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 26 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 217 206
Rank change year-on-year +4 -11 +54
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 185 152 206
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.17% 1.13% 1.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.97% 4.49% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 87 135
10th Percentile £376 £356 £375
25th Percentile £425 £477 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -11.54% -5.11%
75th Percentile £719 £782 £781
90th Percentile £885 £970 £850
England median daily rate £525 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -8.70% -8.00% +4.17%
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 £33.50 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -44.17% +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 4,662 3,385 4,382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.43% 25.14% 24.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,324 2,153 2,930
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £430 £450 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £657 £650
90th Percentile £750 £774 £770
England median daily rate £520 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 63 126
10th Percentile £19.94 £21.50 £14.26
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +15.21% -19.71%
75th Percentile £65.88 £56.13 £62.26
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.40 £83.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -49.70% +17.65% -8.60%

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 26 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
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 26 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 +7 23 £525 -18.29% 43
West London -11 8 £500 +657.58% 6
East London 0 1 £1,000 +250.88% 6
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 (9.19%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.62%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.08%) Confluence
3 2 (1.08%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.08%) Hyperledger
3 2 (1.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.54%) Apache
4 1 (0.54%) Camunda
4 1 (0.54%) CMS
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%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.54%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.54%) Camtasia
4 1 (0.54%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.54%) CPLEX
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
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%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.54%) SAP FI-CA
3 1 (0.54%) SAP FI-GL
3 1 (0.54%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.54%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.54%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 51 (27.57%) Azure
2 32 (17.30%) AWS
3 23 (12.43%) SaaS
4 15 (8.11%) GCP
5 14 (7.57%) GitHub
6 11 (5.95%) Power Platform
7 10 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (4.86%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (4.86%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (4.32%) OCI
9 8 (4.32%) Serverless
10 7 (3.78%) Amazon S3
10 7 (3.78%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (3.24%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (3.24%) IaaS
12 5 (2.70%) Amazon SageMaker
12 5 (2.70%) Azure Machine Learning
12 5 (2.70%) PaaS
13 4 (2.16%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (2.16%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.70%) CTI
1 5 (2.70%) HTTP
1 5 (2.70%) VoIP
2 3 (1.62%) Network Security
3 2 (1.08%) 3GPP
3 2 (1.08%) Intelligent Network
3 2 (1.08%) S/MIME
3 2 (1.08%) SSL
3 2 (1.08%) Wireless
4 1 (0.54%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.95%) Power BI
2 10 (5.41%) Big Data
3 6 (3.24%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.70%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.70%) Tableau
5 3 (1.62%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.62%) Pinecone
5 3 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.08%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.08%) Redis
6 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.08%) Weaviate
7 1 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.54%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.54%) Essbase
7 1 (0.54%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.54%) KDB
7 1 (0.54%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.54%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 20 (10.81%) Git
2 7 (3.78%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.78%) JIRA
3 6 (3.24%) MLflow
4 3 (1.62%) Appium
4 3 (1.62%) Charles Proxy
4 3 (1.62%) Katalon Studio
4 3 (1.62%) Postman
4 3 (1.62%) XCUITest
5 2 (1.08%) Hardhat
5 2 (1.08%) IntelliJ
5 2 (1.08%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.08%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.08%) Vite
6 1 (0.54%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.54%) Gatling
6 1 (0.54%) GitLab
6 1 (0.54%) JMeter
6 1 (0.54%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.54%) SonarQube
General
1 92 (49.73%) Social Skills
2 81 (43.78%) Finance
3 63 (34.05%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (21.62%) Banking
5 23 (12.43%) Presentation Skills
6 16 (8.65%) Front Office
7 13 (7.03%) Investment Banking
8 10 (5.41%) Financial Institution
9 8 (4.32%) Legal
10 7 (3.78%) Marketing
11 5 (2.70%) Manufacturing
11 5 (2.70%) Retail
12 4 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (2.16%) Public Sector
12 4 (2.16%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.62%) General Ledger
14 2 (1.08%) Aviation
14 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (1.08%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 31 (16.76%) Lead
2 23 (12.43%) Architect
3 22 (11.89%) Developer
4 16 (8.65%) Senior
5 15 (8.11%) Analyst
6 14 (7.57%) Consultant
7 13 (7.03%) Integration Architect
8 12 (6.49%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (5.95%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 10 (5.41%) Business Analyst
10 10 (5.41%) Data Scientist
11 9 (4.86%) Cloud Architect
11 9 (4.86%) Cloud Solutions Architect
11 9 (4.86%) Project Manager
12 8 (4.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 8 (4.32%) Quantitative Developer
13 6 (3.24%) Test Manager
14 5 (2.70%) Genesys Developer
14 5 (2.70%) Lead Data Scientist
14 5 (2.70%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.73%) Middleware
2 14 (7.57%) PyTorch
3 11 (5.95%) NumPy
3 11 (5.95%) TensorFlow
4 10 (5.41%) .NET
4 10 (5.41%) LangChain
5 9 (4.86%) Pandas
6 7 (3.78%) RESTful
7 6 (3.24%) Dask
7 6 (3.24%) Kafka
7 6 (3.24%) Model Context Protocol
7 6 (3.24%) REST
7 6 (3.24%) scikit-learn
7 6 (3.24%) Web Services
8 5 (2.70%) Hugging Face
8 5 (2.70%) LangGraph
8 5 (2.70%) SOAP
9 4 (2.16%) Node.js
9 4 (2.16%) OAuth
9 4 (2.16%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.19%) Derivative
1 17 (9.19%) Management Information System
2 16 (8.65%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.65%) Distributed Computing
3 12 (6.49%) Algorithms
3 12 (6.49%) Equities
4 10 (5.41%) Fixed Income
4 10 (5.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 9 (4.86%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.86%) Product Ownership
6 8 (4.32%) AI Agents
6 8 (4.32%) Hedge funds
6 8 (4.32%) PMI
7 7 (3.78%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (3.78%) Life Science
8 6 (3.24%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.70%) Equity Derivative
9 5 (2.70%) IVR
9 5 (2.70%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.70%) Windows
2 3 (1.62%) Android
2 3 (1.62%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.62%) Linux
2 3 (1.62%) VMS
3 2 (1.08%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (61.62%) Computer Science
2 59 (31.89%) Problem-Solving
3 58 (31.35%) Agile
3 58 (31.35%) AI
4 47 (25.41%) Machine Learning
5 42 (22.70%) Roadmaps
6 40 (21.62%) DevOps
6 40 (21.62%) Stakeholder Management
7 37 (20.00%) Decision-Making
8 36 (19.46%) Analytics
8 36 (19.46%) Risk Management
9 32 (17.30%) Mathematics
10 31 (16.76%) Data Science
11 30 (16.22%) CI/CD
11 30 (16.22%) Validation
12 28 (15.14%) LLM
12 28 (15.14%) Software Engineering
13 27 (14.59%) Generative AI
13 27 (14.59%) Use Case
14 25 (13.51%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 66 (35.68%) Python
2 32 (17.30%) SQL
3 18 (9.73%) Java
4 12 (6.49%) C++
5 8 (4.32%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.78%) C#
7 6 (3.24%) Bash
7 6 (3.24%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.70%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.16%) Go
10 3 (1.62%) Bicep
10 3 (1.62%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.62%) Swift
11 2 (1.08%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.08%) R
11 2 (1.08%) Scala
11 2 (1.08%) Solidity
11 2 (1.08%) VBA
12 1 (0.54%) ABAP
12 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 185 (100.00%) Degree
2 68 (36.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 37 (20.00%) PhD
4 16 (8.65%) MBA
4 16 (8.65%) PMI Certification
5 13 (7.03%) CISSP
6 10 (5.41%) PMP
7 7 (3.78%) Azure Certification
7 7 (3.78%) CISM
8 6 (3.24%) CRISC
9 5 (2.70%) CBAP
10 4 (2.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (2.16%) CCSP
10 4 (2.16%) CISA
10 4 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.62%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (1.62%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.19%) GDPR
1 17 (9.19%) QA
2 11 (5.95%) NIST
3 9 (4.86%) IFRS
3 9 (4.86%) IFRS 17
3 9 (4.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (4.32%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.70%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.70%) GRC
5 5 (2.70%) IFRS 9
5 5 (2.70%) SLA
6 4 (2.16%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (1.62%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.62%) PMO
7 3 (1.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (1.62%) SOC 2
8 2 (1.08%) Basel III
8 2 (1.08%) COBIT
8 2 (1.08%) GAAP
System Software
1 27 (14.59%) Docker
2 2 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.54%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (12.43%) 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 24 (12.97%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.73%) Databricks
3 14 (7.57%) SAP
4 12 (6.49%) Software AG
5 11 (5.95%) Oracle
6 7 (3.78%) Google
7 5 (2.70%) Genesys
8 4 (2.16%) Informatica
8 4 (2.16%) Splunk
8 4 (2.16%) Workday
9 3 (1.62%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.08%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.08%) IBM
10 2 (1.08%) Rapid7
10 2 (1.08%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.54%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.54%) Hotjar
11 1 (0.54%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.54%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.54%) UiPath