Master's Degree Jobs in England

Master's Degree
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 186 53
Rank change year-on-year +116 -133 +125
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 1,867 1,397 4,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.76% 1.45% 5.32%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.95% 5.48% 15.66%
Number of salaries quoted 451 755 744
10th Percentile £46,250 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £49,125 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,315 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.64% -7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £107,500 £127,500
UK median annual salary £69,315 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.64% -7.14% +3.70%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 23,480 25,515 27,365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 47.28% 26.56% 33.99%
Number of salaries quoted 9,478 15,633 12,752
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,864 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -10.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.66% -12.42% +9.09%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in England

Master's Degree
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Master's Degree in England

Master's Degree
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in England over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Master's Degree in England

Master's Degree
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 24 June 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
North of England +213 595 £69,315 +38.63% 736
London +55 587 £90,000 +12.50% 3,794
North West +166 391 £69,315 +8.73% 385
South East +54 285 £70,000 +16.67% 891
Midlands +112 169 £55,000 - 479
Yorkshire +151 161 £71,991 +43.98% 267
South West +120 114 £50,000 -3.34% 374
East of England +38 105 £77,500 +40.91% 490
West Midlands +91 87 £55,000 +15.79% 286
East Midlands +86 82 £67,500 -8.52% 193
North East +59 43 £60,000 +20.00% 84
Master's Degree
UK

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 29 (1.55%) Apache Spark
2 7 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (0.32%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.27%) Apache
5 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.16%) SAS
6 2 (0.11%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.11%) CMS
6 2 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 536 (28.71%) Chatbot
2 289 (15.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 85 (4.55%) Abaqus
4 53 (2.84%) Mathcad
5 23 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
6 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
7 4 (0.21%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.21%) Simulink
8 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.16%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.054%) CANalyzer
9 1 (0.054%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.054%) Stata
9 1 (0.054%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.21%) SAP WM
3 3 (0.16%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.11%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.11%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.054%) Adaptiv
Cloud Services
1 145 (7.77%) Azure
2 106 (5.68%) AWS
3 65 (3.48%) GCP
4 29 (1.55%) Power Platform
4 29 (1.55%) SaaS
5 28 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (1.34%) PaaS
7 21 (1.12%) Azure Monitor
7 21 (1.12%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 20 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
9 18 (0.96%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (0.75%) Serverless
11 12 (0.64%) Adobe Analytics
12 9 (0.48%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (0.48%) GitHub
13 8 (0.43%) Amazon S3
13 8 (0.43%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (0.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (0.37%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (0.37%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.12%) Firewall
2 16 (0.86%) Internet
3 15 (0.80%) WAN
3 15 (0.80%) Wireless
4 13 (0.70%) Ethernet
4 13 (0.70%) LAN
5 10 (0.54%) Modbus
5 10 (0.54%) Profibus
6 8 (0.43%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.37%) HTTP
7 7 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (0.27%) Network Security
9 4 (0.21%) HTTPS
9 4 (0.21%) Intranet
10 3 (0.16%) DNS
11 2 (0.11%) Link 16
11 2 (0.11%) RS-485
11 2 (0.11%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.11%) Tactical Data Link
11 2 (0.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (2.14%) Tableau
2 24 (1.29%) Hadoop
3 23 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (1.18%) Big Data
5 21 (1.12%) Data Lake
6 19 (1.02%) NoSQL
6 19 (1.02%) Power BI
7 17 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (0.86%) Relational Database
9 9 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (0.48%) SQL Server
10 7 (0.37%) Apache Hive
11 6 (0.32%) Metadata
11 6 (0.32%) MySQL
12 4 (0.21%) GIS
12 4 (0.21%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.21%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.16%) Impala
13 3 (0.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (0.11%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 48 (2.57%) Git
2 12 (0.64%) JIRA
3 11 (0.59%) IntelliJ
4 8 (0.43%) Moq
4 8 (0.43%) SpecFlow
5 7 (0.37%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.21%) GitLab
6 4 (0.21%) MLflow
7 3 (0.16%) Burp Suite
7 3 (0.16%) Maven
7 3 (0.16%) PowerBuilder
8 2 (0.11%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.11%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.054%) CMake
9 1 (0.054%) ESLint
9 1 (0.054%) Gatling
9 1 (0.054%) git-flow
9 1 (0.054%) Qt Creator
9 1 (0.054%) TestRail
9 1 (0.054%) WebDriver
General
1 926 (49.60%) Analytical Skills
2 684 (36.64%) Social Skills
3 495 (26.51%) Finance
4 328 (17.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 317 (16.98%) Banking
6 272 (14.57%) Financial Institution
7 271 (14.52%) German Language
8 267 (14.30%) French Language
9 165 (8.84%) Law
10 93 (4.98%) Manufacturing
11 86 (4.61%) Electronics
12 67 (3.59%) Marketing
13 60 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
14 59 (3.16%) Legal
15 47 (2.52%) Agriculture
16 38 (2.04%) Aerospace
17 32 (1.71%) Retail
18 30 (1.61%) Telecoms
19 29 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
20 25 (1.34%) Games
Job Titles
1 537 (28.76%) Trainer
2 373 (19.98%) Analyst
3 274 (14.68%) Senior
4 267 (14.30%) Credit Analyst
4 267 (14.30%) Research Analyst
5 110 (5.89%) Commissioning Manager
6 84 (4.50%) Lead
7 77 (4.12%) Principal Engineer
8 60 (3.21%) Senior Electrical Engineer
9 53 (2.84%) Engineering Specialist
9 53 (2.84%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 45 (2.41%) Data Scientist
11 43 (2.30%) Architect
11 43 (2.30%) Developer
12 34 (1.82%) Software Engineer
13 29 (1.55%) Biostatistician
13 29 (1.55%) Data Analyst
14 26 (1.39%) Engineering Manager
14 26 (1.39%) Enterprise Architect
14 26 (1.39%) Research Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (2.62%) REST
2 44 (2.36%) TensorFlow
3 42 (2.25%) PyTorch
4 31 (1.66%) Pandas
5 26 (1.39%) NumPy
5 26 (1.39%) React
6 25 (1.34%) Middleware
6 25 (1.34%) SOAP
7 24 (1.29%) .NET
8 21 (1.12%) Lightning Web Components
9 20 (1.07%) Hugging Face
9 20 (1.07%) Kafka
9 20 (1.07%) scikit-learn
9 20 (1.07%) YAML
10 17 (0.91%) SciPy
11 15 (0.80%) AngularJS
12 14 (0.75%) ARM Templates
12 14 (0.75%) LangChain
12 14 (0.75%) OpenCV
13 11 (0.59%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 280 (15.00%) Credit Risk
2 267 (14.30%) Fixed Income
3 106 (5.68%) Algorithms
4 46 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
5 45 (2.41%) Management Information System
6 39 (2.09%) Security Posture
7 33 (1.77%) Virtual Team
8 30 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
9 29 (1.55%) Life Science
10 27 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
10 27 (1.45%) Molecular Biology
11 24 (1.29%) Social Media
12 22 (1.18%) Robotics
13 20 (1.07%) SCADA
13 20 (1.07%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 17 (0.91%) Cloud Native
15 16 (0.86%) FMCG
16 15 (0.80%) Data Structures
16 15 (0.80%) Derivative
17 10 (0.54%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 46 (2.46%) Windows
2 22 (1.18%) Linux
3 19 (1.02%) Windows Vista
4 10 (0.54%) Unix
5 7 (0.37%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.32%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.27%) Android
8 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.054%) Android TV
9 1 (0.054%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.054%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 696 (37.28%) Artificial Intelligence
2 537 (28.76%) Conversational UI
3 433 (23.19%) Decision-Making
4 427 (22.87%) Computer Science
5 332 (17.78%) Business Strategy
6 319 (17.09%) Risk Management
7 313 (16.76%) Mathematics
8 303 (16.23%) Chemistry
9 292 (15.64%) Risk Assessment
10 285 (15.27%) Asset Management
11 273 (14.62%) Financial Modelling
12 270 (14.46%) Portfolio Management
13 267 (14.30%) Credit Risk Analysis
14 263 (14.09%) Problem-Solving
15 238 (12.75%) Statistics
16 209 (11.19%) Analytics
17 171 (9.16%) Physics
18 164 (8.78%) Data Science
19 157 (8.41%) Agile
20 129 (6.91%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 229 (12.27%) Python
2 96 (5.14%) SQL
3 80 (4.28%) Java
4 53 (2.84%) C++
5 44 (2.36%) C#
6 25 (1.34%) PowerShell
7 24 (1.29%) C
8 21 (1.12%) Apex Code
9 20 (1.07%) MATLAB
9 20 (1.07%) R
10 19 (1.02%) Scala
11 15 (0.80%) JavaScript
12 14 (0.75%) Bash
13 13 (0.70%) Fortran
14 10 (0.54%) Ladder Logic
15 7 (0.37%) TypeScript
16 6 (0.32%) Objective-C
17 5 (0.27%) Perl
18 4 (0.21%) Kotlin
19 3 (0.16%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,867 (100.00%) Degree
2 729 (39.05%) PhD
3 343 (18.37%) BPSS Clearance
4 270 (14.46%) CFA
5 178 (9.53%) Chartered Engineer
6 173 (9.27%) MBA
7 167 (8.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 89 (4.77%) HND
9 42 (2.25%) DBS Check
10 40 (2.14%) Security Cleared
11 32 (1.71%) PMI Certification
12 29 (1.55%) PMP
13 26 (1.39%) Azure Certification
13 26 (1.39%) CISM
13 26 (1.39%) SC Cleared
14 20 (1.07%) CISSP
15 19 (1.02%) AWS Certification
16 17 (0.91%) CBAP
17 16 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
18 12 (0.64%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (3.05%) Data Quality
2 56 (3.00%) Def Stans
2 56 (3.00%) IEC 61508
3 52 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 51 (2.73%) NIST
5 28 (1.50%) GDPR
6 25 (1.34%) QA
7 21 (1.12%) NCSC
8 17 (0.91%) Accessibility
9 12 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 11 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 9 (0.48%) GRC
11 9 (0.48%) NIST 800
12 7 (0.37%) SOC 1
12 7 (0.37%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.32%) CDISC
14 5 (0.27%) ISO 9001
15 4 (0.21%) 21 CFR Part 11
15 4 (0.21%) GxP
15 4 (0.21%) HIPAA
System Software
1 54 (2.89%) Docker
2 3 (0.16%) Firmware
2 3 (0.16%) HDFS
3 2 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.054%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.054%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 52 (2.79%) Kubernetes
2 24 (1.29%) Terraform
3 23 (1.23%) Grafana
3 23 (1.23%) Prometheus
4 8 (0.43%) RSA Archer
5 4 (0.21%) Ansible
6 3 (0.16%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
7 2 (0.11%) Nmap
7 2 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.054%) Bugsnag
8 1 (0.054%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.054%) Istio
Vendors
1 533 (28.55%) PayPal
2 270 (14.46%) Bloomberg
3 84 (4.50%) Microsoft
4 35 (1.87%) Google
5 28 (1.50%) Databricks
6 26 (1.39%) Salesforce
7 24 (1.29%) SAP
8 21 (1.12%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 20 (1.07%) YouTube
10 14 (0.75%) OpenAI
11 13 (0.70%) Adobe
11 13 (0.70%) Unisys
12 12 (0.64%) Capita
13 11 (0.59%) Siemens
14 10 (0.54%) Allen-Bradley
14 10 (0.54%) Rockwell
15 8 (0.43%) Informatica
16 7 (0.37%) SolarWinds
17 6 (0.32%) EMC
17 6 (0.32%) Omniture