Master's Degree Jobs in the North West

Master's Degree
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Master's Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 224 43
Rank change year-on-year +174 -181 +192
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 440 67 522
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.61% 0.64% 6.94%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.82% 2.76% 19.25%
Number of salaries quoted 193 36 8
10th Percentile £50,000 £41,125 £42,125
25th Percentile £61,967 £52,500 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,315 £66,440 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.33% +6.30% +8.70%
75th Percentile £73,708 £80,313 £74,688
90th Percentile - £92,500 £88,750
England median annual salary £69,315 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.64% - -5.11%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,991 2,430 2,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 63.60% 23.36% 36.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,479 1,653 901
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -13.04% +21.05%
75th Percentile £58,943 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,399 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.11% -9.34% +9.09%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in the North West

Master's Degree
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Master's Degree in the North West

Master's Degree
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in the North West over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Master's Degree in the North West

Master's Degree
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Cumbria +29 285 £69,315 - 20
Manchester +102 103 £50,000 -28.76% 64
Merseyside +59 28 - - 9
Lancashire -50 14 £53,603 +29.16% 48
Cheshire +9 10 £65,750 +19.55% 15
Master's Degree
England

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (0.45%) Apache Spark
1 2 (0.45%) CMS
1 2 (0.45%) WordPress
2 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 109 (24.77%) Abaqus
2 78 (17.73%) Chatbot
3 77 (17.50%) Mathcad
4 11 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.91%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.23%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.23%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (2.27%) Azure
2 6 (1.36%) Power Platform
3 5 (1.14%) AWS
4 4 (0.91%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (0.91%) GCP
5 2 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (0.45%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (0.45%) Google Analytics
5 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (0.23%) Azure API Management
6 1 (0.23%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (0.23%) Azure Functions
6 1 (0.23%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (0.23%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (0.23%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (0.23%) dbt
6 1 (0.23%) Nutanix
6 1 (0.23%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.36%) Firewall
1 6 (1.36%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (0.45%) DNS
2 2 (0.45%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.23%) NAS
3 1 (0.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.68%) Big Data
1 3 (0.68%) Power BI
2 2 (0.45%) Hadoop
2 2 (0.45%) MongoDB
2 2 (0.45%) MySQL
2 2 (0.45%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (0.45%) Git
2 1 (0.23%) MLflow
General
1 208 (47.27%) Analytical Skills
2 158 (35.91%) Social Skills
3 84 (19.09%) Manufacturing
4 33 (7.50%) Agriculture
5 26 (5.91%) Finance
6 16 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (1.82%) Marketing
9 7 (1.59%) Aerospace
9 7 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.91%) Arabic Language
10 4 (0.91%) Electronics
10 4 (0.91%) German Language
10 4 (0.91%) Italian Language
10 4 (0.91%) Retail
11 2 (0.45%) Law
11 2 (0.45%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.23%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 121 (27.50%) Commissioning Manager
2 118 (26.82%) Senior
3 78 (17.73%) Trainer
4 77 (17.50%) Engineering Specialist
4 77 (17.50%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 60 (13.64%) Engineering Manager
6 13 (2.95%) Vendor Manager
7 11 (2.50%) Project Manager
8 9 (2.05%) Architect
9 8 (1.82%) Analyst
9 8 (1.82%) Data Scientist
10 7 (1.59%) Principal Engineer
10 7 (1.59%) Security Architect
11 5 (1.14%) Lecturer
12 4 (0.91%) Market Analyst
12 4 (0.91%) Project Engineer
12 4 (0.91%) Senior Electrical Engineer
12 4 (0.91%) Statistician
13 3 (0.68%) Business Analyst
13 3 (0.68%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.45%) AngularJS
1 2 (0.45%) CSS
1 2 (0.45%) Django
1 2 (0.45%) HTML
1 2 (0.45%) Node.js
1 2 (0.45%) React
1 2 (0.45%) TensorFlow
2 1 (0.23%) PyTorch
2 1 (0.23%) REST
2 1 (0.23%) scikit-learn
2 1 (0.23%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.23%) Social Media
2 19 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
2 19 (4.32%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 12 (2.73%) FMCG
4 9 (2.05%) Management Information System
5 7 (1.59%) Algorithms
6 6 (1.36%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.23%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.23%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.23%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.32%) Windows
1 19 (4.32%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (27.50%) People Management
1 121 (27.50%) Performance Optimisation
2 113 (25.68%) Finite Element Analysis
3 109 (24.77%) CAD
4 80 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
5 78 (17.73%) Conversational UI
6 63 (14.32%) Systems Engineering
7 60 (13.64%) Validation
8 58 (13.18%) Stakeholder Management
9 57 (12.95%) Project Planning
10 55 (12.50%) Verification and Validation
11 48 (10.91%) Chemistry
12 40 (9.09%) Statistics
13 39 (8.86%) Problem-Solving
14 38 (8.64%) Computer Science
15 29 (6.59%) Mathematics
16 28 (6.36%) Market Research
17 23 (5.23%) Decision-Making
18 22 (5.00%) Continuous Improvement
19 21 (4.77%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 10 (2.27%) Python
2 6 (1.36%) SQL
3 3 (0.68%) C#
3 3 (0.68%) Java
4 2 (0.45%) C++
4 2 (0.45%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.45%) PHP
5 1 (0.23%) R
Qualifications
1 440 (100.00%) Degree
2 286 (65.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 169 (38.41%) Chartered Engineer
4 133 (30.23%) MBA
5 109 (24.77%) HND
6 85 (19.32%) PhD
7 23 (5.23%) DBS Check
8 11 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.59%) HNC
10 6 (1.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (1.36%) CEH
10 6 (1.36%) CISA
10 6 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.36%) CISM
10 6 (1.36%) CISSP
11 3 (0.68%) ACCA
11 3 (0.68%) CIMA
11 3 (0.68%) Security Cleared
12 2 (0.45%) SC Cleared
13 1 (0.23%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.95%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.36%) GDPR
2 6 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (1.36%) NIST
3 2 (0.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (0.23%) Docker
1 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
1 1 (0.23%) KVM
1 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 78 (17.73%) PayPal
2 15 (3.41%) Microsoft
3 11 (2.50%) Capita
4 8 (1.82%) SAP
5 3 (0.68%) Sage
6 2 (0.45%) Google
7 1 (0.23%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.23%) Sparx
7 1 (0.23%) VMware