Senior Delivery Manager Contracts

Senior Delivery Manager
UK

The median Senior Delivery Manager daily rate in the UK is £611 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 542 645 735
Rank change year-on-year +103 +90 -77
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Delivery Manager 49 60 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.10% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.11% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 50 59
10th Percentile £446 £536 £519
25th Percentile £547 £589 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £611 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% +4.00% +38.89%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £675
90th Percentile £746 £779 £732
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £700 £613
% change year-on-year -14.29% +14.29% +19.51%

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 39,936 54,901 83,261
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.65% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,997 38,348 58,485
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 2,673 1,536 2,031
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.13 £64.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
% change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%

Senior Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Delivery Manager in the UK

Senior Delivery Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Delivery Manager in the UK

Senior Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Delivery Manager over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Delivery Manager in the UK

Senior Delivery 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 Senior Delivery Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 +93 33 £613 -5.77% 11
UK excluding London +55 26 £600 -14.29% 13
Work from Home +124 22 £613 -5.77% 5
London +76 20 £613 -5.77% 1
Scotland +53 14 £410 -52.33% 3
South West +19 10 £605 -21.94% 2
Midlands +34 1 £700 +16.67% 2
West Midlands +21 1 £700 +16.67% 2
North of England +17 1 £600 -11.11% 4
North West +10 1 £600 -7.69% 4

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 42 (85.71%) Agile
2 27 (55.10%) Project Management
3 26 (53.06%) Security Cleared
4 25 (51.02%) SC Cleared
5 24 (48.98%) Public Sector
6 17 (34.69%) Scrum
7 16 (32.65%) Finance
7 16 (32.65%) PRINCE2
8 13 (26.53%) JIRA
8 13 (26.53%) Software Delivery
9 12 (24.49%) Confluence
10 11 (22.45%) Project Delivery
11 9 (18.37%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (16.33%) Mentoring
13 7 (14.29%) PMO
13 7 (14.29%) Decision-Making
13 7 (14.29%) Waterfall
13 7 (14.29%) Programme Management
13 7 (14.29%) Social Skills
14 6 (12.24%) Business Case
14 6 (12.24%) Marketing
14 6 (12.24%) Data Analysis
14 6 (12.24%) SAP
14 6 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
14 6 (12.24%) Coaching
15 5 (10.20%) Kanban
15 5 (10.20%) Microsoft
15 5 (10.20%) Military
16 4 (8.16%) Google
16 4 (8.16%) PMP

Senior 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 12 (24.49%) Confluence
2 2 (4.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (4.08%) CMS
3 1 (2.04%) Drupal
3 1 (2.04%) Kentico
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3 (6.12%) SaaS
2 2 (4.08%) AWS
2 2 (4.08%) Azure
2 2 (4.08%) BigCommerce
2 2 (4.08%) GCP
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (4.08%) Power Platform
2 2 (4.08%) SuccessFactors
3 1 (2.04%) Kontent
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.08%) MySQL
1 2 (4.08%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (26.53%) JIRA
2 2 (4.08%) Maven
General
1 24 (48.98%) Public Sector
2 16 (32.65%) Finance
3 7 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 6 (12.24%) Marketing
5 5 (10.20%) Military
6 4 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (6.12%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (6.12%) Publishing
8 2 (4.08%) Retail
9 1 (2.04%) Banking
9 1 (2.04%) Electronics
9 1 (2.04%) Legal
9 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
9 1 (2.04%) Retail Banking
9 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.08%) AngularJS
1 2 (4.08%) CSS
1 2 (4.08%) J2EE
1 2 (4.08%) jQuery
1 2 (4.08%) REST
1 2 (4.08%) Sass
1 2 (4.08%) Spring
1 2 (4.08%) Spring MVC
1 2 (4.08%) Twitter Bootstrap
1 2 (4.08%) VML
1 2 (4.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.16%) Analytical Mindset
1 4 (8.16%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.08%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.08%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.08%) Linux
1 2 (4.08%) Unix
1 2 (4.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (85.71%) Agile
2 27 (55.10%) Project Management
3 17 (34.69%) Scrum
4 16 (32.65%) PRINCE2
5 13 (26.53%) Software Delivery
6 11 (22.45%) Project Delivery
7 9 (18.37%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (16.33%) Mentoring
9 7 (14.29%) Decision-Making
9 7 (14.29%) Programme Management
9 7 (14.29%) Waterfall
10 6 (12.24%) Business Case
10 6 (12.24%) Coaching
10 6 (12.24%) Data Analysis
10 6 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (10.20%) Kanban
12 4 (8.16%) Agile Project Management
12 4 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
12 4 (8.16%) Data Analytics
12 4 (8.16%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.08%) Java
1 2 (4.08%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 26 (53.06%) Security Cleared
2 25 (51.02%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.16%) PMI Certification
3 4 (8.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.29%) PMO
2 2 (4.08%) SLA
Vendors
1 6 (12.24%) SAP
2 5 (10.20%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.16%) Google
4 2 (4.08%) Adobe
4 2 (4.08%) Atlassian
4 2 (4.08%) Dell
4 2 (4.08%) Intel
4 2 (4.08%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.08%) Sitecore
5 1 (2.04%) Oracle
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