Delivery Manager Job Trends

Delivery Manager
UK

The median Delivery Manager salary in the UK is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 January 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 356 319
Rank change year-on-year +35 -37 +83
Permanent jobs requiring a Delivery Manager 361 396 515
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.73% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.78% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 241 202 318
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £76,375 £70,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,400 £92,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +3.45% -2.56%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 54,122 50,451 51,182
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.59% 92.94% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 33,399 26,377 39,403
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,200 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Delivery Manager job vacancy trend in the UK

Delivery Manager
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Delivery Manager job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Delivery Manager job vacancies in the UK

Delivery Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Delivery Manager over the 6 months to 7 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Delivery Manager in the UK

Delivery Manager
Top 17 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 7 January 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
England +70 316 £65,000 +7.88% 110
UK excluding London +33 265 £62,500 +4.17% 101
Work from Home +25 104 £64,000 +6.67% 54
Midlands +43 73 £60,000 - 12
London +29 64 £73,750 +13.46% 36
South West +51 56 £55,000 - 12
North of England -53 54 £70,000 +14.18% 26
West Midlands +43 50 £57,500 - 10
South East +34 45 £60,000 -7.69% 35
North West -6 33 £72,125 +17.65% 10
East Midlands +6 23 £64,500 +7.50% 2
East of England +31 22 £62,500 +13.64% 8
Yorkshire -40 12 £57,500 -4.17% 12
Wales +5 10 £60,000 +28.29% 8
North East -5 9 £75,000 +17.04% 4
Northern Ireland -1 5 £100,000 -
Scotland -41 2 £67,500 +3.85% 2

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

For the 6 months to 7 January 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 featuring Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 157 (43.49%) Service Delivery
2 91 (25.21%) Agile
3 75 (20.78%) Project Management
4 73 (20.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 64 (17.73%) Project Delivery
6 58 (16.07%) ITIL
7 57 (15.79%) Service Management
8 55 (15.24%) Stakeholder Management
9 44 (12.19%) Security Cleared
10 39 (10.80%) Microsoft
11 38 (10.53%) Mentoring
12 35 (9.70%) Azure
12 35 (9.70%) Scrum
13 34 (9.42%) SC Cleared
14 33 (9.14%) Computacenter
15 29 (8.03%) Customer Service
16 28 (7.76%) Problem-Solving
16 28 (7.76%) Roadmaps
17 27 (7.48%) Degree
17 27 (7.48%) SaaS
17 27 (7.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 25 (6.93%) PRINCE2
19 24 (6.65%) Line Management
20 23 (6.37%) ITSM
20 23 (6.37%) SLA
21 21 (5.82%) Digital Innovation
22 20 (5.54%) Coaching
23 19 (5.26%) CRM
24 18 (4.99%) Customer Experience
25 16 (4.43%) Microsoft 365

Delivery Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 6 (1.66%) Confluence
1 6 (1.66%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.83%) HCL Domino
2 3 (0.83%) HCL Notes
2 3 (0.83%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.28%) CMS
3 1 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 9 (2.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.83%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.28%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 35 (9.70%) Azure
2 27 (7.48%) SaaS
3 16 (4.43%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (3.60%) AWS
5 9 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (2.49%) Power Platform
6 7 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (0.83%) Collibra
7 3 (0.83%) GCP
7 3 (0.83%) OCI
7 3 (0.83%) Smartsheet
8 2 (0.55%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.55%) Miro
8 2 (0.55%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.28%) Amazon Glacier
9 1 (0.28%) AWS KMS
9 1 (0.28%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.28%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (0.28%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (0.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.94%) LAN
1 7 (1.94%) WAN
1 7 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (1.66%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.55%) Internet
3 2 (0.55%) Intranet
4 1 (0.28%) ADSL
4 1 (0.28%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.11%) Data Lake
1 4 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (0.83%) Data Mining
2 3 (0.83%) Electronic Patient Records
2 3 (0.83%) Metadata
2 3 (0.83%) SAP BW
2 3 (0.83%) SAP HANA
3 2 (0.55%) Power BI
4 1 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 15 (4.16%) JIRA
2 3 (0.83%) ERwin
2 3 (0.83%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (0.28%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.28%) Git
3 1 (0.28%) webpack
General
1 82 (22.71%) Finance
2 75 (20.78%) Social Skills
3 36 (9.97%) Law
4 25 (6.93%) Public Sector
5 24 (6.65%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (6.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (5.54%) Retail
8 16 (4.43%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (3.88%) Legal
10 13 (3.60%) Local Government
11 10 (2.77%) Telecoms
12 9 (2.49%) Health Technology
12 9 (2.49%) Manufacturing
13 8 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (1.94%) Advertising
14 7 (1.94%) Automotive
15 6 (1.66%) Billing
15 6 (1.66%) Military
15 6 (1.66%) Publishing
16 4 (1.11%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.49%) EDI
2 7 (1.94%) FHIR
3 1 (0.28%) ADO
3 1 (0.28%) Bootstrap
3 1 (0.28%) CSS
3 1 (0.28%) HTML
3 1 (0.28%) HTML5
3 1 (0.28%) jQuery
3 1 (0.28%) Middleware
3 1 (0.28%) React
3 1 (0.28%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.71%) NHS
2 12 (3.32%) Onboarding
3 10 (2.77%) Management Information System
3 10 (2.77%) Product Ownership
4 6 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.39%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (0.83%) Cloud Native
6 3 (0.83%) FMCG
6 3 (0.83%) PMI
6 3 (0.83%) Reference Data
6 3 (0.83%) Taxonomies
6 3 (0.83%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.55%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.28%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.28%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.28%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.28%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.28%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.11%) Windows
2 2 (0.55%) Linux
3 1 (0.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (43.49%) Service Delivery
2 91 (25.21%) Agile
3 75 (20.78%) Project Management
4 73 (20.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 64 (17.73%) Project Delivery
6 58 (16.07%) ITIL
7 57 (15.79%) Service Management
8 55 (15.24%) Stakeholder Management
9 38 (10.53%) Mentoring
10 35 (9.70%) Scrum
11 29 (8.03%) Customer Service
12 28 (7.76%) Problem-Solving
12 28 (7.76%) Roadmaps
13 27 (7.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 25 (6.93%) PRINCE2
15 24 (6.65%) Line Management
16 23 (6.37%) ITSM
17 21 (5.82%) Digital Innovation
18 20 (5.54%) Coaching
19 19 (5.26%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 3 (0.83%) SQL
2 2 (0.55%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 44 (12.19%) Security Cleared
2 34 (9.42%) SC Cleared
3 27 (7.48%) Degree
4 13 (3.60%) PMI Certification
5 11 (3.05%) PMP
6 7 (1.94%) DBS Check
6 7 (1.94%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.39%) APMG
9 4 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.11%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.83%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.83%) SAP Certification
11 2 (0.55%) AAT
11 2 (0.55%) ACCA
11 2 (0.55%) CCNA
11 2 (0.55%) CIMA
11 2 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.37%) SLA
2 10 (2.77%) PMO
3 9 (2.49%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.94%) HL7
4 7 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.66%) ISO 14001
6 5 (1.39%) NEBOSH
7 4 (1.11%) QA
8 3 (0.83%) COBIT
8 3 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.83%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.83%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.28%) GDPR
9 1 (0.28%) GxP
9 1 (0.28%) ITGC
9 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (2.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (1.66%) Autotask
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 39 (10.80%) Microsoft
2 33 (9.14%) Computacenter
3 12 (3.32%) ServiceNow
4 10 (2.77%) SAP
5 8 (2.22%) Oracle
6 4 (1.11%) Databricks
7 3 (0.83%) IBM
7 3 (0.83%) Lotus
8 2 (0.55%) Apple
8 2 (0.55%) Cisco
8 2 (0.55%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.28%) Conga
9 1 (0.28%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.28%) iManage
9 1 (0.28%) Jitterbit
9 1 (0.28%) Pardot
9 1 (0.28%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.28%) VMware