Delivery Manager Contracts in the Thames Valley

Delivery Manager
South East > Thames Valley

The median Delivery Manager daily rate in the Thames Valley is £511, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 121 125
Rank change year-on-year +41 +4 -22
Contract jobs requiring a Delivery Manager 22 24 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.46% 0.89% 0.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.57% 0.96% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 12
10th Percentile £350 £340 -
25th Percentile £417 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £433 £538
Median % change year-on-year +18.21% -19.53% +29.52%
75th Percentile £638 £598 £604
90th Percentile £681 £645 £635
South East median daily rate £563 £540 £538
% change year-on-year +4.17% +0.47% +13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £48.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £48.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 1,405 2,505 2,767
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.98% 93.26% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 1,430 1,916
10th Percentile £300 £206 £313
25th Percentile £409 £370 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 189 76
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.78 £17.31
25th Percentile £16.94 £19.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £45.65 £45.00 £46.70
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -3.64% +166.86%
75th Percentile £65.62 £62.50 £66.21
90th Percentile £77.47 £84.57 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Delivery Manager in the Thames Valley

Delivery Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Delivery Manager in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Delivery Manager in the Thames Valley

Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Delivery Manager in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Delivery Manager in the Thames Valley

Delivery Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Delivery Manager in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Delivery Manager in the Thames Valley

Delivery Manager
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Berkshire +31 18 £448 +19.33% 10
Oxfordshire - 3 £700 - 6
Buckinghamshire +11 1 - - 10
Delivery Manager
South East

Delivery Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 1 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 Thames Valley region featuring Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 8 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (31.82%) Agile
2 7 (31.82%) Telecoms
3 6 (27.27%) Legal
3 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
4 5 (22.73%) Project Management
4 5 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (18.18%) Mentoring
5 4 (18.18%) Risk Management
6 3 (13.64%) Service Delivery
6 3 (13.64%) ITIL
6 3 (13.64%) PMP
6 3 (13.64%) PMI Certification
6 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (13.64%) Waterfall
6 3 (13.64%) Strategic Thinking
6 3 (13.64%) Programme Governance
7 2 (9.09%) Data Lake
7 2 (9.09%) Databricks
7 2 (9.09%) Programme Delivery
7 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (9.09%) Snowflake
7 2 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
7 2 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (9.09%) Roadmaps
7 2 (9.09%) Azure
7 2 (9.09%) AWS

Delivery Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.09%) AWS
1 2 (9.09%) Azure
1 2 (9.09%) GCP
1 2 (9.09%) Snowflake
2 1 (4.55%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 7 (31.82%) Telecoms
2 6 (27.27%) Legal
2 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.09%) Retail
4 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Life Science
2 1 (4.55%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (31.82%) Agile
3 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (22.73%) Project Management
5 4 (18.18%) Mentoring
5 4 (18.18%) Risk Management
6 3 (13.64%) ITIL
6 3 (13.64%) Programme Governance
6 3 (13.64%) Service Delivery
6 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (13.64%) Strategic Thinking
6 3 (13.64%) Waterfall
7 2 (9.09%) ETL
7 2 (9.09%) ITSM
7 2 (9.09%) PRINCE2
7 2 (9.09%) Programme Delivery
7 2 (9.09%) Roadmaps
7 2 (9.09%) Scrum
7 2 (9.09%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) PMI Certification
1 3 (13.64%) PMP
2 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (9.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) COBIT
1 1 (4.55%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Databricks
1 2 (9.09%) Google
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle