Delivery Manager Jobs

Delivery Manager
UK

The median Delivery Manager salary in the UK is £63,900 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 March 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 416 331 452
Rank change year-on-year -85 +121 -30
Permanent jobs requiring a Delivery Manager 325 779 741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.89% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.94% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 196 540 573
10th Percentile £43,887 £41,250 £45,270
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,469 £51,476
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,900 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.50% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £73,924 £74,625 £81,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £98,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 49,274 82,839 103,188
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.65% 94.75% 92.90%
Number of salaries quoted 26,487 61,385 64,359
10th Percentile £32,000 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £43,990 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £77,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,934 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.20% -4.76% +5.00%

Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Delivery Manager in the UK

Delivery Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Delivery Manager in the UK

Delivery Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Delivery Manager over the 6 months to 15 March 2025.

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 15 March 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
England -122 273 £63,900 +6.50% 235
UK excluding London -33 227 £62,500 +13.64% 134
North of England -10 105 £63,900 +11.13% 44
Work from Home -20 101 £58,000 -10.77% 92
London -72 85 £70,000 -3.45% 120
North West +2 69 £63,900 +16.18% 21
Scotland +87 32 £65,000 +30.00% 6
Midlands +1 32 £50,000 -13.04% 14
Yorkshire +23 27 £60,000 -14.29% 17
South East -2 23 £65,000 +23.81% 33
East Midlands +27 16 £47,500 -13.64% 8
West Midlands -26 16 £51,500 -19.22% 6
South West +39 13 £55,000 -13.22% 17
Wales +53 11 £48,535 -7.55% 2
East of England +6 10 £55,000 +10.00% 16
North East +23 9 £54,424 -3.25% 6
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 15 March 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 featuring Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 141 (43.38%) Service Delivery
2 124 (38.15%) Agile
3 110 (33.85%) Project Management
4 106 (32.62%) Social Skills
5 94 (28.92%) Stakeholder Management
6 93 (28.62%) Project Delivery
7 72 (22.15%) Finance
7 72 (22.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 63 (19.38%) Degree
9 62 (19.08%) Scrum
10 61 (18.77%) ITIL
11 59 (18.15%) Problem-Solving
12 50 (15.38%) Business Strategy
13 46 (14.15%) Microsoft
14 44 (13.54%) JIRA
15 43 (13.23%) Customer Service
16 40 (12.31%) Roadmaps
17 39 (12.00%) Coaching
18 37 (11.38%) Analytical Skills
18 37 (11.38%) Risk Management
19 33 (10.15%) Service Management
20 30 (9.23%) PRINCE2
20 30 (9.23%) Customer Experience
21 29 (8.92%) Budget Management
21 29 (8.92%) Service Delivery Management
21 29 (8.92%) Management Information System
22 28 (8.62%) Programme Management
22 28 (8.62%) Azure
22 28 (8.62%) Mentoring
23 27 (8.31%) SaaS

Delivery Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 26 (8.00%) Confluence
2 7 (2.15%) CMS
3 4 (1.23%) Umbraco
4 3 (0.92%) Kentico
4 3 (0.92%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (0.92%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 14 (4.31%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.77%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.62%) Trello
5 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.23%) Sprinklr
2 3 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.92%) SAP Hybris
2 3 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.31%) assyst
3 1 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 28 (8.62%) Azure
2 27 (8.31%) SaaS
3 11 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (1.85%) AWS
6 5 (1.54%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.23%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (1.23%) Boomi
8 3 (0.92%) BigCommerce
8 3 (0.92%) Commercetools
8 3 (0.92%) Contentful
8 3 (0.92%) Contentstack
8 3 (0.92%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (0.92%) GitHub
8 3 (0.92%) PaaS
8 3 (0.92%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 3 (0.92%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 2 (0.62%) GCP
9 2 (0.62%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.31%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.77%) Internet
2 6 (1.85%) Firewall
3 3 (0.92%) Network Security
3 3 (0.92%) VLAN
3 3 (0.92%) VPN
3 3 (0.92%) Wireless
4 2 (0.62%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (0.62%) LAN
4 2 (0.62%) WAN
5 1 (0.31%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (0.31%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.69%) DTS
2 6 (1.85%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (0.92%) Power BI
5 2 (0.62%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 44 (13.54%) JIRA
2 3 (0.92%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.31%) Git
General
1 106 (32.62%) Social Skills
2 72 (22.15%) Finance
3 37 (11.38%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (8.00%) Retail
5 25 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
6 19 (5.85%) Automotive
7 15 (4.62%) Banking
8 13 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (4.00%) Legal
8 13 (4.00%) Manufacturing
9 11 (3.38%) Public Sector
9 11 (3.38%) Publishing
10 8 (2.46%) Law
11 7 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (2.15%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.54%) Billing
14 3 (0.92%) Health Technology
15 2 (0.62%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.23%) .NET
1 4 (1.23%) Middleware
2 3 (0.92%) MACH
3 2 (0.62%) CSS
3 2 (0.62%) HTML
4 1 (0.31%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.92%) Management Information System
2 16 (4.92%) Product Ownership
3 9 (2.77%) Data Centre
4 8 (2.46%) FMCG
5 7 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (1.85%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.23%) IoT
7 4 (1.23%) Mobile App
8 3 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.92%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.62%) CMDB
9 2 (0.62%) EPoS
9 2 (0.62%) Mobile Games
9 2 (0.62%) Smart Energy
10 1 (0.31%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.31%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.31%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.46%) Windows
2 4 (1.23%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.31%) Android
3 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (43.38%) Service Delivery
2 124 (38.15%) Agile
3 110 (33.85%) Project Management
4 94 (28.92%) Stakeholder Management
5 93 (28.62%) Project Delivery
6 72 (22.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 62 (19.08%) Scrum
8 61 (18.77%) ITIL
9 59 (18.15%) Problem-Solving
10 50 (15.38%) Business Strategy
11 43 (13.23%) Customer Service
12 40 (12.31%) Roadmaps
13 39 (12.00%) Coaching
14 37 (11.38%) Risk Management
15 33 (10.15%) Service Management
16 30 (9.23%) Customer Experience
16 30 (9.23%) PRINCE2
17 29 (8.92%) Budget Management
17 29 (8.92%) Service Delivery Management
18 28 (8.62%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (1.85%) SQL
2 4 (1.23%) Python
3 3 (0.92%) Java
4 2 (0.62%) C#
4 2 (0.62%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 63 (19.38%) Degree
2 20 (6.15%) PMP
3 18 (5.54%) ITIL Certification
4 16 (4.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 16 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (4.62%) HND
6 14 (4.31%) Security Cleared
7 12 (3.69%) DBS Check
7 12 (3.69%) HNC
7 12 (3.69%) SC Cleared
8 10 (3.08%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.23%) CISSP
9 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.92%) CSPO
10 3 (0.92%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.92%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.92%) SAFe Agilist
11 2 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.46%) SLA
2 8 (2.46%) GxP
2 8 (2.46%) QA
3 6 (1.85%) PMO
4 4 (1.23%) GDPR
5 3 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.92%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.62%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.31%) COBIT
7 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.31%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (1.54%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.62%) Firmware
2 2 (0.62%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (0.62%) Ansible
1 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (0.62%) SCCM
1 2 (0.62%) Terraform
2 1 (0.31%) Autotask
2 1 (0.31%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.31%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 46 (14.15%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.92%) Atlassian
3 9 (2.77%) SAP
4 7 (2.15%) Cisco
4 7 (2.15%) Salesforce
4 7 (2.15%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.54%) IBM
5 5 (1.54%) Oracle
6 3 (0.92%) Optimizely
6 3 (0.92%) Sage
6 3 (0.92%) Sitecore
6 3 (0.92%) VMware
6 3 (0.92%) Workday
7 2 (0.62%) BMC
7 2 (0.62%) Broadcom
7 2 (0.62%) Google
7 2 (0.62%) HP
7 2 (0.62%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.62%) Veeam
7 2 (0.62%) webMethods