Master's Degree Job Trends in Watford

Master's Degree
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Watford with a requirement for Master's Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 11 33
Rank change year-on-year -15 +22 +6
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 8 42 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Watford 2.69% 25.93% 2.55%
As % of the Qualifications category 24.24% 61.76% 11.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £70,000 - £41,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - £42,250
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 - £43,375
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median annual salary £110,000 £85,000 £42,250
% change year-on-year +29.41% +101.18% +40.83%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Watford

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 Watford.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 33 68 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Watford 11.11% 41.98% 21.90%
Number of salaries quoted 25 25 45
10th Percentile £25,250 - £23,350
25th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £43,500 £42,250
Median % change year-on-year +49.43% +2.96% -35.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £51,250 £45,500
90th Percentile - £57,500 £58,750
Hertfordshire median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -1.37%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

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

Master's Degree job vacancy trend in Watford

Master's Degree
Salary Trend in Watford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing Master's Degree.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing Master's Degree

Master's Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Watford 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 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (12.50%) Datadog
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (12.50%) Big Data
1 1 (12.50%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 7 (87.50%) Banking
1 7 (87.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Games
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Lecturer
2 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) IoT
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) AI
1 7 (87.50%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (87.50%) Machine Learning
1 7 (87.50%) User Experience
1 7 (87.50%) Web Development
2 1 (12.50%) Agile
2 1 (12.50%) Analytics
2 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
2 1 (12.50%) Data Analytics
2 1 (12.50%) Data Architecture
2 1 (12.50%) Data Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
2 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
2 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) ETL
2 1 (12.50%) Observability
2 1 (12.50%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (12.50%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Degree
2 7 (87.50%) PhD
2 7 (87.50%) Postgraduate
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Grafana
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform