Delivery Manager Job Trends in England

Delivery Manager
UK > England

The median Delivery Manager salary in England is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 August 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 436 384
Rank change year-on-year +183 -52 -10
Permanent jobs requiring a Delivery Manager 719 229 449
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.76% 0.52% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 0.57% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 508 175 336
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £43,309
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £54,022
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +20.32% -19.97%
75th Percentile £70,500 £76,875 £66,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +20.37% -16.92%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 89,225 39,845 68,510
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.07% 90.60% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 62,704 24,052 46,480
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,019 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £56,350 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.45% - -8.33%

Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Delivery Manager' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Delivery Manager job vacancy trend in England

Delivery Manager
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Delivery Manager job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Delivery Manager job vacancies in England

Delivery Manager
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Delivery Manager in England over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Delivery Manager in England

Delivery Manager
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Delivery Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 17 August 2026. 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
North of England +81 174 £60,000 -5.51% 47
Midlands +61 128 £55,000 +23.48% 37
London -29 128 £65,000 -13.33% 120
South West +14 114 £60,000 +0.84% 23
South East +28 97 £60,000 -7.69% 58
North West +56 91 £62,500 +7.76% 20
East of England +47 77 £65,000 +5.69% 19
East Midlands +42 72 £56,000 +2.75% 11
Yorkshire +32 72 £60,000 -14.29% 19
West Midlands +15 56 £55,000 +28.70% 26
North East -54 11 £50,000 -23.08% 8
Delivery Manager
UK

Delivery Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 17 August 2026, Delivery Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 316 (43.95%) Service Delivery
2 188 (26.15%) Agile
3 177 (24.62%) Continuous Improvement
4 156 (21.70%) Project Delivery
5 109 (15.16%) Stakeholder Management
6 82 (11.40%) Scrum
7 72 (10.01%) Coaching
8 66 (9.18%) ITIL
8 66 (9.18%) Roadmaps
9 64 (8.90%) Security Cleared
10 59 (8.21%) Problem-Solving
11 57 (7.93%) Azure
12 56 (7.79%) Service Management
13 50 (6.95%) Kanban
14 47 (6.54%) Project Management
14 47 (6.54%) SC Cleared
14 47 (6.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 44 (6.12%) Mentoring
16 43 (5.98%) Customer Experience
17 39 (5.42%) Degree
17 39 (5.42%) JIRA
18 38 (5.29%) ITSM
19 37 (5.15%) Collaborative Culture
19 37 (5.15%) Decision-Making
20 35 (4.87%) AWS
21 33 (4.59%) Customer Service
22 31 (4.31%) Collaborative Working
23 30 (4.17%) Service Design
24 29 (4.03%) Business Strategy
24 29 (4.03%) DevOps

Delivery Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 26 (3.62%) Confluence
2 8 (1.11%) SAS
3 3 (0.42%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.70%) Trello
3 4 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.83%) SAP Hybris
2 3 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.14%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 57 (7.93%) Azure
2 35 (4.87%) AWS
3 25 (3.48%) SaaS
4 20 (2.78%) GCP
5 15 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (1.67%) Power Platform
7 11 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (1.25%) Serverless
9 8 (1.11%) Miro
10 6 (0.83%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (0.42%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (0.28%) Slack
14 1 (0.14%) Amazon ECS
14 1 (0.14%) Amazon EKS
14 1 (0.14%) AWS Lambda
14 1 (0.14%) Azure Monitor
14 1 (0.14%) Entra ID
14 1 (0.14%) OCI
14 1 (0.14%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.14%) Firewall
1 1 (0.14%) Intranet
1 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.53%) Power BI
2 8 (1.11%) Big Data
3 2 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.28%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.14%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.14%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.14%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 39 (5.42%) JIRA
2 1 (0.14%) Git
General
1 114 (15.86%) Social Skills
2 101 (14.05%) Finance
3 59 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (7.79%) Influencing Skills
5 51 (7.09%) Retail
6 45 (6.26%) Public Sector
7 30 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
8 27 (3.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 25 (3.48%) Law
10 12 (1.67%) Games
10 12 (1.67%) Legal
10 12 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (1.53%) Banking
12 9 (1.25%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.11%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.83%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.70%) Local Government
16 4 (0.56%) Military
17 2 (0.28%) Advertising
17 2 (0.28%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (0.70%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (0.28%) .NET
3 1 (0.14%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.14%) PySpark
3 1 (0.14%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 27 (3.76%) Product Ownership
2 24 (3.34%) Virtual Team
3 21 (2.92%) Cloud Native
4 12 (1.67%) Onboarding
5 9 (1.25%) Renewable Energy
6 7 (0.97%) NHS
7 4 (0.56%) Driving Licence
7 4 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (0.56%) Mobile App
7 4 (0.56%) PMI
8 3 (0.42%) Blog
8 3 (0.42%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.28%) CMDB
9 2 (0.28%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.28%) FMCG
9 2 (0.28%) Housing Association
9 2 (0.28%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (0.28%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.28%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.14%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.28%) Windows
2 1 (0.14%) VMS
2 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (43.95%) Service Delivery
2 188 (26.15%) Agile
3 177 (24.62%) Continuous Improvement
4 156 (21.70%) Project Delivery
5 109 (15.16%) Stakeholder Management
6 82 (11.40%) Scrum
7 72 (10.01%) Coaching
8 66 (9.18%) ITIL
8 66 (9.18%) Roadmaps
9 59 (8.21%) Problem-Solving
10 56 (7.79%) Service Management
11 50 (6.95%) Kanban
12 47 (6.54%) Project Management
12 47 (6.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 44 (6.12%) Mentoring
14 43 (5.98%) Customer Experience
15 38 (5.29%) ITSM
16 37 (5.15%) Collaborative Culture
16 37 (5.15%) Decision-Making
17 33 (4.59%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 10 (1.39%) SQL
2 6 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (0.42%) Python
4 2 (0.28%) C#
4 2 (0.28%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.14%) Bicep
5 1 (0.14%) C
5 1 (0.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 64 (8.90%) Security Cleared
2 47 (6.54%) SC Cleared
3 39 (5.42%) Degree
4 18 (2.50%) DV Cleared
5 10 (1.39%) PMI Certification
6 9 (1.25%) DBS Check
6 9 (1.25%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (0.83%) PMP
9 5 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.28%) BICSI Certification
11 2 (0.28%) CISM
11 2 (0.28%) CISSP
11 2 (0.28%) CREST Certified
11 2 (0.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.28%) OSCP
11 2 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.28%) SAFe Agilist
12 1 (0.14%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (2.64%) SLA
2 13 (1.81%) QA
3 10 (1.39%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (1.11%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (0.83%) GDPR
7 6 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.83%) PMO
8 2 (0.28%) GRC
8 2 (0.28%) NCSC
8 2 (0.28%) NIST
8 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 29 (4.03%) Microsoft
2 20 (2.78%) SAP
3 11 (1.53%) ServiceNow
4 9 (1.25%) Databricks
5 6 (0.83%) Oracle
5 6 (0.83%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.42%) OneLogin
6 3 (0.42%) Progress
7 2 (0.28%) BMC
7 2 (0.28%) Pega
7 2 (0.28%) Spotify
7 2 (0.28%) VMware
8 1 (0.14%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.14%) Citrix
8 1 (0.14%) Palantir
8 1 (0.14%) Remedy
8 1 (0.14%) Sage
8 1 (0.14%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.14%) Splunk
8 1 (0.14%) Zoho