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 £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 323 328 427
Rank change year-on-year +5 +99 -58
Contract jobs requiring a Data Manager 77 111 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.49% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.52% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 84 75
10th Percentile £400 £328 £338
25th Percentile £500 £450 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £588
90th Percentile £750 £657 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% +7.32%
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 £40.00
% change year-on-year -61.54% +62.50% +41.69%

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 19,247 21,469 29,158
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 94.25% 95.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,616 14,937 20,515
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £390 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,085 1,398
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.20
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +28 28 £585 +9.35% 21
North West +32 23 £585 +14.15% 17
East of England +11 18 £450 -5.26% 5
South East -12 15 £650 +30.00% 25
Midlands +19 7 £525 -6.67% 15
Scotland +16 7 £475 +5.56% 16
West Midlands +14 6 £613 +4.26% 10
Yorkshire +11 4 £600 +9.59% 4
South West -3 3 £625 +19.05% 7
North East +11 1 £625 +31.58%
East Midlands +8 1 £355 -15.48% 5
Data Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 27 (35.06%) Data Governance
2 23 (29.87%) Migration
3 22 (28.57%) Data Management
4 21 (27.27%) Data Migration
5 18 (23.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 18 (23.38%) Finance
6 17 (22.08%) Social Skills
7 16 (20.78%) Data Quality
8 15 (19.48%) Analytical Skills
9 14 (18.18%) Roadmaps
9 14 (18.18%) SAP
10 13 (16.88%) Pharmaceutical
10 13 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (15.58%) Data Science
11 12 (15.58%) GDPR
11 12 (15.58%) Microsoft Excel
11 12 (15.58%) Data Protection
12 11 (14.29%) Analytics
12 11 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
12 11 (14.29%) ETL
13 10 (12.99%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (12.99%) Data Strategy
13 10 (12.99%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (11.69%) Power Platform
14 9 (11.69%) Power BI
14 9 (11.69%) SQL
14 9 (11.69%) Project Management
14 9 (11.69%) Agile
14 9 (11.69%) Degree
15 8 (10.39%) Data Analytics

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 8 (10.39%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.30%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (15.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (7.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (6.49%) MS Visio
3 5 (6.49%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (7.79%) SAP MDG
2 2 (2.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.30%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.30%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.30%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.30%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.30%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 9 (11.69%) Power Platform
2 5 (6.49%) Azure
3 1 (1.30%) OCI
3 1 (1.30%) Oracle CX
3 1 (1.30%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.99%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (11.69%) Power BI
3 8 (10.39%) Data Lake
4 5 (6.49%) Metadata
5 3 (3.90%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (2.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.30%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (2.60%) JIRA
2 1 (1.30%) MLflow
General
1 18 (23.38%) Finance
2 17 (22.08%) Social Skills
3 15 (19.48%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (16.88%) Pharmaceutical
5 10 (12.99%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (10.39%) Manufacturing
6 8 (10.39%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.90%) Law
7 3 (3.90%) Local Government
7 3 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.60%) Publishing
9 1 (1.30%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.30%) Banking
9 1 (1.30%) Electronics
9 1 (1.30%) Marketing
9 1 (1.30%) Retail
9 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.30%) NumPy
1 1 (1.30%) Pandas
1 1 (1.30%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.39%) Management Information System
2 6 (7.79%) Reference Data
3 5 (6.49%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.90%) NHS
5 2 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.30%) Life Science
6 1 (1.30%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.30%) Solar Power
6 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (35.06%) Data Governance
2 23 (29.87%) Migration
3 22 (28.57%) Data Management
4 21 (27.27%) Data Migration
5 18 (23.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (18.18%) Roadmaps
7 13 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (15.58%) Data Protection
8 12 (15.58%) Data Science
9 11 (14.29%) Analytics
9 11 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (14.29%) ETL
10 10 (12.99%) Data Strategy
11 9 (11.69%) Agile
11 9 (11.69%) Project Management
12 8 (10.39%) Data Analytics
12 8 (10.39%) Data Modelling
12 8 (10.39%) ERP
12 8 (10.39%) Master Data Management
13 7 (9.09%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (11.69%) SQL
2 1 (1.30%) Java
2 1 (1.30%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (11.69%) Degree
2 2 (2.60%) Master's Degree
2 2 (2.60%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (20.78%) Data Quality
2 12 (15.58%) GDPR
3 4 (5.19%) QA
4 1 (1.30%) GMP
4 1 (1.30%) PMO
Vendors
1 14 (18.18%) SAP
2 6 (7.79%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.19%) IFS
4 2 (2.60%) Facebook
4 2 (2.60%) Oracle
5 1 (1.30%) Databricks
5 1 (1.30%) IBM
5 1 (1.30%) Informatica
5 1 (1.30%) Salesforce