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 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 348 451 442
Rank change year-on-year +103 -9 -40
Permanent jobs requiring a Delivery Manager 804 690 1,264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.82% 0.66% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 0.72% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 552 553 1,009
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,476 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,600 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.35% +4.96% +8.70%
75th Percentile £73,102 £81,900 £75,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £97,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Delivery Manager in the UK

Delivery Manager
Top 16 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 27 April 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 +159 752 £60,000 -11.11% 93
UK excluding London +101 504 £55,000 -8.33% 68
London +129 262 £68,473 -8.39% 35
Work from Home +50 262 £64,080 -5.07% 40
North of England +130 193 £57,500 +2.68% 14
North West +68 94 £55,000 -13.73% 8
Midlands +43 91 £57,500 -9.45% 12
South East +32 90 £50,000 -23.08% 19
Yorkshire +112 78 £70,000 +27.55% 5
South West +26 69 £63,376 +15.23% 9
West Midlands +45 67 £61,409 -1.75% 5
East of England +36 36 £50,000 -33.33% 5
East Midlands +3 24 £47,500 -29.63% 7
Scotland -70 24 £50,000 -23.08% 8
North East +14 21 £55,000 +10.00% 2
Wales +4 2 £48,750 +7.15% 5

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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.

1 396 (49.25%) Service Delivery
2 278 (34.58%) Social Skills
3 249 (30.97%) Agile
4 240 (29.85%) Finance
5 215 (26.74%) Project Management
6 205 (25.50%) Mentoring
7 163 (20.27%) Microsoft
8 160 (19.90%) Project Delivery
9 149 (18.53%) SLA
10 148 (18.41%) Scrum
11 144 (17.91%) ITIL
12 135 (16.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 131 (16.29%) Contract Negotiation
14 124 (15.42%) Law
15 115 (14.30%) ServiceNow
16 111 (13.81%) Stakeholder Management
17 109 (13.56%) Service Management
18 108 (13.43%) SaaS
19 107 (13.31%) Performance Management
20 102 (12.69%) Coaching
21 97 (12.06%) Kanban
22 95 (11.82%) Dell
23 91 (11.32%) Continuous Improvement
24 86 (10.70%) Public Sector
25 83 (10.32%) Degree
26 79 (9.83%) Problem-Solving
27 78 (9.70%) ITSM
28 63 (7.84%) Decision-Making
29 60 (7.46%) Azure
29 60 (7.46%) Customer Service

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 9 (1.12%) Confluence
2 3 (0.37%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.25%) CMS
3 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 24 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.62%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.37%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.12%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.12%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 108 (13.43%) SaaS
2 60 (7.46%) Azure
3 34 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (1.37%) Power Platform
5 9 (1.12%) AWS
6 8 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (0.50%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (0.37%) Asana
10 2 (0.25%) Contentful
10 2 (0.25%) Google Analytics
10 2 (0.25%) Google Docs
10 2 (0.25%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.12%) Basecamp
11 1 (0.12%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.12%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.12%) PaaS
11 1 (0.12%) Serverless
11 1 (0.12%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
2 7 (0.87%) 4G
2 7 (0.87%) 5G
3 5 (0.62%) Firewall
3 5 (0.62%) WAN
4 4 (0.50%) LAN
4 4 (0.50%) SD-WAN
5 3 (0.37%) Network Security
5 3 (0.37%) VPN
5 3 (0.37%) WLAN
6 2 (0.25%) Internet
6 2 (0.25%) NAS
7 1 (0.12%) DHCP
7 1 (0.12%) DNS
7 1 (0.12%) MPLS
7 1 (0.12%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.12%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.12%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (1.87%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.37%) Power BI
3 6 (0.75%) SAP HANA
4 2 (0.25%) Big Data
4 2 (0.25%) Data Mart
4 2 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (0.25%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.25%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (0.25%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.12%) LogicBlox
5 1 (0.12%) Metadata
5 1 (0.12%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (3.48%) JIRA
2 2 (0.25%) Bitbucket
2 2 (0.25%) GitLab
General
1 278 (34.58%) Social Skills
2 240 (29.85%) Finance
3 135 (16.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 124 (15.42%) Law
5 86 (10.70%) Public Sector
6 48 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
7 40 (4.98%) Presentation Skills
8 39 (4.85%) Retail
9 30 (3.73%) Telecoms
10 22 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
10 22 (2.74%) Legal
11 17 (2.11%) Marketing
12 15 (1.87%) Manufacturing
12 15 (1.87%) Spanish Language
13 14 (1.74%) Games
14 13 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (1.49%) Military
15 12 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
16 9 (1.12%) French Language
16 9 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.11%) EDI
2 7 (0.87%) .NET
2 7 (0.87%) CSS
3 3 (0.37%) HTML
3 3 (0.37%) RESTful
4 1 (0.12%) Middleware
4 1 (0.12%) SOAP
4 1 (0.12%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 44 (5.47%) Product Ownership
2 23 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 20 (2.49%) Driving Licence
3 20 (2.49%) Onboarding
4 18 (2.24%) NHS
5 16 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (1.24%) PMI
7 8 (1.00%) Virtual Team
8 6 (0.75%) Mobile App
8 6 (0.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 5 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (0.62%) iPad
9 5 (0.62%) Reinsurance
10 4 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.37%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 3 (0.37%) Housing Association
11 3 (0.37%) IoT
11 3 (0.37%) Security Posture
12 2 (0.25%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (0.25%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.36%) Windows
2 2 (0.25%) Android
2 2 (0.25%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 396 (49.25%) Service Delivery
2 249 (30.97%) Agile
3 215 (26.74%) Project Management
4 205 (25.50%) Mentoring
5 160 (19.90%) Project Delivery
6 148 (18.41%) Scrum
7 144 (17.91%) ITIL
8 131 (16.29%) Contract Negotiation
9 111 (13.81%) Stakeholder Management
10 109 (13.56%) Service Management
11 107 (13.31%) Performance Management
12 102 (12.69%) Coaching
13 97 (12.06%) Kanban
14 91 (11.32%) Continuous Improvement
15 79 (9.83%) Problem-Solving
16 78 (9.70%) ITSM
17 63 (7.84%) Decision-Making
18 60 (7.46%) Customer Service
19 52 (6.47%) Line Management
20 48 (5.97%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 14 (1.74%) C#
2 10 (1.24%) Java
3 9 (1.12%) Python
4 5 (0.62%) JavaScript
5 4 (0.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 83 (10.32%) Degree
2 40 (4.98%) Security Cleared
3 37 (4.60%) ITIL Certification
4 22 (2.74%) SC Cleared
5 20 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.11%) DBS Check
7 16 (1.99%) PMI Certification
8 11 (1.37%) PMP
9 8 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.50%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.37%) CCNP
12 3 (0.37%) MCSE
13 2 (0.25%) APMP
13 2 (0.25%) CSPO
14 1 (0.12%) APMG
14 1 (0.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.12%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (18.53%) SLA
2 18 (2.24%) QA
3 16 (1.99%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.49%) PMO
5 10 (1.24%) GDPR
6 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.37%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.37%) GMP
7 2 (0.25%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
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 (0.62%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.25%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 163 (20.27%) Microsoft
2 115 (14.30%) ServiceNow
3 95 (11.82%) Dell
4 21 (2.61%) SAP
5 17 (2.11%) Salesforce
6 16 (1.99%) Oracle
7 9 (1.12%) Google
8 8 (1.00%) Apple
9 5 (0.62%) Cadence
10 4 (0.50%) Computacenter
10 4 (0.50%) ConnectWise
11 3 (0.37%) Cisco
11 3 (0.37%) Genesys
11 3 (0.37%) Meraki
11 3 (0.37%) NEC
12 2 (0.25%) Adyen
12 2 (0.25%) Facebook
12 2 (0.25%) iManage
12 2 (0.25%) Murex
12 2 (0.25%) VMware