Data Manager Jobs in the North West

Data Manager
England > North West

The median Data Manager salary in the North West is £64,434 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 268 236 280
Rank change year-on-year -32 +44 +29
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Manager 21 59 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.26% 0.60% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.63% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 14 29 14
10th Percentile £51,475 £40,000 £47,447
25th Percentile £53,750 £41,250 £49,640
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,434 £50,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +28.87% -16.00% -6.99%
75th Percentile £68,114 £70,000 £74,150
90th Percentile £72,934 £90,000 £77,530
England median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +27.27% -18.52% +3.85%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 the North West with a recognized job title 7,314 9,309 7,031
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.61% 94.56% 89.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,013 7,154 4,104
10th Percentile £26,955 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,345 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Data Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Manager in the North West

Data Manager
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Manager in the North West.

Salary trend for Data Manager in the North West

Data Manager
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Manager in the North West over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Manager in the North West

Data Manager
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Manager within the North West region over the 6 months to 14 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
Manchester +37 13 £66,367 +39.72% 23
Cheshire -12 4 £57,500 -17.86% 11
Merseyside +33 2 £62,000 +20.98% 2
Lancashire -67 2 £46,000 - 13
Data Manager
England

Data Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 14 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 North West region featuring Data Manager in the job title.

1 13 (61.90%) Finance
2 12 (57.14%) Analytics
3 9 (42.86%) Data Security
4 8 (38.10%) Banking
5 6 (28.57%) Data Governance
5 6 (28.57%) ServiceNow
5 6 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (28.57%) Legal
5 6 (28.57%) Middleware
5 6 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (28.57%) Target Operating Model
5 6 (28.57%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (28.57%) Data Lineage
5 6 (28.57%) Data Encryption
5 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
5 6 (28.57%) Commercialisation
5 6 (28.57%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (23.81%) ETL
6 5 (23.81%) Python
6 5 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (23.81%) Data Quality
6 5 (23.81%) Data Management
7 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (19.05%) Oracle Database
7 4 (19.05%) Oracle
7 4 (19.05%) SAS
7 4 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (14.29%) Windows
8 3 (14.29%) Linux

Data Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (19.05%) SAS
2 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (4.76%) Azure
2 1 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle Database
2 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.76%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.76%) Power BI
3 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 13 (61.90%) Finance
2 8 (38.10%) Banking
3 6 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (28.57%) Legal
3 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.76%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (4.76%) Freedom of Information Act
2 1 (4.76%) Low-Code
2 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
1 3 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Analytics
2 9 (42.86%) Data Security
3 6 (28.57%) Commercialisation
3 6 (28.57%) Data Encryption
3 6 (28.57%) Data Governance
3 6 (28.57%) Data Lineage
3 6 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (28.57%) Target Operating Model
3 6 (28.57%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 5 (23.81%) Data Management
4 5 (23.81%) ETL
4 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (14.29%) Coaching
6 3 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 3 (14.29%) Mathematics
7 2 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (9.52%) Quality Management
7 2 (9.52%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) Python
2 2 (9.52%) Shell Script
2 2 (9.52%) SQL
2 2 (9.52%) VBA
3 1 (4.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) Data Quality
2 2 (9.52%) QA
3 1 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (4.76%) GDPR
3 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.76%) ITGC
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) ServiceNow
2 4 (19.05%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) HubSpot
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) SAP