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 £66,367 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 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
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 444 330 443
Rank change year-on-year -114 +113 +22
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Manager 144 543 340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.76% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.80% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 86 379 187
10th Percentile £42,645 £31,000 £47,525
25th Percentile £51,250 £40,000 £53,595
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,367 £50,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year +32.73% -17.01% +6.66%
75th Percentile £77,500 £65,000 £77,530
90th Percentile £91,661 £71,969 £93,950
UK median annual salary £69,509 £55,000 £66,603
% change year-on-year +26.38% -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 35,898 67,972 52,779
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.59% 94.88% 89.24%
Number of salaries quoted 18,484 47,985 30,138
10th Percentile £26,951 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.66% +6.00%
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 21 May 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 21 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
South East -28 37 £59,000 +31.11% 83
North of England -44 30 £66,367 +32.73% 62
Midlands +8 25 £70,000 +27.27% 36
South West +50 24 £44,460 -15.15% 21
Scotland +87 20 £75,000 +12.78% 9
North West -45 19 £61,250 +28.95% 38
West Midlands +29 17 £60,000 +9.09% 24
Yorkshire +36 11 £68,259 +36.52% 19
East Midlands +12 8 £75,000 +66.67% 9
East of England +21 4 £71,250 +129.84% 7
Channel Islands 0 2 £78,750 - 2
Northern Ireland +40 1 - - 2
Wales +37 1 £80,000 +51.07% 1
Data Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 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 UK excluding London region featuring Data Manager in the job title.

1 76 (52.78%) Analytics
2 54 (37.50%) Data Governance
3 53 (36.81%) Finance
4 52 (36.11%) Data Management
5 50 (34.72%) Data Quality
6 39 (27.08%) Business Intelligence
7 38 (26.39%) SQL
7 38 (26.39%) Decision-Making
7 38 (26.39%) Social Skills
8 37 (25.69%) Analytical Skills
9 35 (24.31%) Mentoring
9 35 (24.31%) Python
10 34 (23.61%) Power BI
10 34 (23.61%) Power Platform
11 32 (22.22%) Banking
12 30 (20.83%) Tableau
13 29 (20.14%) Continuous Improvement
13 29 (20.14%) Data Engineering
14 28 (19.44%) Agile
15 27 (18.75%) Microsoft Excel
15 27 (18.75%) Azure
16 26 (18.06%) AWS
16 26 (18.06%) Data Analytics
17 25 (17.36%) Coaching
17 25 (17.36%) Data Strategy
17 25 (17.36%) Microsoft
17 25 (17.36%) Artificial Intelligence
18 23 (15.97%) ETL
18 23 (15.97%) Visualisation
19 22 (15.28%) Data Science

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 (4.17%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.47%) SAS
3 2 (1.39%) Confluence
Applications
1 27 (18.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 34 (23.61%) Power Platform
2 27 (18.75%) Azure
3 26 (18.06%) AWS
4 8 (5.56%) IBM Watson
5 6 (4.17%) Collibra
6 3 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.08%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.08%) Amazon SageMaker
6 3 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (2.08%) GCP
6 3 (2.08%) GitHub
6 3 (2.08%) Serverless
6 3 (2.08%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.69%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.69%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.69%) Cisco IPT
1 1 (0.69%) Firewall
1 1 (0.69%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (0.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (23.61%) Power BI
2 30 (20.83%) Tableau
3 15 (10.42%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (9.72%) SQL Server
5 11 (7.64%) Metadata
6 9 (6.25%) Metadata Repository
7 8 (5.56%) QlikView
8 7 (4.86%) Data Lake
9 6 (4.17%) Ataccama
10 4 (2.78%) Data Hub
10 4 (2.78%) Oracle Database
10 4 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (2.78%) Qlik Sense
11 3 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (2.08%) Amazon QuickSight
11 3 (2.08%) Parquet
11 3 (2.08%) Spark SQL
12 2 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (1.39%) Big Data
12 2 (1.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (4.86%) Git
2 4 (2.78%) Subversion
3 3 (2.08%) GitLab
4 2 (1.39%) JIRA
4 2 (1.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 53 (36.81%) Finance
2 38 (26.39%) Social Skills
3 37 (25.69%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (22.22%) Banking
5 16 (11.11%) Retail
6 9 (6.25%) Legal
6 9 (6.25%) Telecoms
7 8 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (4.17%) Law
9 5 (3.47%) Marketing
9 5 (3.47%) Tech for Good
10 4 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.39%) Advertising
11 2 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.39%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.69%) Billing
12 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.56%) PySpark
2 4 (2.78%) Middleware
3 3 (2.08%) XGBoost
4 1 (0.69%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.56%) Blockchain
1 8 (5.56%) Robotics
2 7 (4.86%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.47%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (2.78%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.78%) Hackathon
4 4 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.39%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.69%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.69%) FMCG
7 1 (0.69%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.69%) Freedom of Information Act
7 1 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.69%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.69%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.08%) Linux
1 3 (2.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (52.78%) Analytics
2 54 (37.50%) Data Governance
3 52 (36.11%) Data Management
4 39 (27.08%) Business Intelligence
5 38 (26.39%) Decision-Making
6 35 (24.31%) Mentoring
7 29 (20.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 29 (20.14%) Data Engineering
8 28 (19.44%) Agile
9 26 (18.06%) Data Analytics
10 25 (17.36%) Artificial Intelligence
10 25 (17.36%) Coaching
10 25 (17.36%) Data Strategy
11 23 (15.97%) ETL
11 23 (15.97%) Visualisation
12 22 (15.28%) Data Science
13 20 (13.89%) Data Visualisation
13 20 (13.89%) People Management
13 20 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
13 20 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (26.39%) SQL
2 35 (24.31%) Python
3 12 (8.33%) R
4 6 (4.17%) VBA
5 4 (2.78%) Julia
6 2 (1.39%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.69%) Java
7 1 (0.69%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.69%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.69%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 16 (11.11%) Degree
2 5 (3.47%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.08%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.39%) CISM
5 2 (1.39%) CISSP
5 2 (1.39%) CRISC
5 2 (1.39%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.39%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (1.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.69%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (34.72%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.64%) QA
3 4 (2.78%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.78%) GDPR
3 4 (2.78%) NIST
4 3 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.39%) COBIT
5 2 (1.39%) ITGC
6 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.69%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 25 (17.36%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.19%) Databricks
3 8 (5.56%) IBM
4 5 (3.47%) Oracle
5 4 (2.78%) Informatica
5 4 (2.78%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.78%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.08%) Google
7 2 (1.39%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.39%) JD Edwards
8 1 (0.69%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.69%) OneTrust
8 1 (0.69%) SAP
8 1 (0.69%) Teradata