Master's Degree Jobs in England

Master's Degree
UK > England

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

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 185 59 199
Rank change year-on-year -126 +140 +52
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 1,361 4,464 2,857
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.52% 5.17% 2.05%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.49% 15.51% 7.67%
Number of salaries quoted 758 729 945
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,188 £47,500 £49,950
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £68,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.11% +5.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,000 £132,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £69,000
% change year-on-year - -5.80% +10.40%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 24,771 28,776 37,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.69% 33.31% 26.67%
Number of salaries quoted 15,756 13,083 16,855
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £30,875
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £40,853
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,399 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.34% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% -

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
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Master's Degree in England

Master's Degree
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Master's Degree in England

Master's Degree
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Master's Degree within the England region over the 6 months to 29 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +26 640 £80,000 +3.23% 514
South East -98 301 £60,000 -4.00% 177
North of England -249 114 £50,000 +11.93% 149
Midlands -181 105 £55,000 +25.71% 142
East of England -112 103 £55,000 -4.35% 131
South West -157 89 £50,000 -12.58% 89
North West -188 68 £66,440 +6.30% 85
West Midlands -129 62 £50,000 -13.04% 91
East Midlands -134 41 £66,500 +121.67% 51
North East -81 24 £50,000 +4.88% 34
Yorkshire -147 22 £48,750 +9.93% 31
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 75 (5.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (1.84%) Skype for Business
3 21 (1.54%) Apache Spark
4 18 (1.32%) SharePoint
5 16 (1.18%) Apache
6 9 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.44%) IIS
7 6 (0.44%) nginx
8 5 (0.37%) Confluence
9 4 (0.29%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.22%) SAS
10 3 (0.22%) WordPress
11 2 (0.15%) CMS
12 1 (0.073%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.073%) Luigi
12 1 (0.073%) Umbraco
Applications
1 57 (4.19%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (3.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (1.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.81%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.51%) Simulink
7 6 (0.44%) Trello
8 5 (0.37%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.29%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
11 1 (0.073%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.073%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.073%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.073%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.073%) Blender
11 1 (0.073%) InDesign
11 1 (0.073%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
3 4 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.29%) Shopify
4 3 (0.22%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (0.22%) SAP APO
4 3 (0.22%) SAP MM
4 3 (0.22%) SAP PP
4 3 (0.22%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.22%) SAP WM
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payroll
5 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.073%) Data Workbench
6 1 (0.073%) Endur
6 1 (0.073%) Primavera
6 1 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.073%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.073%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 206 (15.14%) AWS
2 174 (12.78%) Azure
3 122 (8.96%) Microsoft 365
4 92 (6.76%) Power Platform
5 65 (4.78%) GCP
6 50 (3.67%) SaaS
7 29 (2.13%) Serverless
8 24 (1.76%) AWS Lambda
8 24 (1.76%) Cloud Computing
9 23 (1.69%) GitHub
10 20 (1.47%) PowerApps
11 19 (1.40%) WhatsApp
12 17 (1.25%) IaaS
13 15 (1.10%) PaaS
14 14 (1.03%) Amazon S3
14 14 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
14 14 (1.03%) Power Automate
15 13 (0.96%) OneDrive
16 11 (0.81%) ShareGate
16 11 (0.81%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 95 (6.98%) Cisco IOS
2 82 (6.02%) Wireless
3 75 (5.51%) WebEx
4 72 (5.29%) WAN
5 70 (5.14%) SD-WAN
6 30 (2.20%) 5G
6 30 (2.20%) Broadband
7 29 (2.13%) Firewall
8 25 (1.84%) Skype
8 25 (1.84%) Telepresence
9 15 (1.10%) Network Security
10 14 (1.03%) Internet
11 13 (0.96%) TCP/IP
11 13 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
12 12 (0.88%) Intranet
13 9 (0.66%) SNMP
14 8 (0.59%) Ethernet
15 7 (0.51%) HTTP
16 4 (0.29%) 4G
16 4 (0.29%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (7.20%) Tableau
2 86 (6.32%) Power BI
3 56 (4.11%) SQL Server
4 49 (3.60%) Big Data
5 37 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
5 37 (2.72%) Redis
6 35 (2.57%) MySQL
7 31 (2.28%) Relational Database
8 29 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
9 23 (1.69%) NoSQL
10 19 (1.40%) Hadoop
11 12 (0.88%) Data Lake
12 11 (0.81%) GIS
13 10 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 9 (0.66%) Data Mining
14 9 (0.66%) DynamoDB
15 8 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
16 7 (0.51%) MongoDB
16 7 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
16 7 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 119 (8.74%) Git
2 28 (2.06%) GitLab
3 22 (1.62%) Jenkins
4 18 (1.32%) JIRA
5 6 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (0.29%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.29%) CMake
6 4 (0.29%) Snakemake
6 4 (0.29%) Subversion
7 3 (0.22%) Babel
7 3 (0.22%) MLflow
7 3 (0.22%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.22%) TestRail
7 3 (0.22%) webpack
8 2 (0.15%) ERwin
8 2 (0.15%) Maven
8 2 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.15%) TensorBoard
9 1 (0.073%) Ant
General
1 629 (46.22%) Social Skills
2 302 (22.19%) Finance
3 268 (19.69%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (7.27%) Marketing
4 99 (7.27%) Pharmaceutical
5 95 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 80 (5.88%) Legal
7 76 (5.58%) Manufacturing
8 56 (4.11%) Law
9 55 (4.04%) Presentation Skills
9 55 (4.04%) Telecoms
10 52 (3.82%) Automotive
10 52 (3.82%) Retail
11 46 (3.38%) Public Sector
12 45 (3.31%) Banking
13 35 (2.57%) Electronics
14 31 (2.28%) Games
15 26 (1.91%) Aerospace
16 22 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
17 18 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 288 (21.16%) Senior
2 142 (10.43%) Developer
3 114 (8.38%) Software Engineer
4 110 (8.08%) Analyst
5 107 (7.86%) Data Scientist
6 103 (7.57%) Lead
7 83 (6.10%) Senior Data Scientist
8 80 (5.88%) Architect
9 73 (5.36%) IT Support
10 71 (5.22%) Support Specialist
11 70 (5.14%) IT Support Specialist
12 65 (4.78%) Systems Engineer
13 51 (3.75%) Graduate
13 51 (3.75%) Principal Engineer
14 40 (2.94%) Principal Systems Engineer
15 39 (2.87%) Senior Developer
16 36 (2.65%) Senior Software Engineer
17 33 (2.42%) Data Engineer
17 33 (2.42%) Senior Analyst
18 32 (2.35%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (6.10%) .NET
2 75 (5.51%) TensorFlow
3 59 (4.34%) scikit-learn
4 58 (4.26%) React
5 56 (4.11%) Pandas
6 49 (3.60%) PySpark
7 42 (3.09%) AngularJS
8 37 (2.72%) Kafka
8 37 (2.72%) PyTorch
9 26 (1.91%) ASP.NET
10 23 (1.69%) HTML
10 23 (1.69%) Web Services
11 19 (1.40%) RESTful
12 17 (1.25%) CSS
12 17 (1.25%) Vue
13 16 (1.18%) Flask
14 15 (1.10%) .NET Core
15 14 (1.03%) NumPy
15 14 (1.03%) OpenACC
15 14 (1.03%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 257 (18.88%) Algorithms
2 97 (7.13%) Management Information System
3 96 (7.05%) Video Conferencing
4 70 (5.14%) Wiki
5 59 (4.34%) Data Structures
6 54 (3.97%) Onboarding
7 43 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
8 39 (2.87%) Product Ownership
9 36 (2.65%) Life Science
10 26 (1.91%) CUDA
11 25 (1.84%) Cloud Native
11 25 (1.84%) IoT
12 22 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
12 22 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
13 20 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
14 18 (1.32%) Embedded Systems
14 18 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
15 17 (1.25%) Security Posture
16 16 (1.18%) Hedge funds
17 15 (1.10%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 140 (10.29%) Windows
2 121 (8.89%) Linux
3 98 (7.20%) Windows 10
4 78 (5.73%) Android
5 42 (3.09%) Unix
6 25 (1.84%) Windows 7
7 10 (0.73%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.44%) FreeRTOS
9 4 (0.29%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.29%) DC/OS
9 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.073%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 694 (50.99%) Computer Science
2 430 (31.59%) Problem-Solving
3 282 (20.72%) Mathematics
4 255 (18.74%) Agile
5 247 (18.15%) Software Engineering
6 245 (18.00%) Data Science
7 214 (15.72%) Analytics
8 211 (15.50%) Machine Learning
9 184 (13.52%) Artificial Intelligence
9 184 (13.52%) Statistics
10 181 (13.30%) Visualisation
11 165 (12.12%) Physics
12 163 (11.98%) Decision-Making
13 151 (11.09%) Roadmaps
14 137 (10.07%) Data Analysis
15 133 (9.77%) Project Management
16 130 (9.55%) Mentoring
17 127 (9.33%) DevOps
18 115 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
19 105 (7.71%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 457 (33.58%) Python
2 249 (18.30%) SQL
3 158 (11.61%) C#
4 111 (8.16%) C++
5 102 (7.49%) C
6 82 (6.02%) Java
7 78 (5.73%) JavaScript
8 70 (5.14%) R
9 60 (4.41%) Fortran
10 35 (2.57%) TypeScript
11 29 (2.13%) MATLAB
12 28 (2.06%) Bash
13 20 (1.47%) Go
14 14 (1.03%) PowerShell
15 12 (0.88%) T-SQL
16 11 (0.81%) Scala
17 7 (0.51%) Shell Script
18 6 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 5 (0.37%) Rust
20 4 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,361 (100.00%) Degree
2 374 (27.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 300 (22.04%) PhD
4 153 (11.24%) MBA
5 93 (6.83%) Security Cleared
6 59 (4.34%) DBS Check
7 54 (3.97%) CISSP
8 46 (3.38%) Chartered Engineer
9 40 (2.94%) CISM
10 30 (2.20%) SC Cleared
11 25 (1.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 22 (1.62%) AWS Certification
12 22 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
13 21 (1.54%) DV Cleared
14 16 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 16 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
14 16 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
14 16 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
14 16 (1.18%) PMP
15 15 (1.10%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (5.22%) Data Quality
2 51 (3.75%) QA
3 47 (3.45%) GDPR
4 29 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (1.62%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.32%) NIST
6 18 (1.32%) PCI DSS
7 16 (1.18%) NCSC
8 13 (0.96%) HIPAA
9 12 (0.88%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 12 (0.88%) PMO
10 10 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 7 (0.51%) ISO 13485
12 5 (0.37%) ISO 26262
13 4 (0.29%) Automotive SPICE
14 3 (0.22%) ISO 31000
14 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 3 (0.22%) NIST 800
14 3 (0.22%) SLA
15 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 86 (6.32%) Active Directory
2 77 (5.66%) Docker
3 73 (5.36%) VMware ESXi
4 70 (5.14%) Microsoft App-V
4 70 (5.14%) XenApp
4 70 (5.14%) XenDesktop
5 12 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
6 11 (0.81%) Firmware
7 7 (0.51%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.15%) HDFS
9 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.073%) Snort
9 1 (0.073%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.073%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.073%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 71 (5.22%) SCCM
2 70 (5.14%) AirWatch
3 59 (4.34%) Kubernetes
4 37 (2.72%) Terraform
5 13 (0.96%) Ansible
6 9 (0.66%) CASB
7 7 (0.51%) Kubeflow
8 5 (0.37%) Functional Safety
9 4 (0.29%) Argo
10 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.15%) Cisco Prime
11 2 (0.15%) Core Impact
11 2 (0.15%) CSIRT
11 2 (0.15%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.073%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.073%) CFEngine
12 1 (0.073%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (0.073%) Grafana
12 1 (0.073%) Puppet
12 1 (0.073%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 238 (17.49%) Microsoft
2 111 (8.16%) Cisco
3 73 (5.36%) Citrix
4 55 (4.04%) Databricks
5 42 (3.09%) EMC
6 38 (2.79%) SAP
7 33 (2.42%) Google
8 30 (2.20%) Virgin Media
9 28 (2.06%) Apple
10 25 (1.84%) Polycom
11 20 (1.47%) Oracle
12 13 (0.96%) Atlassian
13 12 (0.88%) VMware
14 11 (0.81%) Aruba
14 11 (0.81%) HP
14 11 (0.81%) Nintex
15 10 (0.73%) Salesforce
16 8 (0.59%) CA
17 6 (0.44%) Adobe
17 6 (0.44%) Sage