Master's Degree Jobs in the Thames Valley

Master's Degree
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Master's Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 95 59
Rank change year-on-year +43 -36 +84
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 163 178 271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.80% 2.54% 4.63%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.33% 6.79% 11.04%
Number of salaries quoted 43 107 47
10th Percentile - £34,750 £22,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £27,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £58,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +36.47% -19.05%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £135,500 £85,000 £84,500
South East median annual salary £61,250 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.08% -4.00% +4.17%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,747 2,620 2,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 51.40% 37.32% 41.96%
Number of salaries quoted 441 1,548 1,007
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £36,058
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.92% +5.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £52,000 £51,350
% change year-on-year +15.38% +1.27% -1.25%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in the Thames Valley

Master's Degree
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for Master's Degree in the Thames Valley

Master's Degree
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Master's Degree in the Thames Valley

Master's Degree
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 30 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
Berkshire +54 100 £55,565 -1.65% 325
Oxfordshire +7 45 £40,000 -27.27% 76
Buckinghamshire +26 18 £44,000 -37.14% 108
Master's Degree
South East

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 10 (6.13%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 42 (25.77%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 23 (14.11%) Azure
2 22 (13.50%) AWS
3 21 (12.88%) GCP
3 21 (12.88%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 11 (6.75%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (3.07%) Collibra
5 5 (3.07%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (2.45%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.61%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (0.61%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.61%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.61%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.61%) Serverless
7 1 (0.61%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.43%) Internet
1 17 (10.43%) LAN
1 17 (10.43%) WAN
1 17 (10.43%) Wireless
2 2 (1.23%) Ethernet
2 2 (1.23%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.75%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (6.13%) Big Data
2 10 (6.13%) Data Lake
2 10 (6.13%) Hadoop
3 9 (5.52%) NoSQL
4 6 (3.68%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.23%) Metadata
5 2 (1.23%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.61%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.61%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.61%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.61%) GIS
6 1 (0.61%) Impala
6 1 (0.61%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.61%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.61%) Power BI
6 1 (0.61%) PowerCenter
6 1 (0.61%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 4 (2.45%) Git
2 1 (0.61%) ERwin
2 1 (0.61%) MLflow
2 1 (0.61%) Moq
2 1 (0.61%) SpecFlow
General
1 68 (41.72%) Law
2 57 (34.97%) Social Skills
3 42 (25.77%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (22.09%) Finance
5 29 (17.79%) Marketing
6 26 (15.95%) Legal
7 19 (11.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (8.59%) Manufacturing
9 8 (4.91%) Telecoms
10 6 (3.68%) Electronics
10 6 (3.68%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (3.07%) Aerospace
11 5 (3.07%) Banking
12 4 (2.45%) Aeronautics
12 4 (2.45%) Automotive
13 3 (1.84%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 42 (25.77%) Trainer
2 24 (14.72%) Senior
3 22 (13.50%) Architect
4 21 (12.88%) Enterprise Architect
4 21 (12.88%) Salesforce Architect
5 17 (10.43%) Infrastructure Support
5 17 (10.43%) Network Support
6 11 (6.75%) Senior Manager
7 10 (6.13%) Developer
7 10 (6.13%) Software Engineer
8 9 (5.52%) Data Analytics Director
9 6 (3.68%) Lead
10 5 (3.07%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (3.07%) Software Developer
11 4 (2.45%) Data Scientist
11 4 (2.45%) Performance Engineer
12 3 (1.84%) IT Director
12 3 (1.84%) Services Director
13 2 (1.23%) Scientific Software Developer
13 2 (1.23%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (13.50%) REST
2 21 (12.88%) Lightning Web Components
2 21 (12.88%) Middleware
2 21 (12.88%) SOAP
3 12 (7.36%) PyTorch
3 12 (7.36%) TensorFlow
4 11 (6.75%) Hugging Face
4 11 (6.75%) LangChain
5 9 (5.52%) Kafka
6 2 (1.23%) .NET
6 2 (1.23%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.61%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.61%) CSS
7 1 (0.61%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.61%) HTML
7 1 (0.61%) HTML5
7 1 (0.61%) OAuth
7 1 (0.61%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.61%) RESTful
7 1 (0.61%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 23 (14.11%) Enterprise Software
2 20 (12.27%) Virtual Team
3 13 (7.98%) Algorithms
3 13 (7.98%) Management Information System
4 9 (5.52%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.84%) CMDB
5 3 (1.84%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.84%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (1.84%) Molecular Biology
5 3 (1.84%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.23%) Acoustics
6 2 (1.23%) LIMS
6 2 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.61%) ASIC
7 1 (0.61%) ASIC Verification
7 1 (0.61%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.61%) NVMe
7 1 (0.61%) PCIe
7 1 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.61%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.43%) Windows
2 14 (8.59%) Linux
3 10 (6.13%) Unix
4 3 (1.84%) Debian
5 2 (1.23%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (45.40%) Artificial Intelligence
2 71 (43.56%) Computer Science
3 43 (26.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 42 (25.77%) Conversational UI
5 36 (22.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 36 (22.09%) Information Security
6 34 (20.86%) Agile
6 34 (20.86%) CI/CD
7 33 (20.25%) Data Privacy
8 32 (19.63%) DevOps
8 32 (19.63%) Enterprise Architecture
9 31 (19.02%) Chemistry
9 31 (19.02%) Data Modelling
10 30 (18.40%) Analytics
10 30 (18.40%) Technical Leadership
11 29 (17.79%) Data Science
12 27 (16.56%) Data Management
13 25 (15.34%) E-Commerce
13 25 (15.34%) Physics
14 23 (14.11%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 28 (17.18%) Python
2 21 (12.88%) Apex Code
3 14 (8.59%) C++
4 13 (7.98%) SQL
5 11 (6.75%) C
5 11 (6.75%) Fortran
6 10 (6.13%) Bash
7 5 (3.07%) MATLAB
8 2 (1.23%) Java
8 2 (1.23%) R
9 1 (0.61%) C#
9 1 (0.61%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.61%) Perl
9 1 (0.61%) Scala
9 1 (0.61%) SystemVerilog
9 1 (0.61%) Tcl
9 1 (0.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 163 (100.00%) Degree
2 62 (38.04%) PhD
3 53 (32.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (13.50%) MBA
5 9 (5.52%) AWS Certification
5 9 (5.52%) Azure Certification
6 8 (4.91%) DV Cleared
6 8 (4.91%) SC Cleared
6 8 (4.91%) Security Cleared
7 3 (1.84%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 3 (1.84%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 3 (1.84%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
8 1 (0.61%) CISM
8 1 (0.61%) CISSP
8 1 (0.61%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (16.56%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.13%) GDPR
3 9 (5.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.61%) CDISC
5 1 (0.61%) NIST
5 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.61%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.23%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.61%) Firmware
2 1 (0.61%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 11 (6.75%) Grafana
1 11 (6.75%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.61%) Kubeflow
2 1 (0.61%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (25.77%) PayPal
2 22 (13.50%) Salesforce
3 21 (12.88%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 17 (10.43%) Unisys
5 12 (7.36%) OpenAI
6 9 (5.52%) Google
7 6 (3.68%) Informatica
8 3 (1.84%) SAP
9 2 (1.23%) EMC
9 2 (1.23%) Freescale
10 1 (0.61%) Altera
10 1 (0.61%) Cadence
10 1 (0.61%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.61%) Databricks
10 1 (0.61%) Siemens
10 1 (0.61%) Synopsys