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 24 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 225 205 217
Rank change year-on-year -20 +12 +55
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 165 177 191
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.15% 1.18% 1.04%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.01% 4.57% 4.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 110 125
10th Percentile £381 £390 £355
25th Percentile £418 £476 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £575 £675
Median % change year-on-year -1.91% -14.81% -3.57%
75th Percentile £700 £736 £800
90th Percentile £894 £840 £1,000
England median daily rate £525 £550 £635
% change year-on-year -4.55% -13.39% +1.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile - - £37.61
25th Percentile - £30.67 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £31.35 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +107.37% -45.49% +25.68%
75th Percentile - £32.02 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £66.50
England median hourly rate £33.50 £27.67 £57.50
% change year-on-year +21.07% -51.88% +27.78%

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 4,111 3,877 4,447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.54% 25.84% 24.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,863 2,449 2,974
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £668
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 59 88
10th Percentile £20.57 £21.00 £19.18
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.63 £23.19
Median hourly rate £25.47 £37.50 £47.44
Median % change year-on-year -32.08% -20.95% +7.55%
75th Percentile £62.31 £58.00 £66.19
90th Percentile £76.58 £83.20 £86.33
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.25 £52.05
% change year-on-year -46.77% -9.24% +15.67%

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 24 December 2025.

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 24 December 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 -11 20 £600 +13.21% 105
West London -12 4 £350 +68.27% 6
East London - 3 £1,000 - 5
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 (10.30%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.21%) Ethereum
2 2 (1.21%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.61%) CMS
3 1 (0.61%) Confluence
3 1 (0.61%) Drupal
3 1 (0.61%) MQSeries
3 1 (0.61%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.61%) SAP Portal
3 1 (0.61%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.61%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.61%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (4.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.61%) Camtasia
3 1 (0.61%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.61%) Navisworks
3 1 (0.61%) ProjectWise
3 1 (0.61%) Revit
3 1 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.82%) Endur
2 3 (1.82%) SAP IBP
3 2 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.61%) SAP FI-CA
4 1 (0.61%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.61%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 53 (32.12%) Azure
2 33 (20.00%) AWS
3 17 (10.30%) GCP
4 12 (7.27%) GitHub
5 11 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 11 (6.67%) SaaS
6 10 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (3.64%) Azure Machine Learning
7 6 (3.64%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (3.64%) Serverless
8 5 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (3.03%) Amazon S3
8 5 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (3.03%) Azure AI
8 5 (3.03%) Miro
8 5 (3.03%) Sentry
9 4 (2.42%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.42%) Snowflake
9 4 (2.42%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.03%) CTI
1 5 (3.03%) HTTP
1 5 (3.03%) VoIP
2 4 (2.42%) Network Security
3 2 (1.21%) S/MIME
3 2 (1.21%) SSL
4 1 (0.61%) Firewall
4 1 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.67%) Power BI
2 10 (6.06%) Big Data
3 8 (4.85%) Tableau
4 7 (4.24%) NoSQL
4 7 (4.24%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (3.64%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.42%) Metadata
6 4 (2.42%) Pinecone
7 3 (1.82%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.21%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.21%) Weaviate
9 1 (0.61%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.61%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.61%) Essbase
9 1 (0.61%) Kdb+
9 1 (0.61%) MySQL
9 1 (0.61%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 13 (7.88%) Git
2 6 (3.64%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.03%) Appium
3 5 (3.03%) Charles Proxy
3 5 (3.03%) Katalon Studio
3 5 (3.03%) Postman
3 5 (3.03%) TeamCity
3 5 (3.03%) XCUITest
4 4 (2.42%) IntelliJ
5 2 (1.21%) ERwin
5 2 (1.21%) GitLab
5 2 (1.21%) Hardhat
5 2 (1.21%) JIRA
5 2 (1.21%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (1.21%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.61%) Gatling
6 1 (0.61%) MLflow
6 1 (0.61%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.61%) SonarQube
General
1 76 (46.06%) Finance
2 75 (45.45%) Social Skills
3 44 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (21.21%) Banking
5 22 (13.33%) Front Office
6 19 (11.52%) Investment Banking
7 12 (7.27%) Financial Institution
8 11 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (4.24%) Manufacturing
9 7 (4.24%) Marketing
9 7 (4.24%) Telecoms
10 6 (3.64%) Legal
10 6 (3.64%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (3.03%) Retail
12 4 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (2.42%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.82%) Back Office
14 2 (1.21%) Automotive
14 2 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (1.21%) Law
Job Titles
1 28 (16.97%) Developer
2 22 (13.33%) Lead
3 18 (10.91%) Architect
4 17 (10.30%) Senior
5 15 (9.09%) Analyst
6 11 (6.67%) Business Analyst
6 11 (6.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 10 (6.06%) Project Manager
8 9 (5.45%) Consultant
9 8 (4.85%) Data Scientist
9 8 (4.85%) Quantitative Developer
10 6 (3.64%) Cloud Architect
10 6 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (3.03%) Azure Architect
11 5 (3.03%) C# Developer
11 5 (3.03%) Cloud Solutions Architect
11 5 (3.03%) Genesys Developer
11 5 (3.03%) Integration Architect
11 5 (3.03%) Senior Developer
11 5 (3.03%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.09%) PyTorch
2 14 (8.48%) TensorFlow
3 12 (7.27%) .NET
4 10 (6.06%) LangChain
4 10 (6.06%) NumPy
5 9 (5.45%) Kafka
5 9 (5.45%) Middleware
6 8 (4.85%) Pandas
6 8 (4.85%) RESTful
7 7 (4.24%) Hugging Face
7 7 (4.24%) Web Services
8 6 (3.64%) Dask
8 6 (3.64%) REST
9 5 (3.03%) LangGraph
9 5 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (3.03%) scikit-learn
10 4 (2.42%) Faiss
10 4 (2.42%) SOAP
11 3 (1.82%) pydantic
11 3 (1.82%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.12%) Derivative
2 15 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 14 (8.48%) Distributed Computing
3 14 (8.48%) Equities
3 14 (8.48%) Product Ownership
4 12 (7.27%) Algorithms
4 12 (7.27%) Hedge funds
5 11 (6.67%) Fixed Income
6 10 (6.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (6.06%) Management Information System
7 8 (4.85%) PMI
8 7 (4.24%) AI Agents
8 7 (4.24%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (4.24%) Mobile App
9 6 (3.64%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (3.03%) Data Fabric
10 5 (3.03%) Equity Derivative
10 5 (3.03%) IVR
10 5 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (3.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.03%) Android
1 5 (3.03%) Apple iOS
2 4 (2.42%) Windows
3 3 (1.82%) Linux
4 2 (1.21%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.61%) Unix
5 1 (0.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (69.09%) Computer Science
2 55 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (30.91%) Agile
4 48 (29.09%) AI
5 41 (24.85%) Analytics
5 41 (24.85%) Machine Learning
6 38 (23.03%) Risk Management
7 36 (21.82%) DevOps
8 35 (21.21%) Stakeholder Management
9 32 (19.39%) Mathematics
9 32 (19.39%) Roadmaps
10 27 (16.36%) Data Science
10 27 (16.36%) Decision-Making
10 27 (16.36%) Generative AI
10 27 (16.36%) LLM
11 26 (15.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 24 (14.55%) CI/CD
13 23 (13.94%) Data Governance
13 23 (13.94%) Software Engineering
14 21 (12.73%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 59 (35.76%) Python
2 33 (20.00%) SQL
3 16 (9.70%) C++
4 14 (8.48%) C#
5 13 (7.88%) Java
6 7 (4.24%) Bash
6 7 (4.24%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.24%) PowerShell
7 5 (3.03%) Kotlin
7 5 (3.03%) Swift
7 5 (3.03%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.42%) R
9 3 (1.82%) Bicep
9 3 (1.82%) VBA
10 2 (1.21%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.21%) Solidity
11 1 (0.61%) F#
11 1 (0.61%) Go
11 1 (0.61%) Scala
11 1 (0.61%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 165 (100.00%) Degree
2 63 (38.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 31 (18.79%) PhD
4 17 (10.30%) MBA
5 15 (9.09%) PMI Certification
6 11 (6.67%) PMP
7 6 (3.64%) CISSP
8 4 (2.42%) MCP
9 3 (1.82%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.82%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.82%) CBAP
9 3 (1.82%) CISM
9 3 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.82%) Security Cleared
9 3 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (1.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.21%) CCSP
10 2 (1.21%) CFA
10 2 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.21%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.91%) QA
2 17 (10.30%) GDPR
3 9 (5.45%) Data Quality
4 6 (3.64%) Accessibility
4 6 (3.64%) GRC
4 6 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (2.42%) HIPAA
5 4 (2.42%) IFRS
5 4 (2.42%) IFRS 17
5 4 (2.42%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.82%) GMP
6 3 (1.82%) IFRS 9
6 3 (1.82%) NIST
7 2 (1.21%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.21%) SLA
8 1 (0.61%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 1 (0.61%) GAMP
8 1 (0.61%) GxP
8 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (12.12%) Docker
2 2 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (11.52%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.88%) Terraform
3 2 (1.21%) Grafana
3 2 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.61%) Ansible
4 1 (0.61%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.61%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 20 (12.12%) Databricks
1 20 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.48%) SAP
3 10 (6.06%) Oracle
4 7 (4.24%) Splunk
5 6 (3.64%) Google
6 5 (3.03%) Genesys
6 5 (3.03%) Software AG
7 3 (1.82%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.82%) Informatica
7 3 (1.82%) OpenLink
7 3 (1.82%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.21%) Hitachi
8 2 (1.21%) ION Trading
8 2 (1.21%) Workday
9 1 (0.61%) Hotjar
9 1 (0.61%) Hyperion
9 1 (0.61%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.61%) Sophis
9 1 (0.61%) UiPath