Data Manager Jobs in England

Data Manager
UK > England

The median Data Manager salary in England is £69,509 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 498 325 451
Rank change year-on-year -173 +126 +75
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Manager 195 728 572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.40% 0.85% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.90% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 122 527 353
10th Percentile £43,290 £32,300 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £41,250 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,509 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.38% -18.52% +3.85%
75th Percentile £90,822 £73,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £108,130
UK median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £67,052
% change year-on-year +27.27% -17.97% +7.28%

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 44,402 81,024 81,740
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.75% 94.51% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 24,215 60,436 51,956
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -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 15 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 15 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 -52 71 £90,000 +24.14% 214
South East -19 37 £59,500 +32.22% 95
North of England -26 30 £66,367 +32.73% 71
Midlands +12 25 £70,000 +27.27% 43
South West +41 22 £44,460 -15.15% 37
North West -39 21 £64,434 +28.87% 46
West Midlands +29 17 £60,000 +4.99% 30
Yorkshire +35 9 £69,018 +38.04% 24
East Midlands +11 8 £75,000 +66.67% 10
East of England +22 4 £71,250 +112.69% 7
Data Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 92 (47.18%) Analytics
2 68 (34.87%) Finance
3 62 (31.79%) Data Quality
4 61 (31.28%) Data Governance
4 61 (31.28%) SQL
5 59 (30.26%) Data Management
6 56 (28.72%) Mentoring
7 53 (27.18%) Social Skills
8 51 (26.15%) Business Intelligence
9 50 (25.64%) Azure
10 49 (25.13%) Python
10 49 (25.13%) Power Platform
10 49 (25.13%) Power BI
11 48 (24.62%) Analytical Skills
12 40 (20.51%) Artificial Intelligence
13 35 (17.95%) Microsoft
14 33 (16.92%) Agile
14 33 (16.92%) Banking
14 33 (16.92%) Data Strategy
15 32 (16.41%) Data Engineering
15 32 (16.41%) Decision-Making
15 32 (16.41%) Visualisation
16 31 (15.90%) Microsoft Excel
17 28 (14.36%) Data Analytics
18 27 (13.85%) Continuous Improvement
19 26 (13.33%) Data Visualisation
19 26 (13.33%) ETL
19 26 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
19 26 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
20 25 (12.82%) Databricks

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 7 (3.59%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.56%) SAS
3 2 (1.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 31 (15.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (5.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.03%) SPSS
5 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.51%) SPSS Modeler
Business Applications
1 3 (1.54%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.51%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 50 (25.64%) Azure
2 49 (25.13%) Power Platform
3 25 (12.82%) AWS
4 12 (6.15%) GCP
5 11 (5.64%) Snowflake
6 9 (4.62%) IBM Watson
7 8 (4.10%) Collibra
8 7 (3.59%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (2.56%) Power Automate
10 4 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (2.05%) dbt
10 4 (2.05%) Google Analytics
10 4 (2.05%) Matillion
11 3 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.54%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.54%) Fivetran
11 3 (1.54%) GitHub
11 3 (1.54%) Serverless
11 3 (1.54%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.03%) ADSL
1 2 (1.03%) Internet
2 1 (0.51%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.51%) Firewall
2 1 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.51%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (25.13%) Power BI
2 25 (12.82%) Tableau
3 21 (10.77%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (8.72%) SQL Server
5 13 (6.67%) Metadata
6 9 (4.62%) Metadata Repository
6 9 (4.62%) QlikView
7 6 (3.08%) Ataccama
7 6 (3.08%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (2.05%) Data Hub
9 4 (2.05%) Oracle Database
9 4 (2.05%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.54%) Parquet
10 3 (1.54%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (1.54%) Spark SQL
11 2 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.03%) Big Data
11 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (3.08%) Git
2 3 (1.54%) GitLab
2 3 (1.54%) Subversion
3 2 (1.03%) JIRA
3 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 68 (34.87%) Finance
2 53 (27.18%) Social Skills
3 48 (24.62%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (16.92%) Banking
5 21 (10.77%) Legal
6 17 (8.72%) Retail
7 13 (6.67%) Marketing
8 11 (5.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (5.13%) Telecoms
10 7 (3.59%) Advertising
10 7 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (3.59%) Law
11 6 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (3.08%) Tech for Good
12 5 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.54%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.51%) Billing
14 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.10%) PySpark
2 6 (3.08%) Middleware
3 3 (1.54%) XGBoost
4 1 (0.51%) jQuery
4 1 (0.51%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.13%) Data Centre
1 10 (5.13%) Management Information System
2 9 (4.62%) Blockchain
2 9 (4.62%) Robotics
3 8 (4.10%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (4.10%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.08%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (3.08%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.56%) Freedom of Information
5 5 (2.56%) Freedom of Information Act
6 4 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.05%) Hackathon
6 4 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.54%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (1.54%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.54%) PKI
7 3 (1.54%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.54%) Social Media
7 3 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.54%) Linux
1 3 (1.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (47.18%) Analytics
2 61 (31.28%) Data Governance
3 59 (30.26%) Data Management
4 56 (28.72%) Mentoring
5 51 (26.15%) Business Intelligence
6 40 (20.51%) Artificial Intelligence
7 33 (16.92%) Agile
7 33 (16.92%) Data Strategy
8 32 (16.41%) Data Engineering
8 32 (16.41%) Decision-Making
8 32 (16.41%) Visualisation
9 28 (14.36%) Data Analytics
10 27 (13.85%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (13.33%) Data Visualisation
11 26 (13.33%) ETL
11 26 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
12 25 (12.82%) Project Management
13 24 (12.31%) Roadmaps
14 23 (11.79%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 61 (31.28%) SQL
2 49 (25.13%) Python
3 19 (9.74%) R
4 5 (2.56%) VBA
5 3 (1.54%) Julia
5 3 (1.54%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.03%) Java
6 2 (1.03%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.51%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.51%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.51%) Scala
7 1 (0.51%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 19 (9.74%) Degree
2 5 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (2.05%) DBS Check
3 4 (2.05%) ISEB
4 3 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (1.54%) CCSK
4 3 (1.54%) CCSP
4 3 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (1.54%) CISSP
4 3 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.03%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (1.03%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.51%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (31.79%) Data Quality
2 14 (7.18%) GDPR
2 14 (7.18%) QA
3 8 (4.10%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (2.56%) Good Clinical Practice
4 5 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.54%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.03%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.03%) NIST
7 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.51%) ITGC
7 1 (0.51%) PMO
7 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.54%) CASB
1 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.51%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.51%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 25 (12.82%) Databricks
3 11 (5.64%) Informatica
4 9 (4.62%) IBM
4 9 (4.62%) Salesforce
5 8 (4.10%) Google
6 6 (3.08%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.56%) Oracle
8 3 (1.54%) Symantec
8 3 (1.54%) Xero
8 3 (1.54%) Zscaler
9 2 (1.03%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.03%) Apple
9 2 (1.03%) JD Edwards
10 1 (0.51%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.51%) LexisNexis
10 1 (0.51%) OneTrust
10 1 (0.51%) SAP
10 1 (0.51%) Talend
10 1 (0.51%) Teradata