Master's Degree Jobs in London

Master's Degree
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Master's Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 108 147
Rank change year-on-year +53 +39 +37
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 642 654 850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.10% 2.77% 2.55%
As % of the Qualifications category 14.82% 9.70% 9.65%
Number of salaries quoted 156 330 408
10th Percentile £57,500 £48,675 £47,125
25th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £54,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £80,000 £78,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% +2.56% -8.24%
75th Percentile £120,625 £97,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £122,500 £137,500
England median annual salary £69,315 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.64% - -7.14%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,333 6,744 8,807
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.40% 28.54% 26.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,788 4,215 5,540
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,631 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,625 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% - +3.85%
75th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £103,750 £112,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -9.17% +9.09%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in London

Master's Degree
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Master's Degree in London

Master's Degree
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in London over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Master's Degree in London

Master's Degree
Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 23 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
South London +53 101 £80,000 -17.95% 3
Central London -20 85 £77,500 -8.82% 50
West London +69 67 £76,500 +22.40% 97
North London +17 66 - -
East London +9 38 £96,250 -19.79% 3
Master's Degree
England

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 8 (1.25%) Apache Spark
2 4 (0.62%) Cloud Foundry
2 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.31%) Apache
3 2 (0.31%) SAS
4 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 304 (47.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 15 (2.34%) Chatbot
3 10 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.31%) Blender
5 2 (0.31%) Maya
6 1 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.16%) Stata
6 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.16%) Adaptiv
2 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.16%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.16%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.16%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 70 (10.90%) Azure
2 69 (10.75%) AWS
3 29 (4.52%) GCP
4 16 (2.49%) Amazon EC2
5 13 (2.02%) Adobe Analytics
6 10 (1.56%) Power Platform
7 8 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (1.09%) SaaS
8 7 (1.09%) Serverless
9 5 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (0.78%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (0.62%) Amazon SageMaker
10 4 (0.62%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (0.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (0.47%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.47%) Dialogflow
12 2 (0.31%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (0.31%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (0.31%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (0.31%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.71%) Firewall
2 5 (0.78%) Network Security
3 3 (0.47%) HTTP
4 2 (0.31%) Broadband
4 2 (0.31%) DNS
4 2 (0.31%) Link 16
4 2 (0.31%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.31%) Tactical Data Link
4 2 (0.31%) VPN
4 2 (0.31%) WAN
5 1 (0.16%) 5G
5 1 (0.16%) BGP
5 1 (0.16%) DHCP
5 1 (0.16%) DKIM
5 1 (0.16%) DMARC
5 1 (0.16%) Internet
5 1 (0.16%) Intranet
5 1 (0.16%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.16%) VLAN
5 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (4.36%) Tableau
2 23 (3.58%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (1.71%) Relational Database
4 10 (1.56%) SQL Server
5 8 (1.25%) Hadoop
5 8 (1.25%) NoSQL
6 7 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (1.09%) Power BI
7 6 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (0.78%) MySQL
9 4 (0.62%) Apache Hive
9 4 (0.62%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.47%) Neo4j
11 2 (0.31%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.31%) Big Data
11 2 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.16%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.16%) Base SAS
12 1 (0.16%) KDB
Development Applications
1 27 (4.21%) Git
2 14 (2.18%) IntelliJ
3 10 (1.56%) JIRA
4 6 (0.93%) Cypress.io
4 6 (0.93%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.78%) Burp Suite
5 5 (0.78%) Gatling
5 5 (0.78%) JMeter
5 5 (0.78%) Moq
5 5 (0.78%) Selenium
5 5 (0.78%) SpecFlow
6 4 (0.62%) JUnit
6 4 (0.62%) Postman
6 4 (0.62%) REST Assured
6 4 (0.62%) TestCafe
6 4 (0.62%) TestNG
7 3 (0.47%) GitLab
7 3 (0.47%) PowerBuilder
8 1 (0.16%) Bugzilla
8 1 (0.16%) git-flow
General
1 408 (63.55%) Social Skills
2 395 (61.53%) Finance
3 389 (60.59%) Analytical Skills
4 323 (50.31%) Banking
5 314 (48.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 302 (47.04%) Financial Institution
7 296 (46.11%) French Language
7 296 (46.11%) German Language
8 59 (9.19%) Law
9 24 (3.74%) Pharmaceutical
10 19 (2.96%) Marketing
11 18 (2.80%) Legal
12 17 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (2.49%) Games
14 11 (1.71%) Front Office
15 10 (1.56%) Telecoms
16 8 (1.25%) Public Sector
17 7 (1.09%) Retail
18 6 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
18 6 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 356 (55.45%) Analyst
2 296 (46.11%) Credit Analyst
2 296 (46.11%) Research Analyst
3 88 (13.71%) Senior
4 39 (6.07%) Lead
5 30 (4.67%) Data Scientist
6 22 (3.43%) Developer
7 21 (3.27%) Senior Data Scientist
8 19 (2.96%) Senior Manager
9 16 (2.49%) Java Engineer
10 15 (2.34%) Data Engineer
10 15 (2.34%) Platform Engineer
10 15 (2.34%) Software Engineer
10 15 (2.34%) Trainer
11 14 (2.18%) Data Analyst
11 14 (2.18%) Lead Data Engineer
11 14 (2.18%) Senior Java Engineer
12 13 (2.02%) Data Insight Analyst
12 13 (2.02%) Insight Analyst
12 13 (2.02%) Insight Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (5.30%) Pandas
2 31 (4.83%) NumPy
2 31 (4.83%) React
3 30 (4.67%) REST
4 25 (3.89%) PyTorch
5 23 (3.58%) .NET
6 21 (3.27%) SciPy
6 21 (3.27%) TensorFlow
7 17 (2.65%) OpenCV
8 14 (2.18%) AngularJS
8 14 (2.18%) ARM Templates
8 14 (2.18%) scikit-learn
9 10 (1.56%) PySpark
10 9 (1.40%) .NET Framework
10 9 (1.40%) Flask
11 8 (1.25%) .NET Core
11 8 (1.25%) Entity Framework
12 7 (1.09%) Plotly
12 7 (1.09%) SpaCy
13 5 (0.78%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 308 (47.98%) Credit Risk
2 296 (46.11%) Fixed Income
3 69 (10.75%) Algorithms
4 22 (3.43%) Robotics
5 19 (2.96%) Virtual Team
6 18 (2.80%) Management Information System
7 17 (2.65%) Life Science
8 15 (2.34%) Security Posture
9 11 (1.71%) Reinsurance
10 10 (1.56%) Derivative
10 10 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.09%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.09%) Taxonomies
12 6 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 5 (0.78%) Cloud Native
14 4 (0.62%) Distributed Architecture
14 4 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
14 4 (0.62%) Onboarding
14 4 (0.62%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.56%) Windows
2 5 (0.78%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.47%) Linux
3 3 (0.47%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.16%) Android
4 1 (0.16%) Android TV
4 1 (0.16%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (52.34%) Risk Management
2 335 (52.18%) Decision-Making
3 323 (50.31%) Business Strategy
4 307 (47.82%) Risk Assessment
5 301 (46.88%) Asset Management
6 299 (46.57%) Financial Modelling
6 299 (46.57%) Portfolio Management
7 297 (46.26%) Credit Risk Analysis
8 155 (24.14%) Computer Science
9 127 (19.78%) Analytics
10 117 (18.22%) Artificial Intelligence
11 100 (15.58%) Data Science
12 94 (14.64%) Problem-Solving
13 88 (13.71%) Statistics
14 75 (11.68%) Agile
15 68 (10.59%) Mathematics
16 66 (10.28%) Machine Learning
17 58 (9.03%) Software Engineering
18 57 (8.88%) Visualisation
19 50 (7.79%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 163 (25.39%) Python
2 59 (9.19%) Java
3 54 (8.41%) SQL
4 28 (4.36%) C#
5 21 (3.27%) C++
6 20 (3.12%) Scala
7 14 (2.18%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.25%) PowerShell
9 7 (1.09%) R
10 5 (0.78%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.47%) C
11 3 (0.47%) F#
12 2 (0.31%) VBA
13 1 (0.16%) Go
13 1 (0.16%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.16%) Smalltalk
13 1 (0.16%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 642 (100.00%) Degree
2 299 (46.57%) CFA
3 140 (21.81%) PhD
4 60 (9.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (4.83%) MBA
6 16 (2.49%) CISM
7 13 (2.02%) CISSP
8 12 (1.87%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.71%) Security Cleared
10 10 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (1.40%) DBS Check
12 8 (1.25%) AWS Certification
12 8 (1.25%) CRISC
12 8 (1.25%) PMI Certification
12 8 (1.25%) PMP
13 7 (1.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (1.09%) SC Cleared
14 5 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.78%) CCSP
14 5 (0.78%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.43%) NIST
2 19 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (2.49%) QA
4 14 (2.18%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.40%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.40%) GRC
5 9 (1.40%) NIST 800
6 7 (1.09%) SOC 1
6 7 (1.09%) SOC 2
7 5 (0.78%) GDPR
8 4 (0.62%) CDISC
8 4 (0.62%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.47%) NCSC
10 2 (0.31%) COBIT
11 1 (0.16%) Basel III
11 1 (0.16%) IFRS
11 1 (0.16%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 50 (7.79%) Docker
2 1 (0.16%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 48 (7.48%) Kubernetes
2 24 (3.74%) Terraform
3 8 (1.25%) RSA Archer
4 7 (1.09%) Grafana
4 7 (1.09%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.31%) Ansible
5 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.16%) Bugsnag
6 1 (0.16%) Istio
Vendors
1 299 (46.57%) Bloomberg
2 38 (5.92%) Microsoft
3 19 (2.96%) Google
4 14 (2.18%) Adobe
5 11 (1.71%) PayPal
6 9 (1.40%) Databricks
7 7 (1.09%) Omniture
7 7 (1.09%) SAP
8 4 (0.62%) Saba
8 4 (0.62%) SolarWinds
8 4 (0.62%) Workday
9 3 (0.47%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.47%) Splunk
10 2 (0.31%) BMC
10 2 (0.31%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.16%) Dell
11 1 (0.16%) Genesys
11 1 (0.16%) McAfee
11 1 (0.16%) Murex
11 1 (0.16%) Salesforce