Delivery Manager Contracts

Delivery Manager
UK

The median Delivery Manager daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 247 216 201
Rank change year-on-year -31 -15 +57
Contract jobs requiring a Delivery Manager 403 728 1,271
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.94% 1.26% 1.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 1.33% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 548 899
10th Percentile £350 £413 £413
25th Percentile £444 £490 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £600
90th Percentile £723 £750 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £565 £513
% change year-on-year -2.65% +10.24% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.75 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £12.95 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +131.66% -50.19% -46.67%
75th Percentile £51.57 £35.85 £26.50
90th Percentile £72.90 £49.59 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £12.95 -
% change year-on-year +131.66% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,888 54,783 83,316
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.63% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,953 38,247 58,493
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,534 2,048
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Delivery Manager in the UK

Delivery Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Delivery Manager in the UK

Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Delivery Manager over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Delivery Manager in the UK

Delivery Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Delivery Manager.

Hourly rate trend for Delivery Manager in the UK

Delivery Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Delivery Manager over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Delivery Manager in the UK

Delivery Manager
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 May 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
England -48 343 £550 -4.35% 103
London -8 183 £550 -8.33% 35
UK excluding London -35 171 £550 -2.65% 77
Work from Home -11 141 £550 - 49
South West +20 46 £600 -4.00% 15
North of England -39 43 £563 +2.27% 18
South East +11 33 £538 +7.50% 14
North West -25 31 £575 +6.73% 11
Scotland +38 25 £500 -5.66% 8
Midlands +1 16 £560 -6.67% 12
Yorkshire -9 11 £500 -16.67% 5
East Midlands +9 8 - - 5
West Midlands +2 8 £560 -6.67% 7
East of England +6 6 £525 - 4
Wales +12 3 £420 -23.64% 6
North East +8 1 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 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 featuring Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 204 (50.62%) Agile
2 118 (29.28%) Security Cleared
3 114 (28.29%) Service Delivery
4 110 (27.30%) Project Management
5 100 (24.81%) SC Cleared
6 93 (23.08%) Finance
7 92 (22.83%) Public Sector
8 90 (22.33%) Project Delivery
9 87 (21.59%) Social Skills
10 75 (18.61%) Stakeholder Management
11 70 (17.37%) Continuous Improvement
12 59 (14.64%) Scrum
13 47 (11.66%) JIRA
14 45 (11.17%) PRINCE2
15 38 (9.43%) Decision-Making
16 37 (9.18%) Azure
17 35 (8.68%) Waterfall
17 35 (8.68%) Microsoft
17 35 (8.68%) Service Management
17 35 (8.68%) Problem-Solving
18 34 (8.44%) Roadmaps
19 33 (8.19%) AWS
20 30 (7.44%) Telecoms
21 29 (7.20%) Kanban
22 27 (6.70%) Change Management
22 27 (6.70%) PMI Certification
22 27 (6.70%) ITIL
23 26 (6.45%) Confluence
23 26 (6.45%) Business Case
24 25 (6.20%) Legal

Delivery Manager 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:

Application Platforms
1 26 (6.45%) Confluence
2 4 (0.99%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.50%) CMS
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.25%) Drupal
5 1 (0.25%) Kentico
Applications
1 9 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.50%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.74%) Infor SunSystems
1 3 (0.74%) SAP ERP
1 3 (0.74%) Shopify
2 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 37 (9.18%) Azure
2 33 (8.19%) AWS
3 21 (5.21%) SaaS
4 17 (4.22%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (2.48%) GCP
6 6 (1.49%) Power Platform
7 4 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (0.99%) iPaaS
8 3 (0.74%) BigCommerce
9 2 (0.50%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.50%) Miro
9 2 (0.50%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.50%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.25%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.25%) Asana
10 1 (0.25%) GitHub
10 1 (0.25%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.25%) PaaS
10 1 (0.25%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.98%) SD-WAN
2 4 (0.99%) Radio Access Network
3 3 (0.74%) Firewall
3 3 (0.74%) SNA
3 3 (0.74%) VPN
4 2 (0.50%) ISDN
4 2 (0.50%) PSTN
5 1 (0.25%) DNS
5 1 (0.25%) Intranet
5 1 (0.25%) LAN
5 1 (0.25%) MPLS
5 1 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (0.25%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.24%) Power BI
2 4 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (0.74%) MySQL
3 3 (0.74%) Tableau
4 2 (0.50%) Looker
4 2 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (0.50%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.25%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 47 (11.66%) JIRA
2 3 (0.74%) Maven
3 1 (0.25%) CA Gen
3 1 (0.25%) Git
3 1 (0.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 93 (23.08%) Finance
2 92 (22.83%) Public Sector
3 87 (21.59%) Social Skills
4 30 (7.44%) Telecoms
5 25 (6.20%) Legal
6 19 (4.71%) Military
7 18 (4.47%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (3.97%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (2.48%) Marketing
11 9 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.99%) Billing
12 8 (1.99%) Publishing
13 7 (1.74%) Banking
14 6 (1.49%) Local Government
14 6 (1.49%) Retail
15 4 (0.99%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.99%) French Language
15 4 (0.99%) Law
16 3 (0.74%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.74%) AngularJS
1 3 (0.74%) CSS
1 3 (0.74%) J2EE
1 3 (0.74%) jQuery
1 3 (0.74%) Kafka
1 3 (0.74%) REST
1 3 (0.74%) Sass
1 3 (0.74%) Spring
1 3 (0.74%) Spring MVC
1 3 (0.74%) Twitter Bootstrap
1 3 (0.74%) VML
1 3 (0.74%) Web Services
2 2 (0.50%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.25%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.22%) Product Ownership
2 10 (2.48%) Management Information System
3 9 (2.23%) Virtual Team
4 6 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (0.99%) Driving Licence
6 4 (0.99%) Onboarding
6 4 (0.99%) PMI
7 3 (0.74%) Cloud Native
7 3 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.50%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.50%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.50%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.50%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.50%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.25%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.25%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.99%) Apple iOS
1 8 (1.99%) Windows
2 3 (0.74%) Linux
2 3 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (50.62%) Agile
2 114 (28.29%) Service Delivery
3 110 (27.30%) Project Management
4 90 (22.33%) Project Delivery
5 75 (18.61%) Stakeholder Management
6 70 (17.37%) Continuous Improvement
7 59 (14.64%) Scrum
8 45 (11.17%) PRINCE2
9 38 (9.43%) Decision-Making
10 35 (8.68%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (8.68%) Service Management
10 35 (8.68%) Waterfall
11 34 (8.44%) Roadmaps
12 29 (7.20%) Kanban
13 27 (6.70%) Change Management
13 27 (6.70%) ITIL
14 26 (6.45%) Business Case
15 24 (5.96%) Software Delivery
16 22 (5.46%) ITSM
16 22 (5.46%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (1.99%) Swift
2 4 (0.99%) Java
3 3 (0.74%) C#
3 3 (0.74%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 118 (29.28%) Security Cleared
2 100 (24.81%) SC Cleared
3 27 (6.70%) PMI Certification
4 23 (5.71%) PMP
5 18 (4.47%) Degree
6 17 (4.22%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.74%) BC Cleared
10 2 (0.50%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (0.50%) FFIEC
10 2 (0.50%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.25%) APMP
11 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.25%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.25%) PgMP
11 1 (0.25%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.25%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.71%) SLA
2 12 (2.98%) PMO
3 9 (2.23%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.23%) QA
4 3 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.50%) GRC
5 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.50%) NIST
5 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (8.68%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.47%) SAP
3 9 (2.23%) Google
3 9 (2.23%) ServiceNow
4 8 (1.99%) Okta
5 6 (1.49%) Cadence
6 5 (1.24%) Oracle
6 5 (1.24%) Salesforce
7 4 (0.99%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.74%) Adobe
8 3 (0.74%) BT
8 3 (0.74%) Cisco
8 3 (0.74%) Dell
8 3 (0.74%) Guidewire
8 3 (0.74%) Intel
8 3 (0.74%) Sage
8 3 (0.74%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.50%) Ariba
9 2 (0.50%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.50%) Openreach