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 £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 353 420
Rank change year-on-year +41 +67 -51
Contract jobs requiring a Data Manager 79 104 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.44% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.46% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 79 78
10th Percentile £408 £350 £325
25th Percentile £506 £450 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -4.31% +4.50%
75th Percentile £644 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £668 £691
UK median daily rate £575 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -61.54% - -
75th Percentile £29.25 - -
90th Percentile £43.10 - -
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year -61.54% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 19,029 22,515 29,590
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.22% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,619 15,794 20,727
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,162 1,474
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.81 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

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 4 May 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 4 May 2024. 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
North of England +29 22 £585 +9.35% 17
East of England +21 21 £500 +5.26% 9
South East +2 17 £700 +40.00% 23
North West +24 16 £568 +8.10% 11
Midlands +25 8 £575 - 11
Scotland +21 8 £475 +5.56% 13
West Midlands +25 7 £620 +7.83% 7
Yorkshire +19 5 £600 +9.09% 6
South West +16 3 £625 -4.40% 12
East Midlands +19 1 £355 -30.39% 4
North East +19 1 £625 +38.89%
Wales +15 1 £625 +47.06%
Data Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, 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 31 (39.24%) Data Management
2 28 (35.44%) Migration
2 28 (35.44%) Data Governance
3 26 (32.91%) Data Migration
4 25 (31.65%) Social Skills
5 23 (29.11%) Data Quality
5 23 (29.11%) Finance
6 22 (27.85%) Stakeholder Management
7 17 (21.52%) SAP
7 17 (21.52%) Analytical Skills
8 15 (18.99%) Data Strategy
8 15 (18.99%) Project Management
9 14 (17.72%) Pharmaceutical
9 14 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (16.46%) Microsoft Excel
10 13 (16.46%) Business Intelligence
10 13 (16.46%) Analytics
11 12 (15.19%) Degree
11 12 (15.19%) Data Warehouse
11 12 (15.19%) Data Science
11 12 (15.19%) Roadmaps
12 11 (13.92%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (13.92%) GDPR
12 11 (13.92%) ETL
12 11 (13.92%) Agile
12 11 (13.92%) Data Protection
12 11 (13.92%) Master Data Management
13 10 (12.66%) Power BI
13 10 (12.66%) Power Platform
14 9 (11.39%) Decision-Making

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 3 (3.80%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (16.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (8.86%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (8.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (7.59%) MS Visio
4 5 (6.33%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (7.59%) SAP MDG
2 4 (5.06%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (3.80%) SAP CO
3 3 (3.80%) SAP FI
3 3 (3.80%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (1.27%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.27%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.66%) Power Platform
2 4 (5.06%) Azure
3 2 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.27%) Oracle CX
4 1 (1.27%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.19%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (12.66%) Power BI
3 8 (10.13%) Metadata
4 5 (6.33%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.80%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (2.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.27%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (2.53%) JIRA
2 1 (1.27%) MLflow
General
1 25 (31.65%) Social Skills
2 23 (29.11%) Finance
3 17 (21.52%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (17.72%) Pharmaceutical
5 11 (13.92%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (10.13%) Manufacturing
7 7 (8.86%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.80%) Law
8 3 (3.80%) Local Government
8 3 (3.80%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.53%) Publishing
10 1 (1.27%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.27%) Banking
10 1 (1.27%) Electronics
10 1 (1.27%) Legal
10 1 (1.27%) Marketing
10 1 (1.27%) Retail
10 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.27%) NumPy
1 1 (1.27%) Pandas
1 1 (1.27%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.86%) Management Information System
2 6 (7.59%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.33%) Reference Data
4 3 (3.80%) NHS
5 1 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.27%) Life Science
5 1 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.27%) Solar Power
5 1 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (39.24%) Data Management
2 28 (35.44%) Data Governance
2 28 (35.44%) Migration
3 26 (32.91%) Data Migration
4 22 (27.85%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (18.99%) Data Strategy
5 15 (18.99%) Project Management
6 14 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (16.46%) Analytics
7 13 (16.46%) Business Intelligence
8 12 (15.19%) Data Science
8 12 (15.19%) Roadmaps
9 11 (13.92%) Agile
9 11 (13.92%) Data Protection
9 11 (13.92%) ETL
9 11 (13.92%) Master Data Management
10 9 (11.39%) Data Analytics
10 9 (11.39%) Decision-Making
11 8 (10.13%) ERP
12 7 (8.86%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.13%) SQL
2 1 (1.27%) Java
2 1 (1.27%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (15.19%) Degree
2 2 (2.53%) Master's Degree
2 2 (2.53%) PhD
3 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.27%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (29.11%) Data Quality
2 11 (13.92%) GDPR
3 5 (6.33%) QA
4 1 (1.27%) PMO
Vendors
1 17 (21.52%) SAP
2 6 (7.59%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.06%) IFS
4 2 (2.53%) Facebook
5 1 (1.27%) Cadence
5 1 (1.27%) Databricks
5 1 (1.27%) Informatica
5 1 (1.27%) Oracle
5 1 (1.27%) Salesforce