Master's Degree Contracts 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 1 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 219 209 281
Rank change year-on-year -10 +72 +78
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 128 194 260
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.01% 1.07% 0.91%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.98% 4.43% 4.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 123 174
10th Percentile £372 £375 £475
25th Percentile £500 £428 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £600 £680
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -11.76% +5.75%
75th Percentile £800 £775 £850
90th Percentile £920 £850 £950
England median daily rate £580 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -1.28% -2.08% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 8
10th Percentile £32.86 £10.42 £31.25
25th Percentile £36.13 £28.51 £37.25
Median hourly rate £45.67 £75.00 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.10% +64.84% -5.21%
75th Percentile £58.63 £83.75 £53.00
90th Percentile £63.95 - £62.45
England median hourly rate £62.50 £55.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% +22.22% +85.64%

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 3,214 4,377 5,926
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.45% 24.22% 20.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,183 2,940 3,991
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £438 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £658 £698
90th Percentile £761 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 120 81
10th Percentile £21.30 £14.23 £19.40
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.98 £21.24
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.12 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.77% -25.31% -1.42%
75th Percentile £57.50 £60.31 £67.50
90th Percentile £68.50 £83.75 £82.75
England median hourly rate £50.00 £37.83 £50.25
% change year-on-year +32.18% -24.72% +43.57%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Master's Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in London

Master's Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Master's Degree in London.

Daily rate trend for Master's Degree in London

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in London over the 6 months to 1 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Master's Degree in London

Master's Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Master's Degree in London.

Hourly rate trend for Master's Degree in London

Master's Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Master's Degree in London over the 6 months to 1 April 2025.

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 1 April 2025. 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 +15 23 £725 -3.59% 26
East London +14 1 £285 -60.69% 4
West London +6 1 - - 20
Master's Degree
England

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (13.28%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.56%) Apache
3 2 (1.56%) CMS
3 2 (1.56%) Confluence
3 2 (1.56%) Drupal
3 2 (1.56%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (1.56%) WordPress
4 1 (0.78%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.78%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (10.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (3.91%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.34%) Trello
5 1 (0.78%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.78%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.78%) SPSS
5 1 (0.78%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.78%) Endur
2 1 (0.78%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.78%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.78%) SAP MDG-S
Cloud Services
1 25 (19.53%) AWS
2 18 (14.06%) Azure
3 10 (7.81%) GCP
4 6 (4.69%) GitHub
5 4 (3.13%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (3.13%) Azure App Service
5 4 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.13%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.34%) Asana
6 3 (2.34%) SaaS
7 2 (1.56%) Azure AKS
7 2 (1.56%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 2 (1.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (1.56%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (1.56%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.56%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.56%) Serverless
7 2 (1.56%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.56%) CTI
1 2 (1.56%) Firewall
1 2 (1.56%) VoIP
2 1 (0.78%) MQTT
2 1 (0.78%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.81%) Big Data
2 7 (5.47%) NoSQL
3 6 (4.69%) Hadoop
4 4 (3.13%) Apache Hive
4 4 (3.13%) Data Mining
4 4 (3.13%) Power BI
4 4 (3.13%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.13%) Tableau
5 3 (2.34%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.56%) MySQL
6 2 (1.56%) PowerPivot
6 2 (1.56%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.78%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.78%) KDB
7 1 (0.78%) Metadata
7 1 (0.78%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (7.81%) Git
2 5 (3.91%) Bitbucket
2 5 (3.91%) JIRA
3 3 (2.34%) MLflow
4 2 (1.56%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.56%) ERwin
4 2 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.56%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.78%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.78%) Gatling
5 1 (0.78%) JMeter
5 1 (0.78%) Maven
5 1 (0.78%) MSTest
5 1 (0.78%) NSubstitute
5 1 (0.78%) NUnit
5 1 (0.78%) Selenium
5 1 (0.78%) Subversion
5 1 (0.78%) TestDirector
5 1 (0.78%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 59 (46.09%) Finance
2 50 (39.06%) Social Skills
3 47 (36.72%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (19.53%) Banking
5 13 (10.16%) Marketing
6 12 (9.38%) Front Office
7 11 (8.59%) Financial Institution
8 10 (7.81%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (6.25%) Investment Banking
10 5 (3.91%) Legal
10 5 (3.91%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (3.13%) Digital Health
12 3 (2.34%) Public Sector
13 2 (1.56%) Automotive
13 2 (1.56%) Electronics
13 2 (1.56%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.56%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.78%) Advertising
14 1 (0.78%) Law
14 1 (0.78%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 17 (13.28%) Analyst
2 12 (9.38%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 11 (8.59%) Senior
4 10 (7.81%) Developer
4 10 (7.81%) Project Manager
5 8 (6.25%) Architect
5 8 (6.25%) Lead
5 8 (6.25%) Python Engineer
6 7 (5.47%) Java Engineer
6 7 (5.47%) Software Engineer
7 6 (4.69%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (4.69%) Business Analyst
7 6 (4.69%) Data Scientist
7 6 (4.69%) Gen AI Engineer
7 6 (4.69%) Quantitative Developer
8 5 (3.91%) User Experience Researcher
9 4 (3.13%) C++ Software Engineer
9 4 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.13%) Senior User Experience Researcher
9 4 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.03%) PySpark
2 8 (6.25%) LangChain
2 8 (6.25%) NumPy
2 8 (6.25%) Pandas
3 7 (5.47%) TensorFlow
4 5 (3.91%) Dask
4 5 (3.91%) Kafka
5 4 (3.13%) REST
6 3 (2.34%) PyTorch
6 3 (2.34%) Ray
7 2 (1.56%) Hugging Face
7 2 (1.56%) scikit-learn
7 2 (1.56%) SciPy
7 2 (1.56%) Spring
8 1 (0.78%) .NET
8 1 (0.78%) CSS
8 1 (0.78%) HTML
8 1 (0.78%) Middleware
8 1 (0.78%) SOAP
8 1 (0.78%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.50%) Distributed Computing
2 9 (7.03%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.25%) Algorithms
3 8 (6.25%) Data Structures
4 7 (5.47%) Derivative
5 6 (4.69%) Hedge funds
5 6 (4.69%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.91%) Management Information System
7 4 (3.13%) Life Science
7 4 (3.13%) PMI
8 3 (2.34%) Credit Risk
8 3 (2.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.34%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.56%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.56%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.56%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.56%) Solar Panel
9 2 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.47%) Linux
2 3 (2.34%) Unix
3 1 (0.78%) Android
3 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (51.56%) Computer Science
2 39 (30.47%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (23.44%) Machine Learning
4 29 (22.66%) Project Management
5 27 (21.09%) Agile
6 26 (20.31%) Analytics
7 23 (17.97%) Mathematics
7 23 (17.97%) Software Engineering
8 22 (17.19%) Artificial Intelligence
9 18 (14.06%) CI/CD
9 18 (14.06%) Data Science
9 18 (14.06%) Technical Leadership
10 17 (13.28%) Data Analysis
10 17 (13.28%) Risk Management
11 16 (12.50%) Deep Learning
11 16 (12.50%) Generative AI
12 15 (11.72%) Statistics
13 12 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
13 12 (9.38%) Decision-Making
13 12 (9.38%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 50 (39.06%) Python
2 32 (25.00%) Java
3 27 (21.09%) C++
4 19 (14.84%) SQL
5 13 (10.16%) C
6 11 (8.59%) Shell Script
7 4 (3.13%) C#
8 2 (1.56%) MATLAB
8 2 (1.56%) R
8 2 (1.56%) Rust
8 2 (1.56%) Scala
9 1 (0.78%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.78%) Go
9 1 (0.78%) Groovy
9 1 (0.78%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.78%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.78%) Perl
9 1 (0.78%) Ruby
9 1 (0.78%) Swift
9 1 (0.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 127 (99.22%) Degree
2 36 (28.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (20.31%) PhD
4 16 (12.50%) PMI Certification
5 14 (10.94%) PMP
6 11 (8.59%) MBA
7 4 (3.13%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (2.34%) CFA
8 3 (2.34%) CISSP
9 2 (1.56%) CISA
9 2 (1.56%) CISM
9 2 (1.56%) PgMP
10 1 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.78%) CAPM
10 1 (0.78%) CCSP
10 1 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.78%) SANS
10 1 (0.78%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.16%) Data Quality
2 9 (7.03%) QA
3 4 (3.13%) MiFID
4 2 (1.56%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.56%) GDPR
4 2 (1.56%) NIST
4 2 (1.56%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.78%) Basel III
5 1 (0.78%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (4.69%) Docker
2 2 (1.56%) Lustre
3 1 (0.78%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (8.59%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.47%) Terraform
3 3 (2.34%) Ansible
4 2 (1.56%) Karpenter
4 2 (1.56%) Podman
5 1 (0.78%) Grafana
5 1 (0.78%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (7.81%) Google
1 10 (7.81%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.69%) Salesforce
2 6 (4.69%) SAP
3 5 (3.91%) Databricks
4 3 (2.34%) Adobe
4 3 (2.34%) Workday
5 2 (1.56%) Genesys
5 2 (1.56%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.56%) Sitecore
5 2 (1.56%) Splunk
6 1 (0.78%) Calypso
6 1 (0.78%) Criteo
6 1 (0.78%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.78%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.78%) Murex
6 1 (0.78%) NEC
6 1 (0.78%) OpenLink
6 1 (0.78%) Qualtrics
6 1 (0.78%) Yardi