Data Manager Contracts in London

Data Manager
England > London

The median Data Manager daily rate in London is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 302 380
Rank change year-on-year +14 +78 +121
Contract jobs requiring a Data Manager 53 103 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.42% 0.58% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.62% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 77 76
10th Percentile £457 £279 £414
25th Percentile £475 £483 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -4.17% +6.19%
75th Percentile £691 £675 £691
90th Percentile £813 £780 £744
England median daily rate £525 £575 £548
% change year-on-year -8.70% +5.02% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £28.21 £32.00 -
Median hourly rate £30.81 £34.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.40% - -
75th Percentile £33.40 £36.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £29.90 £25.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +19.61% -61.54% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 11,646 16,502 25,012
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.37% 93.32% 95.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,985 11,934 18,143
10th Percentile £343 £325 £363
25th Percentile £428 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £676 £683 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 328 281
10th Percentile £20.33 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.02 £22.75
Median hourly rate £34.65 £27.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -23.61% +2.86%
75th Percentile £50.75 £45.18 £62.68
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.01 £80.00
England median hourly rate £30.32 £37.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -18.45% -17.38% +99.60%

Data Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Manager in London

Data Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Manager in London

Data Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Manager in London over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Manager in London

Data Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Manager in London

Data Manager
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Central London +2 12 £538 -6.52% 12
Data Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 London region featuring Data Manager in the job title.

1 27 (50.94%) Analytics
2 21 (39.62%) Social Skills
3 19 (35.85%) SQL
4 18 (33.96%) Power Platform
5 17 (32.08%) Data Governance
6 16 (30.19%) Data Analytics
7 15 (28.30%) ETL
8 13 (24.53%) Project Management
8 13 (24.53%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (22.64%) PowerApps
10 11 (20.75%) Agile
10 11 (20.75%) Data Management
11 10 (18.87%) Data Mapping
11 10 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (16.98%) Analytical Skills
12 9 (16.98%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (15.09%) Business Intelligence
13 8 (15.09%) Finance
13 8 (15.09%) Data Protection
14 7 (13.21%) JIRA
14 7 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
14 7 (13.21%) Azure
14 7 (13.21%) Power BI
15 6 (11.32%) Project Delivery
15 6 (11.32%) Data Lake
15 6 (11.32%) Python
16 5 (9.43%) Risk Management
16 5 (9.43%) Data Modelling
16 5 (9.43%) Migration
16 5 (9.43%) Data Quality

Data Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 4 (7.55%) Confluence
2 3 (5.66%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.77%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (3.77%) Trello
3 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.89%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.89%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 18 (33.96%) Power Platform
2 12 (22.64%) PowerApps
3 7 (13.21%) Azure
4 5 (9.43%) AWS
5 4 (7.55%) GCP
5 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (5.66%) Snowflake
7 2 (3.77%) SaaS
8 1 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.89%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) Intranet
1 1 (1.89%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.98%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (13.21%) Power BI
3 6 (11.32%) Data Lake
4 3 (5.66%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.66%) Tableau
5 2 (3.77%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.77%) Hadoop
5 2 (3.77%) Looker
5 2 (3.77%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.89%) Big Data
6 1 (1.89%) Metadata
6 1 (1.89%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (13.21%) JIRA
2 1 (1.89%) ER Studio
2 1 (1.89%) ERwin
General
1 21 (39.62%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.98%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (15.09%) Finance
4 3 (5.66%) Retail
5 2 (3.77%) Banking
5 2 (3.77%) Law
5 2 (3.77%) Legal
5 2 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Back Office
6 1 (1.89%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.89%) Local Government
6 1 (1.89%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.55%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.66%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.77%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.77%) FMCG
3 2 (3.77%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.77%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.77%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.89%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (50.94%) Analytics
2 17 (32.08%) Data Governance
3 16 (30.19%) Data Analytics
4 15 (28.30%) ETL
5 13 (24.53%) Project Management
5 13 (24.53%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (20.75%) Agile
6 11 (20.75%) Data Management
7 10 (18.87%) Data Mapping
7 10 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (15.09%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (15.09%) Data Protection
9 7 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (11.32%) Project Delivery
11 5 (9.43%) Data Engineering
11 5 (9.43%) Data Modelling
11 5 (9.43%) Data Science
11 5 (9.43%) Decision-Making
11 5 (9.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 5 (9.43%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 19 (35.85%) SQL
2 6 (11.32%) Python
3 3 (5.66%) R
4 2 (3.77%) Java
4 2 (3.77%) Scala
5 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (7.55%) Degree
1 4 (7.55%) PMI Certification
1 4 (7.55%) PMP
2 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.89%) CSPO
3 1 (1.89%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.43%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.55%) GDPR
3 3 (5.66%) QA
4 2 (3.77%) PERC
5 1 (1.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.89%) NIST
5 1 (1.89%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (1.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (7.55%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.66%) Google
3 2 (3.77%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow