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 18 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 214 193 229
Rank change year-on-year -21 +36 +63
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 158 198 203
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.13% 1.28% 1.01%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.07% 5.03% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 119 143
10th Percentile £386 £362 £364
25th Percentile £447 £473 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £575 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.83% -17.86% -
75th Percentile £700 £744 £844
90th Percentile £894 £890 £1,000
England median daily rate £537 £550 £650
% change year-on-year -2.36% -15.38% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile - - £57.50
25th Percentile - £46.25 £59.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +28.71%
75th Percentile £75.63 £48.75 £66.25
90th Percentile £82.00 - £67.00
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 3,882 3,937 4,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.78% 25.39% 23.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,686 2,502 3,161
10th Percentile £353 £350 £350
25th Percentile £435 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £650 £668
90th Percentile £750 £756 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 56 106
10th Percentile £19.39 £20.25 £19.00
25th Percentile - £29.25 £23.31
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.00 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.51% -28.44% +14.74%
75th Percentile £41.71 £60.19 £67.88
90th Percentile £65.52 £77.33 £86.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.63 £53.50
% change year-on-year -50.32% -5.37% +18.89%

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 18 November 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Master's Degree in London over the 6 months to 18 November 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 18 November 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 -13 15 £600 +17.65% 190
East London +8 3 £1,000 +111.86% 6
West London -14 3 £350 +68.27% 13
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 18 (11.39%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.27%) Ethereum
2 2 (1.27%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.63%) CMS
3 1 (0.63%) Confluence
3 1 (0.63%) Drupal
3 1 (0.63%) Moodle
3 1 (0.63%) MQSeries
3 1 (0.63%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.63%) SAP Portal
3 1 (0.63%) SAS
3 1 (0.63%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.63%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.63%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (4.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.63%) Navisworks
3 1 (0.63%) ProjectWise
3 1 (0.63%) Revit
3 1 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.53%) Endur
1 4 (2.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.90%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.63%) SAP FI-CA
3 1 (0.63%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.63%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 45 (28.48%) Azure
2 39 (24.68%) AWS
3 21 (13.29%) GCP
4 13 (8.23%) GitHub
5 9 (5.70%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (5.70%) Power Platform
6 8 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.80%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (3.80%) Miro
7 6 (3.80%) SaaS
8 5 (3.16%) Azure Machine Learning
8 5 (3.16%) Sentry
9 4 (2.53%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (2.53%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.53%) Amazon SageMaker
9 4 (2.53%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.53%) Vertex AI
10 3 (1.90%) OCI
10 3 (1.90%) Serverless
11 2 (1.27%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.16%) CTI
1 5 (3.16%) HTTP
1 5 (3.16%) Network Security
1 5 (3.16%) VoIP
2 2 (1.27%) Firewall
2 2 (1.27%) S/MIME
2 2 (1.27%) SSL
3 1 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.70%) Power BI
1 9 (5.70%) Tableau
2 7 (4.43%) Big Data
3 6 (3.80%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.80%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (3.16%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.53%) Data Mining
5 4 (2.53%) Metadata
5 4 (2.53%) Pinecone
6 3 (1.90%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.90%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.27%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.27%) Flink
7 2 (1.27%) Weaviate
8 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.63%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 8 (5.06%) Git
2 5 (3.16%) Appium
2 5 (3.16%) Charles Proxy
2 5 (3.16%) Katalon Studio
2 5 (3.16%) Postman
2 5 (3.16%) XCUITest
3 4 (2.53%) IntelliJ
3 4 (2.53%) TeamCity
4 3 (1.90%) GitLab
4 3 (1.90%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.90%) JIRA
4 3 (1.90%) MLflow
5 2 (1.27%) ERwin
5 2 (1.27%) Hardhat
5 2 (1.27%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (1.27%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.63%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.63%) Hudson
6 1 (0.63%) JMeter
6 1 (0.63%) LoadRunner
General
1 76 (48.10%) Finance
2 61 (38.61%) Social Skills
3 34 (21.52%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (17.72%) Banking
5 20 (12.66%) Front Office
6 15 (9.49%) Investment Banking
7 11 (6.96%) Financial Institution
8 9 (5.70%) Telecoms
9 7 (4.43%) Legal
9 7 (4.43%) Manufacturing
9 7 (4.43%) Marketing
10 6 (3.80%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (3.16%) Retail
12 4 (2.53%) Back Office
12 4 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (2.53%) Public Sector
13 2 (1.27%) Automotive
13 2 (1.27%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 28 (17.72%) Developer
2 22 (13.92%) Analyst
3 19 (12.03%) Lead
4 18 (11.39%) Senior
5 14 (8.86%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 13 (8.23%) Architect
6 13 (8.23%) Business Analyst
7 8 (5.06%) Consultant
7 8 (5.06%) Data Scientist
8 7 (4.43%) Project Manager
9 6 (3.80%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (3.80%) Quantitative Developer
10 5 (3.16%) Azure Architect
10 5 (3.16%) Genesys Developer
10 5 (3.16%) Senior Developer
11 4 (2.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 4 (2.53%) C# Developer
11 4 (2.53%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
11 4 (2.53%) Data Engineer
11 4 (2.53%) Telecoms Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.59%) .NET
1 12 (7.59%) TensorFlow
2 11 (6.96%) PyTorch
3 10 (6.33%) Kafka
4 8 (5.06%) Web Services
5 7 (4.43%) RESTful
6 6 (3.80%) LangChain
6 6 (3.80%) REST
7 5 (3.16%) Dask
7 5 (3.16%) Middleware
7 5 (3.16%) NumPy
7 5 (3.16%) PySpark
8 4 (2.53%) Faiss
8 4 (2.53%) Hugging Face
8 4 (2.53%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (1.90%) ARM Templates
9 3 (1.90%) HTML
9 3 (1.90%) Pandas
9 3 (1.90%) SOAP
10 2 (1.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (14.56%) Derivative
2 17 (10.76%) Distributed Computing
2 17 (10.76%) Product Ownership
3 13 (8.23%) Algorithms
3 13 (8.23%) Cloud Native
4 10 (6.33%) Equities
4 10 (6.33%) Fixed Income
4 10 (6.33%) Hedge funds
5 9 (5.70%) Equity Derivative
5 9 (5.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 9 (5.70%) Management Information System
6 8 (5.06%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (5.06%) Mobile App
6 8 (5.06%) PMI
7 6 (3.80%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (3.80%) Virtual Team
8 5 (3.16%) AI Agents
8 5 (3.16%) Data Fabric
8 5 (3.16%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.16%) Android
1 5 (3.16%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.90%) Linux
2 3 (1.90%) Windows
3 1 (0.63%) Unix
3 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (67.72%) Computer Science
2 49 (31.01%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (28.48%) Agile
4 41 (25.95%) AI
4 41 (25.95%) Machine Learning
5 36 (22.78%) Analytics
5 36 (22.78%) Risk Management
6 33 (20.89%) Mathematics
7 30 (18.99%) Stakeholder Management
8 27 (17.09%) Roadmaps
9 26 (16.46%) DevOps
10 25 (15.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 24 (15.19%) Data Science
11 24 (15.19%) LLM
12 20 (12.66%) Data Governance
12 20 (12.66%) Generative AI
13 19 (12.03%) CI/CD
14 18 (11.39%) Data Engineering
15 17 (10.76%) Data Pipeline
15 17 (10.76%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 67 (42.41%) Python
2 30 (18.99%) SQL
3 20 (12.66%) C++
4 18 (11.39%) Java
5 9 (5.70%) C#
6 7 (4.43%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.80%) Bash
7 6 (3.80%) PowerShell
8 5 (3.16%) C
8 5 (3.16%) Kotlin
8 5 (3.16%) Swift
9 4 (2.53%) R
9 4 (2.53%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.90%) Bicep
10 3 (1.90%) VBA
11 2 (1.27%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.27%) PHP
11 2 (1.27%) Scala
11 2 (1.27%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.27%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 158 (100.00%) Degree
2 52 (32.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (22.15%) PhD
4 15 (9.49%) PMI Certification
5 13 (8.23%) MBA
6 10 (6.33%) PMP
7 6 (3.80%) CISSP
8 4 (2.53%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.53%) CBAP
9 3 (1.90%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.90%) CISM
9 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.90%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (1.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.27%) CCSP
10 2 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.27%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.27%) Security Cleared
11 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.39%) QA
2 15 (9.49%) GDPR
3 11 (6.96%) Data Quality
4 8 (5.06%) Accessibility
4 8 (5.06%) GRC
5 6 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (3.16%) NIST
7 4 (2.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (2.53%) HIPAA
7 4 (2.53%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.90%) GMP
8 3 (1.90%) IFRS
8 3 (1.90%) IFRS 17
8 3 (1.90%) IFRS 9
9 2 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (1.27%) SLA
10 1 (0.63%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.63%) GAMP
10 1 (0.63%) GxP
10 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (11.39%) Docker
2 2 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (10.13%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.59%) Terraform
3 2 (1.27%) Ansible
3 2 (1.27%) Grafana
3 2 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.63%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.63%) QRadar
4 1 (0.63%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (8.23%) SAP
2 12 (7.59%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.33%) Databricks
4 9 (5.70%) Oracle
5 8 (5.06%) Splunk
6 5 (3.16%) Genesys
7 3 (1.90%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.90%) Google
7 3 (1.90%) IBM
7 3 (1.90%) Informatica
7 3 (1.90%) OpenLink
8 2 (1.27%) Hitachi
8 2 (1.27%) ION Trading
8 2 (1.27%) Murex
8 2 (1.27%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.27%) Workday
9 1 (0.63%) Adobe
9 1 (0.63%) Calypso
9 1 (0.63%) HP
9 1 (0.63%) Hyperion