Master's Degree Jobs in the North of England

Master's Degree
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 284 33
Rank change year-on-year +233 -251 +237
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 618 114 1,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.21% 0.60% 7.35%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.30% 2.87% 22.75%
Number of salaries quoted 208 76 40
10th Percentile £50,000 £30,000 £22,000
25th Percentile £61,967 £41,813 £40,371
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,315 £50,000 £47,672
Median % change year-on-year +38.63% +4.88% -9.20%
75th Percentile £73,708 £66,563 £63,750
90th Percentile - £83,125 £86,250
England median annual salary £69,315 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +6.64% -3.70% -1.46%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 6,646 3,976 5,147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 56.00% 20.81% 32.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,979 2,693 1,697
10th Percentile £26,481 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,748 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £48,000 £54,421
Median % change year-on-year +4.28% -11.80% +14.57%
75th Percentile £58,943 £62,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £71,250 £79,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £54,793 £54,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.54% -9.17% +9.09%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in the North of England

Master's Degree
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Master's Degree in the North of England.

Salary trend for Master's Degree in the North of England

Master's Degree
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in the North of England over the 6 months to 5 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Master's Degree in the North of England

Master's Degree
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 5 June 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
North West +184 441 £69,315 +4.33% 399
Yorkshire +154 145 £71,246 +46.14% 338
North East +53 32 £60,000 +20.00% 123
Master's Degree
England

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (0.32%) Apache Spark
1 2 (0.32%) CMS
1 2 (0.32%) SharePoint
1 2 (0.32%) WordPress
2 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 212 (34.30%) Chatbot
2 109 (17.64%) Abaqus
3 77 (12.46%) Mathcad
4 14 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
4 14 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.65%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.49%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.16%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.16%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (2.59%) Azure
2 9 (1.46%) AWS
3 7 (1.13%) GCP
4 6 (0.97%) Power Platform
5 4 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (0.65%) Serverless
6 3 (0.49%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (0.49%) AWS Fargate
6 3 (0.49%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (0.32%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.32%) Google Analytics
7 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.16%) Azure API Management
8 1 (0.16%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.16%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.16%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.16%) dbt
8 1 (0.16%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.16%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.97%) Firewall
1 6 (0.97%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (0.32%) DNS
2 2 (0.32%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.16%) Intranet
3 1 (0.16%) NAS
3 1 (0.16%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (0.81%) NoSQL
2 3 (0.49%) Power BI
3 2 (0.32%) Big Data
3 2 (0.32%) Hadoop
3 2 (0.32%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.32%) MySQL
3 2 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (0.65%) Git
2 3 (0.49%) JIRA
3 1 (0.16%) MLflow
General
1 305 (49.35%) Analytical Skills
2 163 (26.38%) Social Skills
3 86 (13.92%) Manufacturing
4 36 (5.83%) Agriculture
5 32 (5.18%) Finance
6 16 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (2.27%) Aerospace
8 13 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.94%) Electronics
10 10 (1.62%) Marketing
11 9 (1.46%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.81%) Military
14 4 (0.65%) Arabic Language
14 4 (0.65%) German Language
14 4 (0.65%) Italian Language
14 4 (0.65%) Retail
15 3 (0.49%) Banking
16 2 (0.32%) Law
16 2 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 212 (34.30%) Trainer
2 130 (21.04%) Senior
3 121 (19.58%) Commissioning Manager
4 77 (12.46%) Engineering Specialist
4 77 (12.46%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 72 (11.65%) Engineering Manager
6 17 (2.75%) Analyst
7 15 (2.43%) Lecturer
7 15 (2.43%) Principal Engineer
8 14 (2.27%) Project Manager
9 13 (2.10%) Vendor Manager
10 12 (1.94%) Senior Electrical Engineer
11 10 (1.62%) Architect
11 10 (1.62%) Statistician
12 8 (1.29%) Data Analyst
13 7 (1.13%) Biostatistician
13 7 (1.13%) Data Scientist
13 7 (1.13%) Security Architect
14 6 (0.97%) Systems Engineer
15 5 (0.81%) Instructor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.49%) Flash
1 3 (0.49%) Plotly
2 2 (0.32%) AngularJS
2 2 (0.32%) CSS
2 2 (0.32%) Django
2 2 (0.32%) HTML
2 2 (0.32%) Node.js
2 2 (0.32%) React
2 2 (0.32%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.16%) .NET
3 1 (0.16%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.16%) REST
3 1 (0.16%) scikit-learn
3 1 (0.16%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 24 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
2 23 (3.72%) Social Media
3 19 (3.07%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 12 (1.94%) FMCG
5 10 (1.62%) Management Information System
6 9 (1.46%) Algorithms
7 7 (1.13%) Molecular Biology
8 6 (0.97%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.49%) Clustering
9 3 (0.49%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.49%) PMI
9 3 (0.49%) SCADA
10 2 (0.32%) Life Science
11 1 (0.16%) Derivative
11 1 (0.16%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.16%) Equities
11 1 (0.16%) Learning Management System
11 1 (0.16%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.16%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.16%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.07%) Windows
1 19 (3.07%) Windows Vista
2 6 (0.97%) Linux
3 2 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (34.79%) Artificial Intelligence
2 212 (34.30%) Conversational UI
3 131 (21.20%) Chemistry
4 121 (19.58%) People Management
4 121 (19.58%) Performance Optimisation
5 113 (18.28%) Finite Element Analysis
6 109 (17.64%) CAD
7 80 (12.94%) Systems Engineering
8 76 (12.30%) Mathematics
9 75 (12.14%) Computer Science
10 67 (10.84%) Statistics
11 66 (10.68%) Validation
12 60 (9.71%) Project Planning
13 59 (9.55%) Stakeholder Management
13 59 (9.55%) Verification and Validation
14 56 (9.06%) Problem-Solving
15 32 (5.18%) Decision-Making
16 30 (4.85%) Physics
17 28 (4.53%) Market Research
18 27 (4.37%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 19 (3.07%) Python
2 12 (1.94%) SQL
3 7 (1.13%) R
4 6 (0.97%) C#
4 6 (0.97%) Java
4 6 (0.97%) Perl
5 5 (0.81%) C++
6 4 (0.65%) MATLAB
7 2 (0.32%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 618 (100.00%) Degree
2 306 (49.51%) BPSS Clearance
3 223 (36.08%) PhD
4 181 (29.29%) Chartered Engineer
5 136 (22.01%) MBA
6 109 (17.64%) HND
7 23 (3.72%) DBS Check
8 17 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.13%) CEH
9 7 (1.13%) CISA
9 7 (1.13%) CISM
9 7 (1.13%) CISSP
9 7 (1.13%) HNC
9 7 (1.13%) Security Cleared
10 6 (0.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.81%) SC Cleared
12 3 (0.49%) ACCA
12 3 (0.49%) CIMA
12 3 (0.49%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.10%) Data Quality
2 10 (1.62%) NIST
3 8 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.13%) GDPR
5 2 (0.32%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 2 (0.32%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.32%) GMP
6 1 (0.16%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1 (0.16%) Docker
1 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
1 1 (0.16%) KVM
1 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.16%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 212 (34.30%) PayPal
2 19 (3.07%) Microsoft
3 12 (1.94%) Capita
4 9 (1.46%) SAP
5 3 (0.49%) Databricks
5 3 (0.49%) Red Hat
5 3 (0.49%) Sage
6 2 (0.32%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.32%) Google
6 2 (0.32%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.16%) Sparx
7 1 (0.16%) VMware