Master's Degree
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Master's Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 182 62 208
Rank change year-on-year -120 +146 +49
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 1,609 5,021 3,092
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.63% 4.84% 1.98%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.87% 14.85% 7.34%
Number of salaries quoted 837 856 983
10th Percentile £34,500 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,737 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -8.95% +12.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,625 £132,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +6.02%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,433 33,803 42,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.82% 32.57% 26.91%
Number of salaries quoted 17,326 15,201 19,033
10th Percentile £28,290 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £59,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.24% +8.18% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in the UK

Master's Degree
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Master's Degree in the UK

Master's Degree
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Master's Degree in the UK

Master's Degree
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 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
England -116 1,405 £65,000 - 1,061
UK excluding London -198 859 £55,000 +4.76% 609
London +53 675 £80,000 - 472
Work from Home -10 394 £63,750 +2.00% 404
South East -102 286 £60,000 - 158
North of England -223 128 £50,000 +12.75% 119
Scotland -108 114 £75,000 +41.51% 35
East of England -105 109 £55,000 -4.35% 114
Midlands -165 99 £55,000 +74.60% 99
South West -158 98 £50,000 +1.27% 78
North West -165 80 £63,750 +2.00% 65
West Midlands -132 59 £52,500 +5.00% 66
East Midlands -122 38 £61,439 +265.71% 33
North East -84 26 £50,000 +4.88% 29
Yorkshire -151 22 £48,750 +9.93% 30
Northern Ireland +24 20 £60,000 - 7
Wales -71 6 £51,250 -34.92% 19

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 103 (6.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (1.80%) FileNet
3 25 (1.55%) Skype for Business
4 19 (1.18%) Apache Spark
5 18 (1.12%) SharePoint
6 16 (0.99%) Apache
7 13 (0.81%) IIS
8 9 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.37%) nginx
10 5 (0.31%) Confluence
11 4 (0.25%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 4 (0.25%) WordPress
12 3 (0.19%) SAS
13 2 (0.12%) CMS
13 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.062%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 1 (0.062%) Umbraco
Applications
1 55 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.87%) Simulink
5 13 (0.81%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.37%) InVision
7 6 (0.37%) Sketch
7 6 (0.37%) Trello
7 6 (0.37%) UserZoom
8 5 (0.31%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.25%) EPLAN
9 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.19%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.062%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.062%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.062%) Blender
11 1 (0.062%) InDesign
11 1 (0.062%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 10 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.31%) Distributed Ledger
2 5 (0.31%) SAP MM
3 4 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.25%) Shopify
4 3 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (0.19%) Primavera
4 3 (0.19%) SAP APO
4 3 (0.19%) SAP PP
4 3 (0.19%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.19%) SAP WM
4 3 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payroll
5 2 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.062%) Data Workbench
6 1 (0.062%) Endur
6 1 (0.062%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.062%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.062%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 228 (14.17%) AWS
2 188 (11.68%) Azure
3 153 (9.51%) Microsoft 365
4 90 (5.59%) Power Platform
5 72 (4.47%) GCP
6 56 (3.48%) GitHub
6 56 (3.48%) SaaS
7 46 (2.86%) Amazon S3
8 41 (2.55%) Cloud Computing
9 39 (2.42%) Figma
10 38 (2.36%) SurveyMonkey
11 33 (2.05%) Serverless
12 27 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
13 23 (1.43%) IaaS
14 21 (1.31%) PaaS
15 20 (1.24%) PowerApps
16 19 (1.18%) WhatsApp
17 16 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
18 14 (0.87%) Power Automate
19 13 (0.81%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 123 (7.64%) Cisco IOS
2 113 (7.02%) Wireless
3 103 (6.40%) WebEx
4 102 (6.34%) WAN
5 98 (6.09%) SD-WAN
6 31 (1.93%) Firewall
7 30 (1.86%) 5G
7 30 (1.86%) Broadband
8 26 (1.62%) TCP/IP
9 25 (1.55%) Skype
9 25 (1.55%) Telepresence
10 18 (1.12%) Internet
11 15 (0.93%) Network Security
12 13 (0.81%) HTTP
12 13 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
13 12 (0.75%) Intranet
14 9 (0.56%) SNMP
15 8 (0.50%) Ethernet
16 6 (0.37%) LAN
16 6 (0.37%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (5.41%) Tableau
2 84 (5.22%) Power BI
3 63 (3.92%) SQL Server
4 57 (3.54%) NoSQL
5 48 (2.98%) Big Data
6 41 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
7 40 (2.49%) Relational Database
8 35 (2.18%) MySQL
8 35 (2.18%) Redis
9 34 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
10 30 (1.86%) Apache Cassandra
10 30 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
11 17 (1.06%) Hadoop
12 15 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 11 (0.68%) Data Lake
14 10 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
14 10 (0.62%) GIS
15 9 (0.56%) DynamoDB
16 8 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
16 8 (0.50%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 117 (7.27%) Git
2 56 (3.48%) Jenkins
3 34 (2.11%) GitLab
4 30 (1.86%) JUnit
5 29 (1.80%) Jasmine
5 29 (1.80%) Mockito
6 19 (1.18%) JIRA
7 6 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (0.25%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.25%) Snakemake
8 4 (0.25%) Subversion
9 3 (0.19%) Babel
9 3 (0.19%) CMake
9 3 (0.19%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.19%) TestRail
9 3 (0.19%) webpack
10 2 (0.12%) Maven
10 2 (0.12%) MLflow
10 2 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
10 2 (0.12%) TensorBoard
General
1 740 (45.99%) Social Skills
2 407 (25.30%) Finance
3 304 (18.89%) Analytical Skills
4 191 (11.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 180 (11.19%) Marketing
6 148 (9.20%) Law
7 96 (5.97%) Pharmaceutical
8 95 (5.90%) Legal
9 81 (5.03%) Manufacturing
10 66 (4.10%) Telecoms
11 57 (3.54%) Banking
11 57 (3.54%) Presentation Skills
12 56 (3.48%) Retail
13 55 (3.42%) Automotive
14 51 (3.17%) Public Sector
15 45 (2.80%) Electronics
16 40 (2.49%) Social Science
17 31 (1.93%) Games
18 27 (1.68%) Aerospace
19 21 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 281 (17.46%) Senior
2 155 (9.63%) Lead
3 149 (9.26%) Software Engineer
4 144 (8.95%) Developer
5 115 (7.15%) Analyst
6 101 (6.28%) IT Support
7 99 (6.15%) Support Specialist
8 98 (6.09%) Architect
8 98 (6.09%) IT Support Specialist
9 96 (5.97%) Data Scientist
10 92 (5.72%) Graduate
11 69 (4.29%) Senior Data Scientist
12 61 (3.79%) Systems Engineer
13 51 (3.17%) Principal Engineer
14 41 (2.55%) Consultant
15 40 (2.49%) Principal Systems Engineer
16 37 (2.30%) Senior Software Engineer
17 36 (2.24%) Data Engineer
18 34 (2.11%) Senior Analyst
18 34 (2.11%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (5.72%) React
2 88 (5.47%) .NET
3 81 (5.03%) AngularJS
4 76 (4.72%) Kafka
5 63 (3.92%) TensorFlow
6 51 (3.17%) scikit-learn
7 48 (2.98%) Pandas
8 44 (2.73%) Web Services
9 41 (2.55%) Spring
10 38 (2.36%) Hibernate
10 38 (2.36%) PyTorch
11 37 (2.30%) PySpark
12 34 (2.11%) ASP.NET
13 33 (2.05%) GraphQL
14 29 (1.80%) HTML
14 29 (1.80%) J2EE
14 29 (1.80%) Spring Integration
15 28 (1.74%) RESTful
16 22 (1.37%) REST
17 20 (1.24%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 243 (15.10%) Algorithms
2 124 (7.71%) Video Conferencing
3 111 (6.90%) Management Information System
4 98 (6.09%) Wiki
5 67 (4.16%) Data Structures
6 54 (3.36%) Onboarding
6 54 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
7 53 (3.29%) Cloud Native
7 53 (3.29%) Driving Licence
8 51 (3.17%) Product Ownership
9 32 (1.99%) IoT
10 30 (1.86%) Life Science
11 28 (1.74%) Market Risk
12 26 (1.62%) CUDA
13 25 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
14 24 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
15 22 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
15 22 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
16 19 (1.18%) Hedge funds
17 18 (1.12%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 172 (10.69%) Windows
2 126 (7.83%) Windows 10
3 123 (7.64%) Linux
4 108 (6.71%) Android
5 33 (2.05%) Unix
6 25 (1.55%) Windows 7
7 12 (0.75%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.44%) FreeRTOS
9 6 (0.37%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (0.25%) DC/OS
10 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.062%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.062%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 803 (49.91%) Computer Science
2 528 (32.82%) Problem-Solving
3 321 (19.95%) Agile
4 292 (18.15%) Software Engineering
5 266 (16.53%) Mathematics
6 244 (15.16%) Machine Learning
7 237 (14.73%) Artificial Intelligence
8 224 (13.92%) Data Science
9 223 (13.86%) Analytics
10 204 (12.68%) Decision-Making
11 193 (12.00%) Roadmaps
12 173 (10.75%) Project Management
13 167 (10.38%) Statistics
14 166 (10.32%) Visualisation
15 151 (9.38%) Physics
16 149 (9.26%) Data Analysis
17 146 (9.07%) Mentoring
18 139 (8.64%) Continuous Improvement
19 131 (8.14%) Actionable Insight
19 131 (8.14%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 464 (28.84%) Python
2 277 (17.22%) SQL
3 165 (10.25%) C#
4 130 (8.08%) Java
5 122 (7.58%) C++
6 107 (6.65%) C
7 106 (6.59%) R
8 77 (4.79%) JavaScript
9 50 (3.11%) Fortran
10 34 (2.11%) MATLAB
10 34 (2.11%) TypeScript
11 24 (1.49%) Bash
11 24 (1.49%) Go
12 21 (1.31%) PowerShell
13 17 (1.06%) Rust
13 17 (1.06%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.62%) Scala
15 8 (0.50%) Haskell
16 6 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 5 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,609 (100.00%) Degree
2 459 (28.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 360 (22.37%) PhD
4 173 (10.75%) MBA
5 88 (5.47%) Security Cleared
6 61 (3.79%) CISSP
7 51 (3.17%) DBS Check
8 47 (2.92%) Chartered Engineer
8 47 (2.92%) CISM
9 32 (1.99%) SC Cleared
10 25 (1.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 21 (1.31%) AWS Certification
11 21 (1.31%) DV Cleared
11 21 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
12 17 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
12 17 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (1.06%) PMP
13 16 (0.99%) PMI Certification
14 15 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 15 (0.93%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (4.54%) QA
2 66 (4.10%) Data Quality
3 47 (2.92%) GDPR
4 35 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 29 (1.80%) Accessibility
6 26 (1.62%) NIST
7 18 (1.12%) PCI DSS
8 16 (0.99%) NCSC
8 16 (0.99%) PMO
9 13 (0.81%) HIPAA
9 13 (0.81%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 10 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 9 (0.56%) COBIT
12 7 (0.44%) ISO 13485
13 6 (0.37%) WCAG
13 6 (0.37%) Web Application Security Consortium
14 4 (0.25%) Automotive SPICE
14 4 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.25%) ISO 26262
15 3 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 118 (7.33%) Active Directory
2 102 (6.34%) Docker
3 101 (6.28%) VMware ESXi
4 98 (6.09%) Microsoft App-V
4 98 (6.09%) XenApp
4 98 (6.09%) XenDesktop
5 15 (0.93%) Firmware
6 13 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
7 7 (0.44%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.12%) HDFS
9 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.062%) Snort
9 1 (0.062%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.062%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 103 (6.40%) Kubernetes
2 99 (6.15%) SCCM
3 98 (6.09%) AirWatch
4 40 (2.49%) Terraform
5 11 (0.68%) Ansible
6 9 (0.56%) CASB
7 8 (0.50%) Kubeflow
8 6 (0.37%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 5 (0.31%) Argo
10 4 (0.25%) Functional Safety
11 3 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.19%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.12%) Cisco Prime
12 2 (0.12%) Core Impact
12 2 (0.12%) CSIRT
13 1 (0.062%) EMC NetWorker
13 1 (0.062%) Grafana
13 1 (0.062%) Nmap
13 1 (0.062%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 266 (16.53%) Microsoft
2 139 (8.64%) Cisco
3 101 (6.28%) Citrix
4 50 (3.11%) Oracle
5 46 (2.86%) SAP
6 45 (2.80%) Google
7 44 (2.73%) Qualtrics
8 42 (2.61%) Databricks
8 42 (2.61%) EMC
9 30 (1.86%) Virgin Media
10 28 (1.74%) Apple
11 25 (1.55%) Polycom
12 13 (0.81%) Atlassian
12 13 (0.81%) VMware
13 11 (0.68%) Aruba
13 11 (0.68%) HP
13 11 (0.68%) Nintex
14 10 (0.62%) Salesforce
15 8 (0.50%) CA
16 6 (0.37%) Sage