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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 28 21
Rank change year-on-year -18 -7 +24
Contract jobs citing Degree 66 63 105
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 3.96% 6.76% 6.87%
As % of the Qualifications category 19.35% 23.77% 28.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 38 39
10th Percentile £166 £234 £210
25th Percentile £360 £359 £249
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £469 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.67% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £475 £625 £575
90th Percentile £578 £716 £612
North West median daily rate £400 £456 £450
% change year-on-year -12.28% +1.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 7
10th Percentile £28.50 - £24.15
25th Percentile £31.63 £31.25 £24.85
Median hourly rate £63.75 £32.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +96.15% +25.00% +9.01%
75th Percentile £178.75 £33.75 £26.50
90th Percentile - - £54.90
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £26.20
% change year-on-year +39.88% +24.07% -24.07%

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 341 265 369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 20.48% 28.43% 24.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 172 222
10th Percentile £332 £291 £300
25th Percentile £400 £424 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.20% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £663
90th Percentile £653 £713 £798
North West median daily rate £476 £490 £513
% change year-on-year -2.96% -4.39% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 10 22
10th Percentile £22.68 - £24.32
25th Percentile £25.59 £31.25 £25.50
Median hourly rate £43.00 £46.25 £45.75
Median % change year-on-year -7.03% +1.09% +100.20%
75th Percentile £178.75 £60.00 £73.75
90th Percentile - £74.13 £96.75
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £16.06
% change year-on-year +39.88% +102.37% -57.17%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 24 April 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 +4 6 £170 - 10
Bury - 1 - - 3
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 7 (10.61%) SharePoint
2 5 (7.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.03%) SAS
4 1 (1.52%) Apache
4 1 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.52%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (28.79%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (12.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (12.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (10.61%) MS Visio
4 5 (7.58%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.52%) AutoCAD
5 1 (1.52%) MicroStation
5 1 (1.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (6.06%) Primavera
2 3 (4.55%) SAP MM
3 1 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.52%) Infor M3
3 1 (1.52%) SAP HCM
3 1 (1.52%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 17 (25.76%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (16.67%) Azure
3 7 (10.61%) Entra ID
3 7 (10.61%) Power Platform
4 6 (9.09%) AWS
5 5 (7.58%) Microsoft Copilot
5 5 (7.58%) OneDrive
5 5 (7.58%) Power Automate
5 5 (7.58%) PowerApps
6 3 (4.55%) Figma
7 2 (3.03%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 2 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.03%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (3.03%) Viva Engage
8 1 (1.52%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (1.52%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.52%) AtomSphere
8 1 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.52%) Boomi
8 1 (1.52%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.52%) BGP
1 1 (1.52%) DNS
1 1 (1.52%) Firewall
1 1 (1.52%) LAN
1 1 (1.52%) OSPF
1 1 (1.52%) SSL
1 1 (1.52%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (1.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (4.55%) Hadoop
2 2 (3.03%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.03%) Tableau
3 1 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.52%) Base SAS
3 1 (1.52%) Cognos Framework Manager
3 1 (1.52%) Cognos Report Studio
3 1 (1.52%) Cognos Transformer
3 1 (1.52%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.52%) Data Vault
3 1 (1.52%) OLAP
3 1 (1.52%) OLAP Cube
3 1 (1.52%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.52%) Power BI
3 1 (1.52%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.52%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.52%) SAS Data Integration Studio
3 1 (1.52%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 2 (3.03%) JIRA
2 1 (1.52%) Git
2 1 (1.52%) Postman
2 1 (1.52%) SoapUI
General
1 29 (43.94%) Social Skills
2 25 (37.88%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (27.27%) Finance
4 9 (13.64%) Influencing Skills
4 9 (13.64%) Telecoms
5 8 (12.12%) Public Sector
6 6 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (7.58%) Legal
8 4 (6.06%) Manufacturing
9 2 (3.03%) Agriculture
9 2 (3.03%) Environmental Health
9 2 (3.03%) Law
9 2 (3.03%) Marketing
10 1 (1.52%) Banking
10 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.52%) Electronics
10 1 (1.52%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (31.82%) Analyst
2 11 (16.67%) IT Analyst
3 9 (13.64%) IT Support
3 9 (13.64%) IT Support Analyst
3 9 (13.64%) Senior
3 9 (13.64%) Support Analyst
4 7 (10.61%) Business Analyst
4 7 (10.61%) Designer
4 7 (10.61%) UX Designer
5 6 (9.09%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 5 (7.58%) Developer
6 5 (7.58%) Microsoft Engineer
6 5 (7.58%) Senior Analyst
6 5 (7.58%) Senior Business Analyst
7 4 (6.06%) Service Designer
7 4 (6.06%) UX Service Designer
8 3 (4.55%) Migration Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Product Manager
8 3 (4.55%) Project Manager
9 2 (3.03%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.55%) HTML
2 2 (3.03%) CSS
2 2 (3.03%) XML
3 1 (1.52%) .NET
3 1 (1.52%) JSON
3 1 (1.52%) Kafka
3 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.52%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.52%) REST
3 1 (1.52%) SOAP
3 1 (1.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.64%) Onboarding
2 4 (6.06%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.06%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.55%) Life Science
3 3 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.03%) Graphic Design
4 2 (3.03%) Social Media
4 2 (3.03%) Web Conferencing
5 1 (1.52%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.52%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.52%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.52%) IoT
5 1 (1.52%) PKI
5 1 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (15.15%) Windows
2 9 (13.64%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (30.30%) Agile
3 16 (24.24%) Computer Science
4 11 (16.67%) ITIL
5 10 (15.15%) Decision-Making
5 10 (15.15%) Migration
6 9 (13.64%) Analytics
6 9 (13.64%) Conflict Resolution
6 9 (13.64%) Creative Problem-Solving
6 9 (13.64%) Customer Service
6 9 (13.64%) Inventory Management
6 9 (13.64%) Knowledge Management
6 9 (13.64%) Service Management
6 9 (13.64%) User Experience
7 8 (12.12%) Data Analysis
7 8 (12.12%) Project Delivery
7 8 (12.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 8 (12.12%) Workshop Facilitation
8 7 (10.61%) Roadmaps
8 7 (10.61%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.61%) Python
1 7 (10.61%) SQL
2 3 (4.55%) R
3 2 (3.03%) C#
4 1 (1.52%) C++
4 1 (1.52%) Groovy
4 1 (1.52%) Java
4 1 (1.52%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.52%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.52%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.52%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 15 (22.73%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (21.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (13.64%) A+ Certification
3 9 (13.64%) Network+ Certification
4 6 (9.09%) Security Cleared
5 4 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (4.55%) SC Cleared
7 2 (3.03%) CCNA
7 2 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (3.03%) CISSP
7 2 (3.03%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.52%) ACCA
8 1 (1.52%) CCNP
8 1 (1.52%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (1.52%) CIMA
8 1 (1.52%) CISM
8 1 (1.52%) IIBA
8 1 (1.52%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.03%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.03%) GDPR
2 2 (3.03%) NIST
3 1 (1.52%) GAAP
3 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.52%) QA
3 1 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (22.73%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 29 (43.94%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.09%) SAP
3 3 (4.55%) Oracle
4 2 (3.03%) Adobe
4 2 (3.03%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.52%) Aruba
5 1 (1.52%) Broadcom
5 1 (1.52%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.52%) Cisco
5 1 (1.52%) Cognos
5 1 (1.52%) Dell
5 1 (1.52%) EMC
5 1 (1.52%) IBM
5 1 (1.52%) Infoblox
5 1 (1.52%) Netskope
5 1 (1.52%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.52%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.52%) Splunk
5 1 (1.52%) Symantec
5 1 (1.52%) TOWER Software