Agile Delivery Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Agile Delivery Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Agile Delivery Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £538, 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 319 385 392
Rank change year-on-year +66 +7 +51
Contract jobs requiring an Agile Delivery Manager 17 14 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.067% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.073% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 53
10th Percentile £410 £449 £451
25th Percentile £473 £461 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £574 £603 £638
90th Percentile £635 £645 £670
UK median daily rate £530 £495 £575
% change year-on-year +7.07% -13.91% +6.73%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Agile Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Agile Delivery Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Agile Delivery Manager in the UK excluding London

Agile Delivery Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile Delivery Manager in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Agile Delivery Manager in the UK excluding London

Agile Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile Delivery Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile Delivery Manager in the UK excluding London

Agile Delivery Manager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Delivery Manager within the UK excluding London 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
South West +48 5 £565 -14.39%
North of England +14 4 £513 -6.82% 6
Wales - 4 £530 -
North West +12 2 £501 -12.87% 2
South East - 2 £379 - 2
Scotland +13 1 - - 2
Yorkshire +8 1 - - 3
North East 0 1 £513 - 1
East of England - 1 £775 -
Agile Delivery Manager
UK

Agile Delivery Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Agile 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 UK excluding London region featuring Agile Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Agile
2 10 (58.82%) Scrum
3 9 (52.94%) Public Sector
4 7 (41.18%) JIRA
5 6 (35.29%) Kanban
5 6 (35.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (35.29%) Project Management
5 6 (35.29%) Confluence
5 6 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
6 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (29.41%) Sprint Planning
6 5 (29.41%) Coaching
6 5 (29.41%) Finance
7 4 (23.53%) Risk Management
7 4 (23.53%) Telecoms
7 4 (23.53%) Programme Management
7 4 (23.53%) DevOps
7 4 (23.53%) Azure
7 4 (23.53%) AWS
7 4 (23.53%) Sprint Retrospective
7 4 (23.53%) Product Ownership
8 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
8 3 (17.65%) Project Delivery
8 3 (17.65%) Backlog Management
8 3 (17.65%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 3 (17.65%) Decision-Making
8 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
8 3 (17.65%) Software Delivery
8 3 (17.65%) Atlassian

Agile Delivery Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (35.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.88%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) AWS
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (5.88%) GCP
2 1 (5.88%) SaaS
2 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (52.94%) Public Sector
2 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 5 (29.41%) Finance
4 4 (23.53%) Telecoms
5 3 (17.65%) Electronics
5 3 (17.65%) Manufacturing
5 3 (17.65%) Marketing
6 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.76%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.88%) Culture of Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Agile
2 10 (58.82%) Scrum
3 6 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (35.29%) Kanban
3 6 (35.29%) Project Management
3 6 (35.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (29.41%) Coaching
4 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (29.41%) Sprint Planning
5 4 (23.53%) DevOps
5 4 (23.53%) Programme Management
5 4 (23.53%) Risk Management
5 4 (23.53%) Sprint Retrospective
6 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (17.65%) Digital Marketing
6 3 (17.65%) ITIL
6 3 (17.65%) Project Delivery
6 3 (17.65%) Service Management
6 3 (17.65%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Atlassian
1 3 (17.65%) SAP
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Databricks
3 1 (5.88%) Spotify