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 2 July 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
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 104 125
Rank change year-on-year +9 +21 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Delivery Manager 26 22 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.46% 1.03% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.56% 1.08% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 18 31
10th Percentile £450 £419 £385
25th Percentile £519 £553 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +23.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £658 £742 £712
90th Percentile £750 £863 £825
Central London median daily rate £600 £600 £525
% change year-on-year - +14.29% -4.55%

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 1,667 2,032 3,272
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.70% 95.35% 94.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,059 1,402 2,209
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £451 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% -4.17% +5.68%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 19
10th Percentile £17.57 £16.33 £15.24
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.98% -29.64% -18.60%
75th Percentile £62.00 £40.00 £76.25
90th Percentile £86.43 £64.50 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £30.04 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.24% -22.86% -16.67%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 15 (57.69%) Finance
2 13 (50.00%) Agile
3 9 (34.62%) Banking
3 9 (34.62%) Project Delivery
4 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
4 8 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (26.92%) Scrum
5 7 (26.92%) Project Management
5 7 (26.92%) Service Delivery
6 5 (19.23%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
7 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
7 4 (15.38%) Project Governance
7 4 (15.38%) Programme Management
7 4 (15.38%) Investment Banking
7 4 (15.38%) JIRA
7 4 (15.38%) Service Management
7 4 (15.38%) ITIL
7 4 (15.38%) PRINCE2
7 4 (15.38%) PMI Certification
7 4 (15.38%) Budget Management
8 3 (11.54%) Onboarding
8 3 (11.54%) Decision-Making
8 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (11.54%) Financial Institution
8 3 (11.54%) PMP
8 3 (11.54%) Project Planning
8 3 (11.54%) Degree
8 3 (11.54%) Planview
8 3 (11.54%) Software Delivery

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 (11.54%) Confluence
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.69%) SuccessFactors
2 1 (3.85%) AWS
2 1 (3.85%) Azure
2 1 (3.85%) GCP
2 1 (3.85%) Kong
2 1 (3.85%) Miro
2 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Big Data
2 1 (3.85%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.85%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.85%) Looker
2 1 (3.85%) Power BI
2 1 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) JIRA
General
1 15 (57.69%) Finance
2 9 (34.62%) Banking
3 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
4 4 (15.38%) Investment Banking
5 3 (11.54%) Financial Institution
6 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.85%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (3.85%) Front Office
7 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.85%) Local Government
7 1 (3.85%) Military
7 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) REST
1 1 (3.85%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.85%) Derivative
2 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (3.85%) Learning Management System
2 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.85%) PMI
2 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) Agile
2 9 (34.62%) Project Delivery
3 8 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (26.92%) Project Management
4 7 (26.92%) Scrum
4 7 (26.92%) Service Delivery
5 5 (19.23%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (15.38%) Budget Management
6 4 (15.38%) ITIL
6 4 (15.38%) PRINCE2
6 4 (15.38%) Programme Management
6 4 (15.38%) Project Governance
6 4 (15.38%) Service Management
7 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (11.54%) Decision-Making
7 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (11.54%) Project Planning
7 3 (11.54%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 3 (11.54%) Software Delivery
7 3 (11.54%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.85%) Java
1 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) PMI Certification
1 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) Degree
2 3 (11.54%) PMP
3 1 (3.85%) ACCA
3 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.85%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) PMO
2 1 (3.85%) Dodd-Frank
2 1 (3.85%) EMIR
2 1 (3.85%) GRC
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.85%) MiFID
2 1 (3.85%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Planview
2 2 (7.69%) SAP
2 2 (7.69%) Splunk
3 1 (3.85%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (3.85%) Databricks
3 1 (3.85%) Google
3 1 (3.85%) IBM
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft