Delivery Manager Contracts

Delivery Manager
UK

The median Delivery Manager daily rate in the UK is £530 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 250 211 195
Rank change year-on-year -39 -16 +71
Contract jobs requiring a Delivery Manager 402 701 1,288
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.93% 1.25% 1.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 1.32% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 527 909
10th Percentile £350 £425 £413
25th Percentile £431 £495 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £637 £650 £606
90th Percentile £723 £750 £677
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £575 £513
% change year-on-year -8.70% +12.20% +2.50%
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% -48.00%
75th Percentile £51.57 £35.85 £26.50
90th Percentile £72.90 £49.59 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £12.95 -
% change year-on-year +131.66% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Delivery Manager in the UK

Delivery Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Delivery Manager in the UK

Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Delivery Manager over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Delivery Manager in the UK

Delivery Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Delivery Manager in the UK

Delivery Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Delivery Manager over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Delivery Manager in the UK

Delivery Manager
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England -42 343 £550 -4.35% 118
London 0 183 £550 -4.35% 38
UK excluding London -49 168 £525 -8.70% 89
Work from Home +5 147 £550 - 47
North of England -43 44 £550 -1.12% 25
South West +1 42 £600 -4.00% 12
South East 0 36 £550 +7.32% 16
North West -22 32 £575 +9.52% 13
Scotland +29 22 £500 -4.76% 9
Midlands -7 15 £560 -6.67% 17
Yorkshire -9 11 £500 -16.67% 10
East Midlands -1 8 - - 6
West Midlands -7 7 £560 -10.40% 11
East of England 0 6 £525 -12.50% 10
Wales +13 3 £420 -23.64% 2
North East +7 1 - - 4

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 featuring Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 204 (50.75%) Agile
2 113 (28.11%) Service Delivery
3 110 (27.36%) Security Cleared
4 106 (26.37%) Project Management
5 97 (24.13%) SC Cleared
6 93 (23.13%) Finance
7 87 (21.64%) Project Delivery
8 86 (21.39%) Public Sector
8 86 (21.39%) Social Skills
9 84 (20.90%) Stakeholder Management
10 66 (16.42%) Continuous Improvement
11 61 (15.17%) Scrum
12 44 (10.95%) PRINCE2
13 42 (10.45%) JIRA
14 37 (9.20%) Azure
14 37 (9.20%) Roadmaps
15 36 (8.96%) Decision-Making
16 35 (8.71%) Problem-Solving
16 35 (8.71%) Kanban
16 35 (8.71%) Microsoft
16 35 (8.71%) Service Management
17 33 (8.21%) Change Management
17 33 (8.21%) Waterfall
18 32 (7.96%) AWS
19 29 (7.21%) Telecoms
20 27 (6.72%) ITIL
21 26 (6.47%) PMI Certification
22 25 (6.22%) Business Case
23 24 (5.97%) Coaching
23 24 (5.97%) Risk Management

Delivery Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 22 (5.47%) Confluence
2 3 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (0.75%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.50%) CMS
4 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.25%) Drupal
4 1 (0.25%) Kentico
Applications
1 9 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.50%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.75%) Infor SunSystems
1 3 (0.75%) SAP ERP
1 3 (0.75%) Shopify
2 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 37 (9.20%) Azure
2 32 (7.96%) AWS
3 21 (5.22%) SaaS
4 18 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (2.49%) GCP
6 6 (1.49%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (1.00%) iPaaS
8 3 (0.75%) BigCommerce
9 2 (0.50%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.50%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.50%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.25%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.25%) Asana
10 1 (0.25%) GitHub
10 1 (0.25%) Kontent
10 1 (0.25%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.25%) PaaS
10 1 (0.25%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.99%) SD-WAN
2 4 (1.00%) Radio Access Network
3 3 (0.75%) Firewall
3 3 (0.75%) VPN
4 2 (0.50%) ISDN
4 2 (0.50%) PSTN
4 2 (0.50%) SNA
5 1 (0.25%) DNS
5 1 (0.25%) Intranet
5 1 (0.25%) LAN
5 1 (0.25%) MPLS
5 1 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (0.25%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.24%) Power BI
2 4 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (0.75%) MySQL
3 3 (0.75%) Tableau
4 2 (0.50%) Looker
4 2 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (0.50%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.25%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 42 (10.45%) JIRA
2 3 (0.75%) Maven
3 1 (0.25%) CA Gen
3 1 (0.25%) Git
3 1 (0.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 93 (23.13%) Finance
2 86 (21.39%) Public Sector
2 86 (21.39%) Social Skills
3 29 (7.21%) Telecoms
4 24 (5.97%) Legal
5 16 (3.98%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (3.98%) Influencing Skills
5 16 (3.98%) Military
6 13 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (2.49%) Banking
7 10 (2.49%) Marketing
8 9 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (1.99%) Billing
9 8 (1.99%) Local Government
10 7 (1.74%) Publishing
11 6 (1.49%) Police
11 6 (1.49%) Retail
12 4 (1.00%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.00%) French Language
12 4 (1.00%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.75%) AngularJS
1 3 (0.75%) CSS
1 3 (0.75%) J2EE
1 3 (0.75%) jQuery
1 3 (0.75%) REST
1 3 (0.75%) Sass
1 3 (0.75%) Spring
1 3 (0.75%) Spring MVC
1 3 (0.75%) Twitter Bootstrap
1 3 (0.75%) VML
1 3 (0.75%) Web Services
2 2 (0.50%) Kafka
3 1 (0.25%) ADO
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 19 (4.73%) Product Ownership
2 11 (2.74%) Virtual Team
3 9 (2.24%) Management Information System
4 6 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.00%) Driving Licence
5 4 (1.00%) Onboarding
6 3 (0.75%) Cloud Native
6 3 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (0.75%) PMI
6 3 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.50%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.50%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (0.50%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.50%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.50%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.25%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.25%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.99%) Apple iOS
1 8 (1.99%) Windows
2 3 (0.75%) Linux
2 3 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (50.75%) Agile
2 113 (28.11%) Service Delivery
3 106 (26.37%) Project Management
4 87 (21.64%) Project Delivery
5 84 (20.90%) Stakeholder Management
6 66 (16.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 61 (15.17%) Scrum
8 44 (10.95%) PRINCE2
9 37 (9.20%) Roadmaps
10 36 (8.96%) Decision-Making
11 35 (8.71%) Kanban
11 35 (8.71%) Problem-Solving
11 35 (8.71%) Service Management
12 33 (8.21%) Change Management
12 33 (8.21%) Waterfall
13 27 (6.72%) ITIL
14 25 (6.22%) Business Case
15 24 (5.97%) Coaching
15 24 (5.97%) ITSM
15 24 (5.97%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (1.99%) Swift
2 4 (1.00%) Java
3 3 (0.75%) C#
3 3 (0.75%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 110 (27.36%) Security Cleared
2 97 (24.13%) SC Cleared
3 26 (6.47%) PMI Certification
4 23 (5.72%) PMP
5 17 (4.23%) Degree
6 13 (3.23%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.75%) BC Cleared
8 3 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.50%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.50%) FFIEC
9 2 (0.50%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.25%) APMP
10 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.25%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.25%) PgMP
10 1 (0.25%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.25%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.47%) SLA
2 12 (2.99%) PMO
3 11 (2.74%) QA
4 9 (2.24%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.75%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.50%) GRC
6 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.50%) NIST
6 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (8.71%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.23%) SAP
3 15 (3.73%) ServiceNow
4 9 (2.24%) Cadence
4 9 (2.24%) Google
5 8 (1.99%) Okta
6 5 (1.24%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.00%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.00%) Oracle
8 3 (0.75%) Adobe
8 3 (0.75%) BT
8 3 (0.75%) Cisco
8 3 (0.75%) Dell
8 3 (0.75%) Intel
8 3 (0.75%) Sage
8 3 (0.75%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.50%) Ariba
9 2 (0.50%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.50%) Pega
9 2 (0.50%) Splunk