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 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 127 213
Rank change year-on-year +122 +86 0
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 1,930 162 78
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 17.91% 1.78% 0.92%
As % of the Qualifications category 46.39% 4.66% 4.08%
Number of salaries quoted 24 60 28
10th Percentile - - £30,000
25th Percentile £46,000 £45,000 £40,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +30.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £74,688 £77,500 £73,270
90th Percentile £110,000 £94,125 £81,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year +7.14% -5.08% +18.00%

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 4,160 3,475 1,912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 38.61% 38.22% 22.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,226 1,216 1,272
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,525
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £50,055 £51,528
Median % change year-on-year -13.09% -2.86% -1.85%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,894 £65,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,600 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 14 January 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 14 January 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 +80 1,600 £46,000 -33.64% 49
Yorkshire +100 279 £87,500 +94.44% 43
North East - 51 £105,000 - 28
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 (0.10%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.052%) Jupyter
Applications
1 258 (13.37%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.052%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.052%) EPLAN
3 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (0.10%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (0.10%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.052%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.052%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,615 (83.68%) Cloud Computing
2 13 (0.67%) AWS
3 12 (0.62%) Azure
4 7 (0.36%) Power Platform
5 5 (0.26%) Snowflake
6 4 (0.21%) GCP
6 4 (0.21%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (0.10%) OCI
7 2 (0.10%) SaaS
8 1 (0.052%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.052%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.052%) Azure Stack
8 1 (0.052%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1,615 (83.68%) Internet
2 6 (0.31%) Profibus
3 3 (0.16%) VoIP
4 2 (0.10%) RS-485
5 1 (0.052%) Cisco IPT
5 1 (0.052%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (0.31%) Power BI
2 5 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (0.26%) Tableau
3 4 (0.21%) BigQuery
3 4 (0.21%) Looker
4 2 (0.10%) Data Mining
4 2 (0.10%) DynamoDB
4 2 (0.10%) Metadata
4 2 (0.10%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.052%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.052%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.052%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.052%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.052%) Spark SQL
5 1 (0.052%) SQL Server
General
1 1,628 (84.35%) Social Skills
2 1,615 (83.68%) Banking
2 1,615 (83.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 202 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (0.62%) Finance
5 10 (0.52%) Electronics
6 5 (0.26%) Agriculture
7 4 (0.21%) Aerospace
8 3 (0.16%) Military
8 3 (0.16%) Public Sector
8 3 (0.16%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.10%) General Ledger
9 2 (0.10%) Law
9 2 (0.10%) Marketing
9 2 (0.10%) Retail
10 1 (0.052%) Legal
10 1 (0.052%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.052%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,236 (64.04%) Lecturer
2 258 (13.37%) Trainer
3 30 (1.55%) Senior
4 29 (1.50%) Research Scientist
5 18 (0.93%) Senior Electrical Engineer
6 15 (0.78%) Biologist
7 14 (0.73%) Biostatistician
8 8 (0.41%) Instrumentation Engineer
9 7 (0.36%) Analyst
9 7 (0.36%) Data Analyst
10 6 (0.31%) Automation Engineer
10 6 (0.31%) Senior Automation Engineer
11 5 (0.26%) Principal Engineer
12 4 (0.21%) Architect
12 4 (0.21%) Head of IT
12 4 (0.21%) Head of IT Security
12 4 (0.21%) Head of Security
12 4 (0.21%) Senior Analyst
12 4 (0.21%) Senior Data Analyst
13 3 (0.16%) Head of Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (0.31%) CSS
2 2 (0.10%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.052%) Pandas
3 1 (0.052%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1,615 (83.68%) IoT
2 43 (2.23%) Molecular Biology
3 10 (0.52%) Onboarding
4 7 (0.36%) Management Information System
5 3 (0.16%) Acoustics
6 2 (0.10%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.10%) FMCG
6 2 (0.10%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.10%) Smart Meter
7 1 (0.052%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.052%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.052%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.052%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.052%) EPoS
7 1 (0.052%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.052%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.31%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,878 (97.31%) AI
2 1,619 (83.89%) Cybersecurity
3 1,617 (83.78%) Machine Learning
4 1,615 (83.68%) User Experience
4 1,615 (83.68%) Web Development
5 258 (13.37%) Conversational UI
6 182 (9.43%) Chemistry
7 43 (2.23%) Biochemistry
7 43 (2.23%) Biology
7 43 (2.23%) Biotechnology
7 43 (2.23%) Data Interpretation
7 43 (2.23%) Experimental Design
8 33 (1.71%) Physics
9 31 (1.61%) Mathematics
10 27 (1.40%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (1.35%) Computer Science
12 17 (0.88%) Decision-Making
13 14 (0.73%) Biostatistics
14 13 (0.67%) Change Management
15 10 (0.52%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (0.78%) SQL
2 13 (0.67%) Python
3 7 (0.36%) Java
4 6 (0.31%) C
4 6 (0.31%) Perl
5 1 (0.052%) MATLAB
5 1 (0.052%) R
Qualifications
1 1,930 (100.00%) Degree
2 1,874 (97.10%) PhD
3 1,616 (83.73%) Postgraduate
4 25 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (0.47%) AWS Certification
6 8 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (0.41%) MBA
7 7 (0.36%) Azure Certification
7 7 (0.36%) HND
8 6 (0.31%) Chartered Engineer
9 4 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.21%) SC Cleared
9 4 (0.21%) Security Cleared
10 3 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.052%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 4 (0.21%) IEC 61508
2 2 (0.10%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.10%) IEC 61131
3 1 (0.052%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.052%) GDPR
3 1 (0.052%) PERC
Systems Management
1 4 (0.21%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 258 (13.37%) PayPal
2 7 (0.36%) EMC
3 6 (0.31%) Allen-Bradley
3 6 (0.31%) Microsoft
3 6 (0.31%) Siemens
3 6 (0.31%) Toshiba
4 4 (0.21%) Google
4 4 (0.21%) HubSpot
5 2 (0.10%) Databricks
5 2 (0.10%) Oracle
5 2 (0.10%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.052%) Adaptive Insights
6 1 (0.052%) Anaplan
6 1 (0.052%) Ariba
6 1 (0.052%) SAP