Data Manager Jobs in the South West

Data Manager
England > South West

The median Data Manager salary in the South West is £44,460 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 186 228
Rank change year-on-year +28 +42 +36
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Manager 23 100 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.65% 1.02% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 1.06% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 20 53 37
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £53,595
25th Percentile £40,931 £43,115 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,460 £52,396 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% -13.04% -13.93%
75th Percentile £68,585 £62,500 £92,321
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £100,874
England median annual salary £68,259 £55,000 £66,603
% change year-on-year +24.11% -17.42% +5.72%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South 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 South West with a recognized job title 3,296 9,393 5,982
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.64% 96.17% 89.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,933 6,889 3,677
10th Percentile £27,250 £27,945 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,365 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,187 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

Data Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Manager in the South West

Data Manager
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Data Manager in the South West

Data Manager
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Manager in the South West over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Manager in the South West

Data Manager
Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 30 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
Bristol +43 13 £44,460 -35.51% 9
Gloucestershire +55 4 £40,000 +28.00% 8
Devon +12 4 £70,000 +36.72% 10
Wiltshire +41 1 £62,500 +4.17% 4
Somerset -8 1 - - 9
Data Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 South West region featuring Data Manager in the job title.

1 17 (73.91%) Analytics
2 16 (69.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (56.52%) Business Intelligence
3 13 (56.52%) Finance
4 12 (52.17%) Banking
4 12 (52.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (52.17%) Power BI
4 12 (52.17%) Power Platform
5 11 (47.83%) Data Management
5 11 (47.83%) Tableau
6 9 (39.13%) Data Analytics
6 9 (39.13%) SQL
7 8 (34.78%) Microsoft
7 8 (34.78%) Data Quality
7 8 (34.78%) Data Lineage
7 8 (34.78%) Metadata Management
7 8 (34.78%) Data Science
7 8 (34.78%) Metadata
7 8 (34.78%) Metadata Repository
8 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
8 7 (30.43%) Data Governance
8 7 (30.43%) Agile
9 6 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (21.74%) Retail
10 5 (21.74%) Python
10 5 (21.74%) Risk Management
11 4 (17.39%) Data Modelling
11 4 (17.39%) VBA
11 4 (17.39%) Subversion
11 4 (17.39%) Dimensional Modelling

Data Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 1 (4.35%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (69.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (52.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (52.17%) Power Platform
2 4 (17.39%) Azure
2 4 (17.39%) Collibra
3 3 (13.04%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (52.17%) Power BI
2 11 (47.83%) Tableau
3 8 (34.78%) Metadata
3 8 (34.78%) Metadata Repository
4 4 (17.39%) Ataccama
4 4 (17.39%) Data Lake
4 4 (17.39%) Qlik Sense
5 3 (13.04%) Data Hub
6 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
6 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Git
1 4 (17.39%) Subversion
General
1 13 (56.52%) Finance
2 12 (52.17%) Banking
3 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
4 6 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (21.74%) Retail
6 1 (4.35%) Advertising
6 1 (4.35%) Marketing
6 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Data Structures
1 4 (17.39%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.35%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (73.91%) Analytics
2 13 (56.52%) Business Intelligence
3 11 (47.83%) Data Management
4 9 (39.13%) Data Analytics
5 8 (34.78%) Data Lineage
5 8 (34.78%) Data Science
5 8 (34.78%) Metadata Management
6 7 (30.43%) Agile
6 7 (30.43%) Data Governance
7 5 (21.74%) Risk Management
8 4 (17.39%) Actionable Insight
8 4 (17.39%) Coaching
8 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (17.39%) Data Modelling
8 4 (17.39%) Dimensional Modelling
8 4 (17.39%) MapReduce
8 4 (17.39%) Mentoring
8 4 (17.39%) People Management
8 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (17.39%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) SQL
2 5 (21.74%) Python
3 4 (17.39%) Julia
3 4 (17.39%) R
3 4 (17.39%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (34.78%) Data Quality
2 4 (17.39%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) Google
3 1 (4.35%) Databricks
3 1 (4.35%) Teradata