Master's Degree Contracts in Edinburgh

Master's Degree
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Master's Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 99 123
Rank change year-on-year +27 +24 -11
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 4 3 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.46% 0.25% 0.58%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.08% 1.52% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 6
10th Percentile £305 £451 £441
25th Percentile £430 £453 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £455 £495
Median % change year-on-year +26.37% -8.08% +33.78%
75th Percentile £652 £464 £592
90th Percentile £654 £469 £610
Scotland median daily rate £475 £460 £465
% change year-on-year +3.26% -1.08% -15.45%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Edinburgh

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 contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 192 197 248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.20% 16.74% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 121 147
10th Percentile £156 £163 £320
25th Percentile £240 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £558 £511 £553
90th Percentile £600 £588 £614
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +2.78% -2.70% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 2 4
10th Percentile £12.88 £21.30 £20.18
25th Percentile £15.48 £21.36 £23.60
Median hourly rate £17.25 £21.47 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year -19.64% -41.59% +110.00%
75th Percentile £18.75 £21.57 £49.69
90th Percentile £45.00 £21.63 £51.38
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £18.88 £47.50
% change year-on-year +3.28% -60.25% +171.43%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Master's Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in Edinburgh

Master's Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Master's Degree in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Master's Degree in Edinburgh

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Master's Degree in Edinburgh

Master's Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Master's Degree in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Master's Degree in Edinburgh

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JMeter
1 2 (50.00%) LoadRunner
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Humanities
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Lead
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Scalability Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Test Management
2 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Usability Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Psychology
3 1 (25.00%) Quantitative Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) R
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (25.00%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO 20022
1 1 (25.00%) ISO 8583
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft