Project Delivery Manager Contracts

Projects Delivery Manager
UK

The median Projects Delivery Manager daily rate in the UK is £525, 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 513 564 692
Rank change year-on-year +51 +128 +112
Contract jobs requiring a Project Delivery Manager 7 18 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.041% 0.044%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.045% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 16
10th Percentile £515 £355 £403
25th Percentile £519 £516 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £519
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +6.02% +14.01%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £616
90th Percentile £647 £595 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -5.64% -2.22% +45.16%

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%

Project Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Delivery Manager in the UK

Project Delivery Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Project Delivery Manager in the UK

Project Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Project Delivery Manager in the UK

Project Delivery Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Delivery Manager in the UK

Project Delivery Manager
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Delivery 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 +46 6 £525 -4.55% 11
UK excluding London +62 4 £519 -5.64% 8
Work from Home +35 4 £522 -5.09% 6
London +28 2 £623 +13.18% 4
East of England - 2 £519 - 2
South East +42 1 - - 3
Scotland - 1 - -

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

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

1 7 (100.00%) Project Delivery
2 5 (71.43%) Project Management
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 2 (28.57%) Resource Allocation
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (28.57%) Change Management
4 2 (28.57%) Finance
4 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Degree
5 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 1 (14.29%) QA
5 1 (14.29%) Lean Six Sigma
5 1 (14.29%) Kanban
5 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Azure
5 1 (14.29%) AWS
5 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
5 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
5 1 (14.29%) Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) Data Transformation
5 1 (14.29%) User Experience

Project 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:

Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
1 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
1 2 (28.57%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Project Delivery
2 5 (71.43%) Project Management
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Change Management
4 2 (28.57%) Resource Allocation
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (14.29%) Budgeting
5 1 (14.29%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
5 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
5 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (14.29%) Customer Experience
5 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Kanban
5 1 (14.29%) Lean Six Sigma
5 1 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 1 (14.29%) Service Design
5 1 (14.29%) Software Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) User Experience
5 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CISM
1 1 (14.29%) CISSP
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
1 1 (14.29%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
1 1 (14.29%) SAP