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 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 92 149 51
Rank change year-on-year +57 -98 +176
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 291 300 744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.00% 1.70% 5.35%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.22% 5.07% 13.45%
Number of salaries quoted 65 170 142
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,000 £85,000 £86,250
England median annual salary £69,315 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.64% - -5.11%

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 5,571 5,921 5,531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 57.52% 33.60% 39.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,514 3,643 2,485
10th Percentile £34,988 £30,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,125 £36,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,293 £51,350
Median % change year-on-year +14.74% +1.84% -0.29%
75th Percentile £70,600 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,375 £82,500 £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 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 31 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 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
Thames Valley +37 164 £43,000 -25.86% 83
Berkshire +52 102 £55,565 -1.65% 40
Hampshire +85 46 £57,500 +38.55% 45
Oxfordshire +6 44 £40,000 -27.27% 41
Isle of Wight - 30 £80,000 - 4
Middlesex - 29 - - 5
Buckinghamshire +30 18 £44,000 -37.14% 12
Kent +13 11 - - 6
Surrey +24 9 £70,000 +16.67% 35
West Sussex +23 2 £55,000 -14.06% 11
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 12 (4.12%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.69%) Apache
2 2 (0.69%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.34%) Confluence
Applications
1 52 (17.87%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 42 (14.43%) Azure
2 26 (8.93%) AWS
3 25 (8.59%) GCP
4 21 (7.22%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 17 (5.84%) PaaS
6 15 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (4.47%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (1.72%) Collibra
8 5 (1.72%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.03%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.03%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.69%) H2O.ai
11 2 (0.69%) IaaS
11 2 (0.69%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (0.69%) OpenShift
11 2 (0.69%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.69%) SaaS
11 2 (0.69%) Vertex AI
12 1 (0.34%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.84%) Wireless
2 16 (5.50%) Internet
2 16 (5.50%) LAN
2 16 (5.50%) WAN
3 4 (1.37%) HTTP
3 4 (1.37%) HTTPS
3 4 (1.37%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.69%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.69%) RS-485
5 1 (0.34%) Wideband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.47%) Big Data
1 13 (4.47%) Hadoop
2 12 (4.12%) Data Lake
3 11 (3.78%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (3.09%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.06%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.37%) Metadata
7 3 (1.03%) Apache Hive
7 3 (1.03%) Impala
7 3 (1.03%) Power BI
7 3 (1.03%) Tableau
8 2 (0.69%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.69%) Bigtable
8 2 (0.69%) HBase
8 2 (0.69%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.34%) GIS
9 1 (0.34%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.34%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 6 (2.06%) Git
2 1 (0.34%) CMake
2 1 (0.34%) ERwin
2 1 (0.34%) JIRA
2 1 (0.34%) MLflow
2 1 (0.34%) Moq
2 1 (0.34%) SpecFlow
2 1 (0.34%) Subversion
2 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 86 (29.55%) Analytical Skills
2 84 (28.87%) Law
3 79 (27.15%) Social Skills
4 71 (24.40%) Finance
5 35 (12.03%) Marketing
6 32 (11.00%) Electronics
6 32 (11.00%) Legal
7 30 (10.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (7.22%) Manufacturing
9 13 (4.47%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (3.78%) Telecoms
11 9 (3.09%) Aerospace
12 8 (2.75%) Automotive
12 8 (2.75%) Banking
13 6 (2.06%) Games
13 6 (2.06%) Public Sector
14 5 (1.72%) Advertising
14 5 (1.72%) Aeronautics
15 3 (1.03%) Retail
16 2 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (19.59%) Senior
2 52 (17.87%) Trainer
3 26 (8.93%) Engineering Manager
4 24 (8.25%) Lead
5 22 (7.56%) Architect
6 21 (7.22%) Enterprise Architect
6 21 (7.22%) Salesforce Architect
7 20 (6.87%) Senior Electrical Engineer
8 19 (6.53%) Security Engineer
9 16 (5.50%) Infrastructure Support
9 16 (5.50%) Network Support
10 14 (4.81%) Developer
10 14 (4.81%) Software Engineer
11 13 (4.47%) Senior Manager
12 9 (3.09%) Data Analytics Director
13 6 (2.06%) Design Engineer
13 6 (2.06%) Marketing Manager
13 6 (2.06%) Product Manager
13 6 (2.06%) Product Marketing Manager
13 6 (2.06%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (7.56%) REST
2 21 (7.22%) Lightning Web Components
2 21 (7.22%) Middleware
2 21 (7.22%) SOAP
3 15 (5.15%) YAML
4 14 (4.81%) PyTorch
4 14 (4.81%) TensorFlow
5 13 (4.47%) Hugging Face
5 13 (4.47%) LangChain
6 11 (3.78%) Kafka
7 3 (1.03%) .NET
7 3 (1.03%) WinForms
7 3 (1.03%) WPF
8 2 (0.69%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.69%) HTML
8 2 (0.69%) Qt
9 1 (0.34%) CSS
9 1 (0.34%) HTML5
9 1 (0.34%) OAuth
9 1 (0.34%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.90%) Enterprise Software
2 21 (7.22%) Algorithms
2 21 (7.22%) Virtual Team
3 15 (5.15%) Security Posture
4 14 (4.81%) Management Information System
5 9 (3.09%) Cloud Native
6 8 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.37%) Life Science
7 4 (1.37%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.03%) 3D Graphics
8 3 (1.03%) Acoustics
8 3 (1.03%) Analogue Electronics
8 3 (1.03%) CMDB
8 3 (1.03%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.03%) Molecular Biology
8 3 (1.03%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.19%) Windows
2 16 (5.50%) Linux
3 10 (3.44%) Unix
4 4 (1.37%) Android
4 4 (1.37%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.03%) Debian
6 2 (0.69%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (35.05%) Computer Science
2 91 (31.27%) Artificial Intelligence
3 58 (19.93%) Agile
4 52 (17.87%) Conversational UI
5 51 (17.53%) CI/CD
6 48 (16.49%) Decision-Making
7 47 (16.15%) DevOps
8 44 (15.12%) Stakeholder Management
9 41 (14.09%) Mentoring
10 40 (13.75%) Systems Engineering
11 39 (13.40%) Analytics
11 39 (13.40%) Continuous Improvement
12 38 (13.06%) Chemistry
13 37 (12.71%) Technical Leadership
14 36 (12.37%) Information Security
15 35 (12.03%) Data Privacy
16 34 (11.68%) Coaching
16 34 (11.68%) Data Science
16 34 (11.68%) Enterprise Architecture
17 33 (11.34%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 37 (12.71%) Python
2 25 (8.59%) C++
3 21 (7.22%) Apex Code
4 19 (6.53%) C
5 15 (5.15%) PowerShell
6 14 (4.81%) SQL
7 13 (4.47%) Fortran
8 11 (3.78%) Java
9 10 (3.44%) Bash
10 7 (2.41%) MATLAB
11 5 (1.72%) C#
12 4 (1.37%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.37%) Objective-C
13 2 (0.69%) JavaScript
13 2 (0.69%) R
13 2 (0.69%) Ruby
13 2 (0.69%) VBA
14 1 (0.34%) Perl
14 1 (0.34%) Scala
14 1 (0.34%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 291 (100.00%) Degree
2 93 (31.96%) PhD
3 72 (24.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 58 (19.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (12.71%) Chartered Engineer
6 21 (7.22%) MBA
7 16 (5.50%) Security Cleared
8 13 (4.47%) SC Cleared
9 11 (3.78%) DV Cleared
10 9 (3.09%) AWS Certification
10 9 (3.09%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.03%) Six Sigma Black Belt
11 3 (1.03%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 3 (1.03%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
12 1 (0.34%) CISM
12 1 (0.34%) CISSP
12 1 (0.34%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.97%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (5.50%) NIST
4 15 (5.15%) NCSC
5 12 (4.12%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 10 (3.44%) GDPR
7 9 (3.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (1.72%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.34%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.34%) CDISC
9 1 (0.34%) GAMP
9 1 (0.34%) GxP
9 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.34%) QA
System Software
1 3 (1.03%) HDFS
2 2 (0.69%) Docker
2 2 (0.69%) Firmware
2 2 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (4.47%) Grafana
1 13 (4.47%) Prometheus
2 5 (1.72%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.69%) Ansible
3 2 (0.69%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.34%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 52 (17.87%) PayPal
2 22 (7.56%) Salesforce
3 21 (7.22%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 16 (5.50%) Unisys
5 15 (5.15%) Microsoft
6 14 (4.81%) OpenAI
7 11 (3.78%) Google
8 6 (2.06%) Informatica
9 3 (1.03%) Cloudera
9 3 (1.03%) EMC
9 3 (1.03%) SAP
10 2 (0.69%) Confluent
10 2 (0.69%) Dataiku
10 2 (0.69%) Freescale
10 2 (0.69%) MapR
11 1 (0.34%) Altera
11 1 (0.34%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.34%) Cadence
11 1 (0.34%) Databricks
11 1 (0.34%) Siemens