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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 114 140
Rank change year-on-year +57 +26 +45
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 612 640 845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 4.82% 2.67% 2.58%
As % of the Qualifications category 14.19% 9.45% 9.71%
Number of salaries quoted 163 327 401
10th Percentile £57,500 £49,200 £46,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% +3.23% -8.82%
75th Percentile £120,000 £100,000 £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% - -5.11%

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 4,313 6,773 8,703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 33.99% 28.25% 26.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,810 4,194 5,448
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,631 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,719 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% - +3.85%
75th Percentile £90,750 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £103,750 £112,500
England median annual salary £54,897 £54,399 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -9.34% +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 30 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 30 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 +52 89 £80,000 -17.95% 2
Central London -15 89 £77,500 -8.82% 41
West London +58 59 £47,500 -24.00% 100
North London +13 58 - -
East London +8 34 £96,250 -19.79% 5
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 9 (1.47%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.49%) Cloud Foundry
2 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.33%) Apache
3 2 (0.33%) SAS
4 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 268 (43.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 18 (2.94%) Chatbot
3 10 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.33%) Blender
5 2 (0.33%) Maya
6 1 (0.16%) Stata
6 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.65%) 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 (11.44%) AWS
2 69 (11.27%) Azure
3 28 (4.58%) GCP
4 16 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
5 13 (2.12%) Adobe Analytics
6 11 (1.80%) Power Platform
7 8 (1.31%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (1.14%) Serverless
9 6 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (0.98%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (0.98%) SaaS
10 5 (0.82%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (0.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (0.65%) Amazon SageMaker
12 3 (0.49%) Amazon S3
12 3 (0.49%) Dialogflow
13 2 (0.33%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (0.33%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (0.33%) Azure Machine Learning
13 2 (0.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.80%) Firewall
2 5 (0.82%) Network Security
3 3 (0.49%) HTTP
4 2 (0.33%) Broadband
4 2 (0.33%) Link 16
4 2 (0.33%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.33%) Tactical Data Link
4 2 (0.33%) VPN
4 2 (0.33%) WAN
5 1 (0.16%) 5G
5 1 (0.16%) BGP
5 1 (0.16%) DNS
5 1 (0.16%) Internet
5 1 (0.16%) Intranet
5 1 (0.16%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (4.74%) Tableau
2 23 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (1.80%) Relational Database
4 9 (1.47%) Hadoop
4 9 (1.47%) SQL Server
5 8 (1.31%) NoSQL
5 8 (1.31%) Power BI
6 7 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (0.82%) Big Data
8 5 (0.82%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.82%) MySQL
9 4 (0.65%) Apache Hive
10 3 (0.49%) Neo4j
10 3 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.16%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.16%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.16%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 28 (4.58%) Git
2 14 (2.29%) IntelliJ
3 9 (1.47%) JIRA
4 6 (0.98%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.82%) Cypress.io
5 5 (0.82%) Moq
5 5 (0.82%) SpecFlow
6 4 (0.65%) Burp Suite
6 4 (0.65%) Gatling
6 4 (0.65%) JMeter
6 4 (0.65%) Selenium
7 3 (0.49%) GitLab
7 3 (0.49%) JUnit
7 3 (0.49%) Postman
7 3 (0.49%) PowerBuilder
7 3 (0.49%) REST Assured
7 3 (0.49%) TestCafe
7 3 (0.49%) TestNG
8 1 (0.16%) Bugzilla
8 1 (0.16%) Maven
General
1 375 (61.27%) Social Skills
2 361 (58.99%) Finance
3 356 (58.17%) Analytical Skills
4 288 (47.06%) Banking
5 279 (45.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 266 (43.46%) Financial Institution
7 260 (42.48%) French Language
7 260 (42.48%) German Language
8 60 (9.80%) Law
9 24 (3.92%) Pharmaceutical
10 20 (3.27%) Marketing
11 19 (3.10%) Legal
12 18 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (2.61%) Games
14 13 (2.12%) Front Office
15 10 (1.63%) Telecoms
16 8 (1.31%) Public Sector
17 7 (1.14%) Retail
18 6 (0.98%) Retail Banking
19 5 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 324 (52.94%) Analyst
2 260 (42.48%) Credit Analyst
2 260 (42.48%) Research Analyst
3 88 (14.38%) Senior
4 39 (6.37%) Lead
5 30 (4.90%) Data Scientist
6 23 (3.76%) Developer
7 21 (3.43%) Senior Data Scientist
8 19 (3.10%) Senior Manager
9 18 (2.94%) Trainer
10 17 (2.78%) Java Engineer
11 16 (2.61%) Qualitative Analyst
11 16 (2.61%) Quantitative Analyst
11 16 (2.61%) Software Engineer
12 15 (2.45%) Data Engineer
12 15 (2.45%) Platform Engineer
13 14 (2.29%) Data Analyst
13 14 (2.29%) Lead Data Engineer
13 14 (2.29%) Senior Analyst
13 14 (2.29%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (5.56%) Pandas
2 31 (5.07%) NumPy
3 30 (4.90%) React
4 29 (4.74%) REST
5 25 (4.08%) PyTorch
6 22 (3.59%) .NET
7 21 (3.43%) SciPy
7 21 (3.43%) TensorFlow
8 17 (2.78%) OpenCV
9 14 (2.29%) AngularJS
9 14 (2.29%) ARM Templates
9 14 (2.29%) scikit-learn
10 10 (1.63%) PySpark
11 9 (1.47%) .NET Framework
11 9 (1.47%) Flask
12 8 (1.31%) .NET Core
12 8 (1.31%) Entity Framework
13 7 (1.14%) Plotly
13 7 (1.14%) SpaCy
14 5 (0.82%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 272 (44.44%) Credit Risk
2 260 (42.48%) Fixed Income
3 69 (11.27%) Algorithms
4 22 (3.59%) Robotics
5 19 (3.10%) Virtual Team
6 17 (2.78%) Life Science
6 17 (2.78%) Management Information System
7 15 (2.45%) Security Posture
8 11 (1.80%) Derivative
9 10 (1.63%) Reinsurance
10 9 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.14%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.14%) Taxonomies
12 6 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 5 (0.82%) Cloud Native
13 5 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
14 4 (0.65%) Product Ownership
15 3 (0.49%) Analytical Mindset
15 3 (0.49%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.80%) Windows
2 5 (0.82%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.49%) Linux
3 3 (0.49%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.16%) Android
4 1 (0.16%) Android TV
4 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (48.86%) Decision-Making
1 299 (48.86%) Risk Management
2 287 (46.90%) Business Strategy
3 271 (44.28%) Risk Assessment
4 265 (43.30%) Asset Management
5 263 (42.97%) Financial Modelling
5 263 (42.97%) Portfolio Management
6 261 (42.65%) Credit Risk Analysis
7 160 (26.14%) Computer Science
8 130 (21.24%) Analytics
9 118 (19.28%) Artificial Intelligence
10 103 (16.83%) Data Science
11 97 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
12 93 (15.20%) Statistics
13 75 (12.25%) Agile
14 74 (12.09%) Mathematics
15 67 (10.95%) Machine Learning
16 59 (9.64%) Software Engineering
17 57 (9.31%) Visualisation
18 50 (8.17%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 163 (26.63%) Python
2 63 (10.29%) Java
3 55 (8.99%) SQL
4 31 (5.07%) C#
5 24 (3.92%) C++
6 19 (3.10%) Scala
7 13 (2.12%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.14%) PowerShell
8 7 (1.14%) R
9 5 (0.82%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.65%) MATLAB
11 3 (0.49%) C
11 3 (0.49%) F#
12 2 (0.33%) VBA
13 1 (0.16%) Go
13 1 (0.16%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 612 (100.00%) Degree
2 263 (42.97%) CFA
3 141 (23.04%) PhD
4 60 (9.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (5.23%) MBA
6 16 (2.61%) CISM
7 14 (2.29%) Azure Certification
8 13 (2.12%) CISSP
9 11 (1.80%) Security Cleared
10 10 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (1.47%) DBS Check
12 8 (1.31%) AWS Certification
12 8 (1.31%) CRISC
12 8 (1.31%) PMI Certification
12 8 (1.31%) PMP
13 7 (1.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (1.14%) SC Cleared
14 5 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.82%) CCSP
14 5 (0.82%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.59%) NIST
2 19 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (2.94%) QA
4 12 (1.96%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.63%) Data Quality
6 9 (1.47%) GRC
6 9 (1.47%) NIST 800
7 7 (1.14%) SOC 1
7 7 (1.14%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.82%) GDPR
9 4 (0.65%) CDISC
9 4 (0.65%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.49%) NCSC
11 2 (0.33%) COBIT
12 1 (0.16%) Basel III
12 1 (0.16%) IFRS
12 1 (0.16%) IFRS 9
12 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 49 (8.01%) Docker
2 1 (0.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 48 (7.84%) Kubernetes
2 24 (3.92%) Terraform
3 8 (1.31%) Grafana
3 8 (1.31%) Prometheus
3 8 (1.31%) RSA Archer
4 2 (0.33%) Ansible
5 1 (0.16%) Bugsnag
5 1 (0.16%) Istio
5 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 263 (42.97%) Bloomberg
2 39 (6.37%) Microsoft
3 19 (3.10%) Google
4 14 (2.29%) Adobe
4 14 (2.29%) PayPal
5 10 (1.63%) Databricks
6 7 (1.14%) Omniture
6 7 (1.14%) SAP
7 5 (0.82%) SolarWinds
8 4 (0.65%) Saba
8 4 (0.65%) Workday
9 3 (0.49%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.49%) Splunk
10 2 (0.33%) BMC
10 2 (0.33%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.16%) Dell
11 1 (0.16%) Genesys
11 1 (0.16%) IBM
11 1 (0.16%) McAfee
11 1 (0.16%) Murex