Master's Degree Jobs in the UK excluding London

Master's Degree
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Master's Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 245 39 243
Rank change year-on-year -206 +204 +25
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 840 3,950 1,064
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.18% 6.66% 1.49%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.32% 18.14% 4.69%
Number of salaries quoted 440 359 358
10th Percentile £32,500 £22,000 £31,175
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,936 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +12.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,427 21,778 22,703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.38% 36.71% 31.72%
Number of salaries quoted 12,192 8,044 10,280
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,959 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% +3.92% +2.04%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £59,600 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.40% +8.36% -

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Master's Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in the UK excluding London

Master's Degree
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Master's Degree in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Master's Degree in the UK excluding London

Master's Degree
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Master's Degree in the UK excluding London

Master's Degree
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 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
South East -105 289 £60,000 -2.04% 170
North of England -234 117 £50,000 +12.75% 139
Scotland -104 109 £80,000 +50.94% 36
East of England -115 105 £55,000 -4.35% 124
Midlands -174 102 £55,000 +74.60% 115
South West -164 92 £50,000 - 77
North West -183 71 £66,440 +23.61% 80
West Midlands -126 62 £50,000 -2.44% 79
East Midlands -132 38 £61,439 +104.80% 36
North East -83 24 £50,000 +4.88% 29
Northern Ireland +24 22 £60,000 - 12
Yorkshire -143 22 £48,750 +9.93% 33
Wales -68 5 £35,000 -53.33% 20
Master's Degree
UK

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 29 (3.45%) FileNet
2 13 (1.55%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.07%) Apache
4 7 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.71%) IIS
5 6 (0.71%) nginx
6 4 (0.48%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 4 (0.48%) Confluence
7 3 (0.36%) SAS
7 3 (0.36%) WordPress
8 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.12%) Luigi
Applications
1 38 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.43%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.95%) Simulink
5 8 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.71%) InVision
6 6 (0.71%) Sketch
6 6 (0.71%) Trello
6 6 (0.71%) UserZoom
7 5 (0.60%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.48%) EPLAN
8 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.36%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 8 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.60%) SAP MM
3 4 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.48%) Shopify
4 3 (0.36%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (0.36%) Primavera
4 3 (0.36%) SAP APO
4 3 (0.36%) SAP PP
4 3 (0.36%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.36%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.12%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 90 (10.71%) AWS
2 89 (10.60%) Azure
3 63 (7.50%) Power Platform
4 44 (5.24%) GitHub
5 39 (4.64%) Figma
6 37 (4.40%) Amazon S3
7 32 (3.81%) SurveyMonkey
8 25 (2.98%) Cloud Computing
8 25 (2.98%) GCP
9 20 (2.38%) SaaS
10 19 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
10 19 (2.26%) PowerApps
10 19 (2.26%) Serverless
11 17 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (1.67%) Power Automate
13 13 (1.55%) IaaS
14 11 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
14 11 (1.31%) OneDrive
14 11 (1.31%) PaaS
14 11 (1.31%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.21%) 5G
1 27 (3.21%) Broadband
2 17 (2.02%) TCP/IP
3 15 (1.79%) HTTP
4 13 (1.55%) Internet
5 11 (1.31%) Firewall
5 11 (1.31%) Network Security
6 8 (0.95%) Ethernet
6 8 (0.95%) MQTT
7 7 (0.83%) Wireless
8 5 (0.60%) Intranet
8 5 (0.60%) SNMP
8 5 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.48%) 4G
9 4 (0.48%) RS-232
9 4 (0.48%) WebEx
10 3 (0.36%) LAN
10 3 (0.36%) PPP
10 3 (0.36%) WAN
11 2 (0.24%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (6.79%) Power BI
2 48 (5.71%) NoSQL
3 32 (3.81%) SQL Server
4 31 (3.69%) Elasticsearch
5 30 (3.57%) Apache Cassandra
6 28 (3.33%) Relational Database
7 25 (2.98%) Tableau
8 23 (2.74%) Big Data
9 17 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
10 14 (1.67%) MySQL
11 9 (1.07%) DynamoDB
11 9 (1.07%) GIS
12 7 (0.83%) Redis
12 7 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (0.71%) Hadoop
13 6 (0.71%) Star Schema
14 5 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
15 4 (0.48%) Data Mining
15 4 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 60 (7.14%) Git
2 40 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 29 (3.45%) Jasmine
3 29 (3.45%) JUnit
3 29 (3.45%) Mockito
4 16 (1.90%) JIRA
5 10 (1.19%) GitLab
6 4 (0.48%) CMake
6 4 (0.48%) Subversion
6 4 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.36%) Babel
7 3 (0.36%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.36%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.36%) TestRail
7 3 (0.36%) webpack
8 2 (0.24%) ERwin
8 2 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.12%) Maven
9 1 (0.12%) MSTest
9 1 (0.12%) TestComplete
General
1 318 (37.86%) Social Skills
2 209 (24.88%) Finance
3 159 (18.93%) Analytical Skills
4 154 (18.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 144 (17.14%) Marketing
6 126 (15.00%) Law
7 68 (8.10%) Manufacturing
8 58 (6.90%) Legal
9 48 (5.71%) Pharmaceutical
10 34 (4.05%) Social Science
11 33 (3.93%) Retail
12 30 (3.57%) Electronics
12 30 (3.57%) Telecoms
13 26 (3.10%) Banking
14 24 (2.86%) Aerospace
15 21 (2.50%) Automotive
15 21 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
16 14 (1.67%) Military
17 13 (1.55%) Investment Banking
17 13 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 151 (17.98%) Senior
2 124 (14.76%) Software Engineer
3 82 (9.76%) Lead
4 77 (9.17%) Developer
5 62 (7.38%) Systems Engineer
6 47 (5.60%) Analyst
6 47 (5.60%) Principal Engineer
7 41 (4.88%) Graduate
8 40 (4.76%) Principal Systems Engineer
9 35 (4.17%) Data Scientist
10 31 (3.69%) Architect
11 30 (3.57%) Software Developer
12 26 (3.10%) Senior Software Engineer
13 22 (2.62%) Junior
13 22 (2.62%) Senior Analyst
14 21 (2.50%) Data Engineer
15 19 (2.26%) Senior Data Scientist
15 19 (2.26%) Senior Developer
16 16 (1.90%) Business Manager
16 16 (1.90%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (9.40%) AngularJS
2 69 (8.21%) React
3 40 (4.76%) Kafka
4 31 (3.69%) Web Services
5 30 (3.57%) .NET
5 30 (3.57%) GraphQL
6 29 (3.45%) Hibernate
6 29 (3.45%) J2EE
6 29 (3.45%) Spring
6 29 (3.45%) Spring Integration
7 28 (3.33%) RESTful
8 25 (2.98%) HTML
9 17 (2.02%) CSS
10 16 (1.90%) Vue
11 14 (1.67%) OpenACC
11 14 (1.67%) OpenMP
12 13 (1.55%) Flask
12 13 (1.55%) HTML5
12 13 (1.55%) Node.js
12 13 (1.55%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 147 (17.50%) Algorithms
2 52 (6.19%) Cloud Native
3 51 (6.07%) Management Information System
4 46 (5.48%) Data Structures
5 34 (4.05%) Product Ownership
6 28 (3.33%) Market Risk
7 24 (2.86%) CUDA
8 22 (2.62%) Driving Licence
9 21 (2.50%) IoT
10 20 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
10 20 (2.38%) Onboarding
11 18 (2.14%) Embedded Systems
12 17 (2.02%) Life Science
13 15 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (1.79%) Security Operations Centre
14 14 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
15 12 (1.43%) Biopharmaceutical
15 12 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
16 10 (1.19%) Robotics
17 9 (1.07%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 88 (10.48%) Linux
2 35 (4.17%) Windows
3 31 (3.69%) Unix
4 7 (0.83%) FreeRTOS
5 6 (0.71%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (0.48%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.24%) Android
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (44.40%) Computer Science
2 315 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 205 (24.40%) Agile
4 184 (21.90%) Software Engineering
5 140 (16.67%) Mathematics
6 138 (16.43%) Analytics
7 132 (15.71%) Machine Learning
8 128 (15.24%) Artificial Intelligence
9 118 (14.05%) Roadmaps
10 100 (11.90%) Data Analysis
11 96 (11.43%) User Experience
12 95 (11.31%) DevOps
13 90 (10.71%) Decision-Making
13 90 (10.71%) Project Management
14 88 (10.48%) Data Science
15 84 (10.00%) CI/CD
16 80 (9.52%) Data Analytics
17 76 (9.05%) Continuous Improvement
17 76 (9.05%) Mentoring
17 76 (9.05%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 253 (30.12%) Python
2 130 (15.48%) SQL
3 95 (11.31%) C
4 76 (9.05%) R
5 75 (8.93%) C++
6 74 (8.81%) C#
6 74 (8.81%) Java
7 60 (7.14%) JavaScript
8 50 (5.95%) Fortran
9 23 (2.74%) MATLAB
10 21 (2.50%) Bash
10 21 (2.50%) TypeScript
11 19 (2.26%) Go
12 16 (1.90%) Rust
13 12 (1.43%) PowerShell
14 10 (1.19%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.83%) Haskell
16 4 (0.48%) Scala
16 4 (0.48%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.48%) VB
Qualifications
1 840 (100.00%) Degree
2 248 (29.52%) PhD
3 186 (22.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 93 (11.07%) MBA
5 58 (6.90%) Security Cleared
6 45 (5.36%) Chartered Engineer
7 18 (2.14%) SC Cleared
8 16 (1.90%) CISSP
9 15 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.55%) DV Cleared
11 11 (1.31%) AWS Certification
11 11 (1.31%) ITIL Certification
12 10 (1.19%) CFA
12 10 (1.19%) CIMA
12 10 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
12 10 (1.19%) CompTIA CySA+
12 10 (1.19%) DBS Check
12 10 (1.19%) Numerate Degree
13 9 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 8 (0.95%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.48%) QA
2 37 (4.40%) GDPR
3 27 (3.21%) Data Quality
4 25 (2.98%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.67%) PCI DSS
5 14 (1.67%) PMO
6 13 (1.55%) NIST
7 12 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.31%) HIPAA
9 10 (1.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 7 (0.83%) ISO 13485
11 6 (0.71%) NCSC
11 6 (0.71%) WCAG
12 5 (0.60%) ISO 26262
13 4 (0.48%) Automotive SPICE
14 2 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.24%) ECSS
14 2 (0.24%) IEC 61508
14 2 (0.24%) SOX 404
System Software
1 48 (5.71%) Docker
2 15 (1.79%) Firmware
3 14 (1.67%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.60%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.24%) HDFS
8 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.12%) Snort
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 58 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.31%) Terraform
3 9 (1.07%) CASB
4 5 (0.60%) Functional Safety
5 4 (0.48%) Ansible
6 2 (0.24%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.12%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 90 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 42 (5.00%) EMC
3 38 (4.52%) Qualtrics
4 35 (4.17%) Oracle
5 27 (3.21%) Virgin Media
6 25 (2.98%) SAP
7 24 (2.86%) Google
8 13 (1.55%) Atlassian
9 11 (1.31%) Nintex
10 7 (0.83%) Databricks
10 7 (0.83%) Salesforce
10 7 (0.83%) VMware
11 6 (0.71%) Cisco
11 6 (0.71%) NVIDIA
11 6 (0.71%) YouTube
12 5 (0.60%) BT
12 5 (0.60%) CA
13 4 (0.48%) Aruba
13 4 (0.48%) HP
13 4 (0.48%) ServiceNow