Master's Degree Job Trends 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 21 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 91 115
Rank change year-on-year -54 +24 -105
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 45 98 85
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.67% 2.82% 1.48%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.92% 7.19% 5.99%
Number of salaries quoted 27 5 36
10th Percentile £49,000 £46,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £70,000 £41,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,450 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.29% +19.23% +13.04%
75th Percentile £63,725 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £65,250 £120,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% +7.41% -10.00%

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 1,149 1,363 1,420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 17.07% 39.19% 24.72%
Number of salaries quoted 551 562 870
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,529
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £53,000 £48,900
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% +8.38% -11.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,219 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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

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

Master's Degree job vacancy trend in the East of England

Master's Degree
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

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

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 21 July 2026.

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 21 July 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
Cambridgeshire -38 23 £59,450 -23.29% 16
Essex -6 13 £55,000 - 3
Hertfordshire -39 6 £75,000 +30.43% 5
Bedfordshire -3 2 £65,000 - 4
Norfolk - 1 - - 4
Master's Degree
England

Master's Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 8 (17.78%) SAS
2 3 (6.67%) CMS
3 1 (2.22%) Apache
3 1 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 3 (6.67%) AutoCAD
1 3 (6.67%) Autodesk Inventor
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (22.22%) AWS
2 9 (20.00%) Serverless
3 4 (8.89%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (8.89%) SaaS
4 2 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.22%) Azure
5 1 (2.22%) Datadog
5 1 (2.22%) GitHub
5 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) NFC
1 3 (6.67%) RFID
2 1 (2.22%) Bluetooth
2 1 (2.22%) LTE
2 1 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.00%) Big Data
2 1 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.22%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (2.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (4.44%) JIRA
2 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.22%) Git
2 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.22%) Zephyr
General
1 11 (24.44%) Electronics
2 8 (17.78%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.11%) Marketing
4 4 (8.89%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.22%) Finance
5 1 (2.22%) Games
5 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.22%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 11 (24.44%) Graduate
2 9 (20.00%) Lead
3 8 (17.78%) Computer Engineer
3 8 (17.78%) Computer Vision Engineer
3 8 (17.78%) Delivery Manager
3 8 (17.78%) Technical Delivery Manager
3 8 (17.78%) Technical Leader
3 8 (17.78%) Technical Manager
4 5 (11.11%) Embedded Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Architect
5 4 (8.89%) Presales Solution Architect
5 4 (8.89%) RF Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (8.89%) Support Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Technical Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Technical Support
5 4 (8.89%) Technical Support Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Embedded Linux Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.11%) Yocto
2 1 (2.22%) Flask
2 1 (2.22%) Keras
2 1 (2.22%) Matplotlib
2 1 (2.22%) NumPy
2 1 (2.22%) OpenCV
2 1 (2.22%) Pandas
2 1 (2.22%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.22%) scikit-learn
2 1 (2.22%) SciPy
2 1 (2.22%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) Embedded Systems
2 5 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 5 (11.11%) Device Driver
2 5 (11.11%) IoT
3 4 (8.89%) Data Centre
3 4 (8.89%) Robotics
4 3 (6.67%) Contactless
4 3 (6.67%) Smart City
4 3 (6.67%) Smartcard
5 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (4.44%) FPGA
6 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.22%) NB-IoT
6 1 (2.22%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.33%) Embedded Linux
1 6 (13.33%) Linux
2 1 (2.22%) FreeRTOS
2 1 (2.22%) ThreadX
2 1 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (35.56%) Computer Science
3 12 (26.67%) DevOps
4 10 (22.22%) Agile
4 10 (22.22%) Data Engineering
5 9 (20.00%) Change Control
5 9 (20.00%) Computer Vision
6 8 (17.78%) AI
6 8 (17.78%) Collaborative Working
6 8 (17.78%) Data Integration
6 8 (17.78%) Data Management
6 8 (17.78%) Server Management
6 8 (17.78%) Storage Management
7 7 (15.56%) Software Engineering
7 7 (15.56%) Validation
8 4 (8.89%) Data Interpretation
8 4 (8.89%) Innovative Thinking
8 4 (8.89%) Presales
9 3 (6.67%) Customer Acquisition
9 3 (6.67%) Customer-Centricity
Programming Languages
1 8 (17.78%) Python
2 6 (13.33%) C
3 5 (11.11%) C++
3 5 (11.11%) Embedded C
4 4 (8.89%) Embedded C++
5 3 (6.67%) C#
6 1 (2.22%) Bash
6 1 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.22%) Erlang
6 1 (2.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (100.00%) Degree
2 15 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (17.78%) DBS Check
3 8 (17.78%) PhD
4 1 (2.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.22%) CISM
4 1 (2.22%) CISSP
4 1 (2.22%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (2.22%) GSEC
4 1 (2.22%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.78%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.22%) ISO 13485
2 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.22%) NIST
2 1 (2.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (4.44%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (4.44%) Firmware
2 1 (2.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.44%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.44%) Terraform
2 1 (2.22%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (8.89%) Dell
2 3 (6.67%) Adobe
2 3 (6.67%) Autodesk
2 3 (6.67%) Pardot
2 3 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.22%) Google
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft