Data Manager Jobs in Manchester

Data Manager
North West > Manchester

The median Data Manager salary in Manchester is £66,367 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 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
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 189 222
Rank change year-on-year +45 +33 +28
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Manager 11 28 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.51% 0.53% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.56% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7 19 15
10th Percentile £55,000 - £47,447
25th Percentile £59,375 £41,250 £51,833
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,367 £47,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +39.72% -20.20% -6.99%
75th Percentile £68,114 £55,000 £74,700
90th Percentile £86,868 £90,000 £77,530
North West median annual salary £61,250 £47,500 £59,526
% change year-on-year +28.95% -20.20% -6.99%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,971 4,967 4,440
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.66% 94.41% 92.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,151 3,829 2,613
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,988 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.26% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £93,778 £81,400 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Data Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Manager in Manchester

Data Manager
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Data Manager in Manchester

Data Manager
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Manager in Manchester over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Manager in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 Manchester region featuring Data Manager in the job title.

1 6 (54.55%) Banking
1 6 (54.55%) Analytics
2 5 (45.45%) Data Quality
3 4 (36.36%) ServiceNow
3 4 (36.36%) Data Governance
3 4 (36.36%) Data Lineage
3 4 (36.36%) Data Encryption
3 4 (36.36%) Target Operating Model
3 4 (36.36%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (36.36%) Data Management
3 4 (36.36%) Finance
3 4 (36.36%) Middleware
3 4 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (36.36%) Data Security
3 4 (36.36%) Commercialisation
3 4 (36.36%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (27.27%) Coaching
5 2 (18.18%) User Stories
5 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
5 2 (18.18%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (18.18%) Quality Management
5 2 (18.18%) AWS
5 2 (18.18%) QA
5 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
6 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
6 1 (9.09%) Generative AI
6 1 (9.09%) Impact Assessments
6 1 (9.09%) Low-Code

Data Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 6 (54.55%) Banking
2 4 (36.36%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (9.09%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (9.09%) Freedom of Information Act
2 1 (9.09%) Low-Code
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Analytics
2 4 (36.36%) Commercialisation
2 4 (36.36%) Data Encryption
2 4 (36.36%) Data Governance
2 4 (36.36%) Data Lineage
2 4 (36.36%) Data Management
2 4 (36.36%) Data Security
2 4 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (36.36%) Target Operating Model
2 4 (36.36%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 3 (27.27%) Coaching
3 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 2 (18.18%) Quality Management
4 2 (18.18%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (18.18%) User Stories
5 1 (9.09%) Agile
5 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (9.09%) Information Security
5 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Java
1 1 (9.09%) Python
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) Data Quality
2 2 (18.18%) QA
3 1 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (9.09%) GDPR
3 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (9.09%) ITGC
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) ServiceNow