Delivery Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Delivery Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Delivery Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 224 195 164
Rank change year-on-year -29 -31 +53
Contract jobs requiring a Delivery Manager 177 308 481
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.85% 1.28% 1.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 1.36% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 221 335
10th Percentile £375 £425 £389
25th Percentile £463 £481 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £725 £632
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.75 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £12.95 -
Median % change year-on-year +131.66% - -
75th Percentile £51.57 - -
90th Percentile £72.90 - -
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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,264 22,670 29,611
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.65% 94.17% 95.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,778 15,896 20,739
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £395 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £595 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,236 1,165 1,484
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.45 £12.02
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.09 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.50 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.41% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Delivery Manager in the UK excluding London

Delivery Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Delivery Manager in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Delivery Manager in the UK excluding London

Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Delivery Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Delivery Manager in the UK excluding London

Delivery Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Delivery Manager in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Delivery Manager in the UK excluding London

Delivery Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Delivery Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Delivery Manager in the UK excluding London

Delivery Manager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
South West +8 44 £600 -4.00% 9
North of England -44 44 £550 - 18
South East +7 34 £540 +0.47% 19
North West -17 32 £575 +6.98% 11
Scotland +35 27 £500 -4.76% 7
Midlands +5 18 £548 -7.35% 11
Yorkshire -11 11 £500 -16.67% 5
West Midlands +15 10 £548 -8.75% 5
East Midlands +8 8 - - 6
East of England +3 8 £525 - 5
Wales +8 3 £420 -23.64% 5
North East +12 1 - - 3
Delivery Manager
UK

Delivery Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 29 April 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 UK excluding London region featuring Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 88 (49.72%) Agile
2 56 (31.64%) Security Cleared
3 54 (30.51%) Project Management
4 53 (29.94%) Public Sector
5 52 (29.38%) Service Delivery
6 49 (27.68%) Finance
7 47 (26.55%) SC Cleared
8 39 (22.03%) Social Skills
9 38 (21.47%) Project Delivery
10 27 (15.25%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (15.25%) Scrum
10 27 (15.25%) JIRA
11 26 (14.69%) Stakeholder Management
12 24 (13.56%) PRINCE2
13 20 (11.30%) Confluence
13 20 (11.30%) Azure
14 18 (10.17%) Service Management
15 17 (9.60%) Change Management
16 16 (9.04%) Decision-Making
16 16 (9.04%) Problem-Solving
17 15 (8.47%) Software Delivery
18 14 (7.91%) Coaching
19 13 (7.34%) User Experience
19 13 (7.34%) Telecoms
19 13 (7.34%) ITSM
19 13 (7.34%) Microsoft
20 12 (6.78%) SLA
20 12 (6.78%) AWS
21 11 (6.21%) Waterfall
21 11 (6.21%) Microsoft 365

Delivery Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 20 (11.30%) Confluence
2 5 (2.82%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.13%) Mendix
Applications
1 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 20 (11.30%) Azure
2 12 (6.78%) AWS
3 11 (6.21%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (5.08%) SaaS
5 4 (2.26%) GCP
5 4 (2.26%) iPaaS
5 4 (2.26%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.13%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.56%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.56%) GitHub
8 1 (0.56%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.56%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.26%) Radio Access Network
2 3 (1.69%) VPN
3 2 (1.13%) Firewall
4 1 (0.56%) ISDN
4 1 (0.56%) LAN
4 1 (0.56%) PSTN
4 1 (0.56%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.69%) Power BI
2 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.56%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (0.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (15.25%) JIRA
2 1 (0.56%) CA Gen
2 1 (0.56%) Git
2 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 53 (29.94%) Public Sector
2 49 (27.68%) Finance
3 39 (22.03%) Social Skills
4 13 (7.34%) Telecoms
5 11 (6.21%) Legal
6 8 (4.52%) Publishing
7 6 (3.39%) Billing
8 5 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.82%) Military
8 5 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.26%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.13%) Banking
10 2 (1.13%) Electronics
10 2 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.13%) Local Government
10 2 (1.13%) Marketing
11 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.56%) Automotive
11 1 (0.56%) Police
11 1 (0.56%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.08%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.26%) Driving Licence
3 3 (1.69%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.13%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.13%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.56%) PMI
5 1 (0.56%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.56%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.52%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.56%) Windows
2 1 (0.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (49.72%) Agile
2 54 (30.51%) Project Management
3 52 (29.38%) Service Delivery
4 38 (21.47%) Project Delivery
5 27 (15.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 27 (15.25%) Scrum
6 26 (14.69%) Stakeholder Management
7 24 (13.56%) PRINCE2
8 18 (10.17%) Service Management
9 17 (9.60%) Change Management
10 16 (9.04%) Decision-Making
10 16 (9.04%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (8.47%) Software Delivery
12 14 (7.91%) Coaching
13 13 (7.34%) ITSM
13 13 (7.34%) User Experience
14 11 (6.21%) Roadmaps
14 11 (6.21%) Waterfall
15 10 (5.65%) Mentoring
15 10 (5.65%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.52%) Swift
Qualifications
1 56 (31.64%) Security Cleared
2 47 (26.55%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.52%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.39%) Degree
5 5 (2.82%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.26%) PMP
7 2 (1.13%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.56%) APMP
8 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.56%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.56%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.78%) SLA
2 8 (4.52%) PMO
3 4 (2.26%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.26%) QA
4 3 (1.69%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.13%) GxP
5 2 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (7.34%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.52%) Okta
3 7 (3.95%) SAP
4 4 (2.26%) Cadence
4 4 (2.26%) Google
5 3 (1.69%) Cisco
6 2 (1.13%) BT
6 2 (1.13%) Oracle
6 2 (1.13%) Pega
7 1 (0.56%) Ariba
7 1 (0.56%) Arqiva
7 1 (0.56%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.56%) CA
7 1 (0.56%) Citrix
7 1 (0.56%) Fujitsu
7 1 (0.56%) Genesys
7 1 (0.56%) IFS
7 1 (0.56%) NEC
7 1 (0.56%) Openreach
7 1 (0.56%) Salesforce