Degree Contracts in the North West

Academic Degree
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 28 34
Rank change year-on-year +10 +6 -4
Contract jobs citing Degree 239 186 243
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 8.65% 5.79% 5.98%
As % of the Qualifications category 28.66% 18.56% 26.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 104 125
10th Percentile £158 £311 £162
25th Percentile £218 £413 £327
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -10.13%
75th Percentile £604 £550 £550
90th Percentile £686 £680 £631
England median daily rate £512 £540 £520
% change year-on-year -5.12% +3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 16 41
10th Percentile £11.77 £17.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £19.34 £19.84 £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.39 £34.50 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year -23.51% -6.12% -16.48%
75th Percentile £42.88 £47.04 £48.75
90th Percentile £52.96 £56.38 £65.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.11% +28.57% -5.41%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 834 1,002 923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 30.18% 31.19% 22.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 682 605
10th Percentile £247 £325 £263
25th Percentile £413 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% +3.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £625
90th Percentile £725 £700 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 67 66
10th Percentile £10.95 £20.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £11.77 £25.00 £17.88
Median hourly rate £16.06 £37.50 £39.73
Median % change year-on-year -57.17% -5.61% -7.61%
75th Percentile £39.54 £49.52 £52.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.13 £63.86
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.85%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the North West

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Degree in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Degree in the North West

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in the North West

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Degree in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Degree in the North West

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in the North West

Degree
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the North West region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Manchester +22 105 £450 - 294
Cheshire +8 61 £410 -7.87% 152
Merseyside +33 36 £198 -59.02% 51
Lancashire +12 20 £538 -2.27% 70
Cumbria -21 13 £665 +56.10% 48
Degree
England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 17 (7.11%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.67%) SharePoint 2010
2 4 (1.67%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (0.42%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.42%) SAS
3 1 (0.42%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 58 (24.27%) Microsoft Office
2 49 (20.50%) Chatbot
3 23 (9.62%) Microsoft Excel
4 15 (6.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (3.35%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (2.09%) MS Visio
7 3 (1.26%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.42%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 7 (2.93%) Primavera
2 2 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.84%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.42%) Hyperion Planning
3 1 (0.42%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.42%) SAP Retail
3 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.42%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 26 (10.88%) Azure
2 18 (7.53%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (4.60%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (3.35%) AWS
5 7 (2.93%) IaaS
6 6 (2.51%) PaaS
6 6 (2.51%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.51%) SaaS
7 5 (2.09%) Google Workspace
8 4 (1.67%) GCP
9 2 (0.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (0.84%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (0.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.84%) Mimecast
9 2 (0.84%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.42%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (0.42%) Collibra
10 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.42%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.93%) PPP
2 6 (2.51%) VLAN
2 6 (2.51%) VPN
3 5 (2.09%) Firewall
4 3 (1.26%) BGP
4 3 (1.26%) LAN
4 3 (1.26%) MPLS
4 3 (1.26%) OSPF
4 3 (1.26%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.26%) Value-Added Service
4 3 (1.26%) VoIP
4 3 (1.26%) WAN
4 3 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (1.26%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.42%) Broadband
5 1 (0.42%) DHCP
5 1 (0.42%) DNS
5 1 (0.42%) SAN
5 1 (0.42%) WebEx
5 1 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.77%) Metadata
2 5 (2.09%) Data Lake
2 5 (2.09%) Power BI
2 5 (2.09%) RDBMS
2 5 (2.09%) Relational Database
2 5 (2.09%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.67%) Big Data
3 4 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Power View
3 4 (1.67%) PowerPivot
3 4 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.84%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.84%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.84%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (0.84%) Tableau
5 1 (0.42%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.42%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.42%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Selenium
1 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 64 (26.78%) Social Skills
2 36 (15.06%) Finance
3 32 (13.39%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (8.37%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.28%) Pharmaceutical
6 12 (5.02%) Manufacturing
7 10 (4.18%) Banking
7 10 (4.18%) Legal
8 7 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.93%) Mandarin Language
9 6 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.51%) Publishing
10 5 (2.09%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.26%) Back Office
12 3 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.26%) German Language
12 3 (1.26%) Law
12 3 (1.26%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 53 (22.18%) Developer
2 49 (20.50%) Software Developer
3 39 (16.32%) Analyst
4 29 (12.13%) Architect
5 19 (7.95%) Business Analyst
6 15 (6.28%) Senior
7 14 (5.86%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (4.60%) Project Manager
9 8 (3.35%) Administrator
9 8 (3.35%) Author
9 8 (3.35%) Domain Architect
9 8 (3.35%) Service Analyst
9 8 (3.35%) Service Desk Analyst
9 8 (3.35%) Technical Author
10 7 (2.93%) Coordinator
10 7 (2.93%) Support Engineer
11 6 (2.51%) Project Coordinator
12 5 (2.09%) Data Analyst
13 4 (1.67%) Data Manager
13 4 (1.67%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (12.13%) HTML
2 4 (1.67%) CSS
3 2 (0.84%) Spring
4 1 (0.42%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.42%) Middleware
4 1 (0.42%) Shiny
4 1 (0.42%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.53%) Management Information System
2 11 (4.60%) Virtual Team
3 8 (3.35%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.09%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.26%) Clustering
5 3 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.26%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.26%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.26%) Life Science
5 3 (1.26%) Robotics
6 2 (0.84%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.84%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.84%) Derivative
6 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.84%) NHS
6 2 (0.84%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.84%) Reference Data
6 2 (0.84%) SCADA
6 2 (0.84%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.42%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.95%) Windows
2 15 (6.28%) Windows 10
3 8 (3.35%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.93%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (2.09%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.67%) Linux
6 4 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.84%) Unix
8 1 (0.42%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (20.50%) Artificial Intelligence
1 49 (20.50%) Code Quality
1 49 (20.50%) Conversational UI
2 39 (16.32%) Computer Science
2 39 (16.32%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (15.48%) Agile
4 32 (13.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 27 (11.30%) Software Engineering
6 26 (10.88%) Decision-Making
7 25 (10.46%) Project Delivery
8 23 (9.62%) Project Management
9 22 (9.21%) ITIL
10 19 (7.95%) Customer Service
11 17 (7.11%) Data Management
11 17 (7.11%) DevOps
12 15 (6.28%) Data Protection
13 14 (5.86%) Change Management
13 14 (5.86%) Risk Management
14 13 (5.44%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (5.44%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 37 (15.48%) SQL
2 32 (13.39%) Python
3 30 (12.55%) JavaScript
4 25 (10.46%) C#
5 9 (3.77%) PowerShell
6 5 (2.09%) Java
7 3 (1.26%) R
8 1 (0.42%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.42%) Bash
8 1 (0.42%) C
8 1 (0.42%) Groovy
8 1 (0.42%) Julia
8 1 (0.42%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 29 (12.13%) Security Cleared
2 21 (8.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (7.95%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.28%) Master's Degree
5 9 (3.77%) PMI Certification
6 8 (3.35%) CISSP
6 8 (3.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (3.35%) PMP
7 7 (2.93%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.51%) CISA
8 6 (2.51%) CISM
8 6 (2.51%) MBA
9 5 (2.09%) IIBA
9 5 (2.09%) MCSE
10 4 (1.67%) APMP
10 4 (1.67%) CCNA
10 4 (1.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (1.26%) CCIE
11 3 (1.26%) CCNP
11 3 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.28%) GDPR
2 6 (2.51%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.51%) PMO
3 5 (2.09%) Good Clinical Practice
3 5 (2.09%) GxP
3 5 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.09%) QA
4 4 (1.67%) NIST
4 4 (1.67%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.26%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.84%) P3O
6 2 (0.84%) SLA
7 1 (0.42%) COREP
7 1 (0.42%) FINREP
7 1 (0.42%) GAAP
System Software
1 12 (5.02%) Active Directory
1 12 (5.02%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (2.93%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.67%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.42%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 9 (3.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (2.09%) SCCM
3 3 (1.26%) Autotask
3 3 (1.26%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (1.26%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.42%) Terraform
Vendors
1 52 (21.76%) Microsoft
2 49 (20.50%) PayPal
3 21 (8.79%) ServiceNow
4 14 (5.86%) SAP
5 13 (5.44%) VMware
6 6 (2.51%) Google
6 6 (2.51%) Oracle
7 5 (2.09%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.67%) Databricks
8 4 (1.67%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.26%) Apple
9 3 (1.26%) Cisco
9 3 (1.26%) Datto
9 3 (1.26%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (1.26%) Sophos
10 2 (0.84%) Adobe
10 2 (0.84%) Hyperion
10 2 (0.84%) iManage
10 2 (0.84%) Teradata
11 1 (0.42%) Rapid7