Degree Jobs in Manchester

Academic Degree
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 14 15
Rank change year-on-year +9 +1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Degree 461 558 645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 20.34% 10.71% 13.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 57.05% 47.65% 40.04%
Number of salaries quoted 278 397 249
10th Percentile £30,525 £27,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,000 £39,769
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +14.58%
75th Percentile £67,375 £68,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £75,000
North West median annual salary £50,055 £47,513 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.35% -13.61% +15.79%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 808 1,171 1,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 35.66% 22.48% 33.52%
Number of salaries quoted 436 797 525
10th Percentile £25,480 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,125 £38,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +12.97%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,775 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +11.00%

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
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Degree in Manchester.

Salary trend for Degree in Manchester

Degree
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in Manchester over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Degree in Manchester

Degree
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bolton +1 95 £50,000 -2.44% 24
Wigan - 15 £34,500 - 4
Stockport +15 12 £55,000 -10.20% 27
Salford +16 6 £39,500 +36.21% 10
Bury +2 5 - - 15
Oldham -9 3 £45,000 -14.29% 11
Rochdale +8 1 - - 4
Cheadle -5 1 £75,000 +50.00% 7
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 17 (3.69%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.30%) SAS
3 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.43%) Apache
5 2 (0.43%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.43%) CMS
5 2 (0.43%) Confluence
5 2 (0.43%) GemFire
5 2 (0.43%) IBM Domino
5 2 (0.43%) WordPress
6 1 (0.22%) Moodle
Applications
1 59 (12.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (6.51%) Chatbot
3 28 (6.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (4.34%) Microsoft Project
4 20 (4.34%) Trello
5 19 (4.12%) Microsoft Office
6 11 (2.39%) AutoCAD
7 10 (2.17%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.43%) Autodesk Inventor
9 1 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 5 (1.08%) NetSuite
1 5 (1.08%) Shopify
2 2 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.43%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.22%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 72 (15.62%) Power Platform
2 37 (8.03%) AWS
2 37 (8.03%) Azure
3 27 (5.86%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (2.60%) GCP
5 10 (2.17%) SaaS
6 9 (1.95%) Entra ID
7 8 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (1.74%) Google Analytics
8 6 (1.30%) Figma
9 4 (0.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (0.87%) Google Workspace
9 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (0.87%) Miro
9 4 (0.87%) OneDrive
9 4 (0.87%) Slack
10 3 (0.65%) GitHub
10 3 (0.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.69%) Firewall
2 14 (3.04%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (1.08%) DNS
3 5 (1.08%) Wireless
4 4 (0.87%) Internet
4 4 (0.87%) LAN
4 4 (0.87%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.87%) WAN
5 3 (0.65%) DHCP
6 2 (0.43%) VoIP
7 1 (0.22%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.22%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.22%) Network Security
7 1 (0.22%) VLAN
7 1 (0.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (13.23%) Power BI
2 10 (2.17%) Big Data
2 10 (2.17%) MongoDB
3 7 (1.52%) MySQL
4 6 (1.30%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.30%) Tableau
5 5 (1.08%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.08%) Power Query
5 5 (1.08%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.87%) PowerPivot
7 2 (0.43%) Apache Ignite
7 2 (0.43%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.43%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.43%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.43%) InterSystems Cache
7 2 (0.43%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.43%) Redis
8 1 (0.22%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 27 (5.86%) JIRA
2 6 (1.30%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.08%) Git
4 4 (0.87%) Balsamiq
5 3 (0.65%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.43%) MSTest
6 2 (0.43%) NUnit
6 2 (0.43%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.22%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.22%) GitLab
7 1 (0.22%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.22%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.22%) MLflow
7 1 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.22%) Travis CI
General
1 226 (49.02%) Social Skills
2 150 (32.54%) Finance
3 113 (24.51%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (10.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 48 (10.41%) Organisational Skills
6 25 (5.42%) Retail
7 23 (4.99%) Presentation Skills
8 21 (4.56%) Banking
9 20 (4.34%) Marketing
10 15 (3.25%) Law
10 15 (3.25%) Manufacturing
11 14 (3.04%) Legal
12 6 (1.30%) Billing
13 5 (1.08%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.87%) Arabic Language
14 4 (0.87%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.87%) Front Office
14 4 (0.87%) German Language
14 4 (0.87%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.87%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 113 (24.51%) Analyst
2 48 (10.41%) Senior
3 38 (8.24%) Project Manager
4 31 (6.72%) Trainer
5 29 (6.29%) Data Analyst
6 27 (5.86%) Digital Analyst
7 24 (5.21%) Lead
8 22 (4.77%) Procurement Analyst
9 21 (4.56%) Architect
10 19 (4.12%) Business Analyst
10 19 (4.12%) Developer
11 17 (3.69%) Software Engineer
12 16 (3.47%) Principal Engineer
13 15 (3.25%) Consultant
13 15 (3.25%) Head of IT
14 14 (3.04%) Head of Delivery
14 14 (3.04%) Security Architect
15 13 (2.82%) Senior Manager
15 13 (2.82%) Vendor Manager
16 12 (2.60%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.12%) .NET
2 13 (2.82%) CSS
3 12 (2.60%) React
3 12 (2.60%) Software Packaging
4 10 (2.17%) HTML
5 9 (1.95%) .NET Core
6 8 (1.74%) AngularJS
6 8 (1.74%) RESTful
7 5 (1.08%) JSON
7 5 (1.08%) Node.js
7 5 (1.08%) REST
8 4 (0.87%) ASP.NET
8 4 (0.87%) CSS3
8 4 (0.87%) HTML5
9 3 (0.65%) Django
9 3 (0.65%) jQuery
9 3 (0.65%) Kafka
9 3 (0.65%) Middleware
9 3 (0.65%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (0.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 110 (23.86%) Social Media
2 44 (9.54%) Management Information System
3 29 (6.29%) Self-Motivation
4 28 (6.07%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 17 (3.69%) Security Posture
6 12 (2.60%) FMCG
7 10 (2.17%) Product Ownership
8 9 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (1.95%) Manufacturing Execution System
9 8 (1.74%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.30%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (0.87%) Blackberry
11 4 (0.87%) Client/Server
11 4 (0.87%) Credit Derivative
11 4 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.87%) Derivative
11 4 (0.87%) Equities
11 4 (0.87%) Fixed Income
11 4 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 96 (20.82%) Windows
2 83 (18.00%) Windows Vista
3 20 (4.34%) Linux
4 5 (1.08%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.65%) CentOS
5 3 (0.65%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.65%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.43%) Android
6 2 (0.43%) Unix
7 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (32.10%) Computer Science
2 122 (26.46%) Problem-Solving
3 103 (22.34%) Analytics
4 93 (20.17%) Agile
5 79 (17.14%) Artificial Intelligence
6 76 (16.49%) Continuous Improvement
7 66 (14.32%) Project Management
8 61 (13.23%) Process Improvement
9 59 (12.80%) Data Analytics
10 56 (12.15%) Cybersecurity
11 55 (11.93%) Business Intelligence
12 52 (11.28%) Collaborative Working
13 51 (11.06%) Project Delivery
14 49 (10.63%) Data Analysis
15 46 (9.98%) Decision-Making
16 45 (9.76%) Software Engineering
17 44 (9.54%) Mathematics
18 42 (9.11%) Data Management
18 42 (9.11%) Economics
19 41 (8.89%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 39 (8.46%) SQL
2 27 (5.86%) JavaScript
3 25 (5.42%) Java
3 25 (5.42%) Python
4 24 (5.21%) C#
5 10 (2.17%) Shell Script
6 9 (1.95%) C-shell
6 9 (1.95%) Korn
7 7 (1.52%) PHP
7 7 (1.52%) PL/SQL
7 7 (1.52%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.30%) C++
9 5 (1.08%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.87%) Bash
10 4 (0.87%) VB
11 2 (0.43%) ABAP
11 2 (0.43%) C
11 2 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.43%) Rust
12 1 (0.22%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 108 (23.43%) DBS Check
2 90 (19.52%) Master's Degree
3 76 (16.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 39 (8.46%) PhD
5 25 (5.42%) PMI Certification
5 25 (5.42%) PMP
6 16 (3.47%) CISA
6 16 (3.47%) CISM
6 16 (3.47%) CISSP
7 15 (3.25%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (3.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 14 (3.04%) CEH
9 12 (2.60%) MBA
10 9 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.95%) Security Cleared
11 8 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (1.74%) SC Cleared
12 7 (1.52%) HNC
12 7 (1.52%) MRICS
13 6 (1.30%) AAT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (8.03%) Data Quality
2 20 (4.34%) GDPR
3 18 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (3.90%) QA
4 16 (3.47%) NIST
5 11 (2.39%) SLA
6 9 (1.95%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.87%) NEBOSH
8 3 (0.65%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.22%) GLP
9 1 (0.22%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.22%) GxP
9 1 (0.22%) IEC 62304
9 1 (0.22%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.22%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.22%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (3.04%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.95%) Docker
3 5 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.87%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.65%) Dovecot
5 3 (0.65%) Postfix
6 2 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.22%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 9 (1.95%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.30%) Jamf Pro
2 6 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.08%) Grafana
4 4 (0.87%) Kibana
5 2 (0.43%) QRadar
5 2 (0.43%) SmoothWall
5 2 (0.43%) Terraform
6 1 (0.22%) Automic
6 1 (0.22%) Consul
6 1 (0.22%) logstash
6 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.22%) Rancher
6 1 (0.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 60 (13.02%) Microsoft
2 33 (7.16%) SAP
3 30 (6.51%) PayPal
4 27 (5.86%) Alteryx
5 15 (3.25%) Oracle
6 14 (3.04%) Google
7 11 (2.39%) Capita
7 11 (2.39%) Cisco
8 7 (1.52%) Adobe
8 7 (1.52%) Bloomberg
9 6 (1.30%) VMware
10 5 (1.08%) Meraki
10 5 (1.08%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.08%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.87%) AlienVault
11 4 (0.87%) iManage
11 4 (0.87%) Intapp
12 3 (0.65%) Okta
12 3 (0.65%) Ping Identity
12 3 (0.65%) Red Hat