Data Manager
UK

The median Data Manager salary in the UK is £60,249 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 December 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 459 488 444
Rank change year-on-year +29 -44 +111
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Manager 288 777 942
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.63% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.66% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 210 382 440
10th Percentile £42,439 £45,775 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,900 £54,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,249 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.93% +12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £78,438 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,775 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,249 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.31% +13.04% +18.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 51,159 118,464 121,698
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.44% 95.41% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 37,465 74,592 83,940
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

Data Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Manager in the UK

Data Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Manager in the UK

Data Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Manager over the 6 months to 6 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Data Manager in the UK

Data Manager
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 December 2023. 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
England +55 262 £62,500 -10.71% 179
Work from Home +92 144 £60,249 -13.93% 77
UK excluding London +40 139 £60,249 -7.31% 103
London +129 134 £72,500 -3.33% 86
North of England +27 34 £50,000 -13.04% 25
Midlands +97 30 £65,000 -7.14% 24
South East +106 26 £64,250 -8.21% 31
West Midlands +133 23 £67,500 -8.16% 16
South West +78 22 £60,249 -12.37% 17
Scotland +65 16 £60,249 +9.54% 2
Yorkshire -1 16 £43,586 -16.58% 6
North West +90 14 £60,249 +2.55% 15
East of England +106 10 £47,500 +5.56% 6
East Midlands +38 7 £45,000 -35.71% 8
North East +37 4 £49,779 -17.04% 4
Wales +3 1 £43,000 -20.37% 1

Data Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 6 December 2023, 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 featuring Data Manager in the job title.

1 124 (43.06%) Agile
2 118 (40.97%) Analytics
3 117 (40.63%) Finance
4 101 (35.07%) Data Management
5 97 (33.68%) Business Intelligence
6 90 (31.25%) Power BI
6 90 (31.25%) Power Platform
7 83 (28.82%) Social Skills
8 67 (23.26%) Data Analytics
9 65 (22.57%) Data Strategy
10 62 (21.53%) Azure
11 61 (21.18%) SQL
12 59 (20.49%) Stakeholder Management
12 59 (20.49%) Problem-Solving
13 58 (20.14%) Banking
14 55 (19.10%) Data Analysis
14 55 (19.10%) Data Governance
15 51 (17.71%) Data Quality
16 47 (16.32%) Visualisation
17 45 (15.63%) Project Management
18 43 (14.93%) Python
19 42 (14.58%) Data Modelling
19 42 (14.58%) Data Science
20 38 (13.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 38 (13.19%) Data Visualisation
21 37 (12.85%) Metadata
22 36 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
22 36 (12.50%) Roadmaps
23 35 (12.15%) Microsoft
24 34 (11.81%) Data Security

Data Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 20 (6.94%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.39%) SAS
3 2 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.69%) Jupyter
3 2 (0.69%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (5.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.69%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.69%) SPSS
4 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.69%) Eloqua
2 2 (0.69%) FastStats
3 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.35%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 90 (31.25%) Power Platform
2 62 (21.53%) Azure
3 23 (7.99%) AWS
4 19 (6.60%) GCP
5 11 (3.82%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 9 (3.13%) Datadog
7 8 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.74%) GitHub
9 5 (1.74%) Google Analytics
9 5 (1.74%) Snowflake
10 4 (1.39%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.04%) Microsoft 365
12 1 (0.35%) Azure Stack
12 1 (0.35%) Collibra
12 1 (0.35%) dbt
12 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (31.25%) Power BI
2 37 (12.85%) Metadata
3 27 (9.38%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (8.68%) Big Data
5 19 (6.60%) Data Lake
5 19 (6.60%) Tableau
6 13 (4.51%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 12 (4.17%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.78%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.74%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.39%) Data Hub
10 4 (1.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (1.04%) Apache Hive
11 3 (1.04%) Delta Lake
11 3 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 3 (1.04%) MongoDB
11 3 (1.04%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 6 (2.08%) JIRA
2 2 (0.69%) Git
3 1 (0.35%) ERwin
General
1 117 (40.63%) Finance
2 83 (28.82%) Social Skills
3 58 (20.14%) Banking
4 38 (13.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 36 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
6 30 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (7.64%) Influencing Skills
8 20 (6.94%) Legal
9 16 (5.56%) Retail
10 13 (4.51%) Public Sector
11 11 (3.82%) Manufacturing
12 10 (3.47%) Marketing
13 8 (2.78%) Local Government
14 6 (2.08%) Law
15 3 (1.04%) Financial Institution
15 3 (1.04%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.69%) Front Office
16 2 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.69%) Police
17 1 (0.35%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.47%) HTML
2 6 (2.08%) Middleware
3 5 (1.74%) CSS
4 4 (1.39%) .NET
5 3 (1.04%) React
6 2 (0.69%) Apache Beam
6 2 (0.69%) Django
6 2 (0.69%) jQuery
6 2 (0.69%) Matplotlib
6 2 (0.69%) NumPy
6 2 (0.69%) Pandas
6 2 (0.69%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 1 (0.35%) Kafka
7 1 (0.35%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.35%) PySpark
7 1 (0.35%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.35%) REST
7 1 (0.35%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.35%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.94%) Product Ownership
2 14 (4.86%) Management Information System
3 13 (4.51%) Data Structures
3 13 (4.51%) Virtual Team
4 12 (4.17%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.43%) Cyber Threat
5 7 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.74%) Algorithms
6 5 (1.74%) Cyberattack
6 5 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.04%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.04%) Learning Management System
7 3 (1.04%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.04%) PMI
8 2 (0.69%) Data Fabric
8 2 (0.69%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.69%) Tandem
8 2 (0.69%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.35%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.47%) Windows
2 9 (3.13%) Linux
2 9 (3.13%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (43.06%) Agile
2 118 (40.97%) Analytics
3 101 (35.07%) Data Management
4 97 (33.68%) Business Intelligence
5 67 (23.26%) Data Analytics
6 65 (22.57%) Data Strategy
7 59 (20.49%) Problem-Solving
7 59 (20.49%) Stakeholder Management
8 55 (19.10%) Data Analysis
8 55 (19.10%) Data Governance
9 47 (16.32%) Visualisation
10 45 (15.63%) Project Management
11 42 (14.58%) Data Modelling
11 42 (14.58%) Data Science
12 38 (13.19%) Data Visualisation
13 36 (12.50%) Roadmaps
14 34 (11.81%) Data Security
15 33 (11.46%) Collaborative Working
16 31 (10.76%) Data Engineering
17 26 (9.03%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (21.18%) SQL
2 43 (14.93%) Python
3 11 (3.82%) R
4 9 (3.13%) Bash
4 9 (3.13%) PowerShell
4 9 (3.13%) Search Processing Language
5 7 (2.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (2.08%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.74%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.39%) C#
8 4 (1.39%) Java
9 3 (1.04%) Scala
9 3 (1.04%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (9.03%) Degree
2 10 (3.47%) CISSP
3 9 (3.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 9 (3.13%) CCSP
3 9 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (2.43%) Security Cleared
5 5 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.74%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.39%) ACCA
6 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.04%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.04%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.69%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.35%) CISA
9 1 (0.35%) CISM
9 1 (0.35%) HND
9 1 (0.35%) ISEB
9 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (17.71%) Data Quality
2 28 (9.72%) GDPR
3 20 (6.94%) QA
4 11 (3.82%) GMP
5 4 (1.39%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.69%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.35%) Good Clinical Practice
7 1 (0.35%) IFRS
7 1 (0.35%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.35%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (3.82%) Docker
2 2 (0.69%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (4.51%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.13%) Ansible
2 9 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (12.15%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.68%) Databricks
3 15 (5.21%) SAP
4 13 (4.51%) Google
5 9 (3.13%) AppDynamics
5 9 (3.13%) New Relic
5 9 (3.13%) Splunk
6 7 (2.43%) Oracle
7 6 (2.08%) Alteryx
7 6 (2.08%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.08%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.69%) Adobe
8 2 (0.69%) Apple
8 2 (0.69%) Informatica
8 2 (0.69%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (0.69%) Workday
9 1 (0.35%) Brandwatch
9 1 (0.35%) IBM
9 1 (0.35%) Intel
9 1 (0.35%) Kronos