Senior Delivery Manager Contracts

Senior Delivery Manager
UK

The median Senior Delivery Manager daily rate in the UK is £618, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 534 629 746
Rank change year-on-year +95 +117 -64
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Delivery Manager 50 68 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.13% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 58 58
10th Percentile £413 £532 £524
25th Percentile £500 £600 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £696 £739 £675
90th Percentile £730 £787 £736
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%

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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Senior Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Delivery Manager in the UK

Senior Delivery Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Delivery Manager in the UK

Senior Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Delivery Manager over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Delivery Manager in the UK

Senior 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 Senior Delivery Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 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 +59 35 £613 -5.77% 17
UK excluding London +29 28 £600 -11.11% 11
Work from Home +104 19 £636 -2.12% 4
London +65 17 £613 -5.77% 6
Scotland +58 11 £410 -52.33% 1
South West 0 7 £633 -2.60%
South East +20 6 £720 +10.77% 4
North of England +6 3 £550 -15.38% 3
Yorkshire +11 2 £500 -31.03% 2
West Midlands +15 1 £700 - 3
Midlands +14 1 £700 - 3
North West +9 1 £600 -7.69% 1

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Senior 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 Senior Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 41 (82.00%) Agile
2 24 (48.00%) Public Sector
3 22 (44.00%) Security Cleared
4 21 (42.00%) Project Management
5 16 (32.00%) Finance
5 16 (32.00%) Scrum
5 16 (32.00%) SC Cleared
6 14 (28.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 12 (24.00%) JIRA
7 12 (24.00%) Software Delivery
7 12 (24.00%) Social Skills
8 11 (22.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (22.00%) Confluence
9 10 (20.00%) Microsoft
9 10 (20.00%) PRINCE2
9 10 (20.00%) Project Delivery
10 9 (18.00%) Roadmaps
11 7 (14.00%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (12.00%) Marketing
12 6 (12.00%) SAP
12 6 (12.00%) Product Ownership
13 5 (10.00%) Service Delivery
13 5 (10.00%) Risk Management
13 5 (10.00%) Programme Management
13 5 (10.00%) Waterfall
13 5 (10.00%) Kanban
13 5 (10.00%) Agile Project Management
13 5 (10.00%) Mentoring
14 4 (8.00%) DevOps
14 4 (8.00%) Data Analytics

Senior 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 11 (22.00%) Confluence
2 2 (4.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (4.00%) CMS
3 1 (2.00%) Drupal
3 1 (2.00%) Kentico
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (6.00%) SaaS
3 2 (4.00%) AWS
3 2 (4.00%) Azure
3 2 (4.00%) BigCommerce
3 2 (4.00%) GCP
3 2 (4.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (4.00%) SuccessFactors
4 1 (2.00%) Kontent
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) MySQL
1 2 (4.00%) NonStop SQL
1 2 (4.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (24.00%) JIRA
2 2 (4.00%) Maven
General
1 24 (48.00%) Public Sector
2 16 (32.00%) Finance
3 12 (24.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (12.00%) Marketing
5 4 (8.00%) Military
6 3 (6.00%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (4.00%) Retail
8 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (2.00%) Banking
8 1 (2.00%) Electronics
8 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.00%) Legal
8 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.00%) Publishing
8 1 (2.00%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (4.00%) CSS
1 2 (4.00%) J2EE
1 2 (4.00%) jQuery
1 2 (4.00%) REST
1 2 (4.00%) Sass
1 2 (4.00%) Spring
1 2 (4.00%) Spring MVC
1 2 (4.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
1 2 (4.00%) VML
1 2 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.00%) Linux
1 2 (4.00%) Unix
1 2 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (82.00%) Agile
2 21 (42.00%) Project Management
3 16 (32.00%) Scrum
4 14 (28.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 12 (24.00%) Software Delivery
6 11 (22.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (20.00%) PRINCE2
7 10 (20.00%) Project Delivery
8 9 (18.00%) Roadmaps
9 5 (10.00%) Agile Project Management
9 5 (10.00%) Kanban
9 5 (10.00%) Mentoring
9 5 (10.00%) Programme Management
9 5 (10.00%) Risk Management
9 5 (10.00%) Service Delivery
9 5 (10.00%) Waterfall
10 4 (8.00%) Analytics
10 4 (8.00%) Data Analytics
10 4 (8.00%) Decision-Making
10 4 (8.00%) Order to Cash
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.00%) Java
1 2 (4.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 22 (44.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (32.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.00%) Degree
4 1 (2.00%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.00%) PMO
2 2 (4.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 10 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.00%) SAP
3 4 (8.00%) Google
4 2 (4.00%) Adobe
4 2 (4.00%) Atlassian
4 2 (4.00%) Cadence
4 2 (4.00%) Dell
4 2 (4.00%) Intel
4 2 (4.00%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.00%) Sitecore
5 1 (2.00%) Oracle