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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 242 39 247
Rank change year-on-year -203 +208 +21
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 839 3,911 1,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.17% 6.61% 1.49%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.30% 17.97% 4.68%
Number of salaries quoted 440 359 367
10th Percentile £32,500 £22,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -3.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,813 £75,000 £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 19,526 21,760 23,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.26% 36.79% 31.93%
Number of salaries quoted 12,218 8,079 10,449
10th Percentile £27,338 £28,175 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £79,600 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -

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 20 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 20 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 -97 290 £60,000 -4.00% 260
North of England -226 117 £50,000 +12.75% 145
Scotland -110 109 £82,000 +51.85% 37
East of England -111 104 £55,000 -4.35% 142
Midlands -168 101 £55,000 +53.85% 138
South West -167 92 £50,000 -6.98% 78
North West -177 71 £66,440 +6.30% 82
West Midlands -130 61 £51,250 -2.38% 89
East Midlands -133 38 £61,439 +104.80% 49
North East -80 24 £50,000 +4.88% 28
Northern Ireland +28 22 £60,000 - 14
Yorkshire -146 22 £48,750 +9.93% 38
Wales -66 5 £35,000 -53.33% 24
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 (3.46%) FileNet
2 13 (1.55%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.07%) Apache
4 7 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.72%) IIS
5 6 (0.72%) 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 (4.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (3.34%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.43%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.95%) Simulink
5 8 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.72%) InVision
6 6 (0.72%) Sketch
6 6 (0.72%) Trello
6 6 (0.72%) 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 (10.73%) AWS
1 90 (10.73%) Azure
2 63 (7.51%) Power Platform
3 44 (5.24%) GitHub
4 39 (4.65%) Figma
5 37 (4.41%) Amazon S3
6 32 (3.81%) SurveyMonkey
7 26 (3.10%) Cloud Computing
7 26 (3.10%) GCP
8 20 (2.38%) SaaS
9 19 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
9 19 (2.26%) PowerApps
9 19 (2.26%) Serverless
10 17 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (1.67%) Power Automate
12 13 (1.55%) IaaS
13 11 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
13 11 (1.31%) OneDrive
13 11 (1.31%) PaaS
13 11 (1.31%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.22%) 5G
1 27 (3.22%) Broadband
2 17 (2.03%) 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%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (6.79%) Power BI
2 48 (5.72%) NoSQL
3 32 (3.81%) SQL Server
4 31 (3.69%) Elasticsearch
5 30 (3.58%) Apache Cassandra
6 28 (3.34%) Relational Database
7 25 (2.98%) Tableau
8 23 (2.74%) Big Data
9 17 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
10 14 (1.67%) MySQL
11 10 (1.19%) GIS
12 9 (1.07%) DynamoDB
13 7 (0.83%) Redis
13 7 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (0.72%) Hadoop
14 6 (0.72%) Star Schema
15 5 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
16 4 (0.48%) Data Mining
16 4 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 60 (7.15%) Git
2 40 (4.77%) Jenkins
3 29 (3.46%) Jasmine
3 29 (3.46%) JUnit
3 29 (3.46%) Mockito
4 16 (1.91%) 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%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.12%) Maven
9 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 317 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 208 (24.79%) Finance
3 158 (18.83%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (18.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 144 (17.16%) Marketing
6 126 (15.02%) Law
7 67 (7.99%) Manufacturing
8 58 (6.91%) Legal
9 46 (5.48%) Pharmaceutical
10 34 (4.05%) Social Science
11 33 (3.93%) Retail
12 30 (3.58%) Electronics
12 30 (3.58%) 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 (18.00%) Senior
2 124 (14.78%) Software Engineer
3 82 (9.77%) Lead
4 77 (9.18%) Developer
5 62 (7.39%) Systems Engineer
6 47 (5.60%) Principal Engineer
7 46 (5.48%) Analyst
8 41 (4.89%) Graduate
9 40 (4.77%) Principal Systems Engineer
10 34 (4.05%) Data Scientist
11 31 (3.69%) Architect
12 30 (3.58%) Software Developer
13 26 (3.10%) Senior Software Engineer
14 22 (2.62%) Junior
14 22 (2.62%) Senior Analyst
15 21 (2.50%) Data Engineer
16 19 (2.26%) Senior Data Scientist
16 19 (2.26%) Senior Developer
17 16 (1.91%) Consultant
17 16 (1.91%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (9.42%) AngularJS
2 69 (8.22%) React
3 40 (4.77%) Kafka
4 31 (3.69%) Web Services
5 30 (3.58%) .NET
5 30 (3.58%) GraphQL
6 29 (3.46%) Hibernate
6 29 (3.46%) J2EE
6 29 (3.46%) Spring
6 29 (3.46%) Spring Integration
7 28 (3.34%) RESTful
8 24 (2.86%) HTML
9 17 (2.03%) CSS
10 16 (1.91%) 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
13 12 (1.43%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 146 (17.40%) Algorithms
2 52 (6.20%) Cloud Native
2 52 (6.20%) Management Information System
3 46 (5.48%) Data Structures
4 34 (4.05%) Product Ownership
5 28 (3.34%) Market Risk
6 24 (2.86%) CUDA
7 22 (2.62%) Driving Licence
8 21 (2.50%) IoT
9 20 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
9 20 (2.38%) Onboarding
10 18 (2.15%) Embedded Systems
11 15 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (1.79%) Life Science
11 15 (1.79%) Security Operations Centre
12 14 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
13 12 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (1.31%) Biopharmaceutical
15 9 (1.07%) Robotics
15 9 (1.07%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 89 (10.61%) Linux
2 36 (4.29%) Windows
3 31 (3.69%) Unix
4 7 (0.83%) FreeRTOS
5 6 (0.72%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (0.48%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.24%) Android
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (44.58%) Computer Science
2 316 (37.66%) Problem-Solving
3 204 (24.31%) Agile
4 184 (21.93%) Software Engineering
5 140 (16.69%) Mathematics
6 138 (16.45%) Analytics
7 131 (15.61%) Machine Learning
8 127 (15.14%) Artificial Intelligence
9 118 (14.06%) Roadmaps
10 99 (11.80%) Data Analysis
11 97 (11.56%) DevOps
12 96 (11.44%) User Experience
13 89 (10.61%) Decision-Making
13 89 (10.61%) Project Management
14 87 (10.37%) Data Science
15 84 (10.01%) CI/CD
16 80 (9.54%) Data Analytics
17 77 (9.18%) Continuous Improvement
18 76 (9.06%) Mentoring
18 76 (9.06%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 253 (30.15%) Python
2 129 (15.38%) SQL
3 95 (11.32%) C
4 76 (9.06%) R
5 75 (8.94%) C++
6 74 (8.82%) C#
6 74 (8.82%) Java
7 60 (7.15%) JavaScript
8 50 (5.96%) Fortran
9 23 (2.74%) MATLAB
10 21 (2.50%) Bash
10 21 (2.50%) TypeScript
11 19 (2.26%) Go
12 16 (1.91%) 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
1 839 (100.00%) Degree
2 247 (29.44%) PhD
3 187 (22.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 93 (11.08%) MBA
5 58 (6.91%) Security Cleared
6 45 (5.36%) Chartered Engineer
7 18 (2.15%) SC Cleared
8 16 (1.91%) 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 (4.41%) GDPR
3 27 (3.22%) 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 (0.72%) NCSC
11 6 (0.72%) WCAG
12 5 (0.60%) ISO 26262
13 4 (0.48%) Automotive SPICE
14 3 (0.36%) SLA
15 2 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.24%) ECSS
15 2 (0.24%) IEC 61508
15 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 48 (5.72%) 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 59 (7.03%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.43%) Terraform
3 9 (1.07%) CASB
4 5 (0.60%) Ansible
4 5 (0.60%) Functional Safety
5 2 (0.24%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.12%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 90 (10.73%) Microsoft
2 42 (5.01%) EMC
3 38 (4.53%) Qualtrics
4 35 (4.17%) Oracle
5 27 (3.22%) Virgin Media
6 25 (2.98%) Google
6 25 (2.98%) SAP
7 13 (1.55%) Atlassian
8 11 (1.31%) Nintex
9 7 (0.83%) Databricks
9 7 (0.83%) Salesforce
9 7 (0.83%) VMware
10 6 (0.72%) Cisco
10 6 (0.72%) NVIDIA
10 6 (0.72%) YouTube
11 5 (0.60%) BT
11 5 (0.60%) CA
12 4 (0.48%) Aruba
12 4 (0.48%) HP
12 4 (0.48%) ServiceNow