Delivery Manager Jobs in the UK excluding London

Delivery Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Delivery Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £63,900 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 462 336 464
Rank change year-on-year -126 +128 -90
Permanent jobs requiring a Delivery Manager 109 547 322
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.74% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.78% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 75 413 240
10th Percentile £41,750 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,250 £43,329 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,900 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.18% -12.00% +8.41%
75th Percentile £71,500 £69,914 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,964 £85,000
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
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 35,130 69,905 52,029
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.92% 89.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,680 49,398 29,909
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,438 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Delivery Manager in the UK excluding London

Delivery Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Delivery Manager in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Delivery Manager in the UK excluding London

Delivery Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Delivery Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Delivery Manager in the UK excluding London

Delivery Manager
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
North of England -85 50 £63,900 +11.13% 111
North West -55 35 £63,900 +16.18% 62
Midlands -19 17 £48,750 -13.72% 61
South East +15 15 £70,000 +40.00% 107
Yorkshire -4 14 £70,000 +9.24% 37
South West +51 10 £53,750 -10.42% 49
East Midlands +25 10 £50,750 +45.00% 24
Scotland +101 8 £66,250 +17.87% 30
West Midlands -2 7 £48,750 -18.97% 34
Northern Ireland +48 6 - - 8
East of England +4 2 £61,250 +22.50% 43
Wales +34 1 £65,000 +7.62% 9
North East +23 1 £35,000 -40.48% 14
Delivery Manager
UK

Delivery Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 28 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 UK excluding London region featuring Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 49 (44.95%) Service Delivery
2 48 (44.04%) Stakeholder Management
2 48 (44.04%) Project Delivery
3 40 (36.70%) Social Skills
4 38 (34.86%) Agile
5 31 (28.44%) Project Management
6 29 (26.61%) JIRA
7 27 (24.77%) Management Information System
8 26 (23.85%) Degree
9 25 (22.94%) Finance
10 23 (21.10%) Risk Management
10 23 (21.10%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (20.18%) ITIL
11 22 (20.18%) Budget Management
12 20 (18.35%) Scrum
12 20 (18.35%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (17.43%) Confluence
14 18 (16.51%) Information Management
15 17 (15.60%) Programme Management
16 15 (13.76%) BPSS Clearance
16 15 (13.76%) Cyber Assurance
16 15 (13.76%) Project Governance
16 15 (13.76%) Dependency Management
16 15 (13.76%) Atlassian
16 15 (13.76%) HND
16 15 (13.76%) Business Strategy
17 13 (11.93%) Service Management
18 12 (11.01%) PRINCE2
18 12 (11.01%) Customer Service
19 11 (10.09%) Retail

Delivery Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 19 (17.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (5.50%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.92%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.92%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 9 (8.26%) SaaS
2 4 (3.67%) Azure
3 2 (1.83%) GitHub
4 1 (0.92%) AWS
4 1 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.92%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (0.92%) GCP
4 1 (0.92%) IaaS
4 1 (0.92%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.92%) Miro
4 1 (0.92%) PaaS
4 1 (0.92%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.42%) VLAN
1 7 (6.42%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (3.67%) Internet
3 3 (2.75%) Firewall
4 2 (1.83%) Wireless
5 1 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.92%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.92%) LAN
5 1 (0.92%) Network Security
5 1 (0.92%) WAN
Development Applications
1 29 (26.61%) JIRA
2 2 (1.83%) Jenkins
General
1 40 (36.70%) Social Skills
2 25 (22.94%) Finance
3 11 (10.09%) Retail
4 10 (9.17%) Automotive
5 8 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.50%) Law
7 5 (4.59%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.67%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.75%) Avionics
9 3 (2.75%) Electronics
9 3 (2.75%) Legal
9 3 (2.75%) Military
9 3 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.75%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.83%) Banking
10 2 (1.83%) Social Science
11 1 (0.92%) Aviation
11 1 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.92%) Marketing
11 1 (0.92%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.92%) ADO
1 1 (0.92%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 27 (24.77%) Management Information System
2 6 (5.50%) Fibre Optics
3 5 (4.59%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.67%) IoT
4 4 (3.67%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.83%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.83%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.83%) Smart Energy
6 1 (0.92%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.92%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.92%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.92%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.92%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.92%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.92%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.75%) Windows
2 1 (0.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (44.95%) Service Delivery
2 48 (44.04%) Project Delivery
2 48 (44.04%) Stakeholder Management
3 38 (34.86%) Agile
4 31 (28.44%) Project Management
5 23 (21.10%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (21.10%) Risk Management
6 22 (20.18%) Budget Management
6 22 (20.18%) ITIL
7 20 (18.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (18.35%) Scrum
8 18 (16.51%) Information Management
9 17 (15.60%) Programme Management
10 15 (13.76%) Business Strategy
10 15 (13.76%) Cyber Assurance
10 15 (13.76%) Dependency Management
10 15 (13.76%) Project Governance
11 13 (11.93%) Service Management
12 12 (11.01%) Customer Service
12 12 (11.01%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.83%) Python
2 1 (0.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (23.85%) Degree
2 15 (13.76%) BPSS Clearance
2 15 (13.76%) HND
3 7 (6.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.67%) DBS Check
4 4 (3.67%) PMP
4 4 (3.67%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.75%) APMP
5 3 (2.75%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.75%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (1.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.92%) CCNA
7 1 (0.92%) CCNP
7 1 (0.92%) CISA
7 1 (0.92%) CISM
7 1 (0.92%) GIAC
7 1 (0.92%) ISACA
7 1 (0.92%) SANS
7 1 (0.92%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.67%) SLA
2 2 (1.83%) GDPR
2 2 (1.83%) QA
3 1 (0.92%) COBIT
3 1 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.92%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.92%) NIST
3 1 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.83%) Ansible
1 2 (1.83%) Terraform
2 1 (0.92%) Autotask
2 1 (0.92%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.92%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 15 (13.76%) Atlassian
2 9 (8.26%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.34%) BMC
4 6 (5.50%) Remedy
5 5 (4.59%) Oracle
6 4 (3.67%) Cisco
7 3 (2.75%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.75%) YouTube
8 2 (1.83%) Broadcom
8 2 (1.83%) HP
8 2 (1.83%) IBM
8 2 (1.83%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.83%) Sage
8 2 (1.83%) SAP
8 2 (1.83%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.83%) Workday
9 1 (0.92%) Apple
9 1 (0.92%) Commvault
9 1 (0.92%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.92%) VMware