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 2 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 143 69
Rank change year-on-year +45 -74 +64
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 99 50 261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.44% 1.41% 4.09%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.90% 3.06% 10.10%
Number of salaries quoted 46 42 119
10th Percentile £41,263 £37,328 £36,953
25th Percentile £55,163 £41,637 £40,811
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +38.64% +4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £68,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £72,500
South East median annual salary £65,000 £61,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.12% +2.08% +4.35%

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 1,435 1,636 2,585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 35.41% 46.14% 40.53%
Number of salaries quoted 570 987 1,150
10th Percentile £35,750 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,085 £36,953
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,500 £50,845
Median % change year-on-year +10.09% +7.19% +1.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £65,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £84,100
South East median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year +9.52% +1.94% +3.00%

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 2 December 2024.

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 2 December 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
Berkshire +43 51 £80,000 +95.67% 16
Oxfordshire -2 35 £65,000 +18.18% 7
Buckinghamshire -11 13 £90,000 - 7
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 3 (3.03%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.02%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.02%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (5.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.01%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (2.02%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 16 (16.16%) AWS
2 15 (15.15%) Azure
3 8 (8.08%) Cloud Computing
3 8 (8.08%) Power Platform
4 7 (7.07%) GCP
5 3 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.03%) Power Automate
5 3 (3.03%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.02%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (2.02%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (2.02%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.02%) Asana
6 2 (2.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (2.02%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
6 2 (2.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (2.02%) PaaS
6 2 (2.02%) SaaS
7 1 (1.01%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.05%) Internet
2 4 (4.04%) Wireless
3 3 (3.03%) Intranet
3 3 (3.03%) LAN
3 3 (3.03%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.10%) Big Data
2 8 (8.08%) Data Mining
2 8 (8.08%) Power BI
3 4 (4.04%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.02%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.02%) Amazon QuickSight
5 2 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.02%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.02%) Hadoop
5 2 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.02%) Tableau
6 1 (1.01%) GIS
Development Applications
1 6 (6.06%) JIRA
2 4 (4.04%) Git
3 3 (3.03%) GitLab
4 2 (2.02%) LabVIEW
5 1 (1.01%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.01%) Selenium
5 1 (1.01%) WebDriver
General
1 36 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.16%) Finance
3 13 (13.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (11.11%) Manufacturing
5 10 (10.10%) Electronics
6 8 (8.08%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (8.08%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (7.07%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (4.04%) Telecoms
9 3 (3.03%) Legal
10 2 (2.02%) Aerospace
10 2 (2.02%) Law
10 2 (2.02%) Police
11 1 (1.01%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 32 (32.32%) Senior
2 26 (26.26%) Developer
3 20 (20.20%) Software Developer
4 16 (16.16%) Software Engineer
5 11 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 11 (11.11%) Senior Software Developer
6 7 (7.07%) Product Manager
6 7 (7.07%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (5.05%) Architect
8 4 (4.04%) IT Director
8 4 (4.04%) Systems Engineer
9 3 (3.03%) Data Scientist
9 3 (3.03%) Infrastructure Support
9 3 (3.03%) Network Manager
9 3 (3.03%) Network Support
9 3 (3.03%) Platform Manager
9 3 (3.03%) Power Platform Developer
9 3 (3.03%) Senior Data Scientist
10 2 (2.02%) PMO Manager
10 2 (2.02%) Research Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.11%) .NET
2 3 (3.03%) EDI
2 3 (3.03%) OpenMP
2 3 (3.03%) REST
2 3 (3.03%) SOAP
3 2 (2.02%) Kafka
4 1 (1.01%) Playwright
4 1 (1.01%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 43 (43.43%) Algorithms
2 11 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 9 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (9.09%) Molecular Biology
4 4 (4.04%) IoT
4 4 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.04%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.03%) Acoustics
5 3 (3.03%) CUDA
5 3 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.03%) Fat Client
5 3 (3.03%) Low-Code
5 3 (3.03%) Thin Client
6 2 (2.02%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.01%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.01%) Contactless
7 1 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.01%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.01%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 30 (30.30%) Linux
2 18 (18.18%) Unix
3 9 (9.09%) Debian
4 7 (7.07%) Windows
5 3 (3.03%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (65.66%) Computer Science
2 31 (31.31%) Mathematics
2 31 (31.31%) Physics
3 29 (29.29%) Agile
4 25 (25.25%) Open Source
4 25 (25.25%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (24.24%) Artificial Intelligence
6 21 (21.21%) Decision-Making
6 21 (21.21%) Roadmaps
7 20 (20.20%) Software Engineering
8 19 (19.19%) SDLC
9 16 (16.16%) Parallel Programming
9 16 (16.16%) Project Management
9 16 (16.16%) Software Testing
10 15 (15.15%) Performance Analysis
10 15 (15.15%) Product Management
11 12 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (12.12%) Data Analysis
11 12 (12.12%) Data Engineering
11 12 (12.12%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 44 (44.44%) Python
2 23 (23.23%) C
3 20 (20.20%) Fortran
4 19 (19.19%) Bash
5 18 (18.18%) C++
6 13 (13.13%) C#
7 12 (12.12%) JavaScript
7 12 (12.12%) TypeScript
8 11 (11.11%) SQL
9 7 (7.07%) Java
10 5 (5.05%) Rust
11 4 (4.04%) MATLAB
12 3 (3.03%) C-shell
12 3 (3.03%) PowerShell
13 2 (2.02%) PL/SQL
13 2 (2.02%) Scala
13 2 (2.02%) T-SQL
14 1 (1.01%) AWK
14 1 (1.01%) Ruby
14 1 (1.01%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 99 (100.00%) Degree
2 50 (50.51%) PhD
3 28 (28.28%) Security Cleared
4 16 (16.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (13.13%) Numerate Degree
6 11 (11.11%) AWS Certification
7 9 (9.09%) SC Cleared
8 6 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (5.05%) MBA
10 4 (4.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (4.04%) DV Cleared
11 3 (3.03%) Azure Certification
11 3 (3.03%) CCNA
11 3 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (3.03%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (3.03%) MCSA
11 3 (3.03%) MCSE
11 3 (3.03%) PMI Certification
11 3 (3.03%) PMP
12 2 (2.02%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.04%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (4.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 4 (4.04%) Data Quality
1 4 (4.04%) QA
2 2 (2.02%) PMBOK
2 2 (2.02%) PMO
3 1 (1.01%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.01%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (5.05%) Docker
2 3 (3.03%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (1.01%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (2.02%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.01%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (25.25%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.08%) MuleSoft
3 3 (3.03%) Aruba
3 3 (3.03%) Cisco
3 3 (3.03%) HP
3 3 (3.03%) IBM
3 3 (3.03%) Sage
3 3 (3.03%) Unisys
4 2 (2.02%) Databricks
4 2 (2.02%) Foundry
4 2 (2.02%) Palantir
5 1 (1.01%) Google
5 1 (1.01%) Informatica
5 1 (1.01%) Oracle