Data Manager Contracts

Data Manager
UK

The median Data Manager daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 424 453 618
Rank change year-on-year +29 +165 -103
Contract jobs requiring a Data Manager 179 249 241
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.45% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.47% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 171 184
10th Percentile £339 £375 £336
25th Percentile £475 £456 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% +7.32%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £758 £713 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £39.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £65.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.54% +62.50% +41.69%
75th Percentile £36.00 - £41.00
90th Percentile £40.30 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year -61.54% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,232 52,519 83,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.52% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,887 36,654 58,907
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,488 1,954
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Manager in the UK

Data Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Manager over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Manager in the UK

Data Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Manager in the UK

Data Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Manager over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Manager in the UK

Data Manager
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +50 163 £550 - 134
London +65 94 £550 -8.33% 58
UK excluding London +8 74 £550 +10.00% 74
Work from Home +66 47 £600 +2.13% 52
North of England +31 27 £585 +7.34% 25
North West +23 23 £568 +8.10% 19
East of England +7 18 £450 -5.26% 11
South East -6 14 £613 +22.50% 25
Scotland +20 7 £475 +5.56% 1
Midlands +17 6 £613 +8.89% 11
West Midlands +12 5 £700 +19.15% 6
Yorkshire +7 3 £600 +9.09% 6
South West 0 2 - - 3
North East +12 1 £625 +31.58%
East Midlands +8 1 £355 -15.48% 5

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, Data Manager contract 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 contract job ads featuring Data Manager in the job title.

1 51 (28.49%) Data Governance
2 41 (22.91%) Data Management
2 41 (22.91%) Social Skills
3 37 (20.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 35 (19.55%) Finance
5 34 (18.99%) Analytics
6 33 (18.44%) Migration
7 32 (17.88%) Agile
8 31 (17.32%) SQL
8 31 (17.32%) Data Quality
9 30 (16.76%) Business Intelligence
10 27 (15.08%) Data Migration
10 27 (15.08%) Power BI
10 27 (15.08%) Power Platform
11 26 (14.53%) Analytical Skills
11 26 (14.53%) Project Management
12 25 (13.97%) SAP
12 25 (13.97%) Data Analytics
13 22 (12.29%) Azure
13 22 (12.29%) Roadmaps
14 20 (11.17%) Problem-Solving
15 19 (10.61%) Microsoft Excel
15 19 (10.61%) Data Modelling
16 18 (10.06%) Data Science
17 17 (9.50%) Degree
18 16 (8.94%) Pharmaceutical
18 16 (8.94%) Public Sector
19 15 (8.38%) Decision-Making
19 15 (8.38%) GDPR
19 15 (8.38%) ETL

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 10 (5.59%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.79%) SAS
3 2 (1.12%) Confluence
4 1 (0.56%) Apache
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.56%) CMS
4 1 (0.56%) IIS
4 1 (0.56%) nginx
Applications
1 19 (10.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (5.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (3.91%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (3.91%) MS Visio
4 5 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (2.79%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (3.91%) SAP MDG
2 6 (3.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.68%) Primavera
4 1 (0.56%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 1 (0.56%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.56%) SAP MDM
4 1 (0.56%) SAP R/3
4 1 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 27 (15.08%) Power Platform
2 22 (12.29%) Azure
3 5 (2.79%) AWS
4 3 (1.68%) GCP
4 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (1.68%) Power Automate
4 3 (1.68%) PowerApps
4 3 (1.68%) Veeva
5 2 (1.12%) Alation
5 2 (1.12%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.12%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.12%) Snowflake
5 2 (1.12%) WhatsApp
6 1 (0.56%) Azure App Service
6 1 (0.56%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (0.56%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (0.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (0.56%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle CX
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (15.08%) Power BI
2 14 (7.82%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (6.70%) Data Lake
4 8 (4.47%) Metadata
5 5 (2.79%) Big Data
5 5 (2.79%) Tableau
6 4 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (2.23%) QlikView
7 3 (1.68%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (1.68%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.12%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.12%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.56%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.56%) Looker
9 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.56%) MySQL
9 1 (0.56%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (3.91%) JIRA
2 1 (0.56%) Git
2 1 (0.56%) LSMW
2 1 (0.56%) MLflow
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
General
1 41 (22.91%) Social Skills
2 35 (19.55%) Finance
3 26 (14.53%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.94%) Pharmaceutical
4 16 (8.94%) Public Sector
5 14 (7.82%) Influencing Skills
5 14 (7.82%) Manufacturing
6 8 (4.47%) Retail
7 6 (3.35%) Marketing
8 4 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.68%) Law
9 3 (1.68%) Local Government
9 3 (1.68%) Publishing
10 2 (1.12%) Legal
10 2 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Banking
11 1 (0.56%) French Language
11 1 (0.56%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.56%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.56%) JSON
1 1 (0.56%) Kafka
1 1 (0.56%) NumPy
1 1 (0.56%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (0.56%) Pandas
1 1 (0.56%) PySpark
1 1 (0.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.03%) Management Information System
1 9 (5.03%) NHS
2 8 (4.47%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.91%) Reference Data
4 4 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.23%) FMCG
5 3 (1.68%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.68%) Life Science
6 2 (1.12%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.12%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.56%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.56%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.56%) Freedom of Information Act
7 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.56%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.56%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.56%) Solar Power
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (28.49%) Data Governance
2 41 (22.91%) Data Management
3 37 (20.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 34 (18.99%) Analytics
5 33 (18.44%) Migration
6 32 (17.88%) Agile
7 30 (16.76%) Business Intelligence
8 27 (15.08%) Data Migration
9 26 (14.53%) Project Management
10 25 (13.97%) Data Analytics
11 22 (12.29%) Roadmaps
12 20 (11.17%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (10.61%) Data Modelling
14 18 (10.06%) Data Science
15 15 (8.38%) Data Protection
15 15 (8.38%) Decision-Making
15 15 (8.38%) ETL
16 12 (6.70%) Data Strategy
16 12 (6.70%) Validation
17 11 (6.15%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 31 (17.32%) SQL
2 9 (5.03%) Python
3 7 (3.91%) R
4 3 (1.68%) C#
4 3 (1.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (1.68%) PL/SQL
4 3 (1.68%) VB
5 1 (0.56%) Java
5 1 (0.56%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.56%) PHP
5 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (9.50%) Degree
2 4 (2.23%) Master's Degree
3 3 (1.68%) CIMA
3 3 (1.68%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.68%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.12%) CCNA
4 2 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.12%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.12%) PhD
4 2 (1.12%) PMP
5 1 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.56%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (17.32%) Data Quality
2 15 (8.38%) GDPR
3 13 (7.26%) QA
4 4 (2.23%) GxP
4 4 (2.23%) PMO
5 3 (1.68%) CDISC
5 3 (1.68%) Good Clinical Practice
6 1 (0.56%) GMP
6 1 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (0.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 25 (13.97%) SAP
2 13 (7.26%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.03%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.23%) IFS
4 4 (2.23%) Informatica
4 4 (2.23%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.68%) IBM
5 3 (1.68%) Marketo
5 3 (1.68%) Oracle
5 3 (1.68%) Pardot
6 2 (1.12%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.12%) Arista
6 2 (1.12%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.12%) Facebook
6 2 (1.12%) Okta
6 2 (1.12%) Radianz
6 2 (1.12%) Reuters
6 2 (1.12%) Symantec
6 2 (1.12%) Talend
6 2 (1.12%) Varonis