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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 32 14
Rank change year-on-year -21 -18 +39
Contract jobs citing Degree 43 55 125
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 3.57% 5.21% 8.01%
As % of the Qualifications category 14.98% 18.77% 30.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 28 62
10th Percentile £281 £316 £207
25th Percentile £375 £422 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -11.05% +18.75% -15.79%
75th Percentile £475 £642 £575
90th Percentile £529 £700 £700
North West median daily rate £400 £500 £469
% change year-on-year -20.00% +6.67% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 5
10th Percentile £53.25 £29.25 -
25th Percentile £54.38 £31.25 £25.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% +8.33% +104.92%
75th Percentile £61.56 £33.75 -
90th Percentile £68.88 - £38.25
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £32.12
% change year-on-year +39.88% +1.20% +45.98%

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 287 293 411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 23.82% 27.75% 26.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 171 265
10th Percentile £213 £294 £225
25th Percentile £400 £371 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -7.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £613
90th Percentile £638 £700 £700
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £540
% change year-on-year - -12.04% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 20
10th Percentile £20.25 £30.80 £25.50
25th Percentile £21.46 £31.25 £33.56
Median hourly rate £34.00 £32.50 £55.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -41.70% +178.75%
75th Percentile £59.38 £33.75 £73.75
90th Percentile £73.13 £36.68 £75.38
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £34.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year +30.82% -22.78% +64.20%

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 21 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 21 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 (6.98%) SAS
2 2 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.65%) Confluence
2 2 (4.65%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.33%) Apache
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.33%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.33%) InVision
3 1 (2.33%) Sketch
3 1 (2.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.33%) Primavera
1 1 (2.33%) SAP HCM
1 1 (2.33%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.95%) AWS
2 4 (9.30%) Azure
2 4 (9.30%) Power Platform
3 3 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (6.98%) Serverless
4 2 (4.65%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.65%) GitHub
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.33%) Figma
5 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.33%) Google Sheets
5 1 (2.33%) OCI
5 1 (2.33%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) Network Security
1 2 (4.65%) SSL
2 1 (2.33%) BGP
2 1 (2.33%) Firewall
2 1 (2.33%) IP Telephony
2 1 (2.33%) LAN
2 1 (2.33%) OSPF
2 1 (2.33%) SSH
2 1 (2.33%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (2.33%) VoIP
2 1 (2.33%) VPN
2 1 (2.33%) WAN
2 1 (2.33%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.30%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.65%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (4.65%) Cognos Framework Manager
2 2 (4.65%) Cognos Report Studio
2 2 (4.65%) Cognos Transformer
2 2 (4.65%) OLAP
2 2 (4.65%) OLAP Cube
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.65%) Power BI
2 2 (4.65%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.33%) Base SAS
3 1 (2.33%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle Discoverer
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.33%) SAS Data Integration Studio
3 1 (2.33%) SAS Visual Analytics
3 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) JIRA
2 1 (2.33%) Git
2 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (55.81%) Social Skills
2 20 (46.51%) Finance
3 14 (32.56%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (16.28%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (11.63%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (6.98%) Law
6 3 (6.98%) Legal
6 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.65%) Banking
7 2 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (4.65%) Telecoms
8 1 (2.33%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.33%) General Ledger
8 1 (2.33%) Italian Language
8 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.33%) Polish Language
8 1 (2.33%) Retail
8 1 (2.33%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 7 (16.28%) Analyst
2 6 (13.95%) Developer
2 6 (13.95%) Senior
3 5 (11.63%) Designer
4 4 (9.30%) Business Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Project Manager
5 3 (6.98%) UX Designer
6 2 (4.65%) Cognos Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 2 (4.65%) Data Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) IT Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) IT Support
6 2 (4.65%) IT Support Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Product Manager
6 2 (4.65%) Service Designer
6 2 (4.65%) Support Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) UX Service Designer
7 1 (2.33%) Digital Business Analyst
7 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.33%) HTML
1 1 (2.33%) Hugging Face
1 1 (2.33%) JSON
1 1 (2.33%) OAuth
1 1 (2.33%) OAuth2
1 1 (2.33%) PySpark
1 1 (2.33%) pytest
1 1 (2.33%) PyTorch
1 1 (2.33%) REST
1 1 (2.33%) RESTful
1 1 (2.33%) SOAP
1 1 (2.33%) Spring
1 1 (2.33%) TensorFlow
1 1 (2.33%) unsloth
1 1 (2.33%) XML
1 1 (2.33%) XMPP
1 1 (2.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (6.98%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.65%) Learning Management System
4 1 (2.33%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.33%) Life Science
4 1 (2.33%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.33%) PKI
4 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.33%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.33%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.63%) Windows
2 2 (4.65%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.33%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.33%) Unix
3 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (37.21%) Agile
2 13 (30.23%) Computer Science
2 13 (30.23%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (30.23%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (18.60%) Data Protection
3 8 (18.60%) Decision-Making
4 6 (13.95%) Analytics
4 6 (13.95%) Data Modelling
5 5 (11.63%) Data Analytics
5 5 (11.63%) Data Governance
5 5 (11.63%) ETL
5 5 (11.63%) Project Management
5 5 (11.63%) Use Case
5 5 (11.63%) User Experience
5 5 (11.63%) Waterfall
6 4 (9.30%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (9.30%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (9.30%) ITIL
6 4 (9.30%) Scrum
6 4 (9.30%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 8 (18.60%) Python
2 6 (13.95%) SQL
3 2 (4.65%) Java
4 1 (2.33%) C#
4 1 (2.33%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.33%) R
4 1 (2.33%) SAS Macro
4 1 (2.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (27.91%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (13.95%) Master's Degree
3 3 (6.98%) CISM
3 3 (6.98%) CISSP
3 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (6.98%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.65%) A+ Certification
4 2 (4.65%) CISA
4 2 (4.65%) GSEC
4 2 (4.65%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (2.33%) ACCA
5 1 (2.33%) CCNA
5 1 (2.33%) CCNP
5 1 (2.33%) CIMA
5 1 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.33%) MBA
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (2.33%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.33%) PMP
5 1 (2.33%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) GDPR
2 3 (6.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.98%) NIST
3 2 (4.65%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.65%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.65%) HIPAA
3 2 (4.65%) PCI DSS
3 2 (4.65%) QA
4 1 (2.33%) GAAP
4 1 (2.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (6.98%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.65%) QRadar
2 1 (2.33%) Control-M
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (30.23%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.98%) Oracle
2 3 (6.98%) SAP
2 3 (6.98%) Splunk
3 2 (4.65%) Apple
3 2 (4.65%) ArcSight
3 2 (4.65%) Cisco
3 2 (4.65%) Cognos
3 2 (4.65%) IBM
4 1 (2.33%) Adobe
4 1 (2.33%) Anaplan
4 1 (2.33%) Aruba
4 1 (2.33%) Broadcom
4 1 (2.33%) CheckPoint
4 1 (2.33%) DocuSign
4 1 (2.33%) Google
4 1 (2.33%) Netskope
4 1 (2.33%) Pega
4 1 (2.33%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.33%) Symantec