Master's Degree Contracts in London

Master's Degree
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Master's Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 206 287 345
Rank change year-on-year +81 +58 -59
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 205 214 277
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.16% 0.84% 0.71%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.93% 3.86% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 149 179
10th Percentile £348 £475 £450
25th Percentile £400 £575 £526
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £725 £650
Median % change year-on-year -26.72% +11.54% +13.04%
75th Percentile £738 £950 £763
90th Percentile £850 £1,000 £857
England median daily rate £550 £650 £595
% change year-on-year -15.38% +9.24% +12.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 11
10th Percentile £10.42 - £18.50
25th Percentile £34.88 £31.25 £23.88
Median hourly rate £68.00 £40.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% -20.79% +14.12%
75th Percentile £83.75 £52.75 £68.75
90th Percentile - £53.35 £71.75
England median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +22.22% - +69.81%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

Master's Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,162 5,541 6,838
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.59% 21.87% 17.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,852 3,806 4,724
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £572 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +4.05% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
England median daily rate £537 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.36% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 86 148
10th Percentile £14.49 £18.98 £24.18
25th Percentile £20.22 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £25.00 £50.75 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.74% +14.04% +18.67%
75th Percentile £42.75 £70.00 £49.77
90th Percentile £68.60 £87.50 £66.91
England median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £39.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +39.24% +9.40%

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 6 June 2024.

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 6 June 2024.

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 6 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
Central London +29 19 £625 -16.67% 49
South London +11 4 - - 7
West London +17 3 - - 26
East London - 3 £460 - 6
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 5 (2.44%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.95%) CMS
3 3 (1.46%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.46%) ArcGIS
3 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.98%) Apache
4 2 (0.98%) Ethereum
4 2 (0.98%) Hyperledger
4 2 (0.98%) SAS
4 2 (0.98%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.49%) Confluence
5 1 (0.49%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (3.41%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.95%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (1.46%) Sketch
4 2 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.98%) Simulink
5 1 (0.49%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 6 (2.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.98%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.98%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.49%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.49%) Endur
3 1 (0.49%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.49%) SAP CX
3 1 (0.49%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.49%) Sprinklr
3 1 (0.49%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 49 (23.90%) Azure
2 26 (12.68%) AWS
3 17 (8.29%) GCP
4 13 (6.34%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (5.37%) Azure Service Bus
5 11 (5.37%) Power Platform
6 9 (4.39%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (4.39%) npm
7 7 (3.41%) Azure App Service
7 7 (3.41%) Azure Event Grid
7 7 (3.41%) SaaS
7 7 (3.41%) Serverless
8 6 (2.93%) Azure AKS
9 5 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (2.44%) GitHub
10 4 (1.95%) Figma
10 4 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.95%) Google Analytics
11 3 (1.46%) Azure Machine Learning
11 3 (1.46%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.95%) CTI
1 4 (1.95%) VoIP
2 3 (1.46%) HTTP
2 3 (1.46%) Internet
3 2 (0.98%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (0.98%) Firewall
3 2 (0.98%) IOS XR
3 2 (0.98%) Network Security
3 2 (0.98%) NX-OS
4 1 (0.49%) DNS
4 1 (0.49%) SSL
4 1 (0.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.32%) SQL Server
2 11 (5.37%) Power BI
3 10 (4.88%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.41%) Relational Database
4 7 (3.41%) Tableau
5 6 (2.93%) Big Data
5 6 (2.93%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.95%) Data Mining
8 3 (1.46%) Data Mart
8 3 (1.46%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (1.46%) GIS
8 3 (1.46%) Looker
8 3 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.98%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.98%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.98%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.49%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 15 (7.32%) JIRA
2 9 (4.39%) webpack
3 6 (2.93%) Git
4 5 (2.44%) MLflow
5 4 (1.95%) Postman
6 3 (1.46%) Appium
6 3 (1.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (1.46%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.46%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.46%) Katalon Studio
7 2 (0.98%) Charles Proxy
7 2 (0.98%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.98%) Maven
8 1 (0.49%) Ant
8 1 (0.49%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.49%) GitLab
8 1 (0.49%) Gradle
8 1 (0.49%) Selenium
8 1 (0.49%) Storybook
8 1 (0.49%) TeamCity
General
1 113 (55.12%) Social Skills
2 73 (35.61%) Finance
3 71 (34.63%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (13.66%) Front Office
5 24 (11.71%) Banking
6 22 (10.73%) Marketing
7 13 (6.34%) Public Sector
8 11 (5.37%) Retail
9 8 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (3.41%) Financial Institution
10 7 (3.41%) Legal
10 7 (3.41%) Telecoms
11 6 (2.93%) Advertising
11 6 (2.93%) Investment Banking
11 6 (2.93%) Manufacturing
11 6 (2.93%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.95%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.46%) Back Office
14 2 (0.98%) Law
14 2 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 40 (19.51%) Developer
2 29 (14.15%) Lead
3 24 (11.71%) Senior
4 22 (10.73%) Architect
5 20 (9.76%) Analyst
6 15 (7.32%) Consultant
6 15 (7.32%) Software Engineer
7 12 (5.85%) Data Engineer
7 12 (5.85%) Java Developer
8 10 (4.88%) Angular Developer
8 10 (4.88%) Applications Developer
8 10 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (4.39%) Full Stack Developer
9 9 (4.39%) Real Time Developer
9 9 (4.39%) Web Applications Developer
10 8 (3.90%) Business Analyst
11 7 (3.41%) Senior Analyst
12 6 (2.93%) C# Application Developer
12 6 (2.93%) C# Developer
12 6 (2.93%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (7.32%) React
2 14 (6.83%) AngularJS
3 10 (4.88%) REST
4 9 (4.39%) .NET
4 9 (4.39%) HTML
4 9 (4.39%) Kafka
4 9 (4.39%) RxJS
4 9 (4.39%) WebSockets
5 8 (3.90%) CSS
6 7 (3.41%) NumPy
6 7 (3.41%) Pandas
7 6 (2.93%) .NET Core
8 5 (2.44%) PyTorch
8 5 (2.44%) RESTful
8 5 (2.44%) TensorFlow
9 4 (1.95%) JSON
9 4 (1.95%) Matplotlib
9 4 (1.95%) Node.js
9 4 (1.95%) Swagger
9 4 (1.95%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.29%) Algorithms
2 16 (7.80%) Derivative
3 8 (3.90%) Equities
3 8 (3.90%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.93%) Credit Risk
5 5 (2.44%) Fixed Income
5 5 (2.44%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.44%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.95%) Blockchain
6 4 (1.95%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (1.95%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (1.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.95%) IVR
6 4 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.46%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.46%) Tandem
8 2 (0.98%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.93%) Unix
2 4 (1.95%) Android
2 4 (1.95%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.95%) Linux
3 2 (0.98%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (64.39%) Computer Science
2 79 (38.54%) Agile
3 78 (38.05%) Problem-Solving
4 50 (24.39%) Analytics
5 35 (17.07%) Software Engineering
6 34 (16.59%) Data Science
6 34 (16.59%) DevOps
6 34 (16.59%) Machine Learning
7 28 (13.66%) Decision-Making
8 27 (13.17%) Data Analysis
9 26 (12.68%) Artificial Intelligence
10 23 (11.22%) Roadmaps
11 22 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (10.24%) Project Management
13 20 (9.76%) Actionable Insight
13 20 (9.76%) Mathematics
13 20 (9.76%) Statistics
14 18 (8.78%) Technical Leadership
15 17 (8.29%) CI/CD
15 17 (8.29%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 63 (30.73%) Python
2 42 (20.49%) SQL
3 24 (11.71%) C#
3 24 (11.71%) Java
4 20 (9.76%) JavaScript
5 13 (6.34%) C++
6 11 (5.37%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.90%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.41%) R
8 7 (3.41%) Scala
9 4 (1.95%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.95%) MATLAB
10 3 (1.46%) ABAP
10 3 (1.46%) C
10 3 (1.46%) Swift
10 3 (1.46%) VBA
11 2 (0.98%) DAML
11 2 (0.98%) VC++
12 1 (0.49%) Bicep
12 1 (0.49%) Julia
Qualifications
1 205 (100.00%) Degree
2 80 (39.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (16.59%) PhD
4 18 (8.78%) MBA
5 14 (6.83%) Security Cleared
6 9 (4.39%) SC Cleared
7 8 (3.90%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.93%) CISM
8 6 (2.93%) CISSP
9 5 (2.44%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (1.95%) CEH
11 3 (1.46%) CBAP
11 3 (1.46%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (1.46%) CITP
11 3 (1.46%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.46%) SAP Certification
12 2 (0.98%) CCIE
12 2 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.98%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.32%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.90%) QA
3 5 (2.44%) NIST
3 5 (2.44%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.95%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.95%) Dodd-Frank
4 4 (1.95%) MiFID
5 2 (0.98%) COBIT
5 2 (0.98%) GDPR
5 2 (0.98%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.98%) ISO 22301
5 2 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.98%) NIST 800
5 2 (0.98%) SLA
5 2 (0.98%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.49%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.49%) PMO
6 1 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (3.41%) Docker
2 2 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (7.32%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.46%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (1.46%) Terraform
3 2 (0.98%) Nessus
4 1 (0.49%) Ansible
Vendors
1 18 (8.78%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.37%) Oracle
2 11 (5.37%) SAP
3 10 (4.88%) Salesforce
4 9 (4.39%) Databricks
5 8 (3.90%) Google
6 7 (3.41%) Adobe
6 7 (3.41%) Genesys
7 6 (2.93%) Cisco
8 4 (1.95%) Informatica
8 4 (1.95%) Optimizely
9 3 (1.46%) ESRI
9 3 (1.46%) Murex
10 2 (0.98%) Avaya
10 2 (0.98%) CA
10 2 (0.98%) EMC
10 2 (0.98%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.98%) Nokia
10 2 (0.98%) Qualys
10 2 (0.98%) Sitecore