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 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 254 215 202
Rank change year-on-year -39 -13 +51
Contract jobs requiring a Delivery Manager 413 754 1,254
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.95% 1.26% 1.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.02% 1.33% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 569 878
10th Percentile £350 £413 £413
25th Percentile £450 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £601
90th Percentile £723 £750 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £510
% change year-on-year - +7.84% +2.00%
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 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £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 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

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 25 April 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 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Delivery Manager in the UK

Delivery Manager
Top 15 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 25 April 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 -27 356 £550 -4.35% 88
London +17 195 £566 -5.67% 35
UK excluding London -40 175 £550 - 62
Work from Home -11 144 £550 - 36
South West +15 44 £600 -4.00% 7
North of England -43 43 £550 - 12
South East +1 34 £540 +5.37% 17
North West -26 32 £575 +8.24% 7
Scotland +22 26 £500 -4.76% 7
Midlands 0 18 £548 -6.81% 13
Yorkshire -6 11 £500 -16.67% 4
West Midlands +14 10 £548 -8.75% 6
East Midlands +2 8 - - 7
East of England +1 8 £525 - 5
Wales +12 3 £420 -23.64% 5

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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.

1 212 (51.33%) Agile
2 120 (29.06%) Security Cleared
3 117 (28.33%) Service Delivery
4 116 (28.09%) Project Management
5 102 (24.70%) SC Cleared
6 97 (23.49%) Finance
7 96 (23.24%) Public Sector
8 89 (21.55%) Project Delivery
8 89 (21.55%) Social Skills
9 77 (18.64%) Stakeholder Management
10 70 (16.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 64 (15.50%) Scrum
12 48 (11.62%) JIRA
13 47 (11.38%) PRINCE2
14 41 (9.93%) Service Management
15 40 (9.69%) Decision-Making
16 39 (9.44%) Problem-Solving
17 38 (9.20%) Azure
18 37 (8.96%) Microsoft
19 36 (8.72%) Waterfall
20 35 (8.47%) Roadmaps
21 33 (7.99%) AWS
22 30 (7.26%) ITIL
22 30 (7.26%) Telecoms
23 29 (7.02%) Kanban
24 28 (6.78%) Confluence
24 28 (6.78%) PMI Certification
24 28 (6.78%) Business Case
25 26 (6.30%) Software Delivery
25 26 (6.30%) Change Management

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 28 (6.78%) Confluence
2 8 (1.94%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (0.73%) Mendix
4 2 (0.48%) CMS
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.24%) Drupal
5 1 (0.24%) Kentico
Applications
1 9 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.48%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.73%) Infor SunSystems
1 3 (0.73%) SAP ERP
1 3 (0.73%) Shopify
2 1 (0.24%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 38 (9.20%) Azure
2 33 (7.99%) AWS
3 20 (4.84%) SaaS
4 16 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (2.42%) GCP
7 9 (2.18%) Power Platform
8 4 (0.97%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (0.97%) iPaaS
9 3 (0.73%) BigCommerce
9 3 (0.73%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.48%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.48%) Miro
11 1 (0.24%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.24%) Asana
11 1 (0.24%) GitHub
11 1 (0.24%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.24%) PaaS
11 1 (0.24%) Slack
11 1 (0.24%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.66%) SD-WAN
2 4 (0.97%) Firewall
2 4 (0.97%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (0.97%) SNA
3 3 (0.73%) VPN
4 2 (0.48%) GSM
4 2 (0.48%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.24%) DNS
5 1 (0.24%) Intranet
5 1 (0.24%) ISDN
5 1 (0.24%) LAN
5 1 (0.24%) MPLS
5 1 (0.24%) PSTN
5 1 (0.24%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.69%) Power BI
2 4 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (0.73%) MySQL
3 3 (0.73%) Tableau
4 2 (0.48%) Looker
4 2 (0.48%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (0.48%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.24%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 48 (11.62%) JIRA
2 3 (0.73%) Maven
3 1 (0.24%) CA Gen
3 1 (0.24%) Git
3 1 (0.24%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 97 (23.49%) Finance
2 96 (23.24%) Public Sector
3 89 (21.55%) Social Skills
4 30 (7.26%) Telecoms
5 25 (6.05%) Legal
6 21 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (5.08%) Military
7 16 (3.87%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (2.42%) Marketing
10 8 (1.94%) Billing
10 8 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.94%) Publishing
11 7 (1.69%) Retail
12 6 (1.45%) Banking
13 5 (1.21%) Law
14 4 (0.97%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.97%) French Language
14 4 (0.97%) Local Government
14 4 (0.97%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.73%) AngularJS
1 3 (0.73%) CSS
1 3 (0.73%) J2EE
1 3 (0.73%) jQuery
1 3 (0.73%) Kafka
1 3 (0.73%) REST
1 3 (0.73%) Sass
1 3 (0.73%) Spring
1 3 (0.73%) Spring MVC
1 3 (0.73%) Twitter Bootstrap
1 3 (0.73%) VML
1 3 (0.73%) Web Services
2 2 (0.48%) ADO
2 2 (0.48%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 16 (3.87%) Product Ownership
2 9 (2.18%) Management Information System
2 9 (2.18%) Virtual Team
3 7 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (0.97%) Driving Licence
4 4 (0.97%) Onboarding
4 4 (0.97%) PMI
5 3 (0.73%) Cloud Native
6 2 (0.48%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (0.48%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.48%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (0.48%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.48%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.48%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.48%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.24%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.24%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.24%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.18%) Windows
2 8 (1.94%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.73%) Linux
3 3 (0.73%) Unix
4 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (51.33%) Agile
2 117 (28.33%) Service Delivery
3 116 (28.09%) Project Management
4 89 (21.55%) Project Delivery
5 77 (18.64%) Stakeholder Management
6 70 (16.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 64 (15.50%) Scrum
8 47 (11.38%) PRINCE2
9 41 (9.93%) Service Management
10 40 (9.69%) Decision-Making
11 39 (9.44%) Problem-Solving
12 36 (8.72%) Waterfall
13 35 (8.47%) Roadmaps
14 30 (7.26%) ITIL
15 29 (7.02%) Kanban
16 28 (6.78%) Business Case
17 26 (6.30%) Change Management
17 26 (6.30%) Software Delivery
18 24 (5.81%) Risk Management
19 21 (5.08%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 8 (1.94%) Swift
2 4 (0.97%) Java
3 3 (0.73%) C#
3 3 (0.73%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.24%) SQL
Qualifications
1 120 (29.06%) Security Cleared
2 102 (24.70%) SC Cleared
3 28 (6.78%) PMI Certification
4 24 (5.81%) PMP
5 20 (4.84%) Degree
6 18 (4.36%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.21%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.73%) BC Cleared
10 2 (0.48%) FFIEC
10 2 (0.48%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.24%) APMP
11 1 (0.24%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.24%) PgMP
11 1 (0.24%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.24%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.60%) SLA
2 12 (2.91%) PMO
3 9 (2.18%) QA
4 8 (1.94%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.73%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (0.73%) GxP
5 3 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.48%) GRC
6 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.48%) NIST
6 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.24%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (8.96%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.63%) SAP
3 11 (2.66%) ServiceNow
4 9 (2.18%) Google
5 8 (1.94%) Okta
6 6 (1.45%) Cadence
7 5 (1.21%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.97%) Cisco
8 4 (0.97%) Oracle
9 3 (0.73%) Adobe
9 3 (0.73%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.73%) Dell
9 3 (0.73%) Guidewire
9 3 (0.73%) Intel
9 3 (0.73%) Sage
9 3 (0.73%) Sitecore
10 2 (0.48%) Ariba
10 2 (0.48%) BT
10 2 (0.48%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.48%) Pega
107 Delivery Manager jobs Nationwide