Data Manager Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Manager
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Manager daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £538, 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 257 293 378
Rank change year-on-year +36 +85 +106
Contract jobs requiring a Data Manager 47 52 99
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.47% 0.34% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.36% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 34 70
10th Percentile £451 £357 £336
25th Percentile £477 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £531
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +12.94% +1.19%
75th Percentile £700 £684 £650
90th Percentile £739 £750 £721
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £28.21 - -
Median hourly rate £30.81 - -
75th Percentile £33.40 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £29.90 £25.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +19.61% -61.54% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Data Manager
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Data Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Manager trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Manager
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Manager.

Data Manager daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Manager
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Manager over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Data Manager daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Manager
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Manager.

Data Manager hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Data Manager in the job title.

1 20 (42.55%) Data Governance
1 20 (42.55%) Analytics
2 18 (38.30%) Social Skills
3 17 (36.17%) Finance
4 16 (34.04%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (29.79%) Project Management
6 12 (25.53%) Migration
6 12 (25.53%) Agile
6 12 (25.53%) Data Management
7 11 (23.40%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (23.40%) SQL
7 11 (23.40%) ETL
8 10 (21.28%) Visualisation
8 10 (21.28%) Data Visualisation
8 10 (21.28%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (19.15%) Azure
9 9 (19.15%) JIRA
10 8 (17.02%) Marketing
10 8 (17.02%) Confluence
10 8 (17.02%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (17.02%) Banking
10 8 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (14.89%) Digital Banking
11 7 (14.89%) Critical Thinking
11 7 (14.89%) Storytelling
11 7 (14.89%) Data Lake
11 7 (14.89%) Relational Database
11 7 (14.89%) Digital Strategy
11 7 (14.89%) Teradata
11 7 (14.89%) SAS

Data Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (17.02%) Confluence
2 7 (14.89%) SAS
3 3 (6.38%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.13%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (8.51%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.26%) Trello
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Aladdin
1 1 (2.13%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 9 (19.15%) Azure
2 7 (14.89%) Adobe Analytics
3 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Purview
3 5 (10.64%) Power Platform
4 3 (6.38%) Alation
4 3 (6.38%) AWS
4 3 (6.38%) GCP
5 2 (4.26%) PowerApps
5 2 (4.26%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.13%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (34.04%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (14.89%) Data Lake
2 7 (14.89%) Relational Database
3 4 (8.51%) Power BI
4 3 (6.38%) Big Data
4 3 (6.38%) IBM InfoSphere
5 1 (2.13%) BigQuery
5 1 (2.13%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.13%) Looker
5 1 (2.13%) Metadata
5 1 (2.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (19.15%) JIRA
General
1 18 (38.30%) Social Skills
2 17 (36.17%) Finance
3 10 (21.28%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (17.02%) Banking
4 8 (17.02%) Marketing
5 5 (10.64%) Retail
6 3 (6.38%) Law
6 3 (6.38%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.38%) Telecoms
7 2 (4.26%) Legal
7 2 (4.26%) Local Government
7 2 (4.26%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.13%) Back Office
8 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (4.26%) Life Science
1 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
1 2 (4.26%) Reference Data
2 1 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.13%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.13%) FMCG
2 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.13%) NHS
2 1 (2.13%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (42.55%) Analytics
1 20 (42.55%) Data Governance
2 14 (29.79%) Project Management
3 12 (25.53%) Agile
3 12 (25.53%) Data Management
3 12 (25.53%) Migration
4 11 (23.40%) ETL
4 11 (23.40%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (21.28%) Data Visualisation
5 10 (21.28%) Visualisation
6 8 (17.02%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (14.89%) Business Transformation
7 7 (14.89%) Critical Thinking
7 7 (14.89%) Data Extraction
7 7 (14.89%) Data Protection
7 7 (14.89%) Digital Banking
7 7 (14.89%) Digital Strategy
7 7 (14.89%) Storytelling
7 7 (14.89%) Web Analytics
Programming Languages
1 11 (23.40%) SQL
2 7 (14.89%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (12.77%) Degree
2 4 (8.51%) PMI Certification
2 4 (8.51%) PMP
3 3 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.38%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.38%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.13%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.64%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.26%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.26%) GDPR
3 1 (2.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.13%) NIST
Vendors
1 7 (14.89%) Adobe
1 7 (14.89%) Teradata
2 5 (10.64%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.38%) Databricks
3 3 (6.38%) IBM
3 3 (6.38%) Informatica
3 3 (6.38%) Splunk
4 2 (4.26%) Atlassian
4 2 (4.26%) Google
5 1 (2.13%) Salesforce