Delivery Manager Contract Job Trends 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 7 September 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
7 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 270 202
Rank change year-on-year -28 -68 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Delivery Manager 234 291 556
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.85% 0.88% 1.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 0.95% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 197 408
10th Percentile £365 £375 £424
25th Percentile £418 £469 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £661
90th Percentile £728 £675 £725
UK median daily rate £515 £540 £576
% change year-on-year -4.63% -6.20% +4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile - - £12.95
25th Percentile - £51.25 £28.60
Median hourly rate £89.63 £52.50 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year +70.72% -7.71% +92.83%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £62.00
90th Percentile - - £69.65
UK median hourly rate £89.63 £52.50 £56.89
% change year-on-year +70.72% -7.71% +92.83%

All DemandTrendContract 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 25,195 30,650 40,901
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.41% 93.04% 94.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,241 19,528 28,697
10th Percentile £281 £301 £303
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,344 1,579 1,339
10th Percentile £13.51 £14.41 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.30 £21.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £47.25 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year -46.77% +7.72% +65.51%
75th Percentile £55.00 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +61.35%

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
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Delivery Manager job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Delivery Manager job vacancies in England

Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Delivery Manager in England over the 6 months to 7 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Delivery Manager in England

Delivery Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Delivery Manager job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Delivery Manager job vacancies 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 7 September 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 -11 106 £550 - 60
North of England -1 43 £475 -5.00% 21
Midlands +1 32 £463 -13.55% 17
West Midlands +4 26 £490 -19.67% 12
South East +3 22 £575 -0.43% 52
North West -3 21 £438 -7.89% 12
Yorkshire -8 20 £500 - 7
South West -2 18 £500 - 13
East Midlands 0 6 £400 -19.95% 4
North East -3 4 £520 -7.14% 2
East of England -1 2 £400 -31.91% 1
Delivery Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 September 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.

1 112 (47.86%) Agile
2 86 (36.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 84 (35.90%) Social Skills
4 70 (29.91%) Finance
5 60 (25.64%) Service Delivery
6 49 (20.94%) Security Cleared
6 49 (20.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 46 (19.66%) Scrum
8 43 (18.38%) Project Management
8 43 (18.38%) Project Delivery
9 42 (17.95%) JIRA
10 36 (15.38%) SC Cleared
11 35 (14.96%) Problem-Solving
12 33 (14.10%) ITIL
13 32 (13.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 30 (12.82%) Change Management
14 30 (12.82%) Public Sector
15 29 (12.39%) Service Management
16 27 (11.54%) Risk Management
17 25 (10.68%) Banking
17 25 (10.68%) Waterfall
18 24 (10.26%) Confluence
18 24 (10.26%) Roadmaps
19 22 (9.40%) Migration
20 21 (8.97%) Kanban
21 20 (8.55%) PRINCE2
22 18 (7.69%) Scaled Agile Framework
22 18 (7.69%) Azure
23 16 (6.84%) Legal
23 16 (6.84%) PMI Certification

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 24 (10.26%) Confluence
2 5 (2.14%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.43%) CMS
3 1 (0.43%) Drupal
3 1 (0.43%) IBM Notes
3 1 (0.43%) Smallworld
Applications
1 5 (2.14%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.28%) Trello
3 2 (0.85%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.71%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.85%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.85%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.43%) Finacle
3 1 (0.43%) Primavera
3 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (7.69%) Azure
2 11 (4.70%) Power Platform
3 10 (4.27%) AWS
4 8 (3.42%) Miro
5 7 (2.99%) SaaS
6 6 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.85%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.85%) GCP
8 2 (0.85%) OCI
8 2 (0.85%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (0.43%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (0.43%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.43%) Google Docs
9 1 (0.43%) Google Sheets
9 1 (0.43%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.43%) IaaS
9 1 (0.43%) PaaS
9 1 (0.43%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (0.43%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.85%) Firewall
2 3 (1.28%) LAN
2 3 (1.28%) SD-WAN
2 3 (1.28%) VPN
2 3 (1.28%) WAN
3 2 (0.85%) DHCP
3 2 (0.85%) DNS
3 2 (0.85%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.85%) Unified Communications
3 2 (0.85%) Wireless
4 1 (0.43%) Intranet
4 1 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.43%) MPLS
4 1 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.43%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.70%) Power BI
2 2 (0.85%) DTS
3 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.43%) GIS
3 1 (0.43%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.43%) MySQL
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.43%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 42 (17.95%) JIRA
2 1 (0.43%) Maven
General
1 84 (35.90%) Social Skills
2 70 (29.91%) Finance
3 30 (12.82%) Public Sector
4 25 (10.68%) Banking
5 16 (6.84%) Legal
6 15 (6.41%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (5.13%) Retail
7 12 (5.13%) Telecoms
8 10 (4.27%) Military
8 10 (4.27%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.42%) Law
10 6 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.71%) Local Government
11 4 (1.71%) Marketing
12 3 (1.28%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.28%) Front Office
13 2 (0.85%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.85%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.43%) .NET
2 1 (0.43%) ADO
2 1 (0.43%) AngularJS
2 1 (0.43%) Bootstrap
2 1 (0.43%) CSS
2 1 (0.43%) EDI
2 1 (0.43%) J2EE
2 1 (0.43%) jQuery
2 1 (0.43%) Kafka
2 1 (0.43%) REST
2 1 (0.43%) Sass
2 1 (0.43%) Spring
2 1 (0.43%) Spring MVC
2 1 (0.43%) VML
2 1 (0.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.13%) Onboarding
2 8 (3.42%) Product Ownership
3 7 (2.99%) Virtual Team
4 5 (2.14%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.71%) NHS
6 3 (1.28%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.28%) Operational Technology
7 2 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.85%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.43%) CSOC
8 1 (0.43%) Derivative
8 1 (0.43%) IVR
8 1 (0.43%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.43%) PMI
8 1 (0.43%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.43%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.14%) Windows
2 2 (0.85%) Linux
2 2 (0.85%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (47.86%) Agile
2 86 (36.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 60 (25.64%) Service Delivery
4 49 (20.94%) Continuous Improvement
5 46 (19.66%) Scrum
6 43 (18.38%) Project Delivery
6 43 (18.38%) Project Management
7 35 (14.96%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (14.10%) ITIL
9 32 (13.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 30 (12.82%) Change Management
11 29 (12.39%) Service Management
12 27 (11.54%) Risk Management
13 25 (10.68%) Waterfall
14 24 (10.26%) Roadmaps
15 22 (9.40%) Migration
16 21 (8.97%) Kanban
17 20 (8.55%) PRINCE2
18 18 (7.69%) Scaled Agile Framework
19 15 (6.41%) Programme Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (2.14%) Java
2 1 (0.43%) JavaScript
2 1 (0.43%) Korn
Qualifications
1 49 (20.94%) Security Cleared
2 36 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.84%) PMI Certification
4 15 (6.41%) Degree
4 15 (6.41%) PMP
5 14 (5.98%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.99%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.28%) CISM
9 2 (0.85%) A+ Certification
9 2 (0.85%) BC Cleared
9 2 (0.85%) CISSP
9 2 (0.85%) CRISC
9 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.85%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.43%) ACCA
10 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.43%) CEH
10 1 (0.43%) GCIH
10 1 (0.43%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.41%) SLA
2 14 (5.98%) QA
3 4 (1.71%) PMO
4 3 (1.28%) GDPR
5 2 (0.85%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.85%) ISO 19650
6 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.43%) COBIT
6 1 (0.43%) DO-254
6 1 (0.43%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.43%) EMIR
6 1 (0.43%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.43%) MiFID
6 1 (0.43%) NEBOSH
6 1 (0.43%) NIST
6 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (0.85%) SCCM
2 1 (0.43%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (0.43%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.42%) Salesforce
3 7 (2.99%) Oracle
3 7 (2.99%) ServiceNow
4 5 (2.14%) SAP
5 3 (1.28%) CheckPoint
5 3 (1.28%) Cisco
5 3 (1.28%) Databricks
5 3 (1.28%) IBM
5 3 (1.28%) NEC
5 3 (1.28%) OneLogin
5 3 (1.28%) Palo Alto
5 3 (1.28%) Workday
6 2 (0.85%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (0.85%) Genesys
6 2 (0.85%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.43%) Citrix
7 1 (0.43%) Informatica
7 1 (0.43%) Lotus
7 1 (0.43%) Remedy