Master's Degree Job Trends 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 16 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 90 250
Rank change year-on-year +81 +160 -183
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 1,835 207 117
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 12.78% 3.05% 0.79%
As % of the Qualifications category 39.95% 7.11% 3.63%
Number of salaries quoted 14 87 58
10th Percentile - £45,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £46,000 £47,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £63,652 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.67% +21.24% +10.13%
75th Percentile £106,250 £77,500 £71,622
90th Percentile £110,000 £80,000 £82,375
England median annual salary £73,750 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +5.36% +3.70% +8.00%

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 4,593 2,911 3,223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 31.98% 42.83% 21.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,423 1,303 2,354
10th Percentile - £26,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £39,860 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +0.11% -7.41%
75th Percentile £62,498 £66,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%

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

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

Master's Degree job vacancy trend in the North of England

Master's Degree
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Master's Degree.

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

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 16 March 2026.

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 16 March 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
North West +56 1,570 £46,000 -29.23% 10
Yorkshire +61 226 - - 22
North East +12 39 £105,000 +233.33% 6
Master's Degree
England

Master's Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.054%) Jupyter
Applications
1 169 (9.21%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.054%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,615 (88.01%) Cloud Computing
2 9 (0.49%) AWS
2 9 (0.49%) Azure
3 3 (0.16%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (0.11%) OCI
4 2 (0.11%) SaaS
5 1 (0.054%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (0.054%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.054%) Azure Stack
5 1 (0.054%) GCP
5 1 (0.054%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.054%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1,616 (88.07%) Internet
2 7 (0.38%) Profibus
2 7 (0.38%) VoIP
3 2 (0.11%) RS-485
4 1 (0.054%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.11%) Data Mining
1 2 (0.11%) DynamoDB
1 2 (0.11%) Metadata
1 2 (0.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.054%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.054%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.054%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.054%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.054%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.054%) Looker
2 1 (0.054%) Power BI
2 1 (0.054%) Spark SQL
2 1 (0.054%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.054%) Tableau
General
1 1,622 (88.39%) Social Skills
2 1,615 (88.01%) Banking
2 1,615 (88.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 108 (5.89%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (0.38%) Military
4 7 (0.38%) Telecoms
5 5 (0.27%) Electronics
6 4 (0.22%) Aerospace
6 4 (0.22%) Finance
7 3 (0.16%) Agriculture
7 3 (0.16%) Public Sector
8 2 (0.11%) Digital Health
8 2 (0.11%) General Ledger
8 2 (0.11%) Wearables
9 1 (0.054%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,229 (66.98%) Lecturer
2 169 (9.21%) Trainer
3 30 (1.63%) Research Scientist
4 22 (1.20%) Senior
5 20 (1.09%) Senior Electrical Engineer
6 15 (0.82%) Biologist
6 15 (0.82%) Instrumentation Engineer
7 11 (0.60%) Biostatistician
8 9 (0.49%) Principal Engineer
9 4 (0.22%) Architect
9 4 (0.22%) Head of IT
10 3 (0.16%) Analyst
10 3 (0.16%) Data Analyst
10 3 (0.16%) Enterprise Architecture Director
10 3 (0.16%) Head of IT Security
10 3 (0.16%) Head of Security
11 2 (0.11%) Data Architect
11 2 (0.11%) Graduate
11 2 (0.11%) Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.11%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.11%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.054%) Pandas
2 1 (0.054%) PyTorch
2 1 (0.054%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1,615 (88.01%) IoT
2 41 (2.23%) Molecular Biology
3 7 (0.38%) Acoustics
4 6 (0.33%) Management Information System
5 3 (0.16%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.11%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.11%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.11%) Smart Meter
7 1 (0.054%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.054%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.054%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.054%) EPoS
7 1 (0.054%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.054%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.054%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.054%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,787 (97.38%) AI
2 1,622 (88.39%) Cybersecurity
3 1,618 (88.17%) Machine Learning
4 1,617 (88.12%) User Experience
5 1,615 (88.01%) Web Development
6 169 (9.21%) Conversational UI
7 97 (5.29%) Chemistry
8 41 (2.23%) Biochemistry
8 41 (2.23%) Biology
8 41 (2.23%) Biotechnology
8 41 (2.23%) Data Interpretation
8 41 (2.23%) Experimental Design
9 34 (1.85%) Physics
10 30 (1.63%) Mathematics
11 15 (0.82%) Acceptance Criteria
12 13 (0.71%) Computer Science
12 13 (0.71%) Control Theory
12 13 (0.71%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (0.60%) Biostatistics
14 8 (0.44%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 5 (0.27%) SQL
2 4 (0.22%) Python
3 1 (0.054%) Java
3 1 (0.054%) MATLAB
3 1 (0.054%) R
Qualifications
1 1,835 (100.00%) Degree
2 1,789 (97.49%) PhD
3 1,616 (88.07%) Postgraduate
4 29 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (0.49%) Chartered Engineer
6 8 (0.44%) AWS Certification
7 6 (0.33%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.22%) MBA
10 3 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.11%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.11%) SC Cleared
11 2 (0.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (0.54%) IEC 61508
2 4 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.11%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.11%) IEC 61131
5 1 (0.054%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.054%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 10 (0.54%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 169 (9.21%) PayPal
2 7 (0.38%) EMC
3 3 (0.16%) Microsoft
4 2 (0.11%) Databricks
4 2 (0.11%) Oracle
5 1 (0.054%) Google
5 1 (0.054%) HubSpot