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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 182 59
Rank change year-on-year +117 -123 +149
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 1,924 1,382 4,559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.94% 1.61% 5.07%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.80% 5.65% 15.53%
Number of salaries quoted 533 761 743
10th Percentile £45,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,315 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.64% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £84,166 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £107,500 £124,250
UK median annual salary £69,315 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.64% - -7.14%

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 24,658 24,443 29,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 50.51% 28.46% 32.67%
Number of salaries quoted 10,277 15,785 13,406
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,453 £31,322
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £84,640 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +1.85% -9.28% +8.23%

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 12 May 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 12 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
London +55 704 £90,000 +12.50% 1,458
North of England +221 596 £69,315 +38.63% 254
North West +162 450 £69,315 +6.64% 140
South East +49 260 £62,500 +4.17% 477
Midlands +87 123 £45,000 -18.18% 143
Yorkshire +146 122 £63,652 +30.57% 74
South West +116 117 £50,000 - 133
East of England +46 115 £64,743 +17.71% 203
East Midlands +67 69 £67,500 +9.87% 53
West Midlands +54 54 £31,000 -34.74% 87
North East +45 24 £45,750 -8.50% 42
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 16 (0.83%) Apache Spark
2 7 (0.36%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.31%) SAS
4 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.21%) Apache
5 4 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
5 4 (0.21%) WordPress
6 3 (0.16%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.10%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.10%) CMS
7 2 (0.10%) Confluence
Applications
1 409 (21.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 275 (14.29%) Chatbot
3 142 (7.38%) Abaqus
4 110 (5.72%) Mathcad
5 30 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
6 10 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
8 6 (0.31%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.31%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.16%) Simulink
10 2 (0.10%) Blender
10 2 (0.10%) Maya
10 2 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.052%) Stata
11 1 (0.052%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.052%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.052%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.052%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.052%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 122 (6.34%) Azure
2 100 (5.20%) AWS
3 51 (2.65%) GCP
4 34 (1.77%) SaaS
5 26 (1.35%) Power Platform
6 21 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
6 21 (1.09%) PaaS
6 21 (1.09%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 19 (0.99%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (0.68%) Adobe Analytics
9 12 (0.62%) Serverless
10 8 (0.42%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (0.36%) Amazon S3
12 6 (0.31%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (0.31%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (0.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (0.31%) Dialogflow
12 6 (0.31%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (0.31%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (1.35%) Firewall
2 25 (1.30%) Wireless
3 22 (1.14%) Internet
4 20 (1.04%) WAN
5 19 (0.99%) LAN
6 15 (0.78%) Intrusion Detection
7 8 (0.42%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.36%) HTTP
9 5 (0.26%) 5G
9 5 (0.26%) DNS
9 5 (0.26%) Ethernet
9 5 (0.26%) Network Security
10 4 (0.21%) 2G
10 4 (0.21%) 3G
10 4 (0.21%) 4G
10 4 (0.21%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.21%) Modbus
10 4 (0.21%) Profibus
11 2 (0.10%) VLAN
11 2 (0.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (2.23%) Tableau
2 27 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (1.09%) Relational Database
4 20 (1.04%) NoSQL
5 17 (0.88%) Big Data
5 17 (0.88%) Power BI
6 16 (0.83%) Hadoop
7 13 (0.68%) SQL Server
8 11 (0.57%) Data Lake
8 11 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (0.36%) Apache Hive
10 7 (0.36%) MySQL
11 6 (0.31%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.26%) GIS
12 5 (0.26%) Neo4j
13 4 (0.21%) Metadata
13 4 (0.21%) RDBMS
14 3 (0.16%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (0.16%) Impala
Development Applications
1 48 (2.49%) Git
2 18 (0.94%) JIRA
3 14 (0.73%) IntelliJ
4 8 (0.42%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.42%) Moq
4 8 (0.42%) SpecFlow
5 7 (0.36%) Burp Suite
6 6 (0.31%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.26%) Gatling
7 5 (0.26%) GitLab
7 5 (0.26%) JMeter
7 5 (0.26%) Selenium
8 4 (0.21%) JUnit
8 4 (0.21%) Postman
8 4 (0.21%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.21%) TestCafe
8 4 (0.21%) TestNG
9 3 (0.16%) MLflow
9 3 (0.16%) PowerBuilder
10 2 (0.10%) Metasploit
General
1 949 (49.32%) Analytical Skills
2 794 (41.27%) Social Skills
3 597 (31.03%) Finance
4 453 (23.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 438 (22.77%) Banking
6 390 (20.27%) Financial Institution
7 388 (20.17%) German Language
8 386 (20.06%) French Language
9 158 (8.21%) Manufacturing
10 128 (6.65%) Law
11 85 (4.42%) Electronics
12 64 (3.33%) Marketing
13 55 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
14 53 (2.75%) Legal
15 45 (2.34%) Agriculture
16 30 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
17 29 (1.51%) Telecoms
18 26 (1.35%) Aerospace
19 24 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
20 21 (1.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 507 (26.35%) Analyst
2 384 (19.96%) Credit Analyst
2 384 (19.96%) Research Analyst
3 352 (18.30%) Senior
4 278 (14.45%) Trainer
5 140 (7.28%) Engineering Manager
6 121 (6.29%) Commissioning Manager
7 110 (5.72%) Engineering Specialist
7 110 (5.72%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 70 (3.64%) Lead
9 68 (3.53%) Principal Engineer
10 60 (3.12%) Senior Electrical Engineer
11 51 (2.65%) Architect
12 49 (2.55%) Developer
13 46 (2.39%) Data Scientist
14 36 (1.87%) Software Engineer
15 33 (1.72%) Data Analyst
16 29 (1.51%) Data Engineer
16 29 (1.51%) Senior Manager
17 27 (1.40%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (3.01%) REST
2 41 (2.13%) PyTorch
3 38 (1.98%) Pandas
3 38 (1.98%) TensorFlow
4 36 (1.87%) .NET
5 35 (1.82%) NumPy
6 34 (1.77%) React
7 25 (1.30%) SOAP
8 23 (1.20%) scikit-learn
9 22 (1.14%) SciPy
10 21 (1.09%) Lightning Web Components
10 21 (1.09%) Middleware
11 19 (0.99%) OpenCV
12 17 (0.88%) AngularJS
13 15 (0.78%) YAML
14 14 (0.73%) ARM Templates
15 13 (0.68%) .NET Framework
16 11 (0.57%) .NET Core
16 11 (0.57%) HTML
16 11 (0.57%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 402 (20.89%) Credit Risk
2 384 (19.96%) Fixed Income
3 123 (6.39%) Algorithms
4 63 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
5 49 (2.55%) Management Information System
6 45 (2.34%) Virtual Team
7 34 (1.77%) Security Posture
7 34 (1.77%) Social Media
8 31 (1.61%) Robotics
9 28 (1.46%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 27 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
11 24 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
12 21 (1.09%) Life Science
13 17 (0.88%) Learning Management System
14 15 (0.78%) Molecular Biology
15 14 (0.73%) Mobile App
16 13 (0.68%) Reinsurance
17 12 (0.62%) FMCG
18 10 (0.52%) Renewable Energy
18 10 (0.52%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 57 (2.96%) Windows
2 30 (1.56%) Linux
3 27 (1.40%) Windows Vista
4 11 (0.57%) Unix
5 5 (0.26%) Android
5 5 (0.26%) Debian
5 5 (0.26%) Robot Operating System
6 4 (0.21%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.21%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.10%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.10%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.10%) VMS
8 1 (0.052%) Android TV
8 1 (0.052%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 540 (28.07%) Decision-Making
2 444 (23.08%) Risk Management
3 443 (23.02%) Business Strategy
4 436 (22.66%) Artificial Intelligence
5 403 (20.95%) Asset Management
6 400 (20.79%) Risk Assessment
7 391 (20.32%) Financial Modelling
8 387 (20.11%) Portfolio Management
9 385 (20.01%) Credit Risk Analysis
10 367 (19.07%) Computer Science
11 277 (14.40%) Conversational UI
12 269 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
13 234 (12.16%) Mathematics
14 202 (10.50%) Analytics
15 179 (9.30%) Statistics
16 178 (9.25%) Data Science
17 166 (8.63%) Agile
18 160 (8.32%) Systems Engineering
19 158 (8.21%) CAD
20 148 (7.69%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 286 (14.86%) Python
2 94 (4.89%) SQL
3 92 (4.78%) Java
4 71 (3.69%) C#
5 63 (3.27%) C++
6 30 (1.56%) JavaScript
7 25 (1.30%) Scala
8 24 (1.25%) C
9 22 (1.14%) PowerShell
10 21 (1.09%) Apex Code
11 17 (0.88%) MATLAB
11 17 (0.88%) R
12 15 (0.78%) Fortran
13 13 (0.68%) Bash
13 13 (0.68%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.47%) TypeScript
15 7 (0.36%) Perl
16 6 (0.31%) VBA
17 4 (0.21%) Ladder Logic
17 4 (0.21%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 1,924 (100.00%) Degree
2 518 (26.92%) BPSS Clearance
3 495 (25.73%) PhD
4 386 (20.06%) CFA
5 346 (17.98%) Chartered Engineer
6 202 (10.50%) MBA
7 147 (7.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 145 (7.54%) HND
9 49 (2.55%) DBS Check
10 41 (2.13%) Security Cleared
11 35 (1.82%) PMI Certification
12 32 (1.66%) PMP
13 29 (1.51%) SC Cleared
14 24 (1.25%) CISM
14 24 (1.25%) CISSP
15 19 (0.99%) CEH
15 19 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
16 17 (0.88%) CBAP
16 17 (0.88%) CISA
17 14 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (2.81%) Data Quality
2 51 (2.65%) Def Stans
2 51 (2.65%) IEC 61508
3 44 (2.29%) NIST
4 42 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (1.25%) GDPR
6 22 (1.14%) Accessibility
7 19 (0.99%) QA
8 16 (0.83%) NCSC
9 9 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 7 (0.36%) NIST 800
11 6 (0.31%) CDISC
11 6 (0.31%) GRC
12 4 (0.21%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.21%) SOC 1
12 4 (0.21%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 2 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.10%) PCI DSS
14 2 (0.10%) PMO
System Software
1 58 (3.01%) Docker
2 4 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.16%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.16%) HDFS
3 3 (0.16%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.052%) Firmware
4 1 (0.052%) KVM
4 1 (0.052%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 58 (3.01%) Kubernetes
2 24 (1.25%) Terraform
3 5 (0.26%) Grafana
3 5 (0.26%) Prometheus
3 5 (0.26%) RSA Archer
4 4 (0.21%) Ansible
4 4 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.10%) Hadoop YARN
5 2 (0.10%) Nmap
6 1 (0.052%) Bugsnag
6 1 (0.052%) Istio
6 1 (0.052%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 387 (20.11%) Bloomberg
2 268 (13.93%) PayPal
3 89 (4.63%) Microsoft
4 42 (2.18%) Google
5 27 (1.40%) Databricks
6 26 (1.35%) Salesforce
7 21 (1.09%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 20 (1.04%) YouTube
9 19 (0.99%) Unisys
10 17 (0.88%) SAP
11 14 (0.73%) Adobe
12 12 (0.62%) Capita
13 11 (0.57%) IBM
14 7 (0.36%) EMC
14 7 (0.36%) Omniture
15 6 (0.31%) Informatica
16 5 (0.26%) Siemens
17 4 (0.21%) Allen-Bradley
17 4 (0.21%) Atlassian
17 4 (0.21%) Saba