Data Manager Contracts

Data Manager
UK

The median Data Manager daily rate in the UK is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 398 403 471
Rank change year-on-year +5 +68 +114
Contract jobs requiring a Data Manager 124 195 247
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.45% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.48% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 127 171
10th Percentile £446 £356 £410
25th Percentile £475 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £653 £681 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -4.76%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £29.00 £25.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +16.00% -61.54% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,138 40,367 56,304
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,714 26,265 39,350
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,034 2,668 1,565
10th Percentile £14.06 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.40
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.50 £42.43
% change year-on-year -29.11% -6.91% +117.60%

Data Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Manager in the UK

Data Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Manager in the UK

Data Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Manager over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Manager in the UK

Data Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Manager in the UK

Data Manager
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 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
England -9 110 £525 -8.70% 226
UK excluding London +42 61 £500 -13.04% 154
London -4 55 £550 -4.35% 113
Work from Home +42 47 £538 -10.42% 116
South East +48 19 £500 -28.57% 58
Midlands +26 15 £519 -9.76% 28
South West +52 12 £500 -20.00% 20
West Midlands +19 11 £525 -15.32% 14
Scotland +12 7 £550 +15.79% 15
North of England +7 6 £513 -12.39% 31
East Midlands +17 4 £475 +33.80% 11
Yorkshire +6 4 £513 -14.58% 4
East of England +9 1 £488 -2.50% 4
Wales +4 1 - - 2
North West -1 1 - - 26
North East -2 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 featuring Data Manager in the job title.

1 48 (38.71%) Analytics
2 43 (34.68%) Social Skills
3 38 (30.65%) SQL
4 36 (29.03%) Data Governance
5 35 (28.23%) Finance
6 32 (25.81%) ETL
7 28 (22.58%) Project Management
8 27 (21.77%) Stakeholder Management
8 27 (21.77%) Data Management
9 26 (20.97%) Migration
9 26 (20.97%) Agile
10 25 (20.16%) Data Warehouse
11 22 (17.74%) Analytical Skills
12 21 (16.94%) Power Platform
13 20 (16.13%) Data Analytics
14 17 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (13.71%) Azure
15 16 (12.90%) Visualisation
15 16 (12.90%) Business Intelligence
15 16 (12.90%) JIRA
16 15 (12.10%) Data Visualisation
16 15 (12.10%) Data Centre
17 14 (11.29%) Data Quality
17 14 (11.29%) Data Protection
18 12 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
18 12 (9.68%) Risk Management
18 12 (9.68%) Data Strategy
18 12 (9.68%) PowerApps
19 11 (8.87%) Retail
19 11 (8.87%) Data Analysis

Data Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 11 (8.87%) Confluence
2 7 (5.65%) SAS
2 7 (5.65%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.61%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
1 4 (3.23%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.61%) Trello
4 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.81%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (16.94%) Power Platform
2 17 (13.71%) Azure
3 12 (9.68%) PowerApps
4 11 (8.87%) AWS
5 8 (6.45%) GCP
6 7 (5.65%) Adobe Analytics
6 7 (5.65%) Microsoft Purview
6 7 (5.65%) Snowflake
7 3 (2.42%) Alation
8 2 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.61%) SaaS
9 1 (0.81%) Asana
9 1 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.81%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.81%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.81%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.81%) Intranet
1 1 (0.81%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (20.16%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (8.06%) Power BI
3 9 (7.26%) Relational Database
4 8 (6.45%) Data Lake
5 5 (4.03%) Big Data
5 5 (4.03%) Tableau
6 4 (3.23%) Metadata
7 3 (2.42%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.42%) IBM InfoSphere
7 3 (2.42%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.61%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.61%) Looker
8 2 (1.61%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.81%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.81%) Oracle BI EE
9 1 (0.81%) QlikView
9 1 (0.81%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.81%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 16 (12.90%) JIRA
2 1 (0.81%) ER Studio
2 1 (0.81%) ERwin
General
1 43 (34.68%) Social Skills
2 35 (28.23%) Finance
3 22 (17.74%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.87%) Retail
5 10 (8.06%) Banking
6 9 (7.26%) Marketing
7 8 (6.45%) Public Sector
8 7 (5.65%) Telecoms
9 5 (4.03%) Law
10 3 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.42%) Legal
10 3 (2.42%) Local Government
10 3 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.61%) Advertising
11 2 (1.61%) Billing
11 2 (1.61%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.81%) Back Office
12 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.81%) German Language
12 1 (0.81%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.61%) XML
2 1 (0.81%) ADO
2 1 (0.81%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.10%) Data Centre
2 6 (4.84%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (3.23%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.42%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.42%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.61%) FMCG
5 2 (1.61%) Life Science
5 2 (1.61%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.61%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.61%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.81%) CMDB
6 1 (0.81%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.81%) Freedom of Information Act
6 1 (0.81%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.81%) NHS
6 1 (0.81%) PMI
6 1 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.81%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (38.71%) Analytics
2 36 (29.03%) Data Governance
3 32 (25.81%) ETL
4 28 (22.58%) Project Management
5 27 (21.77%) Data Management
5 27 (21.77%) Stakeholder Management
6 26 (20.97%) Agile
6 26 (20.97%) Migration
7 20 (16.13%) Data Analytics
8 17 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (12.90%) Business Intelligence
9 16 (12.90%) Visualisation
10 15 (12.10%) Data Visualisation
11 14 (11.29%) Data Protection
12 12 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (9.68%) Data Strategy
12 12 (9.68%) Risk Management
13 11 (8.87%) Data Analysis
13 11 (8.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 10 (8.06%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 38 (30.65%) SQL
2 10 (8.06%) R
3 7 (5.65%) Python
4 2 (1.61%) Java
4 2 (1.61%) PL/SQL
4 2 (1.61%) Scala
5 1 (0.81%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (8.87%) Degree
2 9 (7.26%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.45%) PMI Certification
4 7 (5.65%) PMP
5 6 (4.84%) SC Cleared
6 5 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.61%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.61%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.81%) CSPO
8 1 (0.81%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.29%) Data Quality
2 9 (7.26%) QA
3 8 (6.45%) GDPR
4 4 (3.23%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.42%) PERC
6 2 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.81%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.81%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.81%) NIST
7 1 (0.81%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (0.81%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (8.87%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.65%) Adobe
2 7 (5.65%) Splunk
2 7 (5.65%) Teradata
3 6 (4.84%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.03%) Google
5 4 (3.23%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.42%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.42%) Databricks
6 3 (2.42%) IBM
6 3 (2.42%) Informatica
6 3 (2.42%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.81%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.81%) JD Edwards
7 1 (0.81%) Pega
7 1 (0.81%) SAP