Master's Degree Contracts in Yorkshire

Master's Degree
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 83 103
Rank change year-on-year -20 +20 +39
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 11 18 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.73% 1.19% 0.34%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.07% 5.94% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 4
10th Percentile £358 £494 £369
25th Percentile £384 £513 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £525 £400
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +31.25% -24.88%
75th Percentile £550 £554 £424
90th Percentile £650 £561 £467
England median daily rate £550 £525 £665
% change year-on-year +4.76% -21.05% +10.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £30.29 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £48.56 £65.00
% change year-on-year +33.86% -25.29% +44.44%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 358 303 338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 23.65% 20.11% 16.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 206 240
10th Percentile £306 £350 £219
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -9.09% +20.88%
75th Percentile £556 £570 £638
90th Percentile £630 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 7
10th Percentile £18.51 £13.50 £13.10
25th Percentile £22.23 £15.17 £18.51
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.87 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.13% -17.10% +66.67%
75th Percentile - £42.50 £37.04
90th Percentile - £59.25 £46.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% -13.64% +22.22%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in Yorkshire

Master's Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Master's Degree in Yorkshire

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Master's Degree in Yorkshire

Master's Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Master's Degree in Yorkshire

Master's Degree
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
South Yorkshire -21 7 £407 -22.57% 17
West Yorkshire -3 3 £650 - 33
North Yorkshire - 1 - - 10
Master's Degree
England

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Chatbot
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) SAP CO
1 1 (9.09%) SAP FI
1 1 (9.09%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
1 6 (54.55%) GCP
1 6 (54.55%) Serverless
2 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) NoSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Power BI
2 1 (9.09%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) GitLab
1 6 (54.55%) Jenkins
1 6 (54.55%) Liquibase
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 6 (54.55%) Banking
3 4 (36.36%) Financial Institution
4 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (9.09%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Python Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Data Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) GCP Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) HR Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) HR Data Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Scrum Master
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Subject Matter Expert
3 1 (9.09%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (54.55%) RESTful
2 5 (45.45%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Cloud Native
1 6 (54.55%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (36.36%) Public Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Computer Science
2 7 (63.64%) Change Management
2 7 (63.64%) Software Engineering
3 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
3 6 (54.55%) Containerisation
3 6 (54.55%) Cost Optimisation
3 6 (54.55%) Cryptography
3 6 (54.55%) DevOps
3 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (54.55%) Microservices
4 5 (45.45%) Agile
4 5 (45.45%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (45.45%) Data Security
5 4 (36.36%) Continuous Delivery
5 4 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (36.36%) High Availability
5 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (36.36%) Non-Functional Testing
5 4 (36.36%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (18.18%) Data Encryption
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Go
1 6 (54.55%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) Degree
2 6 (54.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (45.45%) AWS Certification
3 5 (45.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (18.18%) MBA
5 1 (9.09%) CISM
5 1 (9.09%) CISSP
5 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (9.09%) PhD
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Ansible
1 6 (54.55%) Grafana
1 6 (54.55%) Kubernetes
1 6 (54.55%) Prometheus
1 6 (54.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Splunk
2 5 (45.45%) Google
3 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
4 1 (9.09%) Ariba
4 1 (9.09%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (9.09%) PayPal
4 1 (9.09%) SAP
4 1 (9.09%) Workday