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 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 477 330 456
Rank change year-on-year -147 +126 -88
Permanent jobs requiring a Delivery Manager 102 556 322
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.74% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.78% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 75 418 239
10th Percentile £41,750 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £43,329 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,900 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.18% -12.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £71,500 £69,914 £72,000
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 35,806 71,101 51,023
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.94% 89.01%
Number of salaries quoted 18,138 50,103 29,550
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.49%
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 31 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 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
North of England -90 51 £63,900 +11.13% 30
North West -53 37 £63,900 +16.18% 23
Midlands -18 17 £50,000 -11.50% 18
South East +3 15 £70,000 +40.00% 17
Yorkshire -11 13 £70,000 +9.24% 4
East Midlands +28 10 £50,750 +45.00% 4
South West +42 8 £55,000 -8.33% 12
West Midlands -12 7 £50,000 -16.89% 14
Northern Ireland +47 6 - - 2
Scotland +93 2 £66,250 +23.57% 8
East of England +9 2 £61,250 +22.50% 5
Wales +27 1 £65,000 +10.54%
North East +25 1 £35,000 -40.48% 4
Delivery Manager
UK

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

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 UK excluding London region featuring Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 49 (48.04%) Project Delivery
2 48 (47.06%) Stakeholder Management
3 41 (40.20%) Service Delivery
4 39 (38.24%) Agile
5 33 (32.35%) Social Skills
6 31 (30.39%) Project Management
7 29 (28.43%) JIRA
8 27 (26.47%) Management Information System
9 25 (24.51%) Finance
9 25 (24.51%) Degree
10 23 (22.55%) Risk Management
10 23 (22.55%) ITIL
11 22 (21.57%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (20.59%) Budget Management
13 20 (19.61%) Confluence
13 20 (19.61%) Scrum
14 18 (17.65%) Information Management
15 17 (16.67%) Programme Management
16 16 (15.69%) Business Strategy
17 15 (14.71%) BPSS Clearance
17 15 (14.71%) Cyber Assurance
17 15 (14.71%) Project Governance
17 15 (14.71%) Dependency Management
17 15 (14.71%) Atlassian
17 15 (14.71%) HND
18 13 (12.75%) Service Management
19 12 (11.76%) PRINCE2
20 11 (10.78%) Retail
21 10 (9.80%) Automotive

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 20 (19.61%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.98%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (5.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.98%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.98%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 9 (8.82%) SaaS
2 3 (2.94%) Azure
3 2 (1.96%) GitHub
4 1 (0.98%) AWS
4 1 (0.98%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (0.98%) GCP
4 1 (0.98%) IaaS
4 1 (0.98%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.98%) Miro
4 1 (0.98%) PaaS
4 1 (0.98%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.86%) VLAN
1 7 (6.86%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (2.94%) Firewall
3 2 (1.96%) Internet
3 2 (1.96%) Wireless
4 1 (0.98%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (0.98%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.98%) LAN
4 1 (0.98%) MPLS
4 1 (0.98%) Network Security
4 1 (0.98%) WAN
Development Applications
1 29 (28.43%) JIRA
2 2 (1.96%) Jenkins
General
1 33 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 25 (24.51%) Finance
3 11 (10.78%) Retail
4 10 (9.80%) Automotive
5 8 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.90%) Law
6 5 (4.90%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.92%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.94%) Avionics
8 3 (2.94%) Electronics
8 3 (2.94%) Legal
8 3 (2.94%) Military
8 3 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.94%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.96%) Banking
9 2 (1.96%) Social Science
10 1 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.98%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.98%) Marketing
10 1 (0.98%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.98%) .NET
1 1 (0.98%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 27 (26.47%) Management Information System
2 6 (5.88%) Fibre Optics
3 5 (4.90%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.92%) IoT
4 4 (3.92%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.96%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.96%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.96%) Smart Energy
6 1 (0.98%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.98%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.98%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.98%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.98%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.98%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.98%) Smart Meter
6 1 (0.98%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (48.04%) Project Delivery
2 48 (47.06%) Stakeholder Management
3 41 (40.20%) Service Delivery
4 39 (38.24%) Agile
5 31 (30.39%) Project Management
6 23 (22.55%) ITIL
6 23 (22.55%) Risk Management
7 22 (21.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (20.59%) Budget Management
8 21 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (19.61%) Scrum
10 18 (17.65%) Information Management
11 17 (16.67%) Programme Management
12 16 (15.69%) Business Strategy
13 15 (14.71%) Cyber Assurance
13 15 (14.71%) Dependency Management
13 15 (14.71%) Project Governance
14 13 (12.75%) Service Management
15 12 (11.76%) PRINCE2
16 9 (8.82%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.96%) Python
2 1 (0.98%) C#
2 1 (0.98%) Java
2 1 (0.98%) PHP
2 1 (0.98%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (24.51%) Degree
2 15 (14.71%) BPSS Clearance
2 15 (14.71%) HND
3 7 (6.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.92%) DBS Check
4 4 (3.92%) PMP
4 4 (3.92%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.94%) APMP
5 3 (2.94%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.94%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (1.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.98%) CCNA
7 1 (0.98%) CCNP
7 1 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.98%) CISSP
7 1 (0.98%) GIAC
7 1 (0.98%) ISACA
7 1 (0.98%) SANS
7 1 (0.98%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.92%) SLA
2 2 (1.96%) GDPR
3 1 (0.98%) COBIT
3 1 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.98%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.98%) NIST
3 1 (0.98%) QA
3 1 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.96%) Ansible
1 2 (1.96%) Terraform
2 1 (0.98%) Autotask
2 1 (0.98%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.98%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 15 (14.71%) Atlassian
2 8 (7.84%) BMC
2 8 (7.84%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.88%) Remedy
4 5 (4.90%) Oracle
5 4 (3.92%) Cisco
5 4 (3.92%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.94%) YouTube
7 2 (1.96%) Broadcom
7 2 (1.96%) HP
7 2 (1.96%) IBM
7 2 (1.96%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.96%) Sage
7 2 (1.96%) SAP
7 2 (1.96%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.96%) Workday
8 1 (0.98%) Meraki
8 1 (0.98%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.98%) Splunk
8 1 (0.98%) Zerto