Delivery Project Manager Contracts

Delivery Project Manager
UK

The median Delivery Project Manager daily rate in the UK is £550, 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 494 539 618
Rank change year-on-year +45 +79 +98
Contract jobs requiring a Delivery Project Manager 26 43 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.089% 0.099% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.096% 0.11% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 26 72
10th Percentile £415 £472 £412
25th Percentile £500 £564 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £573
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +13.54% +5.05%
75th Percentile £594 £688 £641
90th Percentile £706 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £540 £500
% change year-on-year +6.48% +8.00% +1.01%

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 Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Delivery Project Manager in the UK

Delivery Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Delivery Project Manager in the UK

Delivery Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Delivery Project Manager over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Delivery Project Manager in the UK

Delivery Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Delivery Project Manager in the UK

Delivery Project Manager
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Delivery Project Manager 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 +32 15 £550 -15.38% 12
Work from Home +36 12 £588 -4.08% 4
UK excluding London +58 9 £575 +6.48% 8
London +18 9 £525 -19.23% 4
South East +46 3 £575 -11.54% 1
Scotland +13 2 £450 +12.50%
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
South West +43 1 £658 -6.00% 1
North of England +17 1 - - 3
North West +16 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Delivery Project 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 Project Manager in the job title.

1 20 (76.92%) Project Delivery
2 15 (57.69%) Project Management
3 14 (53.85%) Agile
4 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
5 9 (34.62%) JIRA
6 7 (26.92%) Finance
7 6 (23.08%) SAP
8 5 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (19.23%) Scrum
8 5 (19.23%) Banking
8 5 (19.23%) Confluence
8 5 (19.23%) Waterfall
8 5 (19.23%) SAP S/4HANA
9 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (15.38%) Inventory Management
9 4 (15.38%) Degree
9 4 (15.38%) German Language
9 4 (15.38%) Asset Management
9 4 (15.38%) Risk Management
9 4 (15.38%) EAM
9 4 (15.38%) PRINCE2
10 3 (11.54%) ERP
10 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (11.54%) AWS
10 3 (11.54%) Analytics
10 3 (11.54%) Budget Management
10 3 (11.54%) Business Case
11 2 (7.69%) Requirements Gathering
11 2 (7.69%) Power Platform

Delivery Project 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 5 (19.23%) Confluence
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.85%) Chatbot
2 1 (3.85%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (19.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.85%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.54%) AWS
2 2 (7.69%) Azure
2 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.85%) Asana
3 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Power BI
2 1 (3.85%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.85%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.85%) Looker
2 1 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (34.62%) JIRA
General
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 7 (26.92%) Finance
3 5 (19.23%) Banking
4 4 (15.38%) German Language
5 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (7.69%) Marketing
6 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.85%) Front Office
7 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.85%) Local Government
7 1 (3.85%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (76.92%) Project Delivery
2 15 (57.69%) Project Management
3 14 (53.85%) Agile
4 5 (19.23%) Scrum
4 5 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (19.23%) Waterfall
5 4 (15.38%) Asset Management
5 4 (15.38%) EAM
5 4 (15.38%) Inventory Management
5 4 (15.38%) PRINCE2
5 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (15.38%) Risk Management
6 3 (11.54%) Analytics
6 3 (11.54%) Budget Management
6 3 (11.54%) Business Case
6 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (11.54%) ERP
7 2 (7.69%) DevOps
7 2 (7.69%) Portfolio Management
7 2 (7.69%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) PMI Certification
2 2 (7.69%) PMP
3 1 (3.85%) APMP
3 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.85%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) PMO
2 1 (3.85%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) SAP
2 2 (7.69%) Ariba
2 2 (7.69%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.85%) Google
3 1 (3.85%) HubSpot
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) Planview
3 1 (3.85%) Zoho