Project Delivery Manager Jobs

Projects Delivery Manager
UK

The median Projects Delivery Manager salary in the UK is £66,414 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 700 859 948
Rank change year-on-year +159 +89 +251
Permanent jobs requiring a Project Delivery Manager 9 53 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.051% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.054% 0.016%
Number of salaries quoted 5 30 9
10th Percentile £54,600 £40,000 £44,850
25th Percentile £57,750 £46,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,414 £55,000 £57,396
Median % change year-on-year +20.75% -4.17% -4.34%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £66,000
90th Percentile - £84,750 £71,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,957 £55,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year +18.10% +2.33% +9.78%

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 50,066 97,923 88,829
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.36% 94.81% 91.43%
Number of salaries quoted 26,124 69,761 56,179
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £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% +6.63%

Project Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Delivery Manager in the UK

Project Delivery Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Project Delivery Manager in the UK

Project Delivery Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery Manager over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Project Delivery Manager in the UK

Project Delivery Manager
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Project Delivery Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 30 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 +117 9 £66,414 +20.75% 12
London +115 6 £85,000 -15.00% 6
UK excluding London +149 3 £64,957 +18.10% 12
Work from Home +106 2 £66,414 -11.45% 3
Yorkshire +59 2 £63,500 +10.43% 1
North of England +31 2 £63,500 +15.45% 4
South West +87 1 £66,414 +32.83%

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, Project 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 Project Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Project Delivery
2 7 (77.78%) Project Management
3 5 (55.56%) Finance
4 4 (44.44%) Agile
4 4 (44.44%) Coaching
4 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
5 3 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 3 (33.33%) IT Strategy
5 3 (33.33%) Programme Delivery
5 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (33.33%) Scrum
5 3 (33.33%) SAP
6 2 (22.22%) ITIL
6 2 (22.22%) PRINCE2
6 2 (22.22%) E-Commerce
6 2 (22.22%) PMP
6 2 (22.22%) Migration
6 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (22.22%) CMS
6 2 (22.22%) Retail
6 2 (22.22%) Business Analysis
6 2 (22.22%) Degree
6 2 (22.22%) Resource Management
6 2 (22.22%) Process Improvement
6 2 (22.22%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 2 (22.22%) Salesforce
6 2 (22.22%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 2 (22.22%) Data Migration
6 2 (22.22%) Azure

Project 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 2 (22.22%) CMS
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) BigCommerce
1 2 (22.22%) Commercetools
1 2 (22.22%) Contentful
1 2 (22.22%) Contentstack
1 2 (22.22%) PaaS
1 2 (22.22%) SaaS
1 2 (22.22%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
1 2 (22.22%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Retail
4 1 (11.11%) Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) MACH
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (11.11%) Driving Licence
2 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Project Delivery
2 7 (77.78%) Project Management
3 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) Coaching
4 3 (33.33%) IT Strategy
4 3 (33.33%) Programme Delivery
4 3 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (33.33%) Scrum
4 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (22.22%) Budget Management
5 2 (22.22%) Business Analysis
5 2 (22.22%) Business Case
5 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
5 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (22.22%) ITIL
5 2 (22.22%) Migration
5 2 (22.22%) PRINCE2
5 2 (22.22%) Resource Management
5 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
5 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
1 2 (22.22%) PMP
2 1 (11.11%) PMI Certification
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) SAP
2 2 (22.22%) Salesforce
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Planview