Data Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500, 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 275 320 359
Rank change year-on-year +45 +39 +45
Contract jobs requiring a Data Manager 61 79 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.48% 0.38% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.41% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 47 80
10th Percentile £450 £408 £356
25th Percentile £483 £506 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £546 £644 £600
90th Percentile £663 £750 £664
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 1
Median hourly rate £29.00 £25.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -61.54% -
UK median hourly rate £29.90 £25.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +19.61% -61.54% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Manager in the UK excluding London

Data Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Manager in the UK excluding London

Data Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Manager in the UK excluding London

Data Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Manager in the UK excluding London

Data Manager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
South East +48 19 £500 -28.57% 49
Midlands +29 15 £519 -9.76% 22
South West +55 12 £500 -20.00% 18
West Midlands +18 11 £525 -15.32% 13
Scotland +12 7 £550 +15.79% 16
North of England +3 6 £513 -12.39% 28
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 - - 22
Wales +1 1 - - 1
North East 0 1 - - 1
Data Manager
UK

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

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 UK excluding London region featuring Data Manager in the job title.

1 25 (40.98%) Finance
2 20 (32.79%) Migration
3 18 (29.51%) Analytics
3 18 (29.51%) Social Skills
4 16 (26.23%) SQL
5 15 (24.59%) ETL
6 14 (22.95%) Data Governance
7 13 (21.31%) Project Management
7 13 (21.31%) Agile
8 12 (19.67%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (19.67%) Analytical Skills
9 11 (18.03%) Data Management
10 10 (16.39%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (16.39%) Visualisation
10 10 (16.39%) Data Visualisation
10 10 (16.39%) Data Centre
11 9 (14.75%) Marketing
11 9 (14.75%) JIRA
12 8 (13.11%) Banking
12 8 (13.11%) Retail
12 8 (13.11%) Azure
12 8 (13.11%) Security Cleared
13 7 (11.48%) Business Transformation
13 7 (11.48%) Relational Database
13 7 (11.48%) Digital Banking
13 7 (11.48%) Storytelling
13 7 (11.48%) Critical Thinking
13 7 (11.48%) Digital Strategy
13 7 (11.48%) Teradata
13 7 (11.48%) Telecoms

Data Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 7 (11.48%) Confluence
1 7 (11.48%) SAS
2 4 (6.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.92%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Eloqua
2 1 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (13.11%) Azure
2 7 (11.48%) Adobe Analytics
3 4 (6.56%) AWS
3 4 (6.56%) Snowflake
4 3 (4.92%) Alation
4 3 (4.92%) GCP
4 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (4.92%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.64%) Asana
6 1 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.64%) Azure Stack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (19.67%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (11.48%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.92%) Big Data
3 3 (4.92%) IBM InfoSphere
3 3 (4.92%) Power BI
4 2 (3.28%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.28%) Metadata
4 2 (3.28%) Tableau
5 1 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.64%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.64%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.64%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (1.64%) QlikView
5 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.64%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 9 (14.75%) JIRA
General
1 25 (40.98%) Finance
2 18 (29.51%) Social Skills
3 12 (19.67%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (14.75%) Marketing
5 8 (13.11%) Banking
5 8 (13.11%) Retail
6 7 (11.48%) Telecoms
7 5 (8.20%) Public Sector
8 3 (4.92%) Law
9 2 (3.28%) Advertising
9 2 (3.28%) Billing
9 2 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.64%) Legal
10 1 (1.64%) Local Government
10 1 (1.64%) Military
10 1 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.28%) XML
2 1 (1.64%) ADO
2 1 (1.64%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.39%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.92%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.28%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.64%) CMDB
4 1 (1.64%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.64%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.64%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (1.64%) Life Science
4 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.64%) PMI
4 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (32.79%) Migration
2 18 (29.51%) Analytics
3 15 (24.59%) ETL
4 14 (22.95%) Data Governance
5 13 (21.31%) Agile
5 13 (21.31%) Project Management
6 11 (18.03%) Data Management
7 10 (16.39%) Data Visualisation
7 10 (16.39%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (16.39%) Visualisation
8 7 (11.48%) Business Transformation
8 7 (11.48%) Critical Thinking
8 7 (11.48%) Data Analysis
8 7 (11.48%) Data Extraction
8 7 (11.48%) Digital Banking
8 7 (11.48%) Digital Strategy
8 7 (11.48%) Storytelling
8 7 (11.48%) Web Analytics
9 6 (9.84%) Data Migration
10 5 (8.20%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 16 (26.23%) SQL
2 7 (11.48%) R
3 2 (3.28%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.64%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (13.11%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.20%) Degree
2 5 (8.20%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.56%) PMI Certification
4 3 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.92%) PMP
5 2 (3.28%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.64%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.64%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.84%) QA
2 5 (8.20%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.92%) GDPR
4 2 (3.28%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.64%) ISO 14001
5 1 (1.64%) ISO 9001
5 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.64%) PERC
Vendors
1 7 (11.48%) Adobe
1 7 (11.48%) Splunk
1 7 (11.48%) Teradata
2 6 (9.84%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.20%) ServiceNow
4 4 (6.56%) Dynatrace
5 3 (4.92%) IBM
5 3 (4.92%) Informatica
5 3 (4.92%) Salesforce
6 2 (3.28%) Databricks
6 2 (3.28%) Google
7 1 (1.64%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.64%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.64%) JD Edwards
7 1 (1.64%) Pega
7 1 (1.64%) SAP