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 10 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 27 39
Rank change year-on-year -16 +12 -8
Contract jobs citing Degree 90 70 52
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 4.62% 6.96% 4.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 19.31% 25.83% 19.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 33 20
10th Percentile £215 £363 £323
25th Percentile £375 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £511
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -7.06% +20.26%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £614
90th Percentile £624 £716 £693
North West median daily rate £452 £475 £544
% change year-on-year -4.95% -12.68% +20.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 3 12
10th Percentile - £40.80 £21.66
25th Percentile £28.50 £49.88 £38.21
Median hourly rate £40.75 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.31% +8.33% +263.64%
75th Percentile £178.75 £69.38 £94.13
90th Percentile - £72.00 £99.75
North West median hourly rate £36.00 £33.50 £52.19
% change year-on-year +7.46% -35.81% +28.86%

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 466 271 266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 23.95% 26.94% 22.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 153 158
10th Percentile £354 £363 £350
25th Percentile £401 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £530 £516
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +2.66% -1.67%
75th Percentile £629 £638 £675
90th Percentile £719 £750 £825
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £504
% change year-on-year - -0.79% -1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 24 20
10th Percentile £16.88 £20.65 £16.76
25th Percentile £24.16 £22.16 £27.53
Median hourly rate £36.00 £28.58 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.98% -44.51% +167.53%
75th Percentile £45.75 £56.62 £75.56
90th Percentile £178.75 £72.63 £100.00
North West median hourly rate £43.96 £29.27 £16.52
% change year-on-year +50.19% +77.18% -61.13%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 10 August 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 5 - - 6
Rochdale - 2 - -
Bury - 1 - - 1
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 18 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 11 (12.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (6.67%) SharePoint Server
4 3 (3.33%) Confluence
4 3 (3.33%) SAS
5 1 (1.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 19 (21.11%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (15.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (7.78%) MS Visio
5 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (1.11%) AutoCAD
6 1 (1.11%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 4 (4.44%) Primavera
1 4 (4.44%) SAP MM
1 4 (4.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.11%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 33 (36.67%) Azure
2 29 (32.22%) Power Platform
3 23 (25.56%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (17.78%) Power Automate
4 16 (17.78%) PowerApps
5 14 (15.56%) AWS
6 11 (12.22%) Microsoft Copilot
6 11 (12.22%) OneDrive
7 7 (7.78%) Entra ID
8 6 (6.67%) Azure AI
8 6 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (6.67%) GCP
9 5 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (3.33%) Figma
10 3 (3.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (2.22%) Amazon S3
11 2 (2.22%) SaaS
11 2 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.67%) SSL
2 5 (5.56%) Firewall
3 2 (2.22%) Network Security
4 1 (1.11%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (20.00%) Power BI
2 8 (8.89%) SQL Server
2 8 (8.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (7.78%) MySQL
4 3 (3.33%) Data Vault
5 2 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.22%) Metadata
5 2 (2.22%) Power Query
6 1 (1.11%) Big Data
6 1 (1.11%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.11%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.11%) SAP BW
6 1 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Git
1 2 (2.22%) GitLab
1 2 (2.22%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.22%) JIRA
2 1 (1.11%) Postman
2 1 (1.11%) SoapUI
General
1 37 (41.11%) Social Skills
2 24 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (23.33%) Finance
4 10 (11.11%) Manufacturing
5 6 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.67%) Telecoms
6 5 (5.56%) Legal
7 4 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.33%) Marketing
8 3 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.22%) Agriculture
9 2 (2.22%) Aviation
9 2 (2.22%) Environmental Health
10 1 (1.11%) Banking
10 1 (1.11%) Law
10 1 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (18.89%) Analyst
2 8 (8.89%) IT Analyst
2 8 (8.89%) Senior
3 7 (7.78%) Developer
4 6 (6.67%) DBA
4 6 (6.67%) IT Support
4 6 (6.67%) IT Support Analyst
4 6 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 6 (6.67%) SQL DBA
4 6 (6.67%) Support Analyst
5 5 (5.56%) Business Analyst
5 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Engineer
6 4 (4.44%) Consultant
6 4 (4.44%) Coordinator
6 4 (4.44%) Designer
6 4 (4.44%) Project Coordinator
6 4 (4.44%) Security Consultant
6 4 (4.44%) Security Engineer
6 4 (4.44%) Software Engineer
6 4 (4.44%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.56%) HTML
1 5 (5.56%) REST
1 5 (5.56%) SOAP
2 4 (4.44%) CSS
3 3 (3.33%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (3.33%) PySpark
4 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (2.22%) XML
5 1 (1.11%) .NET
5 1 (1.11%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.11%) JSON
5 1 (1.11%) Kafka
5 1 (1.11%) Middleware
5 1 (1.11%) Node.js
5 1 (1.11%) OAuth
5 1 (1.11%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.11%) React
5 1 (1.11%) SAML
5 1 (1.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 9 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 6 (6.67%) Security Posture
3 5 (5.56%) Clustering
3 5 (5.56%) Replication
4 4 (4.44%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (4.44%) Life Science
4 4 (4.44%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.33%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.33%) Graphic Design
5 3 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.22%) Social Media
6 2 (2.22%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (1.11%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.11%) CMDB
7 1 (1.11%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.11%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.11%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 17 (18.89%) Windows
2 6 (6.67%) Linux
2 6 (6.67%) Windows 10
2 6 (6.67%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (26.67%) Agile
2 21 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 17 (18.89%) Business Intelligence
5 16 (17.78%) ITIL
6 15 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 14 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (14.44%) Analytics
9 12 (13.33%) Data Analysis
10 11 (12.22%) DevOps
11 10 (11.11%) Data Modelling
11 10 (11.11%) Decision-Making
11 10 (11.11%) Logistics
11 10 (11.11%) Migration
11 10 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 10 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (10.00%) AI
12 9 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
12 9 (10.00%) Roadmaps
12 9 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 18 (20.00%) Python
1 18 (20.00%) SQL
2 13 (14.44%) PowerShell
3 6 (6.67%) T-SQL
4 5 (5.56%) Java
5 4 (4.44%) Bash
6 3 (3.33%) Apex Code
6 3 (3.33%) Bicep
6 3 (3.33%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.22%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (2.22%) Scala
7 2 (2.22%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (1.11%) C#
8 1 (1.11%) C++
8 1 (1.11%) Groovy
8 1 (1.11%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 15 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (10.00%) Azure Certification
4 9 (10.00%) Security Cleared
5 8 (8.89%) SC Cleared
6 7 (7.78%) CISSP
7 6 (6.67%) A+ Certification
7 6 (6.67%) Network+ Certification
8 5 (5.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (3.33%) AWS Certification
9 3 (3.33%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (2.22%) ACCA
10 2 (2.22%) CIMA
10 2 (2.22%) GCFA
10 2 (2.22%) GCIH
11 1 (1.11%) CEH
11 1 (1.11%) Chartered Engineer
11 1 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (1.11%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.44%) Accessibility
1 4 (4.44%) Data Quality
1 4 (4.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (2.22%) GAAP
2 2 (2.22%) GDPR
2 2 (2.22%) IFRS
2 2 (2.22%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.22%) QA
3 1 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.11%) NIST
3 1 (1.11%) PMO
3 1 (1.11%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (14.44%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (4.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (10.00%) Terraform
2 7 (7.78%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.67%) SCOM
4 5 (5.56%) Progress Chef
5 3 (3.33%) Ansible
6 2 (2.22%) CASB
Vendors
1 47 (52.22%) Microsoft
2 15 (16.67%) SAP
3 9 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 6 (6.67%) Databricks
4 6 (6.67%) Red Hat
5 5 (5.56%) Google
5 5 (5.56%) UiPath
6 4 (4.44%) Adobe
7 3 (3.33%) Salesforce
7 3 (3.33%) Splunk
8 2 (2.22%) Cribl.io
8 2 (2.22%) Informatica
8 2 (2.22%) Oracle
9 1 (1.11%) Ariba
9 1 (1.11%) Cisco
9 1 (1.11%) Dell
9 1 (1.11%) Infoblox
9 1 (1.11%) Infor
9 1 (1.11%) Remedy
9 1 (1.11%) TOWER Software