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 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 394 445 602
Rank change year-on-year +51 +157 -89
Contract jobs requiring a Data Manager 185 250 242
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.45% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.47% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 172 182
10th Percentile £357 £379 £332
25th Percentile £483 £453 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% +7.32%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £770 £712 £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 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
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% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +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
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 1 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 1 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 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +43 169 £563 +3.21% 146
London +78 97 £550 -8.33% 70
UK excluding London +5 77 £550 +10.00% 86
Work from Home +72 50 £600 +4.35% 57
North of England +28 28 £585 +9.35% 21
North West +32 23 £585 +14.15% 17
East of England +11 18 £450 -5.26% 4
South East -12 15 £650 +30.00% 24
Midlands +19 7 £525 -6.67% 15
Scotland +16 7 £475 +5.56% 14
West Midlands +14 6 £613 +4.26% 10
Yorkshire +11 4 £600 +9.59% 4
South West -3 3 £625 +19.05% 7
North East +11 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 1 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 52 (28.11%) Data Governance
2 42 (22.70%) Data Management
2 42 (22.70%) Social Skills
3 40 (21.62%) Stakeholder Management
4 36 (19.46%) Finance
5 35 (18.92%) Migration
5 35 (18.92%) Analytics
6 33 (17.84%) Data Quality
6 33 (17.84%) SQL
7 32 (17.30%) Business Intelligence
7 32 (17.30%) Agile
8 28 (15.14%) Data Migration
8 28 (15.14%) Power BI
8 28 (15.14%) Power Platform
9 27 (14.59%) Project Management
10 26 (14.05%) SAP
10 26 (14.05%) Data Analytics
10 26 (14.05%) Analytical Skills
11 23 (12.43%) Roadmaps
11 23 (12.43%) Azure
12 21 (11.35%) Data Modelling
13 20 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
14 19 (10.27%) Microsoft Excel
15 18 (9.73%) Data Science
16 17 (9.19%) Data Protection
16 17 (9.19%) Degree
17 16 (8.65%) ETL
17 16 (8.65%) Pharmaceutical
17 16 (8.65%) Public Sector
18 15 (8.11%) Decision-Making

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 (5.41%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.70%) SAS
3 2 (1.08%) Confluence
4 1 (0.54%) Apache
4 1 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.54%) CMS
4 1 (0.54%) IIS
4 1 (0.54%) nginx
Applications
1 19 (10.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (3.78%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (3.78%) MS Visio
4 5 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (2.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (3.78%) SAP MDG
1 7 (3.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.62%) Primavera
3 1 (0.54%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 1 (0.54%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.54%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.54%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.54%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.54%) SAP MDM
3 1 (0.54%) SAP R/3
3 1 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 28 (15.14%) Power Platform
2 23 (12.43%) Azure
3 6 (3.24%) AWS
4 4 (2.16%) GCP
5 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (1.62%) Power Automate
5 3 (1.62%) PowerApps
5 3 (1.62%) Veeva
6 2 (1.08%) Alation
6 2 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.08%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.08%) Snowflake
6 2 (1.08%) WhatsApp
7 1 (0.54%) Azure App Service
7 1 (0.54%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.54%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.54%) IaaS
7 1 (0.54%) Oracle CX
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.54%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (15.14%) Power BI
2 15 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (7.03%) Data Lake
4 8 (4.32%) Metadata
5 5 (2.70%) Big Data
5 5 (2.70%) Tableau
6 4 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (2.16%) QlikView
7 3 (1.62%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (1.62%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.08%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.08%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.08%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.54%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.54%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.54%) Looker
9 1 (0.54%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.54%) MySQL
9 1 (0.54%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 7 (3.78%) JIRA
2 1 (0.54%) Git
2 1 (0.54%) LSMW
2 1 (0.54%) MLflow
2 1 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
General
1 42 (22.70%) Social Skills
2 36 (19.46%) Finance
3 26 (14.05%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.65%) Pharmaceutical
4 16 (8.65%) Public Sector
5 14 (7.57%) Influencing Skills
5 14 (7.57%) Manufacturing
6 8 (4.32%) Retail
7 6 (3.24%) Marketing
7 6 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.16%) Law
8 4 (2.16%) Publishing
9 3 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.62%) Local Government
10 2 (1.08%) Legal
10 2 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.54%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.54%) Electronics
11 1 (0.54%) Front Office
11 1 (0.54%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.54%) JSON
1 1 (0.54%) Kafka
1 1 (0.54%) NumPy
1 1 (0.54%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (0.54%) Pandas
1 1 (0.54%) PySpark
1 1 (0.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.86%) Management Information System
1 9 (4.86%) NHS
2 8 (4.32%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.78%) Reference Data
4 4 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.16%) FMCG
5 3 (1.62%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.62%) Life Science
6 2 (1.08%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.08%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.54%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.54%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.54%) Freedom of Information Act
7 1 (0.54%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.54%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.54%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.54%) Solar Power
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (28.11%) Data Governance
2 42 (22.70%) Data Management
3 40 (21.62%) Stakeholder Management
4 35 (18.92%) Analytics
4 35 (18.92%) Migration
5 32 (17.30%) Agile
5 32 (17.30%) Business Intelligence
6 28 (15.14%) Data Migration
7 27 (14.59%) Project Management
8 26 (14.05%) Data Analytics
9 23 (12.43%) Roadmaps
10 21 (11.35%) Data Modelling
11 20 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (9.73%) Data Science
13 17 (9.19%) Data Protection
14 16 (8.65%) ETL
15 15 (8.11%) Decision-Making
16 14 (7.57%) Data Strategy
17 13 (7.03%) Validation
18 12 (6.49%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 33 (17.84%) SQL
2 9 (4.86%) Python
3 7 (3.78%) R
4 3 (1.62%) C#
4 3 (1.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (1.62%) PL/SQL
4 3 (1.62%) VB
5 1 (0.54%) Java
5 1 (0.54%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.54%) PHP
5 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (9.19%) Degree
2 4 (2.16%) Master's Degree
3 3 (1.62%) CIMA
3 3 (1.62%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.62%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.08%) CCNA
4 2 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.08%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.08%) PhD
4 2 (1.08%) PMP
5 1 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.54%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (17.84%) Data Quality
2 15 (8.11%) GDPR
3 13 (7.03%) QA
4 4 (2.16%) GxP
4 4 (2.16%) PMO
5 3 (1.62%) CDISC
5 3 (1.62%) Good Clinical Practice
6 1 (0.54%) GMP
6 1 (0.54%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.54%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (0.54%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (14.05%) SAP
2 14 (7.57%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.86%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.16%) IFS
4 4 (2.16%) Informatica
4 4 (2.16%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.62%) IBM
5 3 (1.62%) Marketo
5 3 (1.62%) Oracle
5 3 (1.62%) Pardot
6 2 (1.08%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.08%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.08%) BT
6 2 (1.08%) Cisco
6 2 (1.08%) Facebook
6 2 (1.08%) Radianz
6 2 (1.08%) Reuters
6 2 (1.08%) Symantec
6 2 (1.08%) Talend
6 2 (1.08%) Varonis