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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 208 204 224
Rank change year-on-year -4 +20 +70
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 167 186 204
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.18% 1.20% 1.04%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.22% 4.70% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 111 141
10th Percentile £382 £391 £363
25th Percentile £415 £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £675
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -14.81% -3.57%
75th Percentile £675 £734 £800
90th Percentile £865 £863 £1,000
England median daily rate £525 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -4.55% -12.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile - - £52.75
25th Percentile - - £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £61.25
75th Percentile - - £65.63
90th Percentile - - £66.75
England median hourly rate £33.50 £27.67 £55.00
% change year-on-year +21.07% -49.69% +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 3,954 3,959 4,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.96% 25.45% 23.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,756 2,513 3,081
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £668
90th Percentile £746 £773 £775
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 53 96
10th Percentile £19.39 £20.10 £19.13
25th Percentile - £27.00 £22.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.51% -25.71% +8.25%
75th Percentile £44.44 £60.00 £66.19
90th Percentile £72.25 £82.24 £84.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £48.78 £52.50
% change year-on-year -48.44% -7.09% +16.67%

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 2 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 2 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 -4 23 £544 +3.57% 23
East London +5 3 £1,000 +111.86% 7
West London -11 3 £350 +68.27% 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 15 (8.98%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.20%) Ethereum
2 2 (1.20%) Hyperledger
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%) SAP Portal
3 1 (0.60%) SAS
3 1 (0.60%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.60%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.60%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (4.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.60%) Camtasia
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
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 (2.40%) Endur
1 4 (2.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.80%) SAP IBP
3 2 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.60%) SAP FI-CA
4 1 (0.60%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.60%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 47 (28.14%) Azure
2 36 (21.56%) AWS
3 19 (11.38%) GCP
4 12 (7.19%) GitHub
5 11 (6.59%) Power Platform
6 10 (5.99%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (5.39%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (4.79%) SaaS
9 6 (3.59%) Azure Machine Learning
9 6 (3.59%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (3.59%) Miro
10 5 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (2.99%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.99%) Sentry
10 5 (2.99%) Serverless
11 4 (2.40%) Amazon SageMaker
11 4 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.40%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (2.40%) Vertex AI
12 3 (1.80%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.99%) CTI
1 5 (2.99%) HTTP
1 5 (2.99%) VoIP
2 4 (2.40%) Network Security
3 2 (1.20%) S/MIME
3 2 (1.20%) SSL
4 1 (0.60%) Firewall
4 1 (0.60%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.59%) Power BI
2 9 (5.39%) Tableau
3 8 (4.79%) Big Data
4 7 (4.19%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.59%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.99%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.40%) Metadata
7 4 (2.40%) Pinecone
8 3 (1.80%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.20%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.20%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.20%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.20%) Weaviate
10 1 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.60%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.60%) Flink
Development Applications
1 11 (6.59%) Git
2 5 (2.99%) Appium
2 5 (2.99%) Charles Proxy
2 5 (2.99%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.99%) Katalon Studio
2 5 (2.99%) Postman
2 5 (2.99%) XCUITest
3 4 (2.40%) IntelliJ
3 4 (2.40%) TeamCity
4 3 (1.80%) JIRA
4 3 (1.80%) MLflow
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%) JMeter
6 1 (0.60%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.60%) NeoLoad
General
1 81 (48.50%) Finance
2 70 (41.92%) Social Skills
3 41 (24.55%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (17.96%) Banking
5 22 (13.17%) Front Office
6 15 (8.98%) Investment Banking
7 12 (7.19%) Financial Institution
8 8 (4.79%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (4.79%) Telecoms
9 7 (4.19%) Marketing
10 6 (3.59%) Legal
10 6 (3.59%) Manufacturing
10 6 (3.59%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (2.99%) Retail
12 4 (2.40%) Back Office
12 4 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (2.40%) Public Sector
13 2 (1.20%) Automotive
13 2 (1.20%) Law
Job Titles
1 29 (17.37%) Developer
2 22 (13.17%) Analyst
3 19 (11.38%) Lead
3 19 (11.38%) Senior
4 15 (8.98%) Architect
5 13 (7.78%) Business Analyst
6 11 (6.59%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 10 (5.99%) Consultant
8 8 (4.79%) Data Scientist
8 8 (4.79%) Project Manager
8 8 (4.79%) Quantitative Developer
9 5 (2.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 5 (2.99%) Azure Architect
9 5 (2.99%) Genesys Developer
9 5 (2.99%) Senior Developer
9 5 (2.99%) Senior Manager
10 4 (2.40%) C# Developer
10 4 (2.40%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
10 4 (2.40%) Data Engineer
10 4 (2.40%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.19%) .NET
1 12 (7.19%) PyTorch
1 12 (7.19%) TensorFlow
2 9 (5.39%) Kafka
3 8 (4.79%) LangChain
3 8 (4.79%) NumPy
3 8 (4.79%) Web Services
4 7 (4.19%) REST
4 7 (4.19%) RESTful
5 6 (3.59%) Middleware
5 6 (3.59%) Pandas
6 5 (2.99%) Dask
6 5 (2.99%) Hugging Face
6 5 (2.99%) PySpark
7 4 (2.40%) Faiss
7 4 (2.40%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (2.40%) SOAP
8 3 (1.80%) ARM Templates
8 3 (1.80%) HTML
8 3 (1.80%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.57%) Derivative
2 17 (10.18%) Product Ownership
3 15 (8.98%) Distributed Computing
4 14 (8.38%) Cloud Native
5 13 (7.78%) Algorithms
6 12 (7.19%) Equities
7 11 (6.59%) Equity Derivative
8 10 (5.99%) Fixed Income
8 10 (5.99%) Hedge funds
9 9 (5.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 9 (5.39%) Management Information System
10 8 (4.79%) Mobile App
10 8 (4.79%) PMI
11 7 (4.19%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (3.59%) AI Agents
12 6 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (3.59%) Virtual Team
13 5 (2.99%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (2.99%) IVR
14 4 (2.40%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.99%) Android
1 5 (2.99%) Apple iOS
2 4 (2.40%) Windows
3 3 (1.80%) Linux
4 2 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.60%) Unix
5 1 (0.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (64.67%) Computer Science
2 52 (31.14%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (29.34%) Agile
4 44 (26.35%) AI
5 40 (23.95%) Machine Learning
6 39 (23.35%) Analytics
7 38 (22.75%) Risk Management
8 37 (22.16%) Mathematics
9 35 (20.96%) Stakeholder Management
10 31 (18.56%) DevOps
11 29 (17.37%) Roadmaps
12 26 (15.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 25 (14.97%) LLM
14 24 (14.37%) Data Science
15 22 (13.17%) CI/CD
15 22 (13.17%) Decision-Making
15 22 (13.17%) Generative AI
16 21 (12.57%) Data Governance
16 21 (12.57%) Validation
17 20 (11.98%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 67 (40.12%) Python
2 32 (19.16%) SQL
3 19 (11.38%) C++
4 13 (7.78%) Java
5 11 (6.59%) C#
6 7 (4.19%) Bash
6 7 (4.19%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.19%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.99%) Kotlin
7 5 (2.99%) R
7 5 (2.99%) Swift
8 4 (2.40%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.80%) Bicep
9 3 (1.80%) VBA
10 2 (1.20%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.20%) PHP
10 2 (1.20%) Solidity
11 1 (0.60%) F#
11 1 (0.60%) Go
11 1 (0.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 167 (100.00%) Degree
2 54 (32.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (20.96%) PhD
4 16 (9.58%) MBA
5 15 (8.98%) PMI Certification
6 10 (5.99%) PMP
7 5 (2.99%) CISSP
8 4 (2.40%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.40%) CBAP
9 3 (1.80%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.80%) Security Cleared
9 3 (1.80%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.20%) CCSP
10 2 (1.20%) CFA
10 2 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.20%) CISM
10 2 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.20%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (11.38%) QA
2 16 (9.58%) GDPR
3 10 (5.99%) Data Quality
4 8 (4.79%) GRC
5 6 (3.59%) Accessibility
6 5 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (2.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (2.40%) HIPAA
7 4 (2.40%) IFRS
7 4 (2.40%) IFRS 17
7 4 (2.40%) NIST
7 4 (2.40%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.80%) GMP
8 3 (1.80%) IFRS 9
9 2 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (1.20%) SLA
10 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.60%) GxP
10 1 (0.60%) ISO 19650
10 1 (0.60%) NIST 800
System Software
1 19 (11.38%) Docker
2 2 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (10.18%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.19%) Terraform
3 2 (1.20%) Ansible
3 2 (1.20%) Grafana
3 2 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.60%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (8.98%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.38%) Databricks
2 14 (8.38%) SAP
3 10 (5.99%) Oracle
4 7 (4.19%) Splunk
5 5 (2.99%) Genesys
6 4 (2.40%) Google
7 3 (1.80%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.80%) Informatica
7 3 (1.80%) OpenLink
7 3 (1.80%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.20%) Adobe
8 2 (1.20%) Hitachi
8 2 (1.20%) IBM
8 2 (1.20%) ION Trading
8 2 (1.20%) Murex
8 2 (1.20%) Software AG
8 2 (1.20%) Workday
9 1 (0.60%) Calypso
9 1 (0.60%) Sophis