Master's Degree Jobs in the UK excluding London

Master's Degree
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Master's Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 232 39
Rank change year-on-year +161 -193 +204
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 1,383 836 3,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.57% 1.16% 6.64%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.51% 4.28% 17.99%
Number of salaries quoted 337 440 358
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £22,000
25th Percentile £52,000 £41,250 £40,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,315 £55,000 £53,125
Median % change year-on-year +26.03% +3.53% -3.41%
75th Percentile £73,708 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £69,315 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.64% - -7.14%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 21,254 19,532 21,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.87% 27.20% 36.92%
Number of salaries quoted 8,613 12,211 8,038
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,708 £79,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% +9.09%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Master's Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in the UK excluding London

Master's Degree
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Master's Degree in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Master's Degree in the UK excluding London

Master's Degree
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Master's Degree in the UK excluding London

Master's Degree
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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
North of England +214 606 £69,315 +38.63% 999
North West +167 442 £69,315 +4.33% 478
South East +63 273 £65,000 +8.33% 1,443
Midlands +93 143 £43,000 -21.82% 825
Yorkshire +149 136 £70,500 +44.62% 389
South West +125 125 £52,500 +5.00% 561
East of England +39 107 £70,400 +28.00% 727
Scotland +100 99 £62,500 -23.78% 286
East Midlands +68 76 £67,500 +9.87% 333
West Midlands +73 67 £31,000 -39.51% 445
North East +51 28 £45,750 -8.50% 134
Wales +53 22 £80,000 +128.57% 137
Northern Ireland +24 6 - - 85
Channel Islands - 2 £78,750 - 29
Master's Degree
UK

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (0.87%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.22%) SAS
2 3 (0.22%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.14%) Apache
3 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.14%) CMS
3 2 (0.14%) WordPress
4 1 (0.072%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.072%) Confluence
Applications
1 402 (29.07%) Chatbot
2 117 (8.46%) Abaqus
3 85 (6.15%) Mathcad
4 48 (3.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
6 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
7 4 (0.29%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.29%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.22%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 7 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 54 (3.90%) Azure
2 32 (2.31%) AWS
3 24 (1.74%) GCP
4 21 (1.52%) SaaS
4 21 (1.52%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 18 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (1.16%) PaaS
7 12 (0.87%) Cloud Computing
8 10 (0.72%) Power Platform
9 8 (0.58%) Serverless
10 7 (0.51%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (0.43%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (0.43%) Amazon S3
11 6 (0.43%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (0.43%) Collibra
12 5 (0.36%) Amazon SageMaker
12 5 (0.36%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (0.36%) GitHub
12 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.37%) Internet
1 19 (1.37%) Wireless
2 17 (1.23%) LAN
2 17 (1.23%) WAN
3 14 (1.01%) Firewall
4 12 (0.87%) Intrusion Detection
5 8 (0.58%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.43%) Ethernet
7 5 (0.36%) Modbus
7 5 (0.36%) Profibus
8 4 (0.29%) HTTP
8 4 (0.29%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.14%) DNS
10 1 (0.072%) 3G
10 1 (0.072%) 4G
10 1 (0.072%) NAS
10 1 (0.072%) RS-485
10 1 (0.072%) SAN
10 1 (0.072%) Wideband
10 1 (0.072%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (1.30%) Big Data
2 13 (0.94%) Tableau
3 12 (0.87%) Hadoop
4 11 (0.80%) NoSQL
5 10 (0.72%) Data Lake
6 8 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (0.51%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.43%) Power BI
8 6 (0.43%) SAP HANA
9 5 (0.36%) Metadata
9 5 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.22%) Apache Hive
10 3 (0.22%) GIS
10 3 (0.22%) Impala
10 3 (0.22%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.22%) MySQL
11 2 (0.14%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.14%) HBase
11 2 (0.14%) QGIS
11 2 (0.14%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 21 (1.52%) Git
2 4 (0.29%) JIRA
3 3 (0.22%) Moq
3 3 (0.22%) SpecFlow
4 2 (0.14%) Burp Suite
4 2 (0.14%) GitLab
4 2 (0.14%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.14%) Metasploit
4 2 (0.14%) MLflow
5 1 (0.072%) CMake
5 1 (0.072%) ERwin
5 1 (0.072%) Subversion
5 1 (0.072%) Visual Studio
General
1 571 (41.29%) Analytical Skills
2 324 (23.43%) Social Skills
3 159 (11.50%) Finance
4 123 (8.89%) Manufacturing
5 103 (7.45%) Electronics
6 82 (5.93%) Law
7 75 (5.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 59 (4.27%) Banking
9 46 (3.33%) Legal
9 46 (3.33%) Marketing
10 41 (2.96%) Agriculture
11 39 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
12 38 (2.75%) Aerospace
13 37 (2.68%) German Language
14 33 (2.39%) Financial Institution
14 33 (2.39%) French Language
15 24 (1.74%) Telecoms
16 21 (1.52%) Retail
17 18 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
18 17 (1.23%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 401 (28.99%) Trainer
2 243 (17.57%) Senior
3 166 (12.00%) Engineering Manager
4 121 (8.75%) Commissioning Manager
5 88 (6.36%) Analyst
6 85 (6.15%) Engineering Specialist
6 85 (6.15%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 80 (5.78%) Senior Electrical Engineer
8 71 (5.13%) Principal Engineer
9 40 (2.89%) Architect
10 33 (2.39%) Credit Analyst
10 33 (2.39%) Research Analyst
11 31 (2.24%) Lead
12 26 (1.88%) Software Engineer
13 24 (1.74%) Enterprise Architect
14 23 (1.66%) Data Scientist
15 22 (1.59%) Developer
16 21 (1.52%) Salesforce Architect
17 18 (1.30%) Data Analyst
17 18 (1.30%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.88%) Middleware
2 25 (1.81%) REST
3 21 (1.52%) Lightning Web Components
3 21 (1.52%) SOAP
4 17 (1.23%) TensorFlow
5 16 (1.16%) PyTorch
6 14 (1.01%) YAML
7 8 (0.58%) Hugging Face
7 8 (0.58%) Kafka
7 8 (0.58%) scikit-learn
8 7 (0.51%) .NET
8 7 (0.51%) LangChain
9 4 (0.29%) HTML
9 4 (0.29%) RESTful
10 3 (0.22%) .NET Framework
10 3 (0.22%) CSS
10 3 (0.22%) NumPy
10 3 (0.22%) OAuth
10 3 (0.22%) WinForms
10 3 (0.22%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 54 (3.90%) Algorithms
2 46 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
3 39 (2.82%) Credit Risk
4 33 (2.39%) Fixed Income
5 31 (2.24%) Management Information System
6 30 (2.17%) Social Media
7 26 (1.88%) Security Posture
8 25 (1.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 24 (1.74%) Virtual Team
10 23 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
11 21 (1.52%) Molecular Biology
12 20 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
13 14 (1.01%) FMCG
14 11 (0.80%) SCADA
15 9 (0.65%) Learning Management System
15 9 (0.65%) Robotics
16 8 (0.58%) Cloud Native
17 7 (0.51%) Mobile App
17 7 (0.51%) Renewable Energy
18 6 (0.43%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 45 (3.25%) Windows
2 26 (1.88%) Linux
3 25 (1.81%) Windows Vista
4 10 (0.72%) Unix
5 5 (0.36%) Robot Operating System
6 4 (0.29%) Android
6 4 (0.29%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.29%) Debian
7 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 458 (33.12%) Artificial Intelligence
2 402 (29.07%) Conversational UI
3 258 (18.66%) Computer Science
4 230 (16.63%) Mathematics
5 204 (14.75%) Chemistry
6 197 (14.24%) Systems Engineering
7 196 (14.17%) Problem-Solving
8 173 (12.51%) Decision-Making
9 153 (11.06%) Statistics
10 137 (9.91%) Performance Optimisation
11 136 (9.83%) People Management
12 129 (9.33%) CAD
13 121 (8.75%) Finite Element Analysis
14 117 (8.46%) Customer Engagement
15 112 (8.10%) Physics
16 111 (8.03%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
17 104 (7.52%) Stakeholder Management
18 90 (6.51%) Validation
19 89 (6.44%) Agile
20 86 (6.22%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 106 (7.66%) Python
2 41 (2.96%) SQL
3 40 (2.89%) C++
4 25 (1.81%) Java
5 21 (1.52%) Apex Code
5 21 (1.52%) C#
6 20 (1.45%) C
7 16 (1.16%) MATLAB
8 14 (1.01%) Bash
8 14 (1.01%) PowerShell
9 13 (0.94%) Fortran
10 9 (0.65%) JavaScript
10 9 (0.65%) R
11 8 (0.58%) Kotlin
12 7 (0.51%) Perl
13 5 (0.36%) Ladder Logic
14 4 (0.29%) Objective-C
15 2 (0.14%) PHP
15 2 (0.14%) Ruby
15 2 (0.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1,383 (100.00%) Degree
2 550 (39.77%) BPSS Clearance
3 493 (35.65%) PhD
4 352 (25.45%) Chartered Engineer
5 160 (11.57%) MBA
6 120 (8.68%) HND
7 98 (7.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 38 (2.75%) DBS Check
9 33 (2.39%) CFA
10 27 (1.95%) Security Cleared
11 20 (1.45%) PMI Certification
12 18 (1.30%) SC Cleared
13 17 (1.23%) CBAP
13 17 (1.23%) PMP
14 16 (1.16%) CISM
14 16 (1.16%) CISSP
15 13 (0.94%) CEH
15 13 (0.94%) CISA
16 12 (0.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 12 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (3.98%) Def Stans
1 55 (3.98%) IEC 61508
2 43 (3.11%) Data Quality
3 33 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 33 (2.39%) NIST
4 25 (1.81%) GDPR
5 15 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 14 (1.01%) NCSC
7 8 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (0.51%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.29%) QA
10 2 (0.14%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 2 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.14%) CDISC
10 2 (0.14%) COBIT
10 2 (0.14%) GMP
10 2 (0.14%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.072%) ISO 26262
11 1 (0.072%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.072%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (0.36%) Docker
2 3 (0.22%) HDFS
2 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.14%) Firmware
4 1 (0.072%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.072%) KVM
4 1 (0.072%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (0.43%) Grafana
1 6 (0.43%) Kubernetes
1 6 (0.43%) Prometheus
2 2 (0.14%) Ansible
2 2 (0.14%) Hadoop YARN
2 2 (0.14%) Nmap
3 1 (0.072%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.072%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 402 (29.07%) PayPal
2 39 (2.82%) Microsoft
3 33 (2.39%) Bloomberg
4 25 (1.81%) Salesforce
5 21 (1.52%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 20 (1.45%) YouTube
7 19 (1.37%) SAP
8 17 (1.23%) Unisys
9 15 (1.08%) Databricks
10 13 (0.94%) Google
11 12 (0.87%) Capita
12 9 (0.65%) IBM
13 8 (0.58%) Informatica
14 7 (0.51%) OpenAI
15 6 (0.43%) Siemens
16 5 (0.36%) Allen-Bradley
16 5 (0.36%) Rockwell
17 4 (0.29%) EMC
18 3 (0.22%) Facebook
18 3 (0.22%) Red Hat