Senior Delivery Manager Contracts in London

Senior Delivery Manager
England > London

The median Senior Delivery Manager daily rate in London is £559, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 June 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
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 383 449
Rank change year-on-year +52 +66 +102
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Delivery Manager 12 18 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.098% 0.10% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.11% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 25
10th Percentile £494 £498 £511
25th Percentile £500 £519 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £613 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% -5.77% +4.00%
75th Percentile £631 £708 £725
90th Percentile £718 £750 £750
England median daily rate £584 £613 £650
% change year-on-year -4.65% -5.77% +4.00%

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 11,435 16,438 23,998
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 93.64% 95.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,726 11,848 17,497
10th Percentile £349 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 327 279
10th Percentile £20.24 £16.00 £17.88
25th Percentile £24.42 £20.22 £22.57
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.81 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.07% -22.75% +2.86%
75th Percentile £50.25 £46.68 £63.75
90th Percentile £63.65 £67.40 £80.45
England median hourly rate £29.30 £39.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.82% -12.22% +88.21%

Senior Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Delivery Manager in London

Senior Delivery Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Delivery Manager in London

Senior Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Delivery Manager in London over the 6 months to 9 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Delivery Manager in London

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 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 London region featuring Senior Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (25.00%) Waterfall
3 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (25.00%) JIRA
3 3 (25.00%) Project Management
3 3 (25.00%) Scrum
4 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 2 (16.67%) Finance
4 2 (16.67%) ITIL
4 2 (16.67%) CMS
4 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (8.33%) Programme Delivery
5 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
5 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (8.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 1 (8.33%) Local Government
5 1 (8.33%) Degree
5 1 (8.33%) Conflict Resolution
5 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (8.33%) Customer Experience
5 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
5 1 (8.33%) Service Design

Senior 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 2 (16.67%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) GCP
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Local Government
3 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) IoT
1 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (25.00%) Project Management
3 3 (25.00%) Scrum
3 3 (25.00%) Waterfall
4 2 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (16.67%) ITIL
4 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
5 1 (8.33%) Content Management
5 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis
5 1 (8.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
5 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (8.33%) Programme Delivery
5 1 (8.33%) Release Management
5 1 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) PMI Certification
1 1 (8.33%) PMP
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared