Master's Degree Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Master's Degree
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 11 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 98 105
Rank change year-on-year -22 +7 +72
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 5 12 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.28% 0.63% 0.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.79% 1.99% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 14
10th Percentile - - £463
25th Percentile - £375 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £892 £438 £713
Median % change year-on-year +103.89% -38.60% +7.55%
75th Percentile - £537 £738
90th Percentile - £550 £746
England median daily rate £537 £525 £650
% change year-on-year +2.29% -19.23% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £30.29 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -47.32% - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £42.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +54.76% -35.38% +44.44%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 636 603 587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 35.00% 31.59% 27.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 389 361
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.28% -1.20% +9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £635 £606
90th Percentile £650 £725 £725
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 11 23
10th Percentile - £20.50 £13.87
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.41 £19.55
Median hourly rate £30.00 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% +54.55% +37.50%
75th Percentile £41.86 £54.88 £67.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £68.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £55.00 £54.78
% change year-on-year -54.27% +0.40% +21.73%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Master's Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Master's Degree
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 September 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
Birmingham -2 3 £892 +62.18% 15
Warwickshire -3 2 - - 21
Master's Degree
England

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
1 2 (40.00%) Serverless
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data
2 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) Liquibase
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (20.00%) Automotive
3 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) GCP DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) GCP Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Data Fabric
2 1 (20.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (60.00%) Data Security
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (40.00%) Cryptography
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Data Encryption
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Go
2 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) PayPal