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 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 317 336
Rank change year-on-year +32 +19 +72
Contract jobs requiring a Data Manager 55 75 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.43% 0.36% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.39% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 41 82
10th Percentile £423 £400 £318
25th Percentile £463 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £625 £600
90th Percentile £575 £750 £659
UK median daily rate £525 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -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% +62.50%

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 11,849 19,126 21,496
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.69% 92.40% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,534 11,597 14,946
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £504 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.05% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 2,384 1,087
10th Percentile £13.76 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.75 £18.02
Median hourly rate £25.30 £40.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.75% -6.98% +115.00%
75th Percentile £62.24 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.33% -16.67% +87.50%

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 30 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 30 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
Midlands +26 16 £513 -2.32% 88
South West +53 12 £500 -20.00% 46
West Midlands +22 12 £525 -14.29% 49
South East +54 11 £500 -23.08% 178
Scotland +8 9 £475 - 23
North of England -7 7 £488 -16.67% 111
Yorkshire +19 4 £513 -14.58% 47
East Midlands +13 4 £475 +33.80% 32
North West -8 3 £450 -23.08% 55
East of England +16 1 £488 +8.33% 52
Wales - 1 - - 11
Data Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 22 (40.00%) Finance
2 18 (32.73%) Migration
2 18 (32.73%) SQL
3 17 (30.91%) Social Skills
4 15 (27.27%) Analytics
5 14 (25.45%) Project Management
6 13 (23.64%) ETL
7 12 (21.82%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (21.82%) Agile
8 11 (20.00%) Visualisation
8 11 (20.00%) Data Governance
8 11 (20.00%) Data Centre
9 10 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
9 10 (18.18%) JIRA
10 9 (16.36%) Data Management
10 9 (16.36%) Marketing
10 9 (16.36%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (14.55%) Banking
12 7 (12.73%) Business Transformation
12 7 (12.73%) Relational Database
12 7 (12.73%) Storytelling
12 7 (12.73%) Critical Thinking
12 7 (12.73%) Digital Banking
12 7 (12.73%) Digital Strategy
12 7 (12.73%) Teradata
12 7 (12.73%) Change Management
12 7 (12.73%) SAS
12 7 (12.73%) Adobe
12 7 (12.73%) Web Analytics
12 7 (12.73%) Adobe Analytics

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 (12.73%) Confluence
1 7 (12.73%) SAS
2 3 (5.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (5.45%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Eloqua
2 1 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (12.73%) Adobe Analytics
2 6 (10.91%) Azure
3 3 (5.45%) Alation
3 3 (5.45%) AWS
3 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Purview
3 3 (5.45%) Power Platform
3 3 (5.45%) Snowflake
4 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.82%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (1.82%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.82%) Asana
5 1 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.82%) Azure Stack
5 1 (1.82%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.82%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.82%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (12.73%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.45%) Big Data
3 3 (5.45%) IBM InfoSphere
3 3 (5.45%) Power BI
4 2 (3.64%) Metadata
4 2 (3.64%) Tableau
5 1 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.82%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.82%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.82%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.82%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.82%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (1.82%) QlikView
5 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.82%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 10 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 22 (40.00%) Finance
2 17 (30.91%) Social Skills
3 9 (16.36%) Marketing
4 8 (14.55%) Banking
5 4 (7.27%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.45%) Law
7 2 (3.64%) Advertising
7 2 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.82%) Billing
8 1 (1.82%) Legal
8 1 (1.82%) Local Government
8 1 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.82%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.64%) XML
2 1 (1.82%) ADO
2 1 (1.82%) Kafka
2 1 (1.82%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.45%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.82%) CMDB
3 1 (1.82%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.82%) EPoS
3 1 (1.82%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (1.82%) Freedom of Information Act
3 1 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.82%) Life Science
3 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.82%) PMI
3 1 (1.82%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.82%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.73%) Migration
2 15 (27.27%) Analytics
3 14 (25.45%) Project Management
4 13 (23.64%) ETL
5 12 (21.82%) Agile
6 11 (20.00%) Data Governance
6 11 (20.00%) Visualisation
7 10 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
8 9 (16.36%) Data Management
8 9 (16.36%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (12.73%) Business Transformation
9 7 (12.73%) Change Management
9 7 (12.73%) Critical Thinking
9 7 (12.73%) Data Extraction
9 7 (12.73%) Digital Banking
9 7 (12.73%) Digital Strategy
9 7 (12.73%) Storytelling
9 7 (12.73%) Web Analytics
10 6 (10.91%) Data Migration
11 5 (9.09%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 18 (32.73%) SQL
2 7 (12.73%) R
3 2 (3.64%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.82%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (12.73%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.09%) Degree
3 4 (7.27%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.64%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.82%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.82%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.82%) PMP
5 1 (1.82%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.45%) GDPR
2 3 (5.45%) QA
3 2 (3.64%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.82%) ISO 14001
4 1 (1.82%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.82%) PERC
4 1 (1.82%) PMO
Vendors
1 7 (12.73%) Adobe
1 7 (12.73%) Teradata
2 6 (10.91%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.09%) ServiceNow
4 4 (7.27%) IBM
5 3 (5.45%) Informatica
5 3 (5.45%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.82%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.82%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.82%) SAP
6 1 (1.82%) StreamSets