The first table below looks at the demand for the Delivery Manager role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Delivery Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Delivery Manager
Rank 277 247 312
Rank change year-on-year
-30 +65
Contract jobs requiring a Delivery Manager 289 419 308
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.623% 0.718% 0.505%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.676% 0.777% 0.544%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 246 177
Average daily rate £450 £450 £430
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +4.65%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £344 £308
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £613 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £407 £403 £400
% change year-on-year
+1.11% +0.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
Average hourly rate £71.25 £11.00 £47.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+547.72% -76.84%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £85.00 £11.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year
+672.72% -76.84%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42733 53947 56601
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.11% 92.50% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24507 29722 30764
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2112 2572 2930
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Delivery Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Delivery Manager within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Delivery Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Delivery Manager within the UK.

Delivery Manager Daily Rate Trend

Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Delivery Manager within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Delivery Manager Daily Rate Histogram

Delivery Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Delivery Manager within the UK.

Delivery Manager Hourly Rate Trend

Delivery Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Delivery Manager within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Delivery Manager Hourly Rate Histogram

Delivery Manager
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Delivery Manager within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England -22 271 £450 -
London -40 124 £473 -
South East +8 75 £450 -
City of London +23 39 £500 +11.11%
Berkshire 0 30 £375 -16.66%
South West +30 14 £407 +0.49%
West Midlands +11 12 £350 +12.00%
North West +11 11 £377 +3.35%
East of England +8 11 £328 -15.48%
East Midlands -5 11 £563 +55.17%
Surrey +14 10 £498 +10.55%
Middlesex +9 10 £450 -32.58%
Hampshire -4 10 £500 +37.93%
Oxfordshire +12 8 £438 -5.40%
Reading +10 8 £375 -16.66%
Cheshire 0 7 £400 +4.91%
North East +18 6 £450 +119.51%
Chester - 6 - -
Solihull - 6 £394 -
Wiltshire +3 5 £408 -1.03%
Yorkshire -9 5 £325 -3.70%
Scotland -13 5 £325 -38.09%
Newcastle upon Tyne - 5 - -
Tyne and Wear - 5 - -
Birmingham +12 4 £340 -9.33%
Manchester +8 4 £355 +5.03%
Somerset +8 4 £400 -
Southampton +1 4 £500 -
Hertfordshire 0 4 £331 -11.66%
Nottinghamshire -3 4 - -

Delivery Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Delivery Manager in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Delivery Manager in their job title.

1 287 (47.67%) Service Delivery
2 189 (31.40%) ITIL
3 161 (26.74%) Finance
4 141 (23.42%) Project Management
5 96 (15.95%) Service Management
5 96 (15.95%) PRINCE2
6 76 (12.62%) Stakeholder Management
7 70 (11.63%) SLA
8 65 (10.80%) Telecoms
9 57 (9.468%) ITIL Certification
10 53 (8.804%) SAP
11 51 (8.472%) Change Management
12 45 (7.475%) Banking
13 44 (7.309%) Supplier Management
14 43 (7.143%) Migration
15 38 (6.312%) Security Cleared
16 35 (5.814%) Retail
17 32 (5.316%) Programme Management
18 31 (5.150%) Microsoft
18 31 (5.150%) Degree
19 28 (4.651%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 28 (4.651%) LAN
20 27 (4.485%) Scrum
20 27 (4.485%) Incident Management
21 26 (4.319%) Problem Management
21 26 (4.319%) WAN
21 26 (4.319%) Oracle
22 24 (3.987%) Java
22 24 (3.987%) E-Commerce
23 23 (3.821%) Windows

Delivery Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Delivery Manager in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Delivery Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (2.159%) Middleware
2 8 (1.329%) .NET
3 4 (0.664%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.498%) Web Services
4 3 (0.498%) ASP.NET
4 3 (0.498%) Spring
4 3 (0.498%) Spring MVC
5 2 (0.332%) NHibernate
5 2 (0.332%) J2EE
6 1 (0.166%) Flash
6 1 (0.166%) HTML
6 1 (0.166%) XML
6 1 (0.166%) COM
6 1 (0.166%) CSS
6 1 (0.166%) LAMP
6 1 (0.166%) Hibernate
6 1 (0.166%) jQuery
6 1 (0.166%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 19 (3.156%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.495%) SharePoint 2010
3 5 (0.831%) SharePoint 2013
4 4 (0.664%) SAS
5 3 (0.498%) MS Exchange
5 3 (0.498%) Lotus Notes
6 2 (0.332%) Lync
6 2 (0.332%) Lotus Domino
6 2 (0.332%) Commerce Server
6 2 (0.332%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.166%) WebSphere MQ
7 1 (0.166%) Apache
7 1 (0.166%) CMS
7 1 (0.166%) SAP Web AS
7 1 (0.166%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.166%) Magento
7 1 (0.166%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.166%) Drupal
7 1 (0.166%) WebSphere Message Broker
7 1 (0.166%) Adobe CQ
Applications
1 22 (3.654%) MS Office
2 16 (2.658%) MS Visio
3 11 (1.827%) MS Excel
4 7 (1.163%) MS Project
5 6 (0.997%) MS PowerPoint
6 5 (0.831%) Office 365
7 2 (0.332%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.166%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 6 (0.997%) SAP CO
1 6 (0.997%) SAP FI/CO
1 6 (0.997%) SAP FI
2 5 (0.831%) SAP R/3
2 5 (0.831%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.831%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 4 (0.664%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (0.498%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.498%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.332%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.332%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.332%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.166%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.166%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.166%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.166%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.166%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.166%) Adaptiv
6 1 (0.166%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.166%) SAP SRM
Communications & Networking
1 28 (4.651%) LAN
2 26 (4.319%) WAN
3 14 (2.326%) Internet
4 11 (1.827%) LTE
5 10 (1.661%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (1.661%) 3G
6 9 (1.495%) Broadband
6 9 (1.495%) 2G
7 7 (1.163%) Radio Access Network
8 6 (0.997%) 4G
8 6 (0.997%) HTTP
8 6 (0.997%) Intranet
9 5 (0.831%) SAN
9 5 (0.831%) Wireless
10 3 (0.498%) DNS
10 3 (0.498%) BSS
11 2 (0.332%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (0.332%) IP Telephony
11 2 (0.332%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.332%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (0.831%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (0.831%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.332%) Big Data
2 2 (0.332%) Hadoop
2 2 (0.332%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (0.166%) SAP BW
3 1 (0.166%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.166%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (0.166%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (0.166%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 3 (0.498%) JIRA
2 1 (0.166%) PowerBuilder
2 1 (0.166%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (0.166%) ERwin
2 1 (0.166%) Subversion
2 1 (0.166%) Maven
2 1 (0.166%) Selenium
2 1 (0.166%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.166%) GitHub
General
1 161 (26.74%) Finance
2 65 (10.80%) Telecoms
3 45 (7.475%) Banking
4 35 (5.814%) Retail
5 17 (2.824%) Investment Banking
6 13 (2.159%) Back Office
7 11 (1.827%) Legal
8 9 (1.495%) Front Office
8 9 (1.495%) Billing
9 8 (1.329%) Law
9 8 (1.329%) Publishing
10 7 (1.163%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.831%) Automotive
11 5 (0.831%) Retail Banking
12 4 (0.664%) Marketing
12 4 (0.664%) Multimedia
13 3 (0.498%) Local Government
14 2 (0.332%) Private Banking
14 2 (0.332%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.332%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 17 (2.824%) Management Information System
2 10 (1.661%) Market Risk
2 10 (1.661%) PMI
3 8 (1.329%) Enterprise Storage
3 8 (1.329%) E-Learning
3 8 (1.329%) NHS
3 8 (1.329%) Mainframe
4 7 (1.163%) SaaS
5 6 (0.997%) Digital Media
5 6 (0.997%) FMCG
6 5 (0.831%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (0.831%) Equities
6 5 (0.831%) Mobile App
7 4 (0.664%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (0.498%) Blackberry
8 3 (0.498%) Smartphone
8 3 (0.498%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.498%) Open Source
9 2 (0.332%) PaaS
9 2 (0.332%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.821%) Windows
2 14 (2.326%) UNIX
3 6 (0.997%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (0.831%) Linux
4 5 (0.831%) Windows 7
5 3 (0.498%) Windows NT
5 3 (0.498%) Windows XP
5 3 (0.498%) Windows 2000
5 3 (0.498%) Windows Vista
5 3 (0.498%) Windows 8
6 2 (0.332%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.332%) Android
6 2 (0.332%) AIX
6 2 (0.332%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.166%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (47.67%) Service Delivery
2 189 (31.40%) ITIL
3 141 (23.42%) Project Management
4 96 (15.95%) Service Management
4 96 (15.95%) PRINCE2
5 76 (12.62%) Stakeholder Management
6 51 (8.472%) Change Management
7 44 (7.309%) Supplier Management
8 43 (7.143%) Migration
9 32 (5.316%) Programme Management
10 28 (4.651%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 27 (4.485%) Scrum
11 27 (4.485%) Incident Management
12 26 (4.319%) Problem Management
13 24 (3.987%) E-Commerce
14 23 (3.821%) ITIL V3
15 22 (3.654%) Release Management
16 21 (3.488%) Risk Management
17 20 (3.322%) Agile Software Development
18 17 (2.824%) PRINCE
Programming Languages
1 24 (3.987%) Java
2 14 (2.326%) SQL
3 3 (0.498%) C#
4 2 (0.332%) C
5 1 (0.166%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 57 (9.468%) ITIL Certification
2 38 (6.312%) Security Cleared
3 31 (5.150%) Degree
4 22 (3.654%) PMI Certification
5 20 (3.322%) SC Cleared
6 16 (2.658%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 14 (2.326%) PMP
8 13 (2.159%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.827%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 5 (0.831%) BC Cleared
10 5 (0.831%) APMP
11 2 (0.332%) CISM
11 2 (0.332%) CISSP
11 2 (0.332%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.166%) ECDL
12 1 (0.166%) HND
12 1 (0.166%) MCSE
12 1 (0.166%) MCSA
12 1 (0.166%) MBA
12 1 (0.166%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (11.63%) SLA
2 17 (2.824%) QA
3 3 (0.498%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.332%) COBIT
4 2 (0.332%) ISO 9000
4 2 (0.332%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.166%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.166%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.166%) FATCA
System Software
1 10 (1.661%) NFS
2 9 (1.495%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.329%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 2 (0.332%) vSphere
4 2 (0.332%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (0.332%) SCCM
2 1 (0.166%) Tivoli
2 1 (0.166%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 53 (8.804%) SAP
2 31 (5.150%) Microsoft
3 26 (4.319%) Oracle
4 11 (1.827%) IBM
4 11 (1.827%) Amdocs
5 10 (1.661%) Cisco
6 8 (1.329%) Avaloq
6 8 (1.329%) Salesforce.com
7 7 (1.163%) VMware
7 7 (1.163%) BT
7 7 (1.163%) Nokia Siemens Networks
8 5 (0.831%) Remedy
8 5 (0.831%) Lotus
8 5 (0.831%) Calypso
8 5 (0.831%) SunGard
9 4 (0.664%) Citrix
9 4 (0.664%) Ericsson
10 3 (0.498%) CheckPoint
10 3 (0.498%) HP
11 2 (0.332%) Pega
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ReThink Recruitment
Rate: £450 - £490 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
South West
Our prestigious client are currently looking for an experienced Service Delivery Manager to join the business on an initial 6 month contract to implement ITIL v3 processes within...
Sanderson
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
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Our client are looking for an experienced Service Delivery Manager for an initial 3 month contract based in Knutsford... The candidate will be required to ensure that capacity...
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Rate: £300 - £385 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
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The Role * Service Delivery Management within a Cisco environment * Drive the company's service department to continually better its performance * Senior service management role, assisting with the management...
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Posted: 20 May 2013
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Rate: Up to £500 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
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Our Customer is looking for a Service Delivery Manager to perform customer relationship management to all business areas, managing supplier relationships at a working level and ensuring that...
LA International
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
Aberdeen, Scotland
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Cathcart Associates
Rate: £250 - £350 per day
Posted: 2 May 2013
Berkshire
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Austin Fraser
Rate: £0.00 per day + NEG
Posted: 23 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
The successful candidate will have a wealth of experience delivering business change within IT in a number of position. Stakeholder management with a SDLC background would be advantageous.
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Rate: Negotiable
Posted: 21 May 2013
City of London
DV Cleared Technical Delivery Project Manager Rate: £500 - 700 per day **Capita Resourcing are the Managed Service Provider for various Central Government Clients which require the Highest level...
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £500 - £700 per day
Posted: 28 April 2013
Slough, Berkshire
Manage the transmission SLA's... Own the process workflow to manage ordering to delivery... Proficient in the use in Microsoft s software packages. Knowledge of radio principles (2G &...
Lorien Resourcing
Posted: 20 May 2013
West London
Knowledge of Project Management methodologies and techniques. Experienced & advanced user of Microsoft Office tools (particularly Excel & PowerPoint) Pro-active work ethic with the ability to deliver results and...
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Rate: £450 - £495 per day
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Rate: £400 - £475 per day
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Rate: £240 - £270 per day
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