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 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 25 22
Rank change year-on-year -12 -3 +15
Contract jobs citing Degree 84 60 97
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 4.52% 6.55% 6.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 22.11% 24.49% 30.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 29 36
10th Percentile £166 £265 £231
25th Percentile £350 £359 £304
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £455 £488
Median % change year-on-year -12.09% -6.67% +2.63%
75th Percentile £471 £650 £578
90th Percentile £580 £703 £656
North West median daily rate £447 £456 £525
% change year-on-year -1.87% -13.24% +8.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 2 14
10th Percentile - £37.78 £24.13
25th Percentile £28.50 £42.31 £25.39
Median hourly rate £43.00 £50.25 £26.26
Median % change year-on-year -14.43% +91.36% +20.96%
75th Percentile £128.75 £57.81 £62.50
90th Percentile £178.75 £62.13 £87.00
North West median hourly rate £39.50 £32.50 £32.12
% change year-on-year +21.54% +1.20% -20.88%

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 380 245 315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 20.46% 26.75% 21.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 152 186
10th Percentile £350 £313 £313
25th Percentile £400 £417 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £500 £511
Median % change year-on-year -8.60% -2.17% -2.65%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £656
90th Percentile £688 £749 £825
North West median daily rate £490 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -1.11% -0.90% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 13 27
10th Percentile £19.53 £22.76 £21.20
25th Percentile £28.50 £31.00 £25.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £60.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +71.43% +40.00%
75th Percentile £66.50 £65.00 £65.69
90th Percentile £178.75 £73.00 £93.00
North West median hourly rate £43.96 £31.00 £16.06
% change year-on-year +41.81% +93.03% -60.43%

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 June 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 27 June 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 27 June 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 0 9 £170 - 3
Bury - 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 11 (13.10%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.38%) Confluence
4 1 (1.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.19%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.19%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (29.76%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (19.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (13.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (11.90%) MS Visio
5 7 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (1.19%) AutoCAD
6 1 (1.19%) MicroStation
6 1 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (8.33%) Primavera
2 6 (7.14%) SAP MM
3 4 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.19%) Infor M3
4 1 (1.19%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 19 (22.62%) Microsoft 365
2 18 (21.43%) Azure
2 18 (21.43%) Power Platform
3 10 (11.90%) Power Automate
3 10 (11.90%) PowerApps
4 8 (9.52%) AWS
5 7 (8.33%) Entra ID
6 5 (5.95%) Microsoft Copilot
6 5 (5.95%) OneDrive
7 4 (4.76%) Figma
8 3 (3.57%) GCP
8 3 (3.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (2.38%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 2 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (2.38%) Viva Engage
10 1 (1.19%) Boomi
10 1 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.19%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.57%) Firewall
2 2 (2.38%) SSL
3 1 (1.19%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.48%) Power BI
2 4 (4.76%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.57%) Hadoop
3 3 (3.57%) MySQL
3 3 (3.57%) Tableau
4 2 (2.38%) Power Query
4 2 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.19%) Big Data
5 1 (1.19%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.19%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.19%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.19%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 2 (2.38%) JIRA
2 1 (1.19%) Postman
2 1 (1.19%) SoapUI
General
1 39 (46.43%) Social Skills
2 31 (36.90%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (22.62%) Finance
4 13 (15.48%) Manufacturing
5 9 (10.71%) Telecoms
6 7 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (8.33%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.76%) Legal
8 3 (3.57%) Marketing
8 3 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.38%) Agriculture
9 2 (2.38%) Aviation
9 2 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.38%) Environmental Health
9 2 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.19%) Banking
10 1 (1.19%) Electronics
10 1 (1.19%) Law
10 1 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 23 (27.38%) Analyst
2 11 (13.10%) IT Analyst
3 9 (10.71%) IT Support
3 9 (10.71%) IT Support Analyst
3 9 (10.71%) Support Analyst
4 6 (7.14%) Business Analyst
4 6 (7.14%) Designer
4 6 (7.14%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 6 (7.14%) Senior
4 6 (7.14%) UX Designer
5 5 (5.95%) Coordinator
5 5 (5.95%) Microsoft Engineer
5 5 (5.95%) Project Coordinator
6 4 (4.76%) Consultant
6 4 (4.76%) Project Officer
6 4 (4.76%) Security Consultant
6 4 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (4.76%) Senior Business Analyst
6 4 (4.76%) Software Engineer
7 3 (3.57%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.95%) HTML
2 4 (4.76%) CSS
3 2 (2.38%) REST
3 2 (2.38%) SOAP
3 2 (2.38%) XML
4 1 (1.19%) .NET
4 1 (1.19%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.19%) JSON
4 1 (1.19%) Kafka
4 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (1.19%) Middleware
4 1 (1.19%) Node.js
4 1 (1.19%) OAuth
4 1 (1.19%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.19%) PySpark
4 1 (1.19%) React
4 1 (1.19%) SAML
4 1 (1.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 10 (11.90%) Management Information System
3 5 (5.95%) Life Science
4 4 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.57%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.57%) Graphic Design
5 3 (3.57%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.38%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.38%) Clustering
6 2 (2.38%) Replication
6 2 (2.38%) Social Media
6 2 (2.38%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (1.19%) CMDB
7 1 (1.19%) IoT
7 1 (1.19%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.19%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.19%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 17 (20.24%) Windows
2 9 (10.71%) Windows 10
3 6 (7.14%) Linux
4 4 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (26.19%) Agile
2 21 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (21.43%) Computer Science
4 15 (17.86%) Analytics
4 15 (17.86%) Data Analysis
4 15 (17.86%) ITIL
5 13 (15.48%) Business Intelligence
6 12 (14.29%) Decision-Making
6 12 (14.29%) Roadmaps
7 11 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (13.10%) Knowledge Management
8 10 (11.90%) Logistics
8 10 (11.90%) Migration
9 9 (10.71%) Customer Service
9 9 (10.71%) Inventory Management
9 9 (10.71%) Knowledge Transfer
9 9 (10.71%) Project Management
9 9 (10.71%) Service Management
9 9 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (10.71%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 17 (20.24%) Python
2 12 (14.29%) SQL
3 7 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 5 (5.95%) Java
5 4 (4.76%) Bash
6 3 (3.57%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.38%) R
7 2 (2.38%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.19%) C#
8 1 (1.19%) C++
8 1 (1.19%) Groovy
8 1 (1.19%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.19%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (20.24%) Microsoft Certification
2 15 (17.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (10.71%) A+ Certification
3 9 (10.71%) Network+ Certification
4 7 (8.33%) Security Cleared
5 5 (5.95%) Azure Certification
5 5 (5.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (5.95%) CISSP
5 5 (5.95%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.57%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.57%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (2.38%) ACCA
7 2 (2.38%) CIMA
7 2 (2.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (2.38%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.19%) CCNA
8 1 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.19%) CISM
8 1 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.19%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.95%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.38%) GAAP
3 2 (2.38%) IFRS
3 2 (2.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.19%) NIST
4 1 (1.19%) PMO
4 1 (1.19%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (19.05%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.76%) Docker
3 2 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (4.76%) Kubernetes
1 4 (4.76%) Terraform
2 3 (3.57%) Progress Chef
3 2 (2.38%) SCOM
4 1 (1.19%) Ansible
Vendors
1 41 (48.81%) Microsoft
2 17 (20.24%) SAP
3 6 (7.14%) Red Hat
4 5 (5.95%) Google
4 5 (5.95%) UiPath
5 4 (4.76%) Adobe
5 4 (4.76%) Databricks
6 3 (3.57%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.38%) Oracle
8 1 (1.19%) Ariba
8 1 (1.19%) Concur
8 1 (1.19%) Dell
8 1 (1.19%) EMC
8 1 (1.19%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.19%) Infor
8 1 (1.19%) TOWER Software