Data Manager Jobs in England

Data Manager
UK > England

The median Data Manager salary in England is £68,259 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 May 2025.

The table below provides salary 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 504 317 470
Rank change year-on-year -187 +153 +54
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Manager 185 759 511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.85% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.90% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 116 547 335
10th Percentile £43,290 £31,700 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,188 £40,000 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,259 £55,000 £66,603
Median % change year-on-year +24.11% -17.42% +5.72%
75th Percentile £93,125 £71,969 £88,125
90th Percentile £108,750 £107,500 £108,365
UK median annual salary £69,018 £55,000 £66,603
% change year-on-year +25.49% -17.42% +6.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 44,450 84,705 79,000
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 94.67% 91.45%
Number of salaries quoted 23,451 62,722 50,420
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £38,070 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,952 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Data Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Manager in England

Data Manager
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Manager in England.

Salary trend for Data Manager in England

Data Manager
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Manager in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Manager in England

Data Manager
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Manager within the England 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -55 64 £95,000 +35.71% 118
South East -33 35 £59,000 +31.11% 179
North of England -42 29 £66,367 +33.20% 111
Midlands +30 24 £70,000 +27.27% 88
South West +28 23 £44,460 -15.15% 46
North West -42 20 £61,250 +28.95% 55
West Midlands +30 17 £60,000 +9.09% 49
Yorkshire +28 9 £67,500 +35.00% 47
East Midlands +18 7 £75,000 +66.67% 32
East of England +25 4 £71,250 +112.69% 52
Data Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, Data Manager 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 permanent job ads across the England region featuring Data Manager in the job title.

1 91 (49.19%) Analytics
2 63 (34.05%) SQL
3 60 (32.43%) Data Governance
4 59 (31.89%) Finance
5 56 (30.27%) Business Intelligence
5 56 (30.27%) Mentoring
6 55 (29.73%) Social Skills
7 53 (28.65%) Power Platform
7 53 (28.65%) Power BI
8 51 (27.57%) Data Quality
8 51 (27.57%) Azure
8 51 (27.57%) Python
9 48 (25.95%) Analytical Skills
10 44 (23.78%) Data Management
11 34 (18.38%) Agile
12 33 (17.84%) Decision-Making
13 32 (17.30%) Artificial Intelligence
13 32 (17.30%) Microsoft
14 30 (16.22%) Banking
14 30 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
14 30 (16.22%) Data Strategy
15 29 (15.68%) Microsoft Excel
16 28 (15.14%) Data Engineering
17 27 (14.59%) Continuous Improvement
17 27 (14.59%) ETL
18 26 (14.05%) Stakeholder Management
18 26 (14.05%) Data Analytics
18 26 (14.05%) Visualisation
18 26 (14.05%) Tableau
18 26 (14.05%) Data Science

Data Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (4.32%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.24%) SAS
3 2 (1.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 29 (15.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (6.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.08%) SPSS
5 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.54%) SPSS Modeler
Business Applications
1 3 (1.62%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.54%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 53 (28.65%) Power Platform
2 51 (27.57%) Azure
3 24 (12.97%) AWS
4 13 (7.03%) GCP
5 11 (5.95%) Snowflake
6 7 (3.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 7 (3.78%) IBM Watson
7 6 (3.24%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (2.70%) Collibra
8 5 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (2.16%) dbt
9 4 (2.16%) Google Analytics
9 4 (2.16%) Matillion
10 3 (1.62%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.62%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.62%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.62%) Fivetran
10 3 (1.62%) GitHub
10 3 (1.62%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.54%) Cisco IPT
1 1 (0.54%) Firewall
1 1 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (0.54%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (28.65%) Power BI
2 26 (14.05%) Tableau
3 23 (12.43%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (8.11%) SQL Server
5 9 (4.86%) Metadata
5 9 (4.86%) Metadata Repository
6 8 (4.32%) Data Lake
7 7 (3.78%) QlikView
8 5 (2.70%) Data Hub
8 5 (2.70%) Oracle Database
8 5 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (2.16%) Ataccama
9 4 (2.16%) Qlik Sense
9 4 (2.16%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.62%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.62%) Big Data
10 3 (1.62%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.62%) Parquet
10 3 (1.62%) Spark SQL
11 2 (1.08%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (3.78%) Git
2 4 (2.16%) Subversion
3 3 (1.62%) GitLab
4 2 (1.08%) JIRA
4 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 59 (31.89%) Finance
2 55 (29.73%) Social Skills
3 48 (25.95%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (16.22%) Banking
5 24 (12.97%) Legal
6 15 (8.11%) Retail
7 11 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (5.95%) Law
7 11 (5.95%) Marketing
8 10 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (4.32%) Telecoms
10 6 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.70%) Tech for Good
12 4 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.62%) Public Sector
14 2 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.54%) Advertising
15 1 (0.54%) Billing
15 1 (0.54%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.24%) PySpark
2 4 (2.16%) Middleware
3 3 (1.62%) XGBoost
4 2 (1.08%) Kafka
5 1 (0.54%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.41%) Data Centre
2 9 (4.86%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (4.32%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.78%) Blockchain
4 7 (3.78%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (3.78%) Robotics
5 6 (3.24%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.70%) Freedom of Information
6 5 (2.70%) Freedom of Information Act
7 4 (2.16%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (2.16%) Hackathon
7 4 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.62%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.62%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.62%) PKI
8 3 (1.62%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.62%) Social Media
8 3 (1.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.16%) Linux
1 4 (2.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (49.19%) Analytics
2 60 (32.43%) Data Governance
3 56 (30.27%) Business Intelligence
3 56 (30.27%) Mentoring
4 44 (23.78%) Data Management
5 34 (18.38%) Agile
6 33 (17.84%) Decision-Making
7 32 (17.30%) Artificial Intelligence
8 30 (16.22%) Data Strategy
8 30 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (15.14%) Data Engineering
10 27 (14.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (14.59%) ETL
11 26 (14.05%) Data Analytics
11 26 (14.05%) Data Science
11 26 (14.05%) Stakeholder Management
11 26 (14.05%) Visualisation
12 23 (12.43%) Machine Learning
12 23 (12.43%) Roadmaps
13 22 (11.89%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 63 (34.05%) SQL
2 51 (27.57%) Python
3 17 (9.19%) R
4 6 (3.24%) VBA
5 4 (2.16%) Julia
6 3 (1.62%) Java
6 3 (1.62%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.08%) Scala
7 2 (1.08%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.54%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.54%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.54%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 21 (11.35%) Degree
2 5 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.16%) DBS Check
3 4 (2.16%) ISEB
4 3 (1.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (1.62%) CCSK
4 3 (1.62%) CCSP
4 3 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (1.62%) CISSP
5 2 (1.08%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (1.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.54%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.54%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (27.57%) Data Quality
2 13 (7.03%) GDPR
3 11 (5.95%) QA
4 8 (4.32%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.08%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.08%) Good Clinical Practice
6 2 (1.08%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.08%) NIST
7 1 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.54%) ITGC
7 1 (0.54%) PMO
7 1 (0.54%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.62%) CASB
1 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.08%) Terraform
3 1 (0.54%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 32 (17.30%) Microsoft
2 23 (12.43%) Databricks
3 11 (5.95%) Informatica
4 9 (4.86%) Google
5 7 (3.78%) IBM
5 7 (3.78%) Salesforce
6 6 (3.24%) Oracle
7 4 (2.16%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.62%) Symantec
8 3 (1.62%) Xero
8 3 (1.62%) Zscaler
9 2 (1.08%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.08%) Talend
10 1 (0.54%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.54%) JD Edwards
10 1 (0.54%) LexisNexis
10 1 (0.54%) OneTrust
10 1 (0.54%) SAP
10 1 (0.54%) Teradata