Master's Degree Contracts in the North of England

Master's Degree
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Master's Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 148 192 222
Rank change year-on-year +44 +30 -50
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 37 10 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.76% 0.18% 0.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.16% 0.76% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 10 16
10th Percentile £511 £400 £221
25th Percentile £513 £481 £317
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £650 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.15% +44.44% -5.26%
75th Percentile £689 £725 £533
90th Percentile £725 £850 £575
England median daily rate £550 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.22 - -
Median hourly rate £48.56 - £28.00
75th Percentile £57.83 - -
90th Percentile £61.38 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +22.22% - +34.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

Master's Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the North of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,172 1,324 1,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 24.19% 24.33% 21.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 644 908 1,037
10th Percentile £302 £325 £206
25th Percentile £413 £431 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £591
90th Percentile £694 £700 £671
England median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 75 70
10th Percentile £10.95 £18.95 £14.25
25th Percentile £13.50 £25.38 £17.50
Median hourly rate £16.06 £40.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.85% +29.03% +40.91%
75th Percentile £43.10 £49.52 £57.53
90th Percentile £63.75 £64.95 £75.60
England median hourly rate £40.66 £55.00 £41.36
% change year-on-year -26.07% +32.99% +14.88%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in the North of England

Master's Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Master's Degree in the North of England

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Master's Degree in the North of England

Master's Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Master's Degree in the North of England

Master's Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Master's Degree in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Master's Degree in the North of England

Master's Degree
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Yorkshire - 17 £525 - 45
North West +21 16 £676 +4.00% 71
North East - 3 £588 - 28
Master's Degree
England

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.70%) Confluence
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (16.22%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) SAP MDG
2 1 (2.70%) Hyperion Planning
2 1 (2.70%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (37.84%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.70%) AWS
2 1 (2.70%) Azure
2 1 (2.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (45.95%) Relational Database
2 14 (37.84%) MySQL
2 14 (37.84%) Power BI
2 14 (37.84%) Qlik Sense
3 3 (8.11%) Big Data
3 3 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (8.11%) Metadata
3 3 (8.11%) RDBMS
4 2 (5.41%) Data Lake
4 2 (5.41%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.70%) Essbase
5 1 (2.70%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.70%) MS Access
5 1 (2.70%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) JIRA
2 1 (2.70%) Selenium
2 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (2.70%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 9 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (10.81%) Finance
2 4 (10.81%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.41%) Publishing
3 2 (5.41%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.70%) Banking
4 1 (2.70%) Billing
4 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Marketing
4 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (35.14%) Data Scientist
2 5 (13.51%) Project Manager
3 4 (10.81%) Security Manager
3 4 (10.81%) Security Project Manager
4 3 (8.11%) Developer
4 3 (8.11%) SAP Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Architect
5 2 (5.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Data Governance Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Data Governance Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Data Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Data Modeller
5 2 (5.41%) Governance Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Lead
5 2 (5.41%) PLC Software Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) SAP Data Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Software Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Automation Specialist
6 1 (2.70%) Power BI Developer
6 1 (2.70%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (37.84%) AngularJS
1 14 (37.84%) CSS
1 14 (37.84%) HTML
2 1 (2.70%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.41%) CCTV
1 2 (5.41%) Data Centre
1 2 (5.41%) Operational Technology
1 2 (5.41%) SCADA
2 1 (2.70%) Device Driver
2 1 (2.70%) Life Science
2 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.70%) Private Cloud
2 1 (2.70%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Android
1 1 (2.70%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (2.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (56.76%) Computer Science
2 17 (45.95%) Business Intelligence
2 17 (45.95%) Data Modelling
2 17 (45.95%) Data Science
3 14 (37.84%) Data Security
3 14 (37.84%) ITIL
3 14 (37.84%) ITSM
3 14 (37.84%) Scrum
4 11 (29.73%) Proactive Management
4 11 (29.73%) Problem Management
4 11 (29.73%) Service Management
5 8 (21.62%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (21.62%) Data Strategy
5 8 (21.62%) Decision-Making
6 7 (18.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (16.22%) Business Case
7 6 (16.22%) Business Development
7 6 (16.22%) Pricing Strategy
7 6 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (16.22%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (48.65%) SQL
2 15 (40.54%) JavaScript
3 3 (8.11%) Java
4 1 (2.70%) C
4 1 (2.70%) Groovy
4 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.70%) Python
4 1 (2.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 37 (100.00%) Degree
2 18 (48.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (40.54%) PMI Certification
3 15 (40.54%) PMP
4 6 (16.22%) CISA
4 6 (16.22%) CISM
4 6 (16.22%) CISSP
4 6 (16.22%) MBA
5 2 (5.41%) PhD
6 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.70%) GDPR
2 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (37.84%) ServiceNow
2 7 (18.92%) Microsoft
3 5 (13.51%) SAP
4 1 (2.70%) Ariba
4 1 (2.70%) Foundry
4 1 (2.70%) Hyperion
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle
4 1 (2.70%) Palantir