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 29 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 20 25
Rank change year-on-year -20 +5 +14
Contract jobs citing Degree 79 61 86
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 4.53% 6.82% 6.01%
As % of the Qualifications category 22.19% 23.92% 27.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 34 34
10th Percentile £166 £240 £222
25th Percentile £357 £361 £301
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -15.37% -2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £474 £634 £564
90th Percentile £575 £716 £601
North West median daily rate £415 £475 £510
% change year-on-year -12.63% -6.86% +8.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 12
10th Percentile - £37.78 £24.11
25th Percentile £28.50 £42.31 £25.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £50.25 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.35% +93.27% +30.00%
75th Percentile £178.75 £57.81 £62.50
90th Percentile - £62.13 -
North West median hourly rate £57.81 £28.75 £26.52
% change year-on-year +101.06% +8.41% -34.59%

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 356 255 318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 20.41% 28.52% 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 163 187
10th Percentile £350 £255 £313
25th Percentile £400 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -8.20% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £576 £575 £675
90th Percentile £645 £713 £825
North West median daily rate £481 £499 £500
% change year-on-year -3.51% -0.30% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 11 29
10th Percentile £17.23 £31.00 £22.65
25th Percentile £22.68 £40.61 £25.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £60.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.83% +71.43% +40.00%
75th Percentile £103.75 £67.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £178.75 £73.75 £91.50
North West median hourly rate £44.90 £29.64 £16.06
% change year-on-year +51.51% +84.53% -60.43%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 29 May 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 6 £170 - 2
Bury - 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 10 (12.66%) SharePoint
2 5 (6.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.53%) Confluence
4 1 (1.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.27%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 20 (25.32%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (15.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (10.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (8.86%) MS Visio
5 5 (6.33%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (1.27%) AutoCAD
6 1 (1.27%) MicroStation
6 1 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Primavera
2 3 (3.80%) SAP MM
2 3 (3.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.27%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 17 (21.52%) Azure
1 17 (21.52%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (13.92%) Power Platform
3 9 (11.39%) AWS
3 9 (11.39%) Power Automate
3 9 (11.39%) PowerApps
4 7 (8.86%) Entra ID
5 5 (6.33%) Microsoft Copilot
5 5 (6.33%) OneDrive
6 4 (5.06%) Figma
7 3 (3.80%) GCP
8 2 (2.53%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 2 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (2.53%) Viva Engage
9 1 (1.27%) Boomi
9 1 (1.27%) dbt
9 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.27%) OCI
9 1 (1.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.80%) Firewall
2 1 (1.27%) BGP
2 1 (1.27%) DNS
2 1 (1.27%) LAN
2 1 (1.27%) OSPF
2 1 (1.27%) SSL
2 1 (1.27%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (1.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.33%) Power BI
2 3 (3.80%) Hadoop
2 3 (3.80%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.53%) Tableau
4 1 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.27%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.27%) Data Vault
4 1 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.27%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.27%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (3.80%) JIRA
2 1 (1.27%) Postman
2 1 (1.27%) SoapUI
General
1 40 (50.63%) Social Skills
2 25 (31.65%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (24.05%) Finance
4 9 (11.39%) Influencing Skills
4 9 (11.39%) Telecoms
5 8 (10.13%) Public Sector
6 7 (8.86%) Manufacturing
7 5 (6.33%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (5.06%) Legal
9 3 (3.80%) Marketing
10 2 (2.53%) Agriculture
10 2 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.53%) Environmental Health
10 2 (2.53%) Law
11 1 (1.27%) Banking
11 1 (1.27%) Electronics
11 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (27.85%) Analyst
2 11 (13.92%) IT Analyst
3 9 (11.39%) IT Support
3 9 (11.39%) IT Support Analyst
3 9 (11.39%) Support Analyst
4 8 (10.13%) Designer
4 8 (10.13%) UX Designer
5 7 (8.86%) Business Analyst
5 7 (8.86%) Senior
6 6 (7.59%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) Microsoft Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (5.06%) Senior Business Analyst
8 4 (5.06%) Service Designer
8 4 (5.06%) Software Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) UX Service Designer
9 3 (3.80%) Consultant
9 3 (3.80%) Developer
9 3 (3.80%) Migration Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.33%) HTML
2 4 (5.06%) CSS
3 2 (2.53%) REST
3 2 (2.53%) SOAP
3 2 (2.53%) XML
4 1 (1.27%) .NET
4 1 (1.27%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.27%) JSON
4 1 (1.27%) Kafka
4 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (1.27%) Middleware
4 1 (1.27%) Node.js
4 1 (1.27%) OAuth
4 1 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.27%) React
4 1 (1.27%) SAML
4 1 (1.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.19%) Onboarding
2 5 (6.33%) Life Science
2 5 (6.33%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.33%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.06%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.80%) Graphic Design
5 2 (2.53%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.53%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.53%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.53%) Social Media
5 2 (2.53%) Web Conferencing
6 1 (1.27%) CMDB
6 1 (1.27%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.27%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.27%) IoT
6 1 (1.27%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.27%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 14 (17.72%) Windows
2 9 (11.39%) Windows 10
3 5 (6.33%) Linux
4 3 (3.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (31.65%) Agile
2 23 (29.11%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (24.05%) Computer Science
4 13 (16.46%) ITIL
5 12 (15.19%) Analytics
5 12 (15.19%) Data Analysis
5 12 (15.19%) Decision-Making
6 11 (13.92%) Knowledge Management
7 10 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (12.66%) Migration
7 10 (12.66%) Roadmaps
7 10 (12.66%) User Experience
7 10 (12.66%) Workshop Facilitation
8 9 (11.39%) Conflict Resolution
8 9 (11.39%) Creative Problem-Solving
8 9 (11.39%) Customer Service
8 9 (11.39%) Inventory Management
8 9 (11.39%) Project Delivery
8 9 (11.39%) Service Management
8 9 (11.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 13 (16.46%) Python
2 9 (11.39%) SQL
3 4 (5.06%) Java
3 4 (5.06%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.80%) Bash
4 3 (3.80%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.53%) C#
5 2 (2.53%) R
6 1 (1.27%) C++
6 1 (1.27%) Groovy
6 1 (1.27%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (20.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 15 (18.99%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (11.39%) A+ Certification
3 9 (11.39%) Network+ Certification
4 6 (7.59%) Security Cleared
5 5 (6.33%) CISSP
6 4 (5.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (3.80%) SC Cleared
8 2 (2.53%) ACCA
8 2 (2.53%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.53%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.53%) CCNA
8 2 (2.53%) CIMA
8 2 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (2.53%) CISM
8 2 (2.53%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.27%) CCNP
9 1 (1.27%) CEH
9 1 (1.27%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.27%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.86%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.53%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.53%) GAAP
2 2 (2.53%) IFRS
2 2 (2.53%) NIST
2 2 (2.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.27%) GDPR
3 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.27%) QA
3 1 (1.27%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (20.25%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.80%) Kubernetes
1 3 (3.80%) Terraform
2 2 (2.53%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.27%) Ansible
Vendors
1 33 (41.77%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.66%) SAP
3 5 (6.33%) Red Hat
4 4 (5.06%) UiPath
5 3 (3.80%) Adobe
5 3 (3.80%) Databricks
5 3 (3.80%) Google
5 3 (3.80%) Oracle
6 1 (1.27%) Aruba
6 1 (1.27%) Broadcom
6 1 (1.27%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.27%) Cisco
6 1 (1.27%) Dell
6 1 (1.27%) EMC
6 1 (1.27%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.27%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.27%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.27%) Splunk
6 1 (1.27%) Symantec
6 1 (1.27%) TOWER Software