Delivery Manager Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Delivery Manager
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Delivery Manager daily rate in South Yorkshire is £443, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 January 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 - 56
Rank change year-on-year - - -4
Contract jobs requiring a Delivery Manager 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.35% - 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% - 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £481
25th Percentile £431 - £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 - £563
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.13%
75th Percentile £454 - £609
90th Percentile - - £634
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £550 £518
% change year-on-year - +6.28% -1.90%

All Contract IT Job Roles
South Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Yorkshire. 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 South Yorkshire with a recognized job title 772 239 400
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.08% 86.28% 91.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 528 143 241
10th Percentile £325 £153 £325
25th Percentile £405 £241 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £538 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +7.11% -7.69% -5.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 16
10th Percentile £14.98 £12.10 £10.90
25th Percentile £16.68 £12.62 £12.26
Median hourly rate £19.50 £14.85 £13.23
Median % change year-on-year +31.36% +12.21% -30.37%
75th Percentile £22.33 £16.68 £23.75
90th Percentile £24.02 £16.97 £40.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £37.18 £21.25 £17.06
% change year-on-year +74.96% +24.60% -20.67%

Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Delivery Manager job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Delivery Manager job vacancies in South Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Delivery Manager job vacancies in South Yorkshire

Delivery Manager
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 21 January 2026. 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
Sheffield - 2 £443 - 1
Delivery Manager
Yorkshire

Delivery Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 21 January 2026, Delivery 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 South Yorkshire region featuring Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) AppDynamics
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) KYC

Delivery Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) KYC
2 1 (33.33%) Major Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Runbook
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) AppDynamics
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk