Delivery Manager Contracts

Delivery Manager
UK

The median Delivery Manager daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 247 222 199
Rank change year-on-year -25 -23 +65
Contract jobs requiring a Delivery Manager 411 743 1,286
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.95% 1.26% 1.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.03% 1.33% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 564 910
10th Percentile £350 £413 £413
25th Percentile £450 £489 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £546
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +5.26% +4.05%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £600
90th Percentile £723 £750 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £565 £513
% change year-on-year -2.65% +10.24% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.75 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £12.95 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +131.66% -50.19% -46.67%
75th Percentile £51.57 £35.85 £26.50
90th Percentile £72.90 £49.59 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £12.95 -
% change year-on-year +131.66% - -

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 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £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 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Delivery Manager in the UK

Delivery Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Delivery Manager in the UK

Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Delivery Manager over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Delivery Manager in the UK

Delivery Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Delivery Manager in the UK

Delivery Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Delivery Manager over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Delivery Manager in the UK

Delivery Manager
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 4 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 -36 352 £550 -4.35% 106
London -2 191 £557 -7.17% 40
UK excluding London -30 174 £550 -2.65% 73
Work from Home +4 143 £550 - 37
South West +23 45 £600 -4.00% 12
North of England -39 44 £550 - 15
South East +12 34 £540 +2.86% 19
North West -21 32 £575 +6.73% 10
Scotland +39 26 £500 -4.76% 7
Midlands +4 17 £545 -9.17% 11
Yorkshire -11 11 £500 -16.67% 3
West Midlands +9 9 £545 -9.17% 6
East Midlands +10 8 - - 5
East of England -1 6 £525 - 6
Wales +9 3 £420 -23.64% 5
North East +11 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 featuring Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 210 (51.09%) Agile
2 119 (28.95%) Security Cleared
3 116 (28.22%) Project Management
4 114 (27.74%) Service Delivery
5 101 (24.57%) SC Cleared
6 96 (23.36%) Finance
7 92 (22.38%) Public Sector
7 92 (22.38%) Project Delivery
8 83 (20.19%) Social Skills
9 77 (18.73%) Stakeholder Management
10 69 (16.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 63 (15.33%) Scrum
12 49 (11.92%) JIRA
13 47 (11.44%) PRINCE2
14 39 (9.49%) Decision-Making
15 38 (9.25%) Problem-Solving
15 38 (9.25%) Service Management
16 37 (9.00%) Azure
16 37 (9.00%) Waterfall
17 35 (8.52%) Roadmaps
18 34 (8.27%) AWS
18 34 (8.27%) Microsoft
19 31 (7.54%) Telecoms
20 29 (7.06%) Kanban
21 28 (6.81%) Confluence
21 28 (6.81%) PMI Certification
21 28 (6.81%) Business Case
22 27 (6.57%) ITIL
22 27 (6.57%) Change Management
23 25 (6.08%) Legal

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 28 (6.81%) Confluence
2 4 (0.97%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.49%) CMS
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.24%) Drupal
5 1 (0.24%) Kentico
Applications
1 9 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.73%) Infor SunSystems
1 3 (0.73%) SAP ERP
1 3 (0.73%) Shopify
2 1 (0.24%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 37 (9.00%) Azure
2 34 (8.27%) AWS
3 21 (5.11%) SaaS
4 15 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (2.43%) GCP
6 7 (1.70%) Power Platform
7 4 (0.97%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (0.97%) iPaaS
8 3 (0.73%) BigCommerce
9 2 (0.49%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.49%) Miro
9 2 (0.49%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.24%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.24%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.24%) GitHub
10 1 (0.24%) Kontent
10 1 (0.24%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.24%) PaaS
10 1 (0.24%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.92%) SD-WAN
2 4 (0.97%) Firewall
2 4 (0.97%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (0.97%) SNA
3 3 (0.73%) VPN
4 2 (0.49%) GSM
4 2 (0.49%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.24%) DNS
5 1 (0.24%) Intranet
5 1 (0.24%) ISDN
5 1 (0.24%) LAN
5 1 (0.24%) MPLS
5 1 (0.24%) PSTN
5 1 (0.24%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.46%) Power BI
2 4 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (0.73%) MySQL
3 3 (0.73%) Tableau
4 2 (0.49%) Looker
4 2 (0.49%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (0.49%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.24%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 49 (11.92%) JIRA
2 3 (0.73%) Maven
3 1 (0.24%) CA Gen
3 1 (0.24%) Git
3 1 (0.24%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 96 (23.36%) Finance
2 92 (22.38%) Public Sector
3 83 (20.19%) Social Skills
4 31 (7.54%) Telecoms
5 25 (6.08%) Legal
6 21 (5.11%) Military
7 20 (4.87%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (3.89%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (2.43%) Marketing
11 8 (1.95%) Billing
11 8 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.95%) Publishing
12 7 (1.70%) Banking
12 7 (1.70%) Retail
13 5 (1.22%) Local Government
13 5 (1.22%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.97%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.97%) French Language
14 4 (0.97%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.73%) AngularJS
1 3 (0.73%) CSS
1 3 (0.73%) J2EE
1 3 (0.73%) jQuery
1 3 (0.73%) Kafka
1 3 (0.73%) REST
1 3 (0.73%) Sass
1 3 (0.73%) Spring
1 3 (0.73%) Spring MVC
1 3 (0.73%) Twitter Bootstrap
1 3 (0.73%) VML
1 3 (0.73%) Web Services
2 2 (0.49%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.24%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 16 (3.89%) Product Ownership
2 10 (2.43%) Management Information System
3 9 (2.19%) Virtual Team
4 7 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (0.97%) Driving Licence
5 4 (0.97%) Onboarding
5 4 (0.97%) PMI
6 3 (0.73%) Cloud Native
6 3 (0.73%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (0.49%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.49%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.49%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (0.49%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (0.49%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.49%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.49%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.24%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.24%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.95%) Apple iOS
1 8 (1.95%) Windows
2 3 (0.73%) Linux
2 3 (0.73%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (51.09%) Agile
2 116 (28.22%) Project Management
3 114 (27.74%) Service Delivery
4 92 (22.38%) Project Delivery
5 77 (18.73%) Stakeholder Management
6 69 (16.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 63 (15.33%) Scrum
8 47 (11.44%) PRINCE2
9 39 (9.49%) Decision-Making
10 38 (9.25%) Problem-Solving
10 38 (9.25%) Service Management
11 37 (9.00%) Waterfall
12 35 (8.52%) Roadmaps
13 29 (7.06%) Kanban
14 28 (6.81%) Business Case
15 27 (6.57%) Change Management
15 27 (6.57%) ITIL
16 25 (6.08%) Software Delivery
17 24 (5.84%) Risk Management
18 22 (5.35%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 8 (1.95%) Swift
2 4 (0.97%) Java
3 3 (0.73%) C#
3 3 (0.73%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.24%) SQL
Qualifications
1 119 (28.95%) Security Cleared
2 101 (24.57%) SC Cleared
3 28 (6.81%) PMI Certification
4 24 (5.84%) PMP
5 19 (4.62%) Degree
6 18 (4.38%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.73%) BC Cleared
10 2 (0.49%) FFIEC
10 2 (0.49%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.24%) APMP
11 1 (0.24%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.24%) PgMP
11 1 (0.24%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.24%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.62%) SLA
2 12 (2.92%) PMO
3 9 (2.19%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.95%) QA
5 3 (0.73%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.49%) GRC
6 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.49%) NIST
6 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.24%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (8.27%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.14%) SAP
3 10 (2.43%) ServiceNow
4 9 (2.19%) Google
5 8 (1.95%) Okta
6 6 (1.46%) Cadence
7 5 (1.22%) Oracle
7 5 (1.22%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.97%) Atlassian
8 4 (0.97%) Cisco
9 3 (0.73%) Adobe
9 3 (0.73%) Dell
9 3 (0.73%) Guidewire
9 3 (0.73%) Intel
9 3 (0.73%) Sage
9 3 (0.73%) Sitecore
10 2 (0.49%) Ariba
10 2 (0.49%) BT
10 2 (0.49%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.49%) Pega