Data Manager Job Trends in the South East

Data Manager
England > South East

The median Data Manager salary in the South East is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 241 240
Rank change year-on-year +42 -1 +97
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Manager 97 29 166
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.67% 0.37% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 0.43% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 44 10 126
10th Percentile £55,000 £49,200 £31,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £54,688 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £59,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +34.45% +25.26% -24.00%
75th Percentile £118,750 £86,875 £70,000
90th Percentile £143,750 £104,125 £71,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £69,018 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.42% +25.49% -17.42%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 13,878 6,742 17,136
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.32% 86.51% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 9,749 3,583 12,299
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.87% +9.52% -12.98%

Data Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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 the South East.

Data Manager job vacancy trend in the South East

Data Manager
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for Data Manager job vacancies in the South East.

Salary distribution trend for Data Manager job vacancies in the South East

Data Manager
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Manager in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Manager in the South East

Data Manager
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Manager within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Kent - 31 £90,000 - 1
Surrey 0 24 £80,000 +53.85%
Thames Valley +15 14 £40,000 -50.46% 4
East Sussex - 13 £95,000 -
Berkshire +9 8 - - 2
Hampshire -28 7 £75,000 +30.43% 1
Sussex - 6 £55,000 -
Buckinghamshire +4 5 - -
West Sussex -17 2 - -
Oxfordshire - 1 £40,000 - 2
Data Manager
England

Data Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 South East region featuring Data Manager in the job title.

1 35 (36.08%) Microsoft
2 34 (35.05%) SQL
3 32 (32.99%) Degree
4 31 (31.96%) Data Governance
5 28 (28.87%) Azure
6 25 (25.77%) Data Engineering
7 24 (24.74%) Roadmaps
8 23 (23.71%) Data Architecture
8 23 (23.71%) Data Management
9 22 (22.68%) Snowflake
10 21 (21.65%) Databricks
10 21 (21.65%) Line Management
11 20 (20.62%) Agile
12 19 (19.59%) AI
12 19 (19.59%) Regulatory Compliance
13 18 (18.56%) Azure AI
13 18 (18.56%) Azure Machine Learning
13 18 (18.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 18 (18.56%) Data Development
13 18 (18.56%) Machine Learning
13 18 (18.56%) Migration
13 18 (18.56%) SQL Server
13 18 (18.56%) Virtual Machines
14 17 (17.53%) Digital Transformation Strategy
14 17 (17.53%) Metadata
15 15 (15.46%) Data Quality
16 11 (11.34%) Business Intelligence
16 11 (11.34%) Microsoft Office
17 10 (10.31%) Power BI
17 10 (10.31%) Power Platform

Data Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 11 (11.34%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (8.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 28 (28.87%) Azure
2 22 (22.68%) Snowflake
3 18 (18.56%) Azure AI
3 18 (18.56%) Azure Machine Learning
3 18 (18.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 10 (10.31%) Power Platform
5 5 (5.15%) AWS
6 4 (4.12%) GCP
7 3 (3.09%) Azure Storage
7 3 (3.09%) Veeva
8 1 (1.03%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.03%) dbt
8 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (18.56%) SQL Server
2 17 (17.53%) Metadata
3 10 (10.31%) Power BI
4 8 (8.25%) Spotfire
5 7 (7.22%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (5.15%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (4.12%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (4.12%) BigQuery
7 4 (4.12%) MongoDB
7 4 (4.12%) MySQL
7 4 (4.12%) NoSQL
7 4 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (4.12%) RDBMS
7 4 (4.12%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (1.03%) JIRA
General
1 35 (36.08%) Finance
2 18 (18.56%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.25%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (2.06%) Legal
5 1 (1.03%) Marketing
5 1 (1.03%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.09%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.65%) Management Information System
2 11 (11.34%) Data Centre
3 9 (9.28%) Life Science
4 4 (4.12%) Replication
5 3 (3.09%) Biopharmaceutical
5 3 (3.09%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.03%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (31.96%) Data Governance
2 25 (25.77%) Data Engineering
3 24 (24.74%) Roadmaps
4 23 (23.71%) Data Architecture
4 23 (23.71%) Data Management
5 21 (21.65%) Line Management
6 20 (20.62%) Agile
7 19 (19.59%) AI
7 19 (19.59%) Regulatory Compliance
8 18 (18.56%) Data Development
8 18 (18.56%) Machine Learning
8 18 (18.56%) Migration
9 17 (17.53%) Digital Transformation Strategy
10 11 (11.34%) Business Intelligence
11 9 (9.28%) Data Visualisation
11 9 (9.28%) ETL
11 9 (9.28%) Master Data Management
11 9 (9.28%) Matrix Organization
11 9 (9.28%) Visualisation
12 8 (8.25%) Data Acquisition
Programming Languages
1 34 (35.05%) SQL
2 9 (9.28%) Python
3 1 (1.03%) C++
3 1 (1.03%) Java
Qualifications
1 32 (32.99%) Degree
2 9 (9.28%) Master's Degree
3 4 (4.12%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.46%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.25%) Good Clinical Practice
3 1 (1.03%) GDPR
System Software
1 18 (18.56%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 35 (36.08%) Microsoft
2 21 (21.65%) Databricks
3 4 (4.12%) Google
4 3 (3.09%) Informatica
4 3 (3.09%) Oracle