Data Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 344 405
Rank change year-on-year +32 +61 -42
Contract jobs requiring a Data Manager 82 107 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.46% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.48% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 82 74
10th Percentile £409 £363 £312
25th Percentile £509 £450 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -3.85% +9.47%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £659 £696
UK median daily rate £575 £535 £550
% change year-on-year +7.48% -2.73% +5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -61.54% - -
75th Percentile £29.25 - -
90th Percentile £43.10 - -
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year -61.54% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,943 22,066 29,076
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.30% 95.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,549 15,423 20,326
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,262 1,138 1,451
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.99
90th Percentile £73.98 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

Data Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Manager in the UK excluding London

Data Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Manager in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Manager in the UK excluding London

Data Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Manager in the UK excluding London

Data Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Manager in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Manager in the UK excluding London

Data Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Manager in the UK excluding London

Data Manager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +39 25 £585 +7.34% 14
East of England +26 21 £500 +5.26% 10
North West +30 19 £585 +9.35% 12
South East 0 17 £700 +40.00% 22
Midlands +21 8 £550 -4.35% 8
Scotland +21 8 £475 +5.56% 12
West Midlands +17 7 £575 - 6
Yorkshire +17 5 £600 +9.09% 2
South West +9 3 £625 +4.17% 12
East Midlands +18 1 £355 -30.39% 2
North East +16 1 £625 +38.89%
Wales - 1 £625 -
Data Manager
UK

Data Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 10 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Data Manager in the job title.

1 30 (36.59%) Data Management
2 29 (35.37%) Migration
3 28 (34.15%) Data Governance
4 27 (32.93%) Data Migration
5 24 (29.27%) Stakeholder Management
5 24 (29.27%) Finance
5 24 (29.27%) Social Skills
6 22 (26.83%) Data Quality
7 18 (21.95%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (20.73%) SAP
9 16 (19.51%) Project Management
9 16 (19.51%) Pharmaceutical
10 15 (18.29%) Data Strategy
10 15 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (18.29%) Roadmaps
11 14 (17.07%) ETL
12 13 (15.85%) Business Intelligence
12 13 (15.85%) Microsoft Excel
12 13 (15.85%) Analytics
12 13 (15.85%) Data Science
13 12 (14.63%) Influencing Skills
13 12 (14.63%) Degree
13 12 (14.63%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (13.41%) Agile
14 11 (13.41%) Data Protection
14 11 (13.41%) Master Data Management
14 11 (13.41%) GDPR
15 10 (12.20%) Power BI
15 10 (12.20%) Power Platform
16 9 (10.98%) Decision-Making

Data Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (3.66%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (15.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (8.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (7.32%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (7.32%) MS Visio
4 5 (6.10%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (7.32%) SAP MDG
2 4 (4.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (3.66%) SAP CO
3 3 (3.66%) SAP FI
3 3 (3.66%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (1.22%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.22%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.20%) Power Platform
2 5 (6.10%) Azure
3 1 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.22%) Oracle CX
3 1 (1.22%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.63%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (12.20%) Power BI
3 8 (9.76%) Data Lake
4 7 (8.54%) Metadata
5 3 (3.66%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.22%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.22%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (2.44%) JIRA
2 1 (1.22%) MLflow
General
1 24 (29.27%) Finance
1 24 (29.27%) Social Skills
2 18 (21.95%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (19.51%) Pharmaceutical
4 12 (14.63%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (9.76%) Manufacturing
6 6 (7.32%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.66%) Law
7 3 (3.66%) Local Government
7 3 (3.66%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.44%) Banking
8 2 (2.44%) Publishing
9 1 (1.22%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.22%) Electronics
9 1 (1.22%) Legal
9 1 (1.22%) Marketing
9 1 (1.22%) Retail
9 1 (1.22%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.22%) NumPy
1 1 (1.22%) Pandas
1 1 (1.22%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.54%) Management Information System
2 6 (7.32%) Product Ownership
2 6 (7.32%) Reference Data
3 3 (3.66%) NHS
4 2 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.22%) Life Science
5 1 (1.22%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.22%) Solar Power
5 1 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (36.59%) Data Management
2 29 (35.37%) Migration
3 28 (34.15%) Data Governance
4 27 (32.93%) Data Migration
5 24 (29.27%) Stakeholder Management
6 16 (19.51%) Project Management
7 15 (18.29%) Data Strategy
7 15 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (18.29%) Roadmaps
8 14 (17.07%) ETL
9 13 (15.85%) Analytics
9 13 (15.85%) Business Intelligence
9 13 (15.85%) Data Science
10 11 (13.41%) Agile
10 11 (13.41%) Data Protection
10 11 (13.41%) Master Data Management
11 9 (10.98%) Data Analytics
11 9 (10.98%) Data Modelling
11 9 (10.98%) Decision-Making
12 8 (9.76%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (10.98%) SQL
2 1 (1.22%) Java
2 1 (1.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (14.63%) Degree
2 2 (2.44%) Master's Degree
2 2 (2.44%) PhD
3 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (26.83%) Data Quality
2 11 (13.41%) GDPR
3 5 (6.10%) QA
4 1 (1.22%) PMO
Vendors
1 17 (20.73%) SAP
2 6 (7.32%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.88%) IFS
4 2 (2.44%) Facebook
5 1 (1.22%) Cadence
5 1 (1.22%) Databricks
5 1 (1.22%) Informatica
5 1 (1.22%) Oracle
5 1 (1.22%) Salesforce