Data Manager Job Trends in London

Data Manager
England > London

The median Data Manager salary in London is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 333 292
Rank change year-on-year +99 -41 +43
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Manager 230 61 180
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.92% 0.51% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.00% 0.56% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 185 42 137
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,800 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £80,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £98,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.46% +23.44% +28.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £103,750
90th Percentile £118,750 - £110,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +27.27% -8.71%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 23,070 10,877 18,304
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 91.16% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 15,887 7,089 11,557
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -0.68%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

Data Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Data Manager' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Data Manager job vacancy trend in London

Data Manager
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Data Manager job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Data Manager job vacancies in London

Data Manager
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Manager in London over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Manager in London

Data Manager
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Manager within the London region over the 6 months to 16 September 2026. 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
Central London +13 31 £95,000 +24.18% 37
South London +13 14 £90,000 +24.14% 4
West London -5 12 £60,000 -14.29% 7
East London - 1 £32,500 - 2
Data Manager
England

Data Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 16 September 2026, Data Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Data Manager in the job title.

1 73 (31.74%) Data Governance
2 55 (23.91%) Analytics
3 52 (22.61%) Databricks
4 49 (21.30%) AI
4 49 (21.30%) SQL
5 48 (20.87%) Azure
6 46 (20.00%) Data Engineering
7 37 (16.09%) Agile
7 37 (16.09%) Power Platform
8 35 (15.22%) Business Intelligence
9 34 (14.78%) Power BI
9 34 (14.78%) Roadmaps
10 32 (13.91%) Data Architecture
11 31 (13.48%) Machine Learning
12 30 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
13 27 (11.74%) Data Protection
14 26 (11.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 26 (11.30%) Decision-Making
14 26 (11.30%) Microsoft
15 24 (10.43%) Data Quality
16 21 (9.13%) Data Management
16 21 (9.13%) Line Management
17 20 (8.70%) Migration
17 20 (8.70%) Snowflake
18 19 (8.26%) Data Analytics
18 19 (8.26%) Data Strategy
18 19 (8.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 18 (7.83%) SQL Server
20 17 (7.39%) Continuous Improvement
20 17 (7.39%) CRM

Data Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.30%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.30%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.43%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 7 (3.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.43%) SAP IBP
2 1 (0.43%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 48 (20.87%) Azure
2 37 (16.09%) Power Platform
3 26 (11.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 20 (8.70%) Snowflake
5 15 (6.52%) Azure AI
5 15 (6.52%) Azure Machine Learning
6 11 (4.78%) AWS
7 7 (3.04%) GCP
8 5 (2.17%) Collibra
8 5 (2.17%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (1.74%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (1.74%) SaaS
10 3 (1.30%) Alation
10 3 (1.30%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.87%) SuccessFactors
12 1 (0.43%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.43%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.43%) Azure Storage
12 1 (0.43%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (0.43%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.87%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (14.78%) Power BI
2 18 (7.83%) SQL Server
3 15 (6.52%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (5.22%) Big Data
4 12 (5.22%) Data Lake
5 9 (3.91%) Tableau
6 7 (3.04%) Metadata
7 4 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.30%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.87%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.43%) Flink
10 1 (0.43%) Looker
10 1 (0.43%) QGIS
10 1 (0.43%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.43%) SAP Data Services
10 1 (0.43%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (2.17%) Git
2 4 (1.74%) MLflow
2 4 (1.74%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.87%) JIRA
General
1 52 (22.61%) Finance
2 21 (9.13%) Social Skills
3 15 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.22%) Legal
5 10 (4.35%) Law
5 10 (4.35%) Marketing
6 8 (3.48%) Billing
6 8 (3.48%) Pharmaceutical
6 8 (3.48%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.61%) Retail
8 5 (2.17%) Banking
8 5 (2.17%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.74%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.74%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.30%) Publishing
11 2 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.87%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.17%) NumPy
1 5 (2.17%) Pandas
2 4 (1.74%) SciPy
3 2 (0.87%) Terraform
4 1 (0.43%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.43%) PySpark
4 1 (0.43%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.43%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.43%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.78%) Data Centre
2 8 (3.48%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (2.17%) Freedom of Information
3 5 (2.17%) Freedom of Information Act
4 4 (1.74%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.30%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.30%) Reference Data
6 2 (0.87%) AI Agents
6 2 (0.87%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.87%) Cyberattack
6 2 (0.87%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.87%) Life Science
7 1 (0.43%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.43%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.43%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.43%) FMCG
7 1 (0.43%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.43%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (31.74%) Data Governance
2 55 (23.91%) Analytics
3 49 (21.30%) AI
4 46 (20.00%) Data Engineering
5 37 (16.09%) Agile
6 35 (15.22%) Business Intelligence
7 34 (14.78%) Roadmaps
8 32 (13.91%) Data Architecture
9 31 (13.48%) Machine Learning
10 30 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
11 27 (11.74%) Data Protection
12 26 (11.30%) Decision-Making
13 21 (9.13%) Data Management
13 21 (9.13%) Line Management
14 20 (8.70%) Migration
15 19 (8.26%) Data Analytics
15 19 (8.26%) Data Strategy
15 19 (8.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 17 (7.39%) Continuous Improvement
16 17 (7.39%) Data Development
Programming Languages
1 49 (21.30%) SQL
2 14 (6.09%) Python
3 1 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 9 (3.91%) DBS Check
2 7 (3.04%) Degree
3 2 (0.87%) BICSI Certification
3 2 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (0.43%) CISM
4 1 (0.43%) CISSP
4 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.43%) PMP
4 1 (0.43%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.43%) Data Quality
2 17 (7.39%) GDPR
3 11 (4.78%) SLA
4 5 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.30%) QA
6 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.87%) ISO 14000
6 2 (0.87%) NIST
6 2 (0.87%) PERC
6 2 (0.87%) PSD2
7 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.43%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (6.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.87%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 52 (22.61%) Databricks
2 26 (11.30%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.91%) Salesforce
4 4 (1.74%) Google
5 3 (1.30%) Alteryx
5 3 (1.30%) SAP
5 3 (1.30%) Workday
6 2 (0.87%) Bloomberg
6 2 (0.87%) FactSet
6 2 (0.87%) MicroStrategy
6 2 (0.87%) OneTrust
6 2 (0.87%) Refinitiv
7 1 (0.43%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.43%) Informatica
7 1 (0.43%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.43%) Verint