Technical Delivery Manager Contracts

Technical Delivery Manager
UK

The median Technical Delivery Manager daily rate in the UK is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 July 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
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 520 553 629
Rank change year-on-year +33 +76 +126
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Delivery Manager 36 28 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.067% 0.083%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.072% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 18 30
10th Percentile £400 £354 £444
25th Percentile £401 £477 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -19.23% +18.18%
75th Percentile £725 £634 £719
90th Percentile £825 £726 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £420 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -16.00% -9.09% +10.00%

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 30,093 39,135 52,513
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.67% 93.03% 94.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,141 25,287 36,368
10th Percentile £285 £290 £310
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,425 2,548 1,569
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.25 £14.48
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.72 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -6.98% +67.45%
75th Percentile £55.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £39.58
% change year-on-year -37.63% +1.90% +88.45%

Technical Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Delivery Manager in the UK

Technical Delivery Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Delivery Manager in the UK

Technical Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Delivery Manager over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Delivery Manager in the UK

Technical Delivery Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Delivery Manager in the UK

Technical Delivery Manager
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Delivery Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 19 July 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 +47 29 £450 -14.29% 16
UK excluding London +37 18 £420 -16.00% 14
London +43 13 £550 -2.22% 8
North of England +11 10 £402 +0.50% 1
Work from Home +21 8 £402 -26.91% 12
Yorkshire +6 7 £463 -
Scotland -1 4 £700 +30.23% 2
North West +7 3 £402 +0.50%
East Midlands - 2 £363 -
Midlands - 2 £363 - 2
South East +25 1 £440 -46.67% 3
East of England +10 1 £775 +100.00% 3

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

For the 6 months to 19 July 2025, Technical 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 Technical Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 19 (52.78%) Finance
2 18 (50.00%) Agile
3 13 (36.11%) Banking
4 11 (30.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (30.56%) Project Management
5 9 (25.00%) JIRA
5 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 6 (16.67%) Project Delivery
6 6 (16.67%) Confluence
7 5 (13.89%) AWS
7 5 (13.89%) Programme Management
7 5 (13.89%) Scrum
7 5 (13.89%) Budget Management
8 4 (11.11%) Cost Control
8 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
8 4 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
8 4 (11.11%) Migration
8 4 (11.11%) Firewall
8 4 (11.11%) Risk Management
8 4 (11.11%) CheckPoint
8 4 (11.11%) Cisco
8 4 (11.11%) Investment Banking
8 4 (11.11%) Supplier Management
8 4 (11.11%) Degree
8 4 (11.11%) Retail Banking
8 4 (11.11%) Fortinet
8 4 (11.11%) APMP
8 4 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (11.11%) FortiGate

Technical 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 6 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) Camunda
2 1 (2.78%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.78%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.78%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.89%) AWS
2 3 (8.33%) SaaS
3 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.78%) Azure
4 1 (2.78%) GCP
4 1 (2.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (2.78%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) Big Data
1 2 (5.56%) Power BI
2 1 (2.78%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 9 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 19 (52.78%) Finance
2 13 (36.11%) Banking
3 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 4 (11.11%) Investment Banking
4 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 4 (11.11%) Retail Banking
5 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.33%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.56%) Front Office
6 2 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Law
7 1 (2.78%) Local Government
7 1 (2.78%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.56%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.78%) Culture of Ownership
2 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.78%) Derivative
2 1 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.78%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Unix
1 2 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (50.00%) Agile
2 11 (30.56%) Project Management
2 11 (30.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 5 (13.89%) Budget Management
4 5 (13.89%) Programme Management
4 5 (13.89%) Scrum
5 4 (11.11%) Cost Control
5 4 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (11.11%) Migration
5 4 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
5 4 (11.11%) Risk Management
5 4 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (11.11%) Supplier Management
6 3 (8.33%) Analytics
6 3 (8.33%) Project Governance
7 2 (5.56%) Security Operations
7 2 (5.56%) SIEM
7 2 (5.56%) Strategic Thinking
7 2 (5.56%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) APMP
1 4 (11.11%) Degree
2 3 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (8.33%) PMI Certification
2 3 (8.33%) PMP
3 2 (5.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) Dodd-Frank
1 1 (2.78%) EMIR
1 1 (2.78%) GRC
1 1 (2.78%) ISO 20022
1 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.78%) MiFID
1 1 (2.78%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) FortiGate
2 2 (5.56%) Terraform
3 1 (2.78%) Ansible
3 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (11.11%) CheckPoint
1 4 (11.11%) Cisco
1 4 (11.11%) Fortinet
2 3 (8.33%) Planview
3 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.56%) Splunk
4 1 (2.78%) Databricks
4 1 (2.78%) Spotify
4 1 (2.78%) VMware