Data Manager Jobs

Data Manager
UK

The median Data Manager salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 April 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 469 365 498
Rank change year-on-year -104 +133 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Manager 227 707 651
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.76% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.80% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 141 513 387
10th Percentile £46,000 £34,341 £47,150
25th Percentile £57,500 £42,257 £53,672
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -21.43% +12.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £71,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £106,275
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,367 £52,000 £65,175
% change year-on-year +27.63% -20.22% +18.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 45,395 87,903 100,964
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.80% 94.66% 91.85%
Number of salaries quoted 26,615 64,309 62,934
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,550 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,645 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% -8.93% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,433 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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 3 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Manager in the UK

Data Manager
Top 17 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 3 April 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
England -124 182 £70,000 +27.27% 291
UK excluding London -35 137 £66,367 +27.63% 143
Work from Home +60 98 £66,367 -1.68% 120
London -67 71 £88,182 +30.64% 181
South East +17 32 £59,500 +28.65% 54
Midlands +32 31 £62,500 +13.64% 18
Scotland +94 24 £78,613 +18.22% 14
North of England +21 24 £66,367 +32.73% 42
West Midlands +20 22 £60,000 +9.09% 10
North West +3 16 £66,367 +29.50% 30
South West +43 14 £44,460 -25.90% 10
East Midlands +33 9 £70,000 +55.56% 7
Yorkshire +51 8 £69,018 +38.04% 10
East of England +40 4 £52,500 +56.72% 4
Wales +37 4 £65,000 +22.74% 1
Channel Islands +4 2 £78,750 -
Northern Ireland - 2 - -

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

For the 6 months to 3 April 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 featuring Data Manager in the job title.

1 102 (44.93%) Analytics
2 81 (35.68%) Data Management
3 77 (33.92%) Finance
4 72 (31.72%) Data Quality
5 67 (29.52%) Social Skills
6 66 (29.07%) Analytical Skills
7 63 (27.75%) Data Governance
8 55 (24.23%) SQL
9 52 (22.91%) Business Intelligence
10 50 (22.03%) Power Platform
11 48 (21.15%) Power BI
11 48 (21.15%) Python
12 47 (20.70%) Azure
13 46 (20.26%) Data Engineering
13 46 (20.26%) Decision-Making
14 43 (18.94%) Microsoft
14 43 (18.94%) Artificial Intelligence
15 42 (18.50%) AWS
16 40 (17.62%) Agile
16 40 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
17 39 (17.18%) Banking
18 38 (16.74%) Mentoring
19 37 (16.30%) Continuous Improvement
19 37 (16.30%) Visualisation
19 37 (16.30%) Data Strategy
20 36 (15.86%) Data Analytics
21 35 (15.42%) ETL
22 34 (14.98%) Project Management
23 33 (14.54%) Stakeholder Management
23 33 (14.54%) Data Architecture

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 9 (3.96%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.88%) Confluence
3 1 (0.44%) Apache
3 1 (0.44%) SAS
Applications
1 28 (12.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.44%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.88%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.44%) Actimize
4 1 (0.44%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 50 (22.03%) Power Platform
2 47 (20.70%) Azure
3 42 (18.50%) AWS
4 15 (6.61%) GCP
5 14 (6.17%) Snowflake
6 10 (4.41%) Collibra
7 9 (3.96%) IBM Watson
8 7 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (3.08%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (2.64%) dbt
9 6 (2.64%) GitHub
10 5 (2.20%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (1.76%) Matillion
11 4 (1.76%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.32%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.32%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.88%) ADSL
1 2 (0.88%) Firewall
1 2 (0.88%) Internet
1 2 (0.88%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.44%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.44%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (21.15%) Power BI
2 30 (13.22%) Tableau
3 19 (8.37%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (6.61%) SQL Server
5 14 (6.17%) Metadata
6 9 (3.96%) Big Data
6 9 (3.96%) QlikView
7 8 (3.52%) Data Lake
7 8 (3.52%) Metadata Repository
8 6 (2.64%) Ataccama
9 5 (2.20%) Hadoop
9 5 (2.20%) Relational Database
9 5 (2.20%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (1.76%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (1.76%) Spark SQL
11 3 (1.32%) Amazon QuickSight
11 3 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.32%) Data Hub
11 3 (1.32%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 4 (1.76%) Git
2 3 (1.32%) GitLab
2 3 (1.32%) JIRA
2 3 (1.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.88%) Terragrunt
General
1 77 (33.92%) Finance
2 67 (29.52%) Social Skills
3 66 (29.07%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (17.18%) Banking
5 22 (9.69%) Legal
6 20 (8.81%) Retail
7 15 (6.61%) Marketing
8 12 (5.29%) Telecoms
9 10 (4.41%) Advertising
9 10 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (3.96%) Law
11 7 (3.08%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (2.64%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (2.64%) Tech for Good
13 4 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.76%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.88%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.44%) Billing
15 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.85%) PySpark
2 6 (2.64%) Middleware
3 3 (1.32%) Kafka
3 3 (1.32%) XGBoost
4 2 (0.88%) .NET
4 2 (0.88%) CSS
4 2 (0.88%) Google JAX
4 2 (0.88%) HTML
4 2 (0.88%) Hugging Face
4 2 (0.88%) JAX
4 2 (0.88%) jQuery
4 2 (0.88%) NumPy
4 2 (0.88%) Pandas
4 2 (0.88%) PyTorch
4 2 (0.88%) scikit-learn
4 2 (0.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.05%) Management Information System
2 9 (3.96%) Blockchain
2 9 (3.96%) Cyber Threat
2 9 (3.96%) Robotics
3 6 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (2.64%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (2.20%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.20%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.20%) Freedom of Information
4 5 (2.20%) Freedom of Information Act
4 5 (2.20%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.76%) Hackathon
6 3 (1.32%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.32%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.44%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.44%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.44%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (44.93%) Analytics
2 81 (35.68%) Data Management
3 63 (27.75%) Data Governance
4 52 (22.91%) Business Intelligence
5 46 (20.26%) Data Engineering
5 46 (20.26%) Decision-Making
6 43 (18.94%) Artificial Intelligence
7 40 (17.62%) Agile
7 40 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (16.74%) Mentoring
9 37 (16.30%) Continuous Improvement
9 37 (16.30%) Data Strategy
9 37 (16.30%) Visualisation
10 36 (15.86%) Data Analytics
11 35 (15.42%) ETL
12 34 (14.98%) Project Management
13 33 (14.54%) Data Architecture
13 33 (14.54%) Stakeholder Management
14 32 (14.10%) Data Visualisation
15 29 (12.78%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 55 (24.23%) SQL
2 48 (21.15%) Python
3 15 (6.61%) R
4 4 (1.76%) Java
4 4 (1.76%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.32%) Scala
6 2 (0.88%) C#
6 2 (0.88%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.88%) VBA
6 2 (0.88%) VBScript
7 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (7.93%) Degree
2 6 (2.64%) DBS Check
3 4 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (1.76%) CISM
3 4 (1.76%) CISSP
3 4 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.76%) ISEB
3 4 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.32%) CISA
4 3 (1.32%) CRISC
4 3 (1.32%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.88%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.88%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (0.88%) PMI Certification
5 2 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.44%) PMP
6 1 (0.44%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (31.72%) Data Quality
2 20 (8.81%) GDPR
3 15 (6.61%) QA
4 7 (3.08%) Good Clinical Practice
4 7 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (2.20%) Accessibility
6 5 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.76%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.88%) COBIT
8 2 (0.88%) ITGC
8 2 (0.88%) NIST
8 2 (0.88%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.44%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.20%) Terraform
2 1 (0.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 43 (18.94%) Microsoft
2 31 (13.66%) Databricks
3 13 (5.73%) Informatica
4 10 (4.41%) Salesforce
5 9 (3.96%) IBM
6 8 (3.52%) Google
7 6 (2.64%) Oracle
7 6 (2.64%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.76%) SAP
9 3 (1.32%) Talend
10 2 (0.88%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.88%) Apple
10 2 (0.88%) JD Edwards
10 2 (0.88%) MicroStrategy
10 2 (0.88%) Teradata
11 1 (0.44%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.44%) LexisNexis
11 1 (0.44%) OneTrust