Outside IR35 Delivery Manager Contract Jobs
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Delivery Manager - Digital Product Implementation & Adoption
Posted 1 day ago by Gibbs Consulting Global
DURATION12 months - initially offered in 3 to 6 month contract segments, with potential permanent conversionLOCATION: MU...
- Rate Not specified
- Category Outside
- Work type Hybrid
- Location Greater London
Scrum Master/Agile Project Manager - Technology & Digital Delivery
Posted 1 day ago by Precise Placements Ltd
Key responsibilitiesLead sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives.Work with Product Managers and Product O...
- Rate £305 per day
- Category Outside
- Work type Not specified
- Location London
Programme Manager / Senior Delivery Manager
Posted 2 days ago by Fuse
The OpportunityThis is far more than a traditional project management role.We're looking for someone who can take full o...
- Rate £525 per day
- Category Outside
- Work type Hybrid
- Location London; City of London; East London; Central London; South East London; West London; Canary Wharf; South West London; North London; Greenwich; Stratford
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Senior IT Project Manager – Business Transformation & Technology Delivery
Posted 3 days ago by ARK Infotech Spectrum
Role: Senior IT Project Manager – Business Transformation & Technology DeliveryLocation: RemoteExperience10+ years o...
- Rate Not specified
- Category Outside
- Work type Remote
- Location Remote
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Manager Value Delivery - Agile Coach - Remote with quarterly client visit
Posted 1 week ago by Svam International, Inc.
Manager, Value Delivery - Agile Coach6 months contract to hireMax Annual Salary $143K + benefitsPlease note: Candidates...
- Rate Not specified
- Category Outside
- Work type Remote
- Location Remote
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About Our Outside IR35 Delivery Manager Contract Roles
What does a delivery manager contractor do?
Delivery Manager contractors are engaged to lead the end-to-end delivery of technology products, digital services, or change programmes, taking accountability for the pace, quality, and outcomes of delivery across one or more teams. The role encompasses planning and managing delivery roadmaps, removing impediments that block progress, facilitating agile ceremonies and rituals, managing stakeholder expectations, reporting delivery status clearly, and maintaining the conditions under which teams can deliver sustainably at pace. Delivery Managers are particularly prevalent in government digital programmes, technology companies, and large financial services organisations where agile delivery at scale is the norm.
Clients expect Delivery Manager contractors to bring combine strong agile delivery methodology knowledge with excellent facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management capability. Experience working within government digital service frameworks, including familiarity with the GDS Service Standard and the alpha/beta/live delivery model, is frequently required for public sector engagements. Proficiency with delivery tooling such as Jira, Trello, or Linear, and experience managing delivery across multiple teams or a complex programme of interdependent workstreams, is expected at senior levels. The ability to provide clear and honest delivery reporting to senior stakeholders, manage commercial relationships with delivery partners and suppliers, and build a team culture that supports sustainable high performance is the hallmark of a strong Delivery Manager contractor. Most senior Delivery Managers bring a combination of agile certification and significant practical experience leading complex digital delivery programmes.
What is the market like for delivery manager contractors?
Delivery Manager contracting is an active and well-established market, particularly within central and local government digital programmes, financial services technology delivery, and large digital product organisations. The government digital transformation agenda has been the single most significant driver of Delivery Manager contractor demand over the past decade, as GDS-influenced delivery practices have spread across central departments and arm's-length bodies. Demand has remained solid despite broader technology hiring slowdowns, as Delivery Manager is a role that many organisations prefer to fill contractually during intensive delivery phases rather than maintaining as a permanent function. Rates reflect seniority and the scale of delivery responsibility, with senior Delivery Managers on complex multi-team programmes commanding rates at the upper end of the project management contractor market.
What does Outside IR35 mean?
IR35 is UK tax legislation that determines whether a contractor is genuinely self-employed or working in a manner that resembles employment. When a contract is classified as outside IR35, the engagement is treated as a business-to-business arrangement. The contractor operates through their own limited company, invoices for services, and manages their own tax affairs including corporation tax, self-assessment, and VAT where applicable.
Outside IR35 engagements are assessed against three key factors: the degree of control the client exercises over how the work is delivered, whether the contractor has a genuine right to provide a substitute, and whether there is a mutuality of obligation between the parties. Contracts that demonstrate contractor autonomy, project-based delivery, and the absence of ongoing employment obligations are more likely to sit outside IR35. Since April 2021, responsibility for making this determination sits with the end client for medium and large private sector organisations.
On QualityContracts.co.uk, approximately 28% of roles with a stated IR35 status are classified as outside IR35. The proportion varies by sector and role type, with some disciplines seeing a significantly higher or lower share of outside IR35 opportunities. Each listing on this page displays its IR35 status where provided by the hiring organisation.
What delivery manager roles are usually Outside IR35?
Delivery management has one of the lowest outside IR35 rates in the project management family, at around 15% of contracts across contracts with a declared IR35 position. The role's deep integration into agile delivery teams, facilitating daily ceremonies, maintaining continuous stakeholder engagement, and coaching squads, creates working patterns that HMRC's framework tends to classify as employment. The limited outside IR35 work that does exist is typically scoped around a discrete transformation initiative where the delivery manager operates independently of the client's management structure.
How much do delivery manager contractors usually earn when working Outside IR35?
Contract rates for delivery manager roles typically range from £500 to £900 per day, depending on the scope of the role, required expertise, and the delivery expectations of the engagement. Rates shown are for outside IR35 engagements and reflect the gross day rate paid to the contractor's limited company before any personal tax obligations.
How many Outside IR35 delivery manager vacancies are there on Quality Contracts?
Over the past twelve months, we have tracked over 200 delivery manager contract roles across the site. Of the roles currently listed on our site, around one in four are Outside IR35. Data reviewed up to September 2026.