Delivery Manager

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

AI-assisted summary of published DOU and Djinni analytics

Salary from $1,518 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Salary to $4,118 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Jobs 190 Last 3 months
Applications per job 22.28 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 96 $1826–$4374 Stakeholder Management 76 $2138–$3732 Project Management 62 $1483–$2750 Risk Management 41 $1916–$3489 Scrum 41 $2039–$3631 Agile 40 $1935–$3347 Program Management 31 $3700–$5055 AI 24 $2268–$3567 Software Development Life Cycle 21 $1567–$2830 Analytics 20 $1862–$3251 Solution Architecture 20 $3498–$5191 Cloud platforms 19 $3418–$5326 Machine Learning 19 $3549–$5527 Generative AI 18 $2204–$4978 CI/CD 16 $2868–$4754 Budgeting 14 $1807–$3607 Kanban 14 $1915–$3468 AWS 13 $3625–$5292 Azure 13 $2839–$4634 FullStack 13 $3578–$4291 Google Cloud Platform 13 $4283–$5251

Where to hire

Sources

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