Delivery Manager Contracts in the North of England

Delivery Manager
England > North of England

The median Delivery Manager daily rate in the North of England is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 July 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
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 139 87
Rank change year-on-year +9 -52 +32
Contract jobs requiring a Delivery Manager 42 39 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.10% 0.84% 2.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.19% 0.91% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 23 85
10th Percentile £400 £444 £439
25th Percentile £416 £459 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -10.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £522 £555 £650
90th Percentile £585 £630 £750
England median daily rate £525 £540 £588
% change year-on-year -2.78% -8.09% +6.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 3,529 4,271 5,198
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 92.41% 95.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,298 2,643 3,557
10th Percentile £254 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £386 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.63% -3.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £643 £655 £680
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 382 194
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.45 £14.58
25th Percentile £17.12 £14.03 £17.47
Median hourly rate £22.32 £24.87 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.27% +10.53% +9.76%
75th Percentile £47.12 £47.88 £43.39
90th Percentile £75.24 £68.63 £53.24
England median hourly rate £27.59 £40.33 £43.00
% change year-on-year -31.59% -6.22% +70.01%

Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Delivery Manager in the North of England

Delivery Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Delivery Manager in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Delivery Manager in the North of England

Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Delivery Manager in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Delivery Manager in the North of England

Delivery Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Delivery Manager in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Delivery Manager in the North of England

Delivery Manager
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
Yorkshire +3 20 £475 - 17
North West +4 19 £438 -16.67% 34
North East -1 5 £519 -7.37% 8
Delivery Manager
England

Delivery Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 18 July 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 North of England region featuring Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 24 (57.14%) Agile
2 17 (40.48%) Project Management
3 12 (28.57%) JIRA
4 11 (26.19%) Risk Management
4 11 (26.19%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (26.19%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (23.81%) Confluence
5 10 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (23.81%) Finance
5 10 (23.81%) Project Delivery
6 9 (21.43%) Social Skills
6 9 (21.43%) Change Management
6 9 (21.43%) Scrum
7 8 (19.05%) Public Sector
7 8 (19.05%) Roadmaps
8 6 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
8 6 (14.29%) Service Delivery
8 6 (14.29%) Cisco
9 5 (11.90%) Supplier Management
9 5 (11.90%) Kanban
9 5 (11.90%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 5 (11.90%) Migration
9 5 (11.90%) Sprint Retrospective
10 4 (9.52%) Cost Control
10 4 (9.52%) APMP
10 4 (9.52%) FortiGate
10 4 (9.52%) SDLC
10 4 (9.52%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 4 (9.52%) Strategic Thinking
10 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills

Delivery Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 10 (23.81%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.38%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.76%) AWS
1 2 (4.76%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.38%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (2.38%) Amazon S3
2 1 (2.38%) Google Docs
2 1 (2.38%) Google Sheets
2 1 (2.38%) Google Workspace
2 1 (2.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) Firewall
2 1 (2.38%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.76%) Power BI
2 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.38%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 12 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 10 (23.81%) Finance
2 9 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 8 (19.05%) Public Sector
4 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.14%) Banking
6 2 (4.76%) Legal
6 2 (4.76%) Marketing
6 2 (4.76%) Retail
6 2 (4.76%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.38%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.38%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (4.76%) Management Information System
1 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
1 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (57.14%) Agile
2 17 (40.48%) Project Management
3 11 (26.19%) Continuous Improvement
3 11 (26.19%) Risk Management
3 11 (26.19%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (23.81%) Project Delivery
5 9 (21.43%) Change Management
5 9 (21.43%) Scrum
6 8 (19.05%) Roadmaps
7 6 (14.29%) Service Delivery
7 6 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
8 5 (11.90%) Kanban
8 5 (11.90%) Migration
8 5 (11.90%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 5 (11.90%) Sprint Retrospective
8 5 (11.90%) Supplier Management
9 4 (9.52%) Cost Control
9 4 (9.52%) ITIL
9 4 (9.52%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (9.52%) APMP
2 2 (4.76%) Degree
2 2 (4.76%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.38%) PMO
1 1 (2.38%) QA
1 1 (2.38%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (9.52%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.38%) Ansible
2 1 (2.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (14.29%) Cisco
2 4 (9.52%) CheckPoint
2 4 (9.52%) Fortinet
3 2 (4.76%) SAP
4 1 (2.38%) Databricks
4 1 (2.38%) Google
4 1 (2.38%) IBM
4 1 (2.38%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.38%) StreamSets
4 1 (2.38%) VMware