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 18 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 97 116
Rank change year-on-year -9 +19 +55
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 3 16 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.20% 0.78% 0.63%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.62% 2.28% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 8 13
10th Percentile - £450 £463
25th Percentile - £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £550 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -18.52% +1.89%
75th Percentile - £619 £738
90th Percentile - £825 -
England median daily rate £575 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £56.25 £92.50
Median hourly rate £30.29 £57.50 £95.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.32% -39.47% -
75th Percentile - £58.75 £97.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% +22.22% -

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 482 701 592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.28% 34.00% 26.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 440 357
10th Percentile £150 £290 £313
25th Percentile £313 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -7.41% +13.68%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £631
90th Percentile £689 £701 £704
England median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 36 25
10th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £11.40
25th Percentile £18.60 £21.81 £13.31
Median hourly rate £30.15 £28.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +42.50% +37.93%
75th Percentile £50.00 £46.88 £28.75
90th Percentile £53.15 £58.75 £62.60
England median hourly rate £30.32 £41.27 £55.00
% change year-on-year -26.52% -24.97% +32.76%

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
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 18 June 2025. 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
Warwickshire -2 2 - - 34
Birmingham +6 1 - - 228
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Automotive
2 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Trainer
1 1 (33.33%) Validation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Fabric
1 1 (33.33%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Chemistry
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Conversational UI
2 1 (33.33%) Data Acquisition
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Lineage
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Data Security
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) PayPal
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