Master's Degree Jobs in England

Master's Degree
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Master's Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 181 59 207
Rank change year-on-year -122 +148 +44
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 1,385 4,563 2,654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.61% 5.06% 1.99%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.66% 15.48% 7.53%
Number of salaries quoted 761 752 931
10th Percentile £33,750 £33,854 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,005 £50,120
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,625
90th Percentile £107,500 £121,125 £132,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +12.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

Master's Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 24,461 29,486 35,243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.47% 32.70% 26.46%
Number of salaries quoted 15,787 13,473 16,661
10th Percentile £28,469 £31,350 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,019 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £59,526 £55,000
% change year-on-year -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 2024.

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 2024. 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 +44 663 £80,000 - 518
South East -104 289 £60,000 -4.00% 178
North of England -223 122 £50,000 +12.75% 148
East of England -108 106 £55,000 -4.35% 121
Midlands -174 101 £55,000 +74.60% 131
South West -165 95 £50,000 - 73
North West -176 75 £65,000 +4.00% 85
West Midlands -121 61 £47,500 -5.00% 87
East Midlands -125 38 £61,439 +104.80% 44
North East -84 25 £50,000 +4.88% 29
Yorkshire -148 22 £48,750 +9.93% 38
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 95 (6.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (1.81%) Skype for Business
3 19 (1.37%) Apache Spark
4 18 (1.30%) SharePoint
5 15 (1.08%) Apache
6 10 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.43%) IIS
7 6 (0.43%) nginx
8 4 (0.29%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 4 (0.29%) Confluence
8 4 (0.29%) WordPress
9 3 (0.22%) SAS
10 2 (0.14%) CMS
10 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.072%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.072%) Luigi
11 1 (0.072%) Umbraco
Applications
1 55 (3.97%) Microsoft Office
2 48 (3.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 24 (1.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.79%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.51%) Simulink
7 6 (0.43%) Trello
8 5 (0.36%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.29%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
11 1 (0.072%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.072%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.072%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.072%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.072%) Blender
11 1 (0.072%) InDesign
11 1 (0.072%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.36%) Distributed Ledger
3 4 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.29%) Shopify
4 3 (0.22%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (0.22%) SAP APO
4 3 (0.22%) SAP MM
4 3 (0.22%) SAP PP
4 3 (0.22%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.22%) SAP WM
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payroll
5 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.072%) Data Workbench
6 1 (0.072%) Endur
6 1 (0.072%) Primavera
6 1 (0.072%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.072%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.072%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 199 (14.37%) AWS
2 168 (12.13%) Azure
3 145 (10.47%) Microsoft 365
4 88 (6.35%) Power Platform
5 65 (4.69%) GCP
6 50 (3.61%) SaaS
7 29 (2.09%) Serverless
8 25 (1.81%) GitHub
9 23 (1.66%) AWS Lambda
10 22 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
11 20 (1.44%) PowerApps
12 19 (1.37%) WhatsApp
13 17 (1.23%) IaaS
14 16 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
15 15 (1.08%) PaaS
16 14 (1.01%) Power Automate
17 13 (0.94%) Amazon S3
17 13 (0.94%) OneDrive
18 12 (0.87%) Snowflake
19 11 (0.79%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 115 (8.30%) Cisco IOS
2 104 (7.51%) Wireless
3 95 (6.86%) WebEx
4 94 (6.79%) WAN
5 90 (6.50%) SD-WAN
6 30 (2.17%) 5G
6 30 (2.17%) Broadband
6 30 (2.17%) Firewall
7 25 (1.81%) Skype
7 25 (1.81%) Telepresence
8 15 (1.08%) Network Security
9 14 (1.01%) Internet
9 14 (1.01%) TCP/IP
10 13 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (0.87%) Intranet
12 9 (0.65%) SNMP
13 8 (0.58%) Ethernet
14 7 (0.51%) HTTP
15 6 (0.43%) LAN
16 5 (0.36%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (6.57%) Tableau
2 82 (5.92%) Power BI
3 56 (4.04%) SQL Server
4 46 (3.32%) Big Data
5 37 (2.67%) Redis
6 36 (2.60%) MySQL
7 33 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
8 31 (2.24%) Relational Database
9 29 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
10 22 (1.59%) NoSQL
11 17 (1.23%) Hadoop
12 10 (0.72%) Data Lake
12 10 (0.72%) GIS
13 9 (0.65%) Data Mining
13 9 (0.65%) DynamoDB
14 8 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
15 7 (0.51%) MongoDB
15 7 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
16 6 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 118 (8.52%) Git
2 29 (2.09%) GitLab
3 22 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 18 (1.30%) JIRA
5 6 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (0.29%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.29%) CMake
6 4 (0.29%) Snakemake
6 4 (0.29%) Subversion
7 3 (0.22%) Babel
7 3 (0.22%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.22%) TestRail
7 3 (0.22%) webpack
8 2 (0.14%) ERwin
8 2 (0.14%) Maven
8 2 (0.14%) MLflow
8 2 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.14%) TensorBoard
9 1 (0.072%) CircleCI
General
1 641 (46.28%) Social Skills
2 304 (21.95%) Finance
3 270 (19.49%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (7.22%) Marketing
5 99 (7.15%) Pharmaceutical
6 92 (6.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 83 (5.99%) Legal
8 76 (5.49%) Manufacturing
9 57 (4.12%) Law
10 56 (4.04%) Telecoms
11 55 (3.97%) Presentation Skills
12 53 (3.83%) Automotive
12 53 (3.83%) Retail
13 49 (3.54%) Public Sector
14 41 (2.96%) Banking
15 35 (2.53%) Electronics
16 31 (2.24%) Games
17 26 (1.88%) Aerospace
18 22 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
19 18 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 268 (19.35%) Senior
2 136 (9.82%) Developer
3 110 (7.94%) Analyst
4 107 (7.73%) Lead
5 100 (7.22%) Data Scientist
5 100 (7.22%) Software Engineer
6 93 (6.71%) IT Support
7 91 (6.57%) Support Specialist
8 90 (6.50%) IT Support Specialist
9 78 (5.63%) Architect
10 76 (5.49%) Senior Data Scientist
11 74 (5.34%) Graduate
12 62 (4.48%) Systems Engineer
13 52 (3.75%) Principal Engineer
14 40 (2.89%) Principal Systems Engineer
15 36 (2.60%) Senior Developer
16 34 (2.45%) Senior Analyst
17 33 (2.38%) Data Engineer
18 32 (2.31%) Junior
19 31 (2.24%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (5.63%) .NET
2 66 (4.77%) TensorFlow
3 57 (4.12%) React
4 54 (3.90%) scikit-learn
5 51 (3.68%) Pandas
6 44 (3.18%) PySpark
7 42 (3.03%) AngularJS
8 39 (2.82%) Kafka
9 35 (2.53%) PyTorch
10 26 (1.88%) Web Services
11 23 (1.66%) ASP.NET
12 22 (1.59%) HTML
13 19 (1.37%) RESTful
14 17 (1.23%) Vue
15 16 (1.16%) Flask
15 16 (1.16%) NumPy
16 14 (1.01%) CSS
16 14 (1.01%) OpenACC
16 14 (1.01%) OpenMP
17 13 (0.94%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 236 (17.04%) Algorithms
2 116 (8.38%) Video Conferencing
3 99 (7.15%) Management Information System
4 90 (6.50%) Wiki
5 59 (4.26%) Data Structures
6 54 (3.90%) Onboarding
7 44 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
8 39 (2.82%) Product Ownership
9 36 (2.60%) Driving Licence
10 35 (2.53%) Life Science
11 26 (1.88%) CUDA
12 25 (1.81%) IoT
13 23 (1.66%) Cloud Native
14 22 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
14 22 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
15 19 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
16 18 (1.30%) Embedded Systems
17 17 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
17 17 (1.23%) Hedge funds
18 15 (1.08%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 161 (11.62%) Windows
2 118 (8.52%) Windows 10
3 115 (8.30%) Linux
4 99 (7.15%) Android
5 32 (2.31%) Unix
6 25 (1.81%) Windows 7
7 12 (0.87%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.43%) FreeRTOS
9 5 (0.36%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.29%) DC/OS
10 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.072%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 704 (50.83%) Computer Science
2 463 (33.43%) Problem-Solving
3 264 (19.06%) Mathematics
4 254 (18.34%) Agile
5 235 (16.97%) Software Engineering
6 231 (16.68%) Data Science
7 205 (14.80%) Analytics
7 205 (14.80%) Machine Learning
8 179 (12.92%) Statistics
9 177 (12.78%) Artificial Intelligence
10 171 (12.35%) Visualisation
11 159 (11.48%) Decision-Making
12 151 (10.90%) Roadmaps
13 150 (10.83%) Physics
14 136 (9.82%) Data Analysis
14 136 (9.82%) Project Management
15 125 (9.03%) Mentoring
16 124 (8.95%) DevOps
17 119 (8.59%) Contract Negotiation
18 112 (8.09%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 432 (31.19%) Python
2 232 (16.75%) SQL
3 157 (11.34%) C#
4 107 (7.73%) C++
5 92 (6.64%) C
6 82 (5.92%) Java
7 71 (5.13%) JavaScript
8 69 (4.98%) R
9 50 (3.61%) Fortran
10 34 (2.45%) TypeScript
11 29 (2.09%) MATLAB
12 19 (1.37%) Go
13 16 (1.16%) Bash
14 13 (0.94%) PowerShell
15 10 (0.72%) Scala
15 10 (0.72%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 5 (0.36%) Rust
17 5 (0.36%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,385 (100.00%) Degree
2 393 (28.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 291 (21.01%) PhD
4 153 (11.05%) MBA
5 83 (5.99%) Security Cleared
6 55 (3.97%) DBS Check
7 51 (3.68%) CISSP
8 46 (3.32%) Chartered Engineer
9 38 (2.74%) CISM
10 30 (2.17%) SC Cleared
11 25 (1.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 22 (1.59%) DV Cleared
13 21 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
14 20 (1.44%) AWS Certification
15 17 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
16 16 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
16 16 (1.16%) Numerate Degree
16 16 (1.16%) PMP
17 15 (1.08%) PMI Certification
18 14 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (4.77%) Data Quality
2 54 (3.90%) QA
3 46 (3.32%) GDPR
4 30 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (1.52%) Accessibility
6 19 (1.37%) NIST
7 18 (1.30%) PCI DSS
8 16 (1.16%) NCSC
9 13 (0.94%) HIPAA
9 13 (0.94%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 12 (0.87%) PMO
11 10 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 7 (0.51%) ISO 13485
13 5 (0.36%) ISO 26262
14 4 (0.29%) Automotive SPICE
14 4 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.22%) COBIT
15 3 (0.22%) ISO 31000
15 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 3 (0.22%) NIST 800
System Software
1 110 (7.94%) Active Directory
2 93 (6.71%) VMware ESXi
3 90 (6.50%) Microsoft App-V
3 90 (6.50%) XenApp
3 90 (6.50%) XenDesktop
4 82 (5.92%) Docker
5 13 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.65%) Firmware
7 7 (0.51%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.14%) HDFS
9 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.072%) Snort
9 1 (0.072%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.072%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 91 (6.57%) SCCM
2 90 (6.50%) AirWatch
3 58 (4.19%) Kubernetes
4 37 (2.67%) Terraform
5 11 (0.79%) Ansible
6 9 (0.65%) CASB
7 8 (0.58%) Kubeflow
8 5 (0.36%) Argo
8 5 (0.36%) Functional Safety
9 3 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.14%) Cisco Prime
10 2 (0.14%) Core Impact
10 2 (0.14%) CSIRT
11 1 (0.072%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.072%) Grafana
11 1 (0.072%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 244 (17.62%) Microsoft
2 131 (9.46%) Cisco
3 93 (6.71%) Citrix
4 48 (3.47%) Databricks
5 42 (3.03%) EMC
6 40 (2.89%) SAP
7 33 (2.38%) Google
8 30 (2.17%) Virgin Media
9 28 (2.02%) Apple
10 25 (1.81%) Polycom
11 21 (1.52%) Oracle
12 13 (0.94%) Atlassian
12 13 (0.94%) VMware
13 11 (0.79%) Aruba
13 11 (0.79%) HP
13 11 (0.79%) Nintex
14 10 (0.72%) Salesforce
15 8 (0.58%) CA
16 6 (0.43%) Adobe
16 6 (0.43%) Sage