Master's Degree Contracts with Work from Home Options

Master's Degree
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) 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 209 277 412
Rank change year-on-year +68 +135 -38
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 140 200 220
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.95% 0.81% 0.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.53% 3.21% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 108 121
10th Percentile £358 £434 £413
25th Percentile £461 £472 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £587 £590
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% -0.51% +18.00%
75th Percentile £723 £775 £675
90th Percentile £825 £875 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £590
% change year-on-year -12.00% +5.93% +9.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 17 11
10th Percentile - - £21.00
25th Percentile £10.42 £42.50 £32.43
Median hourly rate £54.66 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.47% - +3.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.50 £47.50
90th Percentile - £65.00 £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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,971 6,237 8,722
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.83% 25.31% 19.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,525 4,208 6,155
10th Percentile £335 £378 £369
25th Percentile £438 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 261 223
10th Percentile £14.71 £19.00 £20.47
25th Percentile £24.25 £42.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £64.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.81% +30.61% +22.50%
75th Percentile £68.75 £71.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.56 £43.95
% change year-on-year -26.69% +24.14% +16.73%

Master's Degree
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Master's Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Master's Degree trend for jobs with a WFH option

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Master's Degree.

Master's Degree daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Master's Degree over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Master's Degree daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Master's Degree
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Master's Degree.

Master's Degree hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Master's Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Master's Degree over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Master's Degree hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (4.29%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.14%) Confluence
3 2 (1.43%) CMS
3 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.43%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.71%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.71%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.29%) Chatbot
2 6 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.86%) Sketch
5 3 (2.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (1.43%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.71%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.71%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle AGIS
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.71%) SAP CX
3 1 (0.71%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 20 (14.29%) Azure
2 15 (10.71%) AWS
3 13 (9.29%) GCP
4 7 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (4.29%) Twilio
6 5 (3.57%) npm
6 5 (3.57%) SaaS
7 4 (2.86%) Figma
7 4 (2.86%) Google Analytics
7 4 (2.86%) OCI
7 4 (2.86%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.14%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (1.43%) Adobe Analytics
9 2 (1.43%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.43%) GitHub
9 2 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.43%) Serverless
9 2 (1.43%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.43%) CTI
1 9 (6.43%) VoIP
2 5 (3.57%) Wireless
3 4 (2.86%) Internet
3 4 (2.86%) Network Security
4 2 (1.43%) SAN
5 1 (0.71%) Firewall
5 1 (0.71%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.71%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.71%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.86%) Oracle Reports
1 4 (2.86%) Power BI
1 4 (2.86%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.43%) Big Data
2 2 (1.43%) BigQuery
2 2 (1.43%) Data Mart
2 2 (1.43%) Looker
2 2 (1.43%) Oracle Database
2 2 (1.43%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.43%) Tableau
3 1 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.71%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.71%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.71%) GIS
3 1 (0.71%) KDB
3 1 (0.71%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.71%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 12 (8.57%) JIRA
2 9 (6.43%) Git
3 6 (4.29%) MLflow
3 6 (4.29%) Rational DOORS
4 5 (3.57%) webpack
5 4 (2.86%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.86%) Subversion
6 2 (1.43%) Postman
7 1 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.71%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.71%) CMake
7 1 (0.71%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.71%) TestRail
7 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio
General
1 65 (46.43%) Social Skills
2 58 (41.43%) Finance
3 48 (34.29%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (14.29%) Front Office
5 17 (12.14%) Marketing
6 13 (9.29%) Telecoms
7 12 (8.57%) Banking
8 11 (7.86%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (6.43%) Manufacturing
9 9 (6.43%) Retail
10 7 (5.00%) Public Sector
11 6 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (4.29%) Financial Institution
11 6 (4.29%) Investment Banking
11 6 (4.29%) Legal
12 5 (3.57%) Law
13 4 (2.86%) Aerospace
13 4 (2.86%) Automotive
13 4 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (18.57%) Architect
2 22 (15.71%) Developer
3 20 (14.29%) Lead
4 18 (12.86%) Senior
5 16 (11.43%) Solutions Architect
6 10 (7.14%) Java Developer
7 9 (6.43%) Consultant
8 7 (5.00%) Data Engineer
8 7 (5.00%) Software Engineer
8 7 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
9 6 (4.29%) Analyst
9 6 (4.29%) C# Developer
9 6 (4.29%) DOORS Engineer
9 6 (4.29%) Integration Engineer
9 6 (4.29%) Lead Data Engineer
9 6 (4.29%) Risk Consultant
9 6 (4.29%) Senior Integration Engineer
9 6 (4.29%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 6 (4.29%) Software Integration Engineer
9 6 (4.29%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.71%) Middleware
1 8 (5.71%) Web Services
2 6 (4.29%) React
3 5 (3.57%) AngularJS
3 5 (3.57%) REST
3 5 (3.57%) RxJS
3 5 (3.57%) WebSockets
4 4 (2.86%) Swagger
5 3 (2.14%) .NET
5 3 (2.14%) CSS
5 3 (2.14%) DirectX
5 3 (2.14%) HTML
5 3 (2.14%) OpenGL
5 3 (2.14%) OpenGL ES
5 3 (2.14%) PyTorch
5 3 (2.14%) TensorFlow
5 3 (2.14%) Vulkan
6 2 (1.43%) DOM
6 2 (1.43%) Node.js
6 2 (1.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.29%) Algorithms
2 10 (7.14%) Derivative
2 10 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 9 (6.43%) IVR
4 4 (2.86%) Device Driver
5 3 (2.14%) 3D Graphics
5 3 (2.14%) Equities
5 3 (2.14%) Fixed Income
5 3 (2.14%) Marketing Technology
5 3 (2.14%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.14%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.14%) Ray Tracing
6 2 (1.43%) Blockchain
6 2 (1.43%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.71%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.71%) FMCG
7 1 (0.71%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.71%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.57%) Windows
2 10 (7.14%) Unix
3 7 (5.00%) Linux
4 2 (1.43%) Android
5 1 (0.71%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (62.86%) Computer Science
2 52 (37.14%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (31.43%) Agile
4 25 (17.86%) Decision-Making
5 22 (15.71%) Analytics
5 22 (15.71%) Artificial Intelligence
5 22 (15.71%) Machine Learning
6 21 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 20 (14.29%) Risk Management
8 18 (12.86%) DevOps
9 17 (12.14%) Collaborative Culture
9 17 (12.14%) Software Engineering
10 15 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (10.71%) Technical Leadership
11 14 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
11 14 (10.00%) Validation
12 13 (9.29%) Test Strategy
13 12 (8.57%) Data Governance
13 12 (8.57%) Data Science
13 12 (8.57%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 35 (25.00%) Python
2 22 (15.71%) SQL
3 18 (12.86%) Java
4 16 (11.43%) C++
5 13 (9.29%) C#
6 10 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 10 (7.14%) Shell Script
7 8 (5.71%) Scala
8 7 (5.00%) C
9 5 (3.57%) MATLAB
9 5 (3.57%) R
9 5 (3.57%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.86%) Assembly Language
11 2 (1.43%) Bash
11 2 (1.43%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.43%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.71%) Perl
12 1 (0.71%) Rust
12 1 (0.71%) VBA
12 1 (0.71%) XAML
Qualifications
1 140 (100.00%) Degree
2 53 (37.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (24.29%) PhD
4 11 (7.86%) MBA
5 10 (7.14%) CISSP
6 8 (5.71%) CISM
7 6 (4.29%) AWS Certification
7 6 (4.29%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.57%) Azure Certification
8 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (2.86%) Security Cleared
10 3 (2.14%) SC Cleared
11 2 (1.43%) CEH
11 2 (1.43%) CREST Certified
11 2 (1.43%) CSSLP
11 2 (1.43%) ISTQB
11 2 (1.43%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (1.43%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.29%) PCI DSS
2 7 (5.00%) NIST
3 6 (4.29%) Data Quality
4 5 (3.57%) GDPR
4 5 (3.57%) NIST 800
4 5 (3.57%) QA
5 4 (2.86%) Dodd-Frank
5 4 (2.86%) HIPAA
5 4 (2.86%) JTAG
5 4 (2.86%) MiFID
5 4 (2.86%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.43%) COBIT
6 2 (1.43%) ISO 22301
6 2 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.43%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (3.57%) Docker
2 4 (2.86%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (2.86%) Firmware
3 2 (1.43%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (4.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.14%) Docker Swarm
3 2 (1.43%) Nessus
4 1 (0.71%) Argo
4 1 (0.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (13.57%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.57%) Oracle
3 10 (7.14%) Google
4 9 (6.43%) Genesys
5 7 (5.00%) Adobe
5 7 (5.00%) Cisco
5 7 (5.00%) Databricks
5 7 (5.00%) SAP
6 6 (4.29%) Avaya
7 4 (2.86%) Optimizely
8 2 (1.43%) Ensighten
8 2 (1.43%) Monetate
8 2 (1.43%) Murex
8 2 (1.43%) Omniture
8 2 (1.43%) Qualys
8 2 (1.43%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.43%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.43%) Tealium
8 2 (1.43%) VMware
9 1 (0.71%) Zscaler