6 (4.72%) PMP
13 4 (3.15%) CCNP
13 4 (3.15%) CISM
13 4 (3.15%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.39%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.87%) QA
3 7 (5.51%) GDPR
3 7 (5.51%) PMO
4 6 (4.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (3.94%) NIST
6 4 (3.15%) PCI DSS
7 3 (2.36%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.79%) COBIT
8 1 (0.79%) GRC
8 1 (0.79%) HAZOP
8 1 (0.79%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.79%) PMBOK
System Software
1 14 (11.02%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (9.45%) VMware ESXi
2 12 (9.45%) VMware NSX
3 3 (2.36%) Docker
4 2 (1.57%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.79%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (9.45%) vCenter Server
2 6 (4.72%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.72%) MOM
3 3 (2.36%) CASB
4 2 (1.57%) SCOM
5 1 (0.79%) Ansible
5 1 (0.79%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.79%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (18.11%) Microsoft
2 18 (14.17%) Cisco
3 17 (13.39%) SAP
4 14 (11.02%) Atlassian
4 14 (11.02%) VMware
5 12 (9.45%) Google
6 6 (4.72%) Oracle
6 6 (4.72%) Rockwell
6 6 (4.72%) Siemens
7 5 (3.94%) Ariba
7 5 (3.94%) Cloudera
8 4 (3.15%) Databricks
9 3 (2.36%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.57%) Anaplan
10 2 (1.57%) F5
10 2 (1.57%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.57%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.57%) Remedy
10 2 (1.57%) TOWER Software
10 2 (1.57%) Workday