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 27 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 230 198
Rank change year-on-year -74 -32 +76
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 126 144 198
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.63% 1.05% 1.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.29% 4.10% 5.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 89 126
10th Percentile £353 £373 £350
25th Percentile £456 £463 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -25.17%
75th Percentile £713 £763 £738
90th Percentile £771 £850 £850
England median daily rate £563 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +2.27% - -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile £32.52 £57.75 £42.75
25th Percentile £34.76 £65.63 £45.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £82.50 £57.75
Median % change year-on-year -56.36% +42.86% -11.15%
75th Percentile £48.25 £86.25 £69.75
90th Percentile £70.30 - £72.90
England median hourly rate £34.75 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -42.08% +9.09% -15.38%

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 5,499 3,510 3,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.64% 25.68% 23.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,964 2,377 2,744
10th Percentile £371 £332 £331
25th Percentile £453 £430 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £525 £537
Median % change year-on-year +2.29% -2.28% -2.32%
75th Percentile £638 £659 £650
90th Percentile £728 £750 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 83 73
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.15 £17.93
25th Percentile £27.13 £25.02 £22.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -6.85% -50.91%
75th Percentile £73.00 £43.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £63.65 £68.60
England median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +114.71% -41.51% -21.82%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -21 7 £755 +12.56% 34
West London -15 5 £550 +57.14% 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 6 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.97%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.17%) Confluence
4 3 (2.38%) Apache
5 2 (1.59%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.79%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.79%) Camunda
6 1 (0.79%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.79%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (3.97%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (3.17%) CPLEX
4 4 (3.17%) UserZoom
5 2 (1.59%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.79%) SAP IBP
2 1 (0.79%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 27 (21.43%) AWS
2 22 (17.46%) Azure
3 16 (12.70%) GCP
4 8 (6.35%) GitHub
4 8 (6.35%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (4.76%) Amazon SageMaker
5 6 (4.76%) Power Platform
6 5 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.17%) Dagster
7 4 (3.17%) Miro
7 4 (3.17%) Serverless
7 4 (3.17%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.38%) Asana
8 3 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.38%) iPaaS
8 3 (2.38%) SaaS
8 3 (2.38%) Smartsheet
9 2 (1.59%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.59%) Lucidchart
9 2 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.38%) Firewall
1 3 (2.38%) Network Security
2 2 (1.59%) 3GPP
3 1 (0.79%) BGP
3 1 (0.79%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.79%) IPsec
3 1 (0.79%) LAN
3 1 (0.79%) OSPF
3 1 (0.79%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.79%) VoIP
3 1 (0.79%) VPN
3 1 (0.79%) WAN
3 1 (0.79%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.35%) Big Data
2 6 (4.76%) MongoDB
2 6 (4.76%) Neo4j
2 6 (4.76%) Power BI
2 6 (4.76%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.97%) Data Mining
3 5 (3.97%) Metadata
3 5 (3.97%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.17%) Tableau
5 3 (2.38%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.38%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.59%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.59%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.79%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.79%) KDB
7 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.79%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (10.32%) Git
2 10 (7.94%) MLflow
3 9 (7.14%) JIRA
4 3 (2.38%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.79%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.79%) Hudson
5 1 (0.79%) Maven
5 1 (0.79%) Mocha
5 1 (0.79%) Subversion
5 1 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.79%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.79%) VersionOne
5 1 (0.79%) Zephyr
General
1 54 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 49 (38.89%) Finance
3 33 (26.19%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (15.87%) Banking
5 9 (7.14%) Marketing
6 7 (5.56%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.97%) Front Office
7 5 (3.97%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.17%) Publishing
8 4 (3.17%) Social Science
9 3 (2.38%) Aviation
9 3 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.38%) Retail
9 3 (2.38%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.59%) Advertising
10 2 (1.59%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.59%) German Language
10 2 (1.59%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 25 (19.84%) Senior
2 19 (15.08%) Architect
2 19 (15.08%) Developer
3 14 (11.11%) Lead
4 12 (9.52%) Data Scientist
5 8 (6.35%) Analyst
6 6 (4.76%) Consultant
6 6 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (3.97%) C# Developer
7 5 (3.97%) Junior
7 5 (3.97%) Project Manager
7 5 (3.97%) Python Developer
7 5 (3.97%) Senior Data Scientist
7 5 (3.97%) Senior Manager
8 4 (3.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (3.17%) E-Commerce Manager
8 4 (3.17%) Quantitative Developer
8 4 (3.17%) Senior User Experience Researcher
8 4 (3.17%) User Experience Researcher
8 4 (3.17%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.94%) PyTorch
2 9 (7.14%) NumPy
2 9 (7.14%) Pandas
2 9 (7.14%) REST
3 8 (6.35%) PySpark
4 7 (5.56%) .NET
4 7 (5.56%) Kafka
4 7 (5.56%) scikit-learn
5 6 (4.76%) RESTful
6 5 (3.97%) LangChain
6 5 (3.97%) Middleware
6 5 (3.97%) TensorFlow
7 4 (3.17%) React
7 4 (3.17%) Web Services
8 3 (2.38%) GraphQL
8 3 (2.38%) React Native
8 3 (2.38%) Seaborn
9 2 (1.59%) Flutter
9 2 (1.59%) Semantic Kernel
9 2 (1.59%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.52%) Algorithms
2 11 (8.73%) Derivative
3 10 (7.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (5.56%) Management Information System
6 6 (4.76%) AI Agents
6 6 (4.76%) Equities
7 5 (3.97%) Cloud Native
7 5 (3.97%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.97%) Exotic Derivative
7 5 (3.97%) Hedge funds
7 5 (3.97%) Life Science
7 5 (3.97%) OTC Derivatives
7 5 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (3.17%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (3.17%) Fixed Income
8 4 (3.17%) Graphic Design
8 4 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (3.17%) Product Ownership
8 4 (3.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.59%) Linux
1 2 (1.59%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (52.38%) Computer Science
2 43 (34.13%) Agile
3 39 (30.95%) AI
4 36 (28.57%) Analytics
5 33 (26.19%) Machine Learning
6 32 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (21.43%) Data Science
7 27 (21.43%) Mathematics
8 26 (20.63%) Roadmaps
9 24 (19.05%) Decision-Making
9 24 (19.05%) Software Engineering
10 23 (18.25%) CI/CD
11 20 (15.87%) Stakeholder Management
12 18 (14.29%) Data Engineering
12 18 (14.29%) DevOps
12 18 (14.29%) LLM
13 16 (12.70%) Use Case
14 15 (11.90%) Generative AI
14 15 (11.90%) Physics
14 15 (11.90%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (37.30%) Python
2 33 (26.19%) SQL
3 13 (10.32%) Java
4 6 (4.76%) C#
4 6 (4.76%) C++
5 5 (3.97%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.38%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.59%) Bash
7 2 (1.59%) Bicep
7 2 (1.59%) Cypher
7 2 (1.59%) Scala
7 2 (1.59%) SPARQL
8 1 (0.79%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.79%) C
8 1 (0.79%) Gremlin
8 1 (0.79%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.79%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.79%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 126 (100.00%) Degree
2 47 (37.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (21.43%) PhD
4 22 (17.46%) MBA
5 8 (6.35%) Security Cleared
6 7 (5.56%) SC Cleared
7 5 (3.97%) Azure Certification
7 5 (3.97%) CISSP
7 5 (3.97%) PMI Certification
8 4 (3.17%) AWS Certification
8 4 (3.17%) CISA
8 4 (3.17%) PMP
9 3 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (2.38%) CISM
9 3 (2.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 2 (1.59%) CRISC
11 1 (0.79%) CompTIA CySA+
11 1 (0.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 1 (0.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.79%) MPhil
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.35%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.97%) GDPR
2 5 (3.97%) NIST
2 5 (3.97%) PMO
2 5 (3.97%) SLA
3 4 (3.17%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.17%) QA
4 3 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.38%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.59%) COBIT
5 2 (1.59%) GRC
5 2 (1.59%) ISO 31000
5 2 (1.59%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.79%) EMIR
6 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.79%) NCSC
6 1 (0.79%) NIST 800
System Software
1 17 (13.49%) Docker
2 1 (0.79%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.79%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 11 (8.73%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.97%) Terraform
3 1 (0.79%) CASB
3 1 (0.79%) Grafana
3 1 (0.79%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.94%) Google
3 9 (7.14%) Oracle
4 7 (5.56%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.97%) Databricks
6 4 (3.17%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.38%) Guidewire
7 3 (2.38%) SAP
7 3 (2.38%) Software AG
8 2 (1.59%) Adobe
8 2 (1.59%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.59%) Duck Creek
9 1 (0.79%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.79%) Avaloq
9 1 (0.79%) Foundry
9 1 (0.79%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.79%) Remedy
9 1 (0.79%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.79%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.79%) VMware