Master's Degree Job Trends in the East Midlands

Master's Degree
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for Master's Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 70 155
Rank change year-on-year -74 +85 -138
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 11 69 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.23% 3.51% 0.88%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.37% 8.13% 4.45%
Number of salaries quoted 7 3 22
10th Percentile - - £45,000
25th Percentile - £66,250 £58,730
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £67,500 £79,566
Median % change year-on-year -55.56% -15.16% +165.22%
75th Percentile £87,500 £70,625 £88,168
90th Percentile - £71,750 £91,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.71% +8.46% -7.14%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East 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 permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 802 849 1,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 16.96% 43.23% 19.87%
Number of salaries quoted 305 213 598
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,750 £25,250
25th Percentile £30,250 £30,000 £30,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,743 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.86% -5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £68,525 £68,075
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,750
% change year-on-year +9.09% +0.46% -8.75%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Master's Degree job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Master's Degree
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Master's Degree.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Master's Degree

Master's Degree
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Master's Degree in the East Midlands

Master's Degree
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Master's Degree within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 June 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leicestershire -32 11 £30,000 - 5
Master's Degree
England

Master's Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (27.27%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
1 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Bluetooth
1 4 (36.36%) MQTT
1 4 (36.36%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (36.36%) Wireless
1 4 (36.36%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) GDB
1 4 (36.36%) Git
1 4 (36.36%) GitLab
1 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
1 4 (36.36%) Robot Framework
General
1 3 (27.27%) Aerospace
1 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (27.27%) Electronics
1 3 (27.27%) Manufacturing
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Android Developer
1 4 (36.36%) Applications Developer
1 4 (36.36%) Developer
1 4 (36.36%) Embedded Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Graduate
1 4 (36.36%) Graduate Applications Developer
1 4 (36.36%) Graduate Developer
1 4 (36.36%) Graduate Mobile Developer
1 4 (36.36%) Mobile Applications Developer
1 4 (36.36%) Mobile Developer
1 4 (36.36%) Software Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) pytest
1 4 (36.36%) Unity DI Container
1 4 (36.36%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) ARM Cortex
1 4 (36.36%) Device Driver
1 4 (36.36%) Embedded Systems
1 4 (36.36%) IoT
1 4 (36.36%) Mobile App
2 3 (27.27%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Android
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Computer Science
2 4 (36.36%) Android Development
2 4 (36.36%) BDD
2 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 4 (36.36%) DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
2 4 (36.36%) Mobile Application Development
2 4 (36.36%) Software Delivery
2 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
2 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
2 4 (36.36%) Validation
3 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (27.27%) Change Management
3 3 (27.27%) Cost Optimisation
3 3 (27.27%) Due Diligence
3 3 (27.27%) ERP
3 3 (27.27%) ITIL
3 3 (27.27%) Migration
3 3 (27.27%) Post-Merger Integration
3 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Bash
1 4 (36.36%) C
1 4 (36.36%) C++
1 4 (36.36%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) Degree
2 4 (36.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (27.27%) MBA
3 3 (27.27%) PMI Certification
3 3 (27.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) JTAG
2 3 (27.27%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle
1 3 (27.27%) QAD
1 3 (27.27%) SAP