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 8 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 209 213
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 +52
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 187 154 199
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.25% 1.13% 1.07%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.30% 4.45% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 89 130
10th Percentile £363 £396 £361
25th Percentile £424 £500 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.91% -11.54% -7.14%
75th Percentile £706 £775 £788
90th Percentile £880 £913 £850
England median daily rate £525 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -8.70% -8.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 9
10th Percentile £53.58 £32.86 £10.42
25th Percentile £57.86 £36.13 £28.51
Median hourly rate £65.00 £45.67 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.32% -20.57% +34.50%
75th Percentile - £58.63 £83.75
90th Percentile - £63.95 -
England median hourly rate £33.50 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -44.17% +9.09% +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 4,352 3,462 4,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.19% 25.37% 24.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,062 2,155 3,066
10th Percentile £358 £350 £325
25th Percentile £430 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £763
England median daily rate £520 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -0.95% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 62 130
10th Percentile £20.04 £21.55 £14.27
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.93 £19.99
Median hourly rate £31.14 £39.00 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year -20.17% +10.64% +0.71%
75th Percentile £65.00 £59.69 £64.31
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.40 £83.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -49.70% +8.27% +2.62%

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 8 February 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 8 February 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 8 February 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 -4 26 £600 +4.35% 63
West London -11 7 £550 +733.33% 12
East London - 1 £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 16 (8.56%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.60%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.07%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.07%) Hyperledger
3 2 (1.07%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.53%) Camunda
4 1 (0.53%) CMS
4 1 (0.53%) Confluence
4 1 (0.53%) Drupal
4 1 (0.53%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.53%) SAP Portal
4 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.53%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (4.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.53%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.53%) Camtasia
3 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.53%) Navisworks
3 1 (0.53%) ProjectWise
3 1 (0.53%) Revit
3 1 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (1.60%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 3 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.07%) Oracle FAH
2 2 (1.07%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.07%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (1.07%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.07%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.53%) Endur
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.53%) SAP FI-CA
3 1 (0.53%) SAP FI-GL
3 1 (0.53%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.53%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 53 (28.34%) Azure
2 33 (17.65%) AWS
3 22 (11.76%) SaaS
4 15 (8.02%) GCP
5 13 (6.95%) GitHub
6 11 (5.88%) Power Platform
7 10 (5.35%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (4.81%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (4.81%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (4.28%) OCI
9 8 (4.28%) Serverless
10 7 (3.74%) Amazon S3
10 7 (3.74%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (3.21%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (3.21%) IaaS
12 5 (2.67%) Azure Machine Learning
12 5 (2.67%) PaaS
12 5 (2.67%) Sentry
13 4 (2.14%) Azure AI
13 4 (2.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.74%) HTTP
2 5 (2.67%) CTI
2 5 (2.67%) VoIP
3 4 (2.14%) Network Security
4 2 (1.07%) 3GPP
4 2 (1.07%) Intelligent Network
4 2 (1.07%) S/MIME
4 2 (1.07%) SSL
4 2 (1.07%) Wireless
5 1 (0.53%) Firewall
5 1 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.88%) Power BI
2 9 (4.81%) Big Data
3 7 (3.74%) SQL Server
4 6 (3.21%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.14%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.14%) Tableau
7 3 (1.60%) Pinecone
7 3 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.07%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.07%) Redis
8 2 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.07%) Weaviate
9 1 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.53%) Flink
9 1 (0.53%) Kdb+
9 1 (0.53%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.53%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 19 (10.16%) Git
2 6 (3.21%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.21%) JIRA
3 5 (2.67%) Appium
3 5 (2.67%) Charles Proxy
3 5 (2.67%) Katalon Studio
3 5 (2.67%) MLflow
3 5 (2.67%) Postman
3 5 (2.67%) XCUITest
4 4 (2.14%) IntelliJ
5 3 (1.60%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.07%) Hardhat
6 2 (1.07%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.07%) Vite
7 1 (0.53%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.53%) Gatling
7 1 (0.53%) GitLab
7 1 (0.53%) JMeter
7 1 (0.53%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
General
1 90 (48.13%) Social Skills
2 81 (43.32%) Finance
3 58 (31.02%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (21.39%) Banking
5 23 (12.30%) Presentation Skills
6 16 (8.56%) Front Office
7 13 (6.95%) Investment Banking
8 10 (5.35%) Financial Institution
9 9 (4.81%) Legal
10 7 (3.74%) Marketing
11 6 (3.21%) Manufacturing
12 5 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (2.67%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (2.67%) Retail
12 5 (2.67%) Telecoms
13 4 (2.14%) Public Sector
14 3 (1.60%) General Ledger
15 2 (1.07%) Aviation
15 2 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (1.07%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 29 (15.51%) Lead
2 24 (12.83%) Developer
3 21 (11.23%) Architect
4 19 (10.16%) Senior
5 15 (8.02%) Analyst
6 13 (6.95%) Consultant
7 12 (6.42%) Project Manager
7 12 (6.42%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (5.88%) Integration Architect
8 11 (5.88%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 9 (4.81%) Business Analyst
9 9 (4.81%) Cloud Architect
9 9 (4.81%) Cloud Solutions Architect
10 8 (4.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 8 (4.28%) Data Scientist
10 8 (4.28%) Quantitative Developer
11 6 (3.21%) Test Manager
12 5 (2.67%) Genesys Developer
12 5 (2.67%) Senior Manager
13 4 (2.14%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.09%) Middleware
2 15 (8.02%) PyTorch
3 12 (6.42%) TensorFlow
4 11 (5.88%) .NET
5 10 (5.35%) LangChain
5 10 (5.35%) NumPy
6 8 (4.28%) Pandas
6 8 (4.28%) RESTful
6 8 (4.28%) Web Services
7 7 (3.74%) Kafka
8 6 (3.21%) Dask
8 6 (3.21%) Hugging Face
8 6 (3.21%) Model Context Protocol
8 6 (3.21%) REST
9 5 (2.67%) LangGraph
9 5 (2.67%) scikit-learn
9 5 (2.67%) SOAP
9 5 (2.67%) XML
10 4 (2.14%) Node.js
10 4 (2.14%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 17 (9.09%) Derivative
1 17 (9.09%) Distributed Computing
2 16 (8.56%) Management Information System
3 12 (6.42%) Algorithms
3 12 (6.42%) Equities
4 10 (5.35%) Fixed Income
4 10 (5.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (5.35%) PMI
5 9 (4.81%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (4.81%) Hedge funds
5 9 (4.81%) Product Ownership
6 8 (4.28%) AI Agents
6 8 (4.28%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (3.74%) Life Science
7 7 (3.74%) Mobile App
8 6 (3.21%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.67%) Android
1 5 (2.67%) Apple iOS
1 5 (2.67%) Windows
2 3 (1.60%) Linux
2 3 (1.60%) VMS
3 2 (1.07%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (64.71%) Computer Science
2 59 (31.55%) Problem-Solving
3 57 (30.48%) Agile
3 57 (30.48%) AI
4 44 (23.53%) Machine Learning
5 40 (21.39%) DevOps
5 40 (21.39%) Stakeholder Management
6 38 (20.32%) Risk Management
6 38 (20.32%) Roadmaps
7 36 (19.25%) Analytics
8 35 (18.72%) Decision-Making
9 33 (17.65%) Mathematics
10 30 (16.04%) CI/CD
10 30 (16.04%) Data Science
10 30 (16.04%) Validation
11 29 (15.51%) LLM
12 28 (14.97%) Generative AI
12 28 (14.97%) Software Engineering
13 26 (13.90%) Microservices
13 26 (13.90%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 64 (34.22%) Python
2 31 (16.58%) SQL
3 18 (9.63%) Java
4 13 (6.95%) C++
5 10 (5.35%) C#
6 8 (4.28%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.21%) Bash
7 6 (3.21%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.67%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.67%) Swift
8 5 (2.67%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.14%) Go
10 3 (1.60%) Bicep
10 3 (1.60%) VBA
11 2 (1.07%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.07%) R
11 2 (1.07%) Solidity
12 1 (0.53%) ABAP
12 1 (0.53%) SOQL
12 1 (0.53%) VC++
Qualifications
1 187 (100.00%) Degree
2 69 (36.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 37 (19.79%) PhD
4 19 (10.16%) PMI Certification
5 17 (9.09%) MBA
6 13 (6.95%) PMP
7 11 (5.88%) CISSP
8 6 (3.21%) Azure Certification
8 6 (3.21%) CISM
9 5 (2.67%) CBAP
10 4 (2.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (2.14%) AWS Certification
10 4 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (2.14%) CCSP
10 4 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (2.14%) CRISC
10 4 (2.14%) Security Cleared
11 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (1.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.16%) QA
2 17 (9.09%) GDPR
3 9 (4.81%) IFRS
3 9 (4.81%) IFRS 17
4 8 (4.28%) NIST
5 7 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (3.74%) PCI DSS
6 6 (3.21%) Accessibility
6 6 (3.21%) Data Quality
7 5 (2.67%) IFRS 9
8 4 (2.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (1.60%) GRC
9 3 (1.60%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (1.07%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (1.07%) Basel III
10 2 (1.07%) GAAP
10 2 (1.07%) GMP
10 2 (1.07%) SLA
11 1 (0.53%) GxP
System Software
1 26 (13.90%) Docker
2 2 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (12.30%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.56%) Terraform
3 2 (1.07%) Control-M
3 2 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.53%) Grafana
4 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (13.90%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.16%) Databricks
3 14 (7.49%) SAP
4 12 (6.42%) Oracle
5 11 (5.88%) Software AG
6 7 (3.74%) Google
7 6 (3.21%) Splunk
8 5 (2.67%) Genesys
8 5 (2.67%) Informatica
9 4 (2.14%) Workday
10 3 (1.60%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.07%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.07%) IBM
11 2 (1.07%) Rapid7
12 1 (0.53%) Adobe
12 1 (0.53%) Avaloq
12 1 (0.53%) Foundry
12 1 (0.53%) Hotjar
12 1 (0.53%) HP
12 1 (0.53%) UiPath