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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 27 33
Rank change year-on-year -12 +6 -4
Contract jobs citing Degree 96 66 56
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 4.86% 6.54% 4.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 18.43% 22.92% 19.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 31 20
10th Percentile £292 £358 £353
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £458 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.48% -8.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £560 £569 £588
90th Percentile £638 £715 £693
North West median daily rate £475 £458 £550
% change year-on-year +3.83% -16.82% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 4 12
10th Percentile £28.50 £40.83 £21.25
25th Percentile £30.00 £49.94 £24.33
Median hourly rate £46.50 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% - +263.64%
75th Percentile £69.50 £67.19 £75.56
90th Percentile £178.75 £71.13 £99.30
North West median hourly rate £39.50 £42.75 £48.56
% change year-on-year -7.60% -11.96% +19.90%

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 521 288 291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 26.37% 28.54% 24.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 181 156
10th Percentile £359 £356 £294
25th Percentile £421 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £616
90th Percentile £725 £738 £775
North West median daily rate £519 £505 £500
% change year-on-year +2.79% +1.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 26 18
10th Percentile £18.19 £20.00 £16.57
25th Percentile £28.69 £22.16 £22.28
Median hourly rate £37.00 £28.58 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.48% -44.51% +164.10%
75th Percentile £48.75 £50.31 £67.94
90th Percentile £178.75 £71.88 £100.00
North West median hourly rate £43.96 £27.19 £46.18
% change year-on-year +61.69% -41.13% +0.65%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 20 September 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 10 - - 17
Rochdale - 2 - - 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 20 (20.83%) SharePoint
2 13 (13.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (13.54%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (3.13%) Confluence
3 3 (3.13%) SAS
4 1 (1.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.04%) nginx
Applications
1 19 (19.79%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (15.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (7.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (4.17%) MS Visio
6 1 (1.04%) AutoCAD
6 1 (1.04%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 4 (4.17%) Primavera
1 4 (4.17%) SAP MM
1 4 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.04%) SAP APO
2 1 (1.04%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 39 (40.63%) Azure
2 35 (36.46%) Power Platform
3 25 (26.04%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (18.75%) Power Automate
4 18 (18.75%) PowerApps
5 15 (15.63%) AWS
6 13 (13.54%) Azure AI
6 13 (13.54%) Microsoft Copilot
6 13 (13.54%) OneDrive
7 10 (10.42%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (8.33%) GCP
10 5 (5.21%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (3.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (2.08%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 2 (2.08%) Amazon S3
12 2 (2.08%) SaaS
12 2 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (2.08%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.42%) SSL
2 6 (6.25%) Firewall
3 3 (3.13%) Network Security
4 1 (1.04%) DNS
4 1 (1.04%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.04%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (22.92%) Power BI
2 12 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (11.46%) MySQL
3 11 (11.46%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.13%) Power Query
5 2 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.08%) Data Vault
5 2 (2.08%) Metadata
6 1 (1.04%) Big Data
6 1 (1.04%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.04%) SAP BW
6 1 (1.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Git
1 2 (2.08%) GitLab
1 2 (2.08%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.08%) JIRA
General
1 38 (39.58%) Social Skills
2 20 (20.83%) Finance
3 19 (19.79%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (18.75%) Manufacturing
5 7 (7.29%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.13%) Legal
6 3 (3.13%) Marketing
6 3 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.08%) Agriculture
7 2 (2.08%) Aviation
7 2 (2.08%) Electronics
8 1 (1.04%) Banking
8 1 (1.04%) Law
8 1 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 16 (16.67%) Analyst
2 12 (12.50%) Developer
3 10 (10.42%) DBA
3 10 (10.42%) SQL DBA
4 9 (9.38%) IT Analyst
5 8 (8.33%) SharePoint Developer
5 8 (8.33%) Support Analyst
6 7 (7.29%) IT Support
6 7 (7.29%) IT Support Analyst
6 7 (7.29%) Lead
7 5 (5.21%) Security Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) Senior
8 4 (4.17%) Consultant
8 4 (4.17%) Salesforce Developer
8 4 (4.17%) SC Cleared DBA
8 4 (4.17%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.17%) Senior Salesforce Developer
8 4 (4.17%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.13%) Automation Specialist
9 3 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.38%) Terraform
2 5 (5.21%) REST
2 5 (5.21%) SOAP
3 4 (4.17%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (3.13%) PySpark
5 2 (2.08%) CSS
5 2 (2.08%) HTML
6 1 (1.04%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.04%) JWT
6 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (1.04%) Middleware
6 1 (1.04%) Node.js
6 1 (1.04%) OAuth
6 1 (1.04%) OpenID
6 1 (1.04%) React
6 1 (1.04%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.46%) Onboarding
2 9 (9.38%) Clustering
2 9 (9.38%) Replication
3 8 (8.33%) Management Information System
4 6 (6.25%) Security Posture
5 4 (4.17%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (4.17%) Life Science
6 3 (3.13%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.08%) Analogue Electronics
7 2 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.08%) CMDB
7 2 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.08%) PKI
7 2 (2.08%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.08%) Social Media
7 2 (2.08%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (1.04%) Graphic Design
8 1 (1.04%) Tandem
8 1 (1.04%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 21 (21.88%) Windows
2 10 (10.42%) Windows Server
3 7 (7.29%) Windows 10
4 5 (5.21%) Linux
5 4 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 23 (23.96%) ITIL
3 21 (21.88%) Business Intelligence
4 19 (19.79%) Agile
5 18 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (15.63%) CI/CD
6 15 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (14.58%) DevOps
8 13 (13.54%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (11.46%) Roadmaps
10 10 (10.42%) Analytics
10 10 (10.42%) Data Modelling
10 10 (10.42%) Knowledge Management
11 9 (9.38%) Performance Tuning
11 9 (9.38%) Service Management
11 9 (9.38%) User Acceptance Testing
12 8 (8.33%) Cloud Security
12 8 (8.33%) ERP
12 8 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
12 8 (8.33%) Inventory Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (20.83%) SQL
2 17 (17.71%) Python
3 16 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 10 (10.42%) T-SQL
5 4 (4.17%) Apex Code
5 4 (4.17%) Bash
5 4 (4.17%) Java
6 3 (3.13%) Bicep
7 2 (2.08%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.08%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (2.08%) Scala
7 2 (2.08%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (1.04%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (19.79%) Computer Science Degree
2 18 (18.75%) Microsoft Certification
3 14 (14.58%) Azure Certification
3 14 (14.58%) BPSS Clearance
3 14 (14.58%) SC Cleared
3 14 (14.58%) Security Cleared
4 11 (11.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 7 (7.29%) A+ Certification
5 7 (7.29%) Network+ Certification
6 6 (6.25%) CISSP
7 3 (3.13%) AWS Certification
7 3 (3.13%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (2.08%) ACCA
8 2 (2.08%) CEH
8 2 (2.08%) CIMA
8 2 (2.08%) GCFA
8 2 (2.08%) GCIH
8 2 (2.08%) HNC
8 2 (2.08%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.04%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.17%) Data Quality
1 4 (4.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (2.08%) GAAP
2 2 (2.08%) GDPR
2 2 (2.08%) IFRS
2 2 (2.08%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.08%) QA
3 1 (1.04%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.04%) NIST
3 1 (1.04%) PMO
3 1 (1.04%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (9.38%) Virtual Machines
2 8 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.17%) Docker
4 1 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (10.42%) SCOM
2 7 (7.29%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.21%) Progress Chef
4 3 (3.13%) Ansible
5 2 (2.08%) CASB
6 1 (1.04%) Istio
6 1 (1.04%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 51 (53.13%) Microsoft
2 19 (19.79%) SAP
3 14 (14.58%) ServiceNow
4 6 (6.25%) Databricks
4 6 (6.25%) Google
4 6 (6.25%) Red Hat
5 5 (5.21%) Adobe
5 5 (5.21%) UiPath
6 4 (4.17%) Salesforce
7 3 (3.13%) Splunk
8 2 (2.08%) Cisco
8 2 (2.08%) Cribl.io
8 2 (2.08%) IBM
8 2 (2.08%) Informatica
9 1 (1.04%) Ariba
9 1 (1.04%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (1.04%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.04%) Concur
9 1 (1.04%) Intel
9 1 (1.04%) Thales