Data Manager Contracts in England

Data Manager
UK > England

The median Data Manager daily rate in England is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 359 453 564
Rank change year-on-year +94 +111 -99
Contract jobs requiring a Data Manager 178 214 216
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.48% 0.42% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.45% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 153 163
10th Percentile £355 £413 £325
25th Percentile £498 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £661 £650 £643
90th Percentile £773 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £575 £536 £550
% change year-on-year +7.23% -2.50% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -61.54% - -
75th Percentile £36.00 - -
90th Percentile £40.30 - -
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year -61.54% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,271 47,824 67,952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.61% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,751 33,955 48,268
10th Percentile £275 £312 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,410 1,422 1,902
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.71 £48.70
90th Percentile £72.54 £77.00 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

Data Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Manager in England

Data Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Manager in England.

Daily rate trend for Data Manager in England

Data Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Manager in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Manager in England

Data Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Manager in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Manager in England

Data Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Manager in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Manager in England

Data Manager
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +88 104 £575 -4.17% 82
North of England +36 23 £585 +7.34% 13
East of England +30 21 £500 +11.11% 10
South East +8 17 £700 +40.00% 24
North West +20 16 £568 +6.07% 10
Midlands +18 8 £575 - 5
West Midlands +29 7 £620 +7.83% 2
Yorkshire +19 6 £575 +4.55% 2
South West +15 3 £625 -4.40% 9
North East +20 1 £625 +38.89% 1
East Midlands +14 1 £355 -30.39% 3
Data Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Data Manager contract 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 contract job ads across the England region featuring Data Manager in the job title.

1 54 (30.34%) Data Governance
2 48 (26.97%) Data Management
2 48 (26.97%) Social Skills
3 47 (26.40%) Finance
4 46 (25.84%) Migration
4 46 (25.84%) Stakeholder Management
5 44 (24.72%) Data Quality
6 40 (22.47%) Data Migration
7 39 (21.91%) Analytics
8 33 (18.54%) Agile
9 31 (17.42%) Project Management
9 31 (17.42%) Business Intelligence
10 28 (15.73%) SQL
11 26 (14.61%) Analytical Skills
11 26 (14.61%) Data Analytics
12 25 (14.04%) SAP
13 23 (12.92%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (12.36%) Power Platform
14 22 (12.36%) Power BI
14 22 (12.36%) Roadmaps
15 21 (11.80%) Azure
16 20 (11.24%) Data Modelling
17 19 (10.67%) Microsoft Excel
17 19 (10.67%) Data Warehouse
18 18 (10.11%) Decision-Making
19 17 (9.55%) Data Science
19 17 (9.55%) GDPR
19 17 (9.55%) Data Strategy
19 17 (9.55%) Pharmaceutical
20 15 (8.43%) Data Protection

Data Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (2.25%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.69%) Confluence
3 2 (1.12%) SAS
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.56%) CMS
4 1 (0.56%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 19 (10.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (4.49%) MS Visio
4 7 (3.93%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (2.81%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (3.37%) SAP MDG
1 6 (3.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.69%) Primavera
2 3 (1.69%) SAP CO
2 3 (1.69%) SAP FI
2 3 (1.69%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.56%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 1 (0.56%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.56%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 22 (12.36%) Power Platform
2 21 (11.80%) Azure
3 9 (5.06%) AWS
4 6 (3.37%) GCP
5 3 (1.69%) Power Automate
5 3 (1.69%) PowerApps
6 2 (1.12%) Alation
6 2 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.12%) Collibra
6 2 (1.12%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (1.12%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.56%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.56%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.56%) OCI
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle CX
7 1 (0.56%) PaaS
7 1 (0.56%) SaaS
7 1 (0.56%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (12.36%) Power BI
2 19 (10.67%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (6.18%) Data Lake
4 9 (5.06%) Metadata
5 5 (2.81%) QlikView
6 4 (2.25%) Big Data
6 4 (2.25%) Tableau
7 3 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.69%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (1.12%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.12%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.56%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.56%) Looker
9 1 (0.56%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (0.56%) SAS Data Integration Studio
9 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (2.81%) JIRA
2 1 (0.56%) LSMW
2 1 (0.56%) MLflow
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
General
1 48 (26.97%) Social Skills
2 47 (26.40%) Finance
3 26 (14.61%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.55%) Pharmaceutical
5 15 (8.43%) Influencing Skills
6 11 (6.18%) Manufacturing
6 11 (6.18%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.49%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.37%) Marketing
8 6 (3.37%) Retail
9 5 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.81%) Legal
9 5 (2.81%) Local Government
10 4 (2.25%) Law
10 4 (2.25%) Publishing
11 2 (1.12%) Back Office
11 2 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.56%) Front Office
12 1 (0.56%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.56%) NumPy
1 1 (0.56%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (0.56%) Pandas
1 1 (0.56%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.06%) NHS
2 7 (3.93%) Management Information System
2 7 (3.93%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.37%) Reference Data
4 4 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.69%) FMCG
5 3 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.12%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.12%) Housing Association
6 2 (1.12%) Life Science
6 2 (1.12%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.56%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.56%) Freedom of Information Act
7 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.56%) PropTech
7 1 (0.56%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.56%) Solar Power
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (30.34%) Data Governance
2 48 (26.97%) Data Management
3 46 (25.84%) Migration
3 46 (25.84%) Stakeholder Management
4 40 (22.47%) Data Migration
5 39 (21.91%) Analytics
6 33 (18.54%) Agile
7 31 (17.42%) Business Intelligence
7 31 (17.42%) Project Management
8 26 (14.61%) Data Analytics
9 23 (12.92%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (12.36%) Roadmaps
11 20 (11.24%) Data Modelling
12 18 (10.11%) Decision-Making
13 17 (9.55%) Data Science
13 17 (9.55%) Data Strategy
14 15 (8.43%) Data Protection
14 15 (8.43%) ETL
15 13 (7.30%) Data Analysis
15 13 (7.30%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 28 (15.73%) SQL
2 7 (3.93%) Python
3 4 (2.25%) R
4 3 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.56%) Java
5 1 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (7.87%) Degree
2 3 (1.69%) CIMA
3 2 (1.12%) CCNA
3 2 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (1.12%) DBS Check
3 2 (1.12%) Master's Degree
3 2 (1.12%) PhD
3 2 (1.12%) PMP
3 2 (1.12%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.12%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.56%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (24.72%) Data Quality
2 17 (9.55%) GDPR
3 9 (5.06%) QA
4 5 (2.81%) PMO
5 2 (1.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.56%) GxP
6 1 (0.56%) SLA
Vendors
1 25 (14.04%) SAP
2 14 (7.87%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.06%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.25%) IFS
5 3 (1.69%) Informatica
5 3 (1.69%) Marketo
5 3 (1.69%) Oracle
5 3 (1.69%) Pardot
5 3 (1.69%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.12%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.12%) BT
6 2 (1.12%) Cisco
6 2 (1.12%) Databricks
6 2 (1.12%) Facebook
6 2 (1.12%) IBM
6 2 (1.12%) Radianz
6 2 (1.12%) Reuters
6 2 (1.12%) Symantec
6 2 (1.12%) Talend
6 2 (1.12%) Varonis