Senior Delivery Manager Jobs

Senior Delivery Manager
UK

The median Senior Delivery Manager salary in the UK is £72,186 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 688 709 895
Rank change year-on-year +21 +186 +234
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Delivery Manager 17 189 82
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.19% 0.082%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.20% 0.089%
Number of salaries quoted 14 71 71
10th Percentile £55,300 £51,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £63,524 £58,246 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,186 £68,338 £66,387
Median % change year-on-year +5.63% +2.94% +2.13%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,275 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,500 £64,080 £75,000
% change year-on-year -0.91% -14.56% +25.00%

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 49,982 93,747 91,844
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.62% 94.66% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 26,989 67,111 57,934
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £74,014 £71,250 £80,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +6.00%

Senior Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Delivery Manager in the UK

Senior Delivery Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Delivery Manager in the UK

Senior Delivery Manager
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Senior Delivery Manager in the UK

Senior Delivery Manager
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Delivery Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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 -20 17 £72,186 +5.63% 49
London -2 10 £85,000 +22.89% 19
UK excluding London +118 7 £63,500 -0.91% 32
Work from Home +118 5 £91,250 +39.56% 24
North of England +41 5 £65,000 +1.44% 15
Yorkshire +54 3 £63,500 -42.27% 6
Midlands +53 2 £55,500 -20.71% 3
North West -2 2 £70,000 +9.24% 7
East Midlands - 2 £55,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 15 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 12 (70.59%) Agile
2 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
3 7 (41.18%) Coaching
3 7 (41.18%) Finance
4 6 (35.29%) Service Delivery
4 6 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (35.29%) Roadmaps
5 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (23.53%) ITIL
5 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
5 4 (23.53%) Project Delivery
5 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
6 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (17.65%) People Management
6 3 (17.65%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 3 (17.65%) Community of Practice
6 3 (17.65%) Collaborative Culture
6 3 (17.65%) Scrum
6 3 (17.65%) SAP
6 3 (17.65%) CRM
6 3 (17.65%) Risk Management
6 3 (17.65%) Project Management
7 2 (11.76%) CMS
7 2 (11.76%) E-Commerce
7 2 (11.76%) Salesforce
7 2 (11.76%) Retail
7 2 (11.76%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 2 (11.76%) SaaS
7 2 (11.76%) PaaS
7 2 (11.76%) SAP Commerce Cloud

Senior 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 (11.76%) CMS
2 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (5.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) BigCommerce
1 2 (11.76%) Commercetools
1 2 (11.76%) Contentful
1 2 (11.76%) Contentstack
1 2 (11.76%) PaaS
1 2 (11.76%) SaaS
1 2 (11.76%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
1 2 (11.76%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 7 (41.18%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Retail
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Law
4 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) MACH
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Reinsurance
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Agile
2 7 (41.18%) Coaching
3 6 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (35.29%) Roadmaps
3 6 (35.29%) Service Delivery
4 4 (23.53%) ITIL
4 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
4 4 (23.53%) Project Delivery
4 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (17.65%) Collaborative Culture
5 3 (17.65%) Community of Practice
5 3 (17.65%) CRM
5 3 (17.65%) People Management
5 3 (17.65%) Project Management
5 3 (17.65%) Risk Management
5 3 (17.65%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 3 (17.65%) Scrum
6 2 (11.76%) Business Strategy
6 2 (11.76%) E-Commerce
6 2 (11.76%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Ansible
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) SAP
3 2 (11.76%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.88%) BMC
4 1 (5.88%) Broadcom
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco
4 1 (5.88%) HP
4 1 (5.88%) IBM
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle
4 1 (5.88%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow