Master's Degree Jobs in Scotland

Master's Degree
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Master's Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 148 77 151
Rank change year-on-year -71 +74 +29
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 106 151 102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.86% 3.98% 1.67%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.69% 12.00% 6.00%
Number of salaries quoted 24 22 18
10th Percentile £54,125 £50,000 £31,950
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,178 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,500 £60,000 £65,875
Median % change year-on-year +39.17% -8.92% +38.68%
75th Percentile £91,250 £69,997 £84,375
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 992 1,258 1,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 17.41% 33.16% 27.93%
Number of salaries quoted 467 426 550
10th Percentile £27,950 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,091 £32,600
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £62,629
90th Percentile £81,550 £79,375 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in Scotland

Master's Degree
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Master's Degree in Scotland

Master's Degree
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Master's Degree in Scotland

Master's Degree
Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Glasgow -39 86 £85,000 +47.83% 5
Edinburgh 0 18 £80,000 +33.33% 3
Dundee -11 2 £45,000 - 1
Master's Degree
UK

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 29 (27.36%) FileNet
2 1 (0.94%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (2.83%) InVision
1 3 (2.83%) Sketch
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.94%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 34 (32.08%) Figma
2 30 (28.30%) Amazon S3
2 30 (28.30%) SurveyMonkey
3 29 (27.36%) GitHub
4 9 (8.49%) AWS
5 7 (6.60%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (5.66%) GCP
7 5 (4.72%) Azure
8 1 (0.94%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.94%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.89%) LAN
1 2 (1.89%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (28.30%) NoSQL
2 29 (27.36%) Apache Cassandra
2 29 (27.36%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (2.83%) Big Data
4 1 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.94%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.94%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 31 (29.25%) Jenkins
2 29 (27.36%) Jasmine
2 29 (27.36%) JUnit
2 29 (27.36%) Mockito
3 2 (1.89%) GitLab
4 1 (0.94%) Git
4 1 (0.94%) JIRA
General
1 80 (75.47%) Finance
2 78 (73.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 75 (70.75%) Law
4 65 (61.32%) Marketing
5 30 (28.30%) Social Science
6 28 (26.42%) Social Skills
7 11 (10.38%) Legal
8 8 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (4.72%) Banking
10 3 (2.83%) Front Office
10 3 (2.83%) Investment Banking
10 3 (2.83%) Polish Language
11 2 (1.89%) Advertising
11 2 (1.89%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.89%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.94%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.94%) Games
12 1 (0.94%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (31.13%) Lead
1 33 (31.13%) Software Engineer
2 11 (10.38%) User Experience Researcher
3 6 (5.66%) Senior
4 5 (4.72%) Full Stack Engineer
4 5 (4.72%) Full Stack Software Engineer
4 5 (4.72%) Java Engineer
4 5 (4.72%) Java Software Engineer
5 4 (3.77%) Designer
5 4 (3.77%) Developer
5 4 (3.77%) Head of Infrastructure
6 3 (2.83%) Data Scientist
6 3 (2.83%) Front Office Developer
6 3 (2.83%) Java Developer
6 3 (2.83%) Product Engineer
6 3 (2.83%) Senior Data Scientist
6 3 (2.83%) Senior Designer
6 3 (2.83%) Senior UX Designer
6 3 (2.83%) UX Designer
7 2 (1.89%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (32.08%) React
2 33 (31.13%) AngularJS
3 29 (27.36%) GraphQL
3 29 (27.36%) Hibernate
3 29 (27.36%) J2EE
3 29 (27.36%) Kafka
3 29 (27.36%) Spring
3 29 (27.36%) Spring Integration
4 4 (3.77%) CSS
4 4 (3.77%) HTML
5 3 (2.83%) LESS
5 3 (2.83%) Sass
5 3 (2.83%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 2 (1.89%) OpenCV
6 2 (1.89%) OpenVINO
6 2 (1.89%) RESTful
6 2 (1.89%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.94%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (0.94%) HTML5
7 1 (0.94%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 30 (28.30%) Cloud Native
2 27 (25.47%) Market Risk
3 12 (11.32%) Algorithms
3 12 (11.32%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.77%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.83%) Graphic Design
5 3 (2.83%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.83%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.89%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.94%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.94%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.94%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.55%) Windows
2 6 (5.66%) Linux
3 4 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (3.77%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (47.17%) Computer Science
2 48 (45.28%) Fintech
3 45 (42.45%) User Experience
4 44 (41.51%) UX Research
5 42 (39.62%) User Research
6 41 (38.68%) Actionable Insight
6 41 (38.68%) Anthropology
6 41 (38.68%) Cognitive Science
6 41 (38.68%) Interaction Design
6 41 (38.68%) Psychology
6 41 (38.68%) Qualitative Research
6 41 (38.68%) Service Design
7 40 (37.74%) Machine Learning
8 39 (36.79%) Agile
9 37 (34.91%) Software Engineering
10 35 (33.02%) Artificial Intelligence
11 34 (32.08%) Product Management
11 34 (32.08%) SDLC
12 33 (31.13%) Business Strategy
13 32 (30.19%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 38 (35.85%) Java
2 32 (30.19%) SQL
3 30 (28.30%) R
4 15 (14.15%) Python
5 8 (7.55%) C++
6 5 (4.72%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.77%) C
7 4 (3.77%) Rust
8 3 (2.83%) Haskell
9 1 (0.94%) C#
9 1 (0.94%) Go
9 1 (0.94%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 106 (100.00%) Degree
2 50 (47.17%) PhD
3 43 (40.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.89%) CISM
4 2 (1.89%) CISSP
4 2 (1.89%) MBA
4 2 (1.89%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.94%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.83%) Accessibility
1 3 (2.83%) QA
1 3 (2.83%) WCAG
2 1 (0.94%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (4.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (33.96%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.77%) Ansible
2 4 (3.77%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (28.30%) Qualtrics
2 29 (27.36%) Oracle
3 6 (5.66%) Google
4 1 (0.94%) Keysight
4 1 (0.94%) Microsoft