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 21 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 227 210
Rank change year-on-year -110 -17 +59
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 112 141 194
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.56% 1.05% 1.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.00% 4.00% 4.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 88 125
10th Percentile £322 £380 £350
25th Percentile £450 £498 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £595 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.04% +10.70% -28.33%
75th Percentile £729 £750 £700
90th Percentile £786 £841 £825
England median daily rate £575 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -21.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 4
10th Percentile £32.52 - £42.75
25th Percentile £34.76 £65.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £73.75 £57.75
Median % change year-on-year -51.19% +27.71% -11.15%
75th Percentile £48.25 £86.25 £69.75
90th Percentile £70.30 - £72.90
England median hourly rate £36.00 £65.00 £48.56
% change year-on-year -44.62% +33.86% -25.29%

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 5,588 3,528 3,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.83% 26.32% 24.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,024 2,373 2,706
10th Percentile £373 £338 £350
25th Percentile £456 £431 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -1.40% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £737 £750 £773
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 88 71
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.57 £17.88
25th Percentile £25.81 £25.12 £22.00
Median hourly rate £53.50 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +112.72% -16.17% -45.45%
75th Percentile £73.00 £40.31 £46.25
90th Percentile £88.75 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +108.75% -47.05% -13.64%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -23 5 £755 +22.02% 29
West London -18 4 £550 +57.14% 15
East London 0 1 £775 - 3
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 6 (5.36%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.46%) Confluence
3 4 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.68%) Apache
5 1 (0.89%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.89%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.89%) PowerExchange
5 1 (0.89%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.89%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (5.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.46%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.57%) CPLEX
3 4 (3.57%) UserZoom
4 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.89%) Endur
2 1 (0.89%) SAP IBP
2 1 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.89%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 24 (21.43%) AWS
1 24 (21.43%) Azure
2 18 (16.07%) GCP
3 5 (4.46%) GitHub
3 5 (4.46%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (4.46%) Power Platform
3 5 (4.46%) Snowflake
4 4 (3.57%) Amazon SageMaker
4 4 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (3.57%) Miro
4 4 (3.57%) Serverless
5 3 (2.68%) Asana
5 3 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (2.68%) Dagster
5 3 (2.68%) Smartsheet
6 2 (1.79%) Amazon Neptune
6 2 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (1.79%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.79%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.68%) 3GPP
1 3 (2.68%) Firewall
1 3 (2.68%) Network Security
2 2 (1.79%) IPv4
2 2 (1.79%) IPv6
3 1 (0.89%) 5G
3 1 (0.89%) BGP
3 1 (0.89%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.89%) IPsec
3 1 (0.89%) LAN
3 1 (0.89%) NGN
3 1 (0.89%) OSPF
3 1 (0.89%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.89%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.89%) tcpdump
3 1 (0.89%) VoIP
3 1 (0.89%) VPN
3 1 (0.89%) WAN
3 1 (0.89%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.89%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.25%) Big Data
1 7 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (5.36%) Data Mining
2 6 (5.36%) Metadata
2 6 (5.36%) Neo4j
2 6 (5.36%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.46%) MongoDB
3 5 (4.46%) Power BI
4 4 (3.57%) Data Lake
4 4 (3.57%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.57%) Oracle Database
5 3 (2.68%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.68%) Tableau
6 2 (1.79%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (1.79%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (1.79%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.89%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.89%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.89%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.89%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 12 (10.71%) JIRA
2 6 (5.36%) Git
2 6 (5.36%) MLflow
3 2 (1.79%) Selenium
4 1 (0.89%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.89%) Hudson
4 1 (0.89%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.89%) Maven
4 1 (0.89%) Mocha
4 1 (0.89%) Subversion
4 1 (0.89%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.89%) VersionOne
4 1 (0.89%) Zephyr
General
1 50 (44.64%) Social Skills
2 43 (38.39%) Finance
3 26 (23.21%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.71%) Banking
5 10 (8.93%) Public Sector
6 9 (8.04%) Marketing
7 6 (5.36%) Front Office
7 6 (5.36%) Telecoms
8 5 (4.46%) Publishing
9 4 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (3.57%) Social Science
10 3 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.68%) Investment Banking
10 3 (2.68%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.68%) Retail
11 2 (1.79%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.79%) German Language
11 2 (1.79%) Legal
11 2 (1.79%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 21 (18.75%) Senior
2 17 (15.18%) Developer
3 15 (13.39%) Architect
4 11 (9.82%) Lead
5 10 (8.93%) Data Scientist
6 9 (8.04%) Analyst
7 5 (4.46%) Engineering Manager
7 5 (4.46%) Junior
7 5 (4.46%) Python Developer
7 5 (4.46%) Senior Manager
7 5 (4.46%) Software Engineering Manager
7 5 (4.46%) Software Manager
7 5 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.57%) C# Developer
8 4 (3.57%) E-Commerce Manager
8 4 (3.57%) Enterprise Architect
8 4 (3.57%) Quantitative Developer
8 4 (3.57%) Senior User Experience Researcher
8 4 (3.57%) User Experience Researcher
8 4 (3.57%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.04%) REST
2 8 (7.14%) NumPy
2 8 (7.14%) Pandas
3 7 (6.25%) .NET
3 7 (6.25%) PySpark
3 7 (6.25%) PyTorch
4 6 (5.36%) scikit-learn
5 5 (4.46%) Kafka
5 5 (4.46%) RESTful
5 5 (4.46%) Terraform
6 4 (3.57%) React
6 4 (3.57%) TensorFlow
7 3 (2.68%) GraphQL
7 3 (2.68%) LangChain
7 3 (2.68%) React Native
7 3 (2.68%) Web Services
8 2 (1.79%) Flutter
8 2 (1.79%) Middleware
8 2 (1.79%) Playwright
8 2 (1.79%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.61%) Algorithms
2 11 (9.82%) Derivative
2 11 (9.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (8.93%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (6.25%) Data Structures
4 7 (6.25%) Management Information System
5 6 (5.36%) Equities
6 5 (4.46%) Exotic Derivative
6 5 (4.46%) Fixed Income
6 5 (4.46%) OTC Derivatives
6 5 (4.46%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.57%) AI Agents
7 4 (3.57%) Cloud Native
7 4 (3.57%) Graphic Design
7 4 (3.57%) Hedge funds
7 4 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.68%) Marketing Technology
8 3 (2.68%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.79%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.79%) Linux
1 2 (1.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (55.36%) Computer Science
2 37 (33.04%) Agile
3 36 (32.14%) AI
4 33 (29.46%) Analytics
5 31 (27.68%) Software Engineering
6 30 (26.79%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (24.11%) Machine Learning
7 27 (24.11%) Mathematics
8 24 (21.43%) Data Science
9 23 (20.54%) Stakeholder Management
10 19 (16.96%) Decision-Making
10 19 (16.96%) Roadmaps
11 17 (15.18%) CI/CD
12 15 (13.39%) Data Engineering
13 14 (12.50%) Data Modelling
13 14 (12.50%) Generative AI
13 14 (12.50%) LLM
13 14 (12.50%) Physics
14 13 (11.61%) Risk Management
14 13 (11.61%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 41 (36.61%) Python
2 31 (27.68%) SQL
3 15 (13.39%) Java
4 8 (7.14%) C#
4 8 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.36%) C++
6 3 (2.68%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.68%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.79%) Bash
7 2 (1.79%) Bicep
7 2 (1.79%) Cypher
7 2 (1.79%) SPARQL
8 1 (0.89%) C
8 1 (0.89%) Gremlin
8 1 (0.89%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.89%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.89%) Scala
8 1 (0.89%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 112 (100.00%) Degree
2 39 (34.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (23.21%) PhD
4 23 (20.54%) MBA
5 8 (7.14%) Security Cleared
6 7 (6.25%) SC Cleared
7 5 (4.46%) PMI Certification
8 4 (3.57%) PMP
9 3 (2.68%) AWS Certification
9 3 (2.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.79%) CISM
10 2 (1.79%) CISSP
10 2 (1.79%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.89%) CESG Certified Professional
11 1 (0.89%) CFA
11 1 (0.89%) CISA
11 1 (0.89%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.89%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.46%) QA
3 4 (3.57%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.68%) GDPR
5 2 (1.79%) PMO
5 2 (1.79%) SLA
6 1 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.89%) EMIR
6 1 (0.89%) GMP
6 1 (0.89%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.89%) MiFID
6 1 (0.89%) NCSC
6 1 (0.89%) NIST
6 1 (0.89%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (9.82%) Docker
2 1 (0.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (5.36%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.89%) CASB
2 1 (0.89%) Grafana
2 1 (0.89%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (20.54%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.82%) Oracle
3 10 (8.93%) Google
4 8 (7.14%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.68%) Databricks
6 2 (1.79%) Adobe
6 2 (1.79%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.79%) Duck Creek
6 2 (1.79%) Guidewire
6 2 (1.79%) SAP
6 2 (1.79%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.79%) UiPath
7 1 (0.89%) Apple
7 1 (0.89%) Calypso
7 1 (0.89%) Cisco
7 1 (0.89%) Murex
7 1 (0.89%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.89%) Plaid
7 1 (0.89%) Reuters
7 1 (0.89%) VMware