Degree Contracts 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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 23 38
Rank change year-on-year -1 +15 +13
Contract jobs citing Degree 62 95 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 6.63% 6.59% 4.51%
As % of the Qualifications category 24.41% 30.35% 17.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 35 53
10th Percentile £270 £227 £250
25th Percentile £359 £303 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.42% - +7.95%
75th Percentile £634 £581 £563
90th Percentile £702 £656 £650
North West median daily rate £459 £525 £486
% change year-on-year -12.52% +8.02% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 14 3
10th Percentile £37.78 £24.13 -
25th Percentile £42.31 £25.39 -
Median hourly rate £50.25 £26.26 £15.72
Median % change year-on-year +91.36% +67.05% +8.41%
75th Percentile £57.81 £62.50 £22.14
90th Percentile £62.13 £87.00 £25.98
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £32.12 £40.55
% change year-on-year +1.20% -20.79% +46.11%

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 254 313 454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 27.17% 21.72% 25.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 184 341
10th Percentile £316 £313 £363
25th Percentile £422 £425 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £638 £658 £638
90th Percentile £745 £825 £700
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 27 10
10th Percentile £22.35 £21.20 £15.72
25th Percentile £28.08 £25.50 £18.69
Median hourly rate £50.99 £35.00 £22.85
Median % change year-on-year +45.67% +53.16% -19.11%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.69 £35.26
90th Percentile £72.25 £93.00 £40.75
North West median hourly rate £31.00 £16.06 £40.59
% change year-on-year +93.03% -60.43% +24.91%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Manchester

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Degree in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Degree in Manchester

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Manchester

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Degree in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Degree in Manchester

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

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 1 July 2025. 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 -2 8 - - 103
Salford -1 5 £700 +47.37% 35
Wigan - 2 £375 - 11
Stockport - 1 - - 85
Oldham - 1 - - 12
Degree
North West

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.45%) IBM Domino
2 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.61%) CICS
3 1 (1.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (6.45%) MS Visio
2 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.61%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (8.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.61%) Maximo
2 1 (1.61%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.61%) SAP HR
2 1 (1.61%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 12 (19.35%) Azure
2 10 (16.13%) AWS
2 10 (16.13%) GCP
3 4 (6.45%) Google Analytics
4 3 (4.84%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.84%) SaaS
4 3 (4.84%) SuccessFactors
5 2 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (3.23%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (3.23%) GitHub
5 2 (3.23%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.23%) Serverless
6 1 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.61%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.61%) Asana
6 1 (1.61%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.68%) TCP/IP
1 6 (9.68%) VPN
2 4 (6.45%) DHCP
2 4 (6.45%) DNS
3 3 (4.84%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (3.23%) BGP
4 2 (3.23%) EIGRP
4 2 (3.23%) Firewall
4 2 (3.23%) Network Security
4 2 (3.23%) OSPF
5 1 (1.61%) H.323
5 1 (1.61%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.61%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.45%) Mixpanel
2 3 (4.84%) Data Lake
2 3 (4.84%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.23%) Data Mining
3 2 (3.23%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.23%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.61%) Big Data
4 1 (1.61%) Data Vault
4 1 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.61%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.61%) InfluxDB
4 1 (1.61%) Power BI
4 1 (1.61%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.23%) ERwin
1 2 (3.23%) GitLab
1 2 (3.23%) JIRA
2 1 (1.61%) Ant
2 1 (1.61%) Eclipse
2 1 (1.61%) Git
2 1 (1.61%) IntelliJ
2 1 (1.61%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.61%) JUnit
2 1 (1.61%) NUnit
General
1 27 (43.55%) Social Skills
2 23 (37.10%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (12.90%) Finance
4 7 (11.29%) Telecoms
5 4 (6.45%) French Language
5 4 (6.45%) Legal
6 3 (4.84%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.84%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.84%) Marketing
6 3 (4.84%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.84%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.23%) Electronics
7 2 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.61%) Banking
8 1 (1.61%) Local Government
8 1 (1.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (17.74%) Analyst
2 7 (11.29%) Architect
3 5 (8.06%) Business Analyst
3 5 (8.06%) IT Engineer
3 5 (8.06%) Support Engineer
4 4 (6.45%) IT Support
4 4 (6.45%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (6.45%) Project Engineer
4 4 (6.45%) Senior
4 4 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (6.45%) User Experience Researcher
5 3 (4.84%) Developer
6 2 (3.23%) Administrator
6 2 (3.23%) Consultant
6 2 (3.23%) Data Modeller
6 2 (3.23%) Java Developer
6 2 (3.23%) Network Administrator
6 2 (3.23%) Network Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) SAP Business Analyst
6 2 (3.23%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.84%) HTML
1 3 (4.84%) Middleware
2 2 (3.23%) AngularJS
2 2 (3.23%) PyTorch
2 2 (3.23%) SAP PI
2 2 (3.23%) Spring
2 2 (3.23%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.61%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.61%) Ajax
3 1 (1.61%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.61%) Hibernate
3 1 (1.61%) ISPF
3 1 (1.61%) JSTL
3 1 (1.61%) Kafka
3 1 (1.61%) Node.js
3 1 (1.61%) OpenCV
3 1 (1.61%) React
3 1 (1.61%) RESTful
3 1 (1.61%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.61%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.29%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.84%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.84%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.23%) Analogue Electronics
4 2 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.61%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.61%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.61%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.61%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.61%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.61%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.61%) Social Media
5 1 (1.61%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.06%) Windows
2 1 (1.61%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (51.61%) Computer Science
2 21 (33.87%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (22.58%) Collaborative Working
4 10 (16.13%) Project Management
5 8 (12.90%) Analytics
6 7 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (11.29%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (11.29%) ITIL
7 6 (9.68%) Customer Service
7 6 (9.68%) ITSM
7 6 (9.68%) Service Delivery
7 6 (9.68%) Service Management
7 6 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (8.06%) Actionable Insight
8 5 (8.06%) Agile
8 5 (8.06%) Change Management
8 5 (8.06%) CI/CD
8 5 (8.06%) Software Engineering
8 5 (8.06%) User Acceptance Testing
9 4 (6.45%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.06%) Python
1 5 (8.06%) SQL
2 2 (3.23%) Java
2 2 (3.23%) JavaScript
2 2 (3.23%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (3.23%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.61%) C#
3 1 (1.61%) JCL
3 1 (1.61%) R
3 1 (1.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (38.71%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (14.52%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (11.29%) Security Cleared
4 5 (8.06%) AWS Certification
4 5 (8.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (8.06%) SC Cleared
5 4 (6.45%) A+ Certification
5 4 (6.45%) Azure Certification
5 4 (6.45%) Master's Degree
6 2 (3.23%) CCNA
6 2 (3.23%) CCNP
6 2 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.23%) GCIA
6 2 (3.23%) GCIH
6 2 (3.23%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.61%) CIPD
7 1 (1.61%) MCSE
7 1 (1.61%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.61%) PMP
7 1 (1.61%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.06%) QA
2 3 (4.84%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.61%) COBIT
4 1 (1.61%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.61%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.61%) Docker
1 1 (1.61%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (1.61%) Ansible
1 1 (1.61%) CA Endevor
1 1 (1.61%) Grafana
1 1 (1.61%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (30.65%) Microsoft
2 13 (20.97%) Google
3 6 (9.68%) SAP
4 4 (6.45%) Hotjar
5 3 (4.84%) Cisco
5 3 (4.84%) Meraki
5 3 (4.84%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.23%) Databricks
6 2 (3.23%) IBM
7 1 (1.61%) BMC
7 1 (1.61%) Oracle
7 1 (1.61%) Remedy