Master's Degree Contracts in the South East

Master's Degree
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 145 158 201
Rank change year-on-year +13 +43 -26
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 55 57 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.96% 1.01% 0.81%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.14% 2.77% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 36 38
10th Percentile £320 £160 £140
25th Percentile £411 £378 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £458
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +9.29% -8.96%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £582
90th Percentile £635 £715 £665
England median daily rate £550 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 13
10th Percentile £41.50 - £19.52
25th Percentile £44.88 £42.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% - +85.19%
75th Percentile £87.50 £47.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £92.26 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +22.22% - +34.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,569 2,055 2,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 44.65% 36.29% 31.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,493 1,316 1,570
10th Percentile £350 £300 £312
25th Percentile £450 £418 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £650 £619 £625
90th Percentile £725 £700 £688
England median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 130 92
10th Percentile £17.80 £21.99 £17.00
25th Percentile £38.54 £42.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £57.35 £62.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +37.78% +8.43%
75th Percentile £70.39 £73.59 £60.56
90th Percentile £87.46 £77.21 £69.88
England median hourly rate £40.66 £55.00 £41.36
% change year-on-year -26.07% +32.99% +14.88%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in the South East

Master's Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Master's Degree in the South East

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Master's Degree in the South East

Master's Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Master's Degree in the South East

Master's Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Master's Degree in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Master's Degree in the South East

Master's Degree
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
Surrey +18 24 £525 +5.00% 14
Thames Valley +9 20 £475 -10.38% 79
Berkshire -15 11 £525 -0.94% 31
Oxfordshire +6 7 £218 -60.35% 33
Hampshire -14 6 - - 25
West Sussex +12 5 £550 +91.30% 5
Buckinghamshire +28 2 - - 16
Master's Degree
England

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (10.91%) Confluence
2 2 (3.64%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.82%) Apache
3 1 (1.82%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) EPLAN
1 2 (3.64%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.82%) Stata
Business Applications
1 2 (3.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.82%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 4 (7.27%) Azure
2 3 (5.45%) AWS
3 1 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (1.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (1.82%) OpenShift
3 1 (1.82%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.27%) TCP/IP
1 4 (7.27%) Wireless
2 2 (3.64%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.45%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.82%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.82%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.82%) MySQL
2 1 (1.82%) Power BI
2 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (20.00%) JIRA
2 9 (16.36%) Git
3 7 (12.73%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (7.27%) Subversion
4 4 (7.27%) TestRail
5 3 (5.45%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.82%) CMake
6 1 (1.82%) LabVIEW
General
1 13 (23.64%) Finance
2 12 (21.82%) Marketing
3 10 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
3 10 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 8 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (14.55%) Telecoms
5 7 (12.73%) Automotive
5 7 (12.73%) Manufacturing
6 5 (9.09%) Aerospace
6 5 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (7.27%) Electronics
8 3 (5.45%) Legal
9 2 (3.64%) Back Office
9 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (21.82%) Senior
2 11 (20.00%) Architect
2 11 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
3 9 (16.36%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (14.55%) Software Engineer
5 7 (12.73%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) DOORS Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Embedded Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Integration Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Senior Integration Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Software Integration Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Systems Integration Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) Project Manager
7 4 (7.27%) Software Architect
7 4 (7.27%) Systems Test Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) Test Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Unix Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Unix Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.27%) PyTorch
1 4 (7.27%) TensorFlow
2 2 (3.64%) DirectX
2 2 (3.64%) OpenGL
2 2 (3.64%) OpenGL ES
2 2 (3.64%) Vulkan
3 1 (1.82%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.82%) CNTK
3 1 (1.82%) CSS
3 1 (1.82%) HTML
3 1 (1.82%) jQuery
3 1 (1.82%) Node.js
3 1 (1.82%) OpenVINO
3 1 (1.82%) React
3 1 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.73%) Algorithms
2 5 (9.09%) Life Science
2 5 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 5 (9.09%) Robotics
3 4 (7.27%) Device Driver
3 4 (7.27%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (5.45%) Photography
4 3 (5.45%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (3.64%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.64%) IoT
6 1 (1.82%) Analogue Electronics
6 1 (1.82%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.82%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 16 (29.09%) Windows
2 14 (25.45%) Unix
3 10 (18.18%) Linux
4 4 (7.27%) Android
5 3 (5.45%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (29.09%) Computer Science
3 13 (23.64%) Software Engineering
4 12 (21.82%) Systems Engineering
5 11 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
5 11 (20.00%) Project Management
5 11 (20.00%) Project Planning
5 11 (20.00%) Validation
6 10 (18.18%) Risk Management
6 10 (18.18%) UML
7 9 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (16.36%) Customer Requirements
8 8 (14.55%) Agile
8 8 (14.55%) Roadmaps
8 8 (14.55%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (12.73%) Customer Engagement
9 7 (12.73%) ITIL
9 7 (12.73%) Process Improvement
9 7 (12.73%) Requirements Management
9 7 (12.73%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 14 (25.45%) Python
2 9 (16.36%) C++
2 9 (16.36%) SQL
3 8 (14.55%) Shell Script
4 4 (7.27%) Assembly Language
4 4 (7.27%) C
4 4 (7.27%) C#
4 4 (7.27%) Java
4 4 (7.27%) MATLAB
5 3 (5.45%) Bash
5 3 (5.45%) Perl
5 3 (5.45%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.64%) R
7 1 (1.82%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 55 (100.00%) Degree
2 9 (16.36%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (16.36%) PhD
3 7 (12.73%) ITIL Certification
4 6 (10.91%) Security Cleared
5 5 (9.09%) SC Cleared
6 4 (7.27%) HNC
6 4 (7.27%) ISTQB
6 4 (7.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (3.64%) ACCA
7 2 (3.64%) Azure Certification
7 2 (3.64%) CIMA
7 2 (3.64%) MBA
8 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.82%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.82%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (18.18%) PCI DSS
2 5 (9.09%) QA
3 4 (7.27%) JTAG
4 2 (3.64%) GDPR
5 1 (1.82%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (7.27%) Embedded Firmware
1 4 (7.27%) Firmware
2 2 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.82%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (5.45%) Oracle
1 3 (5.45%) SAP
2 2 (3.64%) Ariba
2 2 (3.64%) JDA
2 2 (3.64%) VMware
3 1 (1.82%) Databricks
3 1 (1.82%) Red Hat