Master's Degree Contract Job Trends in London

Master's Degree
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 200 207
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 +63
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 185 165 195
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.26% 1.20% 1.05%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.29% 4.68% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 100 125
10th Percentile £360 £398 £355
25th Percentile £422 £500 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £700 £756 £788
90th Percentile £885 £868 £895
England median daily rate £525 £575 £619
% change year-on-year -8.70% -7.03% +3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 9
10th Percentile £53.58 - £10.42
25th Percentile £57.86 £30.67 £28.51
Median hourly rate £65.00 £31.35 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +107.37% -45.49% +34.50%
75th Percentile - £32.02 £83.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £33.50 £42.88 £55.00
% change year-on-year -21.88% -22.04% +22.22%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,316 3,528 4,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.31% 25.56% 24.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,026 2,189 3,059
10th Percentile £358 £352 £325
25th Percentile £430 £450 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.28% -0.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £766
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 62 127
10th Percentile £20.68 £21.55 £14.96
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.93 £19.99
Median hourly rate £31.14 £37.50 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -16.97% +5.25% -4.27%
75th Percentile £65.06 £55.81 £64.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.40 £83.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year -45.54% - +2.62%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Master's Degree relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Master's Degree job vacancy trend in London

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Master's Degree.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Master's Degree

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in London over the 6 months to 1 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Master's Degree in London

Master's Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Master's Degree.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Master's Degree

Master's Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Master's Degree in London over the 6 months to 1 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Master's Degree in London

Master's Degree
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 February 2026. 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
Central London -11 24 £600 - 62
West London -16 7 £550 +733.33% 10
East London - 1 £1,000 - 4
Master's Degree
England

Master's Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 16 (8.65%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.62%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.08%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.08%) Hyperledger
3 2 (1.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.54%) Camunda
4 1 (0.54%) CMS
4 1 (0.54%) Confluence
4 1 (0.54%) Drupal
4 1 (0.54%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.54%) SAP Portal
4 1 (0.54%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (4.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.54%) Camtasia
4 1 (0.54%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.54%) Navisworks
4 1 (0.54%) ProjectWise
4 1 (0.54%) Revit
4 1 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.62%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (1.62%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 3 (1.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.08%) Oracle FAH
2 2 (1.08%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.08%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (1.08%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.08%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.54%) Endur
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.54%) SAP FI-CA
3 1 (0.54%) SAP FI-GL
3 1 (0.54%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.54%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 54 (29.19%) Azure
2 34 (18.38%) AWS
3 21 (11.35%) SaaS
4 16 (8.65%) GCP
5 13 (7.03%) GitHub
6 10 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (5.41%) Power Platform
7 9 (4.86%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (4.86%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (4.32%) OCI
8 8 (4.32%) Serverless
9 7 (3.78%) Amazon S3
9 7 (3.78%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (3.24%) Azure Machine Learning
10 6 (3.24%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (3.24%) IaaS
11 5 (2.70%) Azure AI
11 5 (2.70%) PaaS
11 5 (2.70%) Sentry
12 4 (2.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.78%) HTTP
2 5 (2.70%) CTI
2 5 (2.70%) VoIP
3 4 (2.16%) Network Security
4 2 (1.08%) 3GPP
4 2 (1.08%) Intelligent Network
4 2 (1.08%) S/MIME
4 2 (1.08%) SSL
4 2 (1.08%) Wireless
5 1 (0.54%) Firewall
5 1 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.41%) Power BI
2 9 (4.86%) Big Data
3 7 (3.78%) SQL Server
4 6 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (3.24%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.16%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.16%) Pinecone
5 4 (2.16%) Tableau
6 3 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.08%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.08%) Redis
7 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.08%) Weaviate
8 1 (0.54%) Ataccama
8 1 (0.54%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
8 1 (0.54%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.54%) Flink
8 1 (0.54%) Kdb+
8 1 (0.54%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 18 (9.73%) Git
2 6 (3.24%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.24%) JIRA
3 5 (2.70%) Appium
3 5 (2.70%) Charles Proxy
3 5 (2.70%) Katalon Studio
3 5 (2.70%) Postman
3 5 (2.70%) XCUITest
4 4 (2.16%) IntelliJ
5 3 (1.62%) MLflow
5 3 (1.62%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.08%) Hardhat
6 2 (1.08%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.08%) Vite
7 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.54%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.54%) GitLab
7 1 (0.54%) JMeter
7 1 (0.54%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.54%) NeoLoad
General
1 88 (47.57%) Social Skills
2 79 (42.70%) Finance
3 57 (30.81%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (21.08%) Banking
5 23 (12.43%) Presentation Skills
6 17 (9.19%) Front Office
7 15 (8.11%) Investment Banking
8 11 (5.95%) Financial Institution
9 9 (4.86%) Legal
10 7 (3.78%) Marketing
11 6 (3.24%) Manufacturing
11 6 (3.24%) Telecoms
12 5 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (2.70%) Public Sector
12 5 (2.70%) Retail
13 4 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (1.62%) General Ledger
15 2 (1.08%) French Language
15 2 (1.08%) Japanese Language
15 2 (1.08%) Law
Job Titles
1 28 (15.14%) Lead
2 26 (14.05%) Developer
3 20 (10.81%) Architect
4 19 (10.27%) Senior
5 16 (8.65%) Analyst
6 12 (6.49%) Consultant
7 11 (5.95%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 11 (5.95%) Project Manager
7 11 (5.95%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (5.41%) Business Analyst
8 10 (5.41%) Integration Architect
9 9 (4.86%) Cloud Architect
9 9 (4.86%) Cloud Solutions Architect
9 9 (4.86%) Data Scientist
9 9 (4.86%) Quantitative Developer
10 8 (4.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 6 (3.24%) Test Manager
12 5 (2.70%) Genesys Developer
12 5 (2.70%) Senior Data Scientist
12 5 (2.70%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.65%) Middleware
2 14 (7.57%) PyTorch
3 12 (6.49%) TensorFlow
4 11 (5.95%) .NET
5 10 (5.41%) LangChain
5 10 (5.41%) NumPy
6 8 (4.32%) Pandas
6 8 (4.32%) RESTful
6 8 (4.32%) Web Services
7 7 (3.78%) Kafka
8 6 (3.24%) Dask
8 6 (3.24%) Hugging Face
8 6 (3.24%) Model Context Protocol
8 6 (3.24%) REST
9 5 (2.70%) LangGraph
9 5 (2.70%) scikit-learn
9 5 (2.70%) SOAP
9 5 (2.70%) XML
10 4 (2.16%) Node.js
10 4 (2.16%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.19%) Derivative
2 16 (8.65%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.65%) Distributed Computing
2 16 (8.65%) Management Information System
3 12 (6.49%) Algorithms
3 12 (6.49%) Equities
4 11 (5.95%) Product Ownership
5 10 (5.41%) Fixed Income
5 10 (5.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (5.41%) Hedge funds
5 10 (5.41%) PMI
6 9 (4.86%) AI Agents
6 9 (4.86%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (4.32%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (3.78%) Mobile App
9 6 (3.24%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (2.70%) Equity Derivative
10 5 (2.70%) IVR
10 5 (2.70%) Life Science
11 4 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.70%) Android
1 5 (2.70%) Apple iOS
1 5 (2.70%) Windows
2 4 (2.16%) Linux
3 2 (1.08%) VMS
3 2 (1.08%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (65.95%) Computer Science
2 59 (31.89%) Problem-Solving
3 56 (30.27%) Agile
3 56 (30.27%) AI
4 43 (23.24%) Machine Learning
5 40 (21.62%) Stakeholder Management
6 39 (21.08%) DevOps
6 39 (21.08%) Risk Management
7 37 (20.00%) Roadmaps
8 36 (19.46%) Analytics
9 33 (17.84%) Decision-Making
9 33 (17.84%) Mathematics
10 30 (16.22%) Data Science
11 29 (15.68%) CI/CD
11 29 (15.68%) Software Engineering
12 28 (15.14%) Generative AI
12 28 (15.14%) LLM
12 28 (15.14%) Validation
13 26 (14.05%) Project Delivery
14 25 (13.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 64 (34.59%) Python
2 32 (17.30%) SQL
3 19 (10.27%) Java
4 14 (7.57%) C++
5 10 (5.41%) C#
6 8 (4.32%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.24%) Bash
7 6 (3.24%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.70%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.70%) Swift
8 5 (2.70%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.16%) Go
10 3 (1.62%) Bicep
10 3 (1.62%) VBA
11 2 (1.08%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.08%) R
11 2 (1.08%) Solidity
12 1 (0.54%) F#
12 1 (0.54%) Scala
12 1 (0.54%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 185 (100.00%) Degree
2 68 (36.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 37 (20.00%) PhD
4 19 (10.27%) PMI Certification
5 17 (9.19%) MBA
6 13 (7.03%) PMP
7 11 (5.95%) CISSP
8 6 (3.24%) CISM
9 5 (2.70%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.70%) CBAP
10 4 (2.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (2.16%) AWS Certification
10 4 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (2.16%) CCSP
10 4 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (2.16%) CRISC
10 4 (2.16%) Security Cleared
11 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (1.62%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.27%) QA
2 18 (9.73%) GDPR
3 9 (4.86%) IFRS
3 9 (4.86%) IFRS 17
4 7 (3.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.78%) NIST
4 7 (3.78%) PCI DSS
5 6 (3.24%) Accessibility
6 5 (2.70%) Data Quality
6 5 (2.70%) GRC
6 5 (2.70%) IFRS 9
7 4 (2.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (1.62%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (1.08%) Basel III
9 2 (1.08%) GAAP
9 2 (1.08%) GMP
9 2 (1.08%) SLA
10 1 (0.54%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (13.51%) Docker
2 2 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (11.89%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.65%) Terraform
3 2 (1.08%) Control-M
3 2 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.54%) Grafana
4 1 (0.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (13.51%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.73%) Databricks
3 14 (7.57%) SAP
4 13 (7.03%) Oracle
5 10 (5.41%) Software AG
6 7 (3.78%) Google
7 6 (3.24%) Splunk
8 5 (2.70%) Genesys
8 5 (2.70%) Informatica
9 4 (2.16%) Workday
10 3 (1.62%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.08%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.08%) IBM
11 2 (1.08%) Rapid7
12 1 (0.54%) CyberArk
12 1 (0.54%) Hotjar
12 1 (0.54%) HubSpot
12 1 (0.54%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.54%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.54%) UiPath