Data Manager Jobs

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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 487 480
Rank change year-on-year +158 -7 +34
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Manager 888 548 1,245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.85% 0.58% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 0.63% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 620 370 496
10th Percentile £31,925 £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 £71,250 £88,750 £78,125
90th Percentile £96,250 £106,397 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +13.64% +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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

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 1 June 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 1 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +150 770 £55,000 -17.42% 146
UK excluding London +135 583 £50,000 -20.00% 86
London +140 261 £70,000 - 70
Work from Home -31 237 £67,500 -3.91% 57
South East +99 162 £45,000 -28.00% 24
North of England +20 133 £47,500 -27.32% 21
South West +31 100 £52,396 -13.04% 7
Midlands +37 82 £55,000 -18.52% 15
North West +51 77 £45,000 -24.40% 17
Scotland -24 66 £66,500 +11.72% 14
West Midlands +7 45 £55,000 -24.14% 10
Yorkshire -13 41 £50,000 -31.93% 4
East Midlands +11 37 £45,000 -33.33% 5
East of England +15 26 £33,500 -39.09% 4
North East +2 15 £45,000 -13.46%
Wales +15 10 £52,956 -3.79%
Northern Ireland +22 2 - - 1
Channel Islands - 2 - -

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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.

1 197 (22.18%) Data Engineering
2 193 (21.73%) Data Management
3 188 (21.17%) Analytics
4 179 (20.16%) Analytical Skills
5 169 (19.03%) Agile
6 166 (18.69%) Problem-Solving
7 165 (18.58%) Azure
7 165 (18.58%) Social Skills
8 145 (16.33%) Finance
9 134 (15.09%) Project Management
10 131 (14.75%) Data Governance
11 130 (14.64%) Data Warehouse
12 127 (14.30%) SQL
13 124 (13.96%) Business Intelligence
14 121 (13.63%) Data Modelling
15 113 (12.73%) GCP
16 112 (12.61%) Data Quality
17 111 (12.50%) AWS
18 110 (12.39%) ETL
19 108 (12.16%) Power Platform
20 107 (12.05%) Power BI
21 106 (11.94%) Line Management
22 103 (11.60%) Business Strategy
23 99 (11.15%) Scrum
23 99 (11.15%) Google
24 96 (10.81%) Degree
25 95 (10.70%) Microsoft
26 94 (10.59%) Data Analysis
27 91 (10.25%) Management Information System
27 91 (10.25%) Platform Engineering

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 17 (1.91%) Apache Spark
2 14 (1.58%) SAS
3 5 (0.56%) Apache
3 5 (0.56%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.11%) CMS
6 1 (0.11%) IBM Domino
6 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
Applications
1 51 (5.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.68%) SPSS
5 5 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.34%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 7 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.68%) SAP Business One
3 5 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.56%) Raiser’s Edge
4 4 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.23%) Exchequer
5 2 (0.23%) Primavera
5 2 (0.23%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 165 (18.58%) Azure
2 113 (12.73%) GCP
3 111 (12.50%) AWS
4 108 (12.16%) Power Platform
5 79 (8.90%) Azure DevOps
6 38 (4.28%) Azure Data Factory
7 32 (3.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 21 (2.36%) Snowflake
9 14 (1.58%) Serverless
10 12 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
11 11 (1.24%) Collibra
12 10 (1.13%) dbt
12 10 (1.13%) Google Analytics
13 9 (1.01%) Amazon S3
13 9 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (1.01%) SaaS
14 8 (0.90%) Power Automate
15 7 (0.79%) Dynamics 365
15 7 (0.79%) PowerApps
16 4 (0.45%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.58%) WPA
2 8 (0.90%) TETRA
3 7 (0.79%) Wireless
4 4 (0.45%) ADSL
5 3 (0.34%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (14.64%) Data Warehouse
2 107 (12.05%) Power BI
3 80 (9.01%) Looker
4 79 (8.90%) BigQuery
5 54 (6.08%) Tableau
6 25 (2.82%) Data Lake
7 22 (2.48%) Big Data
7 22 (2.48%) Metadata
8 18 (2.03%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 12 (1.35%) NoSQL
10 9 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (0.90%) HDInsight
11 8 (0.90%) MongoDB
12 6 (0.68%) Ataccama
12 6 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (0.68%) Power Query
12 6 (0.68%) QlikView
13 5 (0.56%) Hadoop
13 5 (0.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (0.45%) Git
1 4 (0.45%) RStudio
2 2 (0.23%) GitLab
3 1 (0.11%) ERwin
General
1 179 (20.16%) Analytical Skills
2 165 (18.58%) Social Skills
3 145 (16.33%) Finance
4 74 (8.33%) Billing
5 56 (6.31%) Banking
6 47 (5.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 47 (5.29%) Legal
7 37 (4.17%) Marketing
8 31 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
8 31 (3.49%) Retail
9 29 (3.27%) Law
10 19 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
11 18 (2.03%) Investment Banking
12 15 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (1.46%) Games
13 13 (1.46%) Local Government
13 13 (1.46%) Police
14 8 (0.90%) Military
14 8 (0.90%) Public Sector
15 7 (0.79%) Fire and Rescue
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.24%) Middleware
2 5 (0.56%) jQuery
3 4 (0.45%) PySpark
3 4 (0.45%) Web Services
3 4 (0.45%) XML
3 4 (0.45%) YAML
4 3 (0.34%) CSS
4 3 (0.34%) EDI
4 3 (0.34%) HTML
5 2 (0.23%) Django
5 2 (0.23%) JSON
5 2 (0.23%) Pandas
5 2 (0.23%) PostGIS
5 2 (0.23%) RESTful
5 2 (0.23%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 1 (0.11%) ADO
6 1 (0.11%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 91 (10.25%) Management Information System
1 91 (10.25%) Product Ownership
2 33 (3.72%) Data Centre
3 15 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
4 13 (1.46%) Taxonomies
5 12 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (1.35%) Freedom of Information
6 11 (1.24%) Algorithms
7 10 (1.13%) Reinsurance
8 8 (0.90%) Reference Data
9 7 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (0.68%) PMI
10 6 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (0.68%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.56%) Cloud Native
11 5 (0.56%) Housing Association
12 4 (0.45%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.45%) Smart Meter
13 3 (0.34%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (22.18%) Data Engineering
2 193 (21.73%) Data Management
3 188 (21.17%) Analytics
4 169 (19.03%) Agile
5 166 (18.69%) Problem-Solving
6 134 (15.09%) Project Management
7 131 (14.75%) Data Governance
8 124 (13.96%) Business Intelligence
9 121 (13.63%) Data Modelling
10 110 (12.39%) ETL
11 106 (11.94%) Line Management
12 103 (11.60%) Business Strategy
13 99 (11.15%) Scrum
14 94 (10.59%) Data Analysis
15 91 (10.25%) Platform Engineering
16 90 (10.14%) CI/CD
17 89 (10.02%) DevOps
18 85 (9.57%) Data Protection
19 81 (9.12%) Backlog Management
20 80 (9.01%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 127 (14.30%) SQL
2 84 (9.46%) Python
3 18 (2.03%) R
4 8 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (0.56%) Go
5 5 (0.56%) Java
5 5 (0.56%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.45%) T-SQL
6 4 (0.45%) VBA
7 3 (0.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 96 (10.81%) Degree
2 38 (4.28%) DBS Check
3 18 (2.03%) Master's Degree
3 18 (2.03%) Security Cleared
4 15 (1.69%) Numerate Degree
5 14 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.01%) MBA
8 7 (0.79%) CISSP
9 6 (0.68%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.34%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.34%) CCSK
10 3 (0.34%) CCSP
10 3 (0.34%) CISA
10 3 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.34%) CISM
11 2 (0.23%) CIMA
11 2 (0.23%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (12.61%) Data Quality
2 80 (9.01%) QA
3 53 (5.97%) GDPR
4 10 (1.13%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.79%) SLA
7 4 (0.45%) PMO
8 3 (0.34%) ISO 14000
8 3 (0.34%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.11%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.11%) CDISC
10 1 (0.11%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
System Software
1 3 (0.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (0.68%) Terraform
2 3 (0.34%) CASB
2 3 (0.34%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.23%) Argo
3 2 (0.23%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.11%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 99 (11.15%) Google
2 95 (10.70%) Microsoft
3 37 (4.17%) Databricks
4 27 (3.04%) SAP
5 19 (2.14%) Oracle
6 8 (0.90%) Salesforce
6 8 (0.90%) Samsung
6 8 (0.90%) ServiceNow
7 7 (0.79%) Alteryx
8 6 (0.68%) Canon
9 5 (0.56%) Informatica
10 3 (0.34%) Netskope
10 3 (0.34%) Reuters
10 3 (0.34%) Symantec
10 3 (0.34%) Tealium
10 3 (0.34%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.23%) Bloomberg
11 2 (0.23%) Dataiku
11 2 (0.23%) HubSpot
11 2 (0.23%) Meraki