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 25 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 210 199
Rank change year-on-year -82 -11 +73
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 128 142 210
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.67% 1.12% 1.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.41% 4.35% 5.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 88 132
10th Percentile £310 £375 £350
25th Percentile £425 £499 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £595 £545
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% +9.17% -26.85%
75th Percentile £713 £766 £741
90th Percentile £775 £869 £850
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 10
10th Percentile £33.00 £57.75 £10.42
25th Percentile £35.95 £65.63 £42.50
Median hourly rate £41.75 £82.50 £71.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.39% +15.38% +78.75%
75th Percentile £47.39 £86.25 £83.75
90th Percentile £50.25 - -
England median hourly rate £32.78 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -49.57% +18.18% +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 5,320 3,267 4,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.82% 25.87% 23.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,844 2,194 2,834
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.67%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £728 £750 £770
England median daily rate £525 £525 £537
% change year-on-year - -2.23% -2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 70 113
10th Percentile £19.12 £18.73 £14.49
25th Percentile £28.00 £24.75 £20.22
Median hourly rate £54.00 £26.41 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +104.47% +5.64% -52.38%
75th Percentile £75.87 £51.62 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.50 £68.60
England median hourly rate £52.50 £29.27 £42.50
% change year-on-year +79.36% -31.13% -22.73%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 10 £675 -4.12% 13
West London -20 8 £575 - 4
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 5 (3.91%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.13%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.34%) Confluence
4 2 (1.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.56%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.56%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.78%) Apache
5 1 (0.78%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.78%) Camunda
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.78%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (5.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.69%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.13%) UserZoom
4 2 (1.56%) CPLEX
4 2 (1.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.34%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (2.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.56%) Oracle FAH
2 2 (1.56%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (1.56%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.78%) SAP FI-GL
3 1 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.78%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 31 (24.22%) AWS
2 26 (20.31%) Azure
3 12 (9.38%) GCP
4 11 (8.59%) GitHub
4 11 (8.59%) SaaS
5 9 (7.03%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (5.47%) Amazon SageMaker
6 7 (5.47%) Power Platform
7 6 (4.69%) Serverless
8 5 (3.91%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.91%) Dagster
8 5 (3.91%) OCI
8 5 (3.91%) PaaS
9 4 (3.13%) Amazon S3
9 4 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (3.13%) IaaS
9 4 (3.13%) Miro
10 3 (2.34%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.13%) 3GPP
2 3 (2.34%) Firewall
2 3 (2.34%) Network Security
3 2 (1.56%) HTTP
3 2 (1.56%) Intelligent Network
3 2 (1.56%) Wireless
4 1 (0.78%) BGP
4 1 (0.78%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.78%) IPsec
4 1 (0.78%) LAN
4 1 (0.78%) OSPF
4 1 (0.78%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.78%) VoIP
4 1 (0.78%) VPN
4 1 (0.78%) WAN
4 1 (0.78%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.25%) MongoDB
1 8 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.47%) Power BI
3 6 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (4.69%) Neo4j
4 5 (3.91%) Big Data
4 5 (3.91%) Metadata
4 5 (3.91%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.34%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.34%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.34%) Tableau
6 2 (1.56%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.56%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.56%) Redis
6 2 (1.56%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.78%) ArangoDB
7 1 (0.78%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (14.06%) Git
2 11 (8.59%) MLflow
3 10 (7.81%) JIRA
4 3 (2.34%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.56%) Vite
6 1 (0.78%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.78%) Hudson
6 1 (0.78%) Maven
6 1 (0.78%) Mocha
6 1 (0.78%) Subversion
6 1 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.78%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.78%) VersionOne
6 1 (0.78%) Zephyr
General
1 57 (44.53%) Social Skills
2 47 (36.72%) Finance
3 36 (28.13%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (17.19%) Banking
5 12 (9.38%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 7 (5.47%) Marketing
8 5 (3.91%) Front Office
8 5 (3.91%) Investment Banking
8 5 (3.91%) Telecoms
9 4 (3.13%) Publishing
9 4 (3.13%) Social Science
10 3 (2.34%) Aviation
10 3 (2.34%) General Ledger
10 3 (2.34%) Japanese Language
10 3 (2.34%) Legal
10 3 (2.34%) Retail
11 2 (1.56%) Advertising
11 2 (1.56%) Local Government
11 2 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 21 (16.41%) Architect
2 19 (14.84%) Senior
3 18 (14.06%) Lead
4 15 (11.72%) Developer
5 11 (8.59%) Analyst
5 11 (8.59%) Data Scientist
6 9 (7.03%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (6.25%) Consultant
8 7 (5.47%) Integration Architect
9 5 (3.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 5 (3.91%) Business Analyst
9 5 (3.91%) C# Developer
10 4 (3.13%) Cloud Architect
10 4 (3.13%) Front Office Developer
10 4 (3.13%) Implementation Consultant
10 4 (3.13%) Junior
10 4 (3.13%) Senior Data Scientist
10 4 (3.13%) Senior User Experience Researcher
10 4 (3.13%) User Experience Researcher
10 4 (3.13%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.81%) Middleware
1 10 (7.81%) NumPy
1 10 (7.81%) Pandas
2 9 (7.03%) .NET
3 8 (6.25%) PySpark
3 8 (6.25%) RESTful
3 8 (6.25%) scikit-learn
4 7 (5.47%) REST
5 5 (3.91%) Kafka
5 5 (3.91%) PyTorch
5 5 (3.91%) Web Services
6 4 (3.13%) React
6 4 (3.13%) Seaborn
7 3 (2.34%) LangChain
7 3 (2.34%) Node.js
7 3 (2.34%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (2.34%) React Native
7 3 (2.34%) XML
8 2 (1.56%) Model Context Protocol
8 2 (1.56%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.38%) Management Information System
2 11 (8.59%) Algorithms
3 9 (7.03%) Derivative
3 9 (7.03%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.91%) Equities
6 5 (3.91%) Hedge funds
6 5 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.91%) Life Science
7 4 (3.13%) AI Agents
7 4 (3.13%) Cloud Native
7 4 (3.13%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (3.13%) Fixed Income
7 4 (3.13%) Graphic Design
7 4 (3.13%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.13%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.34%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.34%) Marketing Technology
8 3 (2.34%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.13%) Linux
2 2 (1.56%) VMS
2 2 (1.56%) Windows
3 1 (0.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (49.22%) Computer Science
2 44 (34.38%) Agile
3 39 (30.47%) AI
4 31 (24.22%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (21.09%) Roadmaps
6 26 (20.31%) CI/CD
6 26 (20.31%) Decision-Making
7 25 (19.53%) Analytics
7 25 (19.53%) Machine Learning
8 24 (18.75%) Data Science
9 22 (17.19%) DevOps
10 21 (16.41%) Mathematics
11 19 (14.84%) Data Engineering
11 19 (14.84%) Stakeholder Management
12 18 (14.06%) Use Case
13 17 (13.28%) Software Engineering
14 16 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
15 15 (11.72%) Microservices
15 15 (11.72%) Validation
16 14 (10.94%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 43 (33.59%) Python
2 31 (24.22%) SQL
3 13 (10.16%) Java
4 6 (4.69%) C#
4 6 (4.69%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.13%) C++
6 3 (2.34%) Go
7 2 (1.56%) Bash
7 2 (1.56%) Bicep
7 2 (1.56%) Cypher
7 2 (1.56%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.56%) Scala
7 2 (1.56%) SPARQL
8 1 (0.78%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.78%) C
8 1 (0.78%) Gremlin
8 1 (0.78%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.78%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.78%) SHACL
8 1 (0.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 128 (100.00%) Degree
2 47 (36.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (19.53%) PhD
4 18 (14.06%) MBA
5 9 (7.03%) CISSP
5 9 (7.03%) Security Cleared
6 7 (5.47%) PMI Certification
6 7 (5.47%) SC Cleared
7 5 (3.91%) Azure Certification
7 5 (3.91%) CISM
8 4 (3.13%) AWS Certification
8 4 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (3.13%) CISA
8 4 (3.13%) CRISC
8 4 (3.13%) PMP
9 3 (2.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (2.34%) CBAP
9 3 (2.34%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 2 (1.56%) OSCP
10 2 (1.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.03%) GDPR
2 8 (6.25%) NIST
2 8 (6.25%) QA
3 7 (5.47%) Data Quality
4 6 (4.69%) PCI DSS
4 6 (4.69%) SLA
5 5 (3.91%) IFRS
5 5 (3.91%) IFRS 17
5 5 (3.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (3.91%) PMO
6 4 (3.13%) Accessibility
7 3 (2.34%) SOC 2
8 2 (1.56%) Basel III
8 2 (1.56%) COBIT
8 2 (1.56%) GAAP
8 2 (1.56%) GRC
8 2 (1.56%) IFRS 9
8 2 (1.56%) ISO 31000
8 2 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.78%) MiFID
System Software
1 20 (15.63%) Docker
2 1 (0.78%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.78%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 12 (9.38%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.03%) Terraform
3 2 (1.56%) Control-M
4 1 (0.78%) CASB
4 1 (0.78%) Grafana
4 1 (0.78%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (19.53%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.38%) Oracle
3 7 (5.47%) Google
3 7 (5.47%) Salesforce
4 6 (4.69%) Software AG
5 5 (3.91%) SAP
6 4 (3.13%) Databricks
6 4 (3.13%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.56%) Adobe
7 2 (1.56%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.56%) Guidewire
7 2 (1.56%) Informatica
7 2 (1.56%) Rapid7
7 2 (1.56%) Workday
8 1 (0.78%) Apple
8 1 (0.78%) BMC
8 1 (0.78%) Dell
8 1 (0.78%) Remedy
8 1 (0.78%) Reuters
8 1 (0.78%) VMware