Master's Degree Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Master's Degree
South West > Wiltshire

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

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 47 56
Rank change year-on-year -10 +9 +11
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 2 16 19
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 0.43% 2.78% 2.33%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.52% 3.95% 3.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 13 16
10th Percentile - £675 -
25th Percentile £525 £713 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £738 £611
Median % change year-on-year -25.42% +20.70% +6.26%
75th Percentile £575 £756 £675
90th Percentile - - £731
South West median daily rate £550 £738 £611
% change year-on-year -25.42% +20.70% +6.26%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 388 405 549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 82.91% 70.43% 67.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 289 389
10th Percentile £425 £381 £413
25th Percentile £519 £500 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £675 £656 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 1 19
10th Percentile £12.50 - £40.85
25th Percentile £18.87 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £55.13
90th Percentile - - £67.00
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.50 £62.28
% change year-on-year -61.60% +5.18% -4.19%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Master's Degree job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

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

Master's Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

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

Master's Degree
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 3 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
Corsham -1 2 £550 -25.42%
Master's Degree
South West

Master's Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) GitOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Server Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Dell DRAC
2 1 (50.00%) Packer
2 1 (50.00%) PowerCLI
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) VMware