Senior Delivery Manager Contracts

Senior Delivery Manager
UK

The median Senior Delivery Manager daily rate in the UK is £610 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 550 658 733
Rank change year-on-year +108 +75 -92
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Delivery Manager 48 61 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.10% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.11% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 52 63
10th Percentile £441 £538 £521
25th Percentile £531 £596 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +4.00% +27.88%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £659
90th Percentile £748 £775 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £700 £600
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% +20.00%

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 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

Senior Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Delivery Manager in the UK

Senior Delivery Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Delivery Manager in the UK

Senior Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Delivery Manager over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Delivery Manager in the UK

Senior Delivery Manager
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Delivery Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +103 31 £613 -5.77% 10
UK excluding London +70 28 £600 -14.29% 9
Work from Home +127 21 £606 -6.73% 3
London +87 18 £613 -5.77% 2
Scotland +47 16 £410 -52.33% 3
South West +26 10 £605 -21.94% 1
West Midlands +29 1 £700 +16.67% 2
Midlands +22 1 £700 +16.67% 2
North of England +21 1 £600 -11.11% 2
North West +11 1 £600 -7.69% 1

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 41 (85.42%) Agile
2 28 (58.33%) Security Cleared
3 27 (56.25%) SC Cleared
3 27 (56.25%) Project Management
4 25 (52.08%) Public Sector
5 19 (39.58%) Scrum
6 18 (37.50%) PRINCE2
7 16 (33.33%) Finance
8 15 (31.25%) JIRA
8 15 (31.25%) Software Delivery
9 14 (29.17%) Confluence
10 9 (18.75%) Project Delivery
11 8 (16.67%) Mentoring
12 7 (14.58%) PMO
12 7 (14.58%) Decision-Making
12 7 (14.58%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (14.58%) Programme Management
13 6 (12.50%) Marketing
13 6 (12.50%) Data Analysis
13 6 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
13 6 (12.50%) Coaching
13 6 (12.50%) Business Case
13 6 (12.50%) Social Skills
14 5 (10.42%) Waterfall
14 5 (10.42%) Kanban
14 5 (10.42%) Military
15 4 (8.33%) Google
15 4 (8.33%) SNA
15 4 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
15 4 (8.33%) SAP

Senior 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 14 (29.17%) Confluence
2 2 (4.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (4.17%) CMS
3 1 (2.08%) Drupal
3 1 (2.08%) Kentico
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3 (6.25%) SaaS
2 2 (4.17%) AWS
2 2 (4.17%) Azure
2 2 (4.17%) BigCommerce
2 2 (4.17%) GCP
2 2 (4.17%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.08%) Kontent
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.33%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.17%) MySQL
1 2 (4.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (31.25%) JIRA
2 2 (4.17%) Maven
General
1 25 (52.08%) Public Sector
2 16 (33.33%) Finance
3 6 (12.50%) Marketing
3 6 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 5 (10.42%) Military
5 4 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (6.25%) Publishing
7 2 (4.17%) Retail
8 1 (2.08%) Banking
8 1 (2.08%) Electronics
8 1 (2.08%) Legal
8 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.08%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.17%) AngularJS
1 2 (4.17%) CSS
1 2 (4.17%) J2EE
1 2 (4.17%) jQuery
1 2 (4.17%) REST
1 2 (4.17%) Sass
1 2 (4.17%) Spring
1 2 (4.17%) Spring MVC
1 2 (4.17%) Twitter Bootstrap
1 2 (4.17%) VML
1 2 (4.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (4.17%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.17%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.17%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.17%) Linux
1 2 (4.17%) Unix
1 2 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (85.42%) Agile
2 27 (56.25%) Project Management
3 19 (39.58%) Scrum
4 18 (37.50%) PRINCE2
5 15 (31.25%) Software Delivery
6 9 (18.75%) Project Delivery
7 8 (16.67%) Mentoring
8 7 (14.58%) Decision-Making
8 7 (14.58%) Programme Management
8 7 (14.58%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (12.50%) Business Case
9 6 (12.50%) Coaching
9 6 (12.50%) Data Analysis
9 6 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (10.42%) Kanban
10 5 (10.42%) Waterfall
11 4 (8.33%) Analytics
11 4 (8.33%) Data Analytics
11 4 (8.33%) Network Architecture
11 4 (8.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.17%) Java
1 2 (4.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 28 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 27 (56.25%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.33%) PMI Certification
3 4 (8.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.58%) PMO
2 2 (4.17%) SLA
Vendors
1 4 (8.33%) Google
1 4 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 4 (8.33%) SAP
2 2 (4.17%) Adobe
2 2 (4.17%) Atlassian
2 2 (4.17%) Dell
2 2 (4.17%) Intel
2 2 (4.17%) Salesforce
2 2 (4.17%) Sitecore
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle
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