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 4 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 223 205
Rank change year-on-year -113 -18 +65
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 113 138 197
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.56% 1.04% 1.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.00% 3.98% 4.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 82 122
10th Percentile £314 £383 £350
25th Percentile £439 £493 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £581 £529
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% +9.93% -28.06%
75th Percentile £722 £700 £697
90th Percentile £782 £823 £825
England median daily rate £575 £539 £525
% change year-on-year +6.73% +2.62% -19.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 3
10th Percentile £32.52 - £42.25
25th Percentile £34.76 £65.00 £43.75
Median hourly rate £36.00 £73.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.19% +55.26% -26.92%
75th Percentile £48.25 £86.25 £58.38
90th Percentile £70.30 - £64.15
England median hourly rate £36.00 £65.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -44.62% +52.94% -34.62%

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 5,636 3,464 3,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.09% 26.22% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,055 2,329 2,640
10th Percentile £375 £350 £350
25th Percentile £456 £430 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -1.40% -2.27%
75th Percentile £639 £653 £650
90th Percentile £737 £738 £763
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 80 63
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.86 £17.93
25th Percentile £25.24 £25.12 £22.00
Median hourly rate £52.75 £25.15 £31.62
Median % change year-on-year +109.74% -20.46% -42.51%
75th Percentile £74.44 £45.63 £51.25
90th Percentile £88.75 £65.06 £64.90
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +108.75% -52.10% -3.78%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -33 5 £755 +25.83% 90
West London -16 4 £550 +57.14% 67
East London +2 1 £775 -
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 7 (6.19%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.42%) Confluence
3 4 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.65%) Apache
5 1 (0.88%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.88%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.88%) PowerExchange
5 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.88%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (5.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.54%) UserZoom
4 3 (2.65%) CPLEX
4 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.77%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.88%) Endur
2 1 (0.88%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.88%) SAP IBP
2 1 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.88%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 23 (20.35%) Azure
2 22 (19.47%) AWS
3 18 (15.93%) GCP
4 6 (5.31%) Snowflake
5 5 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (4.42%) GitHub
5 5 (4.42%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (4.42%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.54%) Amazon SageMaker
6 4 (3.54%) Miro
6 4 (3.54%) Serverless
7 3 (2.65%) Asana
7 3 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (2.65%) Dagster
7 3 (2.65%) Smartsheet
8 2 (1.77%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.77%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.77%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.77%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.31%) 3GPP
2 4 (3.54%) 5G
2 4 (3.54%) NGN
2 4 (3.54%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (3.54%) tcpdump
2 4 (3.54%) Wireshark
3 3 (2.65%) Firewall
3 3 (2.65%) Network Security
4 2 (1.77%) IPv4
4 2 (1.77%) IPv6
5 1 (0.88%) BGP
5 1 (0.88%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.88%) IPsec
5 1 (0.88%) LAN
5 1 (0.88%) OSPF
5 1 (0.88%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.88%) VoIP
5 1 (0.88%) VPN
5 1 (0.88%) WAN
5 1 (0.88%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.19%) Big Data
1 7 (6.19%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (6.19%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.31%) Data Mining
2 6 (5.31%) Metadata
2 6 (5.31%) Neo4j
3 5 (4.42%) Data Lake
3 5 (4.42%) MongoDB
3 5 (4.42%) Power BI
4 4 (3.54%) Oracle Database
5 3 (2.65%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.65%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.65%) Tableau
6 2 (1.77%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.77%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (1.77%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (1.77%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.88%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.88%) OLAP
7 1 (0.88%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 12 (10.62%) JIRA
2 6 (5.31%) Git
2 6 (5.31%) MLflow
3 2 (1.77%) Selenium
4 1 (0.88%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.88%) Maven
4 1 (0.88%) Mocha
4 1 (0.88%) Subversion
4 1 (0.88%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.88%) VersionOne
4 1 (0.88%) Zephyr
General
1 52 (46.02%) Social Skills
2 48 (42.48%) Finance
3 30 (26.55%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (13.27%) Banking
5 13 (11.50%) Public Sector
6 9 (7.96%) Telecoms
7 8 (7.08%) Marketing
8 7 (6.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (5.31%) Front Office
10 5 (4.42%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (4.42%) Investment Banking
10 5 (4.42%) Manufacturing
10 5 (4.42%) Publishing
11 4 (3.54%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (3.54%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (3.54%) Social Science
12 3 (2.65%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (2.65%) Retail
13 2 (1.77%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.77%) Legal
Job Titles
1 22 (19.47%) Senior
2 15 (13.27%) Architect
2 15 (13.27%) Developer
3 12 (10.62%) Lead
4 10 (8.85%) Data Scientist
5 9 (7.96%) Analyst
6 5 (4.42%) Engineering Manager
6 5 (4.42%) Junior
6 5 (4.42%) Senior Manager
6 5 (4.42%) Software Engineering Manager
6 5 (4.42%) Software Manager
6 5 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.54%) C# Developer
7 4 (3.54%) E-Commerce Manager
7 4 (3.54%) Enterprise Architect
7 4 (3.54%) Quantitative Developer
7 4 (3.54%) Senior User Experience Researcher
7 4 (3.54%) Technologist
7 4 (3.54%) User Experience Researcher
7 4 (3.54%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.96%) REST
2 8 (7.08%) .NET
3 7 (6.19%) NumPy
3 7 (6.19%) Pandas
3 7 (6.19%) PySpark
4 6 (5.31%) Kafka
4 6 (5.31%) PyTorch
4 6 (5.31%) scikit-learn
5 5 (4.42%) RESTful
5 5 (4.42%) Terraform
6 4 (3.54%) React
7 3 (2.65%) GraphQL
7 3 (2.65%) LangChain
7 3 (2.65%) React Native
7 3 (2.65%) TensorFlow
7 3 (2.65%) Web Services
8 2 (1.77%) Flutter
8 2 (1.77%) Middleware
8 2 (1.77%) Playwright
8 2 (1.77%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.39%) Algorithms
2 11 (9.73%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (9.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (8.85%) Derivative
4 7 (6.19%) Management Information System
5 6 (5.31%) Data Structures
6 5 (4.42%) Cloud Native
6 5 (4.42%) Equities
6 5 (4.42%) Exotic Derivative
6 5 (4.42%) Fixed Income
6 5 (4.42%) OTC Derivatives
6 5 (4.42%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.54%) AI Agents
7 4 (3.54%) Graphic Design
7 4 (3.54%) Hedge funds
7 4 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.65%) Credit Risk
8 3 (2.65%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.77%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.77%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.77%) Linux
1 2 (1.77%) Windows
2 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (56.64%) Computer Science
2 38 (33.63%) Agile
2 38 (33.63%) AI
3 34 (30.09%) Analytics
4 31 (27.43%) Software Engineering
5 30 (26.55%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (23.01%) Machine Learning
6 26 (23.01%) Mathematics
7 25 (22.12%) Stakeholder Management
8 23 (20.35%) Data Science
9 20 (17.70%) Decision-Making
9 20 (17.70%) Roadmaps
10 17 (15.04%) CI/CD
11 15 (13.27%) Data Engineering
11 15 (13.27%) Data Modelling
12 14 (12.39%) Physics
12 14 (12.39%) Risk Management
12 14 (12.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 13 (11.50%) ETL
13 13 (11.50%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 39 (34.51%) Python
2 30 (26.55%) SQL
3 13 (11.50%) Java
4 9 (7.96%) C#
5 8 (7.08%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.42%) C++
7 3 (2.65%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.65%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.77%) Bash
8 2 (1.77%) Bicep
8 2 (1.77%) Cypher
8 2 (1.77%) SPARQL
9 1 (0.88%) C
9 1 (0.88%) Gremlin
9 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.88%) Scala
9 1 (0.88%) SHACL
9 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 113 (100.00%) Degree
2 38 (33.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (25.66%) PhD
4 22 (19.47%) MBA
5 8 (7.08%) Security Cleared
6 7 (6.19%) SC Cleared
7 5 (4.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (4.42%) PMI Certification
8 4 (3.54%) PMP
9 3 (2.65%) AWS Certification
9 3 (2.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.77%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.77%) CISM
10 2 (1.77%) CISSP
10 2 (1.77%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.88%) CBAP
11 1 (0.88%) CFA
11 1 (0.88%) CISA
11 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.96%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.42%) QA
3 4 (3.54%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.65%) GDPR
5 2 (1.77%) SLA
6 1 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.88%) Basel III
6 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.88%) EMIR
6 1 (0.88%) GMP
6 1 (0.88%) GRC
6 1 (0.88%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.88%) MiFID
6 1 (0.88%) NCSC
6 1 (0.88%) NIST
6 1 (0.88%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.88%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (9.73%) Docker
2 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (5.31%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.88%) CASB
2 1 (0.88%) Grafana
2 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (21.24%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.73%) Oracle
3 9 (7.96%) Google
3 9 (7.96%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.54%) Databricks
5 2 (1.77%) Adobe
5 2 (1.77%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.77%) Duck Creek
5 2 (1.77%) Guidewire
5 2 (1.77%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.77%) UiPath
6 1 (0.88%) Avaloq
6 1 (0.88%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.88%) Calypso
6 1 (0.88%) Cisco
6 1 (0.88%) Murex
6 1 (0.88%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.88%) Plaid
6 1 (0.88%) SAP
6 1 (0.88%) VMware