Delivery Manager Contracts in Manchester

Delivery Manager
North West > Manchester

The median Delivery Manager daily rate in Manchester is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 78 56
Rank change year-on-year +9 -22 +28
Contract jobs requiring a Delivery Manager 6 18 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.67% 1.26% 3.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 1.32% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 13 41
10th Percentile £483 £463 £431
25th Percentile £494 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - +15.00%
75th Percentile £603 £613 £638
90th Percentile £631 £638 £650
North West median daily rate £475 £575 £539
% change year-on-year -17.39% +6.73% +3.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 833 1,367 1,727
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.49% 95.66% 96.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 589 952 1,278
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £395 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £551 £586 £594
90th Percentile £669 £693 £675
North West median daily rate £473 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -4.16% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 83 44
10th Percentile - £12.05 £14.97
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.31 £17.50
Median hourly rate £24.50 £27.00 £27.60
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% -2.17% +52.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.75 £52.81
90th Percentile £78.25 £73.75 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £28.99 £27.50 £30.65
% change year-on-year +5.42% -10.27% +27.17%

Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Delivery Manager in Manchester

Delivery Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Delivery Manager in Manchester

Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Delivery Manager in Manchester over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Delivery Manager in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 Manchester region featuring Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Six Sigma
2 2 (33.33%) Change Management
2 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 2 (33.33%) Budget Management
3 1 (16.67%) Budgeting
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (16.67%) SMS
3 1 (16.67%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Release Train
3 1 (16.67%) StreamSets
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) FinOps
3 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
3 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps

Delivery Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Military
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Budget Management
2 2 (33.33%) Change Management
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 2 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 2 (33.33%) Six Sigma
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Break/Fix
3 1 (16.67%) Budgeting
3 1 (16.67%) Coaching
3 1 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) FinOps
3 1 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Release Train
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) APMP
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) IBM
1 1 (16.67%) StreamSets