Master's Degree Jobs in the South East

Master's Degree
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Master's Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 161 53
Rank change year-on-year +63 -108 +173
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 273 289 772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.90% 1.71% 5.44%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.01% 4.97% 13.65%
Number of salaries quoted 66 169 142
10th Percentile - £35,000 £30,550
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £86,125
England median annual salary £69,315 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.64% - -7.14%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,454 5,819 5,656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 57.84% 34.39% 39.85%
Number of salaries quoted 2,440 3,632 2,519
10th Percentile £34,988 £30,000 £28,400
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,000 £36,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -9.17% +9.09%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in the South East

Master's Degree
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Master's Degree in the South East

Master's Degree
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in the South East over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Master's Degree in the South East

Master's Degree
Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 23 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
Thames Valley +36 151 £43,000 -25.86% 550
Berkshire +58 90 £55,565 +1.03% 350
Oxfordshire +8 45 £40,000 -27.27% 95
Hampshire +71 44 £57,500 +38.55% 184
Isle of Wight - 30 £80,000 - 5
Middlesex - 26 - - 7
Buckinghamshire +25 16 £44,000 -37.14% 114
Kent +9 11 - - 101
Surrey +22 9 £70,000 +16.67% 130
West Sussex +25 2 £55,000 -14.06% 53
Master's Degree
England

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 9 (3.30%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.73%) Apache
3 1 (0.37%) Confluence
3 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 47 (17.22%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 31 (11.36%) Azure
2 21 (7.69%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 16 (5.86%) AWS
3 16 (5.86%) PaaS
4 15 (5.49%) GCP
5 14 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (2.20%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (1.83%) Collibra
7 5 (1.83%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.10%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.73%) H2O.ai
10 2 (0.73%) IaaS
10 2 (0.73%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.73%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.73%) SaaS
10 2 (0.73%) Vertex AI
11 1 (0.37%) Amazon EMR
11 1 (0.37%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.37%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.59%) Wireless
2 17 (6.23%) Internet
2 17 (6.23%) LAN
2 17 (6.23%) WAN
3 4 (1.47%) HTTP
3 4 (1.47%) HTTPS
3 4 (1.47%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.37%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.37%) RS-485
4 1 (0.37%) Wideband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.66%) Big Data
1 10 (3.66%) Hadoop
2 9 (3.30%) Data Lake
3 8 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.20%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.20%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.47%) Metadata
6 3 (1.10%) Apache Hive
6 3 (1.10%) Impala
6 3 (1.10%) Tableau
7 2 (0.73%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.73%) Bigtable
7 2 (0.73%) HBase
7 2 (0.73%) Power BI
7 2 (0.73%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.37%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (0.37%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.37%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.37%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 6 (2.20%) Git
2 1 (0.37%) CMake
2 1 (0.37%) ERwin
2 1 (0.37%) JIRA
2 1 (0.37%) MLflow
2 1 (0.37%) Moq
2 1 (0.37%) SpecFlow
2 1 (0.37%) Subversion
2 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 81 (29.67%) Analytical Skills
2 72 (26.37%) Law
3 67 (24.54%) Social Skills
4 60 (21.98%) Finance
5 33 (12.09%) Marketing
6 31 (11.36%) Electronics
7 30 (10.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (9.16%) Legal
9 21 (7.69%) Manufacturing
10 13 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (3.66%) Telecoms
12 8 (2.93%) Aerospace
12 8 (2.93%) Banking
13 7 (2.56%) Automotive
14 5 (1.83%) Advertising
14 5 (1.83%) Aeronautics
14 5 (1.83%) Games
14 5 (1.83%) Public Sector
15 3 (1.10%) Retail
16 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (17.95%) Senior
2 47 (17.22%) Trainer
3 26 (9.52%) Engineering Manager
4 23 (8.42%) Lead
5 22 (8.06%) Architect
6 21 (7.69%) Enterprise Architect
6 21 (7.69%) Salesforce Architect
7 20 (7.33%) Senior Electrical Engineer
8 18 (6.59%) Security Engineer
9 17 (6.23%) Infrastructure Support
9 17 (6.23%) Network Support
10 15 (5.49%) Developer
11 14 (5.13%) Software Engineer
12 7 (2.56%) Software Developer
13 6 (2.20%) Data Analytics Director
13 6 (2.20%) Design Engineer
13 6 (2.20%) Senior Manager
14 5 (1.83%) Data Engineer
14 5 (1.83%) Product Manager
14 5 (1.83%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (8.06%) REST
2 21 (7.69%) Lightning Web Components
2 21 (7.69%) Middleware
2 21 (7.69%) SOAP
3 14 (5.13%) YAML
4 8 (2.93%) Kafka
5 7 (2.56%) PyTorch
5 7 (2.56%) TensorFlow
6 6 (2.20%) Hugging Face
6 6 (2.20%) LangChain
7 3 (1.10%) .NET
7 3 (1.10%) WinForms
7 3 (1.10%) WPF
8 2 (0.73%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.73%) HTML
8 2 (0.73%) Qt
9 1 (0.37%) Entity Framework
9 1 (0.37%) HTML5
9 1 (0.37%) OpenGL
9 1 (0.37%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.42%) Enterprise Software
2 22 (8.06%) Algorithms
2 22 (8.06%) Virtual Team
3 14 (5.13%) Security Posture
4 10 (3.66%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.20%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.47%) Acoustics
7 4 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.47%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.47%) Molecular Biology
8 3 (1.10%) 3D Graphics
8 3 (1.10%) Analogue Electronics
8 3 (1.10%) CMDB
8 3 (1.10%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.10%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.73%) FPGA
9 2 (0.73%) LIMS
9 2 (0.73%) SCADA
9 2 (0.73%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.96%) Windows
2 17 (6.23%) Linux
3 10 (3.66%) Unix
4 4 (1.47%) Android
4 4 (1.47%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.47%) Debian
5 2 (0.73%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (32.97%) Computer Science
2 77 (28.21%) Artificial Intelligence
3 52 (19.05%) Agile
4 47 (17.22%) CI/CD
4 47 (17.22%) Conversational UI
5 44 (16.12%) Decision-Making
6 43 (15.75%) DevOps
7 41 (15.02%) Stakeholder Management
8 40 (14.65%) Systems Engineering
9 39 (14.29%) Mentoring
10 36 (13.19%) Information Security
11 35 (12.82%) Analytics
12 34 (12.45%) Technical Leadership
13 33 (12.09%) Chemistry
13 33 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
14 32 (11.72%) Coaching
14 32 (11.72%) Physics
15 31 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
15 31 (11.36%) Customer Engagement
16 29 (10.62%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 38 (13.92%) Python
2 25 (9.16%) C++
3 21 (7.69%) Apex Code
4 19 (6.96%) C
5 14 (5.13%) PowerShell
6 13 (4.76%) Fortran
7 11 (4.03%) Java
7 11 (4.03%) SQL
8 10 (3.66%) Bash
9 7 (2.56%) MATLAB
10 5 (1.83%) C#
11 4 (1.47%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.47%) Objective-C
12 2 (0.73%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.73%) R
12 2 (0.73%) Ruby
13 1 (0.37%) Perl
13 1 (0.37%) Scala
13 1 (0.37%) Tcl
13 1 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 273 (100.00%) Degree
2 89 (32.60%) PhD
3 61 (22.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 58 (21.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (13.55%) Chartered Engineer
6 22 (8.06%) MBA
7 15 (5.49%) Security Cleared
8 12 (4.40%) SC Cleared
9 10 (3.66%) DV Cleared
10 6 (2.20%) AWS Certification
10 6 (2.20%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.10%) Six Sigma Black Belt
11 3 (1.10%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 3 (1.10%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
12 1 (0.37%) CISM
12 1 (0.37%) CISSP
12 1 (0.37%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.62%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (5.49%) NIST
4 14 (5.13%) NCSC
5 12 (4.40%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 7 (2.56%) GDPR
7 6 (2.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (1.83%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.37%) CDISC
9 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.37%) QA
System Software
1 3 (1.10%) HDFS
2 2 (0.73%) Docker
2 2 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.37%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (2.20%) Grafana
1 6 (2.20%) Prometheus
2 5 (1.83%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.73%) Ansible
3 2 (0.73%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.37%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (17.22%) PayPal
2 22 (8.06%) Salesforce
3 21 (7.69%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 17 (6.23%) Unisys
5 14 (5.13%) Microsoft
6 8 (2.93%) Google
7 7 (2.56%) OpenAI
8 6 (2.20%) Informatica
9 3 (1.10%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.73%) Confluent
10 2 (0.73%) Dataiku
10 2 (0.73%) EMC
10 2 (0.73%) MapR
10 2 (0.73%) SAP
11 1 (0.37%) Altera
11 1 (0.37%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.37%) Cadence
11 1 (0.37%) Databricks
11 1 (0.37%) Freescale
11 1 (0.37%) Siemens