Data Manager Contracts in the City of London

Data Manager
Central London > City of London

The median Data Manager daily rate in the City of London is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 112 160
Rank change year-on-year +5 +48 +18
Contract jobs requiring a Data Manager 12 14 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.68% 0.64% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.67% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 9
10th Percentile £488 £475 £375
25th Percentile £513 £515 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -4.17% +17.07%
75th Percentile £639 £638 £644
90th Percentile £674 £773 £728
Central London median daily rate £538 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -8.51% -2.08% +17.07%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 City of London with a recognized job title 1,634 2,090 3,462
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.00% 95.13% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,025 1,486 2,357
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 22
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -6.04%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.97
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -28.57% -6.04%

Data Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Manager in the City of London

Data Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Manager in the City of London

Data Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Manager in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Manager in the City of London

Data Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Manager in the City of London

Data Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, 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 City of London region featuring Data Manager in the job title.

1 9 (75.00%) Data Governance
2 6 (50.00%) Analytics
2 6 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (50.00%) Data Management
3 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) JIRA
3 4 (33.33%) Project Management
3 4 (33.33%) Data Lake
3 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (25.00%) Power BI
4 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 3 (25.00%) Azure
4 3 (25.00%) Data Quality
4 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (25.00%) PMP
4 3 (25.00%) PMI Certification
5 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
5 2 (16.67%) SQL
5 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
5 2 (16.67%) Finance
5 2 (16.67%) Law
5 2 (16.67%) Legal
5 2 (16.67%) Data Analytics
5 2 (16.67%) Hadoop
5 2 (16.67%) Visualisation

Data Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 2 (16.67%) Apache Spark
1 2 (16.67%) Confluence
1 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (16.67%) Trello
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (8.33%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
1 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) SaaS
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (33.33%) Data Lake
3 3 (25.00%) Power BI
4 2 (16.67%) BigQuery
4 2 (16.67%) Hadoop
4 2 (16.67%) Looker
4 2 (16.67%) Tableau
5 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Law
3 2 (16.67%) Legal
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Data Governance
2 6 (50.00%) Analytics
2 6 (50.00%) Data Management
3 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (33.33%) Project Management
4 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (25.00%) Data Protection
5 2 (16.67%) Business Case
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) Data Analytics
5 2 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (16.67%) Master Data Management
5 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
5 2 (16.67%) Reference Data Management
5 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
5 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 2 (16.67%) Time Management
5 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
6 1 (8.33%) DataOps
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) PMI Certification
1 3 (25.00%) PMP
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Atlassian
2 1 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow