Master's Degree Jobs in England

Master's Degree
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Master's Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 192 54 195
Rank change year-on-year -138 +141 +44
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 1,394 4,357 3,089
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.46% 5.31% 2.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.43% 15.72% 7.90%
Number of salaries quoted 752 737 938
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £49,313 £47,500 £48,674
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £127,500 £132,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% +8.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 25,654 27,711 39,123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.84% 33.76% 27.08%
Number of salaries quoted 15,775 12,833 16,968
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,734 £42,500 £40,132
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £53,555 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.74% +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 12 June 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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +14 644 £80,000 - 505
South East -97 314 £60,000 -7.69% 150
North of England -261 117 £50,000 +4.88% 139
Midlands -191 112 £56,250 +18.42% 127
East of England -110 104 £55,000 -4.35% 105
South West -165 93 £50,952 -32.06% 98
North West -208 66 £65,000 +4.00% 70
West Midlands -139 64 £47,500 -24.00% 76
East Midlands -136 46 £79,566 +165.22% 51
North East -89 28 £50,000 +4.88% 28
Yorkshire -151 23 £48,750 +9.93% 44
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 55 (3.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (1.79%) Skype for Business
3 21 (1.51%) Apache Spark
4 18 (1.29%) SharePoint
5 17 (1.22%) Apache
6 9 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.57%) IIS
8 6 (0.43%) nginx
9 5 (0.36%) Confluence
10 4 (0.29%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 3 (0.22%) CMS
11 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.22%) SAS
11 3 (0.22%) WordPress
12 1 (0.072%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.072%) DataSynapse
12 1 (0.072%) Luigi
12 1 (0.072%) Umbraco
Applications
1 60 (4.30%) Microsoft Office
2 59 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.79%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.43%) Simulink
5 6 (0.43%) Trello
6 5 (0.36%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.29%) EPLAN
7 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.072%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.072%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.072%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.072%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.072%) Blender
8 1 (0.072%) InDesign
8 1 (0.072%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 12 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.36%) Distributed Ledger
3 4 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.29%) Ripple
3 4 (0.29%) Shopify
4 3 (0.22%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (0.22%) Primavera
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 (0.14%) Oracle Payroll
5 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.072%) Data Workbench
6 1 (0.072%) Endur
6 1 (0.072%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.072%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.072%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 215 (15.42%) AWS
2 175 (12.55%) Azure
3 101 (7.25%) Microsoft 365
4 100 (7.17%) Power Platform
5 62 (4.45%) GCP
6 52 (3.73%) SaaS
7 31 (2.22%) Serverless
8 26 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
9 25 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
10 23 (1.65%) GitHub
11 20 (1.43%) PowerApps
11 20 (1.43%) WhatsApp
12 19 (1.36%) IaaS
13 17 (1.22%) PaaS
14 15 (1.08%) Amazon S3
15 14 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
15 14 (1.00%) Power Automate
16 13 (0.93%) OneDrive
17 11 (0.79%) ShareGate
17 11 (0.79%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 75 (5.38%) Cisco IOS
2 62 (4.45%) Wireless
3 55 (3.95%) WebEx
4 52 (3.73%) WAN
5 50 (3.59%) SD-WAN
6 30 (2.15%) 5G
6 30 (2.15%) Broadband
6 30 (2.15%) Firewall
7 25 (1.79%) Skype
7 25 (1.79%) Telepresence
8 18 (1.29%) Internet
9 15 (1.08%) Network Security
10 13 (0.93%) Intranet
10 13 (0.93%) TCP/IP
10 13 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (0.65%) SNMP
12 8 (0.57%) Ethernet
13 7 (0.50%) HTTP
14 4 (0.29%) Intrusion Detection
14 4 (0.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (7.46%) Tableau
2 94 (6.74%) Power BI
3 60 (4.30%) SQL Server
4 48 (3.44%) Big Data
5 41 (2.94%) MySQL
6 38 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
6 38 (2.73%) Redis
7 36 (2.58%) Relational Database
8 33 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
9 23 (1.65%) NoSQL
10 20 (1.43%) Hadoop
11 13 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (0.79%) Data Lake
12 11 (0.79%) GIS
12 11 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 10 (0.72%) Amazon QuickSight
13 10 (0.72%) Data Mining
14 9 (0.65%) DynamoDB
15 8 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 7 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 124 (8.90%) Git
2 29 (2.08%) GitLab
3 22 (1.58%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.51%) JIRA
5 6 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (0.36%) Subversion
6 5 (0.36%) webpack
7 4 (0.29%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.29%) CMake
7 4 (0.29%) Snakemake
8 3 (0.22%) Babel
8 3 (0.22%) MLflow
8 3 (0.22%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.22%) TestRail
9 2 (0.14%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.14%) ERwin
9 2 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.14%) Selenium
9 2 (0.14%) WebDriver
General
1 631 (45.27%) Social Skills
2 321 (23.03%) Finance
3 289 (20.73%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (8.03%) Pharmaceutical
5 106 (7.60%) Marketing
6 100 (7.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 83 (5.95%) Legal
8 77 (5.52%) Manufacturing
9 67 (4.81%) Law
10 55 (3.95%) Telecoms
11 53 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
12 50 (3.59%) Automotive
12 50 (3.59%) Public Sector
12 50 (3.59%) Retail
13 46 (3.30%) Banking
14 36 (2.58%) Games
15 35 (2.51%) Electronics
16 28 (2.01%) Aerospace
17 22 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
18 20 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 299 (21.45%) Senior
2 155 (11.12%) Developer
3 125 (8.97%) Software Engineer
4 124 (8.90%) Analyst
5 107 (7.68%) Data Scientist
6 103 (7.39%) Lead
7 86 (6.17%) Senior Data Scientist
8 74 (5.31%) Architect
9 69 (4.95%) Systems Engineer
10 53 (3.80%) IT Support
11 52 (3.73%) Principal Engineer
12 51 (3.66%) Support Specialist
13 50 (3.59%) Graduate
13 50 (3.59%) IT Support Specialist
14 47 (3.37%) Senior Developer
15 42 (3.01%) Principal Systems Engineer
16 36 (2.58%) Senior Software Engineer
17 34 (2.44%) Consultant
18 32 (2.30%) Data Engineer
18 32 (2.30%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (6.53%) .NET
2 74 (5.31%) TensorFlow
3 61 (4.38%) React
4 58 (4.16%) scikit-learn
5 55 (3.95%) Pandas
6 50 (3.59%) PySpark
7 46 (3.30%) AngularJS
8 39 (2.80%) Kafka
9 36 (2.58%) PyTorch
10 31 (2.22%) ASP.NET
11 28 (2.01%) HTML
12 23 (1.65%) Web Services
13 22 (1.58%) CSS
13 22 (1.58%) RESTful
14 19 (1.36%) .NET Core
15 17 (1.22%) Vue
16 16 (1.15%) Flask
17 15 (1.08%) Entity Framework
17 15 (1.08%) NumPy
18 13 (0.93%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 262 (18.79%) Algorithms
2 99 (7.10%) Management Information System
3 76 (5.45%) Video Conferencing
4 65 (4.66%) Onboarding
5 54 (3.87%) Data Structures
6 50 (3.59%) Wiki
7 48 (3.44%) Self-Motivation
8 45 (3.23%) Product Ownership
9 43 (3.08%) Life Science
10 25 (1.79%) Cloud Native
10 25 (1.79%) IoT
11 23 (1.65%) CUDA
11 23 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
12 21 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
13 20 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 19 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
15 18 (1.29%) Embedded Systems
15 18 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
15 18 (1.29%) Security Posture
16 17 (1.22%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 123 (8.82%) Linux
1 123 (8.82%) Windows
2 78 (5.60%) Windows 10
3 58 (4.16%) Android
4 41 (2.94%) Unix
5 25 (1.79%) Windows 7
6 12 (0.86%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.43%) FreeRTOS
8 4 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.29%) DC/OS
8 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.072%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.072%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 701 (50.29%) Computer Science
2 439 (31.49%) Problem-Solving
3 291 (20.88%) Mathematics
4 273 (19.58%) Software Engineering
5 269 (19.30%) Agile
6 251 (18.01%) Data Science
7 238 (17.07%) Analytics
8 213 (15.28%) Machine Learning
9 202 (14.49%) Statistics
10 195 (13.99%) Visualisation
11 180 (12.91%) Artificial Intelligence
12 168 (12.05%) Decision-Making
12 168 (12.05%) Physics
13 147 (10.55%) Roadmaps
14 145 (10.40%) Data Analysis
15 141 (10.11%) Project Management
16 137 (9.83%) Mentoring
17 127 (9.11%) Continuous Improvement
17 127 (9.11%) DevOps
18 124 (8.90%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 468 (33.57%) Python
2 267 (19.15%) SQL
3 163 (11.69%) C#
4 108 (7.75%) C++
5 99 (7.10%) C
6 91 (6.53%) JavaScript
7 89 (6.38%) Java
8 69 (4.95%) R
9 55 (3.95%) Fortran
10 41 (2.94%) TypeScript
11 32 (2.30%) MATLAB
12 31 (2.22%) Bash
13 21 (1.51%) Go
14 14 (1.00%) PowerShell
15 12 (0.86%) T-SQL
16 10 (0.72%) Scala
17 6 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 6 (0.43%) Rust
17 6 (0.43%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,394 (100.00%) Degree
2 352 (25.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 310 (22.24%) PhD
4 161 (11.55%) MBA
5 100 (7.17%) Security Cleared
6 59 (4.23%) DBS Check
7 51 (3.66%) CISSP
8 48 (3.44%) Chartered Engineer
9 37 (2.65%) CISM
10 32 (2.30%) SC Cleared
11 25 (1.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 22 (1.58%) AWS Certification
12 22 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
13 21 (1.51%) DV Cleared
14 18 (1.29%) Numerate Degree
14 18 (1.29%) PMP
15 17 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
15 17 (1.22%) PMI Certification
16 16 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
17 15 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (4.73%) Data Quality
2 53 (3.80%) QA
3 48 (3.44%) GDPR
4 29 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (1.72%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.29%) NIST
6 18 (1.29%) PCI DSS
7 16 (1.15%) NCSC
8 14 (1.00%) PMO
9 13 (0.93%) HIPAA
10 12 (0.86%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 10 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 7 (0.50%) ISO 13485
13 5 (0.36%) ISO 26262
14 4 (0.29%) Automotive SPICE
15 3 (0.22%) ISO 31000
15 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 3 (0.22%) NIST 800
15 3 (0.22%) SLA
16 2 (0.14%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 75 (5.38%) Docker
2 66 (4.73%) Active Directory
3 53 (3.80%) VMware ESXi
4 50 (3.59%) Microsoft App-V
4 50 (3.59%) XenApp
4 50 (3.59%) XenDesktop
5 15 (1.08%) Firmware
6 12 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
7 7 (0.50%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.14%) HDFS
10 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.072%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.072%) Snort
10 1 (0.072%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.072%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.072%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 60 (4.30%) Kubernetes
2 51 (3.66%) SCCM
3 50 (3.59%) AirWatch
4 38 (2.73%) Terraform
5 14 (1.00%) Ansible
6 9 (0.65%) CASB
7 7 (0.50%) Kubeflow
8 5 (0.36%) Functional Safety
9 4 (0.29%) Argo
10 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.14%) Cisco Prime
11 2 (0.14%) Core Impact
11 2 (0.14%) CSIRT
11 2 (0.14%) Grafana
11 2 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.072%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.072%) Kibana
12 1 (0.072%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.072%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 233 (16.71%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.60%) Cisco
3 56 (4.02%) Databricks
4 53 (3.80%) Citrix
5 44 (3.16%) EMC
6 42 (3.01%) SAP
7 31 (2.22%) Google
8 30 (2.15%) Virgin Media
9 28 (2.01%) Apple
10 25 (1.79%) Polycom
11 17 (1.22%) Oracle
12 13 (0.93%) Atlassian
13 12 (0.86%) Aruba
13 12 (0.86%) HP
13 12 (0.86%) VMware
14 11 (0.79%) Nintex
15 10 (0.72%) Salesforce
16 9 (0.65%) CA
17 6 (0.43%) Adobe
17 6 (0.43%) NVIDIA