Delivery Director Contracts

Delivery Director
UK

The median Delivery Director daily rate in the UK is £850, 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 514 572 704
Rank change year-on-year +58 +132 +141
Contract jobs requiring a Delivery Director 6 10 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.023% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.025% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 8
10th Percentile - £850 £791
25th Percentile - £856 £834
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £914 £913
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +0.16% +15.87%
75th Percentile £900 £950 £956
90th Percentile £930 £1,019 £975
UK excluding London median daily rate £950 - £875

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Delivery Director
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Delivery Director in the UK

Delivery Director
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Delivery Director.

Daily rate trend for Delivery Director in the UK

Delivery Director
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Delivery Director within the UK 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
England +53 6 £850 -7.00% 37
London +33 4 £850 -7.00% 34
UK excluding London +64 2 £950 - 6
South East - 2 £950 - 4
Work from Home +39 1 £850 -5.56% 21

Delivery Director Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Delivery Director 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 featuring Delivery Director in the job title.

1 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) Service Management
2 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) PMO
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery Management
3 1 (16.67%) Programme Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Development Roadmap
3 1 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
3 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (16.67%) Service Catalogue
3 1 (16.67%) Budget Management
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (16.67%) Line Management
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (16.67%) Target Operating Model
3 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
3 1 (16.67%) Service Design
3 1 (16.67%) Extreme Networks

Delivery Director Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Service Management
3 1 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (16.67%) Budget Management
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (16.67%) Contingency Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Development Roadmap
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (16.67%) Programme Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
3 1 (16.67%) Service Catalogue
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery Management
3 1 (16.67%) Service Design
3 1 (16.67%) Target Operating Model
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Postgraduate
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
1 1 (16.67%) Extreme Networks
1 1 (16.67%) F5
1 1 (16.67%) NEC
1 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
1 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
1 1 (16.67%) VMware