Senior Delivery Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Delivery Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Delivery Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 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
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 376 433
Rank change year-on-year +49 +57 +74
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Delivery Manager 7 27 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.055% 0.13% 0.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.14% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 21
10th Percentile £468 £405 £585
25th Percentile £625 £431 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £675 £630 £750
90th Percentile £758 £700 £815
UK median daily rate £575 £610 £650
% change year-on-year -5.74% -6.15% +4.00%

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 11,776 19,130 22,540
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.12% 92.57% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,547 11,679 15,813
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
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 842 2,253 1,158
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.66 £15.75 £18.01
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.37
Median % change year-on-year -29.22% -6.64% +117.03%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.89% -18.89% +91.49%

Senior Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Senior Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Delivery Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

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

Senior 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 Senior Delivery Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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 +34 4 £650 +7.44%
North of England +17 1 - - 4
Scotland -1 1 £650 +58.54% 4
East of England - 1 £775 -
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
Senior Delivery Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Finance
3 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Project Management
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Programme Management
4 2 (28.57%) SaaS
5 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 1 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
5 1 (14.29%) User Research
5 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) Culture of Ownership
5 1 (14.29%) Budget Management
5 1 (14.29%) Programme Governance
5 1 (14.29%) Budgeting and Forecasting
5 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
5 1 (14.29%) Databricks
5 1 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
5 1 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (14.29%) Spotify

Senior 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (14.29%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) SaaS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Local Government
2 1 (14.29%) Military
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Culture of Ownership
1 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) Programme Management
2 2 (28.57%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Budget Management
3 1 (14.29%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 1 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Programme Governance
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 1 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (14.29%) User Research
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Databricks
1 1 (14.29%) Spotify