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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 28 14
Rank change year-on-year -22 -14 +35
Contract jobs citing Degree 44 60 131
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 3.57% 5.78% 8.31%
As % of the Qualifications category 15.66% 20.76% 31.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 34 60
10th Percentile £203 £213 £206
25th Percentile £375 £357 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £469 £400
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +17.19% -15.79%
75th Percentile £475 £588 £575
90th Percentile £528 £700 £700
North West median daily rate £397 £475 £457
% change year-on-year -16.45% +4.05% +1.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 7
10th Percentile £22.45 £29.25 -
25th Percentile £35.63 £31.25 £25.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% +25.00% +77.60%
75th Percentile £56.88 £33.75 £30.00
90th Percentile £65.63 - £35.50
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £28.33
% change year-on-year +39.88% +14.72% +18.04%

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 281 289 415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 22.77% 27.84% 26.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 171 263
10th Percentile £213 £238 £225
25th Percentile £381 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -9.76% -2.38%
75th Percentile £563 £525 £625
90th Percentile £625 £680 £700
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £535
% change year-on-year - -11.21% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 22
10th Percentile £17.14 £30.85 £25.50
25th Percentile £21.46 £31.25 £30.00
Median hourly rate £33.00 £32.50 £45.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% -28.96% +128.75%
75th Percentile £61.25 £33.75 £73.75
90th Percentile £73.25 £55.40 -
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £34.75 £40.25
% change year-on-year +30.82% -13.66% +38.79%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 29 January 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 +1 1 - - 23
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 (6.82%) SAS
2 2 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.55%) Confluence
3 1 (2.27%) Apache
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.27%) nginx
3 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (13.64%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.27%) InVision
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.27%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.27%) Sketch
3 1 (2.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Primavera
2 1 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.27%) Infor M3
2 1 (2.27%) SAP HCM
2 1 (2.27%) SAP MM
2 1 (2.27%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.64%) AWS
2 4 (9.09%) Azure
2 4 (9.09%) Power Platform
3 3 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (6.82%) Serverless
4 2 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.55%) GitHub
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.27%) Figma
5 1 (2.27%) GCP
5 1 (2.27%) Google Sheets
5 1 (2.27%) Google Workspace
5 1 (2.27%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.27%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.27%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) Network Security
2 1 (2.27%) BGP
2 1 (2.27%) Firewall
2 1 (2.27%) IP Telephony
2 1 (2.27%) LAN
2 1 (2.27%) OSPF
2 1 (2.27%) SSH
2 1 (2.27%) SSL
2 1 (2.27%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (2.27%) VoIP
2 1 (2.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (4.55%) Cognos Framework Manager
2 2 (4.55%) Cognos Report Studio
2 2 (4.55%) Cognos Transformer
2 2 (4.55%) OLAP
2 2 (4.55%) OLAP Cube
2 2 (4.55%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.55%) Power BI
2 2 (4.55%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.27%) Base SAS
3 1 (2.27%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.27%) Oracle Discoverer
3 1 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.27%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.27%) SAS Data Integration Studio
3 1 (2.27%) SAS Visual Analytics
3 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) JIRA
2 1 (2.27%) Git
2 1 (2.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (56.82%) Social Skills
2 20 (45.45%) Finance
3 16 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (15.91%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (11.36%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (6.82%) Law
6 3 (6.82%) Legal
6 3 (6.82%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.82%) Telecoms
7 2 (4.55%) Banking
7 2 (4.55%) Manufacturing
7 2 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.27%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.27%) General Ledger
8 1 (2.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (18.18%) Analyst
2 6 (13.64%) Senior
3 5 (11.36%) Designer
3 5 (11.36%) Developer
4 4 (9.09%) Business Analyst
5 3 (6.82%) IT Analyst
5 3 (6.82%) IT Support
5 3 (6.82%) IT Support Analyst
5 3 (6.82%) Project Manager
5 3 (6.82%) Support Analyst
5 3 (6.82%) UX Designer
6 2 (4.55%) Cognos Developer
6 2 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 2 (4.55%) Data Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Product Manager
6 2 (4.55%) Project Officer
6 2 (4.55%) Service Designer
6 2 (4.55%) UX Service Designer
7 1 (2.27%) Senior Cognos Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.27%) HTML
1 1 (2.27%) Hugging Face
1 1 (2.27%) JSON
1 1 (2.27%) OAuth
1 1 (2.27%) OAuth2
1 1 (2.27%) PySpark
1 1 (2.27%) pytest
1 1 (2.27%) PyTorch
1 1 (2.27%) REST
1 1 (2.27%) RESTful
1 1 (2.27%) SOAP
1 1 (2.27%) TensorFlow
1 1 (2.27%) unsloth
1 1 (2.27%) XML
1 1 (2.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.82%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.55%) Learning Management System
4 1 (2.27%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.27%) Life Science
4 1 (2.27%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.27%) PKI
4 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.27%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.27%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.36%) Windows
2 3 (6.82%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.27%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.27%) Unix
3 1 (2.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (36.36%) Agile
2 13 (29.55%) Computer Science
2 13 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (29.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (18.18%) Decision-Making
4 6 (13.64%) Analytics
4 6 (13.64%) Data Modelling
4 6 (13.64%) Data Protection
4 6 (13.64%) Project Management
5 5 (11.36%) Data Analytics
5 5 (11.36%) Data Governance
5 5 (11.36%) ETL
5 5 (11.36%) ITIL
5 5 (11.36%) Service Management
5 5 (11.36%) Use Case
5 5 (11.36%) User Experience
5 5 (11.36%) Waterfall
6 4 (9.09%) Customer Service
6 4 (9.09%) Project Delivery
6 4 (9.09%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (18.18%) Python
2 6 (13.64%) SQL
3 1 (2.27%) C#
3 1 (2.27%) Java
3 1 (2.27%) PL/SQL
3 1 (2.27%) R
3 1 (2.27%) SAS Macro
3 1 (2.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (13.64%) Master's Degree
3 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (6.82%) A+ Certification
4 3 (6.82%) CISM
4 3 (6.82%) CISSP
4 3 (6.82%) Network+ Certification
4 3 (6.82%) Security Cleared
5 2 (4.55%) CISA
5 2 (4.55%) GSEC
6 1 (2.27%) ACCA
6 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.27%) CIMA
6 1 (2.27%) IIBA
6 1 (2.27%) MBA
6 1 (2.27%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.27%) PMP
6 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) GDPR
2 3 (6.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.82%) NIST
3 2 (4.55%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.55%) HIPAA
3 2 (4.55%) PCI DSS
3 2 (4.55%) QA
4 1 (2.27%) GAAP
4 1 (2.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (6.82%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.55%) QRadar
2 1 (2.27%) Control-M
2 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (34.09%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.09%) SAP
3 3 (6.82%) Oracle
3 3 (6.82%) Splunk
4 2 (4.55%) ArcSight
4 2 (4.55%) Cognos
4 2 (4.55%) IBM
5 1 (2.27%) Adobe
5 1 (2.27%) Anaplan
5 1 (2.27%) Apple
5 1 (2.27%) Broadcom
5 1 (2.27%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.27%) Cisco
5 1 (2.27%) Concur
5 1 (2.27%) DocuSign
5 1 (2.27%) Google
5 1 (2.27%) Netskope
5 1 (2.27%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.27%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.27%) Symantec