Delivery Manager Contracts in England

Delivery Manager
UK > England

The median Delivery Manager daily rate in England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 254 243 212
Rank change year-on-year -11 -31 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Delivery Manager 247 356 636
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.01% 0.96% 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% 1.03% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 252 477
10th Percentile £357 £356 £425
25th Percentile £419 £461 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +6.98%
75th Percentile £635 £643 £675
90th Percentile £693 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 3
10th Percentile £31.60 - -
25th Percentile £37.75 £29.75 -
Median hourly rate £48.00 £30.00 £12.95
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% +131.66% -50.19%
75th Percentile £59.00 £51.57 £35.85
90th Percentile £65.60 £72.90 £49.59
UK median hourly rate £48.00 £30.00 £12.95
% change year-on-year +60.00% +131.66% -50.19%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Delivery Manager in England

Delivery Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Delivery Manager in England

Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Delivery Manager in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Delivery Manager in England

Delivery Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Delivery Manager in England

Delivery Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Delivery Manager in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Delivery Manager in England

Delivery Manager
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London -14 132 £525 -5.15% 92
South West +36 34 £545 -9.17% 19
South East +41 29 £563 +4.17% 52
North of England +2 27 £500 -9.09% 46
Midlands +22 18 £450 -17.81% 32
West Midlands +18 14 £450 -17.81% 23
Yorkshire +10 13 £425 -15.00% 17
North West -3 12 £500 -13.04% 25
East of England +28 6 £519 -1.14% 21
East Midlands +6 4 £391 - 9
North East +1 2 £519 - 5
Delivery Manager
UK

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

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

1 122 (49.39%) Agile
2 78 (31.58%) Social Skills
3 75 (30.36%) Finance
4 71 (28.74%) Stakeholder Management
5 58 (23.48%) Project Management
6 55 (22.27%) Service Delivery
7 54 (21.86%) Project Delivery
8 53 (21.46%) Security Cleared
9 50 (20.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 42 (17.00%) SC Cleared
10 42 (17.00%) JIRA
11 41 (16.60%) Scrum
12 38 (15.38%) Public Sector
13 36 (14.57%) ITIL
14 31 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
15 29 (11.74%) Risk Management
16 27 (10.93%) Banking
17 26 (10.53%) Change Management
18 25 (10.12%) PRINCE2
18 25 (10.12%) Confluence
18 25 (10.12%) Decision-Making
19 23 (9.31%) Azure
20 22 (8.91%) SAP
20 22 (8.91%) Programme Management
21 20 (8.10%) Waterfall
21 20 (8.10%) Roadmaps
22 19 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
22 19 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 19 (7.69%) Kanban
22 19 (7.69%) Service Management

Delivery Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 25 (10.12%) Confluence
2 2 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (0.81%) CMS
2 2 (0.81%) Drupal
3 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.40%) Camunda
Applications
1 7 (2.83%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (2.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.02%) Trello
4 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.81%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.83%) SAP ERP
2 3 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.81%) Eloqua
3 2 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.81%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.40%) Actimize
4 1 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.40%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.40%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.40%) SAP Retail
4 1 (0.40%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 23 (9.31%) Azure
2 12 (4.86%) AWS
3 10 (4.05%) SuccessFactors
4 5 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (2.02%) GCP
4 5 (2.02%) SaaS
5 4 (1.62%) Snowflake
6 3 (1.21%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (0.81%) Kong
7 2 (0.81%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (0.81%) Miro
8 1 (0.40%) Asana
8 1 (0.40%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.40%) BigCommerce
8 1 (0.40%) IBM Blueworks
8 1 (0.40%) PaaS
8 1 (0.40%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (0.40%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (0.40%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.05%) Firewall
2 2 (0.81%) Cisco Firepower
2 2 (0.81%) Intranet
2 2 (0.81%) MPLS
3 1 (0.40%) ATM
3 1 (0.40%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.02%) Data Lake
2 3 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (1.21%) Power BI
3 2 (0.81%) Big Data
3 2 (0.81%) Hadoop
3 2 (0.81%) Looker
3 2 (0.81%) MySQL
4 1 (0.40%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 42 (17.00%) JIRA
2 2 (0.81%) Maven
3 1 (0.40%) Bugzilla
3 1 (0.40%) Git
3 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.40%) Selenium
3 1 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 78 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 75 (30.36%) Finance
3 38 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 27 (10.93%) Banking
5 19 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (7.29%) Telecoms
7 16 (6.48%) Legal
8 12 (4.86%) Retail
9 11 (4.45%) Manufacturing
10 10 (4.05%) Local Government
11 9 (3.64%) Marketing
12 8 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (2.43%) Military
13 6 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.62%) Electronics
14 4 (1.62%) Law
15 3 (1.21%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.81%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.62%) REST
2 2 (0.81%) AngularJS
2 2 (0.81%) Bootstrap
2 2 (0.81%) CSS
2 2 (0.81%) EDI
2 2 (0.81%) J2EE
2 2 (0.81%) jQuery
2 2 (0.81%) Sass
2 2 (0.81%) Spring
2 2 (0.81%) Spring MVC
2 2 (0.81%) Swagger
2 2 (0.81%) VML
2 2 (0.81%) Web Services
3 1 (0.40%) .NET
3 1 (0.40%) ADO
3 1 (0.40%) JSON
3 1 (0.40%) Middleware
3 1 (0.40%) MIDP
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.26%) Onboarding
2 9 (3.64%) Product Ownership
3 6 (2.43%) Data Centre
3 6 (2.43%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.62%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.21%) NHS
6 3 (1.21%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.81%) IoT
7 2 (0.81%) Learning Management System
7 2 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.81%) Life Science
7 2 (0.81%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.81%) PMI
7 2 (0.81%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.40%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.83%) Windows
2 2 (0.81%) Linux
2 2 (0.81%) Unix
3 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (49.39%) Agile
2 71 (28.74%) Stakeholder Management
3 58 (23.48%) Project Management
4 55 (22.27%) Service Delivery
5 54 (21.86%) Project Delivery
6 50 (20.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 41 (16.60%) Scrum
8 36 (14.57%) ITIL
9 31 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
10 29 (11.74%) Risk Management
11 26 (10.53%) Change Management
12 25 (10.12%) Decision-Making
12 25 (10.12%) PRINCE2
13 22 (8.91%) Programme Management
14 20 (8.10%) Roadmaps
14 20 (8.10%) Waterfall
15 19 (7.69%) Kanban
15 19 (7.69%) Service Management
15 19 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 18 (7.29%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 6 (2.43%) Java
2 5 (2.02%) SQL
3 2 (0.81%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.40%) C#
Qualifications
1 53 (21.46%) Security Cleared
2 42 (17.00%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.26%) PMI Certification
4 12 (4.86%) PMP
5 10 (4.05%) Degree
6 6 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.43%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (2.02%) APMP
8 4 (1.62%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.21%) CISM
9 3 (1.21%) CISSP
9 3 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.21%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.81%) CISA
10 2 (0.81%) GIAC
10 2 (0.81%) ISACA
10 2 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.81%) SANS
11 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.40%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.05%) SLA
2 7 (2.83%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.83%) PMO
3 4 (1.62%) Government Security Classifications
3 4 (1.62%) QA
4 2 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.81%) NIST
5 1 (0.40%) COBIT
5 1 (0.40%) GDPR
5 1 (0.40%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (2.43%) FortiGate
2 3 (1.21%) Terraform
3 2 (0.81%) SCCM
4 1 (0.40%) Ansible
4 1 (0.40%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.40%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (8.91%) SAP
2 11 (4.45%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.64%) Cisco
4 7 (2.83%) CheckPoint
4 7 (2.83%) Databricks
5 5 (2.02%) Fortinet
5 5 (2.02%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.02%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.62%) Oracle
7 3 (1.21%) Ariba
7 3 (1.21%) Google
7 3 (1.21%) Planview
8 2 (0.81%) NEC
8 2 (0.81%) Splunk
8 2 (0.81%) Sun
8 2 (0.81%) Tenable
8 2 (0.81%) Workday
9 1 (0.40%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.40%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.40%) Spotify