Master's Degree Job Trends 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 17 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 60 116
Rank change year-on-year -165 +56 +16
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 212 599 638
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.99% 4.91% 2.60%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.98% 15.74% 9.51%
Number of salaries quoted 93 161 321
10th Percentile £33,500 £57,500 £49,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £70,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £116,000 £137,500 £122,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £71,991 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.77% +10.76% -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 4,258 3,806 6,706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.86% 31.22% 27.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,674 1,832 4,118
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,025 £36,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £101,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,296
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.30% -9.51%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Master's Degree relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Master's Degree job vacancy trend in London

Master's Degree
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Master's Degree.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Master's Degree

Master's Degree
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in London over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

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 17 June 2026. 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
Central London -62 25 £88,750 +14.52% 29
West London -48 6 - - 4
South London -33 5 - - 3
Master's Degree
England

Master's Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (4.72%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.36%) Kinematics
3 4 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.94%) Confluence
4 2 (0.94%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.47%) SAS
5 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (3.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.47%) Maya
4 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.94%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.94%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.47%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.47%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.47%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.47%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.47%) SAP MDG-F
3 1 (0.47%) SAP MDG-M
3 1 (0.47%) SAP MDG-S
3 1 (0.47%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 51 (24.06%) Azure
2 47 (22.17%) AWS
3 29 (13.68%) GCP
4 16 (7.55%) Cloud Computing
5 11 (5.19%) SaaS
6 9 (4.25%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.36%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.36%) OCI
8 4 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (1.89%) Amazon ELB
8 4 (1.89%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 4 (1.89%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (1.89%) Snowflake
8 4 (1.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (1.89%) WeChat
9 3 (1.42%) dbt
9 3 (1.42%) H2O.ai
9 3 (1.42%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 3 (1.42%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.25%) Network Security
2 8 (3.77%) Firewall
3 4 (1.89%) Broadband
4 3 (1.42%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.42%) VoIP
5 2 (0.94%) ATM
5 2 (0.94%) Bluetooth
5 2 (0.94%) Frame Relay
5 2 (0.94%) LAN
5 2 (0.94%) MPLS
5 2 (0.94%) SNMP
5 2 (0.94%) WAN
5 2 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.94%) Wireless
6 1 (0.47%) DSL
6 1 (0.47%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.47%) NAS
6 1 (0.47%) RTP
6 1 (0.47%) SS7
6 1 (0.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.19%) Data Lake
2 10 (4.72%) Amazon Redshift
2 10 (4.72%) Metadata
3 9 (4.25%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.83%) Power BI
5 5 (2.36%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.36%) Semantic Layer
6 4 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.42%) Star Schema
8 2 (0.94%) Big Data
8 2 (0.94%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.94%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.94%) Tableau
9 1 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.47%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.47%) Impala
9 1 (0.47%) Looker
9 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.47%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 12 (5.66%) Git
2 4 (1.89%) JIRA
3 1 (0.47%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.47%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.47%) MLflow
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.47%) Selenium
3 1 (0.47%) Subversion
General
1 100 (47.17%) Social Skills
2 83 (39.15%) Finance
3 58 (27.36%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (19.81%) Banking
5 38 (17.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (11.32%) Retail
7 16 (7.55%) Games
7 16 (7.55%) Local Government
8 14 (6.60%) Financial Institution
8 14 (6.60%) Marketing
9 10 (4.72%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (4.72%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (4.72%) Public Sector
10 7 (3.30%) Cyber-Physical System
10 7 (3.30%) German Language
10 7 (3.30%) Manufacturing
11 6 (2.83%) Law
12 5 (2.36%) Automotive
12 5 (2.36%) Legal
13 4 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (16.51%) Senior
2 30 (14.15%) Architect
3 23 (10.85%) Solutions Architect
4 19 (8.96%) Graduate
5 17 (8.02%) Data Scientist
5 17 (8.02%) Senior Data Scientist
6 13 (6.13%) Presales Solution Architect
7 12 (5.66%) Lead
7 12 (5.66%) Security Engineer
7 12 (5.66%) Software Engineer
8 10 (4.72%) Consultant
8 10 (4.72%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 10 (4.72%) Research Engineer
9 8 (3.77%) Senior Software Engineer
10 7 (3.30%) Cloud Architect
10 7 (3.30%) Data Engineer
11 6 (2.83%) Developer
11 6 (2.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 6 (2.83%) Integration Architect
11 6 (2.83%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.19%) PyTorch
2 10 (4.72%) SpaCy
3 7 (3.30%) FIX Protocol
3 7 (3.30%) Middleware
4 6 (2.83%) Node.js
4 6 (2.83%) React
5 5 (2.36%) Celery
5 5 (2.36%) Django
5 5 (2.36%) Open3D
5 5 (2.36%) TensorFlow
6 4 (1.89%) Pandas
7 3 (1.42%) Keras
7 3 (1.42%) scikit-learn
7 3 (1.42%) Streamlit
7 3 (1.42%) XGBoost
8 2 (0.94%) LangChain
8 2 (0.94%) PySpark
9 1 (0.47%) Hugging Face
9 1 (0.47%) Next.js
9 1 (0.47%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.55%) Data Centre
1 16 (7.55%) Security Posture
2 13 (6.13%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.66%) Algorithms
4 11 (5.19%) Management Information System
5 10 (4.72%) AI Agents
5 10 (4.72%) e-Learning
5 10 (4.72%) Robotics
6 9 (4.25%) Driving Licence
7 8 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (3.77%) Operational Technology
7 8 (3.77%) Sports Betting
8 6 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.36%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (2.36%) GNSS
9 5 (2.36%) Lidar
10 4 (1.89%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.89%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.89%) Reference Data
10 4 (1.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.55%) Linux
2 2 (0.94%) Unix
2 2 (0.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (41.04%) Computer Science
2 62 (29.25%) Problem-Solving
3 61 (28.77%) AI
4 53 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 53 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 48 (22.64%) Analytics
6 45 (21.23%) Business Development
7 44 (20.75%) DevOps
8 41 (19.34%) Cybersecurity
8 41 (19.34%) Decision-Making
9 40 (18.87%) CI/CD
10 38 (17.92%) Agile
11 37 (17.45%) Information Security
11 37 (17.45%) Roadmaps
12 34 (16.04%) Risk Management
13 30 (14.15%) Data Science
13 30 (14.15%) Software Engineering
13 30 (14.15%) Strategic Thinking
14 28 (13.21%) Presales
15 26 (12.26%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (28.30%) Python
2 17 (8.02%) C++
3 16 (7.55%) SQL
4 11 (5.19%) C#
4 11 (5.19%) Java
4 11 (5.19%) Rust
5 10 (4.72%) Go
6 7 (3.30%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.36%) C
7 5 (2.36%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.89%) R
9 2 (0.94%) Bash
9 2 (0.94%) Perl
9 2 (0.94%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.47%) PHP
10 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.47%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 212 (100.00%) Degree
2 44 (20.75%) PhD
3 34 (16.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (11.79%) MBA
5 24 (11.32%) CISM
5 24 (11.32%) CISSP
6 21 (9.91%) Cisco Certification
7 19 (8.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 19 (8.96%) CCSP
8 13 (6.13%) Security Cleared
9 12 (5.66%) SC Cleared
10 7 (3.30%) Azure Certification
11 6 (2.83%) DBS Check
12 5 (2.36%) AWS Certification
12 5 (2.36%) CISA
13 3 (1.42%) CEH
13 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (1.42%) Postgraduate
13 3 (1.42%) SANS
14 2 (0.94%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (12.26%) NIST
2 24 (11.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (10.85%) QA
4 11 (5.19%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.83%) GDPR
6 5 (2.36%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.89%) PMO
8 3 (1.42%) DO-254
8 3 (1.42%) GRC
8 3 (1.42%) HAZOP
8 3 (1.42%) IEC 61508
8 3 (1.42%) IFRS
8 3 (1.42%) ISO 26262
8 3 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.94%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.94%) NCSC
9 2 (0.94%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.94%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.94%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (1.89%) Docker
2 1 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.47%) Xen
Systems Management
1 11 (5.19%) Terraform
2 5 (2.36%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.94%) OpenView
4 2 (0.94%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.47%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (8.96%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.55%) Dell
3 11 (5.19%) Databricks
4 9 (4.25%) Oracle
5 6 (2.83%) Cognizant
5 6 (2.83%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.83%) SAP
6 5 (2.36%) Software AG
7 4 (1.89%) EMC
8 3 (1.42%) Cisco
8 3 (1.42%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (1.42%) Guidewire
8 3 (1.42%) NVIDIA
9 2 (0.94%) Automation Anywhere
9 2 (0.94%) ExtraHop
9 2 (0.94%) Google
9 2 (0.94%) LogRhythm
9 2 (0.94%) Riverbed
9 2 (0.94%) UiPath
9 2 (0.94%) Workday