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 £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2024.

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 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 233 179 168
Rank change year-on-year -54 -11 +40
Contract jobs requiring a Delivery Manager 174 300 473
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.82% 1.32% 1.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 1.40% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 222 327
10th Percentile £354 £441 £375
25th Percentile £413 £500 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £513
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +12.20% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £588
90th Percentile £724 £725 £638
UK median daily rate £528 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.26% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.75 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £12.95 -
Median % change year-on-year +131.66% - -
75th Percentile £51.57 £32.85 -
90th Percentile £72.90 £44.79 -
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £30.73 £26.00
% change year-on-year -2.36% +18.17% -48.00%

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 19,709 21,379 29,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.21% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 14,853 20,421
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,090 1,383
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.68 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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 16 June 2024.

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 16 June 2024.

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 16 June 2024. 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
North of England -44 48 £525 -6.67% 23
South West -11 40 £500 -20.00% 6
South East +5 39 £550 +10.00% 22
North West -21 33 £575 +8.24% 11
Scotland +41 21 £500 -4.76% 8
Midlands -9 17 £575 -4.17% 16
Yorkshire -11 13 £500 -16.67% 10
East Midlands -4 10 £600 - 8
West Midlands -1 7 £560 -10.40% 8
East of England 0 6 £525 -12.50% 8
Wales +16 3 £420 -23.64% 5
North East +5 2 £560 -10.40% 3
Delivery Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 June 2024, 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 78 (44.83%) Agile
2 55 (31.61%) Service Delivery
3 50 (28.74%) Security Cleared
4 48 (27.59%) Public Sector
5 45 (25.86%) Project Management
6 44 (25.29%) Finance
7 39 (22.41%) SC Cleared
7 39 (22.41%) Project Delivery
8 33 (18.97%) Social Skills
8 33 (18.97%) Stakeholder Management
9 30 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (15.52%) Scrum
11 26 (14.94%) JIRA
12 23 (13.22%) Change Management
13 22 (12.64%) PRINCE2
14 19 (10.92%) Service Management
14 19 (10.92%) Azure
15 17 (9.77%) Confluence
16 16 (9.20%) ITSM
17 15 (8.62%) SLA
18 14 (8.05%) Decision-Making
18 14 (8.05%) Problem-Solving
18 14 (8.05%) Roadmaps
19 13 (7.47%) Software Delivery
19 13 (7.47%) User Experience
19 13 (7.47%) Microsoft
20 12 (6.90%) Programme Management
20 12 (6.90%) Waterfall
20 12 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
20 12 (6.90%) AWS

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 17 (9.77%) Confluence
2 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.57%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 19 (10.92%) Azure
2 12 (6.90%) AWS
2 12 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (5.75%) SaaS
4 4 (2.30%) GCP
5 3 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.72%) iPaaS
5 3 (1.72%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.57%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.57%) GitHub
6 1 (0.57%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.57%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.57%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.30%) Radio Access Network
2 3 (1.72%) VPN
3 1 (0.57%) Firewall
3 1 (0.57%) GSM
3 1 (0.57%) ISDN
3 1 (0.57%) LAN
3 1 (0.57%) PSTN
3 1 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.72%) Power BI
2 2 (1.15%) NonStop SQL
3 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.57%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (0.57%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 26 (14.94%) JIRA
2 1 (0.57%) CA Gen
2 1 (0.57%) Git
2 1 (0.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 48 (27.59%) Public Sector
2 44 (25.29%) Finance
3 33 (18.97%) Social Skills
4 11 (6.32%) Telecoms
5 10 (5.75%) Legal
6 7 (4.02%) Local Government
6 7 (4.02%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.45%) Police
8 5 (2.87%) Billing
8 5 (2.87%) Military
9 4 (2.30%) Publishing
10 3 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (1.72%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.15%) Banking
11 2 (1.15%) Electronics
11 2 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.15%) Marketing
11 2 (1.15%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.57%) Back Office
12 1 (0.57%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.17%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.30%) Driving Licence
3 3 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (1.72%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.15%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.15%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.57%) Contactless
5 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.57%) PMI
5 1 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.57%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.60%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (44.83%) Agile
2 55 (31.61%) Service Delivery
3 45 (25.86%) Project Management
4 39 (22.41%) Project Delivery
5 33 (18.97%) Stakeholder Management
6 30 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 27 (15.52%) Scrum
8 23 (13.22%) Change Management
9 22 (12.64%) PRINCE2
10 19 (10.92%) Service Management
11 16 (9.20%) ITSM
12 14 (8.05%) Decision-Making
12 14 (8.05%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (8.05%) Roadmaps
13 13 (7.47%) Software Delivery
13 13 (7.47%) User Experience
14 12 (6.90%) Programme Management
14 12 (6.90%) Waterfall
15 10 (5.75%) Coaching
16 9 (5.17%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.60%) Swift
Qualifications
1 50 (28.74%) Security Cleared
2 39 (22.41%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.60%) DV Cleared
4 5 (2.87%) Degree
5 4 (2.30%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.72%) PMP
7 1 (0.57%) APMP
7 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.57%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.57%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.62%) SLA
2 5 (2.87%) PMO
3 4 (2.30%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.72%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (1.72%) QA
5 1 (0.57%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.57%) RMADS
System Software
1 1 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 13 (7.47%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.17%) Cadence
3 8 (4.60%) Okta
4 6 (3.45%) SAP
5 4 (2.30%) Google
6 3 (1.72%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.15%) BT
7 2 (1.15%) Cisco
7 2 (1.15%) Oracle
7 2 (1.15%) Pega
8 1 (0.57%) Ariba
8 1 (0.57%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.57%) CA
8 1 (0.57%) Citrix
8 1 (0.57%) Fujitsu
8 1 (0.57%) Genesys
8 1 (0.57%) IFS
8 1 (0.57%) NEC
8 1 (0.57%) Openreach
8 1 (0.57%) Salesforce