Degree Contract Job Trends 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 26 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 26 29
Rank change year-on-year -13 +3 +6
Contract jobs citing Degree 91 62 71
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 4.62% 6.21% 5.55%
As % of the Qualifications category 19.53% 23.94% 24.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 28 32
10th Percentile £190 £359 £271
25th Percentile £375 £409 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £531 £500
Median % change year-on-year -21.85% +6.20% +11.11%
75th Percentile £510 £663 £591
90th Percentile £618 £726 £656
North West median daily rate £447 £475 £538
% change year-on-year -5.89% -11.63% +13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 2 14
10th Percentile - £37.78 £22.11
25th Percentile £28.50 £42.31 £24.48
Median hourly rate £39.50 £50.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.39% -16.25% +263.64%
75th Percentile £153.75 £57.81 £87.19
90th Percentile £178.75 £62.13 £99.25
North West median hourly rate £37.75 £32.50 £47.37
% change year-on-year +16.15% -31.39% +18.43%

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.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 466 259 290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 23.64% 25.93% 22.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 146 175
10th Percentile £352 £359 £313
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £530 £510
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +3.92% -5.12%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £656
90th Percentile £707 £775 £825
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 23 24
10th Percentile £16.87 £20.43 £18.17
25th Percentile £28.50 £22.16 £25.06
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +39.17% -42.51% +127.27%
75th Percentile £49.50 £45.87 £69.10
90th Percentile £178.75 £69.00 £99.25
North West median hourly rate £43.96 £29.27 £17.25
% change year-on-year +50.19% +69.68% -59.25%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Degree relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Degree job vacancy trend 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 26 July 2026.

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 26 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in Manchester

Degree
Contract 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 26 July 2026. 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
Bolton +5 8 £170 - 4
Bury - 1 - - 1
Rochdale - 1 - - 1
Degree
North West

Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 16 (17.58%) SharePoint
2 9 (9.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (4.40%) SharePoint Server
4 3 (3.30%) SAS
5 2 (2.20%) Confluence
6 1 (1.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (1.10%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 20 (21.98%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (16.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (10.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (9.89%) MS Visio
5 6 (6.59%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (1.10%) AutoCAD
6 1 (1.10%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 5 (5.49%) Primavera
1 5 (5.49%) SAP MM
2 4 (4.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.10%) Infor M3
3 1 (1.10%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 27 (29.67%) Azure
2 26 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 21 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (15.38%) Power Automate
4 14 (15.38%) PowerApps
5 11 (12.09%) AWS
6 9 (9.89%) Microsoft Copilot
6 9 (9.89%) OneDrive
7 8 (8.79%) Entra ID
8 5 (5.49%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (5.49%) GCP
9 4 (4.40%) Azure AI
9 4 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (4.40%) Figma
10 3 (3.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (2.20%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 2 (2.20%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (2.20%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (2.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (2.20%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.49%) SSL
2 3 (3.30%) Firewall
3 1 (1.10%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (18.68%) Power BI
2 7 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (6.59%) MySQL
4 3 (3.30%) Data Vault
4 3 (3.30%) Hadoop
4 3 (3.30%) Tableau
5 2 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.20%) Metadata
5 2 (2.20%) Power Query
6 1 (1.10%) Big Data
6 1 (1.10%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.10%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Git
1 2 (2.20%) JIRA
2 1 (1.10%) Postman
2 1 (1.10%) SoapUI
General
1 36 (39.56%) Social Skills
2 26 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (24.18%) Finance
4 11 (12.09%) Manufacturing
5 6 (6.59%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (6.59%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.59%) Telecoms
6 5 (5.49%) Legal
7 3 (3.30%) Marketing
8 2 (2.20%) Agriculture
8 2 (2.20%) Aviation
8 2 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.20%) Environmental Health
8 2 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.10%) Banking
9 1 (1.10%) Electronics
9 1 (1.10%) Law
9 1 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 20 (21.98%) Analyst
2 8 (8.79%) IT Analyst
3 7 (7.69%) Senior
4 6 (6.59%) Business Analyst
4 6 (6.59%) Designer
4 6 (6.59%) IT Support
4 6 (6.59%) IT Support Analyst
4 6 (6.59%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 6 (6.59%) Support Analyst
4 6 (6.59%) UX Designer
5 5 (5.49%) Coordinator
5 5 (5.49%) DBA
5 5 (5.49%) Microsoft Engineer
5 5 (5.49%) Project Coordinator
5 5 (5.49%) SQL DBA
6 4 (4.40%) Consultant
6 4 (4.40%) Security Consultant
6 4 (4.40%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (4.40%) Senior Business Analyst
6 4 (4.40%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.49%) HTML
2 4 (4.40%) CSS
3 3 (3.30%) PySpark
3 3 (3.30%) REST
3 3 (3.30%) SOAP
4 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (2.20%) XML
5 1 (1.10%) .NET
5 1 (1.10%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.10%) JSON
5 1 (1.10%) Kafka
5 1 (1.10%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (1.10%) Middleware
5 1 (1.10%) Node.js
5 1 (1.10%) OAuth
5 1 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.10%) React
5 1 (1.10%) SAML
5 1 (1.10%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.99%) Management Information System
2 9 (9.89%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.49%) Security Posture
4 4 (4.40%) Clustering
4 4 (4.40%) Life Science
4 4 (4.40%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.40%) Replication
4 4 (4.40%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.30%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.30%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (3.30%) Graphic Design
6 2 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.20%) Social Media
6 2 (2.20%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (1.10%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.10%) CMDB
7 1 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.10%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.10%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (1.10%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 16 (17.58%) Windows
2 6 (6.59%) Linux
2 6 (6.59%) Windows 10
3 5 (5.49%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (28.57%) Agile
2 19 (20.88%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (18.68%) Computer Science
4 16 (17.58%) Business Intelligence
5 15 (16.48%) Analytics
5 15 (16.48%) ITIL
6 14 (15.38%) Data Analysis
7 13 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (13.19%) Decision-Making
9 11 (12.09%) CI/CD
9 11 (12.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 10 (10.99%) DevOps
10 10 (10.99%) Logistics
10 10 (10.99%) Migration
10 10 (10.99%) Roadmaps
10 10 (10.99%) Workshop Facilitation
11 9 (9.89%) Knowledge Transfer
11 9 (9.89%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (8.79%) Scrum
12 8 (8.79%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 18 (19.78%) Python
2 17 (18.68%) SQL
3 10 (10.99%) PowerShell
4 5 (5.49%) Java
4 5 (5.49%) T-SQL
5 4 (4.40%) Bash
6 3 (3.30%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.20%) Bicep
7 2 (2.20%) R
7 2 (2.20%) Scala
8 1 (1.10%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.10%) C#
8 1 (1.10%) C++
8 1 (1.10%) Groovy
8 1 (1.10%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.10%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (18.68%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (10.99%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (9.89%) Security Cleared
5 8 (8.79%) Azure Certification
5 8 (8.79%) SC Cleared
6 6 (6.59%) A+ Certification
6 6 (6.59%) Network+ Certification
7 5 (5.49%) CISSP
8 4 (4.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (3.30%) AWS Certification
9 3 (3.30%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (2.20%) ACCA
10 2 (2.20%) CIMA
10 2 (2.20%) Master's Degree
11 1 (1.10%) CCNA
11 1 (1.10%) CEH
11 1 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (1.10%) CISM
11 1 (1.10%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.49%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.40%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.20%) GAAP
3 2 (2.20%) IFRS
3 2 (2.20%) QA
3 2 (2.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.10%) NIST
4 1 (1.10%) PMO
4 1 (1.10%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.40%) Docker
2 4 (4.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (8.79%) Terraform
2 6 (6.59%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.49%) SCOM
4 3 (3.30%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.10%) Ansible
Vendors
1 45 (49.45%) Microsoft
2 16 (17.58%) SAP
3 7 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 6 (6.59%) Databricks
4 6 (6.59%) Red Hat
5 5 (5.49%) Google
5 5 (5.49%) UiPath
6 4 (4.40%) Adobe
7 2 (2.20%) Informatica
7 2 (2.20%) Oracle
8 1 (1.10%) Ariba
8 1 (1.10%) Cisco
8 1 (1.10%) Dell
8 1 (1.10%) EMC
8 1 (1.10%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.10%) Infor
8 1 (1.10%) Remedy
8 1 (1.10%) Ribbon
8 1 (1.10%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.10%) TOWER Software