Delivery Manager Contracts in the City of London

Delivery Manager
Central London > City of London

The median Delivery Manager daily rate in the City of London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 101 132
Rank change year-on-year +2 +31 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Delivery Manager 23 24 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.31% 1.10% 1.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.41% 1.16% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 17 32
10th Percentile £450 £335 £417
25th Percentile £506 £425 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £539
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +20.65% -2.05%
75th Percentile £666 £744 £737
90th Percentile £812 £868 £825
Central London median daily rate £600 £575 £539
% change year-on-year +4.35% +6.73% -2.05%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 City of London with a recognized job title 1,634 2,075 3,462
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.05% 95.10% 95.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,025 1,474 2,351
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £588
% change year-on-year +4.55% -6.38% +4.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 23
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -5.41%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.64
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -28.57% -5.41%

Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Delivery Manager in the City of London

Delivery Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Delivery Manager in the City of London

Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Delivery Manager in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Delivery Manager in the City of London

Delivery Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, 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 City of London region featuring Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 14 (60.87%) Agile
2 12 (52.17%) Finance
3 9 (39.13%) Project Delivery
4 7 (30.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (30.43%) Project Management
5 6 (26.09%) Scrum
5 6 (26.09%) Banking
5 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
6 5 (21.74%) Budget Management
6 5 (21.74%) JIRA
6 5 (21.74%) Service Delivery
6 5 (21.74%) Project Governance
6 5 (21.74%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (17.39%) SAP
7 4 (17.39%) PRINCE2
8 3 (13.04%) Risk Management
8 3 (13.04%) Investment Banking
8 3 (13.04%) Project Planning
8 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
8 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
8 3 (13.04%) PMI Certification
8 3 (13.04%) Planview
8 3 (13.04%) Confluence
8 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (13.04%) Decision-Making
8 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
9 2 (8.70%) Product Roadmap
9 2 (8.70%) Roadmaps

Delivery Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 3 (13.04%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.35%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) SAP ERP
2 1 (4.35%) SAP MDG
2 1 (4.35%) SAP MM
2 1 (4.35%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.70%) SuccessFactors
2 1 (4.35%) AWS
2 1 (4.35%) Azure
2 1 (4.35%) GCP
2 1 (4.35%) IBM Blueworks
2 1 (4.35%) Kong
2 1 (4.35%) Miro
2 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Big Data
2 1 (4.35%) BigQuery
2 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.35%) Looker
2 1 (4.35%) Power BI
2 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) JIRA
General
1 12 (52.17%) Finance
2 6 (26.09%) Banking
2 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Investment Banking
3 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Local Government
5 1 (4.35%) Military
5 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) REST
1 1 (4.35%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (4.35%) Learning Management System
1 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
1 1 (4.35%) NHS
1 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
1 1 (4.35%) PMI
1 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
1 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) Agile
2 9 (39.13%) Project Delivery
3 7 (30.43%) Project Management
3 7 (30.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (26.09%) Scrum
5 5 (21.74%) Budget Management
5 5 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (21.74%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (21.74%) Project Governance
5 5 (21.74%) Service Delivery
6 4 (17.39%) PRINCE2
7 3 (13.04%) Decision-Making
7 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (13.04%) Project Planning
7 3 (13.04%) Risk Management
7 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 2 (8.70%) Product Roadmap
8 2 (8.70%) Roadmaps
8 2 (8.70%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 2 (8.70%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.35%) Java
1 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) PMI Certification
1 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
1 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) Degree
2 2 (8.70%) PMP
3 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.35%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) PMO
2 1 (4.35%) GRC
2 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.35%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) SAP
2 3 (13.04%) Planview
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.70%) Splunk
4 1 (4.35%) Brio
4 1 (4.35%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (4.35%) Databricks
4 1 (4.35%) Google