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 13 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 28 19
Rank change year-on-year -12 -9 +33
Contract jobs citing Degree 51 61 113
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 4.62% 5.13% 7.00%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.78% 22.18% 27.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 21 72
10th Percentile £357 £325 £201
25th Percentile £409 £413 £249
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% +18.75% -15.79%
75th Percentile £559 £588 £539
90th Percentile £705 £688 £700
North West median daily rate £454 £532 £457
% change year-on-year -14.63% +16.43% -3.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 9
10th Percentile £38.80 £23.25 £15.74
25th Percentile £44.88 £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 £69.75 £30.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £98.60 £32.75
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £40.33 £41.55
% change year-on-year +12.73% -2.94% +108.98%

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 304 275 410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 27.56% 23.11% 25.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 143 286
10th Percentile £205 £294 £225
25th Percentile £410 £397 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -6.86% -2.86%
75th Percentile £612 £597 £625
90th Percentile £704 £687 £700
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 17 18
10th Percentile £20.00 £26.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £22.16 £31.25 £16.84
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +16.67% +57.89%
75th Percentile £36.25 £62.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £70.50 £95.80 £63.75
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £37.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +22.86% -19.88% +102.06%

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 13 November 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 13 November 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 13 November 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 -11 2 - - 10
Oldham - 1 - - 11
Stockport - 1 - - 12
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 3 (5.88%) Confluence
1 3 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.96%) nginx
2 1 (1.96%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (9.80%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.96%) InVision
4 1 (1.96%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (7.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.92%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.96%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 6 (11.76%) Azure
2 5 (9.80%) AWS
3 4 (7.84%) Google Analytics
3 4 (7.84%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (5.88%) GitHub
4 3 (5.88%) Power Platform
4 3 (5.88%) SaaS
5 2 (3.92%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.92%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (3.92%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.92%) GCP
5 2 (3.92%) Serverless
6 1 (1.96%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.96%) Figma
6 1 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.96%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.96%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.96%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.92%) Network Security
1 2 (3.92%) SSH
2 1 (1.96%) IP Telephony
2 1 (1.96%) SSL
2 1 (1.96%) VoIP
2 1 (1.96%) VPN
2 1 (1.96%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.84%) Mixpanel
2 2 (3.92%) Power BI
3 1 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.96%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.96%) Cognos Framework Manager
3 1 (1.96%) Cognos Report Studio
3 1 (1.96%) Cognos Transformer
3 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.96%) OLAP
3 1 (1.96%) OLAP Cube
3 1 (1.96%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.96%) Oracle Discoverer
3 1 (1.96%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.96%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (11.76%) JIRA
2 3 (5.88%) GitLab
3 2 (3.92%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.96%) Ant
4 1 (1.96%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.96%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.96%) JUnit
4 1 (1.96%) NUnit
4 1 (1.96%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 18 (35.29%) Finance
3 13 (25.49%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.80%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.92%) Banking
6 2 (3.92%) Billing
6 2 (3.92%) Law
6 2 (3.92%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.92%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.96%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.96%) Electronics
7 1 (1.96%) Italian Language
7 1 (1.96%) Legal
7 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.96%) Polish Language
7 1 (1.96%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.96%) Publishing
7 1 (1.96%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 8 (15.69%) Analyst
2 5 (9.80%) Senior
3 4 (7.84%) Business Analyst
3 4 (7.84%) Developer
3 4 (7.84%) Lead
3 4 (7.84%) User Experience Researcher
4 3 (5.88%) Designer
5 2 (3.92%) Architect
5 2 (3.92%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 2 (3.92%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 2 (3.92%) Data Scientist
5 2 (3.92%) Java Developer
5 2 (3.92%) Project Manager
5 2 (3.92%) Senior Developer
5 2 (3.92%) SOC Analyst
5 2 (3.92%) Technical Manager
5 2 (3.92%) Technical Project Manager
6 1 (1.96%) Banking Project Manager
6 1 (1.96%) Data Engineer
6 1 (1.96%) SOC Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.92%) HTML
1 2 (3.92%) Middleware
1 2 (3.92%) pytest
1 2 (3.92%) SAP PI
1 2 (3.92%) Spring
1 2 (3.92%) TensorFlow
1 2 (3.92%) XML
2 1 (1.96%) .NET Core
2 1 (1.96%) Ajax
2 1 (1.96%) Hugging Face
2 1 (1.96%) JSON
2 1 (1.96%) OAuth2
2 1 (1.96%) Pandas
2 1 (1.96%) PySpark
2 1 (1.96%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.96%) REST
2 1 (1.96%) RESTful
2 1 (1.96%) scikit-learn
2 1 (1.96%) XGBoost
2 1 (1.96%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.92%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (3.92%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.92%) Learning Management System
3 2 (3.92%) Tandem
4 1 (1.96%) Analogue Electronics
4 1 (1.96%) Clustering
4 1 (1.96%) Cyberattack
4 1 (1.96%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.96%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.76%) Windows
2 2 (3.92%) Unix
3 1 (1.96%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (41.18%) Computer Science
2 18 (35.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (27.45%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (19.61%) Agile
5 9 (17.65%) Analytics
5 9 (17.65%) Data Protection
5 9 (17.65%) Project Management
6 7 (13.73%) Change Management
6 7 (13.73%) User Experience
7 6 (11.76%) CI/CD
7 6 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (11.76%) Decision-Making
7 6 (11.76%) Incident Response
7 6 (11.76%) ITIL
7 6 (11.76%) Release Management
7 6 (11.76%) UX Design
8 5 (9.80%) Actionable Insight
8 5 (9.80%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (9.80%) Collaborative Working
8 5 (9.80%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 8 (15.69%) Python
2 5 (9.80%) SQL
3 3 (5.88%) Java
4 2 (3.92%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (3.92%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.96%) C#
5 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.96%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (13.73%) Master's Degree
3 3 (5.88%) AWS Certification
3 3 (5.88%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.92%) ACCA
4 2 (3.92%) CIMA
4 2 (3.92%) CISA
4 2 (3.92%) CISM
4 2 (3.92%) CISSP
4 2 (3.92%) GCIA
4 2 (3.92%) GCIH
4 2 (3.92%) GSEC
4 2 (3.92%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.92%) PMP
5 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.96%) HNC
5 1 (1.96%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.96%) MBA
5 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.96%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) QA
2 2 (3.92%) GDPR
2 2 (3.92%) HIPAA
2 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.92%) NIST
2 2 (3.92%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (3.92%) Docker
2 1 (1.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (5.88%) Terraform
2 2 (3.92%) Ansible
2 2 (3.92%) QRadar
3 1 (1.96%) Control-M
3 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 17 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.73%) SAP
3 5 (9.80%) Google
4 4 (7.84%) Hotjar
5 3 (5.88%) IBM
5 3 (5.88%) Oracle
6 2 (3.92%) Apple
6 2 (3.92%) ArcSight
6 2 (3.92%) Splunk
7 1 (1.96%) Adobe
7 1 (1.96%) Anaplan
7 1 (1.96%) Cisco
7 1 (1.96%) Cognos
7 1 (1.96%) Concur
7 1 (1.96%) DocuSign
7 1 (1.96%) Pega
7 1 (1.96%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.96%) Zscaler