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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 231 211
Rank change year-on-year -99 -20 +57
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 114 138 194
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.57% 1.03% 1.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.04% 3.91% 4.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 85 125
10th Percentile £330 £383 £350
25th Percentile £456 £500 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £590 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% +9.77% -28.33%
75th Percentile £722 £750 £700
90th Percentile £785 £845 £825
England median daily rate £575 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -22.22%
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 5,590 3,530 3,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.87% 26.28% 24.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,027 2,375 2,687
10th Percentile £374 £338 £350
25th Percentile £456 £431 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -1.40% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £659 £650
90th Percentile £735 £750 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 88 69
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.57 £17.88
25th Percentile £25.63 £25.12 £22.00
Median hourly rate £53.00 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +110.74% -16.17% -45.45%
75th Percentile £73.00 £40.31 £48.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £65.00 £65.60
England median hourly rate £53.00 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +110.74% -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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -21 5 £755 +18.43% 32
West London -18 4 £550 +57.14% 11
East London +2 1 £775 - 3
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 (5.26%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.39%) Confluence
3 4 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.63%) Apache
5 1 (0.88%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.88%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.88%) PowerExchange
5 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.88%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.39%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.51%) CPLEX
3 4 (3.51%) UserZoom
4 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.88%) Endur
2 1 (0.88%) SAP IBP
2 1 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.88%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 25 (21.93%) AWS
1 25 (21.93%) Azure
2 19 (16.67%) GCP
3 6 (5.26%) GitHub
3 6 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (4.39%) Power Platform
4 5 (4.39%) Snowflake
5 4 (3.51%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (3.51%) Miro
5 4 (3.51%) Serverless
6 3 (2.63%) Asana
6 3 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.63%) Dagster
6 3 (2.63%) Smartsheet
7 2 (1.75%) Amazon Neptune
7 2 (1.75%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.75%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.75%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.75%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.63%) 3GPP
1 3 (2.63%) Firewall
1 3 (2.63%) Network Security
2 2 (1.75%) IPv4
2 2 (1.75%) IPv6
3 1 (0.88%) 5G
3 1 (0.88%) BGP
3 1 (0.88%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.88%) IPsec
3 1 (0.88%) LAN
3 1 (0.88%) NGN
3 1 (0.88%) OSPF
3 1 (0.88%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.88%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.88%) tcpdump
3 1 (0.88%) VoIP
3 1 (0.88%) VPN
3 1 (0.88%) WAN
3 1 (0.88%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.88%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.14%) Big Data
1 7 (6.14%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (6.14%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.26%) Data Mining
2 6 (5.26%) Metadata
2 6 (5.26%) MongoDB
2 6 (5.26%) Neo4j
3 5 (4.39%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.39%) Power BI
4 4 (3.51%) Data Lake
4 4 (3.51%) Oracle Database
5 3 (2.63%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.63%) Tableau
6 2 (1.75%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (1.75%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (1.75%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.88%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.88%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.88%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.88%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 12 (10.53%) JIRA
2 7 (6.14%) Git
3 6 (5.26%) MLflow
4 2 (1.75%) Selenium
5 1 (0.88%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.88%) Hudson
5 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.88%) Maven
5 1 (0.88%) Mocha
5 1 (0.88%) Subversion
5 1 (0.88%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.88%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.88%) VersionOne
5 1 (0.88%) Zephyr
General
1 51 (44.74%) Social Skills
2 44 (38.60%) Finance
3 28 (24.56%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (11.40%) Banking
5 10 (8.77%) Public Sector
6 9 (7.89%) Marketing
7 7 (6.14%) Front Office
8 6 (5.26%) Telecoms
9 5 (4.39%) Publishing
10 4 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (3.51%) Investment Banking
10 4 (3.51%) Social Science
11 3 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (2.63%) Retail
12 2 (1.75%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.75%) Legal
12 2 (1.75%) Local Government
12 2 (1.75%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 21 (18.42%) Senior
2 18 (15.79%) Developer
3 15 (13.16%) Architect
4 12 (10.53%) Lead
5 10 (8.77%) Data Scientist
6 9 (7.89%) Analyst
7 5 (4.39%) C# Developer
7 5 (4.39%) Engineering Manager
7 5 (4.39%) Junior
7 5 (4.39%) Python Developer
7 5 (4.39%) Senior Manager
7 5 (4.39%) Software Engineering Manager
7 5 (4.39%) Software Manager
7 5 (4.39%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.51%) E-Commerce Manager
8 4 (3.51%) Enterprise Architect
8 4 (3.51%) Quantitative Developer
8 4 (3.51%) Senior User Experience Researcher
8 4 (3.51%) User Experience Researcher
8 4 (3.51%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.89%) REST
2 8 (7.02%) .NET
2 8 (7.02%) NumPy
2 8 (7.02%) Pandas
3 7 (6.14%) PySpark
3 7 (6.14%) PyTorch
4 6 (5.26%) Kafka
4 6 (5.26%) RESTful
4 6 (5.26%) scikit-learn
5 5 (4.39%) Terraform
6 4 (3.51%) React
6 4 (3.51%) TensorFlow
7 3 (2.63%) GraphQL
7 3 (2.63%) LangChain
7 3 (2.63%) React Native
7 3 (2.63%) Web Services
8 2 (1.75%) Flutter
8 2 (1.75%) Playwright
8 2 (1.75%) Seaborn
8 2 (1.75%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.40%) Algorithms
2 11 (9.65%) Derivative
2 11 (9.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (8.77%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (7.02%) Data Structures
4 8 (7.02%) Management Information System
5 6 (5.26%) Equities
6 5 (4.39%) Exotic Derivative
6 5 (4.39%) Fixed Income
6 5 (4.39%) Hedge funds
6 5 (4.39%) OTC Derivatives
6 5 (4.39%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.51%) AI Agents
7 4 (3.51%) Cloud Native
7 4 (3.51%) Graphic Design
7 4 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.63%) Marketing Technology
8 3 (2.63%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.75%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.75%) Linux
1 2 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (56.14%) Computer Science
2 37 (32.46%) Agile
3 36 (31.58%) AI
4 34 (29.82%) Analytics
5 32 (28.07%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (27.19%) Software Engineering
7 28 (24.56%) Mathematics
8 27 (23.68%) Machine Learning
9 24 (21.05%) Data Science
10 23 (20.18%) Stakeholder Management
11 21 (18.42%) Decision-Making
12 19 (16.67%) Roadmaps
13 18 (15.79%) CI/CD
14 15 (13.16%) Data Engineering
14 15 (13.16%) Physics
15 14 (12.28%) Data Modelling
15 14 (12.28%) DevOps
15 14 (12.28%) Generative AI
15 14 (12.28%) LLM
16 13 (11.40%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (35.96%) Python
2 31 (27.19%) SQL
3 15 (13.16%) Java
4 9 (7.89%) C#
5 8 (7.02%) JavaScript
6 6 (5.26%) C++
7 3 (2.63%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.63%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.75%) Bash
8 2 (1.75%) Bicep
8 2 (1.75%) Cypher
8 2 (1.75%) SPARQL
9 1 (0.88%) C
9 1 (0.88%) Gremlin
9 1 (0.88%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.88%) Scala
9 1 (0.88%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 114 (100.00%) Degree
2 41 (35.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (22.81%) PhD
4 23 (20.18%) MBA
5 8 (7.02%) Security Cleared
6 7 (6.14%) SC Cleared
7 5 (4.39%) PMI Certification
8 4 (3.51%) PMP
9 3 (2.63%) AWS Certification
9 3 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (2.63%) CISM
9 3 (2.63%) CISSP
10 2 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.75%) CISA
10 2 (1.75%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.88%) CEH
11 1 (0.88%) CFA
11 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.88%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.02%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.39%) QA
3 4 (3.51%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.63%) GDPR
5 2 (1.75%) NIST
5 2 (1.75%) PMO
5 2 (1.75%) SLA
6 1 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.88%) EMIR
6 1 (0.88%) GMP
6 1 (0.88%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.88%) MiFID
6 1 (0.88%) NCSC
6 1 (0.88%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (10.53%) Docker
2 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (6.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.88%) CASB
2 1 (0.88%) Grafana
2 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (20.18%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.65%) Oracle
3 10 (8.77%) Google
4 8 (7.02%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.63%) Databricks
6 2 (1.75%) Adobe
6 2 (1.75%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.75%) Duck Creek
6 2 (1.75%) Guidewire
6 2 (1.75%) SAP
6 2 (1.75%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.75%) UiPath
7 1 (0.88%) Apple
7 1 (0.88%) Calypso
7 1 (0.88%) Cisco
7 1 (0.88%) Murex
7 1 (0.88%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.88%) Plaid
7 1 (0.88%) Reuters
7 1 (0.88%) VMware