Master's Degree Job Trends in Derby

Master's Degree
Derbyshire > Derby

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Derby with a requirement for Master's Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 9 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 22 29
Rank change year-on-year -20 +7 -19
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 1 13 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Derby 0.22% 6.81% 3.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.09% 30.23% 16.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39,000 - £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 - £40,000
75th Percentile £43,000 - £45,000
90th Percentile - - -
Derbyshire median annual salary £41,000 - £40,000
% change year-on-year - - -5.88%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Derby

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 permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Derby.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 92 43 80
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Derby 20.31% 22.51% 19.05%
Number of salaries quoted 20 24 42
10th Percentile £28,057 £28,125 £25,500
25th Percentile £37,375 £32,500 £36,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £37,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +43.33% -11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £60,625 £59,688 £55,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £71,000 £64,500
Derbyshire median annual salary £42,500 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% -11.11%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

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

Master's Degree job vacancy trend in Derby

Master's Degree
Salary Trend in Derby

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing Master's Degree.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing Master's Degree

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

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Matplotlib
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) Seaborn
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Munging
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Statistics
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) R
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree