Master's Degree Job Trends in the West Midlands

Master's Degree
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Master's Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 100 197
Rank change year-on-year +65 +97 -138
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 286 74 61
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 3.65% 2.39% 0.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 18.11% 5.74% 2.90%
Number of salaries quoted 13 15 37
10th Percentile £34,750 - £31,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £15,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -18.37%
75th Percentile £74,500 - £61,750
90th Percentile £76,900 - £77,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,579 1,289 2,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.18% 41.69% 25.49%
Number of salaries quoted 676 575 1,298
10th Percentile £27,694 £27,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,925 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,344 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% +4.69% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,515 £67,875 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +0.92% -9.17%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Master's Degree job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Master's Degree
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Master's Degree.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Master's Degree

Master's Degree
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Master's Degree in the West Midlands

Master's Degree
Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
Staffordshire +28 76 - - 3
Warwickshire - 69 £47,500 - 2
Worcestershire +13 44 - - 1
Shropshire -10 24 £55,000 -
Birmingham -19 13 £59,527 +92.02% 6
Wolverhampton -20 4 - - 3
Sutton Coldfield - 4 - -
Coventry -25 3 - - 1
Brierley Hill - 3 - -
Halesowen - 3 - -
Tipton - 3 - - 1
Solihull - 3 - -
Stourbridge - 3 - -
Herefordshire - 2 - - 1
Walsall - 2 - -
Wednesbury - 2 - -
West Bromwich - 2 - -
Willenhall - 2 - -
Kingswinford - 2 - - 1
Rowley Regis - 2 - -
Smethwick - 2 - -
Dudley - 2 - -
Bilston - 2 - -
Master's Degree
England

Master's Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.70%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.35%) Solid Edge
Cloud Services
1 258 (90.21%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (1.05%) Azure
2 3 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (1.05%) Tricentis Tosca
3 2 (0.70%) Google Workspace
3 2 (0.70%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (0.35%) Copilot Studio
4 1 (0.35%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (0.35%) Entra ID
4 1 (0.35%) Google Docs
4 1 (0.35%) Google Drive
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (0.35%) OneDrive
4 1 (0.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 258 (90.21%) Internet
Development Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Burp Suite
1 3 (1.05%) Cucumber
1 3 (1.05%) Cypress.io
1 3 (1.05%) Gatling
1 3 (1.05%) GitLab
1 3 (1.05%) HP UFT
1 3 (1.05%) Jenkins
1 3 (1.05%) JMeter
1 3 (1.05%) LabVIEW
1 3 (1.05%) LoadRunner
1 3 (1.05%) Postman
1 3 (1.05%) REST Assured
1 3 (1.05%) Selenium
1 3 (1.05%) SonarQube
General
1 266 (93.01%) Social Skills
2 265 (92.66%) Banking
3 260 (90.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (3.85%) Manufacturing
5 7 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (1.75%) Agriculture
6 5 (1.75%) Retail
7 3 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.70%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (0.70%) Electronics
8 2 (0.70%) Legal
8 2 (0.70%) Public Sector
8 2 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 223 (77.97%) Lecturer
2 8 (2.80%) Lead
3 6 (2.10%) Senior
4 5 (1.75%) Head of Digital
4 5 (1.75%) Head of Technology
5 3 (1.05%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (1.05%) Development Engineer
5 3 (1.05%) Electronics Engineer
5 3 (1.05%) Electronics Test Engineer
5 3 (1.05%) Lead Electronics Engineer
5 3 (1.05%) Lead Test Engineer
5 3 (1.05%) Test Development Engineer
5 3 (1.05%) Test Engineer
6 2 (0.70%) Analyst
6 2 (0.70%) Business Analyst
6 2 (0.70%) Microsoft 365 Business Analyst
6 2 (0.70%) Product Engineer
6 2 (0.70%) Robotics Engineer
6 2 (0.70%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (0.70%) Technology Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.05%) Playwright
2 2 (0.70%) OpenCV
2 2 (0.70%) PyTorch
2 2 (0.70%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 258 (90.21%) IoT
2 7 (2.45%) Mobile App
3 3 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (0.70%) AI Agents
4 2 (0.70%) Algorithms
4 2 (0.70%) CUDA
4 2 (0.70%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (0.70%) Lidar
4 2 (0.70%) Robotics
4 2 (0.70%) Self-Driving Car
5 1 (0.35%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.35%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.35%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.05%) Kali Linux
1 3 (1.05%) Linux
2 2 (0.70%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (93.36%) AI
2 260 (90.91%) Machine Learning
3 259 (90.56%) Cybersecurity
3 259 (90.56%) User Experience
4 258 (90.21%) Web Development
5 15 (5.24%) Computer Science
6 13 (4.55%) Analytics
6 13 (4.55%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (4.55%) Software Testing
7 11 (3.85%) Agile
7 11 (3.85%) Mentoring
8 10 (3.50%) CI/CD
8 10 (3.50%) DevOps
8 10 (3.50%) Internal Audit
8 10 (3.50%) Test Automation
9 8 (2.80%) Validation
10 7 (2.45%) Risk Management
10 7 (2.45%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (2.45%) Test Strategy
11 5 (1.75%) Personalization
Programming Languages
1 5 (1.75%) Python
2 3 (1.05%) Java
2 3 (1.05%) SQL
3 2 (0.70%) C++
Qualifications
1 286 (100.00%) Degree
2 260 (90.91%) PhD
3 258 (90.21%) Postgraduate
4 7 (2.45%) ISEB
4 7 (2.45%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.70%) CBAP
6 2 (0.70%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.70%) PMP
6 2 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.35%) HNC
7 1 (0.35%) HND
7 1 (0.35%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.05%) QA
2 1 (0.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.05%) Grafana
1 3 (1.05%) HP Fortify
2 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (1.40%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.05%) Veracode
3 2 (0.70%) Google
3 2 (0.70%) Oracle
4 1 (0.35%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.35%) ServiceNow