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

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 217 204 208
Rank change year-on-year -13 +4 +64
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 166 178 194
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.16% 1.20% 1.05%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.05% 4.63% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 109 127
10th Percentile £383 £389 £358
25th Percentile £424 £475 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -11.54% -7.14%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £800
90th Percentile £887 £838 £1,000
England median daily rate £525 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -4.55% -12.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile - - £19.47
25th Percentile - £30.67 £34.20
Median hourly rate £65.00 £31.35 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.37% -43.01% +20.22%
75th Percentile - £32.02 £63.44
90th Percentile - - £66.25
England median hourly rate £33.50 £27.67 £52.50
% change year-on-year +21.07% -47.30% +16.67%

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 4,100 3,842 4,459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.59% 25.95% 24.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,855 2,422 2,987
10th Percentile £363 £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 £666
90th Percentile £750 £774 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 59 92
10th Percentile £20.79 £21.00 £19.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.63 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.99 £39.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.37% -13.33% +4.65%
75th Percentile £62.89 £60.38 £66.19
90th Percentile £76.58 £83.20 £86.48
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £51.89
% change year-on-year -45.54% -11.00% +15.31%

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 28 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 28 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 -7 21 £600 +14.29% 159
West London -14 4 £350 +68.27% 5
East London - 2 £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 (10.24%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.20%) Ethereum
2 2 (1.20%) Hyperledger
2 2 (1.20%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.60%) CMS
3 1 (0.60%) Confluence
3 1 (0.60%) Drupal
3 1 (0.60%) MQSeries
3 1 (0.60%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.60%) SAP Portal
3 1 (0.60%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.60%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (4.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.60%) Camtasia
3 1 (0.60%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.60%) Navisworks
3 1 (0.60%) ProjectWise
3 1 (0.60%) Revit
3 1 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.81%) SAP IBP
3 2 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.20%) Endur
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.60%) SAP FI-CA
4 1 (0.60%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.60%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 55 (33.13%) Azure
2 33 (19.88%) AWS
3 16 (9.64%) GCP
4 13 (7.83%) SaaS
5 12 (7.23%) GitHub
5 12 (7.23%) Power Platform
6 11 (6.63%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (6.02%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (3.61%) Azure Machine Learning
8 6 (3.61%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (3.61%) Serverless
9 5 (3.01%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (3.01%) Amazon S3
9 5 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.01%) Azure AI
9 5 (3.01%) Sentry
10 4 (2.41%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.41%) Miro
10 4 (2.41%) OCI
10 4 (2.41%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.61%) HTTP
2 5 (3.01%) CTI
2 5 (3.01%) VoIP
3 4 (2.41%) Network Security
4 2 (1.20%) S/MIME
4 2 (1.20%) SSL
5 1 (0.60%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.60%) Firewall
5 1 (0.60%) Intelligent Network
5 1 (0.60%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.60%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.23%) Power BI
2 10 (6.02%) Big Data
3 8 (4.82%) SQL Server
3 8 (4.82%) Tableau
4 7 (4.22%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (4.22%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.61%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.41%) Metadata
6 4 (2.41%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.20%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.20%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.20%) Weaviate
8 1 (0.60%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.60%) Essbase
8 1 (0.60%) MySQL
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.60%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 13 (7.83%) Git
2 6 (3.61%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.01%) Appium
3 5 (3.01%) Charles Proxy
3 5 (3.01%) Katalon Studio
3 5 (3.01%) Postman
3 5 (3.01%) TeamCity
3 5 (3.01%) XCUITest
4 4 (2.41%) IntelliJ
4 4 (2.41%) JIRA
5 2 (1.20%) ERwin
5 2 (1.20%) GitLab
5 2 (1.20%) Hardhat
5 2 (1.20%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (1.20%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.60%) Gatling
6 1 (0.60%) MLflow
6 1 (0.60%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.60%) SonarQube
General
1 77 (46.39%) Social Skills
2 76 (45.78%) Finance
3 46 (27.71%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (22.29%) Banking
5 21 (12.65%) Front Office
6 19 (11.45%) Investment Banking
7 14 (8.43%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (7.23%) Financial Institution
9 8 (4.82%) Legal
10 7 (4.22%) Manufacturing
10 7 (4.22%) Marketing
11 6 (3.61%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (3.61%) Telecoms
12 4 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (2.41%) Public Sector
12 4 (2.41%) Retail
13 2 (1.20%) Back Office
13 2 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.20%) Law
14 1 (0.60%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 27 (16.27%) Developer
2 23 (13.86%) Lead
3 18 (10.84%) Architect
3 18 (10.84%) Senior
4 15 (9.04%) Analyst
5 11 (6.63%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 11 (6.63%) Project Manager
6 10 (6.02%) Business Analyst
7 9 (5.42%) Consultant
8 8 (4.82%) Data Scientist
8 8 (4.82%) Quantitative Developer
9 7 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (3.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 6 (3.61%) Cloud Architect
10 6 (3.61%) Cloud Solutions Architect
10 6 (3.61%) Integration Architect
11 5 (3.01%) Azure Architect
11 5 (3.01%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
11 5 (3.01%) Genesys Developer
11 5 (3.01%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.43%) PyTorch
2 13 (7.83%) TensorFlow
3 12 (7.23%) .NET
4 11 (6.63%) Middleware
5 10 (6.02%) NumPy
6 9 (5.42%) Kafka
6 9 (5.42%) LangChain
7 8 (4.82%) Pandas
7 8 (4.82%) RESTful
8 7 (4.22%) Web Services
9 6 (3.61%) Dask
9 6 (3.61%) Hugging Face
9 6 (3.61%) REST
10 5 (3.01%) LangGraph
10 5 (3.01%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (3.01%) scikit-learn
11 4 (2.41%) SOAP
12 3 (1.81%) Faiss
12 3 (1.81%) SciPy
12 3 (1.81%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.65%) Derivative
2 14 (8.43%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.43%) Distributed Computing
2 14 (8.43%) Equities
3 13 (7.83%) Product Ownership
4 12 (7.23%) Hedge funds
5 11 (6.63%) Algorithms
5 11 (6.63%) Fixed Income
5 11 (6.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 11 (6.63%) Management Information System
6 9 (5.42%) PMI
7 7 (4.22%) AI Agents
7 7 (4.22%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (4.22%) Mobile App
8 6 (3.61%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (3.01%) Data Fabric
9 5 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (3.01%) Equity Derivative
9 5 (3.01%) IVR
10 4 (2.41%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.01%) Android
1 5 (3.01%) Apple iOS
1 5 (3.01%) Windows
2 4 (2.41%) Linux
3 3 (1.81%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.60%) Unix
4 1 (0.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (69.28%) Computer Science
2 54 (32.53%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (31.93%) Agile
4 48 (28.92%) AI
5 41 (24.70%) Analytics
6 40 (24.10%) Machine Learning
7 38 (22.89%) Risk Management
8 37 (22.29%) DevOps
9 36 (21.69%) Stakeholder Management
10 32 (19.28%) Mathematics
10 32 (19.28%) Roadmaps
11 30 (18.07%) Decision-Making
12 27 (16.27%) Data Science
13 26 (15.66%) Generative AI
13 26 (15.66%) LLM
14 24 (14.46%) CI/CD
14 24 (14.46%) Software Engineering
14 24 (14.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 23 (13.86%) Data Governance
15 23 (13.86%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 57 (34.34%) Python
2 32 (19.28%) SQL
3 16 (9.64%) C++
4 14 (8.43%) C#
5 13 (7.83%) Java
6 7 (4.22%) Bash
6 7 (4.22%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.22%) PowerShell
7 5 (3.01%) Kotlin
7 5 (3.01%) Swift
7 5 (3.01%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.41%) R
9 3 (1.81%) Bicep
9 3 (1.81%) VBA
10 2 (1.20%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.20%) Solidity
11 1 (0.60%) F#
11 1 (0.60%) Go
11 1 (0.60%) Scala
11 1 (0.60%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 166 (100.00%) Degree
2 63 (37.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 32 (19.28%) PhD
4 18 (10.84%) PMI Certification
5 16 (9.64%) MBA
6 13 (7.83%) PMP
7 7 (4.22%) CISSP
8 5 (3.01%) MCP
9 4 (2.41%) CBAP
9 4 (2.41%) CISM
10 3 (1.81%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.81%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.81%) Security Cleared
10 3 (1.81%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (1.20%) CCSP
11 2 (1.20%) CFA
11 2 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.24%) GDPR
1 17 (10.24%) QA
2 9 (5.42%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.61%) Accessibility
5 5 (3.01%) GRC
5 5 (3.01%) IFRS
5 5 (3.01%) IFRS 17
6 4 (2.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (2.41%) HIPAA
6 4 (2.41%) IFRS 9
6 4 (2.41%) NIST
6 4 (2.41%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.81%) GMP
8 2 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (1.20%) Basel III
8 2 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (1.20%) SLA
9 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.60%) NIST 800
System Software
1 20 (12.05%) Docker
2 2 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (11.45%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.83%) Terraform
3 2 (1.20%) Grafana
3 2 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.60%) Ansible
4 1 (0.60%) Control-M
4 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.60%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (12.65%) Microsoft
2 20 (12.05%) Databricks
3 14 (8.43%) SAP
4 11 (6.63%) Oracle
5 7 (4.22%) Splunk
6 6 (3.61%) Software AG
7 5 (3.01%) Genesys
7 5 (3.01%) Google
8 4 (2.41%) Informatica
9 3 (1.81%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.81%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.81%) Workday
10 2 (1.20%) IBM
10 2 (1.20%) OpenLink
11 1 (0.60%) Adobe
11 1 (0.60%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.60%) Calypso
11 1 (0.60%) HP
11 1 (0.60%) Murex
11 1 (0.60%) Reuters