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 19 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 221 205
Rank change year-on-year -13 -16 +70
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 174 136 207
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.06% 1.06% 1.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.58% 4.18% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 90 136
10th Percentile £368 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £490 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% -9.42%
75th Percentile £706 £777 £775
90th Percentile £944 £913 £850
England median daily rate £525 £580 £600
% change year-on-year -9.48% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 9
10th Percentile - £32.86 £10.42
25th Percentile £50.72 £36.13 £28.51
Median hourly rate £51.44 £45.67 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.63% -39.10% +54.64%
75th Percentile £52.16 £58.63 £83.75
90th Percentile - £63.95 -
England median hourly rate £29.61 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -50.65% +9.09% +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 4,861 3,257 4,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.57% 25.48% 24.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,454 2,172 2,954
10th Percentile £363 £349 £325
25th Percentile £430 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £655 £658
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 66 125
10th Percentile £19.54 £21.50 £14.26
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.93 £20.50
Median hourly rate £37.25 £37.25 £34.23
Median % change year-on-year - +8.82% -15.48%
75th Percentile £74.46 £56.19 £61.25
90th Percentile £77.28 £78.40 £83.75
England median hourly rate £28.50 £50.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -43.00% +33.33% -25.00%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 -17 22 £525 -25.43% 56
West London -7 10 £600 - 8
East London -1 1 £1,000 +250.88% 7
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 (9.20%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.72%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.15%) Ethereum
4 2 (1.15%) Hyperledger
4 2 (1.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.57%) Apache
5 1 (0.57%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.57%) Camunda
5 1 (0.57%) CMS
5 1 (0.57%) Confluence
5 1 (0.57%) Drupal
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.57%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.57%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.57%) Camtasia
4 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.57%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.57%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.72%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (1.72%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (1.15%) Oracle FAH
2 2 (1.15%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (1.15%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.57%) Endur
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.57%) SAP FI-GL
3 1 (0.57%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.57%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.57%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 48 (27.59%) Azure
2 34 (19.54%) AWS
3 20 (11.49%) SaaS
4 14 (8.05%) GCP
4 14 (8.05%) GitHub
5 10 (5.75%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (5.17%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (5.17%) Serverless
7 8 (4.60%) Amazon S3
7 8 (4.60%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (4.60%) OCI
7 8 (4.60%) Power Platform
8 6 (3.45%) Amazon SageMaker
8 6 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.45%) Dagster
8 6 (3.45%) IaaS
9 5 (2.87%) Azure Machine Learning
9 5 (2.87%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (2.87%) PaaS
10 4 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.87%) CTI
1 5 (2.87%) VoIP
2 3 (1.72%) HTTP
2 3 (1.72%) Network Security
3 2 (1.15%) 3GPP
3 2 (1.15%) Intelligent Network
3 2 (1.15%) S/MIME
3 2 (1.15%) SSL
3 2 (1.15%) Wireless
4 1 (0.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.32%) Big Data
2 8 (4.60%) Power BI
3 6 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.87%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.87%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.30%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.30%) Tableau
6 3 (1.72%) Metadata
6 3 (1.72%) Pinecone
6 3 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.15%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.15%) Redis
7 2 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.15%) Weaviate
8 1 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.57%) Essbase
8 1 (0.57%) KDB
8 1 (0.57%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 24 (13.79%) Git
2 9 (5.17%) MLflow
3 8 (4.60%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.02%) JIRA
5 2 (1.15%) Hardhat
5 2 (1.15%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.15%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.15%) Vite
6 1 (0.57%) Appium
6 1 (0.57%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.57%) Charles Proxy
6 1 (0.57%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.57%) GitLab
6 1 (0.57%) Hudson
6 1 (0.57%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (0.57%) Postman
6 1 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.57%) VersionOne
6 1 (0.57%) XCUITest
General
1 88 (50.57%) Social Skills
2 73 (41.95%) Finance
3 62 (35.63%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (22.99%) Banking
5 23 (13.22%) Presentation Skills
6 15 (8.62%) Front Office
6 15 (8.62%) Investment Banking
7 9 (5.17%) Financial Institution
7 9 (5.17%) Marketing
8 6 (3.45%) Legal
8 6 (3.45%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.87%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.30%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.30%) Retail
11 3 (1.72%) Aviation
11 3 (1.72%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.72%) Japanese Language
12 2 (1.15%) Advertising
12 2 (1.15%) French Language
Job Titles
1 31 (17.82%) Lead
2 22 (12.64%) Architect
2 22 (12.64%) Developer
3 16 (9.20%) Senior
4 14 (8.05%) Data Scientist
5 13 (7.47%) Integration Architect
5 13 (7.47%) Solutions Architect
6 12 (6.90%) Analyst
7 11 (6.32%) Consultant
8 9 (5.17%) Cloud Architect
8 9 (5.17%) Cloud Solutions Architect
8 9 (5.17%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 8 (4.60%) Project Manager
10 7 (4.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 7 (4.02%) Business Analyst
10 7 (4.02%) Quantitative Developer
11 6 (3.45%) Senior Data Scientist
11 6 (3.45%) Test Manager
12 5 (2.87%) Genesys Developer
12 5 (2.87%) Lead Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.20%) Middleware
2 13 (7.47%) NumPy
2 13 (7.47%) Pandas
3 12 (6.90%) PyTorch
4 9 (5.17%) LangChain
4 9 (5.17%) scikit-learn
4 9 (5.17%) TensorFlow
5 7 (4.02%) .NET
5 7 (4.02%) Kafka
6 6 (3.45%) Dask
6 6 (3.45%) Model Context Protocol
7 5 (2.87%) Hugging Face
7 5 (2.87%) LangGraph
7 5 (2.87%) RESTful
8 4 (2.30%) Node.js
8 4 (2.30%) OAuth
8 4 (2.30%) REST
8 4 (2.30%) SciPy
8 4 (2.30%) Seaborn
8 4 (2.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.77%) Derivative
2 15 (8.62%) Distributed Computing
2 15 (8.62%) Management Information System
3 13 (7.47%) Algorithms
3 13 (7.47%) Cloud Native
4 12 (6.90%) Equities
5 9 (5.17%) Fixed Income
5 9 (5.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (4.60%) AI Agents
6 8 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (4.60%) Hedge funds
7 7 (4.02%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (3.45%) Equity Derivative
8 6 (3.45%) Life Science
8 6 (3.45%) Virtual Team
9 5 (2.87%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.87%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.87%) IVR
9 5 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.87%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.87%) Windows
2 3 (1.72%) Linux
2 3 (1.72%) VMS
3 2 (1.15%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.57%) Android
4 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (60.34%) Computer Science
2 56 (32.18%) AI
3 53 (30.46%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (28.16%) Agile
5 48 (27.59%) Machine Learning
6 43 (24.71%) Roadmaps
7 37 (21.26%) DevOps
8 36 (20.69%) Decision-Making
9 35 (20.11%) Stakeholder Management
10 32 (18.39%) CI/CD
10 32 (18.39%) Mathematics
11 31 (17.82%) Data Science
12 30 (17.24%) Analytics
13 29 (16.67%) Risk Management
14 28 (16.09%) Software Engineering
15 27 (15.52%) LLM
15 27 (15.52%) Validation
16 26 (14.94%) Generative AI
17 25 (14.37%) Data Engineering
17 25 (14.37%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 68 (39.08%) Python
2 33 (18.97%) SQL
3 20 (11.49%) Java
4 11 (6.32%) C++
5 7 (4.02%) C#
6 6 (3.45%) Bash
6 6 (3.45%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.30%) Go
7 4 (2.30%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.72%) Scala
9 2 (1.15%) R
9 2 (1.15%) Solidity
9 2 (1.15%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.57%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.57%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.57%) SOQL
10 1 (0.57%) Swift
10 1 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 174 (100.00%) Degree
2 68 (39.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 36 (20.69%) PhD
4 17 (9.77%) MBA
5 13 (7.47%) CISSP
6 12 (6.90%) PMI Certification
7 9 (5.17%) PMP
8 7 (4.02%) CISM
9 6 (3.45%) CRISC
10 4 (2.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (2.30%) Azure Certification
10 4 (2.30%) CCSP
10 4 (2.30%) CISA
10 4 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (2.30%) Security Cleared
11 3 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.72%) CFA
11 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (1.15%) AWS Certification
12 2 (1.15%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.77%) GDPR
2 15 (8.62%) QA
3 11 (6.32%) NIST
4 9 (5.17%) IFRS
4 9 (5.17%) IFRS 17
4 9 (5.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (4.60%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.87%) Data Quality
6 5 (2.87%) GRC
6 5 (2.87%) IFRS 9
6 5 (2.87%) SLA
7 4 (2.30%) PMO
8 3 (1.72%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (1.72%) SOC 2
9 2 (1.15%) Accessibility
9 2 (1.15%) Basel III
9 2 (1.15%) COBIT
9 2 (1.15%) GAAP
9 2 (1.15%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 27 (15.52%) Docker
2 2 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.57%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (11.49%) Kubernetes
2 14 (8.05%) Terraform
3 2 (1.15%) Control-M
3 2 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (14.37%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.62%) Databricks
3 12 (6.90%) Oracle
3 12 (6.90%) SAP
3 12 (6.90%) Software AG
4 9 (5.17%) Google
5 5 (2.87%) Genesys
5 5 (2.87%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.30%) Informatica
6 4 (2.30%) Workday
7 2 (1.15%) Adobe
7 2 (1.15%) IBM
7 2 (1.15%) Rapid7
7 2 (1.15%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.57%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.57%) Foundry
8 1 (0.57%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.57%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.57%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.57%) Talend