Delivery Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Delivery Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Delivery Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £535 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 222 192 164
Rank change year-on-year -30 -28 +55
Contract jobs requiring a Delivery Manager 169 293 473
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.83% 1.28% 1.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 1.35% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 213 333
10th Percentile £373 £425 £400
25th Percentile £427 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £570 £523
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +9.09% +4.50%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £720 £638
UK median daily rate £540 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.75 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £12.95 -
Median % change year-on-year +131.66% - -
75th Percentile £51.57 - -
90th Percentile £72.90 - -
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £12.95 £26.00
% change year-on-year +131.66% -50.19% -46.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 18,796 21,663 29,128
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.29% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,463 15,116 20,427
10th Percentile £213 £225 £203
25th Percentile £363 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,267 1,107 1,446
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.73 £18.02 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.92
90th Percentile £73.85 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Delivery Manager in the UK excluding London

Delivery Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Delivery Manager in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Delivery Manager in the UK excluding London

Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Delivery Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Delivery Manager in the UK excluding London

Delivery Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Delivery Manager in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Delivery Manager in the UK excluding London

Delivery Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Delivery Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Delivery Manager in the UK excluding London

Delivery Manager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Delivery Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
South West +5 45 £600 -4.00% 13
North of England -45 44 £550 - 16
South East +5 33 £538 +7.50% 22
North West -30 32 £575 +6.98% 7
Scotland +43 24 £500 -5.66% 11
Midlands +2 15 £560 -6.67% 17
Yorkshire -15 11 £500 -16.67% 5
East Midlands 0 8 - - 8
West Midlands +6 7 £560 -6.67% 9
East of England +3 6 £525 -6.67% 5
Wales +16 3 £420 -23.64% 7
North East +8 1 - - 5
Delivery Manager
UK

Delivery Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 82 (48.52%) Agile
2 52 (30.77%) Security Cleared
3 50 (29.59%) Service Delivery
4 49 (28.99%) Public Sector
5 48 (28.40%) Project Management
6 47 (27.81%) SC Cleared
7 46 (27.22%) Finance
8 38 (22.49%) Project Delivery
9 32 (18.93%) Social Skills
10 27 (15.98%) Stakeholder Management
11 24 (14.20%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (14.20%) Scrum
11 24 (14.20%) JIRA
12 23 (13.61%) PRINCE2
13 21 (12.43%) Change Management
14 19 (11.24%) Azure
15 18 (10.65%) Service Management
16 17 (10.06%) ITSM
16 17 (10.06%) Confluence
17 15 (8.88%) SLA
18 14 (8.28%) Coaching
18 14 (8.28%) Decision-Making
18 14 (8.28%) Problem-Solving
19 13 (7.69%) User Experience
20 12 (7.10%) Software Delivery
20 12 (7.10%) AWS
20 12 (7.10%) Telecoms
20 12 (7.10%) Programme Management
21 11 (6.51%) Legal
21 11 (6.51%) Waterfall

Delivery Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 17 (10.06%) Confluence
2 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 19 (11.24%) Azure
2 12 (7.10%) AWS
3 9 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (5.33%) SaaS
4 4 (2.37%) GCP
4 4 (2.37%) iPaaS
5 3 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.78%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.59%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.59%) GitHub
6 1 (0.59%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.59%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.59%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.37%) Radio Access Network
2 3 (1.78%) VPN
3 1 (0.59%) Firewall
3 1 (0.59%) ISDN
3 1 (0.59%) LAN
3 1 (0.59%) PSTN
3 1 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.78%) Power BI
2 1 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.59%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (0.59%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 24 (14.20%) JIRA
2 1 (0.59%) CA Gen
2 1 (0.59%) Git
2 1 (0.59%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 49 (28.99%) Public Sector
2 46 (27.22%) Finance
3 32 (18.93%) Social Skills
4 12 (7.10%) Telecoms
5 11 (6.51%) Legal
6 8 (4.73%) Publishing
7 6 (3.55%) Billing
8 5 (2.96%) Local Government
8 5 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.37%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.37%) Military
9 4 (2.37%) Police
10 3 (1.78%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.18%) Banking
11 2 (1.18%) Electronics
11 2 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.18%) Marketing
12 1 (0.59%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.59%) Back Office
12 1 (0.59%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.14%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.37%) Driving Licence
3 3 (1.78%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.18%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.18%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.59%) PMI
5 1 (0.59%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.59%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.73%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (48.52%) Agile
2 50 (29.59%) Service Delivery
3 48 (28.40%) Project Management
4 38 (22.49%) Project Delivery
5 27 (15.98%) Stakeholder Management
6 24 (14.20%) Continuous Improvement
6 24 (14.20%) Scrum
7 23 (13.61%) PRINCE2
8 21 (12.43%) Change Management
9 18 (10.65%) Service Management
10 17 (10.06%) ITSM
11 14 (8.28%) Coaching
11 14 (8.28%) Decision-Making
11 14 (8.28%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (7.69%) User Experience
13 12 (7.10%) Programme Management
13 12 (7.10%) Software Delivery
14 11 (6.51%) Roadmaps
14 11 (6.51%) Waterfall
15 10 (5.92%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.73%) Swift
Qualifications
1 52 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 47 (27.81%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.96%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.37%) Degree
4 4 (2.37%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.78%) PMP
6 2 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.59%) APMP
7 1 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.59%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.59%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.88%) SLA
2 8 (4.73%) PMO
3 4 (2.37%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.37%) QA
4 3 (1.78%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 10 (5.92%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.73%) Okta
3 7 (4.14%) Cadence
3 7 (4.14%) SAP
4 4 (2.37%) Google
5 3 (1.78%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.18%) BT
6 2 (1.18%) Cisco
6 2 (1.18%) Oracle
6 2 (1.18%) Pega
7 1 (0.59%) Ariba
7 1 (0.59%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.59%) CA
7 1 (0.59%) Citrix
7 1 (0.59%) Fujitsu
7 1 (0.59%) Genesys
7 1 (0.59%) NEC
7 1 (0.59%) Remedy
7 1 (0.59%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.59%) Zscaler