Master's Degree Jobs in the East of England

Master's Degree
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for Master's Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 126 16
Rank change year-on-year +46 -110 +67
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 113 107 600
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 3.33% 1.75% 11.36%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.39% 6.65% 26.54%
Number of salaries quoted 16 46 38
10th Percentile - £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,125 £44,275
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,271 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.67% -4.35% +6.48%
75th Percentile £84,999 £70,000 £66,875
90th Percentile £99,375 £85,000 £93,250
England median annual salary £69,315 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.64% - -7.14%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,769 1,609 2,261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 52.18% 26.30% 42.80%
Number of salaries quoted 629 1,105 614
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,000 £27,225
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £47,500 £51,750
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -8.21% +3.50%
75th Percentile £66,225 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in the East of England

Master's Degree
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Master's Degree in the East of England.

Salary trend for Master's Degree in the East of England

Master's Degree
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in the East of England over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Master's Degree in the East of England

Master's Degree
Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire +22 40 £85,000 +84.28% 28
Suffolk +5 22 £65,271 - 4
Cambridgeshire +21 21 £55,000 - 132
Norfolk - 19 - - 6
Essex +18 6 £58,000 - 14
Bedfordshire -10 5 £140,000 +100.00% 21
Master's Degree
England

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 35 (30.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 17 (15.04%) Chatbot
3 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 21 (18.58%) SaaS
2 3 (2.65%) Azure
3 1 (0.88%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (0.88%) Amazon S3
3 1 (0.88%) AWS
3 1 (0.88%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (0.88%) PaaS
3 1 (0.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.54%) 2G
1 4 (3.54%) 3G
1 4 (3.54%) 4G
1 4 (3.54%) 5G
1 4 (3.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (0.88%) Big Data
1 1 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (2.65%) JIRA
2 2 (1.77%) Moq
2 2 (1.77%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.88%) GitLab
3 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
General
1 69 (61.06%) Analytical Skills
2 63 (55.75%) Social Skills
3 41 (36.28%) Finance
4 37 (32.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 35 (30.97%) Banking
5 35 (30.97%) Financial Institution
5 35 (30.97%) French Language
5 35 (30.97%) German Language
6 15 (13.27%) Electronics
7 8 (7.08%) Manufacturing
8 6 (5.31%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.77%) Law
9 2 (1.77%) Marketing
10 1 (0.88%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.88%) Police
10 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (48.67%) Analyst
2 35 (30.97%) Credit Analyst
2 35 (30.97%) Research Analyst
3 17 (15.04%) Trainer
4 12 (10.62%) Senior
5 11 (9.73%) Engineering Manager
6 8 (7.08%) Senior Electrical Engineer
7 5 (4.42%) Programme Manager
8 4 (3.54%) Design Engineer
8 4 (3.54%) Graduate
8 4 (3.54%) Hardware Design Engineer
8 4 (3.54%) Hardware Engineer
9 3 (2.65%) Business Development Analyst
9 3 (2.65%) Development Analyst
9 3 (2.65%) Graduate Analyst
10 2 (1.77%) Senior Manager
10 2 (1.77%) Senior Programme Manager
10 2 (1.77%) Senior Software Engineer
10 2 (1.77%) Software Engineer
11 1 (0.88%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.77%) .NET
1 2 (1.77%) OAuth
1 2 (1.77%) OAuth2
1 2 (1.77%) REST
1 2 (1.77%) Swagger
2 1 (0.88%) .NET Core
2 1 (0.88%) .NET Framework
2 1 (0.88%) ASP.NET
2 1 (0.88%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (0.88%) Entity Framework
2 1 (0.88%) Flask
2 1 (0.88%) Matplotlib
2 1 (0.88%) NumPy
2 1 (0.88%) OpenCV
2 1 (0.88%) Pandas
2 1 (0.88%) RESTful
2 1 (0.88%) scikit-learn
2 1 (0.88%) SciPy
2 1 (0.88%) Spring
2 1 (0.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 35 (30.97%) Credit Risk
1 35 (30.97%) Fixed Income
2 17 (15.04%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (4.42%) IoT
4 4 (3.54%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (2.65%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.65%) Robotics
6 2 (1.77%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.77%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.88%) Blog
7 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.88%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (39.82%) Decision-Making
2 37 (32.74%) Risk Management
3 36 (31.86%) Asset Management
3 36 (31.86%) Financial Modelling
4 35 (30.97%) Business Strategy
4 35 (30.97%) Credit Risk Analysis
4 35 (30.97%) Portfolio Management
4 35 (30.97%) Risk Assessment
5 32 (28.32%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (21.24%) Project Management
7 22 (19.47%) Artificial Intelligence
8 21 (18.58%) PRINCE2
9 19 (16.81%) Critical Thinking
9 19 (16.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 17 (15.04%) Business Analysis
10 17 (15.04%) Business Enablement
10 17 (15.04%) Conversational UI
10 17 (15.04%) Technology Enablement
11 13 (11.50%) Computer Science
11 13 (11.50%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.54%) Python
2 2 (1.77%) C#
3 1 (0.88%) Bash
3 1 (0.88%) Java
3 1 (0.88%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.88%) SQL
3 1 (0.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 113 (100.00%) Degree
2 35 (30.97%) CFA
3 22 (19.47%) PMP
4 21 (18.58%) PMI Certification
5 19 (16.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (16.81%) PhD
6 17 (15.04%) CBAP
7 12 (10.62%) Chartered Engineer
8 6 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.77%) MBA
10 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.54%) QA
2 1 (0.88%) CDISC
2 1 (0.88%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.88%) Docker
Vendors
1 35 (30.97%) Bloomberg
2 17 (15.04%) PayPal
2 17 (15.04%) YouTube
3 5 (4.42%) EMC
4 2 (1.77%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.88%) ANSYS