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 17 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 220 204
Rank change year-on-year -106 -16 +73
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 112 147 194
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.56% 1.08% 1.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.01% 4.13% 4.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 90 124
10th Percentile £334 £375 £350
25th Percentile £456 £463 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £581 £538
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% +8.14% -28.33%
75th Percentile £719 £750 £700
90th Percentile £785 £850 £825
England median daily rate £575 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 4
10th Percentile £32.52 - £42.75
25th Percentile £34.76 £65.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £73.75 £57.75
Median % change year-on-year -51.19% +27.71% -11.15%
75th Percentile £48.25 £86.25 £69.75
90th Percentile £70.30 - £72.90
England median hourly rate £36.00 £65.00 £48.56
% change year-on-year -44.62% +33.86% -25.29%

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 5,578 3,559 3,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.77% 26.24% 24.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,019 2,392 2,684
10th Percentile £375 £338 £350
25th Percentile £456 £431 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £529 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.07% -1.63% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £734 £750 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 89 69
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.65 £17.88
25th Percentile £25.44 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -16.17% -45.45%
75th Percentile £73.00 £45.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £65.00 £65.60
England median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +114.71% -47.05% -13.64%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -20 5 £755 +22.02% 33
West London -15 4 £550 +57.14% 10
East London -2 1 £775 - 1
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 (5.36%) Apache Spark
1 6 (5.36%) Confluence
2 4 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.68%) Apache
4 1 (0.89%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.89%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.89%) PowerExchange
4 1 (0.89%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.89%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (5.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.46%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.57%) CPLEX
3 4 (3.57%) UserZoom
4 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.89%) Endur
2 1 (0.89%) SAP IBP
2 1 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.89%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 25 (22.32%) AWS
2 22 (19.64%) Azure
3 19 (16.96%) GCP
4 6 (5.36%) GitHub
4 6 (5.36%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (5.36%) Power Platform
5 5 (4.46%) Snowflake
6 4 (3.57%) Amazon SageMaker
6 4 (3.57%) Miro
6 4 (3.57%) Serverless
7 3 (2.68%) Asana
7 3 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.68%) Dagster
7 3 (2.68%) Smartsheet
8 2 (1.79%) Amazon Neptune
8 2 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.79%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.79%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.68%) Firewall
1 3 (2.68%) Network Security
2 2 (1.79%) 3GPP
2 2 (1.79%) IPv4
2 2 (1.79%) IPv6
3 1 (0.89%) BGP
3 1 (0.89%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.89%) IPsec
3 1 (0.89%) LAN
3 1 (0.89%) OSPF
3 1 (0.89%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.89%) VoIP
3 1 (0.89%) VPN
3 1 (0.89%) WAN
3 1 (0.89%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.25%) Big Data
2 6 (5.36%) Data Mining
2 6 (5.36%) Metadata
2 6 (5.36%) MongoDB
2 6 (5.36%) Neo4j
2 6 (5.36%) Power BI
3 5 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (4.46%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.46%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.57%) Data Lake
4 4 (3.57%) Tableau
5 3 (2.68%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.79%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.79%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (1.79%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.89%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.89%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.89%) KDB
7 1 (0.89%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (9.82%) JIRA
2 7 (6.25%) Git
3 6 (5.36%) MLflow
4 1 (0.89%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.89%) Hudson
4 1 (0.89%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.89%) Maven
4 1 (0.89%) Mocha
4 1 (0.89%) Subversion
4 1 (0.89%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.89%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.89%) VersionOne
4 1 (0.89%) Zephyr
General
1 48 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 42 (37.50%) Finance
3 27 (24.11%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (12.50%) Banking
5 9 (8.04%) Marketing
6 8 (7.14%) Public Sector
7 7 (6.25%) Front Office
8 5 (4.46%) Investment Banking
8 5 (4.46%) Publishing
8 5 (4.46%) Telecoms
9 4 (3.57%) Social Science
10 3 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.68%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.68%) Retail
11 2 (1.79%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.79%) German Language
11 2 (1.79%) Legal
11 2 (1.79%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 21 (18.75%) Senior
2 18 (16.07%) Developer
3 14 (12.50%) Architect
4 12 (10.71%) Lead
5 10 (8.93%) Analyst
5 10 (8.93%) Data Scientist
6 5 (4.46%) Business Analyst
6 5 (4.46%) C# Developer
6 5 (4.46%) Engineering Manager
6 5 (4.46%) Junior
6 5 (4.46%) Programme Manager
6 5 (4.46%) Python Developer
6 5 (4.46%) Senior Manager
6 5 (4.46%) Software Engineering Manager
6 5 (4.46%) Software Manager
7 4 (3.57%) E-Commerce Manager
7 4 (3.57%) Enterprise Architect
7 4 (3.57%) Senior User Experience Researcher
7 4 (3.57%) User Experience Researcher
7 4 (3.57%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.14%) NumPy
1 8 (7.14%) Pandas
1 8 (7.14%) REST
2 7 (6.25%) PySpark
2 7 (6.25%) PyTorch
3 6 (5.36%) .NET
3 6 (5.36%) Kafka
3 6 (5.36%) RESTful
3 6 (5.36%) scikit-learn
4 4 (3.57%) React
4 4 (3.57%) TensorFlow
5 3 (2.68%) GraphQL
5 3 (2.68%) LangChain
5 3 (2.68%) React Native
5 3 (2.68%) Web Services
6 2 (1.79%) Flutter
6 2 (1.79%) Seaborn
6 2 (1.79%) Semantic Kernel
7 1 (0.89%) Polars
7 1 (0.89%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.61%) Algorithms
2 11 (9.82%) Derivative
2 11 (9.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (8.93%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (7.14%) Data Structures
4 8 (7.14%) Management Information System
5 6 (5.36%) Equities
6 5 (4.46%) Exotic Derivative
6 5 (4.46%) Fixed Income
6 5 (4.46%) Hedge funds
6 5 (4.46%) OTC Derivatives
6 5 (4.46%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.57%) AI Agents
7 4 (3.57%) Cloud Native
7 4 (3.57%) Graphic Design
7 4 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.68%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.68%) Marketing Technology
8 3 (2.68%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (55.36%) Computer Science
2 39 (34.82%) Agile
3 36 (32.14%) AI
4 35 (31.25%) Analytics
5 32 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (25.00%) Machine Learning
6 28 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 26 (23.21%) Mathematics
8 23 (20.54%) Data Science
8 23 (20.54%) Stakeholder Management
9 21 (18.75%) Decision-Making
10 20 (17.86%) Roadmaps
11 18 (16.07%) CI/CD
12 15 (13.39%) Data Engineering
12 15 (13.39%) Physics
13 14 (12.50%) Generative AI
13 14 (12.50%) LLM
13 14 (12.50%) Risk Management
13 14 (12.50%) Use Case
14 13 (11.61%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 42 (37.50%) Python
2 30 (26.79%) SQL
3 15 (13.39%) Java
4 8 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 7 (6.25%) C#
6 6 (5.36%) C++
7 3 (2.68%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.79%) Bash
8 2 (1.79%) Bicep
8 2 (1.79%) Cypher
8 2 (1.79%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.79%) SPARQL
9 1 (0.89%) C
9 1 (0.89%) Gremlin
9 1 (0.89%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.89%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.89%) Scala
9 1 (0.89%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 112 (100.00%) Degree
2 41 (36.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (22.32%) PhD
4 23 (20.54%) MBA
5 8 (7.14%) Security Cleared
6 7 (6.25%) SC Cleared
7 5 (4.46%) PMI Certification
8 4 (3.57%) PMP
9 3 (2.68%) AWS Certification
9 3 (2.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (2.68%) CISM
9 3 (2.68%) CISSP
10 2 (1.79%) CISA
10 2 (1.79%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.89%) CEH
11 1 (0.89%) CFA
11 1 (0.89%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.89%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.68%) GDPR
3 3 (2.68%) QA
4 2 (1.79%) NIST
4 2 (1.79%) PMO
4 2 (1.79%) SLA
5 1 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.89%) EMIR
5 1 (0.89%) GMP
5 1 (0.89%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.89%) MiFID
5 1 (0.89%) NCSC
5 1 (0.89%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.89%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (10.71%) Docker
2 1 (0.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.46%) Terraform
3 1 (0.89%) CASB
3 1 (0.89%) Grafana
3 1 (0.89%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (20.54%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.93%) Google
3 9 (8.04%) Oracle
4 7 (6.25%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.68%) Databricks
6 2 (1.79%) Adobe
6 2 (1.79%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.79%) Duck Creek
6 2 (1.79%) Guidewire
6 2 (1.79%) SAP
6 2 (1.79%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.89%) Apple
7 1 (0.89%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.89%) Calypso
7 1 (0.89%) Cisco
7 1 (0.89%) Murex
7 1 (0.89%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.89%) Plaid
7 1 (0.89%) Reuters
7 1 (0.89%) VMware