Delivery Manager Contracts in England

Delivery Manager
UK > England

The median Delivery Manager daily rate in England is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 249 213 197
Rank change year-on-year -36 -16 +74
Contract jobs requiring a Delivery Manager 352 636 1,048
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.95% 1.27% 1.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.03% 1.35% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 476 732
10th Percentile £354 £422 £410
25th Percentile £453 £499 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £643 £675 £613
90th Percentile £730 £750 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £546
% change year-on-year -4.35% +5.26% +4.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.75 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £12.95 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +131.66% -50.19% -46.67%
75th Percentile £51.57 £35.85 £26.50
90th Percentile £72.90 £49.59 -
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £12.95 £26.00
% change year-on-year +131.66% -50.19% -46.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,183 47,267 67,930
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,703 33,560 48,361
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,401 1,881
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.82 £77.00 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Delivery Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Delivery Manager in England

Delivery Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Delivery Manager in England.

Daily rate trend for Delivery Manager in England

Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Delivery Manager in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Delivery Manager in England

Delivery Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Delivery Manager in England.

Hourly rate trend for Delivery Manager in England

Delivery Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Delivery Manager in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Delivery Manager in England

Delivery Manager
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Delivery Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
London +10 191 £557 -7.17% 53
South West +24 45 £600 -4.00% 13
North of England -38 44 £550 - 18
South East +13 34 £540 +8.00% 23
North West -17 32 £575 +6.48% 13
Midlands +4 17 £545 -9.17% 13
Yorkshire -10 11 £500 -16.67% 3
West Midlands +7 9 £545 -9.17% 8
East Midlands +6 8 - - 5
East of England +6 6 £525 - 6
North East +9 1 - - 2
Delivery Manager
UK

Delivery Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Delivery Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 178 (50.57%) Agile
2 100 (28.41%) Service Delivery
3 94 (26.70%) Project Management
4 93 (26.42%) Finance
4 93 (26.42%) Security Cleared
5 84 (23.86%) SC Cleared
6 79 (22.44%) Project Delivery
7 77 (21.88%) Social Skills
8 66 (18.75%) Public Sector
9 64 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
10 63 (17.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 48 (13.64%) Scrum
12 39 (11.08%) Decision-Making
13 37 (10.51%) Problem-Solving
13 37 (10.51%) Service Management
13 37 (10.51%) Azure
14 35 (9.94%) Waterfall
15 34 (9.66%) AWS
16 33 (9.38%) PRINCE2
17 32 (9.09%) Microsoft
17 32 (9.09%) Roadmaps
18 29 (8.24%) JIRA
19 28 (7.95%) PMI Certification
20 27 (7.67%) ITIL
20 27 (7.67%) Kanban
20 27 (7.67%) Business Case
21 26 (7.39%) Change Management
22 25 (7.10%) Legal
23 24 (6.82%) PMP
23 24 (6.82%) Telecoms

Delivery Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 10 (2.84%) Confluence
2 4 (1.14%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.57%) CMS
5 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.28%) Drupal
5 1 (0.28%) Kentico
Applications
1 9 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.70%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.57%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.85%) Infor SunSystems
1 3 (0.85%) SAP ERP
1 3 (0.85%) Shopify
2 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 37 (10.51%) Azure
2 34 (9.66%) AWS
3 19 (5.40%) SaaS
4 14 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (2.84%) GCP
6 7 (1.99%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (1.14%) iPaaS
8 3 (0.85%) BigCommerce
9 2 (0.57%) Miro
9 2 (0.57%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.28%) Asana
10 1 (0.28%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.28%) GitHub
10 1 (0.28%) Kontent
10 1 (0.28%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.28%) Slack
10 1 (0.28%) Smartsheet
10 1 (0.28%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.70%) SD-WAN
2 4 (1.14%) Firewall
2 4 (1.14%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (1.14%) SNA
3 3 (0.85%) VPN
4 2 (0.57%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.28%) DNS
5 1 (0.28%) GSM
5 1 (0.28%) Intranet
5 1 (0.28%) ISDN
5 1 (0.28%) LAN
5 1 (0.28%) MPLS
5 1 (0.28%) PSTN
5 1 (0.28%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.70%) Power BI
2 4 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (0.85%) MySQL
3 3 (0.85%) Tableau
4 2 (0.57%) Looker
4 2 (0.57%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (0.57%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.28%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 29 (8.24%) JIRA
2 3 (0.85%) Maven
3 1 (0.28%) Git
3 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 93 (26.42%) Finance
2 77 (21.88%) Social Skills
3 66 (18.75%) Public Sector
4 25 (7.10%) Legal
5 24 (6.82%) Telecoms
6 21 (5.97%) Military
7 17 (4.83%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (2.84%) Marketing
11 8 (2.27%) Billing
11 8 (2.27%) Publishing
12 7 (1.99%) Retail
13 6 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.42%) Banking
14 5 (1.42%) Local Government
15 4 (1.14%) Aerospace
15 4 (1.14%) Law
15 4 (1.14%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.85%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.85%) AngularJS
1 3 (0.85%) CSS
1 3 (0.85%) J2EE
1 3 (0.85%) jQuery
1 3 (0.85%) Kafka
1 3 (0.85%) REST
1 3 (0.85%) Sass
1 3 (0.85%) Spring
1 3 (0.85%) Spring MVC
1 3 (0.85%) Twitter Bootstrap
1 3 (0.85%) VML
1 3 (0.85%) Web Services
2 2 (0.57%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.28%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.55%) Product Ownership
2 10 (2.84%) Management Information System
3 9 (2.56%) Virtual Team
4 7 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.14%) Driving Licence
5 4 (1.14%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.14%) PMI
6 3 (0.85%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.57%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.57%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (0.57%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.57%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.28%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.28%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.28%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.28%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.27%) Apple iOS
2 7 (1.99%) Windows
3 3 (0.85%) Linux
3 3 (0.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (50.57%) Agile
2 100 (28.41%) Service Delivery
3 94 (26.70%) Project Management
4 79 (22.44%) Project Delivery
5 64 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 63 (17.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 48 (13.64%) Scrum
8 39 (11.08%) Decision-Making
9 37 (10.51%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (10.51%) Service Management
10 35 (9.94%) Waterfall
11 33 (9.38%) PRINCE2
12 32 (9.09%) Roadmaps
13 27 (7.67%) Business Case
13 27 (7.67%) ITIL
13 27 (7.67%) Kanban
14 26 (7.39%) Change Management
15 21 (5.97%) Coaching
15 21 (5.97%) ITSM
16 20 (5.68%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (2.27%) Swift
2 4 (1.14%) Java
3 3 (0.85%) C#
3 3 (0.85%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.28%) SQL
Qualifications
1 93 (26.42%) Security Cleared
2 84 (23.86%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.95%) PMI Certification
4 24 (6.82%) PMP
5 19 (5.40%) Degree
6 18 (5.11%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.57%) FFIEC
10 1 (0.28%) APMP
10 1 (0.28%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.28%) PgMP
10 1 (0.28%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.28%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.83%) SLA
2 10 (2.84%) PMO
3 9 (2.56%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.70%) QA
5 2 (0.57%) GRC
5 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.57%) NIST
5 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
Systems Management
1 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.26%) SAP
3 9 (2.56%) Google
3 9 (2.56%) ServiceNow
4 8 (2.27%) Okta
5 6 (1.70%) Cadence
6 5 (1.42%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.14%) Cisco
7 4 (1.14%) Oracle
8 3 (0.85%) Adobe
8 3 (0.85%) Dell
8 3 (0.85%) Guidewire
8 3 (0.85%) Intel
8 3 (0.85%) Sage
8 3 (0.85%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.57%) BT
9 2 (0.57%) Pega
10 1 (0.28%) Ariba
10 1 (0.28%) Genesys
10 1 (0.28%) NEC