Master's Degree Jobs in the Thames Valley

Master's Degree
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Master's Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 54 153
Rank change year-on-year -42 +99 -28
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 160 316 135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.39% 5.15% 1.94%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.28% 12.32% 5.97%
Number of salaries quoted 100 54 55
10th Percentile £34,750 £22,000 £33,531
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -19.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £89,000 £74,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

Master's Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,549 2,564 2,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 38.06% 41.83% 32.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,597 1,064 946
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £27,875
25th Percentile £38,000 £34,990 £36,638
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,850 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.47% -5.15% -6.36%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £51,350 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.70% -4.76% +5.00%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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
Oxfordshire +12 78 £52,500 +31.25% 39
Berkshire -39 60 £55,000 -21.43% 30
Buckinghamshire -69 22 £70,000 +25.00% 8
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 11 (6.88%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.25%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.63%) Apache
3 1 (0.63%) nginx
3 1 (0.63%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (13.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (7.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (6.88%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (6.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (8.13%) Power Platform
2 11 (6.88%) AWS
2 11 (6.88%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (6.88%) OneDrive
2 11 (6.88%) Power Automate
2 11 (6.88%) PowerApps
2 11 (6.88%) ShareGate
3 6 (3.75%) Amazon S3
3 6 (3.75%) Cloud Computing
3 6 (3.75%) GCP
3 6 (3.75%) Snowflake
4 5 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (3.13%) Azure
4 5 (3.13%) Serverless
5 4 (2.50%) SaaS
6 3 (1.88%) GitHub
7 2 (1.25%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.25%) IaaS
8 1 (0.63%) Google Container Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.00%) 5G
1 8 (5.00%) Broadband
2 7 (4.38%) Internet
3 5 (3.13%) Intranet
3 5 (3.13%) SNMP
4 4 (2.50%) Firewall
5 2 (1.25%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.13%) Power BI
2 10 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (2.50%) Big Data
4 4 (2.50%) GIS
5 3 (1.88%) Impala
5 3 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.25%) Apache Hive
6 2 (1.25%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.63%) Metadata
7 1 (0.63%) MySQL
7 1 (0.63%) Power Query
7 1 (0.63%) PowerCenter
7 1 (0.63%) Redis
7 1 (0.63%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.63%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 13 (8.13%) Git
2 2 (1.25%) ERwin
2 2 (1.25%) JIRA
3 1 (0.63%) Maven
General
1 48 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 43 (26.88%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (15.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 23 (14.38%) Finance
5 19 (11.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (6.25%) Marketing
7 8 (5.00%) Manufacturing
8 7 (4.38%) Law
9 5 (3.13%) Electronics
9 5 (3.13%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.50%) Aeronautics
10 4 (2.50%) Legal
10 4 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.88%) Banking
12 2 (1.25%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.25%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.63%) Automotive
13 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (23.13%) Senior
2 22 (13.75%) Software Engineer
3 16 (10.00%) Developer
4 15 (9.38%) Junior
5 13 (8.13%) Data Scientist
6 11 (6.88%) Associate Director
7 10 (6.25%) Business Development Manager
7 10 (6.25%) Business Manager
7 10 (6.25%) Development Manager
8 8 (5.00%) Research Engineer
9 7 (4.38%) Research Software Engineer
9 7 (4.38%) Software Developer
10 6 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (3.75%) Scientific Software Developer
10 6 (3.75%) Senior Software Engineer
11 5 (3.13%) C++ Developer
11 5 (3.13%) Physicist
12 4 (2.50%) IT Sales Consultant
12 4 (2.50%) Machine Learning Scientist
12 4 (2.50%) Network Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.75%) OpenACC
1 14 (8.75%) OpenMP
2 5 (3.13%) React
3 4 (2.50%) HTML
3 4 (2.50%) Rendezvous
4 3 (1.88%) Dask
4 3 (1.88%) Django
4 3 (1.88%) Flask
5 2 (1.25%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.25%) CSS
5 2 (1.25%) Leaflet
5 2 (1.25%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (1.25%) NumPy
5 2 (1.25%) OpenLayers
5 2 (1.25%) RESTful
5 2 (1.25%) Sass
6 1 (0.63%) Kafka
6 1 (0.63%) OpenCL
6 1 (0.63%) REST
6 1 (0.63%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 69 (43.13%) Algorithms
2 17 (10.63%) Analytical Mindset
2 17 (10.63%) Data Structures
3 16 (10.00%) CUDA
4 10 (6.25%) Biopharmaceutical
4 10 (6.25%) Life Science
5 9 (5.63%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.13%) Cloud Native
6 5 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.88%) FPGA
8 3 (1.88%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.25%) ASIC
9 2 (1.25%) ASIC Verification
9 2 (1.25%) IoT
9 2 (1.25%) Verilog
10 1 (0.63%) Animation
10 1 (0.63%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.63%) FMCG
10 1 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 38 (23.75%) Linux
2 27 (16.88%) Unix
3 1 (0.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (59.38%) Computer Science
2 64 (40.00%) Mathematics
3 60 (37.50%) Physics
4 44 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (23.13%) Parallel Programming
6 34 (21.25%) Agile
7 31 (19.38%) Machine Learning
8 28 (17.50%) Software Engineering
9 26 (16.25%) Biotechnology
10 23 (14.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (14.38%) Data Science
11 21 (13.13%) Chemistry
11 21 (13.13%) DevOps
12 20 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
12 20 (12.50%) Roadmaps
12 20 (12.50%) SDLC
13 19 (11.88%) Analytics
14 18 (11.25%) Business Intelligence
14 18 (11.25%) Market Research
15 17 (10.63%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 84 (52.50%) Python
2 49 (30.63%) C
3 47 (29.38%) Fortran
4 41 (25.63%) C++
5 12 (7.50%) C#
5 12 (7.50%) R
6 7 (4.38%) Bash
7 6 (3.75%) Java
8 5 (3.13%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.50%) Go
9 4 (2.50%) MATLAB
10 3 (1.88%) AWK
10 3 (1.88%) sed
10 3 (1.88%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.25%) Perl
11 2 (1.25%) SQL
11 2 (1.25%) SystemVerilog
11 2 (1.25%) Tcl
12 1 (0.63%) Rust
12 1 (0.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 160 (100.00%) Degree
2 93 (58.13%) PhD
3 27 (16.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (12.50%) MBA
4 20 (12.50%) Security Cleared
5 11 (6.88%) ITIL Certification
6 10 (6.25%) CFA
6 10 (6.25%) CIMA
7 4 (2.50%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.88%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.63%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.63%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.63%) MCSA
9 1 (0.63%) MCSE
9 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.88%) Data Quality
1 3 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (9.38%) Docker
2 11 (6.88%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.50%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.88%) Firmware
5 2 (1.25%) HDFS
6 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (6.88%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.50%) Terraform
3 3 (1.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 26 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.88%) Nintex
3 8 (5.00%) Virgin Media
4 6 (3.75%) YouTube
5 5 (3.13%) Google
6 4 (2.50%) Aruba
6 4 (2.50%) Cisco
6 4 (2.50%) HP
6 4 (2.50%) VMware
7 3 (1.88%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.25%) Adobe
8 2 (1.25%) Informatica
8 2 (1.25%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.25%) SAP
9 1 (0.63%) Apple
9 1 (0.63%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.63%) Sage