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 27 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 30 16
Rank change year-on-year -16 -14 +33
Contract jobs citing Degree 48 54 123
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 3.97% 5.00% 7.88%
As % of the Qualifications category 15.43% 18.56% 29.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 24 68
10th Percentile £369 £271 £204
25th Percentile £397 £422 £248
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £388
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +25.81% -13.89%
75th Percentile £499 £600 £541
90th Percentile £586 £700 £700
North West median daily rate £406 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -18.80% +8.11% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 9
10th Percentile - £23.25 £15.74
25th Percentile - £31.25 £15.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £16.86
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% +92.76% +15.16%
75th Percentile £64.38 £33.75 £30.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £88.35 £32.75
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £34.08
% change year-on-year +39.88% -4.64% +42.00%

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 311 291 416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 25.75% 26.97% 26.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 160 275
10th Percentile £305 £294 £225
25th Percentile £400 £373 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £471 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -8.05% -2.38%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £624
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
North West median daily rate £478 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +0.53% -13.64% +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 16 22
10th Percentile £20.15 £26.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £21.98 £31.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £22.63 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.37% -23.53% +112.50%
75th Percentile £40.38 £42.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.25 £81.38 £73.75
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +39.88% -29.62% +81.78%

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 27 December 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 27 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in Manchester

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 3 (6.25%) Confluence
1 3 (6.25%) SAS
1 3 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.08%) Apache
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.08%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.08%) InVision
3 1 (2.08%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (4.17%) SAP ERP
3 1 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (2.08%) SAP HCM
3 1 (2.08%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.58%) AWS
1 7 (14.58%) Azure
2 4 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 3 (6.25%) GCP
4 2 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (4.17%) GitHub
4 2 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.17%) Serverless
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.08%) Figma
5 1 (2.08%) Google Sheets
5 1 (2.08%) Google Workspace
5 1 (2.08%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.08%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.08%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.08%) Smartsheet
5 1 (2.08%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) Network Security
1 2 (4.17%) SSH
1 2 (4.17%) SSL
2 1 (2.08%) BGP
2 1 (2.08%) Firewall
2 1 (2.08%) IP Telephony
2 1 (2.08%) LAN
2 1 (2.08%) OSPF
2 1 (2.08%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (2.08%) VoIP
2 1 (2.08%) VPN
2 1 (2.08%) WAN
2 1 (2.08%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.17%) Cognos Framework Manager
2 2 (4.17%) Cognos Report Studio
2 2 (4.17%) Cognos Transformer
2 2 (4.17%) OLAP
2 2 (4.17%) OLAP Cube
2 2 (4.17%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.17%) Power BI
2 2 (4.17%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.08%) Base SAS
3 1 (2.08%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle Discoverer
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.08%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.08%) SAS Data Integration Studio
3 1 (2.08%) SAS Visual Analytics
3 1 (2.08%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (14.58%) JIRA
2 2 (4.17%) GitLab
2 2 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.08%) Ant
3 1 (2.08%) Eclipse
3 1 (2.08%) Git
3 1 (2.08%) IntelliJ
3 1 (2.08%) JUnit
3 1 (2.08%) NUnit
3 1 (2.08%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 27 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 22 (45.83%) Finance
3 12 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (10.42%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (6.25%) Law
6 3 (6.25%) Legal
7 2 (4.17%) Banking
7 2 (4.17%) Billing
7 2 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.08%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.08%) General Ledger
8 1 (2.08%) Italian Language
8 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.08%) Polish Language
8 1 (2.08%) Retail
8 1 (2.08%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 7 (14.58%) Developer
1 7 (14.58%) Senior
2 6 (12.50%) Analyst
3 5 (10.42%) Designer
4 4 (8.33%) Business Analyst
5 3 (6.25%) Lead
5 3 (6.25%) Project Manager
5 3 (6.25%) UX Designer
6 2 (4.17%) Cognos Developer
6 2 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 2 (4.17%) Data Scientist
6 2 (4.17%) Java Developer
6 2 (4.17%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.17%) Service Designer
6 2 (4.17%) Technical Manager
6 2 (4.17%) Technical Project Manager
6 2 (4.17%) UX Service Designer
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Architect
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.17%) HTML
1 2 (4.17%) Middleware
1 2 (4.17%) pytest
1 2 (4.17%) SAP PI
1 2 (4.17%) Spring
1 2 (4.17%) TensorFlow
1 2 (4.17%) XML
2 1 (2.08%) .NET Core
2 1 (2.08%) Hibernate
2 1 (2.08%) Hugging Face
2 1 (2.08%) OAuth2
2 1 (2.08%) Pandas
2 1 (2.08%) PySpark
2 1 (2.08%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.08%) REST
2 1 (2.08%) RESTful
2 1 (2.08%) scikit-learn
2 1 (2.08%) unsloth
2 1 (2.08%) WinForms
2 1 (2.08%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (4.17%) Learning Management System
2 2 (4.17%) Synthetic Data
2 2 (4.17%) Tandem
3 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.08%) Clustering
3 1 (2.08%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.08%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.08%) PKI
3 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.50%) Windows
2 2 (4.17%) Unix
3 1 (2.08%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (39.58%) Stakeholder Management
2 17 (35.42%) Agile
2 17 (35.42%) Computer Science
3 14 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (18.75%) Data Protection
5 8 (16.67%) Decision-Making
5 8 (16.67%) Project Management
6 6 (12.50%) Analytics
6 6 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (12.50%) Change Management
6 6 (12.50%) DevOps
6 6 (12.50%) ERP
7 5 (10.42%) CI/CD
7 5 (10.42%) Data Governance
7 5 (10.42%) Data Modelling
7 5 (10.42%) ITIL
7 5 (10.42%) Release Management
7 5 (10.42%) User Experience
7 5 (10.42%) Waterfall
8 4 (8.33%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.67%) Python
1 8 (16.67%) SQL
2 3 (6.25%) Java
3 2 (4.17%) C#
4 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.08%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.08%) R
4 1 (2.08%) SAS Macro
4 1 (2.08%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (29.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (12.50%) Master's Degree
3 3 (6.25%) ACCA
3 3 (6.25%) Azure Certification
3 3 (6.25%) CIMA
3 3 (6.25%) CISM
3 3 (6.25%) CISSP
4 2 (4.17%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.17%) CISA
4 2 (4.17%) GSEC
4 2 (4.17%) PMI Certification
4 2 (4.17%) PMP
4 2 (4.17%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.08%) IIBA
5 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.08%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (2.08%) SAP Certification
5 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) GDPR
1 4 (8.33%) QA
2 3 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.25%) NIST
3 2 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.17%) HIPAA
3 2 (4.17%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.08%) GAAP
4 1 (2.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (4.17%) Docker
2 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (6.25%) Terraform
2 2 (4.17%) Ansible
2 2 (4.17%) QRadar
3 1 (2.08%) Control-M
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (27.08%) Microsoft
2 8 (16.67%) SAP
3 4 (8.33%) Oracle
4 3 (6.25%) IBM
4 3 (6.25%) Splunk
5 2 (4.17%) Apple
5 2 (4.17%) ArcSight
5 2 (4.17%) Cisco
5 2 (4.17%) Cognos
6 1 (2.08%) Adobe
6 1 (2.08%) Anaplan
6 1 (2.08%) Aruba
6 1 (2.08%) Broadcom
6 1 (2.08%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.08%) Concur
6 1 (2.08%) Google
6 1 (2.08%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.08%) Pega
6 1 (2.08%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.08%) Symantec