Master's Degree Jobs in the South West

Master's Degree
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South 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 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 186 44 142
Rank change year-on-year -142 +98 +40
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 77 404 224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.88% 6.49% 2.45%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.75% 14.48% 6.13%
Number of salaries quoted 56 71 51
10th Percentile £28,625 £43,162 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,313 £49,263 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,952 £75,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.06% +36.36% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £85,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,875 £90,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,796 2,790 3,652
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 31.79% 44.83% 39.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,755 1,423 1,721
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £35,343
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +3.31%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £84,500 £85,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

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

Master's Degree
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Master's Degree in the South West

Master's Degree
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for Master's Degree in the South West

Master's Degree
Job Locations in the South 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 South West 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
Bristol -33 27 £65,000 -13.33% 18
Dorset -65 21 £45,000 -47.06% 5
Gloucestershire -49 13 £37,500 -55.88% 3
Devon -41 6 £27,500 - 15
Cornwall -12 4 £47,347 - 1
Somerset -42 3 £56,180 +39.76% 4
Master's Degree
England

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 3 (3.90%) Apache
1 3 (3.90%) Confluence
2 1 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.30%) Luigi
Applications
1 6 (7.79%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (7.79%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.99%) AWS
2 8 (10.39%) Power Platform
3 7 (9.09%) Azure
4 3 (3.90%) GitHub
4 3 (3.90%) SaaS
5 2 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (2.60%) dbt
5 2 (2.60%) IaaS
5 2 (2.60%) PaaS
5 2 (2.60%) Serverless
6 1 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.30%) GCP
6 1 (1.30%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.30%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.30%) Smartsheet
6 1 (1.30%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.60%) Firewall
1 2 (2.60%) VPN
2 1 (1.30%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.58%) Big Data
2 8 (10.39%) Power BI
2 8 (10.39%) Tableau
3 6 (7.79%) Relational Database
3 6 (7.79%) Snowflake Schema
3 6 (7.79%) Star Schema
4 4 (5.19%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (2.60%) Looker
5 2 (2.60%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.60%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.30%) Bigtable
6 1 (1.30%) CouchDB
6 1 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.30%) Redis
6 1 (1.30%) RethinkDB
6 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (11.69%) JIRA
2 6 (7.79%) Git
3 3 (3.90%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.90%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.90%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (20.78%) Finance
2 14 (18.18%) Law
3 13 (16.88%) Social Skills
4 11 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (11.69%) Banking
5 9 (11.69%) Investment Banking
5 9 (11.69%) Legal
5 9 (11.69%) Retail
6 5 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (5.19%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.90%) Marketing
9 1 (1.30%) Electronics
9 1 (1.30%) Games
9 1 (1.30%) Military
9 1 (1.30%) Multimedia
9 1 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 22 (28.57%) Analyst
2 19 (24.68%) Senior
3 13 (16.88%) Business Analyst
4 12 (15.58%) Security Analyst
5 11 (14.29%) Developer
6 10 (12.99%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 10 (12.99%) IT Analyst
6 10 (12.99%) IT Security Analyst
6 10 (12.99%) Senior Analyst
7 9 (11.69%) Data Manager
7 9 (11.69%) Lead
8 8 (10.39%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
8 8 (10.39%) Senior IT Security Analyst
8 8 (10.39%) Senior Security Analyst
9 7 (9.09%) Software Developer
9 7 (9.09%) Software Engineer
10 6 (7.79%) Embedded Engineer
10 6 (7.79%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 6 (7.79%) Technical Analyst
10 6 (7.79%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.09%) AngularJS
2 5 (6.49%) PySpark
3 3 (3.90%) React
4 1 (1.30%) .NET
4 1 (1.30%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.30%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.30%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.30%) Kafka
4 1 (1.30%) Pandas
4 1 (1.30%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (1.30%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.69%) Data Protection Act
1 9 (11.69%) Security Operations Centre
2 6 (7.79%) Onboarding
3 5 (6.49%) Reinsurance
4 4 (5.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (2.60%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.60%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.30%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.30%) IoT
6 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.30%) NHS
6 1 (1.30%) RISC-V
6 1 (1.30%) Robotics
6 1 (1.30%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.39%) Linux
2 1 (1.30%) Windows
2 1 (1.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (38.96%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (33.77%) Agile
3 25 (32.47%) Analytics
3 25 (32.47%) Computer Science
4 22 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
5 20 (25.97%) Data Analysis
6 17 (22.08%) Project Management
6 17 (22.08%) Risk Management
7 16 (20.78%) Visualisation
8 15 (19.48%) Data Science
9 13 (16.88%) Software Engineering
10 12 (15.58%) Information Security
11 11 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
11 11 (14.29%) Cloud Security
11 11 (14.29%) Security Operations
12 10 (12.99%) Machine Learning
12 10 (12.99%) Mathematics
12 10 (12.99%) User Stories
13 9 (11.69%) E-Commerce
13 9 (11.69%) Operations Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (35.06%) Python
2 16 (20.78%) SQL
3 7 (9.09%) C#
3 7 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 7 (9.09%) R
4 6 (7.79%) T-SQL
4 6 (7.79%) TypeScript
5 5 (6.49%) C++
5 5 (6.49%) MATLAB
6 4 (5.19%) C
7 3 (3.90%) Java
7 3 (3.90%) Rust
Qualifications
1 77 (100.00%) Degree
2 13 (16.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (15.58%) CISSP
4 11 (14.29%) Security Cleared
5 10 (12.99%) CompTIA CySA+
5 10 (12.99%) MBA
6 8 (10.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (9.09%) PhD
8 6 (7.79%) IIBA
9 3 (3.90%) DV Cleared
10 2 (2.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (2.60%) AWS Certification
10 2 (2.60%) CCSP
10 2 (2.60%) CISA
10 2 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (2.60%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.99%) Data Quality
2 9 (11.69%) GDPR
2 9 (11.69%) NIST
2 9 (11.69%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.60%) FedRAMP
3 2 (2.60%) QA
4 1 (1.30%) IEC 61508
4 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.30%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.60%) Docker
2 1 (1.30%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.30%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (11.69%) CASB
2 1 (1.30%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.79%) Databricks
3 3 (3.90%) Atlassian
3 3 (3.90%) Coverity
4 1 (1.30%) Fujitsu
4 1 (1.30%) Google