Delivery Manager Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Delivery Manager
Cheshire > Knutsford

The median Delivery Manager daily rate in Knutsford is £460, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 43 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Delivery Manager 6 8 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 2.48% 3.07% -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.73% 3.40% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 0
10th Percentile £394 £389 -
25th Percentile £423 £410 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £427 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.61% - -
75th Percentile £523 £438 -
90th Percentile £612 £446 -
Cheshire median daily rate £460 £429 £525
% change year-on-year +7.11% -18.29% -25.00%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Knutsford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Knutsford. 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 Knutsford with a recognized job title 220 235 154
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.91% 90.04% 93.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 223 134
10th Percentile £362 £311 £326
25th Percentile £417 £357 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £402 £445
Median % change year-on-year +20.52% -9.56% -21.33%
75th Percentile £617 £490 £537
90th Percentile £655 £534 £606
Cheshire median daily rate £492 £437 £463
% change year-on-year +12.59% -5.51% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £15.73 - -
25th Percentile £15.93 - -
Median hourly rate £16.87 - -
75th Percentile £17.80 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £32.23 £31.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year +2.32% +77.74% -41.98%

Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Delivery Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Delivery Manager job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

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

Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Delivery Manager in Knutsford over the 6 months to 30 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Delivery Manager in Knutsford

Delivery Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford

For the 6 months to 30 July 2026, Delivery Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Knutsford region featuring Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 3 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) Coaching
1 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Information Security
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
1 3 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 3 (50.00%) Scrum
1 3 (50.00%) SDLC
1 3 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
1 3 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 3 (50.00%) User Stories
2 2 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 2 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 2 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
2 2 (33.33%) Business Case
2 2 (33.33%) Confluence
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) IT Asset Management
2 2 (33.33%) Kanban
2 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Product Backlog
2 2 (33.33%) Product Management

Delivery Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Client/Server
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) Coaching
1 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Information Security
1 3 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 3 (50.00%) Scrum
1 3 (50.00%) SDLC
1 3 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
1 3 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 3 (50.00%) User Stories
2 2 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
2 2 (33.33%) Business Case
2 2 (33.33%) IT Asset Management
2 2 (33.33%) Product Backlog
2 2 (33.33%) Programme Governance
2 2 (33.33%) Service Design
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft