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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 34 16
Rank change year-on-year -17 -18 +35
Contract jobs citing Degree 47 53 122
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 3.96% 5.04% 8.01%
As % of the Qualifications category 15.88% 18.40% 30.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 24 68
10th Percentile £369 £271 £204
25th Percentile £397 £422 £248
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £388
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +25.81% -18.42%
75th Percentile £499 £642 £530
90th Percentile £586 £700 £700
North West median daily rate £402 £500 £460
% change year-on-year -19.60% +8.70% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 5
10th Percentile - £22.25 £17.15
25th Percentile - £31.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% +8.33% +104.92%
75th Percentile £64.38 £33.75 -
90th Percentile £70.00 £66.15 £38.25
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £40.59
% change year-on-year +39.88% -19.93% +69.13%

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 296 288 403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 24.94% 27.40% 26.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 160 267
10th Percentile £304 £294 £225
25th Percentile £400 £373 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.59% -7.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £582 £554 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £538
% change year-on-year - -11.63% +4.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 15 18
10th Percentile £20.00 £25.05 £19.25
25th Percentile £21.46 £31.25 £31.19
Median hourly rate £22.63 £32.50 £45.75
Median % change year-on-year -30.37% -28.96% +128.75%
75th Percentile £55.00 £35.38 £71.88
90th Percentile £72.75 £65.05 £73.75
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +39.88% -29.62% +78.92%

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 7 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 7 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in Manchester

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 (6.38%) Confluence
1 3 (6.38%) SAS
1 3 (6.38%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.13%) Apache
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.13%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.13%) InVision
2 1 (2.13%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (6.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (4.26%) SAP ERP
3 1 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (2.13%) SAP HCM
3 1 (2.13%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.89%) AWS
1 7 (14.89%) Azure
2 4 (8.51%) Power Platform
3 3 (6.38%) GCP
4 2 (4.26%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.26%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (4.26%) GitHub
4 2 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.26%) Serverless
5 1 (2.13%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.13%) Figma
5 1 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.13%) Google Sheets
5 1 (2.13%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.13%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.13%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) Network Security
1 2 (4.26%) SSH
1 2 (4.26%) SSL
2 1 (2.13%) BGP
2 1 (2.13%) Firewall
2 1 (2.13%) IP Telephony
2 1 (2.13%) LAN
2 1 (2.13%) OSPF
2 1 (2.13%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (2.13%) VoIP
2 1 (2.13%) VPN
2 1 (2.13%) WAN
2 1 (2.13%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.38%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.26%) Cognos Framework Manager
2 2 (4.26%) Cognos Report Studio
2 2 (4.26%) Cognos Transformer
2 2 (4.26%) OLAP
2 2 (4.26%) OLAP Cube
2 2 (4.26%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.26%) Power BI
2 2 (4.26%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.13%) Base SAS
3 1 (2.13%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle Discoverer
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.13%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.13%) SAS Data Integration Studio
3 1 (2.13%) SAS Visual Analytics
3 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (14.89%) JIRA
2 2 (4.26%) GitLab
2 2 (4.26%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.13%) Git
3 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 26 (55.32%) Social Skills
2 23 (48.94%) Finance
3 11 (23.40%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (14.89%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (10.64%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (6.38%) Law
6 3 (6.38%) Legal
7 2 (4.26%) Banking
7 2 (4.26%) Billing
7 2 (4.26%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.13%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.13%) General Ledger
8 1 (2.13%) Italian Language
8 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.13%) Polish Language
8 1 (2.13%) Retail
8 1 (2.13%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 6 (12.77%) Analyst
1 6 (12.77%) Developer
1 6 (12.77%) Senior
2 5 (10.64%) Designer
3 4 (8.51%) Business Analyst
4 3 (6.38%) Project Manager
4 3 (6.38%) UX Designer
5 2 (4.26%) Cognos Developer
5 2 (4.26%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 2 (4.26%) Data Scientist
5 2 (4.26%) Lead
5 2 (4.26%) Product Manager
5 2 (4.26%) Service Designer
5 2 (4.26%) Technical Manager
5 2 (4.26%) Technical Project Manager
5 2 (4.26%) UX Service Designer
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Architect
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Developer
6 1 (2.13%) Senior Digital Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.26%) pytest
1 2 (4.26%) TensorFlow
2 1 (2.13%) HTML
2 1 (2.13%) Hugging Face
2 1 (2.13%) JSON
2 1 (2.13%) OAuth
2 1 (2.13%) OAuth2
2 1 (2.13%) Pandas
2 1 (2.13%) PySpark
2 1 (2.13%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.13%) REST
2 1 (2.13%) RESTful
2 1 (2.13%) SAP PI
2 1 (2.13%) scikit-learn
2 1 (2.13%) SOAP
2 1 (2.13%) unsloth
2 1 (2.13%) XGBoost
2 1 (2.13%) XML
2 1 (2.13%) XMPP
2 1 (2.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (4.26%) Learning Management System
2 2 (4.26%) Synthetic Data
2 2 (4.26%) Tandem
3 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.13%) Clustering
3 1 (2.13%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.13%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.13%) PKI
3 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.64%) Windows
2 2 (4.26%) Unix
3 1 (2.13%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (38.30%) Agile
1 18 (38.30%) Stakeholder Management
2 15 (31.91%) Computer Science
3 13 (27.66%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (19.15%) Data Protection
5 8 (17.02%) Decision-Making
5 8 (17.02%) Project Management
6 6 (12.77%) Analytics
6 6 (12.77%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (12.77%) Change Management
6 6 (12.77%) DevOps
6 6 (12.77%) ERP
7 5 (10.64%) CI/CD
7 5 (10.64%) Data Governance
7 5 (10.64%) Data Modelling
7 5 (10.64%) ITIL
7 5 (10.64%) Release Management
7 5 (10.64%) User Experience
7 5 (10.64%) Waterfall
8 4 (8.51%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 8 (17.02%) Python
2 7 (14.89%) SQL
3 2 (4.26%) Java
4 1 (2.13%) C#
4 1 (2.13%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.13%) R
4 1 (2.13%) SAS Macro
4 1 (2.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (27.66%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (12.77%) Master's Degree
3 3 (6.38%) ACCA
3 3 (6.38%) Azure Certification
3 3 (6.38%) CIMA
3 3 (6.38%) CISM
3 3 (6.38%) CISSP
4 2 (4.26%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.26%) CISA
4 2 (4.26%) GSEC
4 2 (4.26%) PMI Certification
4 2 (4.26%) PMP
4 2 (4.26%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.13%) CCNP
5 1 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.13%) IIBA
5 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.13%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (2.13%) SAP Certification
5 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.51%) GDPR
1 4 (8.51%) QA
2 3 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.38%) NIST
3 2 (4.26%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.26%) HIPAA
3 2 (4.26%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.13%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.13%) GAAP
4 1 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (4.26%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (6.38%) Terraform
2 2 (4.26%) Ansible
2 2 (4.26%) QRadar
3 1 (2.13%) Control-M
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (27.66%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.89%) SAP
3 4 (8.51%) Oracle
4 3 (6.38%) IBM
4 3 (6.38%) Splunk
5 2 (4.26%) Apple
5 2 (4.26%) ArcSight
5 2 (4.26%) Cisco
5 2 (4.26%) Cognos
6 1 (2.13%) Adobe
6 1 (2.13%) Anaplan
6 1 (2.13%) Aruba
6 1 (2.13%) Broadcom
6 1 (2.13%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.13%) Google
6 1 (2.13%) Netskope
6 1 (2.13%) Pega
6 1 (2.13%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.13%) Symantec
6 1 (2.13%) Zscaler