Data Manager
UK

The median Data Manager salary in the UK is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 486 471
Rank change year-on-year +157 -15 +46
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Manager 869 580 1,244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.85% 0.60% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 0.65% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 608 381 506
10th Percentile £32,000 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £56,219 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £66,603 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.42% +6.56% +8.05%
75th Percentile £71,750 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,625 £106,275 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £56,992
% change year-on-year -20.00% +9.66% +13.98%

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 97,260 88,990 160,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.41% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 69,382 56,369 85,188
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,663
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

Data Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Manager in the UK

Data Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Manager in the UK

Data Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Manager over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Manager in the UK

Data Manager
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +145 756 £55,000 -17.42% 136
UK excluding London +127 566 £50,000 -20.00% 85
London +155 259 £72,500 +3.57% 60
Work from Home -25 238 £67,500 -3.91% 54
South East +109 160 £45,000 -26.53% 26
North of England +9 125 £49,827 -23.75% 21
South West +34 100 £52,396 -13.04% 9
Midlands +42 80 £55,000 -18.52% 14
North West +54 69 £47,500 -20.20% 16
Scotland -21 61 £66,500 +11.72% 10
West Midlands +31 45 £55,000 -24.14% 10
Yorkshire -19 41 £50,000 -31.93% 4
East Midlands +11 35 £45,000 -33.33% 4
East of England +12 26 £33,500 -39.09% 4
North East +6 15 £45,000 -13.46% 1
Wales +9 10 £52,956 -3.79%
Northern Ireland +21 2 - - 1
Channel Islands - 2 - -

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Data 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 Data Manager in the job title.

1 197 (22.67%) Data Engineering
2 191 (21.98%) Data Management
3 188 (21.63%) Analytics
4 179 (20.60%) Analytical Skills
5 169 (19.45%) Agile
6 167 (19.22%) Azure
7 166 (19.10%) Problem-Solving
8 165 (18.99%) Social Skills
9 144 (16.57%) Finance
10 134 (15.42%) Project Management
11 131 (15.07%) Data Warehouse
12 128 (14.73%) Data Governance
13 126 (14.50%) SQL
14 123 (14.15%) Business Intelligence
15 121 (13.92%) Data Modelling
16 113 (13.00%) GCP
17 111 (12.77%) Data Quality
17 111 (12.77%) AWS
18 110 (12.66%) ETL
19 107 (12.31%) Power Platform
20 106 (12.20%) Power BI
21 105 (12.08%) Line Management
22 103 (11.85%) Business Strategy
23 99 (11.39%) Scrum
23 99 (11.39%) Google
24 96 (11.05%) Degree
25 94 (10.82%) Data Analysis
25 94 (10.82%) Microsoft
26 91 (10.47%) Product Ownership
26 91 (10.47%) CI/CD

Data 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 18 (2.07%) Apache Spark
2 14 (1.61%) SAS
3 5 (0.58%) Apache
3 5 (0.58%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.12%) CMS
6 1 (0.12%) IBM Domino
6 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
Applications
1 51 (5.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.69%) SPSS
5 5 (0.58%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.35%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 7 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.69%) SAP Business One
3 5 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.58%) Raiser’s Edge
4 4 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.23%) Exchequer
5 2 (0.23%) Primavera
5 2 (0.23%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 167 (19.22%) Azure
2 113 (13.00%) GCP
3 111 (12.77%) AWS
4 107 (12.31%) Power Platform
5 80 (9.21%) Azure DevOps
6 38 (4.37%) Azure Data Factory
7 32 (3.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 21 (2.42%) Snowflake
9 14 (1.61%) Serverless
10 12 (1.38%) Microsoft Purview
11 11 (1.27%) Collibra
12 10 (1.15%) dbt
12 10 (1.15%) Google Analytics
13 9 (1.04%) Amazon S3
13 9 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (1.04%) SaaS
14 8 (0.92%) Power Automate
15 7 (0.81%) Dynamics 365
15 7 (0.81%) PowerApps
16 4 (0.46%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.61%) WPA
2 8 (0.92%) TETRA
2 8 (0.92%) Wireless
3 4 (0.46%) ADSL
4 3 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (15.07%) Data Warehouse
2 106 (12.20%) Power BI
3 80 (9.21%) Looker
4 79 (9.09%) BigQuery
5 54 (6.21%) Tableau
6 26 (2.99%) Data Lake
7 23 (2.65%) Big Data
8 22 (2.53%) Metadata
9 18 (2.07%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 12 (1.38%) NoSQL
11 9 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (0.92%) HDInsight
12 8 (0.92%) MongoDB
13 6 (0.69%) Ataccama
13 6 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
13 6 (0.69%) Power Query
13 6 (0.69%) QlikView
14 5 (0.58%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.58%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (0.46%) Git
1 4 (0.46%) RStudio
2 2 (0.23%) GitLab
3 1 (0.12%) ERwin
General
1 179 (20.60%) Analytical Skills
2 165 (18.99%) Social Skills
3 144 (16.57%) Finance
4 74 (8.52%) Billing
5 56 (6.44%) Banking
6 47 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 47 (5.41%) Legal
7 37 (4.26%) Marketing
8 32 (3.68%) Presentation Skills
9 31 (3.57%) Retail
10 29 (3.34%) Law
11 19 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (2.07%) Investment Banking
13 15 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (1.50%) Games
14 13 (1.50%) Local Government
14 13 (1.50%) Police
15 8 (0.92%) Military
16 7 (0.81%) Fire and Rescue
16 7 (0.81%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.27%) Middleware
2 5 (0.58%) jQuery
3 4 (0.46%) PySpark
3 4 (0.46%) Web Services
3 4 (0.46%) XML
3 4 (0.46%) YAML
4 3 (0.35%) CSS
4 3 (0.35%) EDI
4 3 (0.35%) HTML
5 2 (0.23%) Django
5 2 (0.23%) JSON
5 2 (0.23%) Pandas
5 2 (0.23%) PostGIS
5 2 (0.23%) RESTful
5 2 (0.23%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 1 (0.12%) ADO
6 1 (0.12%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 91 (10.47%) Product Ownership
2 90 (10.36%) Management Information System
3 32 (3.68%) Data Centre
4 15 (1.73%) Cyber Threat
5 13 (1.50%) Taxonomies
6 12 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
6 12 (1.38%) Freedom of Information
7 11 (1.27%) Algorithms
8 10 (1.15%) Reinsurance
9 8 (0.92%) Reference Data
10 7 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (0.69%) PMI
11 6 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (0.69%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.58%) Cloud Native
13 4 (0.46%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (0.46%) Smart Meter
14 3 (0.35%) Blog
14 3 (0.35%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (22.67%) Data Engineering
2 191 (21.98%) Data Management
3 188 (21.63%) Analytics
4 169 (19.45%) Agile
5 166 (19.10%) Problem-Solving
6 134 (15.42%) Project Management
7 128 (14.73%) Data Governance
8 123 (14.15%) Business Intelligence
9 121 (13.92%) Data Modelling
10 110 (12.66%) ETL
11 105 (12.08%) Line Management
12 103 (11.85%) Business Strategy
13 99 (11.39%) Scrum
14 94 (10.82%) Data Analysis
15 91 (10.47%) CI/CD
15 91 (10.47%) Platform Engineering
16 90 (10.36%) DevOps
17 85 (9.78%) Data Protection
18 81 (9.32%) Backlog Management
19 80 (9.21%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 126 (14.50%) SQL
2 84 (9.67%) Python
3 18 (2.07%) R
4 8 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (0.58%) Go
5 5 (0.58%) Java
5 5 (0.58%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.46%) T-SQL
6 4 (0.46%) VBA
7 3 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 96 (11.05%) Degree
2 38 (4.37%) DBS Check
3 18 (2.07%) Master's Degree
3 18 (2.07%) Security Cleared
4 15 (1.73%) Numerate Degree
5 14 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.04%) MBA
8 7 (0.81%) CISSP
9 6 (0.69%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.35%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.35%) CCSK
10 3 (0.35%) CCSP
10 3 (0.35%) CISA
10 3 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.35%) CISM
11 2 (0.23%) CIMA
11 2 (0.23%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (12.77%) Data Quality
2 80 (9.21%) QA
3 53 (6.10%) GDPR
4 10 (1.15%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.81%) SLA
7 4 (0.46%) PMO
8 3 (0.35%) ISO 14000
8 3 (0.35%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.12%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.12%) CDISC
10 1 (0.12%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
System Software
1 3 (0.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (0.69%) Terraform
2 3 (0.35%) CASB
2 3 (0.35%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.23%) Argo
3 2 (0.23%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.12%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 99 (11.39%) Google
2 94 (10.82%) Microsoft
3 38 (4.37%) Databricks
4 27 (3.11%) SAP
5 19 (2.19%) Oracle
6 8 (0.92%) Salesforce
6 8 (0.92%) Samsung
6 8 (0.92%) ServiceNow
7 7 (0.81%) Alteryx
8 6 (0.69%) Canon
9 5 (0.58%) Informatica
10 3 (0.35%) Netskope
10 3 (0.35%) Reuters
10 3 (0.35%) Symantec
10 3 (0.35%) Tealium
10 3 (0.35%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.23%) Bloomberg
11 2 (0.23%) Dataiku
11 2 (0.23%) HubSpot
11 2 (0.23%) Meraki