Delivery Manager
UK

The median Delivery Manager salary in the UK is £58,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 348 461 440
Rank change year-on-year +113 -21 -44
Permanent jobs requiring a Delivery Manager 806 683 1,271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.82% 0.66% 0.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 0.72% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 552 549 1,016
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,918 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,833 £51,194
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £66,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +5.60% +8.70%
75th Percentile £73,410 £81,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £97,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 93,212 94,769 150,357
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,814 59,630 85,382
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,225
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Delivery Manager in the UK

Delivery Manager
Top 16 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 4 May 2024. 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 +145 751 £60,000 -11.11% 106
UK excluding London +91 503 £55,000 -8.33% 73
London +122 264 £68,473 -8.70% 40
Work from Home +46 262 £64,080 -5.07% 38
North of England +115 193 £57,500 +2.68% 15
North West +66 93 £55,000 -13.73% 10
South East +17 90 £50,000 -26.63% 19
Midlands +50 88 £57,500 -9.45% 11
Yorkshire +111 78 £70,000 +27.55% 3
South West +7 68 £63,376 +15.23% 12
West Midlands +35 67 £61,409 -1.75% 6
East of England +47 37 £50,000 -24.24% 6
Scotland -70 25 £50,000 -23.08% 7
North East +13 22 £55,000 +7.32% 2
East Midlands +2 21 £37,500 -44.44% 5
Wales +5 3 £48,750 +7.15% 5

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, 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.

1 394 (48.88%) Service Delivery
2 277 (34.37%) Social Skills
3 252 (31.27%) Agile
4 240 (29.78%) Finance
5 216 (26.80%) Project Management
6 208 (25.81%) Mentoring
7 164 (20.35%) Microsoft
8 161 (19.98%) Project Delivery
9 151 (18.73%) Scrum
10 148 (18.36%) SLA
11 142 (17.62%) ITIL
12 134 (16.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 131 (16.25%) Contract Negotiation
14 124 (15.38%) Law
15 115 (14.27%) ServiceNow
16 110 (13.65%) Stakeholder Management
17 109 (13.52%) Service Management
18 108 (13.40%) SaaS
19 107 (13.28%) Performance Management
20 105 (13.03%) Coaching
21 100 (12.41%) Kanban
22 95 (11.79%) Dell
23 92 (11.41%) Continuous Improvement
24 87 (10.79%) Public Sector
25 83 (10.30%) Degree
26 78 (9.68%) ITSM
26 78 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
27 64 (7.94%) Decision-Making
28 59 (7.32%) Customer Service
28 59 (7.32%) Azure

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 9 (1.12%) Confluence
2 3 (0.37%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.25%) CMS
3 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (3.10%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (2.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.62%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.37%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.12%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.12%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 108 (13.40%) SaaS
2 59 (7.32%) Azure
3 34 (4.22%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (1.36%) Power Platform
5 9 (1.12%) AWS
6 8 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (0.50%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (0.37%) Asana
10 2 (0.25%) Contentful
10 2 (0.25%) Google Analytics
10 2 (0.25%) Google Docs
10 2 (0.25%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.12%) Basecamp
11 1 (0.12%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.12%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.12%) PaaS
11 1 (0.12%) Serverless
11 1 (0.12%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
2 7 (0.87%) 4G
2 7 (0.87%) 5G
3 5 (0.62%) Firewall
3 5 (0.62%) WAN
4 4 (0.50%) LAN
4 4 (0.50%) SD-WAN
5 3 (0.37%) Network Security
5 3 (0.37%) VPN
5 3 (0.37%) WLAN
6 2 (0.25%) Internet
6 2 (0.25%) NAS
7 1 (0.12%) DHCP
7 1 (0.12%) DNS
7 1 (0.12%) MPLS
7 1 (0.12%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.12%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.12%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (1.86%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.36%) Power BI
3 6 (0.74%) SAP HANA
4 2 (0.25%) Big Data
4 2 (0.25%) Data Mart
4 2 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (0.25%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.25%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (0.25%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.12%) LogicBlox
5 1 (0.12%) Metadata
5 1 (0.12%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (3.47%) JIRA
2 2 (0.25%) Bitbucket
2 2 (0.25%) GitLab
General
1 277 (34.37%) Social Skills
2 240 (29.78%) Finance
3 134 (16.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 124 (15.38%) Law
5 87 (10.79%) Public Sector
6 46 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
7 40 (4.96%) Presentation Skills
8 38 (4.71%) Retail
9 30 (3.72%) Telecoms
10 22 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
11 21 (2.61%) Legal
12 18 (2.23%) Marketing
13 15 (1.86%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.86%) Spanish Language
14 14 (1.74%) Games
15 13 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (1.49%) Military
16 12 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
17 9 (1.12%) French Language
18 8 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.99%) EDI
2 7 (0.87%) .NET
2 7 (0.87%) CSS
3 3 (0.37%) HTML
3 3 (0.37%) RESTful
4 1 (0.12%) Middleware
4 1 (0.12%) SOAP
4 1 (0.12%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 44 (5.46%) Product Ownership
2 23 (2.85%) Management Information System
3 21 (2.61%) Onboarding
4 20 (2.48%) Driving Licence
5 18 (2.23%) NHS
6 15 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (1.24%) PMI
8 9 (1.12%) Virtual Team
9 6 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.62%) iPad
10 5 (0.62%) Mobile App
10 5 (0.62%) Reinsurance
10 5 (0.62%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 4 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.37%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 3 (0.37%) Housing Association
12 3 (0.37%) IoT
12 3 (0.37%) iPhone
12 3 (0.37%) Security Posture
13 2 (0.25%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.36%) Windows
2 2 (0.25%) Android
2 2 (0.25%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 394 (48.88%) Service Delivery
2 252 (31.27%) Agile
3 216 (26.80%) Project Management
4 208 (25.81%) Mentoring
5 161 (19.98%) Project Delivery
6 151 (18.73%) Scrum
7 142 (17.62%) ITIL
8 131 (16.25%) Contract Negotiation
9 110 (13.65%) Stakeholder Management
10 109 (13.52%) Service Management
11 107 (13.28%) Performance Management
12 105 (13.03%) Coaching
13 100 (12.41%) Kanban
14 92 (11.41%) Continuous Improvement
15 78 (9.68%) ITSM
15 78 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
16 64 (7.94%) Decision-Making
17 59 (7.32%) Customer Service
18 52 (6.45%) Line Management
19 49 (6.08%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 14 (1.74%) C#
2 10 (1.24%) Java
3 9 (1.12%) Python
4 5 (0.62%) JavaScript
5 4 (0.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 83 (10.30%) Degree
2 41 (5.09%) Security Cleared
3 36 (4.47%) ITIL Certification
4 23 (2.85%) SC Cleared
5 20 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.23%) DBS Check
7 16 (1.99%) PMI Certification
8 11 (1.36%) PMP
9 8 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.50%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.37%) CCNP
12 3 (0.37%) MCSE
13 2 (0.25%) APMP
13 2 (0.25%) CSPO
14 1 (0.12%) APMG
14 1 (0.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.12%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (18.36%) SLA
2 18 (2.23%) QA
3 16 (1.99%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.49%) PMO
5 10 (1.24%) GDPR
6 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.37%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.37%) GMP
7 2 (0.25%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.12%) IFRS
8 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (0.62%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.25%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 164 (20.35%) Microsoft
2 115 (14.27%) ServiceNow
3 95 (11.79%) Dell
4 22 (2.73%) SAP
5 17 (2.11%) Salesforce
6 16 (1.99%) Oracle
7 9 (1.12%) Google
8 8 (0.99%) Apple
9 4 (0.50%) Cadence
9 4 (0.50%) Computacenter
9 4 (0.50%) ConnectWise
10 3 (0.37%) Cisco
10 3 (0.37%) Genesys
10 3 (0.37%) Meraki
10 3 (0.37%) NEC
11 2 (0.25%) Adyen
11 2 (0.25%) Facebook
11 2 (0.25%) iManage
11 2 (0.25%) Murex
11 2 (0.25%) VMware