Degree Contracts in Manchester

Academic Degree
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 35 32
Rank change year-on-year +9 -3 +24
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Degree 71 50 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 6.90% 4.15% 5.28%
As % of the Qualifications category 24.74% 17.92% 20.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 18 62
10th Percentile £366 £386 £208
25th Percentile £413 £434 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £511 £413
Median % change year-on-year -8.92% +23.90% -13.16%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £500
90th Percentile £712 £703 £575
North West median daily rate £458 £550 £469
% change year-on-year -16.82% +17.33% -5.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 7
10th Percentile £40.83 £21.25 £15.72
25th Percentile £49.94 £33.93 £15.74
Median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year - +263.64% +13.79%
75th Percentile £67.19 £81.38 £17.34
90th Percentile £71.13 £100.00 £18.36
North West median hourly rate £34.50 £50.38 £40.25
% change year-on-year -31.51% +25.16% +130.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Manchester

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 Manchester.

DemandTrendContract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 287 279 440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 27.89% 23.13% 25.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 161 325
10th Percentile £331 £350 £252
25th Percentile £425 £425 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -2.44% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £600
90th Percentile £750 £825 £700
North West median daily rate £500 £505 £520
% change year-on-year -0.99% -2.88% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 19 15
10th Percentile £20.00 £16.66 £15.73
25th Percentile £22.16 £26.80 £15.75
Median hourly rate £32.00 £45.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.89% +130.77% -30.97%
75th Percentile £55.25 £66.13 £40.63
90th Percentile £71.50 £100.00 £50.50
North West median hourly rate £30.64 £22.88 £42.50
% change year-on-year +33.92% -46.18% +46.55%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Manchester

Degree
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Degree.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Degree

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Manchester

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Degree.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Degree

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in Manchester

Degree
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 27 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bolton -7 8 - - 20
Salford -4 1 £300 -35.14% 11
Stockport - 1 - - 10
Wigan - 1 £375 - 5
Oldham - 1 - - 10
Degree
North West

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 4 (5.63%) IBM Domino
1 4 (5.63%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.23%) Confluence
3 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.41%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.41%) nginx
4 1 (1.41%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (7.04%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.41%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (8.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.82%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.41%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.41%) SAP HR
3 1 (1.41%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 11 (15.49%) Azure
2 8 (11.27%) AWS
2 8 (11.27%) GCP
3 5 (7.04%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (5.63%) Google Analytics
5 3 (4.23%) GitHub
5 3 (4.23%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.23%) SaaS
6 2 (2.82%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.82%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (2.82%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.82%) Serverless
6 2 (2.82%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.41%) Asana
7 1 (1.41%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (1.41%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.41%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.45%) VPN
2 5 (7.04%) TCP/IP
3 4 (5.63%) DHCP
3 4 (5.63%) DNS
4 3 (4.23%) Network Security
5 2 (2.82%) SSH
5 2 (2.82%) WebEx
6 1 (1.41%) BGP
6 1 (1.41%) EIGRP
6 1 (1.41%) Firewall
6 1 (1.41%) H.323
6 1 (1.41%) IP Telephony
6 1 (1.41%) OSPF
6 1 (1.41%) SSL
6 1 (1.41%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.41%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.63%) Mixpanel
2 2 (2.82%) Data Lake
2 2 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.82%) Power BI
2 2 (2.82%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.41%) Big Data
3 1 (1.41%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.41%) Cognos Framework Manager
3 1 (1.41%) Cognos Report Studio
3 1 (1.41%) Cognos Transformer
3 1 (1.41%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.41%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.41%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle Discoverer
3 1 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.41%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.41%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 6 (8.45%) JIRA
2 4 (5.63%) GitLab
3 3 (4.23%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.41%) Ant
4 1 (1.41%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.41%) ERwin
4 1 (1.41%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.41%) JUnit
4 1 (1.41%) NUnit
General
1 32 (45.07%) Social Skills
2 20 (28.17%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (28.17%) Finance
3 7 (9.86%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (5.63%) French Language
4 4 (5.63%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.82%) Billing
6 2 (2.82%) Electronics
6 2 (2.82%) Law
6 2 (2.82%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.82%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.41%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.41%) Banking
7 1 (1.41%) Italian Language
7 1 (1.41%) Legal
7 1 (1.41%) Polish Language
7 1 (1.41%) Publishing
7 1 (1.41%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 8 (11.27%) Analyst
2 6 (8.45%) Senior
2 6 (8.45%) Support Engineer
3 5 (7.04%) Developer
3 5 (7.04%) IT Engineer
4 4 (5.63%) Business Analyst
4 4 (5.63%) IT Support
4 4 (5.63%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (5.63%) Project Engineer
4 4 (5.63%) User Experience Researcher
5 3 (4.23%) Architect
5 3 (4.23%) Lead
5 3 (4.23%) Project Manager
6 2 (2.82%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 2 (2.82%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 2 (2.82%) Designer
6 2 (2.82%) Java Developer
6 2 (2.82%) SOC Analyst
6 2 (2.82%) Technical Manager
6 2 (2.82%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.63%) HTML
2 3 (4.23%) TensorFlow
3 2 (2.82%) Middleware
3 2 (2.82%) PyTorch
3 2 (2.82%) SAP PI
3 2 (2.82%) scikit-learn
3 2 (2.82%) Spring
3 2 (2.82%) XML
4 1 (1.41%) Ajax
4 1 (1.41%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.41%) Kafka
4 1 (1.41%) Node.js
4 1 (1.41%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.41%) OpenCV
4 1 (1.41%) Pandas
4 1 (1.41%) pytest
4 1 (1.41%) React
4 1 (1.41%) REST
4 1 (1.41%) RESTful
4 1 (1.41%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.86%) Management Information System
2 5 (7.04%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (5.63%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.63%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (4.23%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.82%) Analogue Electronics
5 2 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.82%) Learning Management System
5 2 (2.82%) Tandem
6 1 (1.41%) Clustering
6 1 (1.41%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.41%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.41%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.41%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.41%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.41%) Social Media
6 1 (1.41%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (14.08%) Windows
2 2 (2.82%) Unix
3 1 (1.41%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (50.70%) Computer Science
2 22 (30.99%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (23.94%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (21.13%) Collaborative Working
4 15 (21.13%) Project Management
5 11 (15.49%) Analytics
6 10 (14.08%) Agile
6 10 (14.08%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (12.68%) ITIL
7 9 (12.68%) Service Management
8 8 (11.27%) CI/CD
8 8 (11.27%) Data Protection
9 7 (9.86%) Change Management
10 6 (8.45%) Customer Service
10 6 (8.45%) Decision-Making
10 6 (8.45%) DevOps
10 6 (8.45%) Incident Response
10 6 (8.45%) ITSM
10 6 (8.45%) Service Delivery
10 6 (8.45%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.68%) Python
2 5 (7.04%) SQL
3 3 (4.23%) Java
4 2 (2.82%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.82%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (2.82%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.41%) C#
5 1 (1.41%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 27 (38.03%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (9.86%) Master's Degree
3 6 (8.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (5.63%) A+ Certification
5 3 (4.23%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.23%) PMI Certification
5 3 (4.23%) PMP
6 2 (2.82%) ACCA
6 2 (2.82%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.82%) CIMA
6 2 (2.82%) CISA
6 2 (2.82%) CISM
6 2 (2.82%) CISSP
6 2 (2.82%) GCIA
6 2 (2.82%) GCIH
6 2 (2.82%) GSEC
6 2 (2.82%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.82%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.41%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.23%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.82%) GDPR
2 2 (2.82%) HIPAA
2 2 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.82%) NIST
2 2 (2.82%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.82%) QA
3 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.41%) COBIT
3 1 (1.41%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (2.82%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.23%) Ansible
1 3 (4.23%) Terraform
2 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.82%) QRadar
3 1 (1.41%) Grafana
3 1 (1.41%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (1.41%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 21 (29.58%) Microsoft
2 9 (12.68%) Google
3 8 (11.27%) SAP
4 4 (5.63%) Hotjar
5 3 (4.23%) Cisco
5 3 (4.23%) IBM
6 2 (2.82%) Apple
6 2 (2.82%) ArcSight
6 2 (2.82%) Meraki
6 2 (2.82%) Oracle
6 2 (2.82%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.82%) Splunk
7 1 (1.41%) BMC
7 1 (1.41%) Cognos
7 1 (1.41%) Databricks
7 1 (1.41%) DocuSign
7 1 (1.41%) Pega
7 1 (1.41%) Remedy
7 1 (1.41%) Zscaler