Master's Degree Jobs in the South East

Master's Degree
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 149 52 214
Rank change year-on-year -97 +162 +4
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 314 707 359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.68% 5.33% 1.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.22% 13.32% 4.78%
Number of salaries quoted 165 139 136
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% +3.85%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 6,015 5,307 7,515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 32.27% 39.98% 35.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3,647 2,430 3,174
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,800 £29,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £36,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £51,425 £50,845
Median % change year-on-year +0.15% +1.14% +1.69%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £54,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.17% +9.09% -

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in the South East

Master's Degree
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Master's Degree in the South East.

Salary trend for Master's Degree in the South East

Master's Degree
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Master's Degree in the South East

Master's Degree
Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley -25 185 £58,000 +25.41% 80
Berkshire -3 81 £56,500 -22.07% 32
Oxfordshire -1 78 £55,000 +150.00% 33
Surrey -76 42 £60,000 -7.69% 14
Kent -33 33 £65,000 +52.94% 10
Hampshire -109 33 £41,500 -44.67% 25
Buckinghamshire -51 26 £70,000 - 16
West Sussex -36 14 £64,000 -28.89% 5
East Sussex -45 7 £50,000 +5.26% 4
Master's Degree
England

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 12 (3.82%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.91%) Apache
2 6 (1.91%) nginx
3 2 (0.64%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.64%) SAS
Applications
1 26 (8.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (6.05%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (4.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (3.50%) MS Visio
5 7 (2.23%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (1.27%) Simulink
7 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 5 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.64%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 33 (10.51%) Azure
2 28 (8.92%) Power Platform
3 27 (8.60%) AWS
4 15 (4.78%) AWS Lambda
4 15 (4.78%) Serverless
5 12 (3.82%) IaaS
5 12 (3.82%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (3.82%) PowerApps
5 12 (3.82%) SaaS
6 11 (3.50%) GitHub
6 11 (3.50%) OneDrive
6 11 (3.50%) Power Automate
6 11 (3.50%) ShareGate
7 10 (3.18%) PaaS
8 7 (2.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 7 (2.23%) Azure Functions
8 7 (2.23%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (2.23%) GCP
9 6 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (1.91%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.78%) 5G
1 15 (4.78%) Broadband
2 8 (2.55%) Internet
3 7 (2.23%) HTTP
4 6 (1.91%) Intranet
5 5 (1.59%) Firewall
5 5 (1.59%) SNMP
5 5 (1.59%) Wireless
6 4 (1.27%) 4G
6 4 (1.27%) WebEx
7 2 (0.64%) LAN
7 2 (0.64%) Network Security
7 2 (0.64%) RS-485
7 2 (0.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (8.60%) Power BI
2 19 (6.05%) SQL Server
3 10 (3.18%) GIS
3 10 (3.18%) Relational Database
4 9 (2.87%) Tableau
5 8 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (2.23%) DynamoDB
6 7 (2.23%) MySQL
6 7 (2.23%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (1.91%) Redis
8 5 (1.59%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (1.27%) Big Data
10 3 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.96%) Impala
11 2 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.64%) Apache Hive
11 2 (0.64%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 24 (7.64%) Git
2 8 (2.55%) JIRA
3 6 (1.91%) GitLab
4 4 (1.27%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.96%) Babel
5 3 (0.96%) CMake
5 3 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (0.96%) TestRail
5 3 (0.96%) webpack
6 2 (0.64%) ERwin
7 1 (0.32%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.32%) Maven
7 1 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.32%) Selenium
7 1 (0.32%) WebDriver
General
1 137 (43.63%) Social Skills
2 72 (22.93%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (21.34%) Finance
4 41 (13.06%) Marketing
5 35 (11.15%) Manufacturing
6 32 (10.19%) Pharmaceutical
7 31 (9.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (6.69%) Legal
9 19 (6.05%) Aerospace
9 19 (6.05%) Law
10 15 (4.78%) Presentation Skills
10 15 (4.78%) Telecoms
11 11 (3.50%) Aviation
11 11 (3.50%) Electronics
11 11 (3.50%) Military
12 8 (2.55%) Public Sector
13 5 (1.59%) Automotive
13 5 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.27%) Aeronautics
15 3 (0.96%) Banking
Job Titles
1 63 (20.06%) Senior
2 56 (17.83%) Software Engineer
3 31 (9.87%) Developer
4 26 (8.28%) Lead
5 19 (6.05%) Data Scientist
6 14 (4.46%) Junior
6 14 (4.46%) Senior Software Engineer
7 13 (4.14%) Associate Director
7 13 (4.14%) Systems Engineer
8 11 (3.50%) Graduate
9 10 (3.18%) Consultant
9 10 (3.18%) Product Manager
9 10 (3.18%) Research Engineer
9 10 (3.18%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 9 (2.87%) Business Development Manager
10 9 (2.87%) Business Manager
10 9 (2.87%) Development Manager
11 8 (2.55%) Architect
11 8 (2.55%) Research Software Engineer
12 7 (2.23%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.73%) AngularJS
2 16 (5.10%) React
3 15 (4.78%) .NET
3 15 (4.78%) RESTful
4 14 (4.46%) Web Services
5 13 (4.14%) HTML
6 11 (3.50%) OpenACC
6 11 (3.50%) OpenMP
7 10 (3.18%) Vue
8 9 (2.87%) HTML5
9 8 (2.55%) CSS
9 8 (2.55%) Dask
9 8 (2.55%) Django
9 8 (2.55%) Flask
10 7 (2.23%) gRPC
10 7 (2.23%) jQuery
10 7 (2.23%) NumPy
11 6 (1.91%) Celery
11 6 (1.91%) CSS3
11 6 (1.91%) GeoJSON
Miscellaneous
1 103 (32.80%) Algorithms
2 39 (12.42%) Management Information System
3 31 (9.87%) Data Structures
4 18 (5.73%) Product Ownership
5 16 (5.10%) CUDA
6 15 (4.78%) Cloud Native
7 14 (4.46%) Analytical Mindset
8 10 (3.18%) IoT
9 9 (2.87%) Biopharmaceutical
9 9 (2.87%) Life Science
9 9 (2.87%) Taxonomies
10 8 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (2.55%) Public Cloud
11 7 (2.23%) FPGA
12 6 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (1.27%) Onboarding
14 4 (1.27%) Virtual Team
15 3 (0.96%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 73 (23.25%) Linux
2 35 (11.15%) Unix
3 25 (7.96%) Windows
4 1 (0.32%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (57.32%) Computer Science
2 120 (38.22%) Problem-Solving
3 92 (29.30%) Mathematics
4 87 (27.71%) Agile
5 78 (24.84%) Software Engineering
6 76 (24.20%) Physics
7 64 (20.38%) DevOps
8 56 (17.83%) Analytics
9 54 (17.20%) Roadmaps
10 51 (16.24%) Machine Learning
11 44 (14.01%) Business Intelligence
11 44 (14.01%) Continuous Improvement
12 43 (13.69%) Parallel Programming
13 42 (13.38%) Data Analytics
14 40 (12.74%) Data Analysis
15 38 (12.10%) Market Research
15 38 (12.10%) Mentoring
16 34 (10.83%) Data Science
16 34 (10.83%) Validation
16 34 (10.83%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 122 (38.85%) Python
2 69 (21.97%) C
3 55 (17.52%) C++
3 55 (17.52%) Fortran
4 41 (13.06%) C#
5 34 (10.83%) JavaScript
6 30 (9.55%) SQL
7 22 (7.01%) Bash
8 14 (4.46%) R
9 12 (3.82%) Go
10 11 (3.50%) Java
10 11 (3.50%) MATLAB
11 6 (1.91%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.27%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.27%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.96%) AWK
13 3 (0.96%) C-shell
13 3 (0.96%) sed
13 3 (0.96%) VB
14 2 (0.64%) Rust
Qualifications
1 314 (100.00%) Degree
2 123 (39.17%) PhD
3 80 (25.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 51 (16.24%) MBA
5 47 (14.97%) Security Cleared
6 13 (4.14%) Numerate Degree
7 12 (3.82%) SC Cleared
8 11 (3.50%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (2.87%) CFA
9 9 (2.87%) CIMA
10 6 (1.91%) DBS Check
11 5 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.27%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.96%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.96%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.96%) PMP
14 2 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.64%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.32%) GDPR
2 22 (7.01%) QA
3 13 (4.14%) Accessibility
4 12 (3.82%) Data Quality
5 10 (3.18%) HIPAA
6 9 (2.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 7 (2.23%) ISO 13485
8 4 (1.27%) Automotive SPICE
8 4 (1.27%) ISO 26262
9 3 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.96%) PMO
10 2 (0.64%) PMBOK
10 2 (0.64%) SLA
11 1 (0.32%) ECSS
System Software
1 21 (6.69%) Docker
2 11 (3.50%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.23%) Firmware
4 5 (1.59%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.64%) HDFS
7 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (4.14%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.87%) Terraform
3 4 (1.27%) Functional Safety
4 3 (0.96%) Ansible
5 1 (0.32%) SCCM
Vendors
1 57 (18.15%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.78%) Virgin Media
3 12 (3.82%) SAP
4 11 (3.50%) Nintex
5 10 (3.18%) Atlassian
6 6 (1.91%) Oracle
6 6 (1.91%) YouTube
7 5 (1.59%) Aruba
7 5 (1.59%) Cisco
7 5 (1.59%) Google
7 5 (1.59%) HP
8 4 (1.27%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.27%) VMware
9 3 (0.96%) Adobe
9 3 (0.96%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.64%) Informatica
10 2 (0.64%) Sage
10 2 (0.64%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.32%) Apple
11 1 (0.32%) Ariba