Delivery Manager
UK

The median Delivery Manager salary in the UK is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 446 470
Rank change year-on-year +106 +24 -65
Permanent jobs requiring a Delivery Manager 846 657 1,254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.82% 0.67% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 0.74% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 581 532 1,002
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £51,194
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £84,964 £97,500 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £57,650
% change year-on-year -12.00% +8.41% +4.82%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 97,260 88,990 160,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.41% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 69,382 56,369 85,188
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,663
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Delivery Manager in the UK

Delivery Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Delivery Manager over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Delivery Manager in the UK

Delivery Manager
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Delivery Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +138 775 £57,500 -14.81% 114
UK excluding London +130 548 £55,000 -12.00% 94
Work from Home +44 266 £63,376 -6.11% 47
London +132 260 £68,338 -8.88% 35
North of England +131 197 £57,500 +1.32% 21
Midlands +42 98 £56,500 -13.08% 17
North West +57 91 £55,000 -15.38% 7
South East +1 89 £50,000 -23.08% 18
Yorkshire +108 80 £64,080 +16.76% 11
South West +10 78 £60,000 +9.09% 14
West Midlands +41 74 £60,159 -7.09% 11
East of England +27 42 £50,000 +4.80% 10
Scotland -51 30 £56,207 -15.16% 12
North East +14 26 £58,800 +6.91% 5
East Midlands +2 24 £35,000 -48.15% 6
Wales +9 14 £60,400 +28.51% 4
Northern Ireland +19 1 £58,800 +47.00% 2

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Delivery Manager 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 permanent job ads featuring Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 409 (48.35%) Service Delivery
2 282 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 263 (31.09%) Agile
4 236 (27.90%) Finance
5 216 (25.53%) Project Management
6 215 (25.41%) Mentoring
7 173 (20.45%) Project Delivery
8 159 (18.79%) Microsoft
9 150 (17.73%) SLA
9 150 (17.73%) Scrum
10 139 (16.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 136 (16.08%) ITIL
12 132 (15.60%) Contract Negotiation
13 121 (14.30%) Law
14 117 (13.83%) Stakeholder Management
14 117 (13.83%) ServiceNow
15 110 (13.00%) Coaching
16 108 (12.77%) SaaS
17 106 (12.53%) Performance Management
18 103 (12.17%) Service Management
19 100 (11.82%) Kanban
20 99 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
21 95 (11.23%) Dell
22 86 (10.17%) Degree
23 85 (10.05%) Public Sector
24 79 (9.34%) Problem-Solving
25 71 (8.39%) ITSM
26 67 (7.92%) Decision-Making
27 62 (7.33%) Customer Service
28 53 (6.26%) Azure

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 10 (1.18%) Confluence
2 3 (0.35%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.12%) CMS
4 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 27 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.59%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.35%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.12%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.12%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 108 (12.77%) SaaS
2 53 (6.26%) Azure
3 35 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (1.18%) AWS
5 9 (1.06%) Power Platform
6 5 (0.59%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (0.59%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (0.35%) Asana
8 2 (0.24%) Contentful
8 2 (0.24%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.24%) Google Analytics
8 2 (0.24%) Google Docs
9 1 (0.12%) Basecamp
9 1 (0.12%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.12%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.12%) PaaS
9 1 (0.12%) Serverless
9 1 (0.12%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
2 7 (0.83%) 4G
2 7 (0.83%) 5G
3 5 (0.59%) Firewall
4 4 (0.47%) LAN
4 4 (0.47%) WAN
5 3 (0.35%) Network Security
5 3 (0.35%) SD-WAN
5 3 (0.35%) VPN
5 3 (0.35%) WLAN
6 2 (0.24%) Internet
6 2 (0.24%) NAS
6 2 (0.24%) VSAT
7 1 (0.12%) DHCP
7 1 (0.12%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (1.42%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.06%) Power BI
3 6 (0.71%) SAP HANA
4 2 (0.24%) Big Data
4 2 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.24%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (0.24%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.12%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.12%) GIS
5 1 (0.12%) LogicBlox
5 1 (0.12%) Metadata
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.12%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (3.31%) JIRA
2 2 (0.24%) Bitbucket
2 2 (0.24%) GitLab
General
1 282 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 236 (27.90%) Finance
3 139 (16.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 121 (14.30%) Law
5 85 (10.05%) Public Sector
6 48 (5.67%) Analytical Skills
7 43 (5.08%) Retail
8 40 (4.73%) Presentation Skills
9 29 (3.43%) Telecoms
10 22 (2.60%) Marketing
11 20 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
11 20 (2.36%) Legal
12 16 (1.89%) Spanish Language
13 15 (1.77%) Manufacturing
14 14 (1.65%) Games
15 12 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (1.42%) Military
15 12 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
16 9 (1.06%) French Language
17 7 (0.83%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.89%) EDI
2 5 (0.59%) CSS
3 4 (0.47%) .NET
4 3 (0.35%) RESTful
5 1 (0.12%) HTML
5 1 (0.12%) SOAP
5 1 (0.12%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 39 (4.61%) Product Ownership
2 25 (2.96%) Management Information System
2 25 (2.96%) Onboarding
3 22 (2.60%) Driving Licence
4 18 (2.13%) NHS
5 15 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (1.42%) PMI
7 10 (1.18%) Virtual Team
8 7 (0.83%) Mobile App
9 6 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.59%) iPad
11 4 (0.47%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (0.47%) Reinsurance
11 4 (0.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 3 (0.35%) Blog
12 3 (0.35%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 3 (0.35%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.35%) Housing Association
12 3 (0.35%) IoT
12 3 (0.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.25%) Windows
2 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.12%) Android
3 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 409 (48.35%) Service Delivery
2 263 (31.09%) Agile
3 216 (25.53%) Project Management
4 215 (25.41%) Mentoring
5 173 (20.45%) Project Delivery
6 150 (17.73%) Scrum
7 136 (16.08%) ITIL
8 132 (15.60%) Contract Negotiation
9 117 (13.83%) Stakeholder Management
10 110 (13.00%) Coaching
11 106 (12.53%) Performance Management
12 103 (12.17%) Service Management
13 100 (11.82%) Kanban
14 99 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
15 79 (9.34%) Problem-Solving
16 71 (8.39%) ITSM
17 67 (7.92%) Decision-Making
18 62 (7.33%) Customer Service
19 52 (6.15%) Line Management
20 50 (5.91%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 11 (1.30%) C#
2 10 (1.18%) Java
3 9 (1.06%) Python
4 3 (0.35%) JavaScript
4 3 (0.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 86 (10.17%) Degree
2 48 (5.67%) Security Cleared
3 35 (4.14%) ITIL Certification
4 30 (3.55%) SC Cleared
5 21 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.48%) PMI Certification
6 19 (2.25%) DBS Check
7 14 (1.65%) PMP
8 8 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.47%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.35%) CCNP
10 3 (0.35%) MCSE
10 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 2 (0.24%) APMP
11 2 (0.24%) CSPO
12 1 (0.12%) APMG
12 1 (0.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.12%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (17.73%) SLA
2 18 (2.13%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.89%) QA
4 12 (1.42%) PMO
5 10 (1.18%) GDPR
6 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.35%) GMP
7 2 (0.24%) COBIT
7 2 (0.24%) NIST
8 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.12%) IFRS
8 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (0.59%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 159 (18.79%) Microsoft
2 117 (13.83%) ServiceNow
3 95 (11.23%) Dell
4 23 (2.72%) SAP
5 17 (2.01%) Salesforce
6 12 (1.42%) Oracle
7 9 (1.06%) Google
8 8 (0.95%) Apple
9 5 (0.59%) Sitecore
10 4 (0.47%) Computacenter
10 4 (0.47%) ConnectWise
11 3 (0.35%) Cadence
11 3 (0.35%) Cisco
11 3 (0.35%) Genesys
11 3 (0.35%) Meraki
11 3 (0.35%) NEC
12 2 (0.24%) Adyen
12 2 (0.24%) Facebook
12 2 (0.24%) iManage
12 2 (0.24%) VMware