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 6 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 207 206 263
Rank change year-on-year -1 +57 +87
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 152 204 285
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.14% 1.12% 0.97%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.51% 4.62% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 135 185
10th Percentile £365 £375 £472
25th Percentile £487 £466 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £690
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -5.80% +6.15%
75th Percentile £784 £775 £818
90th Percentile £985 £850 £950
England median daily rate £580 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -7.20% +4.17% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 10
10th Percentile £32.86 £10.42 £31.25
25th Percentile £36.13 £28.51 £39.44
Median hourly rate £45.67 £75.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.10% +54.64% -11.82%
75th Percentile £58.63 £83.75 £53.50
90th Percentile £63.95 - £60.03
England median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% +22.22% +77.94%

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 3,374 4,414 5,989
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.23% 24.22% 20.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,179 2,946 4,015
10th Percentile £350 £325 £371
25th Percentile £449 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.30% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £663 £650 £700
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 130 82
10th Percentile £21.50 £14.27 £18.48
25th Percentile £24.66 £19.99 £21.24
Median hourly rate £36.75 £32.12 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +14.43% -20.21% -7.73%
75th Percentile £56.19 £60.94 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.40 £83.75 £77.33
England median hourly rate £50.00 £40.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year +25.00% -19.19% +41.43%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 6 March 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 22 £650 -13.33% 27
West London +11 2 £66 -73.23% 11
East London +14 1 £285 -60.69% 9
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 16 (10.53%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.63%) Apache
3 3 (1.97%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.32%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.32%) CMS
4 2 (1.32%) Confluence
4 2 (1.32%) Drupal
4 2 (1.32%) Oracle Spatial
4 2 (1.32%) Sitecore CMS
4 2 (1.32%) WordPress
5 1 (0.66%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.66%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (7.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (3.29%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.97%) Trello
5 1 (0.66%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.66%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.66%) SPSS
5 1 (0.66%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 5 (3.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.63%) Misys Opics
3 3 (1.97%) SAP CRM
3 3 (1.97%) SAP SRM
4 2 (1.32%) Endur
5 1 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.66%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.66%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.66%) SAP MDG-S
Cloud Services
1 31 (20.39%) AWS
2 23 (15.13%) Azure
3 12 (7.89%) GCP
4 7 (4.61%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.63%) Azure App Service
6 4 (2.63%) GitHub
7 3 (1.97%) Asana
7 3 (1.97%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (1.97%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (1.97%) SaaS
7 3 (1.97%) Serverless
7 3 (1.97%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.32%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (1.32%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (1.32%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.32%) OCI
8 2 (1.32%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.61%) CTI
1 7 (4.61%) VoIP
2 2 (1.32%) DNS
2 2 (1.32%) Firewall
3 1 (0.66%) MQTT
3 1 (0.66%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.58%) Big Data
2 8 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.61%) Power BI
4 6 (3.95%) Tableau
5 5 (3.29%) Data Mining
6 4 (2.63%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.97%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.97%) Metadata
7 3 (1.97%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.97%) SAP BW
8 2 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.32%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.32%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.32%) GIS
8 2 (1.32%) NonStop SQL
8 2 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.32%) PowerPivot
8 2 (1.32%) SAP HANA
8 2 (1.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (3.29%) JIRA
2 4 (2.63%) Bitbucket
2 4 (2.63%) Git
2 4 (2.63%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.97%) MLflow
4 2 (1.32%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.32%) ERwin
4 2 (1.32%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.66%) Gatling
5 1 (0.66%) GitLab
5 1 (0.66%) JMeter
5 1 (0.66%) Maven
5 1 (0.66%) MSTest
5 1 (0.66%) NSubstitute
5 1 (0.66%) NUnit
5 1 (0.66%) Selenium
5 1 (0.66%) Subversion
5 1 (0.66%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.66%) TestDirector
5 1 (0.66%) Travis CI
General
1 64 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 62 (40.79%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (32.89%) Finance
4 24 (15.79%) Banking
5 12 (7.89%) Front Office
5 12 (7.89%) Marketing
6 10 (6.58%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (5.92%) Pharmaceutical
8 8 (5.26%) Investment Banking
9 6 (3.95%) Financial Institution
9 6 (3.95%) Public Sector
10 5 (3.29%) Legal
10 5 (3.29%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.63%) Digital Health
12 2 (1.32%) Automotive
12 2 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.32%) Law
12 2 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.32%) Retail
13 1 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 23 (15.13%) Architect
2 18 (11.84%) Analyst
3 13 (8.55%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 11 (7.24%) Senior
5 10 (6.58%) Developer
5 10 (6.58%) Project Manager
6 8 (5.26%) Business Analyst
6 8 (5.26%) Python Engineer
7 7 (4.61%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (4.61%) Java Engineer
7 7 (4.61%) Lead
8 6 (3.95%) Data Scientist
9 5 (3.29%) Gen AI Engineer
9 5 (3.29%) Integration Architect
9 5 (3.29%) Quantitative Developer
9 5 (3.29%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.29%) User Experience Researcher
10 4 (2.63%) Consultant
10 4 (2.63%) IT Director
10 4 (2.63%) Operations Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.58%) Middleware
2 9 (5.92%) NumPy
2 9 (5.92%) Pandas
3 7 (4.61%) Kafka
4 6 (3.95%) LangChain
5 5 (3.29%) Dask
5 5 (3.29%) PySpark
5 5 (3.29%) REST
6 4 (2.63%) Ray
7 3 (1.97%) .NET
7 3 (1.97%) React
7 3 (1.97%) SciPy
7 3 (1.97%) SOAP
8 2 (1.32%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.32%) CSS
8 2 (1.32%) HTML
8 2 (1.32%) ODBC
8 2 (1.32%) PostGIS
8 2 (1.32%) Spring
8 2 (1.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.87%) Management Information System
2 13 (8.55%) Distributed Computing
3 7 (4.61%) Data Centre
3 7 (4.61%) IVR
4 6 (3.95%) Derivative
4 6 (3.95%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.63%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.63%) FMCG
5 4 (2.63%) Life Science
5 4 (2.63%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.63%) PMI
6 3 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.97%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.32%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.32%) IoT
7 2 (1.32%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.32%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.97%) Unix
2 2 (1.32%) Linux
3 1 (0.66%) Android
3 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.66%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (58.55%) Computer Science
2 65 (42.76%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (21.05%) Project Management
4 31 (20.39%) Machine Learning
5 27 (17.76%) Analytics
6 24 (15.79%) Agile
6 24 (15.79%) Artificial Intelligence
7 20 (13.16%) Data Science
7 20 (13.16%) Risk Management
8 19 (12.50%) Roadmaps
9 18 (11.84%) Mathematics
9 18 (11.84%) Stakeholder Management
10 17 (11.18%) CI/CD
10 17 (11.18%) DevOps
10 17 (11.18%) Software Engineering
10 17 (11.18%) Technical Leadership
11 16 (10.53%) Data Analysis
11 16 (10.53%) Data Modelling
12 15 (9.87%) Use Case
13 14 (9.21%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 56 (36.84%) Python
2 37 (24.34%) Java
3 24 (15.79%) C++
4 23 (15.13%) SQL
5 14 (9.21%) Shell Script
6 13 (8.55%) C
7 8 (5.26%) C#
8 5 (3.29%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.97%) R
10 2 (1.32%) MATLAB
10 2 (1.32%) Rust
10 2 (1.32%) Scala
11 1 (0.66%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.66%) Groovy
11 1 (0.66%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.66%) Perl
11 1 (0.66%) Ruby
11 1 (0.66%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.66%) Smalltalk
11 1 (0.66%) Swift
Qualifications
1 151 (99.34%) Degree
2 55 (36.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (15.13%) PhD
4 19 (12.50%) PMI Certification
5 16 (10.53%) PMP
6 13 (8.55%) MBA
7 7 (4.61%) CISM
8 6 (3.95%) Numerate Degree
9 5 (3.29%) CISA
9 5 (3.29%) CISSP
10 4 (2.63%) SAP Certification
10 4 (2.63%) Security Cleared
10 4 (2.63%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (1.97%) CGEIT
11 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.97%) PgMP
12 2 (1.32%) CEH
12 2 (1.32%) CFA
12 2 (1.32%) GISP
12 2 (1.32%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.24%) Data Quality
2 8 (5.26%) QA
3 4 (2.63%) COBIT
3 4 (2.63%) MiFID
4 3 (1.97%) GRC
5 2 (1.32%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.32%) Basel III
5 2 (1.32%) GDPR
5 2 (1.32%) NIST
5 2 (1.32%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.66%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (3.95%) Docker
2 2 (1.32%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.32%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 11 (7.24%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.95%) Terraform
3 3 (1.97%) Ansible
4 2 (1.32%) Karpenter
4 2 (1.32%) Podman
5 1 (0.66%) Grafana
5 1 (0.66%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (7.24%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.92%) Google
3 8 (5.26%) SAP
4 7 (4.61%) Genesys
5 6 (3.95%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.29%) Databricks
7 3 (1.97%) Adobe
7 3 (1.97%) Hyperion
7 3 (1.97%) Oracle
7 3 (1.97%) Workday
8 2 (1.32%) HP
8 2 (1.32%) IBM
8 2 (1.32%) OpenLink
8 2 (1.32%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.32%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.32%) Splunk
8 2 (1.32%) VMware
9 1 (0.66%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.66%) Qualtrics
9 1 (0.66%) Yardi