Delivery Manager

Delivery Manager makes cross-team delivery predictable without hiding risk.

AI-assisted summary of published DOU and Djinni analytics

Salary from $1,558 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Salary to $4,160 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Jobs 190 Last 3 months
Applications per job 22.39 JobNote category match
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Published signal

Exact role
$4,000 Delivery Manager median
$4,700 Delivery Manager median

Hiring Ask how the candidate changed scope, sequence, or ownership when delivery was at risk.

Candidate Show outcomes, resolved constraints, and decisions—not ceremony counts.

Data Net monthly DOU survey median; down $700 over six months. Net monthly DOU survey median.

Independent salary benchmark

DOU salary survey

Source data
June 2026 · 82 respondents
Exact match
Lower quartile$3000
Median$4450
Upper quartile$5538
Year over year +11.2%

Salary range history

Lower quartile Median Upper quartile

Delivery managers · monthly net base salary in USD; bonuses excluded; all locations in the published CSV.

Derived from the shortened public salary-survey data published by DOU. Jobnote and DOU vacancy salaries are separate datasets.

Most wanted skills

Counts of active jobs now and salaries.

Delivery Management 84 $1803–$4340 Stakeholder Management 66 $2124–$3717 Project Management 55 $1490–$2767 Agile 40 $1919–$3351 Scrum 38 $2006–$3619 Risk Management 37 $1891–$3520 Program Management 27 $3161–$5131 AI 21 $2261–$3585 Analytics 18 $1839–$3236 Machine Learning 18 $3607–$5520 Software Development Life Cycle 18 $1539–$2829 Cloud platforms 17 $3407–$5357 Generative AI 17 $2183–$5000 Solution Architecture 16 $3381–$5195 CI/CD 15 $2810–$4738 Kanban 14 $1901–$3499 FullStack 13 $3567–$4255 AWS 12 $3576–$5291 Azure 12 $2740–$4638 Google Cloud Platform 12 $4271–$5242

Where to hire

Sources

  1. Manager salaries — summer 2026 Published signal ·
  2. Manager salaries — winter 2026 Published signal ·