Master's Degree Contracts in the North of England

Master's Degree
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 164 202 221
Rank change year-on-year +38 +19 -45
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 22 10 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.47% 0.18% 0.39%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.85% 0.72% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 15
10th Percentile £550 £400 £263
25th Percentile £560 £481 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £650 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.85% +44.44% -5.26%
75th Percentile £698 £725 £518
90th Percentile £725 £850 £543
England median daily rate £550 £650 £590
% change year-on-year -15.38% +10.17% +9.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.22 - -
Median hourly rate £48.56 - £28.00
75th Percentile £57.83 - -
90th Percentile £61.38 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £37.13
% change year-on-year +22.22% +21.21% +40.09%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,189 1,398 1,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.61% 25.02% 20.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 659 980 991
10th Percentile £313 £320 £200
25th Percentile £424 £431 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £588
90th Percentile £725 £700 £663
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 71 81
10th Percentile £10.95 £20.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £13.03 £25.75 £17.64
Median hourly rate £16.06 £40.58 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.42% +5.39% +44.03%
75th Percentile £36.25 £50.83 £55.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £67.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +29.63% +6.58%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in the North of England

Master's Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Master's Degree in the North of England

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Master's Degree in the North of England

Master's Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Master's Degree in the North of England

Master's Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Master's Degree in the North of England

Master's Degree
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West +23 14 £676 +4.00% 77
Yorkshire - 4 £554 - 31
North East - 3 £588 - 29
Master's Degree
England

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (4.55%) Confluence
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) SAP MDG
2 1 (4.55%) Hyperion Planning
2 1 (4.55%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) Relational Database
2 3 (13.64%) Metadata
2 3 (13.64%) MySQL
2 3 (13.64%) Power BI
2 3 (13.64%) Qlik Sense
2 3 (13.64%) RDBMS
3 2 (9.09%) Big Data
3 2 (9.09%) Data Lake
3 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.55%) Essbase
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (4.55%) Selenium
General
1 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (13.64%) Finance
4 2 (9.09%) Publishing
4 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Billing
5 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Marketing
5 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Project Manager
2 4 (18.18%) Security Manager
2 4 (18.18%) Security Project Manager
3 3 (13.64%) Data Scientist
3 3 (13.64%) SAP Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Data Governance Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Data Governance Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Data Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Data Modeller
4 2 (9.09%) Governance Manager
4 2 (9.09%) PLC Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) SAP Data Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Business Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Portfolio Manager
5 1 (4.55%) SAP Project Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Tester
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Specialist
5 1 (4.55%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) AngularJS
1 3 (13.64%) CSS
1 3 (13.64%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) CCTV
1 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 2 (9.09%) Operational Technology
1 2 (9.09%) SCADA
2 1 (4.55%) Device Driver
2 1 (4.55%) Life Science
2 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.55%) Private Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Android
1 1 (4.55%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Computer Science
1 8 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
1 8 (36.36%) Data Strategy
2 7 (31.82%) Data Science
2 7 (31.82%) Decision-Making
3 6 (27.27%) Application Security
3 6 (27.27%) Business Case
3 6 (27.27%) Business Development
3 6 (27.27%) Cloud Security
3 6 (27.27%) Pricing Strategy
3 6 (27.27%) Threat Management
4 5 (22.73%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (22.73%) Data Modelling
5 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (13.64%) Change Management
6 3 (13.64%) Data Management
6 3 (13.64%) Data Security
6 3 (13.64%) ITIL
6 3 (13.64%) ITSM
6 3 (13.64%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) SQL
2 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 3 (13.64%) Java
4 1 (4.55%) C
4 1 (4.55%) Groovy
4 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.55%) Rust
Qualifications
1 22 (100.00%) Degree
2 6 (27.27%) CISA
2 6 (27.27%) CISM
2 6 (27.27%) CISSP
2 6 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (27.27%) MBA
3 4 (18.18%) PMI Certification
3 4 (18.18%) PMP
4 2 (9.09%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.55%) GDPR
1 1 (4.55%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) SAP
2 3 (13.64%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.55%) Ariba
3 1 (4.55%) Hyperion
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle