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 27 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 257 43
Rank change year-on-year +217 -214 +252
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 598 130 1,216
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.43% 0.75% 6.94%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.14% 3.34% 22.87%
Number of salaries quoted 228 75 60
10th Percentile £47,000 £30,000 £16,800
25th Percentile £61,967 £41,125 £22,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,315 £50,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.63% +6.38% -6.32%
75th Percentile £73,708 £66,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £69,315 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +6.64% +4.00% -10.71%

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 6,546 3,890 5,316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 59.46% 22.52% 30.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,158 2,660 1,774
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,748 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £48,257 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.73% -8.08% +8.83%
75th Percentile £58,943 £62,500 £69,188
90th Percentile £73,708 £78,111 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year - -5.17% +5.45%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +175 468 £69,315 +6.64% 144
Yorkshire +138 109 £45,000 -10.00% 53
North East +44 21 £31,500 -37.00% 33
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 (0.33%) Apache Spark
1 2 (0.33%) CMS
1 2 (0.33%) SharePoint
1 2 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 166 (27.76%) Abaqus
2 134 (22.41%) Mathcad
3 106 (17.73%) Chatbot
4 18 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
4 18 (3.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (1.67%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.84%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (2.34%) Azure
2 10 (1.67%) AWS
3 8 (1.34%) GCP
4 4 (0.67%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (0.67%) Power Platform
5 3 (0.50%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (0.50%) Serverless
6 2 (0.33%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (0.33%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (0.33%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (0.33%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (0.33%) Google Analytics
6 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (0.17%) Azure API Management
7 1 (0.17%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (0.17%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.17%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.17%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.17%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.34%) Firewall
1 14 (2.34%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (0.33%) DNS
2 2 (0.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.17%) NAS
3 1 (0.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (0.84%) NoSQL
2 3 (0.50%) Big Data
3 2 (0.33%) Hadoop
3 2 (0.33%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.33%) MySQL
3 2 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.17%) GIS
4 1 (0.17%) Power BI
4 1 (0.17%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 3 (0.50%) Git
2 2 (0.33%) JIRA
General
1 301 (50.33%) Analytical Skills
2 178 (29.77%) Social Skills
3 148 (24.75%) Manufacturing
4 47 (7.86%) Finance
5 36 (6.02%) Agriculture
6 21 (3.51%) Banking
7 19 (3.18%) Legal
8 13 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (2.01%) Electronics
10 11 (1.84%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.17%) Marketing
12 7 (1.17%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.84%) Military
14 4 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.33%) Law
15 2 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.33%) Retail
16 1 (0.17%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 196 (32.78%) Senior
2 134 (22.41%) Engineering Specialist
2 134 (22.41%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 121 (20.23%) Commissioning Manager
4 106 (17.73%) Trainer
5 72 (12.04%) Engineering Manager
6 20 (3.34%) Graduate
7 17 (2.84%) Architect
8 16 (2.68%) Project Manager
9 15 (2.51%) Security Architect
10 13 (2.17%) Vendor Manager
11 12 (2.01%) Principal Engineer
11 12 (2.01%) Senior Electrical Engineer
12 11 (1.84%) Analyst
13 10 (1.67%) Project Engineer
14 9 (1.51%) Data Analyst
14 9 (1.51%) Data Science Graduate
15 7 (1.17%) Data Scientist
15 7 (1.17%) Lecturer
16 6 (1.00%) Statistician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.50%) .NET
1 3 (0.50%) Plotly
2 2 (0.33%) AngularJS
2 2 (0.33%) ASP.NET
2 2 (0.33%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (0.33%) CSS
2 2 (0.33%) Django
2 2 (0.33%) HTML
2 2 (0.33%) Keras
2 2 (0.33%) Node.js
2 2 (0.33%) PyTorch
2 2 (0.33%) React
2 2 (0.33%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.17%) REST
3 1 (0.17%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 33 (5.52%) Self-Motivation
2 28 (4.68%) Social Media
3 27 (4.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 18 (3.01%) Learning Management System
5 17 (2.84%) Algorithms
6 16 (2.68%) Management Information System
7 14 (2.34%) Security Posture
8 12 (2.01%) FMCG
9 9 (1.51%) Credit Risk
10 7 (1.17%) Hackathon
10 7 (1.17%) Mobile App
11 5 (0.84%) PMI
12 4 (0.67%) Molecular Biology
13 3 (0.50%) Clustering
14 2 (0.33%) Life Science
15 1 (0.17%) Analytical Mindset
15 1 (0.17%) Derivative
15 1 (0.17%) Equities
15 1 (0.17%) Legacy Systems
15 1 (0.17%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 28 (4.68%) Windows
1 28 (4.68%) Windows Vista
2 6 (1.00%) Linux
3 2 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (29.43%) Finite Element Analysis
2 166 (27.76%) CAD
3 125 (20.90%) Artificial Intelligence
4 121 (20.23%) People Management
4 121 (20.23%) Performance Optimisation
5 106 (17.73%) Conversational UI
6 75 (12.54%) Systems Engineering
7 65 (10.87%) Computer Science
7 65 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
8 64 (10.70%) Validation
9 62 (10.37%) Project Planning
10 60 (10.03%) Stakeholder Management
11 59 (9.87%) Verification and Validation
12 58 (9.70%) Mathematics
13 50 (8.36%) Chemistry
14 48 (8.03%) Statistics
15 37 (6.19%) Decision-Making
16 33 (5.52%) Continuous Improvement
17 31 (5.18%) Data Science
18 29 (4.85%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 33 (5.52%) Python
2 17 (2.84%) SQL
3 15 (2.51%) C#
4 13 (2.17%) Java
5 9 (1.51%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.17%) Kotlin
7 6 (1.00%) Perl
7 6 (1.00%) R
8 5 (0.84%) C++
9 4 (0.67%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 598 (100.00%) Degree
2 338 (56.52%) BPSS Clearance
3 238 (39.80%) Chartered Engineer
4 166 (27.76%) HND
5 141 (23.58%) MBA
6 136 (22.74%) PhD
7 28 (4.68%) DBS Check
8 22 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (2.51%) CEH
9 15 (2.51%) CISA
9 15 (2.51%) CISM
9 15 (2.51%) CISSP
10 14 (2.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 14 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.17%) HNC
11 7 (1.17%) PMI Certification
11 7 (1.17%) Security Cleared
12 5 (0.84%) SC Cleared
13 2 (0.33%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (2.84%) NIST
2 15 (2.51%) GDPR
2 15 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (2.01%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.33%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 2 (0.33%) GMP
4 2 (0.33%) QA
5 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (0.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.17%) KVM
2 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (0.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 106 (17.73%) PayPal
2 27 (4.52%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.01%) Capita
4 10 (1.67%) SAP
5 9 (1.51%) Google
6 7 (1.17%) IBM
7 3 (0.50%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.33%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.33%) Databricks
8 2 (0.33%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.33%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.17%) ANSYS
9 1 (0.17%) ESRI
9 1 (0.17%) Sparx
9 1 (0.17%) VMware