Data Manager Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £64,434 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 449 315 451
Rank change year-on-year -134 +136 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Manager 137 583 311
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.77% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.81% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 78 396 182
10th Percentile £42,903 £30,688 £47,525
25th Percentile £51,250 £40,000 £53,595
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,434 £50,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.87% -20.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £77,530
90th Percentile £91,325 £71,969 £94,250
UK median annual salary £69,018 £55,000 £66,603
% change year-on-year +25.49% -17.42% +6.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,880 72,172 50,269
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.19% 95.00% 88.91%
Number of salaries quoted 18,173 50,788 29,439
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.93% -6.54% +6.48%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Data Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Manager in the UK excluding London

Data Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Manager in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Data Manager in the UK excluding London

Data Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Manager in the UK excluding London

Data Manager
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
South East -34 35 £59,000 +31.11% 372
North of England -52 30 £66,367 +39.72% 315
Midlands +11 24 £70,000 +27.27% 275
South West +43 23 £44,460 -15.15% 158
North West -43 20 £61,250 +36.11% 148
Scotland +61 17 £68,642 +3.22% 59
West Midlands +34 17 £60,000 +9.09% 150
Yorkshire +24 10 £67,500 +35.00% 133
East Midlands +9 7 £75,000 +66.67% 106
East of England +20 4 £71,250 +112.69% 199
Channel Islands -1 2 £78,750 - 1
Northern Ireland +40 1 - - 19
Wales +34 1 £80,000 +51.07% 37
Data Manager
UK

Data Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 UK excluding London region featuring Data Manager in the job title.

1 76 (55.47%) Analytics
2 53 (38.69%) Data Governance
3 50 (36.50%) Finance
4 48 (35.04%) Data Management
5 44 (32.12%) Data Quality
6 42 (30.66%) Social Skills
7 39 (28.47%) Analytical Skills
7 39 (28.47%) Business Intelligence
8 38 (27.74%) Decision-Making
9 37 (27.01%) SQL
10 35 (25.55%) Mentoring
11 33 (24.09%) Power BI
11 33 (24.09%) Power Platform
12 32 (23.36%) Python
13 30 (21.90%) Banking
13 30 (21.90%) Tableau
14 28 (20.44%) Continuous Improvement
15 27 (19.71%) Agile
16 26 (18.98%) Microsoft Excel
16 26 (18.98%) Azure
17 25 (18.25%) Coaching
17 25 (18.25%) Data Analytics
18 24 (17.52%) Data Engineering
18 24 (17.52%) Microsoft
18 24 (17.52%) Problem-Solving
19 23 (16.79%) ETL
19 23 (16.79%) AWS
20 22 (16.06%) Visualisation
20 22 (16.06%) Data Science
20 22 (16.06%) Data Strategy

Data Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (4.38%) Apache Spark
1 6 (4.38%) SAS
2 2 (1.46%) Confluence
Applications
1 26 (18.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (8.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 33 (24.09%) Power Platform
2 26 (18.98%) Azure
3 23 (16.79%) AWS
4 7 (5.11%) IBM Watson
5 4 (2.92%) Collibra
6 3 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.19%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.19%) Amazon SageMaker
6 3 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (2.19%) GCP
6 3 (2.19%) GitHub
6 3 (2.19%) Serverless
7 2 (1.46%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.73%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.73%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.73%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.73%) Cisco IPT
1 1 (0.73%) Firewall
1 1 (0.73%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (0.73%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (24.09%) Power BI
2 30 (21.90%) Tableau
3 15 (10.95%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (9.49%) SQL Server
5 9 (6.57%) Metadata
5 9 (6.57%) Metadata Repository
6 7 (5.11%) Data Lake
6 7 (5.11%) QlikView
7 5 (3.65%) Oracle Database
8 4 (2.92%) Ataccama
8 4 (2.92%) Data Hub
8 4 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.92%) Qlik Sense
9 3 (2.19%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (2.19%) Amazon QuickSight
9 3 (2.19%) Parquet
9 3 (2.19%) Spark SQL
10 2 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.46%) Big Data
10 2 (1.46%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (5.11%) Git
2 4 (2.92%) Subversion
3 3 (2.19%) GitLab
4 2 (1.46%) JIRA
4 2 (1.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 50 (36.50%) Finance
2 42 (30.66%) Social Skills
3 39 (28.47%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (21.90%) Banking
5 15 (10.95%) Retail
6 13 (9.49%) Legal
7 9 (6.57%) Law
8 8 (5.84%) Telecoms
9 6 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (3.65%) Marketing
11 4 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.92%) Tech for Good
12 3 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.46%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.73%) Advertising
14 1 (0.73%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.38%) PySpark
2 4 (2.92%) Middleware
3 3 (2.19%) XGBoost
4 1 (0.73%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.11%) Blockchain
1 7 (5.11%) Management Information System
1 7 (5.11%) Robotics
2 5 (3.65%) Data Structures
3 4 (2.92%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (2.92%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.92%) Hackathon
3 4 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.46%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.73%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.73%) FMCG
6 1 (0.73%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.73%) Freedom of Information Act
6 1 (0.73%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.73%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.92%) Linux
1 4 (2.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (55.47%) Analytics
2 53 (38.69%) Data Governance
3 48 (35.04%) Data Management
4 39 (28.47%) Business Intelligence
5 38 (27.74%) Decision-Making
6 35 (25.55%) Mentoring
7 28 (20.44%) Continuous Improvement
8 27 (19.71%) Agile
9 25 (18.25%) Coaching
9 25 (18.25%) Data Analytics
10 24 (17.52%) Data Engineering
10 24 (17.52%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (16.79%) ETL
12 22 (16.06%) Artificial Intelligence
12 22 (16.06%) Data Science
12 22 (16.06%) Data Strategy
12 22 (16.06%) Visualisation
13 20 (14.60%) People Management
14 19 (13.87%) Data Visualisation
15 17 (12.41%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (27.01%) SQL
2 32 (23.36%) Python
3 11 (8.03%) R
4 6 (4.38%) VBA
5 4 (2.92%) Julia
6 2 (1.46%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.73%) Java
7 1 (0.73%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.73%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.73%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 17 (12.41%) Degree
2 5 (3.65%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.19%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.46%) CISM
4 2 (1.46%) CISSP
4 2 (1.46%) CRISC
4 2 (1.46%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.46%) Numerate Degree
4 2 (1.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (0.73%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (32.12%) Data Quality
2 11 (8.03%) QA
3 4 (2.92%) GDPR
3 4 (2.92%) NIST
4 3 (2.19%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.46%) COBIT
5 2 (1.46%) ITGC
6 1 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.73%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.73%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 24 (17.52%) Microsoft
2 16 (11.68%) Databricks
3 7 (5.11%) IBM
4 6 (4.38%) Oracle
5 4 (2.92%) Informatica
5 4 (2.92%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.92%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.19%) Google
7 2 (1.46%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.73%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.73%) JD Edwards
8 1 (0.73%) OneTrust
8 1 (0.73%) SAP
8 1 (0.73%) Teradata