Delivery Manager Jobs in England

Delivery Manager
UK > England

The median Delivery Manager salary in England is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 May 2025.

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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 509 313 455
Rank change year-on-year -196 +142 +42
Permanent jobs requiring a Delivery Manager 172 782 546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.35% 0.87% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.92% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 131 536 441
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £46,750
25th Percentile £56,875 £43,997 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -14.81% +3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £84,964 £100,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £57,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +17.39% -14.81% +8.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 44,774 85,031 77,815
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.67% 91.36%
Number of salaries quoted 23,692 62,917 50,230
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £38,066 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,567
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.32% +0.95%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Delivery Manager in England

Delivery Manager
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Delivery Manager in England

Delivery Manager
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Delivery Manager in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

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 31 May 2025. 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
London -48 78 £77,500 +13.41% 83
North of England -90 51 £63,900 +11.13% 58
North West -53 37 £63,900 +16.18% 38
Midlands -18 17 £50,000 -11.50% 37
South East +3 15 £70,000 +40.00% 40
Yorkshire -11 13 £70,000 +9.24% 16
East Midlands +28 10 £50,750 +45.00% 13
South West +42 8 £55,000 -8.33% 26
West Midlands -12 7 £50,000 -16.89% 24
East of England +9 2 £61,250 +22.50% 21
North East +25 1 £35,000 -40.48% 5
Delivery Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, 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 across the England region featuring Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 79 (45.93%) Project Delivery
2 77 (44.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 73 (42.44%) Agile
4 61 (35.47%) Social Skills
5 59 (34.30%) Project Management
6 52 (30.23%) Service Delivery
7 45 (26.16%) Finance
8 39 (22.67%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (21.51%) Degree
9 37 (21.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 36 (20.93%) Roadmaps
11 35 (20.35%) Risk Management
12 32 (18.60%) ITIL
13 31 (18.02%) JIRA
14 30 (17.44%) Scrum
15 29 (16.86%) Cybersecurity
16 24 (13.95%) Service Management
16 24 (13.95%) Confluence
17 23 (13.37%) Budget Management
18 22 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
18 22 (12.79%) Programme Management
19 21 (12.21%) Management Information System
19 21 (12.21%) SaaS
20 19 (11.05%) Presentation Skills
20 19 (11.05%) Business Strategy
21 18 (10.47%) Mentoring
21 18 (10.47%) Project Governance
21 18 (10.47%) Information Management
22 17 (9.88%) Microsoft
22 17 (9.88%) Coaching

Delivery Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 24 (13.95%) Confluence
2 2 (1.16%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (4.07%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.58%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.58%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.58%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (1.16%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.58%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (12.21%) SaaS
2 9 (5.23%) Azure
3 7 (4.07%) AWS
4 5 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.74%) GCP
5 3 (1.74%) PaaS
5 3 (1.74%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.16%) BigCommerce
6 2 (1.16%) Boomi
6 2 (1.16%) Commercetools
6 2 (1.16%) Contentful
6 2 (1.16%) Contentstack
6 2 (1.16%) GitHub
6 2 (1.16%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 2 (1.16%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 1 (0.58%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.58%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.58%) IaaS
7 1 (0.58%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.33%) Firewall
2 3 (1.74%) Internet
2 3 (1.74%) LAN
2 3 (1.74%) WAN
2 3 (1.74%) Wireless
3 2 (1.16%) MPLS
3 2 (1.16%) Network Security
4 1 (0.58%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (0.58%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.58%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.58%) VLAN
4 1 (0.58%) VPN
4 1 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.74%) Power BI
2 1 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 31 (18.02%) JIRA
2 2 (1.16%) Jenkins
General
1 61 (35.47%) Social Skills
2 45 (26.16%) Finance
3 22 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (11.05%) Presentation Skills
5 16 (9.30%) Retail
6 12 (6.98%) Pharmaceutical
7 10 (5.81%) Automotive
8 9 (5.23%) Law
9 8 (4.65%) Legal
10 7 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (3.49%) Banking
12 5 (2.91%) Public Sector
13 4 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (1.74%) Avionics
14 3 (1.74%) Electronics
14 3 (1.74%) Military
15 2 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (1.16%) Games
15 2 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (1.16%) Social Science
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.16%) MACH
2 1 (0.58%) .NET
2 1 (0.58%) Flutter
2 1 (0.58%) Laravel
2 1 (0.58%) Middleware
2 1 (0.58%) React
2 1 (0.58%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.21%) Management Information System
2 7 (4.07%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.91%) Virtual Team
4 4 (2.33%) IoT
4 4 (2.33%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.74%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.16%) CMDB
6 2 (1.16%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.16%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.16%) Mobile Games
6 2 (1.16%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.16%) Smart Energy
6 2 (1.16%) TM Forum
7 1 (0.58%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.58%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.58%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (45.93%) Project Delivery
2 77 (44.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 73 (42.44%) Agile
4 59 (34.30%) Project Management
5 52 (30.23%) Service Delivery
6 39 (22.67%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (21.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 36 (20.93%) Roadmaps
9 35 (20.35%) Risk Management
10 32 (18.60%) ITIL
11 30 (17.44%) Scrum
12 29 (16.86%) Cybersecurity
13 24 (13.95%) Service Management
14 23 (13.37%) Budget Management
15 22 (12.79%) Programme Management
16 19 (11.05%) Business Strategy
17 18 (10.47%) Information Management
17 18 (10.47%) Mentoring
17 18 (10.47%) Project Governance
18 17 (9.88%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.33%) Python
2 3 (1.74%) Java
2 3 (1.74%) R
3 2 (1.16%) PHP
3 2 (1.16%) SQL
4 1 (0.58%) C#
4 1 (0.58%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 37 (21.51%) Degree
2 15 (8.72%) BPSS Clearance
2 15 (8.72%) HND
3 13 (7.56%) DBS Check
4 7 (4.07%) CISSP
5 6 (3.49%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (3.49%) PMP
5 6 (3.49%) Security Cleared
6 5 (2.91%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (2.91%) PMI Certification
7 4 (2.33%) CISM
7 4 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.74%) APMP
8 3 (1.74%) CCSP
8 3 (1.74%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 3 (1.74%) SC Cleared
9 2 (1.16%) CCNP
9 2 (1.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.98%) GxP
2 6 (3.49%) SLA
3 5 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.91%) QA
4 4 (2.33%) GDPR
4 4 (2.33%) NIST
5 3 (1.74%) GRC
6 1 (0.58%) COBIT
6 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.16%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.16%) Ansible
1 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (1.16%) SCCM
1 2 (1.16%) Terraform
2 1 (0.58%) Autotask
2 1 (0.58%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.58%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 17 (9.88%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.72%) Atlassian
3 7 (4.07%) ServiceNow
4 6 (3.49%) Oracle
4 6 (3.49%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.49%) SAP
5 5 (2.91%) Cisco
6 3 (1.74%) YouTube
7 2 (1.16%) BMC
7 2 (1.16%) Broadcom
7 2 (1.16%) Google
7 2 (1.16%) HP
7 2 (1.16%) IBM
7 2 (1.16%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.16%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.16%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.16%) Sage
7 2 (1.16%) webMethods
7 2 (1.16%) Workday
8 1 (0.58%) Fortinet