Master's Degree Jobs in the South West

Master's Degree
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Master's Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 203 38 150
Rank change year-on-year -165 +112 +27
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 93 466 196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.88% 7.23% 2.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.70% 16.58% 5.70%
Number of salaries quoted 71 60 62
10th Percentile £31,000 £43,125 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £43,162 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,952 £75,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.06% +36.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £85,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% +3.85%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South West

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 permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the South West.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,443 2,811 3,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 32.59% 43.59% 39.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2,203 1,291 1,639
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,932 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,022 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68,375 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £54,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.17% +9.09% -

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

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

Master's Degree
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Master's Degree in the South West.

Salary trend for Master's Degree in the South West

Master's Degree
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in the South West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Master's Degree in the South West

Master's Degree
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Master's Degree within the South West 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol -59 38 £65,000 -13.33% 40
Dorset -72 21 £45,000 -47.06% 4
Gloucestershire -78 14 £37,500 -55.88% 12
Devon -52 6 £27,500 - 14
Somerset -52 4 £56,180 +39.76% 8
Cornwall - 4 £47,347 - 4
Wiltshire -61 1 £60,000 +21.80% 9
Master's Degree
England

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (3.23%) Apache
1 3 (3.23%) Confluence
2 2 (2.15%) WordPress
3 1 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.08%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.08%) Luigi
Applications
1 6 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (6.45%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 12 (12.90%) Power Platform
2 10 (10.75%) AWS
3 7 (7.53%) Azure
4 3 (3.23%) GitHub
4 3 (3.23%) SaaS
5 2 (2.15%) dbt
5 2 (2.15%) npm
6 1 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.08%) GCP
6 1 (1.08%) IaaS
6 1 (1.08%) PaaS
6 1 (1.08%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.08%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.08%) Serverless
6 1 (1.08%) Smartsheet
6 1 (1.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.15%) DNS
2 1 (1.08%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.08%) Firewall
2 1 (1.08%) OFDM
2 1 (1.08%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (1.08%) VPN
2 1 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.08%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.90%) Power BI
2 11 (11.83%) Big Data
3 8 (8.60%) Tableau
4 6 (6.45%) Relational Database
4 6 (6.45%) Snowflake Schema
4 6 (6.45%) Star Schema
5 4 (4.30%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (2.15%) Looker
6 2 (2.15%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.15%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.08%) Bigtable
7 1 (1.08%) CouchDB
7 1 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.08%) Redis
7 1 (1.08%) RethinkDB
7 1 (1.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (9.68%) JIRA
2 7 (7.53%) Git
3 3 (3.23%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.23%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.23%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.08%) Rational DOORS
General
1 19 (20.43%) Social Skills
2 15 (16.13%) Finance
3 14 (15.05%) Law
4 13 (13.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (9.68%) Banking
5 9 (9.68%) Investment Banking
5 9 (9.68%) Legal
5 9 (9.68%) Retail
6 4 (4.30%) Marketing
6 4 (4.30%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (4.30%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.23%) Games
7 3 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.23%) Military
7 3 (3.23%) Multimedia
8 1 (1.08%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 23 (24.73%) Senior
2 21 (22.58%) Analyst
3 16 (17.20%) Developer
4 13 (13.98%) Business Analyst
5 11 (11.83%) Security Analyst
6 10 (10.75%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 10 (10.75%) IT Analyst
6 10 (10.75%) IT Security Analyst
6 10 (10.75%) Lead
6 10 (10.75%) Senior Analyst
7 9 (9.68%) Data Manager
8 8 (8.60%) Data Scientist
8 8 (8.60%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
8 8 (8.60%) Senior Data Scientist
8 8 (8.60%) Senior IT Security Analyst
8 8 (8.60%) Senior Security Analyst
8 8 (8.60%) Software Developer
9 6 (6.45%) Data Engineer
9 6 (6.45%) Software Engineer
9 6 (6.45%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.60%) AngularJS
2 6 (6.45%) React
3 4 (4.30%) PySpark
4 2 (2.15%) CSS
4 2 (2.15%) CSS3
4 2 (2.15%) HTML
4 2 (2.15%) HTML5
4 2 (2.15%) JSON
4 2 (2.15%) Sass
4 2 (2.15%) Tailwind CSS
4 2 (2.15%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 2 (2.15%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 2 (2.15%) XML
5 1 (1.08%) .NET
5 1 (1.08%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.08%) Kafka
5 1 (1.08%) Pandas
5 1 (1.08%) Qt
5 1 (1.08%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (1.08%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.68%) Data Protection Act
1 9 (9.68%) Security Operations Centre
2 8 (8.60%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.30%) Algorithms
3 4 (4.30%) Reinsurance
3 4 (4.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (2.15%) Animation
4 2 (2.15%) RISC-V
5 1 (1.08%) BBC
5 1 (1.08%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.08%) NHS
5 1 (1.08%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.08%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.60%) Linux
2 2 (2.15%) Windows
2 2 (2.15%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.08%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (38.71%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (34.41%) Computer Science
3 27 (29.03%) Analytics
4 26 (27.96%) Agile
5 24 (25.81%) Data Analysis
6 23 (24.73%) Data Science
7 20 (21.51%) Cybersecurity
8 17 (18.28%) Project Management
8 17 (18.28%) Risk Management
9 15 (16.13%) Visualisation
10 14 (15.05%) Machine Learning
11 13 (13.98%) Artificial Intelligence
11 13 (13.98%) Mathematics
12 11 (11.83%) Information Security
13 10 (10.75%) Cloud Security
13 10 (10.75%) Data Governance
13 10 (10.75%) Security Operations
13 10 (10.75%) Software Engineering
13 10 (10.75%) User Stories
14 9 (9.68%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 30 (32.26%) Python
2 18 (19.35%) SQL
3 10 (10.75%) R
4 8 (8.60%) C#
4 8 (8.60%) JavaScript
5 7 (7.53%) TypeScript
6 6 (6.45%) C
6 6 (6.45%) T-SQL
7 5 (5.38%) MATLAB
8 3 (3.23%) C++
8 3 (3.23%) Java
8 3 (3.23%) Rust
9 2 (2.15%) PHP
Qualifications
1 93 (100.00%) Degree
2 14 (15.05%) Security Cleared
3 11 (11.83%) CISSP
3 11 (11.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (11.83%) MBA
4 10 (10.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (10.75%) CompTIA CySA+
5 9 (9.68%) PhD
6 6 (6.45%) IIBA
7 4 (4.30%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.08%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.08%) CCSP
8 1 (1.08%) CISA
8 1 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.08%) CISM
8 1 (1.08%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.68%) Data Quality
1 9 (9.68%) GDPR
1 9 (9.68%) NIST
1 9 (9.68%) PCI DSS
2 4 (4.30%) QA
3 2 (2.15%) IEC 61508
4 1 (1.08%) ECSS
4 1 (1.08%) FedRAMP
4 1 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.08%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (4.30%) Docker
2 2 (2.15%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (9.68%) CASB
2 1 (1.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (11.83%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.30%) Databricks
3 3 (3.23%) Atlassian
3 3 (3.23%) Coverity
4 2 (2.15%) Fujitsu
5 1 (1.08%) Google