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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 214 203
Rank change year-on-year -14 -11 +70
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 176 142 203
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.09% 1.10% 1.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.68% 4.32% 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 94 134
10th Percentile £363 £375 £375
25th Percentile £421 £487 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £600 £638
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -5.88% -8.55%
75th Percentile £700 £800 £775
90th Percentile £919 £989 £850
England median daily rate £525 £580 £608
% change year-on-year -9.48% -4.53% +1.25%
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 4,787 3,287 4,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.56% 25.46% 24.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,404 2,178 2,937
10th Percentile £358 £350 £325
25th Percentile £430 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 65 130
10th Percentile £20.34 £21.50 £14.27
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.00 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% +15.21% -20.70%
75th Percentile £73.13 £56.25 £60.94
90th Percentile £76.69 £78.40 £83.75
England median hourly rate £27.50 £51.50 £39.92
% change year-on-year -46.60% +29.01% -20.16%

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 12 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 12 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 -19.23% 72
West London -9 8 £500 - 8
East London +1 1 £1,000 +250.88% 9
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 (9.66%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.70%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.14%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.14%) Hyperledger
3 2 (1.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.57%) Apache
4 1 (0.57%) Camunda
4 1 (0.57%) CMS
4 1 (0.57%) Confluence
4 1 (0.57%) Drupal
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.57%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (5.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.57%) Camtasia
3 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.57%) CPLEX
3 1 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.70%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (1.70%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.14%) Oracle FAH
2 2 (1.14%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (1.14%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.14%) 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 51 (28.98%) Azure
2 32 (18.18%) AWS
3 22 (12.50%) SaaS
4 15 (8.52%) GCP
5 14 (7.95%) GitHub
6 10 (5.68%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (5.11%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (5.11%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (4.55%) Amazon S3
8 8 (4.55%) OCI
8 8 (4.55%) Power Platform
8 8 (4.55%) Serverless
9 7 (3.98%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (3.41%) IaaS
11 5 (2.84%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (2.84%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (2.84%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (2.84%) PaaS
12 4 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.84%) CTI
1 5 (2.84%) VoIP
2 3 (1.70%) HTTP
2 3 (1.70%) Network Security
3 2 (1.14%) 3GPP
3 2 (1.14%) Intelligent Network
3 2 (1.14%) S/MIME
3 2 (1.14%) SSL
3 2 (1.14%) Wireless
4 1 (0.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.25%) Big Data
2 8 (4.55%) Power BI
3 6 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.84%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.84%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.27%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.70%) Pinecone
6 3 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.70%) Tableau
7 2 (1.14%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.14%) Metadata
7 2 (1.14%) Redis
7 2 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.14%) Weaviate
8 1 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.57%) Ataccama
8 1 (0.57%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.57%) Kdb+
8 1 (0.57%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 22 (12.50%) Git
2 8 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.41%) JIRA
3 6 (3.41%) MLflow
4 2 (1.14%) Hardhat
4 2 (1.14%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.14%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.14%) Vite
5 1 (0.57%) Appium
5 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.57%) Charles Proxy
5 1 (0.57%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.57%) GitLab
5 1 (0.57%) Hudson
5 1 (0.57%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.57%) Postman
5 1 (0.57%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.57%) XCUITest
General
1 88 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 76 (43.18%) Finance
3 60 (34.09%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (23.30%) Banking
5 23 (13.07%) Presentation Skills
6 16 (9.09%) Front Office
7 14 (7.95%) Investment Banking
8 10 (5.68%) Financial Institution
9 8 (4.55%) Legal
10 7 (3.98%) Marketing
11 4 (2.27%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.27%) Public Sector
11 4 (2.27%) Retail
11 4 (2.27%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.70%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.70%) Japanese Language
13 2 (1.14%) Aviation
13 2 (1.14%) French Language
13 2 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 30 (17.05%) Lead
2 24 (13.64%) Developer
3 23 (13.07%) Architect
4 14 (7.95%) Senior
5 13 (7.39%) Consultant
5 13 (7.39%) Integration Architect
6 12 (6.82%) Analyst
6 12 (6.82%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (5.68%) Data Scientist
7 10 (5.68%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 9 (5.11%) Cloud Architect
8 9 (5.11%) Cloud Solutions Architect
9 8 (4.55%) Project Manager
9 8 (4.55%) Quantitative Developer
10 7 (3.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 7 (3.98%) Business Analyst
11 6 (3.41%) Test Manager
12 5 (2.84%) Genesys Developer
12 5 (2.84%) Lead Data Scientist
12 5 (2.84%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.09%) Middleware
2 14 (7.95%) PyTorch
3 11 (6.25%) NumPy
3 11 (6.25%) TensorFlow
4 10 (5.68%) .NET
4 10 (5.68%) Pandas
5 9 (5.11%) LangChain
6 7 (3.98%) Kafka
6 7 (3.98%) RESTful
7 6 (3.41%) Dask
7 6 (3.41%) Model Context Protocol
7 6 (3.41%) scikit-learn
8 5 (2.84%) Hugging Face
8 5 (2.84%) LangGraph
8 5 (2.84%) PySpark
9 4 (2.27%) Node.js
9 4 (2.27%) OAuth
9 4 (2.27%) REST
9 4 (2.27%) SciPy
9 4 (2.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.23%) Derivative
2 16 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 16 (9.09%) Distributed Computing
3 15 (8.52%) Management Information System
4 13 (7.39%) Equities
5 11 (6.25%) Algorithms
6 10 (5.68%) Fixed Income
6 10 (5.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (4.55%) AI Agents
7 8 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (4.55%) Hedge funds
8 6 (3.41%) Equity Derivative
8 6 (3.41%) Life Science
8 6 (3.41%) Onboarding
8 6 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (2.84%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.84%) IVR
9 5 (2.84%) PMI
9 5 (2.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.84%) Windows
2 3 (1.70%) Linux
2 3 (1.70%) VMS
3 2 (1.14%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.57%) Android
4 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (62.50%) Computer Science
2 56 (31.82%) AI
2 56 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (27.27%) Agile
4 46 (26.14%) Machine Learning
5 41 (23.30%) DevOps
6 40 (22.73%) Roadmaps
7 38 (21.59%) Stakeholder Management
8 36 (20.45%) Decision-Making
9 34 (19.32%) Analytics
10 31 (17.61%) CI/CD
10 31 (17.61%) Mathematics
10 31 (17.61%) Risk Management
11 29 (16.48%) Data Science
12 28 (15.91%) LLM
12 28 (15.91%) Software Engineering
13 27 (15.34%) Validation
14 26 (14.77%) Data Engineering
14 26 (14.77%) Generative AI
15 25 (14.20%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 67 (38.07%) Python
2 32 (18.18%) SQL
3 19 (10.80%) Java
4 13 (7.39%) C++
5 7 (3.98%) C#
5 7 (3.98%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.41%) Bash
6 6 (3.41%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.84%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.27%) Go
9 3 (1.70%) Bicep
9 3 (1.70%) Scala
10 2 (1.14%) R
10 2 (1.14%) Solidity
10 2 (1.14%) VBA
11 1 (0.57%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.57%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.57%) SOQL
11 1 (0.57%) Swift
Qualifications
1 176 (100.00%) Degree
2 70 (39.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 36 (20.45%) PhD
4 17 (9.66%) MBA
5 13 (7.39%) CISSP
6 12 (6.82%) PMI Certification
7 9 (5.11%) PMP
8 7 (3.98%) Azure Certification
8 7 (3.98%) CISM
9 6 (3.41%) CRISC
10 4 (2.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (2.27%) CCSP
10 4 (2.27%) CISA
10 4 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.70%) CFA
11 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (1.70%) Security Cleared
12 2 (1.14%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.66%) GDPR
2 15 (8.52%) QA
3 11 (6.25%) NIST
4 9 (5.11%) IFRS
4 9 (5.11%) IFRS 17
4 9 (5.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (4.55%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.84%) Data Quality
6 5 (2.84%) GRC
6 5 (2.84%) IFRS 9
6 5 (2.84%) SLA
7 4 (2.27%) PMO
8 3 (1.70%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (1.70%) SOC 2
9 2 (1.14%) Accessibility
9 2 (1.14%) Basel III
9 2 (1.14%) COBIT
9 2 (1.14%) GAAP
9 2 (1.14%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 27 (15.34%) Docker
2 2 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.57%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (13.07%) Kubernetes
2 16 (9.09%) Terraform
3 2 (1.14%) Control-M
3 2 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (14.20%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.23%) Databricks
3 12 (6.82%) SAP
3 12 (6.82%) Software AG
4 10 (5.68%) Oracle
5 9 (5.11%) Google
6 5 (2.84%) Genesys
7 4 (2.27%) Informatica
7 4 (2.27%) Workday
8 3 (1.70%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.14%) IBM
9 2 (1.14%) Rapid7
9 2 (1.14%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.57%) Adobe
10 1 (0.57%) Apple
10 1 (0.57%) Ariba
10 1 (0.57%) BMC
10 1 (0.57%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.57%) Dell
10 1 (0.57%) MuleSoft