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 13 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 30 13
Rank change year-on-year -22 -17 +41
Contract jobs citing Degree 52 58 135
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 3.55% 5.86% 8.63%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.33% 22.05% 35.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 36 61
10th Percentile £166 £231 £206
25th Percentile £372 £359 £248
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £475 £642 £600
90th Percentile £575 £708 £700
North West median daily rate £400 £500 £489
% change year-on-year -20.00% +2.25% +8.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 10
10th Percentile £24.42 - £24.18
25th Percentile £28.50 £31.25 £25.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £32.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.31% +25.00% +9.01%
75th Percentile £55.63 £33.75 £30.00
90th Percentile £63.88 - £49.13
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £26.53
% change year-on-year +39.88% +22.53% -8.53%

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 300 263 381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 20.46% 26.59% 24.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 168 230
10th Percentile £190 £246 £257
25th Percentile £375 £383 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -7.32% -0.97%
75th Percentile £560 £601 £625
90th Percentile £638 £713 £700
North West median daily rate £478 £497 £515
% change year-on-year -3.92% -3.50% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 27
10th Percentile £21.27 - £24.98
25th Percentile £22.68 £31.25 £26.88
Median hourly rate £29.00 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.77% -23.53% +108.82%
75th Percentile £52.25 £54.25 £73.75
90th Percentile £66.50 £60.00 £80.25
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year +39.88% +85.71% -51.39%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 13 March 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 +6 5 £170 - 12
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 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.85%) SAS
3 1 (1.92%) Apache
3 1 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.92%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (21.15%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (13.46%) MS Visio
3 6 (11.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (9.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.92%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Primavera
2 3 (5.77%) SAP MM
3 1 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.92%) Infor M3
3 1 (1.92%) SAP HCM
3 1 (1.92%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 8 (15.38%) Azure
2 7 (13.46%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (13.46%) Power Platform
3 5 (9.62%) AWS
3 5 (9.62%) Entra ID
4 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Copilot
4 4 (7.69%) OneDrive
4 4 (7.69%) Power Automate
4 4 (7.69%) PowerApps
5 3 (5.77%) Figma
6 2 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.92%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (1.92%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.92%) AtomSphere
7 1 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.92%) Boomi
7 1 (1.92%) GCP
7 1 (1.92%) Google Sheets
7 1 (1.92%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.92%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) BGP
1 1 (1.92%) Firewall
1 1 (1.92%) LAN
1 1 (1.92%) OSPF
1 1 (1.92%) SSL
1 1 (1.92%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (1.92%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (5.77%) Hadoop
1 3 (5.77%) Tableau
2 2 (3.85%) Power BI
2 2 (3.85%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.92%) Base SAS
3 1 (1.92%) Cognos Framework Manager
3 1 (1.92%) Cognos Report Studio
3 1 (1.92%) Cognos Transformer
3 1 (1.92%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.92%) Data Vault
3 1 (1.92%) OLAP
3 1 (1.92%) OLAP Cube
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.92%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.92%) SAS Data Integration Studio
3 1 (1.92%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 2 (3.85%) JIRA
2 1 (1.92%) Git
2 1 (1.92%) Postman
2 1 (1.92%) SoapUI
General
1 24 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 17 (32.69%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (30.77%) Finance
4 9 (17.31%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (13.46%) Public Sector
6 6 (11.54%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (7.69%) Manufacturing
8 3 (5.77%) Legal
8 3 (5.77%) Telecoms
9 2 (3.85%) Environmental Health
9 2 (3.85%) Law
10 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.92%) Electronics
10 1 (1.92%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (21.15%) Analyst
2 8 (15.38%) Senior
3 7 (13.46%) Designer
3 7 (13.46%) UX Designer
4 6 (11.54%) Business Analyst
5 5 (9.62%) Developer
5 5 (9.62%) Senior Analyst
5 5 (9.62%) Senior Business Analyst
6 4 (7.69%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Service Designer
6 4 (7.69%) UX Service Designer
7 3 (5.77%) IT Analyst
7 3 (5.77%) IT Support
7 3 (5.77%) IT Support Analyst
7 3 (5.77%) Product Manager
7 3 (5.77%) Project Manager
7 3 (5.77%) Support Analyst
8 2 (3.85%) Coordinator
8 2 (3.85%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.77%) HTML
2 2 (3.85%) CSS
2 2 (3.85%) XML
3 1 (1.92%) .NET
3 1 (1.92%) JSON
3 1 (1.92%) Kafka
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.92%) REST
3 1 (1.92%) SOAP
3 1 (1.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.69%) Onboarding
1 4 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (5.77%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.77%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.85%) Graphic Design
4 1 (1.92%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.92%) IoT
4 1 (1.92%) Life Science
4 1 (1.92%) PKI
4 1 (1.92%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.69%) Windows
2 3 (5.77%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (34.62%) Agile
2 12 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (19.23%) Decision-Making
4 9 (17.31%) Analytics
4 9 (17.31%) Computer Science
4 9 (17.31%) User Experience
5 7 (13.46%) Data Analysis
5 7 (13.46%) Migration
5 7 (13.46%) Project Delivery
5 7 (13.46%) Roadmaps
5 7 (13.46%) UX Design
5 7 (13.46%) Workshop Facilitation
6 6 (11.54%) CRM
6 6 (11.54%) Design Thinking
6 6 (11.54%) Scrum
6 6 (11.54%) Service Design
6 6 (11.54%) Time Management
7 5 (9.62%) Business Analysis
7 5 (9.62%) Prototyping
7 5 (9.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 7 (13.46%) Python
1 7 (13.46%) SQL
2 3 (5.77%) R
3 2 (3.85%) C#
4 1 (1.92%) C++
4 1 (1.92%) Groovy
4 1 (1.92%) Java
4 1 (1.92%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.92%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.92%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 7 (13.46%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (13.46%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (11.54%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (5.77%) A+ Certification
4 3 (5.77%) Master's Degree
4 3 (5.77%) Network+ Certification
4 3 (5.77%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.85%) CISSP
6 1 (1.92%) ACCA
6 1 (1.92%) CCNA
6 1 (1.92%) CCNP
6 1 (1.92%) CIMA
6 1 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.92%) CISM
6 1 (1.92%) IIBA
6 1 (1.92%) MBA
6 1 (1.92%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.54%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.85%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.85%) GDPR
3 1 (1.92%) GAAP
3 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.92%) NIST
3 1 (1.92%) QA
3 1 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (13.46%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 15 (28.85%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.54%) SAP
3 3 (5.77%) Oracle
4 1 (1.92%) Anaplan
4 1 (1.92%) Aruba
4 1 (1.92%) Broadcom
4 1 (1.92%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.92%) Cisco
4 1 (1.92%) Cognos
4 1 (1.92%) Concur
4 1 (1.92%) Dell
4 1 (1.92%) EMC
4 1 (1.92%) Google
4 1 (1.92%) IBM
4 1 (1.92%) Netskope
4 1 (1.92%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.92%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.92%) Splunk
4 1 (1.92%) Symantec