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 £531, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 August 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
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 106 151
Rank change year-on-year -8 +45 +35
Contract jobs requiring a Data Manager 11 11 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.59% 0.53% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.56% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 6
10th Percentile £338 £483 £531
25th Percentile £475 £514 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £591 £644
Median % change year-on-year -10.15% -8.19% +5.57%
75th Percentile £602 £722 £722
90th Percentile £764 £791 £794
Central London median daily rate £531 £591 £644
% change year-on-year -10.15% -8.19% +5.57%

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 1,749 1,963 3,074
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.73% 94.65% 94.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,153 1,304 2,109
10th Percentile £332 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.58%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £713
90th Percentile £775 £788 £820
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 14 11
10th Percentile £17.62 £15.87 £14.18
25th Percentile £24.21 £20.88 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.50 £27.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -28.95% -9.52%
75th Percentile £60.25 £89.06 £60.63
90th Percentile £84.11 £137.50 £83.75
Central London median hourly rate £28.79 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +6.61% -22.86% -15.66%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 5 (45.45%) Data Management
2 5 (45.45%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (45.45%) Data Governance
2 5 (45.45%) Analytics
3 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 4 (36.36%) Project Management
3 4 (36.36%) JIRA
4 3 (27.27%) Data Analysis
4 3 (27.27%) Data Quality
4 3 (27.27%) SQL
4 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) Migration
4 3 (27.27%) PMP
4 3 (27.27%) PMI Certification
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Data Lake
4 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (18.18%) Apache Spark
5 2 (18.18%) Master Data Management
5 2 (18.18%) BigQuery
5 2 (18.18%) Looker
5 2 (18.18%) Virtual Team Management
5 2 (18.18%) Virtual Team
5 2 (18.18%) Power BI
5 2 (18.18%) Reference Data Management
5 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
5 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (18.18%) Microsoft

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 (18.18%) Apache Spark
1 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (9.09%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (27.27%) Data Lake
3 2 (18.18%) BigQuery
3 2 (18.18%) Hadoop
3 2 (18.18%) Looker
3 2 (18.18%) Power BI
3 2 (18.18%) Tableau
4 1 (9.09%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) JIRA
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
4 1 (9.09%) Law
4 1 (9.09%) Legal
4 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Reference Data
1 2 (18.18%) Virtual Team
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Analytics
1 5 (45.45%) Data Governance
1 5 (45.45%) Data Management
2 4 (36.36%) Project Management
3 3 (27.27%) Agile
3 3 (27.27%) Data Analysis
3 3 (27.27%) Migration
3 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics
4 2 (18.18%) Data Cleansing
4 2 (18.18%) Data Migration
4 2 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (18.18%) Master Data Management
4 2 (18.18%) Reference Data Management
4 2 (18.18%) Virtual Team Management
4 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
5 1 (9.09%) BCP
5 1 (9.09%) Change Management
5 1 (9.09%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) PMI Certification
1 3 (27.27%) PMP
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Atlassian
2 1 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow