Master's Degree Jobs in Oxfordshire

Master's Degree
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire with a requirement for Master's Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 37 48
Rank change year-on-year +11 +11 +2
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 50 83 80
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 6.87% 4.90% 5.34%
As % of the Qualifications category 19.76% 18.61% 14.23%
Number of salaries quoted 27 63 26
10th Percentile - £40,850 -
25th Percentile - £41,250 £22,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £36,250
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +51.72% -29.61%
75th Percentile £55,000 £73,750 £43,750
90th Percentile £83,000 £82,500 £52,500
South East median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +4.17%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 253 446 562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 34.75% 26.34% 37.52%
Number of salaries quoted 89 338 269
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,175 £24,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,625 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -7.77%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £84,500 £73,750 £72,600
South East median annual salary £58,000 £52,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% +1.96% -2.86%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in Oxfordshire

Master's Degree
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Master's Degree in Oxfordshire.

Salary trend for Master's Degree in Oxfordshire

Master's Degree
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Master's Degree in Oxfordshire

Master's Degree
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 21 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
Oxford -2 20 £77,500 +40.91% 22
Banbury - 2 - - 3
Wantage - 1 - -
Witney - 1 £70,000 - 6
Master's Degree
South East

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Applications
1 6 (12.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.00%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (6.00%) Azure
3 1 (2.00%) AWS
3 1 (2.00%) GCP
3 1 (2.00%) PaaS
3 1 (2.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (38.00%) Internet
1 19 (38.00%) LAN
1 19 (38.00%) WAN
1 19 (38.00%) Wireless
2 1 (2.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (2.00%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Git
2 1 (2.00%) Moq
2 1 (2.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 22 (44.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 9 (18.00%) Manufacturing
3 8 (16.00%) Social Skills
4 7 (14.00%) Law
5 6 (12.00%) Electronics
6 3 (6.00%) Aeronautics
6 3 (6.00%) Aerospace
6 3 (6.00%) Automotive
6 3 (6.00%) Finance
7 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Marketing
7 1 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.00%) Police
7 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (38.00%) Infrastructure Support
1 19 (38.00%) Network Support
2 8 (16.00%) Developer
3 6 (12.00%) Trainer
4 5 (10.00%) Software Developer
5 3 (6.00%) Performance Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Senior
6 2 (4.00%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.00%) Architect
7 1 (2.00%) Data Engineer
7 1 (2.00%) FPGA/VHDL Design Engineer
7 1 (2.00%) Head of Information
7 1 (2.00%) IT Manager
7 1 (2.00%) LIMS Manager
7 1 (2.00%) Managing Director
7 1 (2.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 1 (2.00%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (2.00%) Technical Architect
7 1 (2.00%) VHDL Design Engineer
7 1 (2.00%) VHDL Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.00%) .NET
1 2 (4.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (2.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (2.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.00%) CSS
2 1 (2.00%) CSS3
2 1 (2.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (2.00%) FHIR
2 1 (2.00%) HTML
2 1 (2.00%) HTML5
2 1 (2.00%) OAuth
2 1 (2.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (2.00%) PySpark
2 1 (2.00%) REST
2 1 (2.00%) RESTful
2 1 (2.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 22 (44.00%) Virtual Team
2 5 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 5 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (10.00%) Molecular Biology
3 4 (8.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.00%) LIMS
4 2 (4.00%) Robotics
5 1 (2.00%) ASIC
5 1 (2.00%) ASIC Verification
5 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.00%) e-Learning
5 1 (2.00%) FPGA
5 1 (2.00%) IoT
5 1 (2.00%) NVMe
5 1 (2.00%) PCIe
5 1 (2.00%) Raspberry Pi
5 1 (2.00%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 19 (38.00%) Windows
2 6 (12.00%) Linux
3 5 (10.00%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (22.00%) Data Analysis
1 11 (22.00%) Physics
2 10 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 8 (16.00%) Bioinformatics
3 8 (16.00%) Workflow
4 7 (14.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 6 (12.00%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
5 6 (12.00%) Conversational UI
5 6 (12.00%) Mathematics
5 6 (12.00%) Mentoring
5 6 (12.00%) Performance Engineering
5 6 (12.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 6 (12.00%) Software Engineering
6 5 (10.00%) Biology
6 5 (10.00%) Commercialisation
6 5 (10.00%) Customer Analysis
6 5 (10.00%) Disruptive Innovation
6 5 (10.00%) Informatics
6 5 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (10.00%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (30.00%) Python
2 3 (6.00%) MATLAB
3 2 (4.00%) SQL
4 1 (2.00%) C
4 1 (2.00%) C#
4 1 (2.00%) C++
4 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.00%) Perl
4 1 (2.00%) SystemVerilog
4 1 (2.00%) Tcl
4 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 50 (100.00%) Degree
2 20 (40.00%) MBA
3 16 (32.00%) PhD
4 5 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.00%) CISM
5 1 (2.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) CDISC
1 1 (2.00%) GDPR
1 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.00%) NIST
1 1 (2.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (38.00%) Unisys
2 6 (12.00%) PayPal
3 1 (2.00%) Altera
3 1 (2.00%) Cadence
3 1 (2.00%) Databricks
3 1 (2.00%) EMC
3 1 (2.00%) Freescale
3 1 (2.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.00%) SAP
3 1 (2.00%) Siemens
3 1 (2.00%) Synopsys