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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 34 31
Rank change year-on-year -10 -3 -6
Contract jobs citing Degree 94 55 59
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 4.67% 5.42% 4.99%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.90% 19.37% 20.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 27 19
10th Percentile £310 £357 £350
25th Percentile £447 £409 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £458 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.48% -8.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £613 £569 £588
90th Percentile £638 £706 £698
North West median daily rate £479 £458 £538
% change year-on-year +4.70% -14.96% +10.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 4 15
10th Percentile £28.50 £40.83 £21.25
25th Percentile £30.00 £49.94 £28.30
Median hourly rate £36.00 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +33.33% +172.73%
75th Percentile £65.21 £67.19 £66.13
90th Percentile £156.90 £71.13 £97.20
North West median hourly rate £37.75 £35.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +6.34% -23.13% +13.77%

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 525 284 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 26.11% 28.01% 23.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 183 142
10th Percentile £367 £303 £294
25th Percentile £425 £411 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.15% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £638 £620 £600
90th Percentile £725 £715 £687
North West median daily rate £519 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +3.83% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 26 21
10th Percentile £18.21 £20.00 £16.85
25th Percentile £28.69 £22.16 £25.35
Median hourly rate £37.00 £28.58 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.48% -18.36% +16.67%
75th Percentile £44.41 £50.31 £62.50
90th Percentile £69.22 £67.50 £93.00
North West median hourly rate £43.56 £27.38 £45.00
% change year-on-year +59.12% -39.17% -2.56%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 11 October 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 +7 9 - - 17
Rochdale - 2 - - 10
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 (21.28%) SharePoint
2 13 (13.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (13.83%) SharePoint Server
3 4 (4.26%) Confluence
4 3 (3.19%) SAS
5 1 (1.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (1.06%) nginx
Applications
1 16 (17.02%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (14.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (6.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (5.32%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (4.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (4.26%) Primavera
1 4 (4.26%) SAP MM
1 4 (4.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.06%) Oracle Utilities
2 1 (1.06%) SAP APO
2 1 (1.06%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 38 (40.43%) Azure
2 35 (37.23%) Power Platform
3 22 (23.40%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (19.15%) Power Automate
4 18 (19.15%) PowerApps
5 14 (14.89%) AWS
6 13 (13.83%) Azure AI
6 13 (13.83%) Microsoft Copilot
6 13 (13.83%) OneDrive
7 10 (10.64%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (9.57%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (8.51%) GCP
10 5 (5.32%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (3.19%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (3.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (2.13%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 2 (2.13%) Amazon S3
12 2 (2.13%) SaaS
12 2 (2.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (2.13%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.64%) SSL
2 6 (6.38%) Firewall
3 4 (4.26%) Network Security
4 1 (1.06%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.06%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.06%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (23.40%) Power BI
2 12 (12.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (11.70%) MySQL
3 11 (11.70%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.19%) Power Query
5 2 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.13%) Data Vault
5 2 (2.13%) Metadata
6 1 (1.06%) Big Data
6 1 (1.06%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.06%) SAP BW
6 1 (1.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (3.19%) JIRA
2 2 (2.13%) Git
2 2 (2.13%) GitLab
2 2 (2.13%) Jenkins
General
1 36 (38.30%) Social Skills
2 20 (21.28%) Finance
3 18 (19.15%) Manufacturing
4 16 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.32%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (4.26%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.19%) Marketing
8 2 (2.13%) Advertising
8 2 (2.13%) Agriculture
8 2 (2.13%) Aviation
8 2 (2.13%) Electronics
8 2 (2.13%) Law
8 2 (2.13%) Legal
9 1 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (12.77%) Analyst
1 12 (12.77%) Developer
2 10 (10.64%) DBA
2 10 (10.64%) SQL DBA
3 8 (8.51%) SharePoint Developer
4 7 (7.45%) Lead
5 6 (6.38%) IT Analyst
5 6 (6.38%) Senior
6 5 (5.32%) Security Engineer
6 5 (5.32%) Support Analyst
7 4 (4.26%) Consultant
7 4 (4.26%) IT Support
7 4 (4.26%) IT Support Analyst
7 4 (4.26%) Salesforce Developer
7 4 (4.26%) SC Cleared DBA
7 4 (4.26%) Senior Developer
7 4 (4.26%) Senior Salesforce Developer
7 4 (4.26%) Software Engineer
8 3 (3.19%) Automation Specialist
8 3 (3.19%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.64%) Terraform
2 5 (5.32%) REST
2 5 (5.32%) SOAP
3 4 (4.26%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (3.19%) PySpark
5 2 (2.13%) CSS
5 2 (2.13%) HTML
5 2 (2.13%) OAuth
5 2 (2.13%) SAML
6 1 (1.06%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.06%) JWT
6 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (1.06%) Middleware
6 1 (1.06%) Node.js
6 1 (1.06%) OpenID
6 1 (1.06%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.57%) Clustering
1 9 (9.57%) Replication
2 8 (8.51%) Onboarding
3 7 (7.45%) Management Information System
4 6 (6.38%) Security Posture
5 4 (4.26%) Life Science
6 3 (3.19%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.19%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.19%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.13%) Analogue Electronics
7 2 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.13%) CMDB
7 2 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.13%) PKI
7 2 (2.13%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.13%) Social Media
7 2 (2.13%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.06%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 18 (19.15%) Windows
2 10 (10.64%) Windows Server
3 5 (5.32%) Linux
4 4 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.26%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (22.34%) Business Intelligence
1 21 (22.34%) Computer Science
2 20 (21.28%) ITIL
3 17 (18.09%) Agile
4 15 (15.96%) CI/CD
5 14 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (14.89%) DevOps
5 14 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (13.83%) Stakeholder Management
7 12 (12.77%) Roadmaps
8 10 (10.64%) Analytics
8 10 (10.64%) Data Modelling
9 9 (9.57%) Cloud Security
9 9 (9.57%) Performance Tuning
9 9 (9.57%) Software Engineering
9 9 (9.57%) User Acceptance Testing
10 8 (8.51%) AI
10 8 (8.51%) Data Analysis
10 8 (8.51%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (8.51%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 20 (21.28%) SQL
2 17 (18.09%) Python
3 16 (17.02%) PowerShell
4 10 (10.64%) T-SQL
5 4 (4.26%) Apex Code
5 4 (4.26%) Bash
5 4 (4.26%) Java
6 3 (3.19%) Bicep
7 2 (2.13%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.13%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (2.13%) Scala
7 2 (2.13%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (1.06%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.06%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (15.96%) Computer Science Degree
1 15 (15.96%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (14.89%) Azure Certification
2 14 (14.89%) BPSS Clearance
2 14 (14.89%) SC Cleared
2 14 (14.89%) Security Cleared
3 11 (11.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 7 (7.45%) CISSP
5 4 (4.26%) A+ Certification
5 4 (4.26%) HNC
5 4 (4.26%) Network+ Certification
6 3 (3.19%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.19%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (2.13%) CIMA
7 2 (2.13%) CISM
7 2 (2.13%) GCFA
7 2 (2.13%) GCIH
7 2 (2.13%) HND
7 2 (2.13%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.26%) Data Quality
1 4 (4.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (2.13%) GAAP
2 2 (2.13%) GDPR
2 2 (2.13%) IFRS
2 2 (2.13%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.13%) QA
3 1 (1.06%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.06%) NIST
3 1 (1.06%) PMO
3 1 (1.06%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (9.57%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (5.32%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.26%) Docker
4 1 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (10.64%) SCOM
2 7 (7.45%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.32%) Progress Chef
4 3 (3.19%) Ansible
5 2 (2.13%) CASB
6 1 (1.06%) Istio
6 1 (1.06%) Network Intrusion Detection System
6 1 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 18 (19.15%) SAP
3 14 (14.89%) ServiceNow
4 6 (6.38%) Databricks
4 6 (6.38%) Google
4 6 (6.38%) Red Hat
5 5 (5.32%) Adobe
5 5 (5.32%) UiPath
6 4 (4.26%) Salesforce
7 3 (3.19%) Splunk
8 2 (2.13%) Cisco
8 2 (2.13%) Cribl.io
8 2 (2.13%) IBM
8 2 (2.13%) Informatica
8 2 (2.13%) Oracle
9 1 (1.06%) Ariba
9 1 (1.06%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (1.06%) Concur
9 1 (1.06%) Intel
9 1 (1.06%) Thales