Hybrid/Remote Delivery Manager Contract Job Trends

Delivery Manager
UK > Work from Home

The median Delivery Manager daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 227 226
Rank change year-on-year -11 -1 -24
Contract jobs requiring a Delivery Manager 134 77 111
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.99% 0.78% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% 0.83% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 54 81
10th Percentile £404 £359 £375
25th Percentile £450 £402 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £764 £675
UK median daily rate £535 £509 £540
% change year-on-year +5.21% -5.83% -6.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £80.75 - -
Median hourly rate £81.50 - -
75th Percentile £82.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £85.79 £89.63 £52.50
% change year-on-year -4.29% +70.72% -7.71%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 12,565 9,251 11,949
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.92% 93.83% 93.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,865 6,089 7,706
10th Percentile £358 £325 £325
25th Percentile £430 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £709 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 689 298 306
10th Percentile £15.74 £13.25 £19.45
25th Percentile £26.78 £20.50 £30.88
Median hourly rate £60.00 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -16.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.13 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.50% -41.51% -0.76%

Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Delivery Manager' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Delivery Manager job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Delivery Manager job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Delivery Manager job vacancies

Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Delivery Manager over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Delivery Manager daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Delivery Manager
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Delivery Manager job vacancies.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Delivery Manager job vacancies

Delivery Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 13 September 2026, Delivery Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 91 (67.91%) Agile
2 56 (41.79%) Stakeholder Management
3 55 (41.04%) Continuous Improvement
4 41 (30.60%) Security Cleared
5 37 (27.61%) Scrum
6 35 (26.12%) Roadmaps
7 33 (24.63%) SC Cleared
8 29 (21.64%) PRINCE2
9 28 (20.90%) Project Delivery
10 27 (20.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 25 (18.66%) DevOps
11 25 (18.66%) JIRA
12 24 (17.91%) Service Delivery
13 22 (16.42%) Project Management
13 22 (16.42%) Sprint Planning
14 20 (14.93%) ITIL
14 20 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
15 19 (14.18%) Change Management
15 19 (14.18%) Scaled Agile Framework
16 18 (13.43%) Kanban
17 17 (12.69%) Azure
18 15 (11.19%) Migration
19 14 (10.45%) Decision-Making
19 14 (10.45%) PMI Certification
19 14 (10.45%) Risk Management
19 14 (10.45%) Sprint Retrospective
20 13 (9.70%) Digital Transformation Programme
20 13 (9.70%) PMP
20 13 (9.70%) Service Management
21 12 (8.96%) BPSS Clearance

Delivery Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 12 (8.96%) Confluence
2 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.75%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.49%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.75%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.75%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.75%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.75%) SAP MDG-F
2 1 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (12.69%) Azure
2 10 (7.46%) AWS
3 8 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (3.73%) OCI
5 4 (2.99%) Miro
6 3 (2.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (2.24%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.24%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (2.24%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.24%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (2.24%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.24%) SaaS
6 3 (2.24%) Serverless
6 3 (2.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.49%) PaaS
8 1 (0.75%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.75%) GitHub
8 1 (0.75%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.75%) IaaS
8 1 (0.75%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.99%) 4G
1 4 (2.99%) 5G
2 3 (2.24%) VoLTE
3 2 (1.49%) LAN
3 2 (1.49%) NAS
3 2 (1.49%) SAN
3 2 (1.49%) WAN
4 1 (0.75%) Firewall
4 1 (0.75%) LTE
4 1 (0.75%) MPLS
4 1 (0.75%) Network Security
4 1 (0.75%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.75%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.75%) Wireless
4 1 (0.75%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.49%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (18.66%) JIRA
2 1 (0.75%) Git
2 1 (0.75%) GitLab
General
1 60 (44.78%) Social Skills
2 39 (29.10%) Public Sector
3 35 (26.12%) Finance
4 9 (6.72%) Banking
4 9 (6.72%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.48%) Aerospace
6 6 (4.48%) Legal
6 6 (4.48%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.73%) Military
8 4 (2.99%) Retail
9 3 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.24%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.24%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.24%) Police
9 3 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.49%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.49%) Local Government
10 2 (1.49%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.75%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.73%) Terraform
1 5 (3.73%) Web Services
2 3 (2.24%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.75%) ADO
3 1 (0.75%) Middleware
3 1 (0.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.46%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.22%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.22%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.24%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.24%) NHS
4 2 (1.49%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.49%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.49%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.49%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.49%) Operational Technology
4 2 (1.49%) PMI
5 1 (0.75%) CMDB
5 1 (0.75%) PKI
5 1 (0.75%) Replication
5 1 (0.75%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.24%) Linux
2 2 (1.49%) Windows
3 1 (0.75%) Android
3 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.75%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 1 (0.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (67.91%) Agile
2 56 (41.79%) Stakeholder Management
3 55 (41.04%) Continuous Improvement
4 37 (27.61%) Scrum
5 35 (26.12%) Roadmaps
6 29 (21.64%) PRINCE2
7 28 (20.90%) Project Delivery
8 27 (20.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 25 (18.66%) DevOps
10 24 (17.91%) Service Delivery
11 22 (16.42%) Project Management
11 22 (16.42%) Sprint Planning
12 20 (14.93%) ITIL
12 20 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (14.18%) Change Management
13 19 (14.18%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 18 (13.43%) Kanban
15 15 (11.19%) Migration
16 14 (10.45%) Decision-Making
16 14 (10.45%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.75%) JavaScript
1 1 (0.75%) Kotlin
1 1 (0.75%) Python
1 1 (0.75%) SQL
1 1 (0.75%) Swift
1 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 41 (30.60%) Security Cleared
2 33 (24.63%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.45%) PMI Certification
4 13 (9.70%) PMP
5 12 (8.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (4.48%) Degree
7 4 (2.99%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.24%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.24%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.49%) SAFe Agilist
10 1 (0.75%) CCNA
10 1 (0.75%) CCNP
10 1 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.75%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.22%) QA
2 5 (3.73%) SLA
3 4 (2.99%) PMO
4 3 (2.24%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.24%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.24%) NIST
5 1 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.75%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.75%) GRC
5 1 (0.75%) ITGC
5 1 (0.75%) NCSC
5 1 (0.75%) PSD2
5 1 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (2.24%) Docker
2 2 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (2.99%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.49%) Ansible
2 2 (1.49%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (0.75%) MOM
3 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (5.22%) Oracle
1 7 (5.22%) ServiceNow
2 4 (2.99%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.24%) SAP
4 2 (1.49%) Ariba
4 2 (1.49%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.49%) Cisco
4 2 (1.49%) Google
4 2 (1.49%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.49%) VMware
5 1 (0.75%) Aruba
5 1 (0.75%) CyberArk
5 1 (0.75%) Hitachi
5 1 (0.75%) Huawei
5 1 (0.75%) Juniper
5 1 (0.75%) Meraki
5 1 (0.75%) NetApp
5 1 (0.75%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.75%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (0.75%) SolarWinds