Delivery Manager Jobs

Delivery Manager
UK

The median Delivery Manager salary in the UK 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 511 334 450
Rank change year-on-year -177 +116 +30
Permanent jobs requiring a Delivery Manager 194 855 654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.82% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.87% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 138 585 528
10th Percentile £44,316 £40,000 £43,675
25th Percentile £54,250 £43,997 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -14.81% +8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £81,938
90th Percentile £96,500 £84,964 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,900 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +16.18% -12.00% +8.70%

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 50,444 98,297 87,491
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.33% 94.81% 91.34%
Number of salaries quoted 26,384 69,991 55,965
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,748 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.49%

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 31 May 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 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
England -196 172 £67,500 +17.39% 268
UK excluding London -147 102 £63,900 +16.18% 203
London -48 78 £77,500 +13.41% 83
Work from Home -65 57 £66,957 +5.65% 122
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
Northern Ireland +47 6 - - 4
Scotland +93 2 £66,250 +23.57% 16
East of England +9 2 £61,250 +22.50% 21
Wales +27 1 £65,000 +10.54% 3
North East +25 1 £35,000 -40.48% 5

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

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 featuring Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 80 (41.24%) Agile
1 80 (41.24%) Project Delivery
2 79 (40.72%) Stakeholder Management
3 74 (38.14%) Project Management
3 74 (38.14%) Social Skills
4 66 (34.02%) Service Delivery
5 53 (27.32%) Continuous Improvement
6 50 (25.77%) Degree
7 47 (24.23%) Finance
8 45 (23.20%) ITIL
9 42 (21.65%) JIRA
10 41 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
11 37 (19.07%) Roadmaps
11 37 (19.07%) Service Management
12 35 (18.04%) Risk Management
13 32 (16.49%) Management Information System
13 32 (16.49%) Scrum
14 29 (14.95%) Cybersecurity
15 24 (12.37%) Confluence
16 23 (11.86%) Programme Management
16 23 (11.86%) Budget Management
16 23 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
17 22 (11.34%) SaaS
18 21 (10.82%) ITSM
19 20 (10.31%) Microsoft
20 19 (9.79%) Business Strategy
20 19 (9.79%) Presentation Skills
20 19 (9.79%) Mentoring
21 18 (9.28%) Coaching
21 18 (9.28%) Asset Management

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 24 (12.37%) Confluence
2 3 (1.55%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (4.12%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.03%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.52%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.52%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (5.67%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.03%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 22 (11.34%) SaaS
2 12 (6.19%) Azure
3 7 (3.61%) AWS
4 6 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (2.58%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.55%) GCP
7 3 (1.55%) PaaS
8 2 (1.03%) BigCommerce
8 2 (1.03%) Boomi
8 2 (1.03%) Commercetools
8 2 (1.03%) Contentful
8 2 (1.03%) Contentstack
8 2 (1.03%) GitHub
8 2 (1.03%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.03%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 2 (1.03%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 1 (0.52%) Miro
9 1 (0.52%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.19%) VLAN
1 12 (6.19%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (2.06%) Firewall
3 3 (1.55%) Internet
3 3 (1.55%) LAN
3 3 (1.55%) WAN
3 3 (1.55%) Wireless
4 2 (1.03%) MPLS
4 2 (1.03%) Network Security
5 1 (0.52%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.55%) Power BI
2 2 (1.03%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.03%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 42 (21.65%) JIRA
2 2 (1.03%) Jenkins
General
1 74 (38.14%) Social Skills
2 47 (24.23%) Finance
3 23 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.79%) Presentation Skills
5 16 (8.25%) Retail
6 12 (6.19%) Pharmaceutical
7 10 (5.15%) Automotive
7 10 (5.15%) Law
8 8 (4.12%) Legal
9 7 (3.61%) Banking
9 7 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (3.09%) Public Sector
11 5 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.55%) Avionics
13 3 (1.55%) Electronics
13 3 (1.55%) Military
14 2 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (1.03%) Games
14 2 (1.03%) Social Science
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.55%) .NET
1 3 (1.55%) EDI
2 2 (1.03%) CSS
2 2 (1.03%) HTML
2 2 (1.03%) MACH
3 1 (0.52%) Flutter
3 1 (0.52%) Laravel
3 1 (0.52%) Middleware
3 1 (0.52%) React
3 1 (0.52%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 32 (16.49%) Management Information System
2 11 (5.67%) Fibre Optics
3 10 (5.15%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.58%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.58%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.06%) IoT
6 3 (1.55%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.03%) CMDB
7 2 (1.03%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.03%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.03%) Mobile Games
7 2 (1.03%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.03%) Smart Energy
7 2 (1.03%) TM Forum
8 1 (0.52%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.52%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.52%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (41.24%) Agile
1 80 (41.24%) Project Delivery
2 79 (40.72%) Stakeholder Management
3 74 (38.14%) Project Management
4 66 (34.02%) Service Delivery
5 53 (27.32%) Continuous Improvement
6 45 (23.20%) ITIL
7 41 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (19.07%) Roadmaps
8 37 (19.07%) Service Management
9 35 (18.04%) Risk Management
10 32 (16.49%) Scrum
11 29 (14.95%) Cybersecurity
12 23 (11.86%) Budget Management
12 23 (11.86%) Programme Management
13 21 (10.82%) ITSM
14 19 (9.79%) Business Strategy
14 19 (9.79%) Mentoring
15 18 (9.28%) Asset Management
15 18 (9.28%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.06%) Python
2 3 (1.55%) C#
2 3 (1.55%) Java
2 3 (1.55%) R
3 2 (1.03%) JavaScript
3 2 (1.03%) PHP
3 2 (1.03%) SQL
4 1 (0.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 50 (25.77%) Degree
2 16 (8.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 15 (7.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (7.73%) HND
4 13 (6.70%) DBS Check
5 7 (3.61%) CISSP
5 7 (3.61%) Security Cleared
6 6 (3.09%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (3.09%) PMP
7 5 (2.58%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.58%) PMI Certification
8 4 (2.06%) CISM
9 3 (1.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.55%) APMP
9 3 (1.55%) CCSP
9 3 (1.55%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 3 (1.55%) SC Cleared
10 2 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.19%) GxP
2 8 (4.12%) SLA
3 7 (3.61%) QA
4 5 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.06%) GDPR
5 4 (2.06%) NIST
6 3 (1.55%) GRC
7 2 (1.03%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.03%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.52%) COBIT
8 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.52%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.03%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.03%) Ansible
1 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (1.03%) SCCM
1 2 (1.03%) Terraform
2 1 (0.52%) Autotask
2 1 (0.52%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.52%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 20 (10.31%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.73%) Atlassian
3 13 (6.70%) BMC
4 11 (5.67%) Remedy
5 8 (4.12%) ServiceNow
6 7 (3.61%) Oracle
6 7 (3.61%) SAP
7 6 (3.09%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.58%) Cisco
9 3 (1.55%) Sage
9 3 (1.55%) Workday
9 3 (1.55%) YouTube
10 2 (1.03%) Broadcom
10 2 (1.03%) Google
10 2 (1.03%) HP
10 2 (1.03%) IBM
10 2 (1.03%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.03%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.03%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.03%) webMethods