Degree Contracts 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 1 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 18 50
Rank change year-on-year -5 +32 +3
Contract jobs citing Degree 64 121 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 6.77% 7.69% 3.98%
As % of the Qualifications category 23.97% 31.51% 14.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 48 48
10th Percentile £238 £209 £250
25th Percentile £360 £248 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £538
90th Percentile £716 £700 £664
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 2
10th Percentile - £24.18 £20.69
25th Percentile £31.25 £25.50 £21.71
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.00 £23.85
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +9.01% +64.48%
75th Percentile £33.75 £30.00 £26.41
90th Percentile - £49.13 £27.70
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £26.39 £29.00
% change year-on-year +23.15% -9.00% -26.58%

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 267 384 548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 28.25% 24.41% 27.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 233 411
10th Percentile £283 £300 £315
25th Percentile £419 £417 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £601 £650 £617
90th Percentile £713 £750 £700
North West median daily rate £480 £510 £510
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 24 19
10th Percentile - £25.50 £19.85
25th Percentile £31.25 £27.56 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £42.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% +70.00% +54.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £73.75 £37.50
90th Percentile £69.63 £85.13 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
% change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% -5.60%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in Manchester

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Manchester

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend 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 1 April 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
Salford +2 8 £708 +177.65% 14
Bolton -6 4 - - 30
Wigan - 2 £375 - 2
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 (6.25%) Confluence
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.56%) CICS
Applications
1 14 (21.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (15.63%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (6.25%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.56%) Maximo
3 1 (1.56%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.56%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 18 (28.13%) Azure
2 12 (18.75%) GCP
3 11 (17.19%) AWS
4 5 (7.81%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (7.81%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.13%) PowerApps
6 2 (3.13%) Serverless
6 2 (3.13%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.56%) GitHub
7 1 (1.56%) IaaS
7 1 (1.56%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.56%) PaaS
7 1 (1.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.81%) TCP/IP
1 5 (7.81%) VPN
2 3 (4.69%) DHCP
2 3 (4.69%) DNS
2 3 (4.69%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (3.13%) BGP
3 2 (3.13%) EIGRP
3 2 (3.13%) Firewall
3 2 (3.13%) Network Security
3 2 (3.13%) OSPF
4 1 (1.56%) H.323
4 1 (1.56%) Intranet
4 1 (1.56%) Skype
4 1 (1.56%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.56%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.25%) Data Lake
1 4 (6.25%) Power BI
1 4 (6.25%) Relational Database
2 3 (4.69%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (4.69%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.69%) RDBMS
3 2 (3.13%) Data Mining
3 2 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.56%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (1.56%) EDRMS
4 1 (1.56%) InfluxDB
4 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.56%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (9.38%) JIRA
2 3 (4.69%) ERwin
2 3 (4.69%) GitLab
3 2 (3.13%) Git
4 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
General
1 26 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 21 (32.81%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (15.63%) Telecoms
4 9 (14.06%) Finance
4 9 (14.06%) Legal
5 8 (12.50%) Local Government
6 7 (10.94%) Pharmaceutical
6 7 (10.94%) Public Sector
7 5 (7.81%) Marketing
8 3 (4.69%) French Language
8 3 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (3.13%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.56%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.56%) Banking
10 1 (1.56%) Games
10 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 12 (18.75%) Architect
2 10 (15.63%) Analyst
2 10 (15.63%) Project Manager
3 7 (10.94%) Facilities Manager
3 7 (10.94%) Facilities Project Manager
3 7 (10.94%) Senior
3 7 (10.94%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (9.38%) Business Analyst
5 3 (4.69%) Administrator
5 3 (4.69%) Data Modeller
5 3 (4.69%) IT Engineer
5 3 (4.69%) IT Support
5 3 (4.69%) IT Support Engineer
5 3 (4.69%) Project Engineer
5 3 (4.69%) Support Engineer
6 2 (3.13%) Data Scientist
6 2 (3.13%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (3.13%) Programme Analyst
6 2 (3.13%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 2 (3.13%) Test Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.69%) PyTorch
1 3 (4.69%) TensorFlow
2 2 (3.13%) AngularJS
2 2 (3.13%) HTML
2 2 (3.13%) Middleware
3 1 (1.56%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.56%) CSS
3 1 (1.56%) ISPF
3 1 (1.56%) Node.js
3 1 (1.56%) OpenCV
3 1 (1.56%) React
3 1 (1.56%) RESTful
3 1 (1.56%) SAP PI
3 1 (1.56%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.56%) Spring
3 1 (1.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.94%) NHS
2 4 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.69%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.13%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.56%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.56%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.56%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.56%) Social Media
5 1 (1.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.69%) Windows
2 1 (1.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (32.81%) Computer Science
2 18 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (26.56%) Project Management
4 10 (15.63%) Agile
5 8 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 7 (10.94%) Collaborative Working
6 7 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (10.94%) Contract Negotiation
6 7 (10.94%) Facilities Management
6 7 (10.94%) Resource Management
7 6 (9.38%) Customer Service
7 6 (9.38%) ITIL
7 6 (9.38%) PRINCE2
7 6 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (7.81%) CI/CD
8 5 (7.81%) Data Modelling
8 5 (7.81%) DevOps
8 5 (7.81%) Service Delivery
8 5 (7.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (7.81%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.38%) SQL
2 3 (4.69%) Python
3 2 (3.13%) R
4 1 (1.56%) Java
4 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.56%) JCL
4 1 (1.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (23.44%) Computer Science Degree
2 11 (17.19%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (17.19%) Security Cleared
3 7 (10.94%) AWS Certification
3 7 (10.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 7 (10.94%) Azure Certification
3 7 (10.94%) HNC
3 7 (10.94%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.69%) A+ Certification
5 2 (3.13%) CCNA
5 2 (3.13%) CCNP
5 2 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.13%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.13%) PMI Certification
5 2 (3.13%) PMP
6 1 (1.56%) ISEB
6 1 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.56%) MCSE
6 1 (1.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.63%) QA
2 3 (4.69%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.13%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.56%) COBIT
4 1 (1.56%) GDPR
4 1 (1.56%) PMO
4 1 (1.56%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (1.56%) Docker
1 1 (1.56%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 3 (4.69%) Terraform
2 1 (1.56%) Ansible
2 1 (1.56%) CA Endevor
2 1 (1.56%) Grafana
2 1 (1.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 31 (48.44%) Microsoft
2 11 (17.19%) Google
3 5 (7.81%) SAP
4 3 (4.69%) Databricks
5 2 (3.13%) Cisco
5 2 (3.13%) Meraki
5 2 (3.13%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.56%) BMC
6 1 (1.56%) IBM
6 1 (1.56%) Oracle
6 1 (1.56%) Remedy