Delivery Manager Contracts in the North West

Delivery Manager
England > North West

The median Delivery Manager daily rate in the North West is £475, 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 113 104 79
Rank change year-on-year -9 -25 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Delivery Manager 14 31 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.72% 1.17% 2.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 1.23% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 64
10th Percentile £400 £450 £450
25th Percentile £410 £513 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £539
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +6.73% +3.11%
75th Percentile £556 £613 £638
90th Percentile £600 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 1,818 2,513 2,917
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 94.58% 94.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,207 1,631 2,067
10th Percentile £250 £275 £300
25th Percentile £375 £388 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.16% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £588
90th Percentile £661 £675 £675
England median daily rate £524 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.26% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 271 126
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.07 £14.70
25th Percentile £17.14 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.99 £27.50 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year +5.42% -10.27% +27.17%
75th Percentile £60.00 £46.91 £49.24
90th Percentile £84.39 £68.88 £66.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £37.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.31% -17.38% +95.65%

Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Delivery Manager in the North West

Delivery Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Delivery Manager in the North West

Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Delivery Manager in the North West

Delivery Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Delivery Manager in the North West

Delivery Manager
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Manchester +9 6 £538 -6.52% 18
Merseyside - 5 £438 - 5
Cheshire -1 2 £381 -27.43% 4
Lancashire -4 1 £600 -19.46% 10
Delivery Manager
England

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

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 North West region featuring Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 6 (42.86%) Change Management
1 6 (42.86%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) Scrum
2 5 (35.71%) ITIL
3 4 (28.57%) Project Management
3 4 (28.57%) JIRA
4 3 (21.43%) Banking
4 3 (21.43%) Finance
4 3 (21.43%) Validation
4 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (21.43%) Degree
4 3 (21.43%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (14.29%) Budget Management
5 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (14.29%) AWS
5 2 (14.29%) Confluence
5 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery
5 2 (14.29%) Kanban
5 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
5 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
5 2 (14.29%) Coaching
5 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 2 (14.29%) Risk Management
5 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2
5 2 (14.29%) Cisco
5 2 (14.29%) Java
5 2 (14.29%) Six Sigma
6 1 (7.14%) IBM

Delivery Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 3 (21.43%) Banking
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
1 1 (7.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Agile
1 6 (42.86%) Change Management
2 5 (35.71%) ITIL
2 5 (35.71%) Scrum
3 4 (28.57%) Project Management
4 3 (21.43%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (21.43%) Validation
5 2 (14.29%) Budget Management
5 2 (14.29%) Coaching
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (14.29%) Kanban
5 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2
5 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) Risk Management
5 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery
5 2 (14.29%) Six Sigma
6 1 (7.14%) DevOps
6 1 (7.14%) Microservices
6 1 (7.14%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (7.14%) IBM
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.14%) StreamSets