Master's Degree Job Trends 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 14 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 80 123
Rank change year-on-year +32 +43 -65
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 151 87 121
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.25% 3.10% 2.01%
As % of the Qualifications category 14.21% 6.50% 5.22%
Number of salaries quoted 12 51 84
10th Percentile £46,250 - £36,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.40% -5.45% +16.59%
75th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,750 £90,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £75,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +30.43% -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 1,063 1,339 2,320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 22.86% 47.70% 38.48%
Number of salaries quoted 520 419 1,583
10th Percentile £30,250 £32,496 £29,930
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £59,125 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year -13.74% +12.51% +9.19%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £95,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £53,500 £57,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.14% +8.57% +5.00%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Master's Degree relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Master's Degree job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Master's Degree
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Master's Degree.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Master's Degree

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 14 March 2026.

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 14 March 2026. 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 +47 89 £56,430 +8.52% 9
Buckinghamshire +32 50 £47,500 -47.22% 2
Oxfordshire -29 12 £67,500 +68.75% 10
Master's Degree
South East

Master's Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.32%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.66%) Camunda
2 1 (0.66%) SAS
Applications
1 22 (14.57%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.66%) OrCAD
Cloud Services
1 58 (38.41%) Cloud Computing
2 9 (5.96%) Azure
3 6 (3.97%) AWS
4 3 (1.99%) Amazon Cognito
4 3 (1.99%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (1.99%) Amazon S3
4 3 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (1.99%) Azure Machine Learning
4 3 (1.99%) Collibra
4 3 (1.99%) Serverless
5 2 (1.32%) Miro
5 2 (1.32%) Smartsheet
6 1 (0.66%) GCP
6 1 (0.66%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 58 (38.41%) Internet
2 3 (1.99%) MQTT
2 3 (1.99%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.66%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.66%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.66%) RS-232
3 1 (0.66%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.65%) Metadata
2 3 (1.99%) Data Mining
2 3 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (1.99%) SAP BW
2 3 (1.99%) SAP HANA
3 2 (1.32%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.66%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 6 (3.97%) MLflow
2 4 (2.65%) Git
3 3 (1.99%) ERwin
3 3 (1.99%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.99%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (1.32%) JIRA
General
1 84 (55.63%) Social Skills
2 59 (39.07%) Banking
3 58 (38.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 30 (19.87%) Pharmaceutical
5 24 (15.89%) Finance
6 21 (13.91%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.31%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.65%) Publishing
9 3 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.32%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.66%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.66%) Automotive
11 1 (0.66%) Aviation
11 1 (0.66%) Electronics
11 1 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Marketing
11 1 (0.66%) Retail
Job Titles
1 48 (31.79%) Lecturer
2 34 (22.52%) Lead
3 22 (14.57%) Trainer
4 13 (8.61%) Associate Director
5 8 (5.30%) Senior
6 3 (1.99%) Data Manager
6 3 (1.99%) Data Model Manager
6 3 (1.99%) Delivery Manager
6 3 (1.99%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 3 (1.99%) Operations Engineer
6 3 (1.99%) Product Manager
6 3 (1.99%) SAP Data Manager
6 3 (1.99%) SAP Delivery Manager
6 3 (1.99%) SAP Manager
7 2 (1.32%) Software Engineer
8 1 (0.66%) Architect
8 1 (0.66%) Developer
8 1 (0.66%) Development Manager
8 1 (0.66%) Senior Manager
8 1 (0.66%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.99%) Keras
1 3 (1.99%) Middleware
1 3 (1.99%) PyTorch
1 3 (1.99%) REST
1 3 (1.99%) scikit-learn
1 3 (1.99%) SOAP
1 3 (1.99%) TensorFlow
2 1 (0.66%) Blazor
2 1 (0.66%) Kafka
2 1 (0.66%) React
Miscellaneous
1 58 (38.41%) IoT
2 53 (35.10%) Life Science
3 10 (6.62%) Low-Code
4 9 (5.96%) Hackathon
5 7 (4.64%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.97%) Product Ownership
7 5 (3.31%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.65%) LIMS
9 3 (1.99%) Animation
9 3 (1.99%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.99%) Pharmacovigilance
10 1 (0.66%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.66%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.66%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.66%) IBM Mainframe
10 1 (0.66%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.66%) NHS
10 1 (0.66%) Robotics
10 1 (0.66%) Self-Driving Car
10 1 (0.66%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.65%) Linux
2 1 (0.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (76.82%) AI
2 95 (62.91%) Machine Learning
3 69 (45.70%) User Experience
4 58 (38.41%) Cybersecurity
4 58 (38.41%) Web Development
5 49 (32.45%) Hematology
5 49 (32.45%) Immunology
6 47 (31.13%) Computer Science
7 46 (30.46%) Data Science
8 39 (25.83%) Analytics
9 36 (23.84%) Agile
10 32 (21.19%) Roadmaps
11 28 (18.54%) Deployment Automation
11 28 (18.54%) Use Case
12 24 (15.89%) Enterprise Architecture
13 22 (14.57%) Conversational UI
14 21 (13.91%) Biotechnology
15 20 (13.25%) Generative AI
15 20 (13.25%) Intelligent Automation
16 19 (12.58%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 23 (15.23%) Python
2 8 (5.30%) SQL
3 6 (3.97%) C++
4 2 (1.32%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.66%) Bash
5 1 (0.66%) C
5 1 (0.66%) C#
5 1 (0.66%) Fortran
5 1 (0.66%) Java
5 1 (0.66%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 151 (100.00%) Degree
2 103 (68.21%) PhD
3 58 (38.41%) Postgraduate
4 15 (9.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.65%) PMI Certification
5 4 (2.65%) PMP
6 3 (1.99%) SAP Certification
7 2 (1.32%) MBA
8 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.66%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.66%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (15.23%) Accessibility
2 22 (14.57%) GxP
3 5 (3.31%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.65%) QA
5 3 (1.99%) 21 CFR Part 11
System Software
1 4 (2.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.65%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.99%) Ansible
2 3 (1.99%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.66%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (14.57%) PayPal
2 3 (1.99%) Agilent
2 3 (1.99%) SAP
3 1 (0.66%) Automation Anywhere
3 1 (0.66%) EMC
3 1 (0.66%) IBM
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.66%) Pega
3 1 (0.66%) ServiceNow
3 1 (0.66%) UiPath