Master's Degree Contracts

Master's Degree
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Master's Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 262 314 430
Rank change year-on-year +52 +116 -82
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 400 488 507
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.92% 0.82% 0.57%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.99% 3.00% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 309 303
10th Percentile £350 £400 £298
25th Percentile £441 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +5.12%
75th Percentile £697 £775 £741
90th Percentile £800 £950 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £500 £490
% change year-on-year +10.00% +2.04% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 41 26
10th Percentile £23.85 £31.25 £19.52
25th Percentile £38.84 £42.50 £19.62
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £26.65
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% +68.89% -30.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £83.75 - £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £24.24
% change year-on-year +22.22% +85.64% -8.53%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,360 16,293 19,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.65% 27.30% 21.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,216 10,865 12,554
10th Percentile £300 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.30%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £530 £500
% change year-on-year - +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,077 849 779
10th Percentile £13.87 £15.25 £13.68
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.00 £19.35
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.62
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +29.75% +6.94%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £57.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £49.57 £31.89
% change year-on-year -17.41% +55.44% -12.76%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in the UK

Master's Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Master's Degree in the UK

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Master's Degree in the UK

Master's Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Master's Degree in the UK

Master's Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Master's Degree over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Master's Degree in the UK

Master's Degree
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 29 April 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
England +54 349 £550 -10.06% 1,116
London +64 201 £550 -21.43% 517
UK excluding London +41 150 £550 +10.00% 631
Work from Home +44 131 £550 -5.01% 411
South East -5 47 £525 +5.00% 154
East of England +16 27 £700 +83.85% 122
South West +2 25 £588 +6.82% 83
North of England +32 19 £676 +22.91% 123
Midlands +26 16 £550 +28.65% 96
West Midlands +33 15 £550 +15.79% 60
North West +25 15 £676 +4.32% 65
Scotland +41 12 £475 +3.26% 41
Northern Ireland - 4 £538 - 13
North East - 3 £588 - 28
Yorkshire +21 1 - - 36
East Midlands +15 1 - - 36

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 16 (4.00%) Confluence
2 6 (1.50%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.00%) Apache
3 4 (1.00%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.00%) CMS
3 4 (1.00%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (0.75%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.50%) Camunda
5 2 (0.50%) Ethereum
5 2 (0.50%) Hyperledger
5 2 (0.50%) IIS
5 2 (0.50%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 29 (7.25%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (3.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (2.25%) Simulink
4 7 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.75%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.75%) Stateflow
5 6 (1.50%) Sketch
6 5 (1.25%) TargetLink
7 3 (0.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.75%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.75%) SPSS
8 2 (0.50%) InVision
8 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.25%) OmniGraffle
9 1 (0.25%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 13 (3.25%) Oracle Applications
1 13 (3.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.00%) Oracle Cash Management
2 4 (1.00%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (1.00%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (0.75%) Oracle AGIS
3 3 (0.75%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (0.75%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (0.75%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (0.75%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (0.75%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.50%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.50%) R3 Corda
4 2 (0.50%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.50%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.25%) Hyperion Planning
5 1 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.25%) SAP CX
5 1 (0.25%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 56 (14.00%) Azure
2 34 (8.50%) AWS
3 18 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (4.50%) GCP
4 16 (4.00%) Power Platform
5 14 (3.50%) OCI
6 9 (2.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (2.25%) npm
7 8 (2.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 7 (1.75%) Azure Service Bus
8 7 (1.75%) Oracle CX
8 7 (1.75%) SaaS
8 7 (1.75%) Serverless
9 6 (1.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (1.50%) Figma
10 4 (1.00%) GitHub
10 4 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.00%) Google Analytics
10 4 (1.00%) SuccessFactors
11 3 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.00%) Internet
2 7 (1.75%) VSAN
3 5 (1.25%) Wireless
4 4 (1.00%) Network Security
4 4 (1.00%) SAN
5 3 (0.75%) Firewall
6 2 (0.50%) HTTP
6 2 (0.50%) LTE
6 2 (0.50%) SSL
6 2 (0.50%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.50%) VPN
7 1 (0.25%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.25%) DNS
7 1 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.25%) IOS XR
7 1 (0.25%) NFC
7 1 (0.25%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.25%) PPP
7 1 (0.25%) RTSP
7 1 (0.25%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.25%) Oracle Reports
2 15 (3.75%) Power BI
3 14 (3.50%) SQL Server
4 13 (3.25%) Data Lake
4 13 (3.25%) Relational Database
5 12 (3.00%) Big Data
6 11 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (2.25%) Tableau
8 6 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.50%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.50%) Oracle Database
8 6 (1.50%) QlikView
9 5 (1.25%) Data Mining
9 5 (1.25%) MySQL
9 5 (1.25%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.00%) GIS
10 4 (1.00%) Metadata
10 4 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.75%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 37 (9.25%) JIRA
2 21 (5.25%) Git
3 11 (2.75%) Bitbucket
3 11 (2.75%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.75%) Rational DOORS
4 10 (2.50%) Subversion
5 9 (2.25%) webpack
6 6 (1.50%) MLflow
7 4 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.00%) Postman
7 4 (1.00%) Selenium
8 3 (0.75%) Maven
8 3 (0.75%) TestRail
9 2 (0.50%) Appium
9 2 (0.50%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.50%) CMake
9 2 (0.50%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.50%) Katalon Studio
9 2 (0.50%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.50%) Rational Team Concert
General
1 200 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 119 (29.75%) Analytical Skills
3 115 (28.75%) Finance
4 41 (10.25%) Marketing
5 33 (8.25%) Public Sector
6 31 (7.75%) Banking
7 27 (6.75%) Front Office
7 27 (6.75%) Presentation Skills
8 18 (4.50%) Manufacturing
9 15 (3.75%) Aerospace
9 15 (3.75%) Automotive
10 14 (3.50%) Telecoms
11 12 (3.00%) Pharmaceutical
12 10 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (2.50%) Legal
12 10 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (2.25%) Financial Institution
14 8 (2.00%) Retail
15 7 (1.75%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.75%) Law
Job Titles
1 68 (17.00%) Architect
2 58 (14.50%) Senior
3 50 (12.50%) Developer
4 42 (10.50%) Lead
5 37 (9.25%) Software Engineer
6 27 (6.75%) Solutions Architect
7 21 (5.25%) Analyst
8 20 (5.00%) Consultant
9 16 (4.00%) Java Developer
9 16 (4.00%) Project Manager
10 15 (3.75%) Systems Engineer
11 12 (3.00%) Applications Developer
11 12 (3.00%) Software Architect
12 11 (2.75%) Data Engineer
13 10 (2.50%) Embedded Engineer
13 10 (2.50%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 10 (2.50%) Full Stack Developer
13 10 (2.50%) Senior Developer
13 10 (2.50%) Senior Software Engineer
14 9 (2.25%) Angular Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.50%) React
2 15 (3.75%) AngularJS
3 14 (3.50%) .NET
4 13 (3.25%) REST
5 12 (3.00%) DirectX
5 12 (3.00%) HTML
5 12 (3.00%) OpenGL
5 12 (3.00%) OpenGL ES
5 12 (3.00%) Vulkan
6 11 (2.75%) CSS
7 10 (2.50%) PyTorch
8 9 (2.25%) NumPy
8 9 (2.25%) RxJS
8 9 (2.25%) TensorFlow
8 9 (2.25%) WebSockets
9 8 (2.00%) Pandas
10 7 (1.75%) Kafka
10 7 (1.75%) Spring
11 6 (1.50%) .NET Core
11 6 (1.50%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 39 (9.75%) Algorithms
2 35 (8.75%) Management Information System
3 19 (4.75%) Derivative
4 12 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (2.50%) 3D Graphics
5 10 (2.50%) Equities
5 10 (2.50%) Ray Tracing
6 8 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (2.00%) Embedded Systems
6 8 (2.00%) Renewable Energy
7 7 (1.75%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.75%) Life Science
7 7 (1.75%) Mobile App
7 7 (1.75%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.50%) Clustering
9 5 (1.25%) Credit Risk
9 5 (1.25%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.25%) Device Driver
9 5 (1.25%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.00%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 27 (6.75%) Windows
2 20 (5.00%) Linux
3 19 (4.75%) Unix
4 9 (2.25%) Android
5 5 (1.25%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.25%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (1.00%) SafeRTOS
7 1 (0.25%) OS/390
7 1 (0.25%) Solaris
7 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (51.50%) Computer Science
2 144 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
3 116 (29.00%) Agile
4 75 (18.75%) Software Engineering
5 60 (15.00%) Analytics
6 56 (14.00%) Machine Learning
7 52 (13.00%) Project Management
8 46 (11.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 45 (11.25%) Decision-Making
10 42 (10.50%) Validation
11 39 (9.75%) Artificial Intelligence
11 39 (9.75%) DevOps
12 37 (9.25%) Data Science
13 32 (8.00%) Risk Management
13 32 (8.00%) Roadmaps
13 32 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
14 30 (7.50%) Collaborative Working
15 29 (7.25%) Test Strategy
16 27 (6.75%) Data Analysis
16 27 (6.75%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 92 (23.00%) Python
2 62 (15.50%) SQL
3 45 (11.25%) Java
4 34 (8.50%) C++
5 32 (8.00%) C#
6 30 (7.50%) C
7 29 (7.25%) JavaScript
8 16 (4.00%) MATLAB
9 13 (3.25%) R
10 12 (3.00%) TypeScript
11 11 (2.75%) Scala
12 10 (2.50%) Shell Script
13 7 (1.75%) PowerShell
14 5 (1.25%) Bash
14 5 (1.25%) PL/SQL
15 4 (1.00%) ABAP
15 4 (1.00%) Assembly Language
16 3 (0.75%) Perl
16 3 (0.75%) VBA
17 2 (0.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 400 (100.00%) Degree
2 122 (30.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 67 (16.75%) PhD
4 35 (8.75%) Security Cleared
5 29 (7.25%) MBA
5 29 (7.25%) SC Cleared
6 18 (4.50%) CISSP
7 15 (3.75%) CISM
8 11 (2.75%) Azure Certification
8 11 (2.75%) PMP
9 10 (2.50%) PMI Certification
10 9 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (2.25%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (1.75%) Chartered Engineer
11 7 (1.75%) CISA
12 6 (1.50%) CCNA
12 6 (1.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 5 (1.25%) Postgraduate
13 5 (1.25%) SAP Certification
14 4 (1.00%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.00%) QA
2 15 (3.75%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.25%) PCI DSS
4 8 (2.00%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.00%) NIST
5 6 (1.50%) GDPR
6 5 (1.25%) AUTOSAR
6 5 (1.25%) ISO 26262
6 5 (1.25%) MISRA
6 5 (1.25%) MISRA C
6 5 (1.25%) PMO
6 5 (1.25%) SLA
7 4 (1.00%) Dodd-Frank
7 4 (1.00%) JTAG
7 4 (1.00%) MiFID
7 4 (1.00%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.75%) WCAG
9 2 (0.50%) COBIT
9 2 (0.50%) HIPAA
System Software
1 14 (3.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (2.00%) Docker
2 8 (2.00%) VMware NSX
3 6 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.00%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (1.00%) Firmware
5 3 (0.75%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.50%) vSphere
7 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (2.75%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.50%) vCenter Server
3 3 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (0.50%) Nessus
4 2 (0.50%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.25%) Ansible
5 1 (0.25%) OPNET
5 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 59 (14.75%) Microsoft
2 36 (9.00%) Oracle
3 31 (7.75%) SAP
4 15 (3.75%) Google
4 15 (3.75%) VMware
5 12 (3.00%) Cisco
5 12 (3.00%) Databricks
6 9 (2.25%) Atlassian
6 9 (2.25%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.00%) Adobe
8 4 (1.00%) Marketo
8 4 (1.00%) Optimizely
8 4 (1.00%) Workday
9 3 (0.75%) Ariba
9 3 (0.75%) ESRI
9 3 (0.75%) Genesys
9 3 (0.75%) JDA
9 3 (0.75%) Murex
9 3 (0.75%) Splunk
10 2 (0.50%) Zoho