Data Manager
UK

The median Data Manager salary in the UK is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

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

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 483 487
Rank change year-on-year +144 +4 +27
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Manager 828 603 1,179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.83% 0.61% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 0.66% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 590 395 502
10th Percentile £32,000 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £56,219 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £66,603 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.42% +6.56% +8.05%
75th Percentile £71,750 £87,500 £80,379
90th Percentile £104,328 £106,275 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,250 £60,249 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.94% +9.54% +10.00%

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 94,483 90,798 154,064
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 91.49% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,539 57,358 84,412
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,526
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Manager in the UK

Data Manager
Top 18 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 17 May 2024. 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 +141 727 £55,000 -17.42% 131
UK excluding London +105 540 £51,250 -14.94% 72
London +122 248 £72,500 +3.57% 71
Work from Home -32 242 £67,500 -3.57% 54
South East +98 156 £45,000 -26.53% 21
North of England -3 113 £50,000 -23.49% 17
South West +43 101 £52,396 -13.04% 6
Midlands +39 78 £55,000 -18.52% 7
North West +37 59 £47,500 -20.20% 14
Scotland -28 55 £66,500 +11.72% 10
West Midlands +36 45 £55,000 -24.14% 4
Yorkshire -29 39 £50,000 -31.93% 3
East Midlands +14 33 £45,000 -33.33% 3
East of England +26 25 £31,000 -43.64% 11
North East +10 15 £45,000 -13.46%
Wales +19 9 £52,956 -3.79%
Channel Islands - 2 - -
Northern Ireland +23 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, 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.

1 202 (24.40%) Data Engineering
2 191 (23.07%) Analytics
3 187 (22.58%) Data Management
4 182 (21.98%) Analytical Skills
5 174 (21.01%) Azure
5 174 (21.01%) Agile
6 167 (20.17%) Problem-Solving
7 166 (20.05%) Social Skills
8 134 (16.18%) Finance
9 133 (16.06%) Project Management
9 133 (16.06%) Data Warehouse
10 124 (14.98%) SQL
10 124 (14.98%) Data Governance
11 123 (14.86%) Business Intelligence
12 120 (14.49%) Data Modelling
13 116 (14.01%) GCP
14 113 (13.65%) AWS
15 110 (13.29%) ETL
16 107 (12.92%) Data Quality
16 107 (12.92%) Power Platform
17 106 (12.80%) Power BI
18 104 (12.56%) Line Management
19 103 (12.44%) Business Strategy
20 102 (12.32%) Google
21 101 (12.20%) Scrum
22 96 (11.59%) Microsoft
22 96 (11.59%) Degree
22 96 (11.59%) DevOps
23 94 (11.35%) Product Ownership
24 93 (11.23%) Data Analysis

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 22 (2.66%) Apache Spark
2 14 (1.69%) SAS
3 5 (0.60%) Apache
3 5 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.48%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.12%) CMS
6 1 (0.12%) Confluence
6 1 (0.12%) IBM Domino
6 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
Applications
1 51 (6.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.72%) SPSS
5 5 (0.60%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.36%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 7 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.72%) SAP Business One
2 6 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.60%) Raiser’s Edge
4 4 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.24%) Exchequer
5 2 (0.24%) Primavera
5 2 (0.24%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 174 (21.01%) Azure
2 116 (14.01%) GCP
3 113 (13.65%) AWS
4 107 (12.92%) Power Platform
5 82 (9.90%) Azure DevOps
6 38 (4.59%) Azure Data Factory
7 32 (3.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 20 (2.42%) Snowflake
9 14 (1.69%) Serverless
10 12 (1.45%) Microsoft Purview
11 11 (1.33%) Collibra
12 10 (1.21%) dbt
12 10 (1.21%) Google Analytics
13 9 (1.09%) Amazon S3
13 9 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (1.09%) PowerApps
13 9 (1.09%) SaaS
14 8 (0.97%) Power Automate
15 4 (0.48%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.69%) WPA
2 9 (1.09%) Wireless
3 6 (0.72%) TETRA
4 4 (0.48%) ADSL
5 3 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (16.06%) Data Warehouse
2 106 (12.80%) Power BI
3 80 (9.66%) Looker
4 79 (9.54%) BigQuery
5 53 (6.40%) Tableau
6 27 (3.26%) Data Lake
7 24 (2.90%) Big Data
8 22 (2.66%) Metadata
9 18 (2.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 13 (1.57%) NoSQL
11 9 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (0.97%) HDInsight
12 8 (0.97%) MongoDB
13 7 (0.85%) Hadoop
13 7 (0.85%) Relational Database
14 6 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
14 6 (0.72%) Power Query
14 6 (0.72%) QlikView
15 5 (0.60%) Ataccama
Development Applications
1 6 (0.72%) Git
2 4 (0.48%) RStudio
3 2 (0.24%) GitLab
4 1 (0.12%) ERwin
4 1 (0.12%) JIRA
General
1 182 (21.98%) Analytical Skills
2 166 (20.05%) Social Skills
3 134 (16.18%) Finance
4 74 (8.94%) Billing
5 58 (7.00%) Banking
6 49 (5.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (5.68%) Legal
8 37 (4.47%) Marketing
9 32 (3.86%) Presentation Skills
9 32 (3.86%) Retail
10 29 (3.50%) Law
11 20 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (2.17%) Investment Banking
13 15 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (1.57%) Games
14 13 (1.57%) Local Government
14 13 (1.57%) Police
15 8 (0.97%) Military
16 7 (0.85%) Fire and Rescue
16 7 (0.85%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.33%) Middleware
2 5 (0.60%) CSS
2 5 (0.60%) HTML
2 5 (0.60%) jQuery
3 4 (0.48%) PySpark
3 4 (0.48%) Web Services
3 4 (0.48%) XML
3 4 (0.48%) YAML
4 3 (0.36%) EDI
5 2 (0.24%) .NET
5 2 (0.24%) Apache Beam
5 2 (0.24%) Django
5 2 (0.24%) JSON
5 2 (0.24%) Pandas
5 2 (0.24%) PostGIS
5 2 (0.24%) RESTful
5 2 (0.24%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 1 (0.12%) ADO
6 1 (0.12%) Kafka
6 1 (0.12%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 94 (11.35%) Product Ownership
2 86 (10.39%) Management Information System
3 29 (3.50%) Data Centre
4 15 (1.81%) Cyber Threat
5 13 (1.57%) Taxonomies
6 12 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
6 12 (1.45%) Freedom of Information
7 10 (1.21%) Algorithms
7 10 (1.21%) Reinsurance
8 7 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (0.85%) Reference Data
9 6 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (0.72%) PMI
9 6 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (0.72%) Virtual Team
10 5 (0.60%) Cloud Native
11 4 (0.48%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.48%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.48%) Smart Meter
12 3 (0.36%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (24.40%) Data Engineering
2 191 (23.07%) Analytics
3 187 (22.58%) Data Management
4 174 (21.01%) Agile
5 167 (20.17%) Problem-Solving
6 133 (16.06%) Project Management
7 124 (14.98%) Data Governance
8 123 (14.86%) Business Intelligence
9 120 (14.49%) Data Modelling
10 110 (13.29%) ETL
11 104 (12.56%) Line Management
12 103 (12.44%) Business Strategy
13 101 (12.20%) Scrum
14 96 (11.59%) DevOps
15 93 (11.23%) Data Analysis
16 92 (11.11%) CI/CD
17 91 (10.99%) Platform Engineering
18 87 (10.51%) Data Protection
19 82 (9.90%) Backlog Management
20 81 (9.78%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 124 (14.98%) SQL
2 86 (10.39%) Python
3 18 (2.17%) R
4 8 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (0.85%) JavaScript
6 6 (0.72%) Java
6 6 (0.72%) Scala
7 5 (0.60%) Go
7 5 (0.60%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.48%) VBA
9 2 (0.24%) C#
Qualifications
1 96 (11.59%) Degree
2 38 (4.59%) DBS Check
3 17 (2.05%) Master's Degree
4 15 (1.81%) Numerate Degree
5 13 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.09%) MBA
7 7 (0.85%) CISSP
8 6 (0.72%) PMI Certification
8 6 (0.72%) Security Cleared
9 3 (0.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (0.36%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.36%) CCSK
9 3 (0.36%) CCSP
9 3 (0.36%) CISA
9 3 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.36%) CISM
10 2 (0.24%) CIMA
10 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.24%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (12.92%) Data Quality
2 82 (9.90%) QA
3 52 (6.28%) GDPR
4 10 (1.21%) Accessibility
5 8 (0.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.72%) SLA
8 5 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.48%) PMO
10 3 (0.36%) ISO 14000
11 2 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
12 1 (0.12%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 1 (0.12%) CDISC
12 1 (0.12%) Good Clinical Practice
12 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
System Software
1 3 (0.36%) Docker
2 2 (0.24%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 6 (0.72%) Terraform
2 4 (0.48%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.36%) CASB
4 2 (0.24%) Argo
4 2 (0.24%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.12%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 102 (12.32%) Google
2 96 (11.59%) Microsoft
3 39 (4.71%) Databricks
4 26 (3.14%) SAP
5 18 (2.17%) Oracle
6 8 (0.97%) Samsung
6 8 (0.97%) ServiceNow
7 7 (0.85%) Alteryx
7 7 (0.85%) Salesforce
8 6 (0.72%) Canon
9 5 (0.60%) Informatica
10 3 (0.36%) Netskope
10 3 (0.36%) Reuters
10 3 (0.36%) Symantec
10 3 (0.36%) Tealium
10 3 (0.36%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.24%) Ariba
11 2 (0.24%) Dataiku
11 2 (0.24%) HubSpot
11 2 (0.24%) Meraki