Data Manager Contracts in Edinburgh

Data Manager
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Data Manager daily rate in Edinburgh is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 June 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
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 70 98
Rank change year-on-year +11 +28 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Data Manager 8 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.26% 0.34% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.36% 0.36% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 7
10th Percentile £419 £373 £201
25th Percentile £428 £388 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £269
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +58.16% -53.27%
75th Percentile £466 £463 -
90th Percentile £471 £478 £361
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -25.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 588 825 1,130
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 94.83% 95.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 463 784
10th Percentile £244 £178 £225
25th Percentile £400 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.89% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £538
90th Percentile £624 £646 £600
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 64 10
10th Percentile - £15.45 £12.89
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.37 £17.71
Median hourly rate £22.00 £45.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -51.11% +153.95% -11.40%
75th Percentile £27.45 £60.75 £21.57
90th Percentile £50.06 £66.00 £44.75
Scotland median hourly rate £19.05 £19.50 £20.22
% change year-on-year -2.31% -3.56% -45.98%

Data Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Manager in Edinburgh

Data Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Data Manager in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 10 June 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 Edinburgh region featuring Data Manager in the job title.

1 4 (50.00%) IBM
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
2 3 (37.50%) Alation
2 3 (37.50%) SDLC
2 3 (37.50%) IBM InfoSphere
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Purview
2 3 (37.50%) Data Governance Strategy
2 3 (37.50%) Confluence
2 3 (37.50%) Data Governance
2 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) Informatica
2 3 (37.50%) Project Management
2 3 (37.50%) SharePoint
2 3 (37.50%) MS Visio
3 2 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (25.00%) Change Management
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (12.50%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
4 1 (12.50%) Power BI
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
4 1 (12.50%) GDPR
4 1 (12.50%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (12.50%) Value Proposition
4 1 (12.50%) Release Train

Data Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 3 (37.50%) Confluence
1 3 (37.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Alation
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) IBM InfoSphere
2 1 (12.50%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 1 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Data Governance
1 3 (37.50%) Data Governance Strategy
1 3 (37.50%) Project Management
1 3 (37.50%) SDLC
1 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (25.00%) Change Management
2 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Data Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Data Management
3 1 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (12.50%) Product Management
3 1 (12.50%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (12.50%) Use Case
3 1 (12.50%) Visualisation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) PERC
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) IBM
2 3 (37.50%) Informatica
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) StreamSets