Master's Degree Contracts in England

Master's Degree
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Master's Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 241 304 416
Rank change year-on-year +63 +112 -89
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 359 393 404
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.99% 0.82% 0.57%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.20% 2.96% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 263 244
10th Percentile £350 £380 £282
25th Percentile £450 £486 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £590
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +10.17% +9.06%
75th Percentile £721 £800 £763
90th Percentile £800 £950 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £590
% change year-on-year -12.00% +5.93% +9.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 33 26
10th Percentile £21.70 £31.25 £19.01
25th Percentile £36.42 £42.50 £19.52
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £37.13
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% +21.21% +40.09%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £83.75 - £68.75
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £29.25
% change year-on-year +22.22% +53.85% -3.70%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,227 13,261 15,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.86% 27.52% 21.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,936 8,905 10,075
10th Percentile £313 £331 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £715
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 968 682 681
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.53 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.31 £19.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +29.63% +6.58%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.06 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.25 £68.30
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.56 £43.95
% change year-on-year -26.69% +24.14% +16.73%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in England

Master's Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Master's Degree in England

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Master's Degree in England

Master's Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Master's Degree in England

Master's Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Master's Degree in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Master's Degree in England

Master's Degree
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Master's Degree within the England region over the 6 months to 16 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +71 199 £550 -21.43% 498
South East +1 51 £525 +5.00% 161
East of England +15 30 £625 +64.26% 115
South West +4 26 £588 +6.82% 76
North of England +38 22 £638 -1.85% 133
Midlands +26 17 £550 +25.00% 118
West Midlands +32 16 £550 +10.00% 80
North West +23 14 £676 +4.00% 75
Yorkshire - 4 £554 - 32
North East - 3 £588 - 29
East Midlands +6 1 - - 38
Master's Degree
UK

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 17 (4.74%) Confluence
2 5 (1.39%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.11%) CMS
3 4 (1.11%) SAS
4 3 (0.84%) Apache
4 3 (0.84%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.84%) IIS
4 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.84%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.56%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.56%) Ethereum
5 2 (0.56%) Hyperledger
5 2 (0.56%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 20 (5.57%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.51%) Simulink
3 8 (2.23%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (1.95%) Stateflow
5 5 (1.39%) Chatbot
5 5 (1.39%) TargetLink
6 3 (0.84%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.84%) Sketch
7 2 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.28%) OmniGraffle
8 1 (0.28%) SPSS
8 1 (0.28%) Stata
Business Applications
1 14 (3.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.95%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (0.84%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.84%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.56%) R3 Corda
4 2 (0.56%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.28%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.28%) Hyperion Planning
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle AGIS
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.28%) SAP CX
5 1 (0.28%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.28%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 49 (13.65%) Azure
2 28 (7.80%) AWS
3 15 (4.18%) GCP
4 11 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (3.06%) Power Platform
5 9 (2.51%) npm
6 8 (2.23%) Azure Service Bus
7 7 (1.95%) OCI
7 7 (1.95%) SaaS
7 7 (1.95%) Serverless
8 5 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (1.39%) Oracle CX
8 5 (1.39%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 4 (1.11%) Azure App Service
9 4 (1.11%) Azure Event Grid
9 4 (1.11%) GitHub
9 4 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (1.11%) Google Analytics
9 4 (1.11%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.67%) CTI
1 6 (1.67%) VoIP
1 6 (1.67%) VSAN
2 5 (1.39%) Wireless
3 4 (1.11%) Firewall
3 4 (1.11%) Internet
3 4 (1.11%) SAN
4 3 (0.84%) Network Security
4 3 (0.84%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.84%) VPN
5 2 (0.56%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.56%) HTTP
5 2 (0.56%) IOS XR
5 2 (0.56%) LTE
5 2 (0.56%) NX-OS
5 2 (0.56%) RS-485
5 2 (0.56%) SSL
6 1 (0.28%) DNS
6 1 (0.28%) RTMP
6 1 (0.28%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.46%) Relational Database
2 14 (3.90%) SQL Server
3 11 (3.06%) Power BI
4 8 (2.23%) MySQL
4 8 (2.23%) NoSQL
4 8 (2.23%) Oracle Reports
5 7 (1.95%) Big Data
5 7 (1.95%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.39%) RDBMS
6 5 (1.39%) Tableau
7 4 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.11%) Metadata
7 4 (1.11%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.84%) Data Mart
8 3 (0.84%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.84%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (0.84%) GIS
8 3 (0.84%) Qlik Sense
9 2 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (10.31%) JIRA
2 21 (5.85%) Git
3 11 (3.06%) Bitbucket
4 10 (2.79%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.79%) Rational DOORS
4 10 (2.79%) Subversion
5 9 (2.51%) webpack
6 5 (1.39%) MLflow
7 4 (1.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.11%) Postman
8 3 (0.84%) Maven
8 3 (0.84%) TestRail
9 2 (0.56%) Appium
9 2 (0.56%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.56%) CMake
9 2 (0.56%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.56%) Katalon Studio
9 2 (0.56%) Rational Team Concert
9 2 (0.56%) Selenium
10 1 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 166 (46.24%) Social Skills
2 104 (28.97%) Finance
3 89 (24.79%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (10.86%) Marketing
5 30 (8.36%) Public Sector
6 27 (7.52%) Front Office
7 25 (6.96%) Banking
8 23 (6.41%) Presentation Skills
9 22 (6.13%) Telecoms
10 19 (5.29%) Manufacturing
11 15 (4.18%) Aerospace
12 14 (3.90%) Automotive
12 14 (3.90%) Retail
13 12 (3.34%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (2.51%) Legal
15 8 (2.23%) Electronics
15 8 (2.23%) Financial Institution
16 6 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (1.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 60 (16.71%) Architect
2 51 (14.21%) Senior
3 50 (13.93%) Developer
4 33 (9.19%) Software Engineer
5 31 (8.64%) Lead
6 25 (6.96%) Solutions Architect
7 21 (5.85%) Analyst
8 18 (5.01%) Systems Engineer
9 17 (4.74%) Java Developer
10 16 (4.46%) Consultant
11 14 (3.90%) Software Architect
12 12 (3.34%) Applications Developer
12 12 (3.34%) Project Manager
13 11 (3.06%) Data Engineer
14 10 (2.79%) Full Stack Developer
14 10 (2.79%) Senior Software Engineer
14 10 (2.79%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 9 (2.51%) Embedded Software Engineer
15 9 (2.51%) Senior Developer
15 9 (2.51%) Web Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.29%) AngularJS
2 18 (5.01%) React
3 14 (3.90%) .NET
4 13 (3.62%) HTML
5 12 (3.34%) CSS
5 12 (3.34%) DirectX
5 12 (3.34%) OpenGL
5 12 (3.34%) OpenGL ES
5 12 (3.34%) Vulkan
6 10 (2.79%) REST
7 9 (2.51%) PyTorch
7 9 (2.51%) RxJS
7 9 (2.51%) WebSockets
8 8 (2.23%) NumPy
8 8 (2.23%) TensorFlow
9 7 (1.95%) Pandas
10 6 (1.67%) .NET Core
10 6 (1.67%) Spring
10 6 (1.67%) Web Services
11 5 (1.39%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 35 (9.75%) Algorithms
2 31 (8.64%) Management Information System
3 17 (4.74%) Derivative
4 14 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (2.79%) 3D Graphics
5 10 (2.79%) Ray Tracing
6 9 (2.51%) Equities
7 8 (2.23%) Embedded Systems
7 8 (2.23%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.95%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.95%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.95%) Life Science
9 6 (1.67%) Credit Risk
9 6 (1.67%) Fixed Income
9 6 (1.67%) IVR
9 6 (1.67%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.39%) Clustering
10 5 (1.39%) Device Driver
10 5 (1.39%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (1.11%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.69%) Windows
2 23 (6.41%) Linux
3 19 (5.29%) Unix
4 9 (2.51%) Android
5 4 (1.11%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.11%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (1.11%) SafeRTOS
6 1 (0.28%) OS/390
6 1 (0.28%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (53.20%) Computer Science
2 120 (33.43%) Problem-Solving
3 115 (32.03%) Agile
4 69 (19.22%) Software Engineering
5 48 (13.37%) Analytics
6 44 (12.26%) Machine Learning
7 43 (11.98%) Decision-Making
7 43 (11.98%) Project Management
7 43 (11.98%) Validation
8 39 (10.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 38 (10.58%) DevOps
10 37 (10.31%) Artificial Intelligence
11 36 (10.03%) Roadmaps
11 36 (10.03%) Stakeholder Management
12 34 (9.47%) Data Science
13 32 (8.91%) Risk Management
14 28 (7.80%) Data Analysis
15 26 (7.24%) Mathematics
15 26 (7.24%) Scrum
16 25 (6.96%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 85 (23.68%) Python
2 55 (15.32%) SQL
3 40 (11.14%) Java
4 34 (9.47%) C#
4 34 (9.47%) C++
5 29 (8.08%) C
6 28 (7.80%) JavaScript
7 15 (4.18%) MATLAB
8 12 (3.34%) Shell Script
9 11 (3.06%) R
10 10 (2.79%) TypeScript
11 8 (2.23%) Scala
12 6 (1.67%) PowerShell
13 5 (1.39%) Bash
14 4 (1.11%) ABAP
14 4 (1.11%) Assembly Language
15 3 (0.84%) Perl
15 3 (0.84%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.84%) Rust
15 3 (0.84%) VBA
Qualifications
1 359 (100.00%) Degree
2 110 (30.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 70 (19.50%) PhD
4 31 (8.64%) Security Cleared
5 29 (8.08%) MBA
6 25 (6.96%) SC Cleared
7 15 (4.18%) CISSP
8 13 (3.62%) CISM
9 10 (2.79%) Azure Certification
9 10 (2.79%) PMI Certification
9 10 (2.79%) PMP
10 9 (2.51%) ITIL Certification
11 8 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (1.95%) Chartered Engineer
12 7 (1.95%) CISA
13 6 (1.67%) SAP Certification
14 5 (1.39%) CCNA
14 5 (1.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 4 (1.11%) CEH
15 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.01%) PCI DSS
2 14 (3.90%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.90%) QA
3 8 (2.23%) GDPR
4 5 (1.39%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.39%) AUTOSAR
4 5 (1.39%) ISO 26262
4 5 (1.39%) MISRA
4 5 (1.39%) MISRA C
4 5 (1.39%) NIST
5 4 (1.11%) Dodd-Frank
5 4 (1.11%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.11%) JTAG
5 4 (1.11%) MiFID
5 4 (1.11%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.84%) SLA
7 2 (0.56%) COBIT
7 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.56%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.56%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (2.51%) Docker
3 8 (2.23%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.11%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (1.11%) Firmware
6 3 (0.84%) Active Directory
7 2 (0.56%) vSphere
8 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (3.62%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.39%) vCenter Server
3 3 (0.84%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (0.84%) PowerCLI
3 3 (0.84%) Terraform
4 2 (0.56%) Ansible
4 2 (0.56%) Nessus
4 2 (0.56%) OPNET
5 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (12.53%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.96%) SAP
3 21 (5.85%) Oracle
4 17 (4.74%) Cisco
5 15 (4.18%) VMware
6 11 (3.06%) Google
7 9 (2.51%) Atlassian
7 9 (2.51%) Databricks
7 9 (2.51%) Genesys
8 7 (1.95%) Adobe
9 5 (1.39%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.39%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.11%) Avaya
10 4 (1.11%) Optimizely
11 3 (0.84%) Ariba
11 3 (0.84%) ESRI
11 3 (0.84%) Murex
11 3 (0.84%) Splunk
12 2 (0.56%) Omniture
12 2 (0.56%) Qualys