Master's Degree Jobs

Master's Degree
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Master's Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 187 61 194
Rank change year-on-year -126 +133 +44
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 1,585 4,727 3,612
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.46% 5.08% 2.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.55% 14.99% 7.67%
Number of salaries quoted 821 803 1,001
10th Percentile £34,500 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £49,950
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £125,000 £132,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,180 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.30% +4.55% +4.76%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 28,550 31,536 47,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.33% 33.88% 27.39%
Number of salaries quoted 17,234 14,336 19,350
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,000 £30,874
25th Percentile £38,734 £42,500 £40,535
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,750 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £49,549
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.96% +0.10%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in the UK

Master's Degree
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Master's Degree in the UK

Master's Degree
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Master's Degree in the UK

Master's Degree
Top 17 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England -130 1,392 £65,000 -7.14% 1,134
UK excluding London -209 878 £56,180 -2.30% 671
London +20 647 £80,000 - 485
Work from Home +13 443 £65,000 - 441
South East -102 313 £60,000 -7.69% 154
North of England -251 117 £50,000 +4.88% 129
Scotland -102 110 £81,000 +35.00% 46
Midlands -190 109 £57,500 +21.05% 130
East of England -115 105 £55,000 -4.35% 111
South West -164 91 £50,952 -32.06% 91
North West -191 67 £65,000 +4.00% 72
West Midlands -143 61 £50,000 -20.00% 81
East Midlands -140 46 £79,566 +165.22% 49
North East -85 28 £50,000 +4.88% 25
Northern Ireland +19 26 £65,000 - 11
Yorkshire -152 22 £48,750 +9.93% 34
Wales -64 7 £35,000 -53.33% 17

Master's Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 61 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (1.83%) FileNet
3 25 (1.58%) Skype for Business
4 20 (1.26%) Apache Spark
5 18 (1.14%) SharePoint
6 16 (1.01%) Apache
7 15 (0.95%) IIS
8 9 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.38%) Confluence
9 6 (0.38%) nginx
10 4 (0.25%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 3 (0.19%) CMS
11 3 (0.19%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.19%) SAS
11 3 (0.19%) WordPress
12 1 (0.063%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.063%) Luigi
12 1 (0.063%) Umbraco
Applications
1 62 (3.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (3.79%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.76%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.44%) Simulink
7 6 (0.38%) InVision
7 6 (0.38%) Sketch
7 6 (0.38%) Trello
7 6 (0.38%) UserZoom
8 5 (0.32%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.25%) EPLAN
10 3 (0.19%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.063%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.063%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.063%) Blender
11 1 (0.063%) InDesign
11 1 (0.063%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 14 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.32%) Distributed Ledger
2 5 (0.32%) SAP MM
3 4 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.25%) Primavera
3 4 (0.25%) Ripple
3 4 (0.25%) Shopify
4 3 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (0.19%) SAP APO
4 3 (0.19%) SAP PP
4 3 (0.19%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.19%) SAP WM
5 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payroll
5 2 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.063%) Data Workbench
6 1 (0.063%) Endur
6 1 (0.063%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.063%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.063%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 237 (14.95%) AWS
2 198 (12.49%) Azure
3 108 (6.81%) Microsoft 365
4 101 (6.37%) Power Platform
5 70 (4.42%) GCP
6 59 (3.72%) SaaS
7 52 (3.28%) GitHub
8 51 (3.22%) Cloud Computing
9 44 (2.78%) Amazon S3
10 39 (2.46%) Figma
11 38 (2.40%) SurveyMonkey
12 31 (1.96%) Serverless
13 25 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
14 24 (1.51%) IaaS
15 22 (1.39%) PaaS
16 20 (1.26%) PowerApps
16 20 (1.26%) WhatsApp
17 14 (0.88%) Dynamics 365
17 14 (0.88%) Power Automate
18 13 (0.82%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 81 (5.11%) Cisco IOS
2 68 (4.29%) Wireless
3 61 (3.85%) WebEx
4 58 (3.66%) WAN
5 56 (3.53%) SD-WAN
6 30 (1.89%) 5G
6 30 (1.89%) Broadband
7 29 (1.83%) Firewall
7 29 (1.83%) TCP/IP
8 25 (1.58%) Skype
8 25 (1.58%) Telepresence
9 21 (1.32%) Internet
10 18 (1.14%) HTTP
11 15 (0.95%) Network Security
12 13 (0.82%) Intranet
12 13 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
13 11 (0.69%) MQTT
14 9 (0.57%) SNMP
15 8 (0.50%) Ethernet
16 4 (0.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (6.75%) Tableau
2 95 (5.99%) Power BI
3 68 (4.29%) SQL Server
4 64 (4.04%) NoSQL
5 53 (3.34%) Big Data
6 46 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
6 46 (2.90%) Relational Database
7 40 (2.52%) MySQL
8 37 (2.33%) Redis
9 35 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
9 35 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
10 30 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
11 19 (1.20%) Hadoop
12 18 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 13 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (0.76%) Data Lake
15 11 (0.69%) GIS
16 10 (0.63%) Amazon QuickSight
16 10 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
16 10 (0.63%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 128 (8.08%) Git
2 54 (3.41%) Jenkins
3 32 (2.02%) GitLab
4 29 (1.83%) Jasmine
4 29 (1.83%) JUnit
4 29 (1.83%) Mockito
5 21 (1.32%) JIRA
6 6 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (0.32%) webpack
8 4 (0.25%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.25%) CMake
8 4 (0.25%) Snakemake
8 4 (0.25%) Subversion
9 3 (0.19%) Babel
9 3 (0.19%) MLflow
9 3 (0.19%) Selenium
9 3 (0.19%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.19%) TestRail
10 2 (0.13%) Rational DOORS
10 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
General
1 721 (45.49%) Social Skills
2 421 (26.56%) Finance
3 313 (19.75%) Analytical Skills
4 198 (12.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 185 (11.67%) Marketing
6 157 (9.91%) Law
7 107 (6.75%) Pharmaceutical
8 97 (6.12%) Legal
9 83 (5.24%) Manufacturing
10 61 (3.85%) Banking
10 61 (3.85%) Telecoms
11 57 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
12 54 (3.41%) Retail
13 53 (3.34%) Public Sector
14 52 (3.28%) Automotive
15 40 (2.52%) Social Science
16 39 (2.46%) Electronics
17 36 (2.27%) Games
18 28 (1.77%) Aerospace
19 22 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 319 (20.13%) Senior
2 170 (10.73%) Software Engineer
3 160 (10.09%) Developer
4 143 (9.02%) Lead
5 129 (8.14%) Analyst
6 109 (6.88%) Data Scientist
7 99 (6.25%) Architect
8 87 (5.49%) Senior Data Scientist
9 69 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
10 59 (3.72%) IT Support
11 57 (3.60%) Support Specialist
12 56 (3.53%) IT Support Specialist
13 53 (3.34%) Principal Engineer
14 51 (3.22%) Graduate
15 46 (2.90%) Senior Developer
16 43 (2.71%) Consultant
16 43 (2.71%) Senior Software Engineer
17 42 (2.65%) Principal Systems Engineer
18 33 (2.08%) Data Engineer
18 33 (2.08%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (6.37%) .NET
2 96 (6.06%) React
3 91 (5.74%) AngularJS
4 80 (5.05%) TensorFlow
5 77 (4.86%) Kafka
6 59 (3.72%) scikit-learn
7 55 (3.47%) Pandas
8 49 (3.09%) PySpark
9 45 (2.84%) Web Services
10 41 (2.59%) PyTorch
10 41 (2.59%) Spring
11 40 (2.52%) ASP.NET
12 38 (2.40%) Hibernate
13 36 (2.27%) HTML
14 35 (2.21%) RESTful
15 33 (2.08%) GraphQL
16 29 (1.83%) CSS
16 29 (1.83%) J2EE
16 29 (1.83%) Spring Integration
17 24 (1.51%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 278 (17.54%) Algorithms
2 112 (7.07%) Management Information System
3 82 (5.17%) Video Conferencing
4 66 (4.16%) Onboarding
5 62 (3.91%) Data Structures
6 56 (3.53%) Wiki
7 55 (3.47%) Cloud Native
7 55 (3.47%) Product Ownership
8 54 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
9 39 (2.46%) Life Science
10 37 (2.33%) IoT
11 28 (1.77%) Market Risk
12 27 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
13 26 (1.64%) CUDA
14 23 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
15 22 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
16 20 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 19 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
17 19 (1.20%) Security Posture
18 18 (1.14%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 132 (8.33%) Linux
2 131 (8.26%) Windows
3 84 (5.30%) Windows 10
4 64 (4.04%) Android
5 44 (2.78%) Unix
6 25 (1.58%) Windows 7
7 12 (0.76%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.44%) FreeRTOS
9 6 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (0.25%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.25%) DC/OS
10 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.063%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.063%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.063%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.063%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 808 (50.98%) Computer Science
2 489 (30.85%) Problem-Solving
3 333 (21.01%) Software Engineering
4 324 (20.44%) Agile
5 301 (18.99%) Mathematics
6 260 (16.40%) Machine Learning
7 257 (16.21%) Analytics
8 252 (15.90%) Artificial Intelligence
8 252 (15.90%) Data Science
9 208 (13.12%) Decision-Making
10 199 (12.56%) Statistics
11 195 (12.30%) Visualisation
12 193 (12.18%) Roadmaps
13 177 (11.17%) Project Management
14 171 (10.79%) Physics
15 160 (10.09%) Data Analysis
16 156 (9.84%) Mentoring
17 150 (9.46%) Actionable Insight
18 137 (8.64%) Continuous Improvement
19 133 (8.39%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 506 (31.92%) Python
2 323 (20.38%) SQL
3 172 (10.85%) C#
4 137 (8.64%) Java
5 125 (7.89%) C++
6 114 (7.19%) C
7 108 (6.81%) R
8 96 (6.06%) JavaScript
9 59 (3.72%) Fortran
10 40 (2.52%) TypeScript
11 38 (2.40%) Bash
12 30 (1.89%) MATLAB
13 26 (1.64%) Go
14 22 (1.39%) PowerShell
15 19 (1.20%) T-SQL
16 16 (1.01%) Rust
17 11 (0.69%) Scala
18 7 (0.44%) Haskell
19 6 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 6 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,585 (100.00%) Degree
2 419 (26.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 392 (24.73%) PhD
4 167 (10.54%) MBA
5 105 (6.62%) Security Cleared
6 61 (3.85%) CISSP
7 60 (3.79%) DBS Check
8 48 (3.03%) Chartered Engineer
9 46 (2.90%) CISM
10 34 (2.15%) SC Cleared
11 25 (1.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 22 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
13 21 (1.32%) AWS Certification
13 21 (1.32%) DV Cleared
14 19 (1.20%) PMP
15 18 (1.14%) PMI Certification
16 17 (1.07%) Numerate Degree
17 16 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
17 16 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
18 15 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (4.73%) QA
2 68 (4.29%) Data Quality
3 49 (3.09%) GDPR
4 32 (2.02%) Accessibility
5 31 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (1.51%) NIST
7 18 (1.14%) PCI DSS
8 16 (1.01%) NCSC
8 16 (1.01%) PMO
9 13 (0.82%) HIPAA
10 12 (0.76%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 10 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 8 (0.50%) COBIT
13 7 (0.44%) ISO 13485
14 6 (0.38%) WCAG
14 6 (0.38%) Web Application Security Consortium
15 5 (0.32%) ISO 26262
16 4 (0.25%) Automotive SPICE
17 3 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
17 3 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 92 (5.80%) Docker
2 72 (4.54%) Active Directory
3 59 (3.72%) VMware ESXi
4 56 (3.53%) Microsoft App-V
4 56 (3.53%) XenApp
4 56 (3.53%) XenDesktop
5 22 (1.39%) Firmware
6 12 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
7 7 (0.44%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.13%) HDFS
10 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.063%) Snort
10 1 (0.063%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.063%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 104 (6.56%) Kubernetes
2 57 (3.60%) SCCM
3 56 (3.53%) AirWatch
4 38 (2.40%) Terraform
5 15 (0.95%) Ansible
6 9 (0.57%) CASB
7 7 (0.44%) Kubeflow
8 6 (0.38%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 5 (0.32%) Functional Safety
10 4 (0.25%) Argo
11 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.13%) Cisco Prime
12 2 (0.13%) Core Impact
12 2 (0.13%) CSIRT
12 2 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.063%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.063%) EMC NetWorker
13 1 (0.063%) Grafana
13 1 (0.063%) Puppet
13 1 (0.063%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 251 (15.84%) Microsoft
2 98 (6.18%) Cisco
3 59 (3.72%) Citrix
4 57 (3.60%) Databricks
5 50 (3.15%) Google
6 47 (2.97%) Oracle
7 46 (2.90%) SAP
8 44 (2.78%) EMC
8 44 (2.78%) Qualtrics
9 30 (1.89%) Virgin Media
10 28 (1.77%) Apple
11 25 (1.58%) Polycom
12 13 (0.82%) Atlassian
13 12 (0.76%) Aruba
13 12 (0.76%) HP
13 12 (0.76%) VMware
14 11 (0.69%) Nintex
14 11 (0.69%) Salesforce
15 10 (0.63%) CA
16 6 (0.38%) Adobe