Delivery Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Delivery Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Delivery Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £506, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 208 226 181
Rank change year-on-year +18 -45 -15
Contract jobs requiring a Delivery Manager 132 176 307
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.03% 0.85% 1.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 0.92% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 106 220
10th Percentile £356 £375 £425
25th Percentile £413 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.95% -0.05% +7.37%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £654 £700 £726
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 2
10th Percentile £50.20 - -
25th Percentile £53.50 £29.75 -
Median hourly rate £59.00 £30.00 £12.95
Median % change year-on-year +96.67% +131.66% -
75th Percentile £64.50 £51.57 -
90th Percentile £67.80 £72.90 -
UK median hourly rate £48.00 £30.00 £12.95
% change year-on-year +60.00% +131.66% -50.19%

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 11,790 19,217 22,597
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.60% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,554 11,733 15,842
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £599 £598
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 2,245 1,162
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.79 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.50 £42.43
Median % change year-on-year -29.11% -6.91% +117.60%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%

Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Delivery Manager in the UK excluding London

Delivery Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Delivery Manager in the UK excluding London

Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Delivery Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Delivery Manager in the UK excluding London

Delivery Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Delivery Manager in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Delivery Manager in the UK excluding London

Delivery Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Delivery Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Delivery Manager in the UK excluding London

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 Delivery Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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 +33 34 £545 -9.17% 23
South East +42 30 £550 +1.85% 48
North of England +6 27 £500 -9.09% 33
Midlands +19 18 £450 -17.81% 30
West Midlands +19 14 £450 -17.81% 20
Yorkshire +9 13 £425 -15.00% 14
Scotland 0 13 £540 +8.00% 16
North West -6 12 £500 -13.04% 16
Wales +8 7 £488 +16.07% 7
East of England +27 6 £519 -1.14% 20
East Midlands +10 4 £391 - 9
North East -1 2 £519 - 4
Delivery Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 UK excluding London region featuring Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 63 (47.73%) Agile
2 40 (30.30%) Social Skills
3 39 (29.55%) Finance
4 36 (27.27%) Project Management
5 34 (25.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 33 (25.00%) Service Delivery
6 33 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (19.70%) ITIL
8 25 (18.94%) Security Cleared
9 24 (18.18%) Project Delivery
10 22 (16.67%) Public Sector
10 22 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (16.67%) JIRA
11 20 (15.15%) Scrum
12 19 (14.39%) Risk Management
12 19 (14.39%) SC Cleared
13 18 (13.64%) Telecoms
14 15 (11.36%) Confluence
15 13 (9.85%) Programme Management
15 13 (9.85%) Degree
15 13 (9.85%) Service Management
16 12 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 12 (9.09%) Coaching
17 11 (8.33%) Change Management
17 11 (8.33%) Banking
18 10 (7.58%) Migration
18 10 (7.58%) Manufacturing
18 10 (7.58%) Decision-Making
19 9 (6.82%) Product Ownership
19 9 (6.82%) PRINCE2

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 15 (11.36%) Confluence
2 1 (0.76%) Drupal
Applications
1 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.52%) Trello
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.52%) Eloqua
1 2 (1.52%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (1.52%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.76%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (6.82%) Azure
2 8 (6.06%) AWS
3 3 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (2.27%) GCP
3 3 (2.27%) SaaS
3 3 (2.27%) Snowflake
4 2 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.76%) Asana
5 1 (0.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (0.76%) Smartsheet
5 1 (0.76%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.55%) Firewall
2 2 (1.52%) Cisco Firepower
2 2 (1.52%) Intranet
2 2 (1.52%) MPLS
3 1 (0.76%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.27%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.76%) Looker
Development Applications
1 22 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (0.76%) Bugzilla
2 1 (0.76%) Git
2 1 (0.76%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.76%) Selenium
2 1 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 40 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 39 (29.55%) Finance
3 22 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 18 (13.64%) Telecoms
5 11 (8.33%) Banking
6 10 (7.58%) Manufacturing
7 8 (6.06%) Legal
8 6 (4.55%) Marketing
9 5 (3.79%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (3.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (3.79%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (3.79%) Retail
10 4 (3.03%) Electronics
10 4 (3.03%) Military
10 4 (3.03%) Retail Banking
11 3 (2.27%) Local Government
12 2 (1.52%) Billing
12 2 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.52%) Law
12 2 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.76%) ADO
1 1 (0.76%) React Native
1 1 (0.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.82%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.79%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.52%) Life Science
4 2 (1.52%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.52%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.52%) Operational Technology
4 2 (1.52%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.76%) CCTV
5 1 (0.76%) Culture of Ownership
5 1 (0.76%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.76%) NHS
5 1 (0.76%) PMI
5 1 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.27%) Windows
2 2 (1.52%) Unix
3 1 (0.76%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (47.73%) Agile
2 36 (27.27%) Project Management
3 34 (25.76%) Stakeholder Management
4 33 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 33 (25.00%) Service Delivery
5 26 (19.70%) ITIL
6 24 (18.18%) Project Delivery
7 22 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (15.15%) Scrum
9 19 (14.39%) Risk Management
10 13 (9.85%) Programme Management
10 13 (9.85%) Service Management
11 12 (9.09%) Coaching
11 12 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 11 (8.33%) Change Management
13 10 (7.58%) Decision-Making
13 10 (7.58%) Migration
14 9 (6.82%) DevOps
14 9 (6.82%) Kanban
14 9 (6.82%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.76%) Java
1 1 (0.76%) JavaScript
1 1 (0.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (18.94%) Security Cleared
2 19 (14.39%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.85%) Degree
4 6 (4.55%) PMI Certification
4 6 (4.55%) PMP
5 5 (3.79%) APMP
5 5 (3.79%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (2.27%) CISM
6 3 (2.27%) CISSP
6 3 (2.27%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.52%) CISA
7 2 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.52%) GIAC
7 2 (1.52%) ISACA
7 2 (1.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.52%) SANS
8 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.76%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.76%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.06%) SLA
2 4 (3.03%) Government Security Classifications
3 2 (1.52%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.76%) COBIT
4 1 (0.76%) GDPR
4 1 (0.76%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.76%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (0.76%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (4.55%) FortiGate
2 2 (1.52%) Terraform
3 1 (0.76%) Ansible
3 1 (0.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (6.06%) Cisco
2 7 (5.30%) SAP
3 6 (4.55%) CheckPoint
4 4 (3.03%) Atlassian
4 4 (3.03%) Fortinet
4 4 (3.03%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.27%) Databricks
5 3 (2.27%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.52%) Google
6 2 (1.52%) NEC
6 2 (1.52%) Oracle
6 2 (1.52%) Tenable
7 1 (0.76%) Ariba
7 1 (0.76%) Remedy
7 1 (0.76%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.76%) Spotify
7 1 (0.76%) VMware