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 4 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 200 215
Rank change year-on-year -10 +15 +54
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 170 173 188
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.19% 1.21% 1.04%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.09% 4.66% 4.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 106 121
10th Percentile £382 £387 £350
25th Percentile £421 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £800
90th Percentile £878 £838 £1,000
England median daily rate £525 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -4.55% -12.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile - - £15.85
25th Percentile - £30.67 £23.99
Median hourly rate £65.00 £31.35 £43.37
Median % change year-on-year +107.37% -27.72% -5.21%
75th Percentile - £32.02 £55.00
90th Percentile - - £57.25
England median hourly rate £33.50 £27.67 £43.37
% change year-on-year +21.07% -36.19% -3.63%

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 4,154 3,712 4,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.03% 25.95% 24.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,901 2,329 2,932
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £653
90th Percentile £750 £775 £770
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 59 90
10th Percentile £20.71 £21.00 £18.99
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.08 £21.05
Median hourly rate £27.50 £39.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.49% -13.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £64.13 £60.38 £65.59
90th Percentile £76.58 £83.20 £86.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £51.89
% change year-on-year -45.54% -11.00% +15.31%

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 4 January 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
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 4 January 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 -6 22 £600 +15.94% 91
West London -13 4 £350 +68.27% 3
East London - 2 £1,000 - 1
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 17 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.76%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.18%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.18%) Hyperledger
3 2 (1.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.59%) CMS
4 1 (0.59%) Confluence
4 1 (0.59%) Drupal
4 1 (0.59%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.59%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.59%) SAP Portal
4 1 (0.59%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.59%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.59%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.59%) Camtasia
3 1 (0.59%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.59%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.59%) Navisworks
3 1 (0.59%) ProjectWise
3 1 (0.59%) Revit
3 1 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.76%) SAP IBP
3 2 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.18%) Endur
3 2 (1.18%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (1.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (1.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.59%) SAP FI-CA
4 1 (0.59%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.59%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 54 (31.76%) Azure
2 32 (18.82%) AWS
3 16 (9.41%) GCP
4 15 (8.82%) SaaS
5 12 (7.06%) GitHub
6 11 (6.47%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (6.47%) Power Platform
7 10 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (3.53%) Azure Machine Learning
8 6 (3.53%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (3.53%) Serverless
9 5 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (2.94%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.94%) Azure AI
9 5 (2.94%) OCI
9 5 (2.94%) Sentry
10 4 (2.35%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.35%) Miro
10 4 (2.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.12%) HTTP
2 5 (2.94%) CTI
2 5 (2.94%) VoIP
3 4 (2.35%) Network Security
4 2 (1.18%) 3GPP
4 2 (1.18%) Intelligent Network
4 2 (1.18%) S/MIME
4 2 (1.18%) SSL
4 2 (1.18%) Wireless
5 1 (0.59%) Firewall
5 1 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.47%) Power BI
2 10 (5.88%) Big Data
3 9 (5.29%) SQL Server
4 7 (4.12%) Tableau
5 6 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (3.53%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.53%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.35%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.18%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.18%) Metadata
7 2 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.18%) Weaviate
8 1 (0.59%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.59%) Essbase
8 1 (0.59%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.59%) KDB
8 1 (0.59%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.59%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.59%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 13 (7.65%) Git
2 6 (3.53%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.53%) JIRA
3 5 (2.94%) Appium
3 5 (2.94%) Charles Proxy
3 5 (2.94%) Katalon Studio
3 5 (2.94%) Postman
3 5 (2.94%) TeamCity
3 5 (2.94%) XCUITest
4 4 (2.35%) IntelliJ
5 2 (1.18%) GitLab
5 2 (1.18%) Hardhat
5 2 (1.18%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.59%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.59%) Gatling
6 1 (0.59%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.59%) MLflow
6 1 (0.59%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.59%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.59%) SonarQube
General
1 81 (47.65%) Social Skills
2 77 (45.29%) Finance
3 48 (28.24%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (22.35%) Banking
5 20 (11.76%) Front Office
6 18 (10.59%) Investment Banking
7 17 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (7.06%) Financial Institution
9 9 (5.29%) Legal
10 7 (4.12%) Manufacturing
10 7 (4.12%) Marketing
10 7 (4.12%) Telecoms
11 6 (3.53%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (2.35%) Public Sector
12 4 (2.35%) Retail
13 2 (1.18%) Back Office
13 2 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.18%) General Ledger
13 2 (1.18%) Law
Job Titles
1 27 (15.88%) Developer
2 23 (13.53%) Lead
3 19 (11.18%) Senior
4 18 (10.59%) Architect
5 17 (10.00%) Analyst
6 12 (7.06%) Project Manager
7 11 (6.47%) Business Analyst
7 11 (6.47%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 9 (5.29%) Consultant
9 8 (4.71%) Data Scientist
9 8 (4.71%) Quantitative Developer
9 8 (4.71%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (4.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 7 (4.12%) Cloud Architect
10 7 (4.12%) Cloud Solutions Architect
10 7 (4.12%) Integration Architect
11 5 (2.94%) C# Developer
11 5 (2.94%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
11 5 (2.94%) Senior Developer
11 5 (2.94%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.24%) PyTorch
2 13 (7.65%) Middleware
2 13 (7.65%) TensorFlow
3 12 (7.06%) .NET
4 10 (5.88%) NumPy
5 9 (5.29%) Kafka
5 9 (5.29%) LangChain
6 8 (4.71%) Pandas
6 8 (4.71%) RESTful
7 7 (4.12%) Web Services
8 6 (3.53%) Dask
8 6 (3.53%) Hugging Face
8 6 (3.53%) REST
9 5 (2.94%) LangGraph
9 5 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (2.94%) scikit-learn
10 4 (2.35%) SOAP
10 4 (2.35%) XML
11 3 (1.76%) Faiss
11 3 (1.76%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.76%) Derivative
2 14 (8.24%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.24%) Distributed Computing
3 13 (7.65%) Equities
3 13 (7.65%) Management Information System
3 13 (7.65%) Product Ownership
4 12 (7.06%) Hedge funds
5 11 (6.47%) Algorithms
5 11 (6.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (5.88%) Fixed Income
6 10 (5.88%) PMI
7 8 (4.71%) AI Agents
7 8 (4.71%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (4.12%) Mobile App
9 6 (3.53%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (2.94%) Data Fabric
10 5 (2.94%) Equity Derivative
10 5 (2.94%) IVR
11 4 (2.35%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.53%) Windows
2 5 (2.94%) Android
2 5 (2.94%) Apple iOS
2 5 (2.94%) Linux
3 3 (1.76%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.59%) Unix
4 1 (0.59%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (68.82%) Computer Science
2 56 (32.94%) Agile
2 56 (32.94%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (28.82%) AI
4 41 (24.12%) Analytics
5 40 (23.53%) Machine Learning
6 39 (22.94%) Risk Management
7 38 (22.35%) DevOps
7 38 (22.35%) Stakeholder Management
8 33 (19.41%) Decision-Making
8 33 (19.41%) Mathematics
9 32 (18.82%) Roadmaps
10 27 (15.88%) Data Science
10 27 (15.88%) Project Delivery
11 26 (15.29%) Generative AI
11 26 (15.29%) LLM
12 25 (14.71%) Software Engineering
13 24 (14.12%) CI/CD
14 23 (13.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 23 (13.53%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 58 (34.12%) Python
2 31 (18.24%) SQL
3 16 (9.41%) C++
4 14 (8.24%) C#
5 13 (7.65%) Java
6 7 (4.12%) Bash
6 7 (4.12%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.12%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.94%) Kotlin
7 5 (2.94%) Swift
7 5 (2.94%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.35%) R
9 3 (1.76%) Bicep
9 3 (1.76%) VBA
10 2 (1.18%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.18%) Solidity
11 1 (0.59%) F#
11 1 (0.59%) Go
11 1 (0.59%) Scala
11 1 (0.59%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 170 (100.00%) Degree
2 63 (37.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (19.41%) PhD
4 20 (11.76%) PMI Certification
5 16 (9.41%) MBA
6 14 (8.24%) PMP
7 8 (4.71%) CISSP
8 6 (3.53%) MCP
9 5 (2.94%) CBAP
9 5 (2.94%) CISM
10 3 (1.76%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.76%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.76%) CRISC
10 3 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.76%) Security Cleared
10 3 (1.76%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (1.18%) CCSP
11 2 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (1.18%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.00%) QA
2 16 (9.41%) GDPR
3 8 (4.71%) Data Quality
4 7 (4.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (3.53%) Accessibility
5 6 (3.53%) IFRS
5 6 (3.53%) IFRS 17
6 5 (2.94%) GRC
6 5 (2.94%) IFRS 9
6 5 (2.94%) NIST
7 4 (2.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (2.35%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.76%) GMP
8 3 (1.76%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (1.18%) Basel III
9 2 (1.18%) GAAP
9 2 (1.18%) SLA
10 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 20 (11.76%) Docker
2 2 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (11.18%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.65%) Terraform
3 2 (1.18%) Control-M
3 2 (1.18%) Grafana
3 2 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.59%) Ansible
4 1 (0.59%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.59%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (12.94%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.59%) Databricks
3 15 (8.82%) SAP
4 12 (7.06%) Oracle
5 7 (4.12%) Software AG
5 7 (4.12%) Splunk
6 5 (2.94%) Genesys
6 5 (2.94%) Google
6 5 (2.94%) Informatica
7 4 (2.35%) Workday
8 3 (1.76%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.76%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.18%) IBM
9 2 (1.18%) OpenLink
10 1 (0.59%) Adobe
10 1 (0.59%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.59%) Calypso
10 1 (0.59%) HP
10 1 (0.59%) Murex
10 1 (0.59%) Reuters