Degree Contracts in the North West

Academic Degree
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 16 26
Rank change year-on-year -9 +10 +10
Contract jobs citing Degree 145 243 178
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 6.99% 8.74% 5.85%
As % of the Qualifications category 20.95% 31.44% 19.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 112 91
10th Percentile £318 £183 £280
25th Percentile £359 £322 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £525 £486
Median % change year-on-year -13.14% +8.02% +8.00%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £547
90th Percentile £700 £670 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 39 18
10th Percentile £21.02 £11.77 £16.09
25th Percentile £25.31 £25.43 £17.03
Median hourly rate £32.50 £32.12 £40.55
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% -20.79% +46.11%
75th Percentile £66.29 £51.91 £51.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £65.83 £68.30
England median hourly rate £45.15 £41.50 £49.28
% change year-on-year +8.80% -15.79% +35.01%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 692 773 905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 33.35% 27.80% 29.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 397 423 597
10th Percentile £301 £288 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £600
90th Percentile £713 £699 £690
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 132 63
10th Percentile £17.33 £10.95 £19.27
25th Percentile £21.30 £11.94 £27.18
Median hourly rate £31.00 £16.06 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year +93.03% -60.43% +11.98%
75th Percentile £59.98 £44.28 £49.89
90th Percentile £75.93 £62.50 £64.45
England median hourly rate £28.50 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -32.94% -22.73% +32.76%

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 3 July 2025.

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 3 July 2025.

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 3 July 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
Manchester -2 61 £455 -6.67% 1,186
Cheshire -10 60 £459 -13.84% 337
Lancashire -19 9 £540 +0.47% 398
Merseyside -8 8 £438 +121.24% 194
Cumbria -2 5 - - 89
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 5 (3.45%) Confluence
1 5 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.76%) IBM Domino
3 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.69%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.69%) CICS
4 1 (0.69%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 12 (8.28%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (7.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (7.59%) MS Visio
3 10 (6.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.38%) Simulink
5 1 (0.69%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.69%) InVision
5 1 (0.69%) Trello
5 1 (0.69%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 10 (6.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.38%) Maximo
2 2 (1.38%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.69%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.69%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.69%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 24 (16.55%) Azure
2 13 (8.97%) AWS
2 13 (8.97%) GCP
3 9 (6.21%) Power Platform
4 8 (5.52%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (4.83%) SaaS
6 5 (3.45%) Snowflake
7 4 (2.76%) Google Analytics
7 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (2.07%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.07%) OneDrive
8 3 (2.07%) Serverless
8 3 (2.07%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (1.38%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.38%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.38%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.38%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.38%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.66%) VPN
2 10 (6.90%) Network Security
3 9 (6.21%) Firewall
4 8 (5.52%) WAN
5 7 (4.83%) BGP
5 7 (4.83%) LAN
5 7 (4.83%) OSPF
5 7 (4.83%) TCP/IP
5 7 (4.83%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (4.14%) DNS
6 6 (4.14%) Wireless
7 5 (3.45%) DHCP
7 5 (3.45%) MPLS
7 5 (3.45%) VLAN
7 5 (3.45%) WLAN
8 3 (2.07%) Radio Access Network
9 2 (1.38%) EIGRP
9 2 (1.38%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (1.38%) Skype
10 1 (0.69%) L2TP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.52%) Power BI
2 7 (4.83%) Data Lake
2 7 (4.83%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (3.45%) Tableau
4 4 (2.76%) Metadata
4 4 (2.76%) Mixpanel
5 3 (2.07%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.07%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.07%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.38%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.38%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.69%) Big Data
7 1 (0.69%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.69%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.69%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.69%) MySQL
7 1 (0.69%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 12 (8.28%) JIRA
2 3 (2.07%) Git
3 2 (1.38%) ERwin
3 2 (1.38%) GitLab
4 1 (0.69%) Ant
4 1 (0.69%) Axure RP
4 1 (0.69%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.69%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.69%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.69%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.69%) JIRA Agile
4 1 (0.69%) JUnit
4 1 (0.69%) NUnit
General
1 60 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 43 (29.66%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (19.31%) Finance
4 9 (6.21%) Manufacturing
5 8 (5.52%) Banking
5 8 (5.52%) Pharmaceutical
5 8 (5.52%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (4.83%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (4.14%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (4.14%) Legal
7 6 (4.14%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.14%) Telecoms
8 5 (3.45%) Publishing
9 4 (2.76%) Aerospace
9 4 (2.76%) French Language
9 4 (2.76%) Marketing
10 2 (1.38%) Aeronautics
10 2 (1.38%) Electronics
11 1 (0.69%) Automotive
11 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (18.62%) Analyst
2 18 (12.41%) Architect
3 16 (11.03%) Business Analyst
4 14 (9.66%) Senior
5 10 (6.90%) Network Engineer
6 7 (4.83%) Developer
6 7 (4.83%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (4.14%) IT Engineer
7 6 (4.14%) Support Engineer
8 5 (3.45%) IT Support
8 5 (3.45%) IT Support Engineer
8 5 (3.45%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
8 5 (3.45%) User Experience Researcher
9 4 (2.76%) Data Analytics Specialist
9 4 (2.76%) Network Designer
9 4 (2.76%) Project Engineer
9 4 (2.76%) Security Architect
9 4 (2.76%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (2.76%) Service Analyst
9 4 (2.76%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.52%) HTML
2 6 (4.14%) AngularJS
2 6 (4.14%) CSS
3 5 (3.45%) Web Services
4 4 (2.76%) Middleware
4 4 (2.76%) REST
5 3 (2.07%) LDAP
5 3 (2.07%) SOAP
6 2 (1.38%) ADO
6 2 (1.38%) Node.js
6 2 (1.38%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.38%) React
6 2 (1.38%) RESTful
6 2 (1.38%) SAP PI
6 2 (1.38%) Spring
6 2 (1.38%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.38%) XML
7 1 (0.69%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.69%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.69%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 29 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 11 (7.59%) CMDB
3 7 (4.83%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (4.14%) Video Conferencing
4 6 (4.14%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.76%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.76%) Cyberattack
5 4 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.76%) Life Science
6 3 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.07%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.07%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.38%) Analogue Electronics
7 2 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.69%) IVR
8 1 (0.69%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.69%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.52%) Windows
2 2 (1.38%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.69%) Android
3 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.69%) Linux
3 1 (0.69%) Windows 7
3 1 (0.69%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (36.55%) Computer Science
3 28 (19.31%) Agile
3 28 (19.31%) ITIL
4 26 (17.93%) ITSM
5 24 (16.55%) Stakeholder Management
6 22 (15.17%) Analytics
7 20 (13.79%) Project Management
7 20 (13.79%) Service Management
8 19 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (12.41%) Change Management
10 14 (9.66%) Business Analysis
10 14 (9.66%) Collaborative Working
11 13 (8.97%) Roadmaps
11 13 (8.97%) User Acceptance Testing
12 12 (8.28%) Decision-Making
13 11 (7.59%) CI/CD
13 11 (7.59%) Process Improvement
13 11 (7.59%) Service Delivery
14 10 (6.90%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 9 (6.21%) JavaScript
1 9 (6.21%) PowerShell
2 8 (5.52%) Python
2 8 (5.52%) SQL
3 6 (4.14%) Java
4 2 (1.38%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.69%) Bash
5 1 (0.69%) C#
5 1 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.69%) JCL
5 1 (0.69%) Perl
5 1 (0.69%) R
5 1 (0.69%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.69%) VB
5 1 (0.69%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 36 (24.83%) Computer Science Degree
2 14 (9.66%) Master's Degree
3 13 (8.97%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (8.28%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (7.59%) Security Cleared
6 8 (5.52%) SC Cleared
7 7 (4.83%) CCNA
7 7 (4.83%) CCNP
8 6 (4.14%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (3.45%) A+ Certification
9 5 (3.45%) CCIE
10 4 (2.76%) AWS Certification
10 4 (2.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (2.76%) Azure Certification
10 4 (2.76%) JNCIE
11 3 (2.07%) PMI Certification
11 3 (2.07%) PMP
12 2 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (1.38%) GCIA
12 2 (1.38%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.52%) QA
2 6 (4.14%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.07%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.07%) PMO
4 2 (1.38%) COBIT
4 2 (1.38%) GDPR
5 1 (0.69%) Basel III
5 1 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.69%) GRC
5 1 (0.69%) NCSC
5 1 (0.69%) PSD2
5 1 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (2.07%) Docker
2 1 (0.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.69%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.69%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 3 (2.07%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.38%) Ansible
2 2 (1.38%) Terraform
3 1 (0.69%) CA Endevor
3 1 (0.69%) Grafana
3 1 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 34 (23.45%) Microsoft
2 20 (13.79%) ServiceNow
3 18 (12.41%) Cisco
4 13 (8.97%) Google
5 12 (8.28%) SAP
6 5 (3.45%) Fortinet
7 4 (2.76%) Ariba
7 4 (2.76%) F5
7 4 (2.76%) Hotjar
8 3 (2.07%) Meraki
8 3 (2.07%) Oracle
8 3 (2.07%) Remedy
9 2 (1.38%) Anaplan
9 2 (1.38%) Databricks
9 2 (1.38%) Hyperion
9 2 (1.38%) IBM
9 2 (1.38%) MathWorks
9 2 (1.38%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.38%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.38%) Zscaler