Master's Degree Contract Job Trends in West London

Master's Degree
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 30 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 31 47
Rank change year-on-year -9 +16 +8
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 3 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in West London 1.05% 0.92% 0.86%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.23% 6.06% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile - £94 -
25th Percentile - £137 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £208 £43
Median % change year-on-year +68.27% +383.72% -92.98%
75th Percentile £475 £279 -
90th Percentile £550 £322 -
London median daily rate £550 £575 £700
% change year-on-year -4.35% -17.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
London median hourly rate £65.00 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +28.71%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West 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 West London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 93 33 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 32.40% 15.14% 22.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 25 86
10th Percentile £203 £162 £259
25th Percentile £204 £213 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £375 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -31.82% +17.96%
75th Percentile £438 £550 £638
90th Percentile £450 £645 £675
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 1 5
10th Percentile £19.54 - £34.00
25th Percentile £21.46 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £100.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -74.85% +66.67% +100.00%
75th Percentile - - £65.00
90th Percentile - - £69.20
London median hourly rate £25.15 £39.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -35.51% -25.71% +10.53%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Master's Degree relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West London.

Master's Degree job vacancy trend in West London

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

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

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in West London over the 6 months to 30 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Master's Degree in West London

Master's Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

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

Master's Degree
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 30 November 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
Hounslow +3 2 £350 +68.27%
Wembley - 1 £600 -
Master's Degree
London

Master's Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Collibra
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) C++ Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Angular 2
1 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Code
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) Memory Management
2 2 (66.67%) OO
2 2 (66.67%) OOP
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Secure Coding
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Debt
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) ERP
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C++
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (33.33%) HIPAA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Informatica
1 1 (33.33%) Workday