Data Manager Contracts in England

Data Manager
UK > England

The median Data Manager daily rate in England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 369 443
Rank change year-on-year -6 +74 +125
Contract jobs requiring a Data Manager 110 175 215
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.45% 0.47% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.51% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 120 154
10th Percentile £436 £350 £413
25th Percentile £475 £497 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £545
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +5.50% -0.91%
75th Percentile £653 £668 £650
90th Percentile £748 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 1
10th Percentile £28.29 - -
25th Percentile £28.41 - -
Median hourly rate £29.90 £25.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.61% -61.54% -
75th Percentile £32.30 £36.00 -
90th Percentile £32.96 £40.30 -
UK median hourly rate £29.90 £25.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +19.61% -61.54% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Data Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Manager in England

Data Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Manager in England

Data Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Manager in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Manager in England

Data Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Manager in England

Data Manager
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London -9 55 £550 -4.35% 101
South East +48 19 £500 -28.57% 49
Midlands +29 15 £519 -9.76% 22
South West +55 12 £500 -20.00% 19
West Midlands +18 11 £525 -15.32% 13
North of England +3 6 £513 -12.39% 27
East Midlands +13 4 £475 +33.80% 6
Yorkshire +7 4 £513 -14.58% 5
East of England +10 1 £488 -2.50% 4
North West +2 1 - - 21
North East 0 1 - - 1
Data Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 England region featuring Data Manager in the job title.

1 46 (41.82%) Analytics
2 40 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 37 (33.64%) SQL
4 31 (28.18%) ETL
5 29 (26.36%) Data Governance
6 28 (25.45%) Finance
7 26 (23.64%) Agile
8 24 (21.82%) Data Management
8 24 (21.82%) Migration
9 23 (20.91%) Stakeholder Management
9 23 (20.91%) Project Management
9 23 (20.91%) Data Warehouse
10 21 (19.09%) Analytical Skills
11 19 (17.27%) Data Analytics
11 19 (17.27%) Power Platform
12 15 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (12.73%) Visualisation
13 14 (12.73%) Azure
14 13 (11.82%) Data Visualisation
14 13 (11.82%) Data Centre
14 13 (11.82%) JIRA
15 12 (10.91%) Business Intelligence
15 12 (10.91%) Continuous Improvement
15 12 (10.91%) PowerApps
16 11 (10.00%) Data Quality
16 11 (10.00%) Data Protection
16 11 (10.00%) Retail
17 10 (9.09%) Data Analysis
17 10 (9.09%) Risk Management
17 10 (9.09%) Data Mapping

Data Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 8 (7.27%) Confluence
2 7 (6.36%) SAS
3 4 (3.64%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.82%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.82%) Trello
4 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.91%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (17.27%) Power Platform
2 14 (12.73%) Azure
3 12 (10.91%) PowerApps
4 9 (8.18%) AWS
5 7 (6.36%) Adobe Analytics
5 7 (6.36%) GCP
5 7 (6.36%) Snowflake
6 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.82%) SaaS
8 1 (0.91%) Asana
8 1 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.91%) Azure Stack
8 1 (0.91%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.91%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.91%) Intranet
1 1 (0.91%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (20.91%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (8.18%) Relational Database
3 8 (7.27%) Data Lake
3 8 (7.27%) Power BI
4 5 (4.55%) Tableau
5 4 (3.64%) Big Data
6 3 (2.73%) BigQuery
6 3 (2.73%) Metadata
6 3 (2.73%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.82%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.82%) Looker
7 2 (1.82%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.91%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (0.91%) QlikView
8 1 (0.91%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.91%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 13 (11.82%) JIRA
2 1 (0.91%) ER Studio
2 1 (0.91%) ERwin
General
1 40 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 28 (25.45%) Finance
3 21 (19.09%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.00%) Retail
5 9 (8.18%) Banking
5 9 (8.18%) Marketing
6 7 (6.36%) Telecoms
7 6 (5.45%) Public Sector
8 5 (4.55%) Law
9 3 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.73%) Legal
10 2 (1.82%) Advertising
10 2 (1.82%) Billing
10 2 (1.82%) Local Government
10 2 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.91%) Back Office
11 1 (0.91%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.91%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.91%) Military
11 1 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.82%) XML
2 1 (0.91%) ADO
2 1 (0.91%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.82%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (2.73%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.82%) FMCG
4 2 (1.82%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.82%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.82%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.82%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.91%) CMDB
5 1 (0.91%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.91%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (0.91%) Life Science
5 1 (0.91%) Market Risk
5 1 (0.91%) NHS
5 1 (0.91%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (41.82%) Analytics
2 31 (28.18%) ETL
3 29 (26.36%) Data Governance
4 26 (23.64%) Agile
5 24 (21.82%) Data Management
5 24 (21.82%) Migration
6 23 (20.91%) Project Management
6 23 (20.91%) Stakeholder Management
7 19 (17.27%) Data Analytics
8 15 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (12.73%) Visualisation
10 13 (11.82%) Data Visualisation
11 12 (10.91%) Business Intelligence
11 12 (10.91%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (10.00%) Data Protection
13 10 (9.09%) Data Analysis
13 10 (9.09%) Data Mapping
13 10 (9.09%) Risk Management
14 9 (8.18%) Project Delivery
14 9 (8.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 37 (33.64%) SQL
2 10 (9.09%) R
3 7 (6.36%) Python
4 2 (1.82%) Java
4 2 (1.82%) PL/SQL
4 2 (1.82%) Scala
5 1 (0.91%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.91%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (8.18%) Degree
2 8 (7.27%) PMI Certification
3 7 (6.36%) PMP
3 7 (6.36%) Security Cleared
4 5 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.55%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.82%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.82%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.91%) CSPO
6 1 (0.91%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.91%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 9 (8.18%) QA
3 6 (5.45%) GDPR
4 2 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.82%) PERC
5 1 (0.91%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.91%) ISO 14001
5 1 (0.91%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.91%) NIST
5 1 (0.91%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (0.91%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (6.36%) Adobe
1 7 (6.36%) Microsoft
1 7 (6.36%) Splunk
1 7 (6.36%) Teradata
2 6 (5.45%) ServiceNow
3 5 (4.55%) Google
4 4 (3.64%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.73%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.73%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.82%) Databricks
7 1 (0.91%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.91%) JD Edwards
7 1 (0.91%) Pega
7 1 (0.91%) SAP