Master's Degree Contracts in the South East

Master's Degree
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 142 143 185
Rank change year-on-year +1 +42 -3
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 51 63 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.94% 1.13% 0.88%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.11% 3.09% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 35 38
10th Percentile £355 £170 £140
25th Percentile £478 £267 £169
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £458
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +9.29% -3.68%
75th Percentile £611 £575 £587
90th Percentile £650 £750 £665
England median daily rate £550 £650 £590
% change year-on-year -15.38% +10.17% +9.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 17 13
10th Percentile £41.50 £20.47 -
25th Percentile £44.88 £42.50 £19.52
Median hourly rate £65.00 £45.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% +114.29% -13.58%
75th Percentile £87.50 £47.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £92.26 - -
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
South East

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 South East with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,413 2,040 2,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 44.36% 36.51% 31.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,398 1,345 1,553
10th Percentile £334 £300 £313
25th Percentile £449 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £523 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +4.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £650 £618 £625
90th Percentile £738 £700 £688
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 132 85
10th Percentile £16.88 £20.62 £18.60
25th Percentile £25.70 £42.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £57.35 £59.45 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.54% +33.60% +9.88%
75th Percentile £66.94 £70.00 £54.00
90th Percentile £85.65 £75.68 £66.72
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in the South East

Master's Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Master's Degree in the South East

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Master's Degree in the South East

Master's Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Master's Degree in the South East

Master's Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Hourly rate histogram for Master's Degree in the South East

Master's Degree
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Surrey +15 25 £525 +5.00% 21
Thames Valley -7 18 £525 +4.48% 81
Berkshire -16 11 £525 -4.55% 36
Hampshire -12 6 - - 25
Oxfordshire +9 5 - - 33
Buckinghamshire +25 2 - - 13
West Sussex +10 2 £550 +91.30% 9
Master's Degree
England

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (9.80%) Confluence
2 2 (3.92%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.96%) Apache
3 1 (1.96%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.96%) Stata
Business Applications
1 2 (3.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.96%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 4 (7.84%) Azure
2 3 (5.88%) AWS
3 1 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (1.96%) OpenShift
3 1 (1.96%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.84%) Wireless
2 3 (5.88%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.92%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.88%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.96%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.96%) MySQL
2 1 (1.96%) Power BI
2 1 (1.96%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (19.61%) JIRA
2 9 (17.65%) Git
3 8 (15.69%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (7.84%) Subversion
5 3 (5.88%) Jenkins
5 3 (5.88%) TestRail
6 1 (1.96%) CMake
6 1 (1.96%) LabVIEW
General
1 13 (25.49%) Marketing
2 11 (21.57%) Finance
2 11 (21.57%) Presentation Skills
3 10 (19.61%) Social Skills
4 8 (15.69%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (15.69%) Telecoms
5 7 (13.73%) Manufacturing
6 6 (11.76%) Automotive
6 6 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (9.80%) Aerospace
8 4 (7.84%) Electronics
9 2 (3.92%) Back Office
9 2 (3.92%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (27.45%) Senior
2 11 (21.57%) Architect
2 11 (21.57%) Systems Engineer
3 9 (17.65%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (15.69%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 8 (15.69%) Software Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) DOORS Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) Integration Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) Senior Integration Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) Software Integration Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) Systems Integration Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Embedded Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Project Manager
7 4 (7.84%) Software Architect
8 3 (5.88%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Systems Test Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Telecoms Manager
8 3 (5.88%) Test Engineer
9 2 (3.92%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.84%) PyTorch
1 4 (7.84%) TensorFlow
2 2 (3.92%) DirectX
2 2 (3.92%) OpenGL
2 2 (3.92%) OpenGL ES
2 2 (3.92%) Vulkan
3 1 (1.96%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.96%) CNTK
3 1 (1.96%) CSS
3 1 (1.96%) HTML
3 1 (1.96%) jQuery
3 1 (1.96%) LightGBM
3 1 (1.96%) Node.js
3 1 (1.96%) OpenVINO
3 1 (1.96%) React
3 1 (1.96%) Statsmodels
3 1 (1.96%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.69%) Algorithms
2 5 (9.80%) Life Science
2 5 (9.80%) Management Information System
3 4 (7.84%) Device Driver
3 4 (7.84%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (5.88%) Photography
4 3 (5.88%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (3.92%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.92%) IoT
6 1 (1.96%) Analogue Electronics
6 1 (1.96%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.96%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 17 (33.33%) Windows
2 14 (27.45%) Unix
3 9 (17.65%) Linux
4 4 (7.84%) Android
5 3 (5.88%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (43.14%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (31.37%) Computer Science
3 13 (25.49%) Software Engineering
4 12 (23.53%) Collaborative Working
4 12 (23.53%) Validation
5 11 (21.57%) Risk Management
5 11 (21.57%) UML
6 10 (19.61%) Customer Requirements
7 9 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (15.69%) Agile
8 8 (15.69%) Customer Engagement
8 8 (15.69%) ITIL
8 8 (15.69%) Process Improvement
8 8 (15.69%) Requirements Analysis
8 8 (15.69%) Requirements Management
8 8 (15.69%) Systems Engineering
8 8 (15.69%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (15.69%) Test Strategy
8 8 (15.69%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 15 (29.41%) Python
2 9 (17.65%) C++
3 8 (15.69%) SQL
4 7 (13.73%) Shell Script
5 4 (7.84%) Assembly Language
5 4 (7.84%) C
5 4 (7.84%) C#
5 4 (7.84%) Java
5 4 (7.84%) MATLAB
6 3 (5.88%) Bash
6 3 (5.88%) Perl
6 3 (5.88%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.92%) R
8 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 51 (100.00%) Degree
2 9 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (17.65%) PhD
3 8 (15.69%) ITIL Certification
4 6 (11.76%) Security Cleared
5 5 (9.80%) SC Cleared
6 3 (5.88%) HNC
6 3 (5.88%) ISTQB
6 3 (5.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (3.92%) ACCA
7 2 (3.92%) Azure Certification
7 2 (3.92%) CIMA
7 2 (3.92%) MBA
8 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.96%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.96%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (21.57%) PCI DSS
2 4 (7.84%) JTAG
2 4 (7.84%) QA
3 2 (3.92%) GDPR
4 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (7.84%) Embedded Firmware
1 4 (7.84%) Firmware
2 2 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.96%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (5.88%) Oracle
1 3 (5.88%) SAP
2 2 (3.92%) Ariba
2 2 (3.92%) JDA
2 2 (3.92%) VMware
3 1 (1.96%) Databricks
3 1 (1.96%) Red Hat