Delivery Manager Contracts in London

Delivery Manager
England > London

The median Delivery Manager daily rate in London is £539, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 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
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 222 222 216
Rank change year-on-year 0 -6 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Delivery Manager 129 183 319
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.04% 1.05% 1.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 1.12% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 142 242
10th Percentile £362 £364 £412
25th Percentile £448 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -8.33% +6.67%
75th Percentile £636 £645 £700
90th Percentile £752 £744 £750
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.50 - £56.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £57.50
75th Percentile £32.50 - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £48.00 £30.00 £12.95
% change year-on-year +60.00% +131.66% -50.19%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 11,563 16,328 24,768
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 93.45% 95.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,900 11,807 18,005
10th Percentile £349 £325 £363
25th Percentile £428 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £679 £688 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 319 281
10th Percentile £20.24 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.54 £20.02 £22.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.64% -21.43% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £45.62 £60.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.23 £82.25
England median hourly rate £30.00 £36.92 £45.00
% change year-on-year -18.73% -17.97% +95.42%

Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Delivery Manager in London

Delivery Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Delivery Manager in London

Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Delivery Manager in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Delivery Manager in London

Delivery Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Delivery Manager in London

Delivery Manager
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Central London 0 28 £600 - 9
West London +11 1 - - 1
South London +5 1 £625 - 3
Delivery Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 London region featuring Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 66 (51.16%) Agile
2 49 (37.98%) Social Skills
3 42 (32.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 38 (29.46%) Finance
5 32 (24.81%) Project Delivery
6 28 (21.71%) Scrum
7 27 (20.93%) Service Delivery
8 25 (19.38%) Project Management
8 25 (19.38%) Security Cleared
9 20 (15.50%) JIRA
10 19 (14.73%) SC Cleared
11 18 (13.95%) Public Sector
11 18 (13.95%) Decision-Making
12 17 (13.18%) Waterfall
12 17 (13.18%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (13.18%) Banking
13 16 (12.40%) Azure
14 15 (11.63%) Change Management
14 15 (11.63%) PRINCE2
15 14 (10.85%) ITIL
15 14 (10.85%) Programme Management
15 14 (10.85%) Risk Management
15 14 (10.85%) Analytical Skills
16 13 (10.08%) SAP
16 13 (10.08%) Problem-Solving
17 12 (9.30%) Onboarding
18 11 (8.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 11 (8.53%) Project Governance
18 11 (8.53%) Kanban
19 10 (7.75%) Roadmaps

Delivery Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 9 (6.98%) Confluence
2 2 (1.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (1.55%) CMS
3 1 (0.78%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.78%) Camunda
3 1 (0.78%) Drupal
Applications
1 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.55%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.55%) Trello
4 1 (0.78%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (4.65%) SAP ERP
2 2 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.78%) Actimize
3 1 (0.78%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.78%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.78%) SAP Retail
3 1 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.78%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 16 (12.40%) Azure
2 8 (6.20%) SuccessFactors
3 6 (4.65%) AWS
4 3 (2.33%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.55%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.55%) GCP
5 2 (1.55%) Kong
5 2 (1.55%) Miro
5 2 (1.55%) SaaS
6 1 (0.78%) BigCommerce
6 1 (0.78%) IBM Blueworks
6 1 (0.78%) PaaS
6 1 (0.78%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (0.78%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (0.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.10%) Firewall
2 1 (0.78%) MPLS
2 1 (0.78%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (2.33%) Power BI
2 2 (1.55%) Big Data
2 2 (1.55%) Data Lake
2 2 (1.55%) Hadoop
2 2 (1.55%) MySQL
3 1 (0.78%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.78%) Looker
3 1 (0.78%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (15.50%) JIRA
2 2 (1.55%) Maven
General
1 49 (37.98%) Social Skills
2 38 (29.46%) Finance
3 18 (13.95%) Public Sector
4 17 (13.18%) Banking
5 14 (10.85%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.43%) Legal
6 7 (5.43%) Local Government
6 7 (5.43%) Retail
7 5 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.88%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.10%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.33%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.33%) Marketing
10 2 (1.55%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.55%) Law
10 2 (1.55%) Military
10 2 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.55%) Police
11 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.10%) REST
2 2 (1.55%) AngularJS
2 2 (1.55%) Bootstrap
2 2 (1.55%) CSS
2 2 (1.55%) EDI
2 2 (1.55%) J2EE
2 2 (1.55%) jQuery
2 2 (1.55%) Sass
2 2 (1.55%) Spring
2 2 (1.55%) Spring MVC
2 2 (1.55%) Swagger
2 2 (1.55%) VML
2 2 (1.55%) Web Services
3 1 (0.78%) .NET
3 1 (0.78%) JSON
3 1 (0.78%) Middleware
3 1 (0.78%) MIDP
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.30%) Onboarding
2 5 (3.88%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.10%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (3.10%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.33%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.33%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (2.33%) NHS
5 2 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.55%) IoT
5 2 (1.55%) Learning Management System
5 2 (1.55%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.55%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.78%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.78%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.78%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.65%) Windows
2 3 (2.33%) Linux
3 2 (1.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (51.16%) Agile
2 42 (32.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 32 (24.81%) Project Delivery
4 28 (21.71%) Scrum
5 27 (20.93%) Service Delivery
6 25 (19.38%) Project Management
7 18 (13.95%) Decision-Making
8 17 (13.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (13.18%) Waterfall
9 15 (11.63%) Change Management
9 15 (11.63%) PRINCE2
10 14 (10.85%) ITIL
10 14 (10.85%) Programme Management
10 14 (10.85%) Risk Management
11 13 (10.08%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (8.53%) Kanban
12 11 (8.53%) Project Governance
12 11 (8.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 10 (7.75%) Roadmaps
14 9 (6.98%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (3.88%) Java
2 4 (3.10%) SQL
3 2 (1.55%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.78%) C#
Qualifications
1 25 (19.38%) Security Cleared
2 19 (14.73%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.43%) PMI Certification
4 6 (4.65%) PMP
5 5 (3.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.10%) Degree
7 2 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.55%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.43%) PMO
2 5 (3.88%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.88%) QA
3 3 (2.33%) SLA
4 1 (0.78%) GRC
4 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.78%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (1.55%) SCCM
2 1 (0.78%) Terraform
2 1 (0.78%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (10.08%) SAP
2 8 (6.20%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.88%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.10%) Databricks
5 3 (2.33%) Planview
6 2 (1.55%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.55%) Splunk
6 2 (1.55%) Sun
7 1 (0.78%) Adobe
7 1 (0.78%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.78%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.78%) Cisco
7 1 (0.78%) Citrix
7 1 (0.78%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.78%) Google
7 1 (0.78%) Oracle
7 1 (0.78%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.78%) Progress
7 1 (0.78%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.78%) Zoho