Degree Contracts in the North West

Academic Degree
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 29 34
Rank change year-on-year +11 +5 -8
Contract jobs citing Degree 211 174 234
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 7.70% 5.71% 5.76%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.58% 19.14% 25.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 91 121
10th Percentile £158 £300 £163
25th Percentile £313 £407 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £486 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.94% +14.35% -8.36%
75th Percentile £601 £575 £544
90th Percentile £679 £680 £631
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.86% +4.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 17 34
10th Percentile £11.77 £16.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.15 £19.35 £15.31
Median hourly rate £26.52 £40.59 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.66% +30.94% -34.04%
75th Percentile £44.64 £52.99 £52.46
90th Percentile £62.50 £69.15 £86.70
England median hourly rate £40.00 £48.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.09% +37.84% -7.65%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 765 909 917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 27.93% 29.83% 22.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 596 606
10th Percentile £294 £350 £281
25th Percentile £414 £440 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +2.25% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £625
90th Percentile £725 £688 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 69 60
10th Percentile £10.95 £19.87 £14.25
25th Percentile £11.94 £25.75 £16.81
Median hourly rate £16.06 £40.59 £40.68
Median % change year-on-year -60.43% -0.23% +12.23%
75th Percentile £43.26 £49.52 £59.74
90th Percentile £68.24 £67.60 £81.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £39.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +39.24% +8.22%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the North West

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Degree in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Degree in the North West

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in the North West over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in the North West

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Degree in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Degree in the North West

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in the North West over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in the North West

Degree
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the North West region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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
Manchester +17 86 £488 +5.41% 326
Cheshire +4 59 £519 +15.28% 155
Lancashire +18 27 £538 +2.38% 93
Merseyside +27 23 £208 -60.00% 68
Cumbria -17 13 £665 +36.83% 35
Degree
England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 19 (9.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.90%) SharePoint 2010
2 4 (1.90%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (0.47%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.47%) Confluence
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.47%) SAS
3 1 (0.47%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 41 (19.43%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (12.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (11.85%) Chatbot
4 16 (7.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (3.32%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (3.32%) MS Visio
6 3 (1.42%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.95%) Simulink
8 1 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Misys Midas
1 2 (0.95%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.47%) Hyperion Planning
2 1 (0.47%) SAP EWM
2 1 (0.47%) SAP WM
2 1 (0.47%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 25 (11.85%) Azure
2 18 (8.53%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (4.74%) Power Platform
5 9 (4.27%) AWS
6 7 (3.32%) IaaS
6 7 (3.32%) SaaS
7 6 (2.84%) PaaS
8 5 (2.37%) GCP
9 4 (1.90%) Google Workspace
9 4 (1.90%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.42%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (0.95%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (0.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.47%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (0.47%) Collibra
12 1 (0.47%) Serverless
12 1 (0.47%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.79%) VLAN
2 7 (3.32%) VPN
3 5 (2.37%) Firewall
3 5 (2.37%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.90%) BGP
4 4 (1.90%) MPLS
4 4 (1.90%) OSPF
4 4 (1.90%) Value-Added Service
4 4 (1.90%) Wireshark
5 3 (1.42%) LAN
5 3 (1.42%) VoIP
5 3 (1.42%) WAN
5 3 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.95%) DHCP
6 2 (0.95%) DNS
7 1 (0.47%) Internet
7 1 (0.47%) SAN
7 1 (0.47%) VSAN
7 1 (0.47%) WebEx
7 1 (0.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.79%) Metadata
1 8 (3.79%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.32%) Data Lake
2 7 (3.32%) Power BI
3 5 (2.37%) PowerPivot
4 4 (1.90%) Big Data
4 4 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Power View
4 4 (1.90%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (1.42%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.95%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.95%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.95%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (0.95%) Tableau
7 1 (0.47%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.47%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.47%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 4 (1.90%) JIRA
2 3 (1.42%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.47%) Git
3 1 (0.47%) Selenium
3 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 57 (27.01%) Social Skills
2 32 (15.17%) Finance
3 28 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (9.95%) Public Sector
5 17 (8.06%) Pharmaceutical
6 11 (5.21%) Manufacturing
7 10 (4.74%) Banking
7 10 (4.74%) Legal
8 7 (3.32%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (3.32%) Mandarin Language
8 7 (3.32%) Publishing
9 6 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.90%) German Language
10 4 (1.90%) Local Government
10 4 (1.90%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.42%) Back Office
11 3 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.42%) Military
Job Titles
1 31 (14.69%) Developer
2 30 (14.22%) Analyst
3 29 (13.74%) Architect
4 25 (11.85%) Software Developer
5 19 (9.00%) Business Analyst
5 19 (9.00%) Senior
6 16 (7.58%) Solutions Architect
7 12 (5.69%) Project Manager
8 8 (3.79%) Author
8 8 (3.79%) Domain Architect
8 8 (3.79%) Technical Author
9 7 (3.32%) Administrator
9 7 (3.32%) Coordinator
9 7 (3.32%) Support Engineer
10 6 (2.84%) Project Coordinator
11 5 (2.37%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 5 (2.37%) Data Manager
11 5 (2.37%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (2.37%) Software Engineer
12 4 (1.90%) 1st/2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (14.22%) HTML
2 5 (2.37%) CSS
3 3 (1.42%) Spring
4 1 (0.47%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.47%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (0.47%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.47%) Middleware
4 1 (0.47%) Node.js
4 1 (0.47%) React
4 1 (0.47%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.47%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.64%) Management Information System
2 9 (4.27%) Virtual Team
3 6 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.37%) NHS
4 5 (2.37%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.90%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.90%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.42%) Clustering
6 3 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.42%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.42%) Life Science
7 2 (0.95%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.95%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.95%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.95%) Derivative
7 2 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (0.95%) Robotics
7 2 (0.95%) SCADA
7 2 (0.95%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.47%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.58%) Windows
2 12 (5.69%) Windows 10
3 9 (4.27%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.32%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (2.37%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.90%) Linux
6 4 (1.90%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.95%) Unix
8 1 (0.47%) VMS
8 1 (0.47%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (21.80%) Computer Science
2 44 (20.85%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (18.01%) Agile
4 30 (14.22%) Software Engineering
5 27 (12.80%) Project Management
6 26 (12.32%) Code Quality
7 25 (11.85%) Artificial Intelligence
7 25 (11.85%) Conversational UI
7 25 (11.85%) Project Delivery
8 21 (9.95%) Stakeholder Management
9 20 (9.48%) Data Management
9 20 (9.48%) Decision-Making
10 16 (7.58%) ITIL
11 15 (7.11%) Change Management
11 15 (7.11%) Data Protection
11 15 (7.11%) DevOps
12 14 (6.64%) Customer Service
13 13 (6.16%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (6.16%) Migration
13 13 (6.16%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 41 (19.43%) SQL
2 31 (14.69%) JavaScript
3 30 (14.22%) Python
4 25 (11.85%) C#
5 11 (5.21%) PowerShell
6 6 (2.84%) Java
7 4 (1.90%) C++
8 3 (1.42%) C
9 2 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.47%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.47%) Bash
10 1 (0.47%) Groovy
10 1 (0.47%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.47%) R
10 1 (0.47%) SystemVerilog
10 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.47%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (12.32%) Computer Science Degree
2 24 (11.37%) Security Cleared
3 14 (6.64%) Master's Degree
4 13 (6.16%) SC Cleared
5 9 (4.27%) PMI Certification
6 8 (3.79%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (3.79%) CISSP
6 8 (3.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (3.79%) PMP
7 6 (2.84%) CISA
7 6 (2.84%) CISM
7 6 (2.84%) MBA
8 5 (2.37%) IIBA
9 4 (1.90%) APMP
9 4 (1.90%) CCIE
9 4 (1.90%) CCNA
9 4 (1.90%) CCNP
9 4 (1.90%) MCSE
9 4 (1.90%) VCAP
9 4 (1.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.11%) GDPR
2 7 (3.32%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.84%) PMO
4 5 (2.37%) Good Clinical Practice
4 5 (2.37%) GxP
5 4 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.42%) NIST
6 3 (1.42%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.42%) QA
7 2 (0.95%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.95%) MISRA
7 2 (0.95%) MISRA C
7 2 (0.95%) P3O
8 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (6.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (5.21%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.79%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.90%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.47%) Firmware
6 1 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.47%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.47%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (3.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (1.90%) SCCM
3 3 (1.42%) Autotask
3 3 (1.42%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (1.42%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.47%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.47%) Terraform
4 1 (0.47%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 51 (24.17%) Microsoft
2 25 (11.85%) PayPal
3 15 (7.11%) VMware
4 14 (6.64%) ServiceNow
5 11 (5.21%) SAP
6 5 (2.37%) Google
6 5 (2.37%) Oracle
6 5 (2.37%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.37%) SolarWinds
7 4 (1.90%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (1.42%) Apple
8 3 (1.42%) Cisco
8 3 (1.42%) Databricks
8 3 (1.42%) Datto
9 2 (0.95%) Adobe
9 2 (0.95%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.95%) Sophos
9 2 (0.95%) Teradata
10 1 (0.47%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.47%) Proofpoint