Senior Delivery Manager Contracts in England

Senior Delivery Manager
UK > England

The median Senior Delivery Manager daily rate in England is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 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
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 492 511 563
Rank change year-on-year +19 +52 +158
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Delivery Manager 24 32 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.087% 0.093% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.095% 0.10% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 14 52
10th Percentile £447 £487 £563
25th Percentile £500 £518 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £595 £656
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -9.33% +5.00%
75th Percentile £828 £673 £745
90th Percentile £975 £730 £824
UK median daily rate £600 £605 £675
% change year-on-year -0.83% -10.37% +8.00%

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 25,339 31,938 43,601
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.75% 92.96% 94.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,468 21,084 30,793
10th Percentile £288 £300 £308
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,282 2,007 1,363
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.86 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.79 £19.22 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.30 £43.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -38.84% -1.71% +70.37%
75th Percentile £55.43 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.03 £43.00
% change year-on-year -40.16% -2.26% +67.45%

Senior Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Delivery Manager in England

Senior Delivery Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Delivery Manager in England

Senior Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Delivery Manager in England over the 6 months to 27 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Delivery Manager in England

Senior 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 Senior Delivery Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 27 July 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 +16 15 £568 -5.14% 11
North of England +1 4 £700 +40.00% 4
South West +31 2 £375 -37.50% 1
Yorkshire -10 2 - - 2
North East - 1 - -
North West - 1 £700 - 2
East of England - 1 £775 -
Senior Delivery Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 July 2025, 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 across the England region featuring Senior Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 13 (54.17%) Agile
2 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 7 (29.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 6 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (25.00%) Project Management
4 6 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (20.83%) Finance
5 5 (20.83%) Scrum
5 5 (20.83%) JIRA
5 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
5 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (20.83%) Roadmaps
6 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 4 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 4 (16.67%) Project Delivery
6 4 (16.67%) DevOps
6 4 (16.67%) Service Delivery
6 4 (16.67%) Risk Management
6 4 (16.67%) ITIL
7 3 (12.50%) Service Management
7 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
7 3 (12.50%) Software Engineering
7 3 (12.50%) Azure
7 3 (12.50%) Waterfall
7 3 (12.50%) Trello
7 3 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
8 2 (8.33%) Virtual Team
8 2 (8.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 2 (8.33%) Systems Thinking

Senior 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 2 (8.33%) CMS
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Trello
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.50%) Azure
2 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
2 2 (8.33%) SaaS
3 1 (4.17%) AWS
3 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (4.17%) GCP
3 1 (4.17%) Google Docs
3 1 (4.17%) Google Sheets
3 1 (4.17%) Google Workspace
3 1 (4.17%) Miro
3 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Power BI
2 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) JIRA
General
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Finance
2 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.33%) Banking
3 2 (8.33%) Military
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.17%) Front Office
4 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Local Government
4 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
1 2 (8.33%) Virtual Team
2 1 (4.17%) Culture of Ownership
2 1 (4.17%) Derivative
2 1 (4.17%) NHS
2 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Agile
2 7 (29.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 6 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (25.00%) Project Management
3 6 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.83%) Roadmaps
4 5 (20.83%) Scrum
5 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 4 (16.67%) DevOps
5 4 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 4 (16.67%) ITIL
5 4 (16.67%) Project Delivery
5 4 (16.67%) Risk Management
5 4 (16.67%) Service Delivery
6 3 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 3 (12.50%) Service Management
6 3 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 3 (12.50%) Waterfall
7 2 (8.33%) Service Design
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Degree
3 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Dodd-Frank
2 1 (4.17%) EMIR
2 1 (4.17%) MiFID
2 1 (4.17%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) Databricks
2 1 (4.17%) Google
2 1 (4.17%) OneLogin
2 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.17%) Spotify