Master's Degree Contracts in the West Midlands

Master's Degree
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 95 115 171
Rank change year-on-year +20 +56 -50
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 16 14 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.78% 0.63% 0.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.34% 2.39% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 2
10th Percentile £450 £463 £546
25th Percentile £459 £500 £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 £663
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +1.89% +12.77%
75th Percentile £619 £738 £753
90th Percentile £825 - £789
England median daily rate £550 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 £92.50 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £95.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -39.47% - -
75th Percentile £58.75 £97.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +22.22% - +34.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 684 587 729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.50% 26.53% 20.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 355 506
10th Percentile £298 £313 £266
25th Percentile £363 £421 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +13.68% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £563
90th Percentile £693 £700 £650
England median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 27 9
10th Percentile £14.00 £11.60 £11.10
25th Percentile £21.81 £13.31 £13.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £20.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% +37.93% -9.38%
75th Percentile £46.88 £28.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £58.75 £60.90 £20.86
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in the West Midlands

Master's Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Master's Degree in the West Midlands

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Master's Degree in the West Midlands

Master's Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Master's Degree in the West Midlands

Master's Degree
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham +17 8 £513 -2.38% 26
Warwickshire -6 3 £800 +10.34% 10
Master's Degree
England

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Simulink
1 5 (31.25%) Stateflow
1 5 (31.25%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (6.25%) Matillion
2 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
1 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Bitbucket
1 5 (31.25%) Git
1 5 (31.25%) Subversion
2 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Finance
3 5 (31.25%) Automotive
4 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (18.75%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (6.25%) Marketing
7 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Architect
1 5 (31.25%) Control Systems Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) Principal Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) Principal Systems Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) Systems Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Business Change Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Business Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Change Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Lead Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) Spring
2 3 (18.75%) AngularJS
2 3 (18.75%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (56.25%) Management Information System
2 5 (31.25%) Algorithms
3 4 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (18.75%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Computer Science
2 9 (56.25%) Agile
2 9 (56.25%) Software Engineering
3 6 (37.50%) Project Management
3 6 (37.50%) Validation
4 5 (31.25%) Black-Box Testing
4 5 (31.25%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (31.25%) Functional Testing
4 5 (31.25%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
4 5 (31.25%) Integration Testing
4 5 (31.25%) Line Management
4 5 (31.25%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (31.25%) QMS
4 5 (31.25%) Quality Management
4 5 (31.25%) Software Audit
4 5 (31.25%) Software Testing
4 5 (31.25%) UML
4 5 (31.25%) Verification and Validation
4 5 (31.25%) White-Box Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) C
1 5 (31.25%) MATLAB
2 4 (25.00%) Java
3 3 (18.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (100.00%) Degree
2 8 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (18.75%) TOGAF Certification
4 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) AUTOSAR
1 5 (31.25%) ISO 26262
1 5 (31.25%) MISRA
1 5 (31.25%) MISRA C
2 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (12.50%) vSphere
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) VMware
3 1 (6.25%) Informatica
3 1 (6.25%) SAP