Data Manager Contracts

Data Manager
UK

The median Data Manager daily rate in the UK is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 21 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
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 383 463 621
Rank change year-on-year +80 +158 -119
Contract jobs requiring a Data Manager 191 239 242
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.42% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.45% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 169 181
10th Percentile £370 £403 £325
25th Percentile £499 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £714 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £39.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £65.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.54% +62.50% +41.69%
75th Percentile £36.00 - £41.00
90th Percentile £40.30 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year -61.54% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,413 53,669 84,232
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.81% 94.62% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,677 37,466 59,216
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,675 1,499 2,051
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.82
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 21 May 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Manager over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 21 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
England +66 173 £575 +6.98% 141
London +91 100 £575 -4.17% 77
UK excluding London +18 79 £575 +15.00% 86
Work from Home +75 52 £600 +11.63% 56
North of England +33 26 £585 +11.43% 17
North West +34 20 £585 +14.15% 13
East of England +22 18 £450 -5.26% 9
South East -4 16 £675 +35.00% 30
Scotland +22 8 £475 +5.56% 11
Midlands +19 8 £550 -4.35% 12
West Midlands +15 7 £575 - 9
Yorkshire +18 5 £600 +9.09% 4
South West +1 3 £625 +19.05% 7
East Midlands +15 1 £355 -15.48% 3
North East +9 1 £625 +31.58%
Wales - 1 £625 -

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

For the 6 months to 21 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 featuring Data Manager in the job title.

1 53 (27.75%) Data Governance
2 48 (25.13%) Data Management
3 46 (24.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 43 (22.51%) Social Skills
5 42 (21.99%) Finance
6 41 (21.47%) Migration
7 38 (19.90%) Data Quality
8 35 (18.32%) Analytics
9 34 (17.80%) Data Migration
9 34 (17.80%) SQL
9 34 (17.80%) Business Intelligence
10 33 (17.28%) Project Management
10 33 (17.28%) Agile
11 28 (14.66%) SAP
11 28 (14.66%) Power BI
11 28 (14.66%) Power Platform
12 27 (14.14%) Analytical Skills
13 26 (13.61%) Roadmaps
14 25 (13.09%) Data Analytics
15 23 (12.04%) Azure
15 23 (12.04%) Data Modelling
16 21 (10.99%) Problem-Solving
17 19 (9.95%) Data Protection
17 19 (9.95%) Microsoft Excel
17 19 (9.95%) Data Strategy
18 18 (9.42%) Data Science
18 18 (9.42%) Data Warehouse
18 18 (9.42%) ETL
19 17 (8.90%) Degree
20 16 (8.38%) Pharmaceutical

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 6 (3.14%) SAS
1 6 (3.14%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.05%) Confluence
3 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.52%) CMS
Applications
1 19 (9.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (3.66%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (3.66%) MS Visio
4 6 (3.14%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (2.62%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (4.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (3.66%) SAP MDG
3 3 (1.57%) Primavera
4 2 (1.05%) SAP CO
4 2 (1.05%) SAP FI
4 2 (1.05%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.52%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 1 (0.52%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.52%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.52%) SAP R/3
5 1 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 28 (14.66%) Power Platform
2 23 (12.04%) Azure
3 9 (4.71%) AWS
4 5 (2.62%) GCP
5 3 (1.57%) Collibra
5 3 (1.57%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (1.57%) Power Automate
5 3 (1.57%) PowerApps
5 3 (1.57%) Veeva
6 2 (1.05%) Alation
6 2 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.05%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.05%) Snowflake
6 2 (1.05%) WhatsApp
7 1 (0.52%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.52%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.52%) IaaS
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle CX
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.52%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (14.66%) Power BI
2 18 (9.42%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (6.81%) Data Lake
4 11 (5.76%) Metadata
5 5 (2.62%) Big Data
6 4 (2.09%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (2.09%) QlikView
6 4 (2.09%) Tableau
7 3 (1.57%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (1.57%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.05%) SAS Data Integration Studio
8 2 (1.05%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.05%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.05%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.52%) Looker
9 1 (0.52%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 7 (3.66%) JIRA
2 1 (0.52%) LSMW
2 1 (0.52%) MLflow
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
General
1 43 (22.51%) Social Skills
2 42 (21.99%) Finance
3 27 (14.14%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.38%) Pharmaceutical
5 13 (6.81%) Influencing Skills
5 13 (6.81%) Manufacturing
5 13 (6.81%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.66%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.14%) Marketing
8 5 (2.62%) Retail
9 4 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.09%) Law
9 4 (2.09%) Publishing
10 3 (1.57%) Legal
10 3 (1.57%) Local Government
11 2 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.52%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.52%) French Language
12 1 (0.52%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.52%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.52%) JSON
1 1 (0.52%) Kafka
1 1 (0.52%) NumPy
1 1 (0.52%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (0.52%) Pandas
1 1 (0.52%) PySpark
1 1 (0.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.71%) NHS
1 9 (4.71%) Product Ownership
2 8 (4.19%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.66%) Reference Data
4 4 (2.09%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.57%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.57%) FMCG
5 3 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.57%) Life Science
6 2 (1.05%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.05%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.52%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.52%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.52%) Freedom of Information Act
7 1 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.52%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.52%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.52%) Solar Power
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (27.75%) Data Governance
2 48 (25.13%) Data Management
3 46 (24.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 41 (21.47%) Migration
5 35 (18.32%) Analytics
6 34 (17.80%) Business Intelligence
6 34 (17.80%) Data Migration
7 33 (17.28%) Agile
7 33 (17.28%) Project Management
8 26 (13.61%) Roadmaps
9 25 (13.09%) Data Analytics
10 23 (12.04%) Data Modelling
11 21 (10.99%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (9.95%) Data Protection
12 19 (9.95%) Data Strategy
13 18 (9.42%) Data Science
13 18 (9.42%) ETL
14 14 (7.33%) Data Architecture
14 14 (7.33%) Decision-Making
14 14 (7.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 34 (17.80%) SQL
2 9 (4.71%) Python
3 8 (4.19%) R
4 3 (1.57%) C#
4 3 (1.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (1.57%) PL/SQL
4 3 (1.57%) VB
5 1 (0.52%) Java
5 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (8.90%) Degree
2 4 (2.09%) Master's Degree
2 4 (2.09%) SC Cleared
2 4 (2.09%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.57%) CIMA
4 2 (1.05%) CCNA
4 2 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.05%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.05%) PhD
4 2 (1.05%) PMP
5 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (19.90%) Data Quality
2 16 (8.38%) GDPR
3 12 (6.28%) QA
4 4 (2.09%) GxP
4 4 (2.09%) PMO
5 3 (1.57%) CDISC
5 3 (1.57%) Good Clinical Practice
6 1 (0.52%) GMP
6 1 (0.52%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (0.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 28 (14.66%) SAP
2 14 (7.33%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.71%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.09%) IFS
4 4 (2.09%) Informatica
4 4 (2.09%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.57%) Databricks
5 3 (1.57%) IBM
5 3 (1.57%) Marketo
5 3 (1.57%) Oracle
5 3 (1.57%) Pardot
6 2 (1.05%) Arista
6 2 (1.05%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.05%) BT
6 2 (1.05%) Cadence
6 2 (1.05%) Cisco
6 2 (1.05%) Facebook
6 2 (1.05%) Radianz
6 2 (1.05%) Reuters
6 2 (1.05%) Symantec