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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 34 29
Rank change year-on-year +9 -5 +24
Contract jobs citing Degree 68 55 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 6.71% 4.63% 5.67%
As % of the Qualifications category 23.86% 18.97% 23.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 20 58
10th Percentile £359 £353 £233
25th Percentile £413 £425 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.75% +17.65% -10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £509
90th Percentile £714 £693 £619
North West median daily rate £458 £550 £481
% change year-on-year -16.82% +14.46% -3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 12 7
10th Percentile £40.83 £21.25 £15.72
25th Percentile £49.94 £24.33 £15.74
Median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year - +263.64% +12.70%
75th Percentile £67.19 £75.56 £17.34
90th Percentile £71.13 £99.30 £18.36
North West median hourly rate £42.75 £48.56 £40.55
% change year-on-year -11.96% +19.77% +55.94%

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 285 290 408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 28.13% 24.41% 24.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 158 290
10th Percentile £354 £294 £233
25th Percentile £425 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £739 £800 £701
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 18 15
10th Percentile £20.00 £16.57 £15.73
25th Percentile £22.16 £22.28 £15.75
Median hourly rate £28.58 £51.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.51% +164.10% -56.18%
75th Percentile £50.31 £67.94 £40.63
90th Percentile £71.88 £100.00 £50.50
North West median hourly rate £27.19 £46.18 £45.88
% change year-on-year -41.13% +0.65% +20.74%

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 18 September 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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
Bolton -8 7 - - 26
Oldham - 1 - - 15
Stockport - 1 - - 20
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 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.41%) Confluence
3 1 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.47%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.47%) nginx
3 1 (1.47%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (7.35%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.47%) InVision
4 1 (1.47%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.47%) Sketch
4 1 (1.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (7.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.94%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.47%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.47%) SAP HR
3 1 (1.47%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 9 (13.24%) Azure
2 7 (10.29%) AWS
3 6 (8.82%) GCP
4 5 (7.35%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (5.88%) Google Analytics
6 3 (4.41%) GitHub
6 3 (4.41%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.41%) SaaS
7 2 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.94%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.94%) Serverless
7 2 (2.94%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (1.47%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.47%) Asana
8 1 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.47%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.47%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.88%) VPN
2 3 (4.41%) DHCP
2 3 (4.41%) DNS
2 3 (4.41%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.94%) Network Security
3 2 (2.94%) SSH
4 1 (1.47%) IP Telephony
4 1 (1.47%) SSL
4 1 (1.47%) VoIP
4 1 (1.47%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.88%) Mixpanel
2 2 (2.94%) Power BI
2 2 (2.94%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.47%) Big Data
3 1 (1.47%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.47%) Cognos Framework Manager
3 1 (1.47%) Cognos Report Studio
3 1 (1.47%) Cognos Transformer
3 1 (1.47%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.47%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.47%) Data Vault
3 1 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.47%) OLAP
3 1 (1.47%) OLAP Cube
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle Discoverer
3 1 (1.47%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (10.29%) JIRA
2 4 (5.88%) GitLab
3 3 (4.41%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.47%) Ant
4 1 (1.47%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.47%) ERwin
4 1 (1.47%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.47%) JUnit
4 1 (1.47%) NUnit
4 1 (1.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 33 (48.53%) Social Skills
2 21 (30.88%) Finance
3 20 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (10.29%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (4.41%) French Language
5 3 (4.41%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.94%) Banking
6 2 (2.94%) Billing
6 2 (2.94%) Electronics
6 2 (2.94%) Law
6 2 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.94%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.47%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.47%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Legal
7 1 (1.47%) Local Government
7 1 (1.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 9 (13.24%) Analyst
2 5 (7.35%) Business Analyst
2 5 (7.35%) Support Engineer
3 4 (5.88%) Developer
3 4 (5.88%) IT Engineer
3 4 (5.88%) Lead
3 4 (5.88%) Senior
3 4 (5.88%) User Experience Researcher
4 3 (4.41%) Architect
4 3 (4.41%) Designer
4 3 (4.41%) IT Support
4 3 (4.41%) IT Support Engineer
4 3 (4.41%) Project Engineer
4 3 (4.41%) Project Manager
5 2 (2.94%) Java Developer
5 2 (2.94%) SAP Analyst
5 2 (2.94%) SAP Business Analyst
5 2 (2.94%) Technical Manager
5 2 (2.94%) Technical Project Manager
5 2 (2.94%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.94%) HTML
1 2 (2.94%) Middleware
1 2 (2.94%) pytest
1 2 (2.94%) SAP PI
1 2 (2.94%) Spring
1 2 (2.94%) TensorFlow
1 2 (2.94%) XML
2 1 (1.47%) .NET
2 1 (1.47%) .NET Core
2 1 (1.47%) ADO.NET
2 1 (1.47%) ASP.NET
2 1 (1.47%) Hugging Face
2 1 (1.47%) J2EE
2 1 (1.47%) Kafka
2 1 (1.47%) OAuth2
2 1 (1.47%) Pandas
2 1 (1.47%) PySpark
2 1 (1.47%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.47%) scikit-learn
2 1 (1.47%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.82%) Data Protection Act
1 6 (8.82%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.41%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.94%) Analogue Electronics
4 2 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.94%) Learning Management System
4 2 (2.94%) Tandem
5 1 (1.47%) Clustering
5 1 (1.47%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.47%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.47%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.47%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.47%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.24%) Windows
2 2 (2.94%) Unix
3 1 (1.47%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (47.06%) Computer Science
2 20 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (27.94%) Stakeholder Management
4 14 (20.59%) Project Management
5 13 (19.12%) Collaborative Working
6 11 (16.18%) Agile
7 10 (14.71%) Analytics
8 9 (13.24%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (13.24%) Data Protection
9 8 (11.76%) Change Management
9 8 (11.76%) CI/CD
9 8 (11.76%) Decision-Making
9 8 (11.76%) ITIL
9 8 (11.76%) Service Management
10 7 (10.29%) User Experience
11 6 (8.82%) DevOps
11 6 (8.82%) Incident Response
11 6 (8.82%) Release Management
11 6 (8.82%) UX Design
12 5 (7.35%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.24%) Python
2 6 (8.82%) SQL
3 3 (4.41%) Java
4 2 (2.94%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (2.94%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.47%) C#
5 1 (1.47%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (35.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (11.76%) Master's Degree
3 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (4.41%) A+ Certification
4 3 (4.41%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.41%) Azure Certification
4 3 (4.41%) PMI Certification
4 3 (4.41%) PMP
5 2 (2.94%) ACCA
5 2 (2.94%) CIMA
5 2 (2.94%) CISA
5 2 (2.94%) CISM
5 2 (2.94%) CISSP
5 2 (2.94%) GCIA
5 2 (2.94%) GCIH
5 2 (2.94%) GSEC
5 2 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.94%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.47%) CIPD
6 1 (1.47%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.41%) QA
2 2 (2.94%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.94%) GDPR
2 2 (2.94%) HIPAA
2 2 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.94%) NIST
2 2 (2.94%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.47%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.47%) COBIT
System Software
1 2 (2.94%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.88%) Terraform
2 3 (4.41%) Ansible
3 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.94%) QRadar
4 1 (1.47%) Control-M
4 1 (1.47%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.47%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 21 (30.88%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.76%) SAP
3 7 (10.29%) Google
4 4 (5.88%) Hotjar
5 3 (4.41%) IBM
5 3 (4.41%) Oracle
6 2 (2.94%) Apple
6 2 (2.94%) ArcSight
6 2 (2.94%) Cisco
6 2 (2.94%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.94%) Splunk
7 1 (1.47%) Adobe
7 1 (1.47%) Anaplan
7 1 (1.47%) BMC
7 1 (1.47%) Databricks
7 1 (1.47%) DocuSign
7 1 (1.47%) Meraki
7 1 (1.47%) Pega
7 1 (1.47%) Remedy
7 1 (1.47%) Zscaler