Data Manager Contracts

Data Manager
UK

The median Data Manager daily rate in the UK 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 402 479 581
Rank change year-on-year +77 +102 -99
Contract jobs requiring a Data Manager 199 248 275
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.41% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.44% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 172 207
10th Percentile £356 £410 £325
25th Percentile £499 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.23% -2.50% +4.76%
75th Percentile £670 £650 £638
90th Percentile £775 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +9.76% -2.38% +5.00%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year -61.54% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

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

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Manager in the UK

Data Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Manager in the UK

Data Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Manager in the UK

Data Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Data Manager in the UK

Data Manager
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 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
England +94 178 £575 +4.55% 142
London +88 104 £575 -4.17% 82
UK excluding London +43 80 £563 +9.76% 67
Work from Home +84 52 £600 +12.94% 55
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
Scotland +14 8 £475 +5.56% 6
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
Wales +16 1 £625 +47.06%
East Midlands +14 1 £355 -30.39% 3

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

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 featuring Data Manager in the job title.

1 60 (30.15%) Data Governance
2 57 (28.64%) Data Management
3 51 (25.63%) Social Skills
4 50 (25.13%) Finance
5 49 (24.62%) Stakeholder Management
6 48 (24.12%) Migration
7 47 (23.62%) Data Quality
8 43 (21.61%) Analytics
9 42 (21.11%) Data Migration
10 36 (18.09%) Agile
10 36 (18.09%) Project Management
10 36 (18.09%) Business Intelligence
11 31 (15.58%) SQL
12 29 (14.57%) Analytical Skills
13 28 (14.07%) Power BI
13 28 (14.07%) Power Platform
14 27 (13.57%) SAP
15 26 (13.07%) Data Analytics
16 23 (11.56%) Problem-Solving
16 23 (11.56%) Roadmaps
17 22 (11.06%) Data Strategy
17 22 (11.06%) Azure
18 21 (10.55%) Data Protection
18 21 (10.55%) Data Modelling
19 20 (10.05%) Microsoft Excel
20 19 (9.55%) Data Warehouse
20 19 (9.55%) Degree
20 19 (9.55%) Data Science
20 19 (9.55%) Decision-Making
21 18 (9.05%) GDPR

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 6 (3.02%) SAS
2 5 (2.51%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.51%) Confluence
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.50%) CMS
4 1 (0.50%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 20 (10.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (5.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (4.02%) MS Visio
4 7 (3.52%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (3.52%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (2.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (3.52%) SAP MDG
1 7 (3.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.51%) Primavera
2 3 (1.51%) SAP CO
2 3 (1.51%) SAP FI
2 3 (1.51%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.50%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 1 (0.50%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.50%) SAP MDM
3 1 (0.50%) SAP R/3
3 1 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 28 (14.07%) Power Platform
2 22 (11.06%) Azure
3 10 (5.03%) AWS
4 6 (3.02%) GCP
5 3 (1.51%) Collibra
5 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (1.51%) Power Automate
5 3 (1.51%) PowerApps
5 3 (1.51%) Veeva
6 2 (1.01%) Alation
6 2 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.01%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.01%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.01%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.50%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.50%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.50%) IaaS
7 1 (0.50%) PaaS
7 1 (0.50%) SaaS
7 1 (0.50%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (14.07%) Power BI
2 19 (9.55%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (6.03%) Metadata
4 11 (5.53%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.51%) Big Data
5 5 (2.51%) QlikView
6 4 (2.01%) Tableau
7 3 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.51%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (1.01%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.01%) SAS Data Integration Studio
8 2 (1.01%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.01%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.50%) Looker
9 1 (0.50%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (0.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (3.02%) JIRA
2 1 (0.50%) LSMW
2 1 (0.50%) MLflow
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
General
1 51 (25.63%) Social Skills
2 50 (25.13%) Finance
3 29 (14.57%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.54%) Pharmaceutical
5 15 (7.54%) Influencing Skills
6 13 (6.53%) Manufacturing
7 11 (5.53%) Public Sector
8 10 (5.03%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (3.52%) Legal
10 6 (3.02%) Marketing
10 6 (3.02%) Retail
11 5 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (2.51%) Law
11 5 (2.51%) Local Government
12 4 (2.01%) Publishing
13 2 (1.01%) Back Office
13 2 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.50%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.50%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.50%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.50%) JSON
1 1 (0.50%) NumPy
1 1 (0.50%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (0.50%) Pandas
1 1 (0.50%) PySpark
1 1 (0.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.52%) NHS
1 9 (4.52%) Product Ownership
2 7 (3.52%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.02%) Reference Data
4 4 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.51%) FMCG
5 3 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.01%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.01%) Housing Association
6 2 (1.01%) Life Science
6 2 (1.01%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.01%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.01%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.01%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.50%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.50%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.50%) Solar Power
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (30.15%) Data Governance
2 57 (28.64%) Data Management
3 49 (24.62%) Stakeholder Management
4 48 (24.12%) Migration
5 43 (21.61%) Analytics
6 42 (21.11%) Data Migration
7 36 (18.09%) Agile
7 36 (18.09%) Business Intelligence
7 36 (18.09%) Project Management
8 26 (13.07%) Data Analytics
9 23 (11.56%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (11.56%) Roadmaps
10 22 (11.06%) Data Strategy
11 21 (10.55%) Data Modelling
11 21 (10.55%) Data Protection
12 19 (9.55%) Data Science
12 19 (9.55%) Decision-Making
13 16 (8.04%) ETL
14 15 (7.54%) Validation
15 14 (7.04%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 31 (15.58%) SQL
2 8 (4.02%) Python
2 8 (4.02%) R
3 3 (1.51%) C#
3 3 (1.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (1.51%) PL/SQL
3 3 (1.51%) VB
4 1 (0.50%) Java
4 1 (0.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (9.55%) Degree
2 4 (2.01%) SC Cleared
2 4 (2.01%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.51%) CIMA
4 2 (1.01%) CCNA
4 2 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.01%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.01%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.01%) PhD
4 2 (1.01%) PMP
5 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.50%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (23.62%) Data Quality
2 18 (9.05%) GDPR
3 9 (4.52%) QA
4 5 (2.51%) PMO
5 4 (2.01%) GxP
6 3 (1.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (1.51%) CDISC
6 3 (1.51%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.50%) SLA
Vendors
1 27 (13.57%) SAP
2 14 (7.04%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.52%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.01%) IFS
4 4 (2.01%) Informatica
4 4 (2.01%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.51%) Databricks
5 3 (1.51%) Marketo
5 3 (1.51%) Oracle
5 3 (1.51%) Pardot
6 2 (1.01%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.01%) BT
6 2 (1.01%) Cadence
6 2 (1.01%) Cisco
6 2 (1.01%) Facebook
6 2 (1.01%) IBM
6 2 (1.01%) Radianz
6 2 (1.01%) Reuters
6 2 (1.01%) Symantec
6 2 (1.01%) Talend
158 Data Manager jobs Nationwide