Project Delivery Manager Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Projects Delivery Manager
UK > Work from Home

The median Projects Delivery Manager daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £522, 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 300 335 470
Rank change year-on-year +35 +135 +134
Contract jobs requiring a Project Delivery Manager 4 10 7
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% 0.065% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.070% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 7
10th Percentile £514 £519 £395
25th Percentile £517 £525 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% +10.00% +6.84%
75th Percentile £547 £575 £538
90th Percentile £564 £639 £580
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £519
% change year-on-year -4.55% +6.02% +14.01%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid 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 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Project Delivery Manager
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Project Delivery Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Project Delivery Manager trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Project Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Project Delivery Manager.

Project Delivery Manager daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Project Delivery Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Project Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Project Management
1 4 (100.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Change Management
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Lean Six Sigma
3 1 (25.00%) Kanban
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Service Design
3 1 (25.00%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
3 1 (25.00%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (25.00%) GDPR
3 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (25.00%) NIST
3 1 (25.00%) CISSP
3 1 (25.00%) PMP
3 1 (25.00%) PMI Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Six Sigma
3 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (25.00%) CISM

Project Delivery Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 4 (100.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) Kanban
3 1 (25.00%) Lean Six Sigma
3 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Service Design
3 1 (25.00%) Six Sigma
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CISM
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (25.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST