Master's Degree Jobs in the Thames Valley

Master's Degree
South East > Thames Valley

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 68 143
Rank change year-on-year -23 +75 -16
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 178 251 159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.50% 4.40% 2.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.80% 10.44% 6.52%
Number of salaries quoted 107 45 63
10th Percentile £34,750 - £28,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £22,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £42,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +36.47% -19.05% +5.21%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £74,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +20.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,618 2,404 2,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.76% 42.13% 33.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,537 993 964
10th Percentile £31,000 £26,700 £28,725
25th Percentile £38,000 £36,250 £36,953
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -1.42%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £51,350 £51,750
% change year-on-year +2.24% -0.77% +3.50%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in the Thames Valley

Master's Degree
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for Master's Degree in the Thames Valley

Master's Degree
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Master's Degree in the Thames Valley

Master's Degree
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 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
Oxfordshire +12 82 £55,000 +150.00% 33
Berkshire -7 74 £56,500 -19.29% 36
Buckinghamshire -67 22 £70,000 +11.11% 14
Master's Degree
South East

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 11 (6.18%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.12%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.56%) Apache
3 1 (0.56%) nginx
Applications
1 23 (12.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (6.74%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (6.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (6.18%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (7.87%) Power Platform
2 11 (6.18%) AWS
2 11 (6.18%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (6.18%) OneDrive
2 11 (6.18%) Power Automate
2 11 (6.18%) PowerApps
2 11 (6.18%) ShareGate
3 6 (3.37%) Amazon S3
3 6 (3.37%) Azure
3 6 (3.37%) Cloud Computing
3 6 (3.37%) GCP
3 6 (3.37%) Snowflake
4 5 (2.81%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (2.81%) Serverless
5 4 (2.25%) SaaS
6 3 (1.69%) GitHub
7 2 (1.12%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.12%) IaaS
8 1 (0.56%) Google Container Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.49%) 5G
1 8 (4.49%) Broadband
2 7 (3.93%) Internet
3 5 (2.81%) Intranet
3 5 (2.81%) SNMP
4 4 (2.25%) Firewall
5 2 (1.12%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.87%) Power BI
2 10 (5.62%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.81%) GIS
5 4 (2.25%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (2.25%) Big Data
6 3 (1.69%) Impala
6 3 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.12%) Apache Hive
7 2 (1.12%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.56%) Metadata
8 1 (0.56%) Power Query
8 1 (0.56%) PowerCenter
8 1 (0.56%) Redis
8 1 (0.56%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.56%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 12 (6.74%) Git
2 2 (1.12%) ERwin
2 2 (1.12%) JIRA
3 1 (0.56%) Maven
General
1 48 (26.97%) Social Skills
2 44 (24.72%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (13.48%) Pharmaceutical
4 23 (12.92%) Finance
5 19 (10.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (5.62%) Marketing
7 9 (5.06%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.93%) Law
9 5 (2.81%) Electronics
9 5 (2.81%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.25%) Aeronautics
10 4 (2.25%) Legal
10 4 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.69%) Banking
12 2 (1.12%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.12%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.56%) Automotive
13 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (27.53%) Senior
2 32 (17.98%) Software Engineer
3 16 (8.99%) Developer
4 15 (8.43%) Junior
5 14 (7.87%) Data Scientist
6 12 (6.74%) Senior Software Engineer
7 11 (6.18%) Associate Director
8 10 (5.62%) Business Development Manager
8 10 (5.62%) Business Manager
8 10 (5.62%) Development Manager
9 8 (4.49%) Research Engineer
9 8 (4.49%) Software Developer
10 7 (3.93%) Research Software Engineer
11 6 (3.37%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (3.37%) Scientific Software Developer
11 6 (3.37%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 6 (3.37%) Systems Engineer
12 5 (2.81%) C++ Developer
12 5 (2.81%) Physicist
13 4 (2.25%) IT Sales Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.87%) OpenACC
1 14 (7.87%) OpenMP
2 5 (2.81%) React
3 4 (2.25%) HTML
3 4 (2.25%) Rendezvous
4 3 (1.69%) Dask
4 3 (1.69%) Django
4 3 (1.69%) Flask
5 2 (1.12%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.12%) CSS
5 2 (1.12%) Leaflet
5 2 (1.12%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (1.12%) NumPy
5 2 (1.12%) OpenLayers
5 2 (1.12%) RESTful
5 2 (1.12%) Sass
6 1 (0.56%) Celery
6 1 (0.56%) GeoPandas
6 1 (0.56%) Pandas
6 1 (0.56%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 80 (44.94%) Algorithms
2 17 (9.55%) Analytical Mindset
2 17 (9.55%) Data Structures
3 16 (8.99%) CUDA
4 12 (6.74%) Management Information System
5 10 (5.62%) Biopharmaceutical
5 10 (5.62%) Life Science
6 5 (2.81%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.81%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.69%) FPGA
8 3 (1.69%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.12%) ASIC
9 2 (1.12%) ASIC Verification
9 2 (1.12%) FMCG
9 2 (1.12%) IoT
9 2 (1.12%) Verilog
9 2 (1.12%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.56%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 47 (26.40%) Linux
2 36 (20.22%) Unix
3 1 (0.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (60.11%) Computer Science
2 75 (42.13%) Mathematics
3 71 (39.89%) Physics
4 47 (26.40%) Parallel Programming
5 45 (25.28%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (20.79%) Software Engineering
7 35 (19.66%) Agile
8 32 (17.98%) Machine Learning
9 30 (16.85%) SDLC
10 25 (14.04%) Biotechnology
10 25 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (13.48%) Data Science
12 22 (12.36%) DevOps
13 21 (11.80%) Artificial Intelligence
13 21 (11.80%) Chemistry
14 20 (11.24%) Roadmaps
15 19 (10.67%) Analytics
15 19 (10.67%) Business Intelligence
15 19 (10.67%) Performance Analysis
16 18 (10.11%) Market Research
Programming Languages
1 95 (53.37%) Python
2 59 (33.15%) C
3 57 (32.02%) Fortran
4 48 (26.97%) C++
5 17 (9.55%) Bash
6 13 (7.30%) C#
7 12 (6.74%) R
8 6 (3.37%) Java
9 5 (2.81%) JavaScript
10 4 (2.25%) Go
10 4 (2.25%) MATLAB
11 3 (1.69%) AWK
11 3 (1.69%) sed
11 3 (1.69%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.69%) SQL
12 2 (1.12%) Perl
12 2 (1.12%) SystemVerilog
12 2 (1.12%) Tcl
13 1 (0.56%) Scala
13 1 (0.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 178 (100.00%) Degree
2 105 (58.99%) PhD
3 33 (18.54%) Security Cleared
4 28 (15.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (11.24%) MBA
6 11 (6.18%) ITIL Certification
7 10 (5.62%) CFA
7 10 (5.62%) CIMA
8 4 (2.25%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (2.25%) SC Cleared
9 2 (1.12%) Chartered Engineer
9 2 (1.12%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.56%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.56%) MCSA
10 1 (0.56%) MCSE
10 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.69%) Data Quality
1 3 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.12%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (7.87%) Docker
2 11 (6.18%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.25%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.69%) Firmware
5 2 (1.12%) HDFS
6 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (6.18%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.25%) Terraform
3 3 (1.69%) Ansible
Vendors
1 37 (20.79%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.18%) Nintex
3 8 (4.49%) Virgin Media
4 6 (3.37%) YouTube
5 5 (2.81%) Google
6 4 (2.25%) Aruba
6 4 (2.25%) Cisco
6 4 (2.25%) HP
6 4 (2.25%) VMware
7 3 (1.69%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.12%) Adobe
8 2 (1.12%) Informatica
8 2 (1.12%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.12%) SAP
9 1 (0.56%) Apple
9 1 (0.56%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.56%) Sage