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 31 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 219 211
Rank change year-on-year -26 -8 +59
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 168 131 194
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.00% 1.04% 1.07%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.40% 4.07% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 82 123
10th Percentile £363 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £499 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £630 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +5.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £761 £797 £775
90th Percentile £960 £913 £850
England median daily rate £525 £580 £588
% change year-on-year -9.48% -1.28% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 9
10th Percentile £33.00 £32.86 £10.42
25th Percentile £35.95 £36.13 £28.51
Median hourly rate £41.75 £45.67 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.58% -39.10% +64.84%
75th Percentile £47.39 £58.63 £83.75
90th Percentile £50.25 £63.95 -
England median hourly rate £38.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -39.20% +13.64% +22.22%

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 4,942 3,222 4,374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.34% 25.51% 24.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,520 2,186 2,937
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £431 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £656
90th Percentile £750 £761 £775
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 64 120
10th Percentile £19.54 £21.33 £14.23
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.98
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.25 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% +15.99% -25.31%
75th Percentile £76.58 £56.88 £60.31
90th Percentile £91.75 £68.38 £83.75
England median hourly rate £36.85 £50.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -26.30% +33.33% -25.00%

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 31 March 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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -13 21 £450 -37.93% 53
West London -12 9 £575 - 9
East London +1 1 £1,000 +250.88% 4
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 15 (8.93%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.79%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.60%) Apache
5 1 (0.60%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.60%) Camunda
5 1 (0.60%) CMS
5 1 (0.60%) Confluence
5 1 (0.60%) Drupal
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.60%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.60%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.98%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.19%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.60%) Camtasia
5 1 (0.60%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.79%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (1.79%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (1.19%) Oracle FAH
2 2 (1.19%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (1.19%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.60%) Endur
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.60%) SAP FI-GL
3 1 (0.60%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 47 (27.98%) Azure
2 35 (20.83%) AWS
3 20 (11.90%) SaaS
4 13 (7.74%) GCP
4 13 (7.74%) GitHub
5 9 (5.36%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (4.76%) OCI
6 8 (4.76%) Serverless
7 7 (4.17%) Amazon S3
7 7 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (4.17%) Power Platform
8 6 (3.57%) Amazon SageMaker
8 6 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.57%) Dagster
8 6 (3.57%) IaaS
9 5 (2.98%) Azure Machine Learning
9 5 (2.98%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (2.98%) PaaS
10 4 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.98%) CTI
1 5 (2.98%) VoIP
2 3 (1.79%) HTTP
3 2 (1.19%) 3GPP
3 2 (1.19%) Intelligent Network
3 2 (1.19%) Wireless
4 1 (0.60%) Firewall
4 1 (0.60%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.95%) Big Data
2 7 (4.17%) Power BI
3 5 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.98%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.98%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.38%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.79%) Metadata
5 3 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.79%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.79%) Tableau
6 2 (1.19%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.19%) Pinecone
6 2 (1.19%) Redis
6 2 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.60%) Ataccama
7 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.60%) Flink
7 1 (0.60%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 24 (14.29%) Git
2 9 (5.36%) MLflow
3 7 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.17%) JIRA
4 2 (1.19%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.19%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.19%) Vite
5 1 (0.60%) Appium
5 1 (0.60%) Charles Proxy
5 1 (0.60%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.60%) GitLab
5 1 (0.60%) Hudson
5 1 (0.60%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.60%) Maven
5 1 (0.60%) Postman
5 1 (0.60%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.60%) Subversion
5 1 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.60%) VersionOne
5 1 (0.60%) XCUITest
General
1 84 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 67 (39.88%) Finance
3 60 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (23.81%) Banking
5 23 (13.69%) Presentation Skills
6 15 (8.93%) Investment Banking
7 14 (8.33%) Front Office
8 9 (5.36%) Financial Institution
9 8 (4.76%) Marketing
10 5 (2.98%) Legal
10 5 (2.98%) Public Sector
11 4 (2.38%) Aviation
11 4 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (2.38%) Retail
11 4 (2.38%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.79%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.79%) Japanese Language
13 2 (1.19%) Advertising
13 2 (1.19%) French Language
13 2 (1.19%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 28 (16.67%) Lead
2 22 (13.10%) Architect
3 19 (11.31%) Developer
4 16 (9.52%) Senior
5 15 (8.93%) Data Scientist
6 14 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (7.74%) Integration Architect
8 12 (7.14%) Analyst
9 11 (6.55%) Consultant
10 10 (5.95%) Cloud Architect
11 9 (5.36%) Cloud Solutions Architect
11 9 (5.36%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 7 (4.17%) Business Analyst
12 7 (4.17%) Project Manager
13 6 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 6 (3.57%) Quantitative Developer
13 6 (3.57%) Senior Data Scientist
13 6 (3.57%) Test Manager
14 5 (2.98%) Genesys Developer
14 5 (2.98%) Lead Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.52%) Middleware
2 13 (7.74%) NumPy
2 13 (7.74%) Pandas
3 12 (7.14%) PyTorch
4 9 (5.36%) scikit-learn
5 8 (4.76%) LangChain
5 8 (4.76%) RESTful
5 8 (4.76%) TensorFlow
6 7 (4.17%) REST
7 6 (3.57%) Dask
7 6 (3.57%) Kafka
7 6 (3.57%) Model Context Protocol
7 6 (3.57%) Web Services
8 5 (2.98%) .NET
8 5 (2.98%) Hugging Face
9 4 (2.38%) LangGraph
9 4 (2.38%) Node.js
9 4 (2.38%) SciPy
9 4 (2.38%) Seaborn
9 4 (2.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.52%) Derivative
2 15 (8.93%) Distributed Computing
2 15 (8.93%) Management Information System
3 14 (8.33%) Algorithms
4 12 (7.14%) Cloud Native
5 11 (6.55%) Equities
6 8 (4.76%) AI Agents
6 8 (4.76%) Fixed Income
6 8 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (4.76%) Hedge funds
7 7 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (4.17%) Product Ownership
7 7 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (3.57%) Equity Derivative
8 6 (3.57%) Virtual Team
9 5 (2.98%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.98%) IVR
9 5 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.98%) Life Science
9 5 (2.98%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.98%) Windows
2 3 (1.79%) Linux
2 3 (1.79%) VMS
3 2 (1.19%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.60%) Android
4 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (60.12%) Computer Science
2 53 (31.55%) AI
3 50 (29.76%) Agile
4 48 (28.57%) Machine Learning
4 48 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (26.19%) Roadmaps
6 39 (23.21%) DevOps
7 35 (20.83%) Decision-Making
8 32 (19.05%) Mathematics
8 32 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
9 31 (18.45%) Data Science
10 30 (17.86%) Software Engineering
11 28 (16.67%) Analytics
12 27 (16.07%) CI/CD
12 27 (16.07%) LLM
12 27 (16.07%) Risk Management
13 26 (15.48%) Generative AI
13 26 (15.48%) Validation
14 23 (13.69%) Data Engineering
15 22 (13.10%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 65 (38.69%) Python
2 31 (18.45%) SQL
3 16 (9.52%) Java
4 10 (5.95%) C++
5 7 (4.17%) C#
6 6 (3.57%) Bash
6 6 (3.57%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.38%) Go
7 4 (2.38%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.79%) Scala
9 2 (1.19%) R
9 2 (1.19%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.60%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.60%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.60%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.60%) SOQL
10 1 (0.60%) Swift
Qualifications
1 168 (100.00%) Degree
2 66 (39.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 37 (22.02%) PhD
4 20 (11.90%) MBA
5 11 (6.55%) CISSP
5 11 (6.55%) PMI Certification
6 8 (4.76%) PMP
7 7 (4.17%) CISM
8 6 (3.57%) CRISC
8 6 (3.57%) Security Cleared
9 5 (2.98%) AWS Certification
10 4 (2.38%) Azure Certification
10 4 (2.38%) CISA
11 3 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.79%) CFA
11 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (1.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (1.19%) CCSP
12 2 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.93%) QA
2 14 (8.33%) GDPR
3 11 (6.55%) NIST
4 9 (5.36%) IFRS
4 9 (5.36%) IFRS 17
5 7 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (3.57%) PCI DSS
7 5 (2.98%) GRC
7 5 (2.98%) IFRS 9
7 5 (2.98%) SLA
8 4 (2.38%) Data Quality
8 4 (2.38%) PMO
9 3 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (1.79%) SOC 2
10 2 (1.19%) Basel III
10 2 (1.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (1.19%) COBIT
10 2 (1.19%) GAAP
10 2 (1.19%) ISO 31000
10 2 (1.19%) NIST 800
System Software
1 23 (13.69%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 16 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.74%) Terraform
3 2 (1.19%) Control-M
Vendors
1 26 (15.48%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.33%) Databricks
3 12 (7.14%) Oracle
3 12 (7.14%) Software AG
4 9 (5.36%) Google
4 9 (5.36%) SAP
5 5 (2.98%) Genesys
5 5 (2.98%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.79%) Informatica
7 2 (1.19%) Adobe
7 2 (1.19%) IBM
7 2 (1.19%) Rapid7
7 2 (1.19%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.19%) Workday
8 1 (0.60%) BMC
8 1 (0.60%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.60%) Dell
8 1 (0.60%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.60%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.60%) UiPath