Master's Degree Contracts 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 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 205 271
Rank change year-on-year -16 +66 +101
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 127 200 247
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.00% 1.12% 0.91%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.93% 4.61% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 126 173
10th Percentile £369 £354 £465
25th Percentile £499 £413 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -21.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £800 £738 £875
90th Percentile £913 £850 £950
England median daily rate £580 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +5.45% -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 7
10th Percentile £32.86 £10.42 £31.25
25th Percentile £36.13 £28.51 £35.25
Median hourly rate £45.67 £75.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.10% +85.19% -15.63%
75th Percentile £58.63 £83.75 £52.25
90th Percentile £63.95 - £53.15
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% +22.22% +68.89%

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 3,229 4,342 5,835
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.47% 24.29% 21.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,188 2,930 3,929
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £434 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £651 £657 £688
90th Percentile £760 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 115 83
10th Percentile £20.00 £14.72 £19.52
25th Percentile £22.27 £20.74 £21.24
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -45.26% +8.60%
75th Percentile £55.25 £47.50 £64.50
90th Percentile £67.50 £69.50 £82.00
England median hourly rate £47.65 £40.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +19.13% -23.81% +40.00%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Master's Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in London

Master's Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Master's Degree in London.

Daily rate trend for Master's Degree in London

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in London over the 6 months to 26 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Master's Degree in London

Master's Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Master's Degree in London.

Hourly rate trend for Master's Degree in London

Master's Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Master's Degree in London over the 6 months to 26 April 2025.

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 26 April 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 +19 24 £725 +33.33% 46
East London +13 1 £285 -51.90% 7
West London +10 1 - - 16
Master's Degree
England

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 19 (14.96%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.57%) Apache
3 2 (1.57%) CMS
3 2 (1.57%) Confluence
3 2 (1.57%) Drupal
3 2 (1.57%) SAS
3 2 (1.57%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (1.57%) WordPress
4 1 (0.79%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 15 (11.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (7.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (3.94%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (2.36%) Trello
5 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.79%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.79%) Camtasia
6 1 (0.79%) InVision
6 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.79%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.79%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (2.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.79%) Bankmaster
2 1 (0.79%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.79%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.79%) SAP MDG-S
Cloud Services
1 26 (20.47%) AWS
2 16 (12.60%) Azure
3 10 (7.87%) GCP
4 6 (4.72%) GitHub
5 4 (3.15%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (3.15%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.36%) Asana
6 3 (2.36%) SaaS
7 2 (1.57%) Azure AKS
7 2 (1.57%) Azure App Service
7 2 (1.57%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 2 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.57%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (1.57%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.57%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.57%) Vertex AI
8 1 (0.79%) Google Sheets
8 1 (0.79%) OCI
8 1 (0.79%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.57%) Firewall
2 1 (0.79%) MQTT
2 1 (0.79%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.66%) Big Data
2 8 (6.30%) Hadoop
3 7 (5.51%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.72%) Apache Hive
5 5 (3.94%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.15%) Data Mining
6 4 (3.15%) Power BI
6 4 (3.15%) Tableau
7 3 (2.36%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.36%) MySQL
8 2 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.57%) PowerPivot
8 2 (1.57%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.79%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.79%) KDB
9 1 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.79%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (10.24%) Git
2 6 (4.72%) Bitbucket
2 6 (4.72%) JIRA
3 3 (2.36%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.36%) MLflow
4 2 (1.57%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.57%) ERwin
4 2 (1.57%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.79%) Axure RP
5 1 (0.79%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.79%) Gatling
5 1 (0.79%) JMeter
5 1 (0.79%) Maven
5 1 (0.79%) MSTest
5 1 (0.79%) NSubstitute
5 1 (0.79%) NUnit
5 1 (0.79%) Selenium
5 1 (0.79%) Subversion
5 1 (0.79%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.79%) TestDirector
General
1 66 (51.97%) Finance
2 52 (40.94%) Social Skills
3 48 (37.80%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (21.26%) Banking
5 13 (10.24%) Marketing
6 12 (9.45%) Financial Institution
6 12 (9.45%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (7.87%) Front Office
8 7 (5.51%) Investment Banking
9 6 (4.72%) Legal
10 5 (3.94%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (3.15%) Digital Health
11 4 (3.15%) Public Sector
12 3 (2.36%) Electronics
12 3 (2.36%) Manufacturing
12 3 (2.36%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.57%) Automotive
14 1 (0.79%) Advertising
14 1 (0.79%) Law
14 1 (0.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (14.96%) Analyst
2 13 (10.24%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 12 (9.45%) Developer
3 12 (9.45%) Senior
4 8 (6.30%) Architect
4 8 (6.30%) Lead
4 8 (6.30%) Python Engineer
5 7 (5.51%) Project Manager
5 7 (5.51%) Quantitative Developer
5 7 (5.51%) Software Engineer
6 6 (4.72%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (4.72%) C++ Software Engineer
6 6 (4.72%) Data Scientist
6 6 (4.72%) Gen AI Engineer
7 5 (3.94%) Business Analyst
7 5 (3.94%) Java Engineer
8 4 (3.15%) Business Manager
8 4 (3.15%) Financial Analyst
8 4 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.15%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.66%) PySpark
2 9 (7.09%) TensorFlow
3 8 (6.30%) LangChain
3 8 (6.30%) NumPy
3 8 (6.30%) Pandas
4 5 (3.94%) Dask
4 5 (3.94%) Kafka
4 5 (3.94%) REST
5 3 (2.36%) PyTorch
5 3 (2.36%) Ray
6 2 (1.57%) CSS
6 2 (1.57%) HTML
6 2 (1.57%) Hugging Face
6 2 (1.57%) React
6 2 (1.57%) scikit-learn
6 2 (1.57%) SciPy
6 2 (1.57%) Spring
7 1 (0.79%) .NET
7 1 (0.79%) Middleware
7 1 (0.79%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.39%) Distributed Computing
2 13 (10.24%) Algorithms
3 12 (9.45%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (8.66%) Data Structures
5 8 (6.30%) Hedge funds
6 7 (5.51%) Derivative
7 6 (4.72%) Product Ownership
8 5 (3.94%) Credit Risk
8 5 (3.94%) Management Information System
9 4 (3.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (3.15%) Life Science
10 3 (2.36%) Grid Computing
10 3 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (2.36%) PMI
10 3 (2.36%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.57%) Data Centre
11 2 (1.57%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.57%) Operational Technology
11 2 (1.57%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (1.57%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.09%) Linux
2 3 (2.36%) Unix
3 1 (0.79%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (49.61%) Computer Science
2 36 (28.35%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (24.41%) Agile
4 30 (23.62%) Machine Learning
5 27 (21.26%) Project Management
6 26 (20.47%) Mathematics
7 25 (19.69%) Analytics
8 24 (18.90%) Software Engineering
9 21 (16.54%) Artificial Intelligence
10 20 (15.75%) CI/CD
10 20 (15.75%) Data Analysis
10 20 (15.75%) Technical Leadership
11 19 (14.96%) Data Science
11 19 (14.96%) Risk Management
12 17 (13.39%) Deep Learning
12 17 (13.39%) Generative AI
13 16 (12.60%) Statistics
14 13 (10.24%) Decision-Making
14 13 (10.24%) Fintech
15 12 (9.45%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 57 (44.88%) Python
2 34 (26.77%) Java
3 30 (23.62%) C++
4 22 (17.32%) SQL
5 13 (10.24%) C
6 11 (8.66%) Shell Script
7 5 (3.94%) C#
8 3 (2.36%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.57%) R
9 2 (1.57%) Rust
10 1 (0.79%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.79%) Go
10 1 (0.79%) Groovy
10 1 (0.79%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.79%) Perl
10 1 (0.79%) Ruby
10 1 (0.79%) Scala
10 1 (0.79%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.79%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 126 (99.21%) Degree
2 34 (26.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (21.26%) PhD
4 13 (10.24%) PMI Certification
5 11 (8.66%) PMP
6 10 (7.87%) MBA
7 3 (2.36%) CFA
7 3 (2.36%) CISSP
7 3 (2.36%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (1.57%) CISA
8 2 (1.57%) CISM
8 2 (1.57%) PgMP
8 2 (1.57%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.79%) CAPM
9 1 (0.79%) CBAP
9 1 (0.79%) CCSP
9 1 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.79%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.45%) Data Quality
2 9 (7.09%) QA
3 4 (3.15%) MiFID
4 3 (2.36%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.57%) GDPR
5 2 (1.57%) NIST
5 2 (1.57%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.79%) Basel III
6 1 (0.79%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (6.30%) Docker
2 2 (1.57%) Lustre
3 1 (0.79%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (10.24%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.51%) Terraform
3 2 (1.57%) Karpenter
3 2 (1.57%) Podman
4 1 (0.79%) Ansible
4 1 (0.79%) Grafana
4 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (7.09%) Google
2 8 (6.30%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.30%) SAP
3 5 (3.94%) Adobe
3 5 (3.94%) Databricks
3 5 (3.94%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.36%) Workday
5 2 (1.57%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.57%) Sitecore
5 2 (1.57%) Splunk
6 1 (0.79%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.79%) Calypso
6 1 (0.79%) Criteo
6 1 (0.79%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.79%) Informatica
6 1 (0.79%) Murex
6 1 (0.79%) NEC
6 1 (0.79%) Oracle
6 1 (0.79%) Ping Identity
6 1 (0.79%) Talend