Data Manager Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Data Manager
England > East of England

The median Data Manager daily rate in the East of England is £800, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 82 105
Rank change year-on-year -19 +23 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Data Manager 3 4 14
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.20% 0.31% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.35% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 11
10th Percentile - £580 £463
25th Percentile £775 £606 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +30.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £825 £694 £613
90th Percentile - £720 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £605
% change year-on-year - -13.22% +7.56%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 East of England with a recognized job title 1,325 1,145 1,662
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.69% 89.95% 90.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 580 491 974
10th Percentile £185 £220 £192
25th Percentile £339 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £476
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.51% -2.31%
75th Percentile £581 £575 £590
90th Percentile £688 £650 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 196 289
10th Percentile £13.52 £15.63 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.02 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.65 £47.50 £41.80
Median % change year-on-year -35.47% +13.64% +111.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £80.87
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -13.04% +53.33%

Data Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Data Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Data Manager job vacancy trend in the East of England

Data Manager
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Manager job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Manager job vacancies in the East of England

Data Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Manager job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Manager job vacancies in the East of England

Data Manager
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 19 November 2025. 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
Cambridgeshire -7 1 - - 2
Essex - 1 - -
Hertfordshire - 1 £800 - 2
Data Manager
England

Data Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 19 November 2025, Data Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East of England region featuring Data Manager in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
1 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Collection
2 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Data Mapping
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Fault Management
2 1 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) IFRS
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) LLM
2 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Management

Data Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) FMCG
1 1 (33.33%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
1 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Collection
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) LLM
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
2 1 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) IFRS
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
1 1 (33.33%) QA