Delivery Project Manager Contract Job Trends in London

Delivery Project Manager
England > London

The median Delivery Project Manager daily rate in London is £560, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 369 378 408
Rank change year-on-year +9 +30 +143
Contract jobs requiring a Delivery Project Manager 6 9 15
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.044% 0.058% 0.075%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.061% 0.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 12
10th Percentile £416 £406 £501
25th Percentile £438 £438 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.19% -6.52% -4.17%
75th Percentile £691 £578 £663
90th Percentile £712 £688 £723
England median daily rate £523 £550 £555
% change year-on-year -4.91% -0.90% -0.22%

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 12,732 14,689 18,858
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.54% 94.01% 93.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,452 9,491 13,721
10th Percentile £333 £338 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £794 £798
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 157 210
10th Percentile £17.25 £17.25 £18.15
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.50 £21.75
Median hourly rate £26.57 £38.50 £40.17
Median % change year-on-year -30.99% -4.15% +22.64%
75th Percentile £47.50 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.73 £80.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £45.88
% change year-on-year -37.63% -12.11% +52.93%

Delivery Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Delivery Project Manager job vacancy trend in London

Delivery Project Manager
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Delivery Project Manager job vacancies in London

Delivery Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Delivery Project Manager in London over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Delivery Project Manager in London

Delivery Project Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Delivery Project Manager job vacancies in London

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

For the 6 months to 5 November 2025, Delivery Project 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 London region featuring Delivery Project Manager in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Project Delivery
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (66.67%) Project Management
4 3 (50.00%) Scrum
5 2 (33.33%) Change Management
5 2 (33.33%) JIRA
5 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
5 2 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
6 1 (16.67%) Analytics
6 1 (16.67%) Asana
6 1 (16.67%) Azure
6 1 (16.67%) Budget Management
6 1 (16.67%) Budgeting
6 1 (16.67%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
6 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
6 1 (16.67%) CMS
6 1 (16.67%) Coaching
6 1 (16.67%) Data Management
6 1 (16.67%) Data Strategy
6 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
6 1 (16.67%) Degree
6 1 (16.67%) DevOps
6 1 (16.67%) High Availability
6 1 (16.67%) Impact Analysis
6 1 (16.67%) Kanban
6 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
6 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
6 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Project

Delivery Project Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 1 (16.67%) CMS
1 1 (16.67%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (16.67%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Asana
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
1 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Project Delivery
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (66.67%) Project Management
4 3 (50.00%) Scrum
5 2 (33.33%) Change Management
5 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
5 2 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
6 1 (16.67%) Analytics
6 1 (16.67%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
6 1 (16.67%) Coaching
6 1 (16.67%) Data Strategy
6 1 (16.67%) DevOps
6 1 (16.67%) High Availability
6 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
6 1 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
6 1 (16.67%) Resource Allocation
6 1 (16.67%) Sprint Retrospective
6 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Identification
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) PMI Certification
1 1 (16.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Sitecore