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 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 346 471 477
Rank change year-on-year +125 +6 +42
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Manager 815 655 1,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.83% 0.63% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 0.69% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 584 407 499
10th Percentile £34,250 £47,525 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £56,219 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £72,500 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £106,765 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £62,500 £56,992
% change year-on-year -16.80% +9.66% +13.98%

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 93,314 94,990 150,394
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.53% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,914 59,752 85,367
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
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 3 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 3 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 +131 719 £55,000 -18.52% 134
UK excluding London +105 523 £52,000 -16.80% 78
London +108 253 £72,500 +3.03% 69
Work from Home -27 241 £67,500 -8.10% 53
South East +102 151 £45,000 -28.00% 24
North of England -23 108 £50,000 -26.12% 15
South West +42 98 £53,698 -26.89% 10
Midlands +57 78 £55,000 -18.52% 7
North West +47 56 £51,250 -13.90% 10
Scotland -40 51 £66,500 +11.72% 13
West Midlands +34 43 £55,000 -26.67% 4
Yorkshire -39 38 £50,000 -31.93% 5
East Midlands +21 35 £45,000 -33.33% 3
East of England +30 25 £36,000 -34.55% 9
North East +8 14 £45,000 -13.46%
Wales +12 9 £52,956 -3.79%
Channel Islands - 2 - -
Northern Ireland +29 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 3 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.

1 199 (24.42%) Data Engineering
2 191 (23.44%) Analytics
3 184 (22.58%) Data Management
4 182 (22.33%) Analytical Skills
5 180 (22.09%) Azure
6 179 (21.96%) Agile
7 171 (20.98%) Problem-Solving
8 166 (20.37%) Social Skills
9 137 (16.81%) Project Management
10 134 (16.44%) Data Warehouse
11 133 (16.32%) Finance
12 127 (15.58%) SQL
12 127 (15.58%) Business Intelligence
13 122 (14.97%) Data Governance
14 119 (14.60%) Data Modelling
15 116 (14.23%) GCP
16 115 (14.11%) AWS
17 112 (13.74%) Power Platform
18 111 (13.62%) Power BI
19 109 (13.37%) ETL
20 106 (13.01%) Data Quality
21 103 (12.64%) Business Strategy
22 102 (12.52%) Line Management
22 102 (12.52%) Google
23 101 (12.39%) Scrum
24 96 (11.78%) Microsoft
25 95 (11.66%) Degree
25 95 (11.66%) DevOps
26 94 (11.53%) Data Analysis
26 94 (11.53%) Product Ownership

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 23 (2.82%) Apache Spark
2 14 (1.72%) SAS
3 5 (0.61%) Apache
3 5 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.25%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.12%) CMS
5 1 (0.12%) Confluence
5 1 (0.12%) IBM Domino
5 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
Applications
1 54 (6.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.74%) SPSS
5 5 (0.61%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.37%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 7 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.74%) SAP Business One
3 5 (0.61%) Raiser’s Edge
3 5 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.25%) Exchequer
5 2 (0.25%) Primavera
5 2 (0.25%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 180 (22.09%) Azure
2 116 (14.23%) GCP
3 115 (14.11%) AWS
4 112 (13.74%) Power Platform
5 81 (9.94%) Azure DevOps
6 39 (4.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 34 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 21 (2.58%) Snowflake
9 14 (1.72%) Serverless
10 12 (1.47%) Microsoft Purview
11 11 (1.35%) Collibra
12 10 (1.23%) dbt
12 10 (1.23%) Google Analytics
13 9 (1.10%) Amazon S3
13 9 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (1.10%) PowerApps
13 9 (1.10%) SaaS
14 8 (0.98%) Power Automate
15 5 (0.61%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.72%) WPA
2 10 (1.23%) Wireless
3 6 (0.74%) TETRA
4 4 (0.49%) ADSL
5 3 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (16.44%) Data Warehouse
2 111 (13.62%) Power BI
3 80 (9.82%) Looker
4 79 (9.69%) BigQuery
5 53 (6.50%) Tableau
6 28 (3.44%) Data Lake
7 25 (3.07%) Big Data
8 21 (2.58%) Metadata
9 18 (2.21%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 13 (1.60%) NoSQL
11 9 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (0.98%) HDInsight
12 8 (0.98%) MongoDB
13 7 (0.86%) Hadoop
13 7 (0.86%) Relational Database
14 6 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
14 6 (0.74%) Power Query
14 6 (0.74%) QlikView
15 5 (0.61%) Ataccama
Development Applications
1 6 (0.74%) Git
2 4 (0.49%) RStudio
3 3 (0.37%) JIRA
4 2 (0.25%) GitLab
5 1 (0.12%) ERwin
General
1 182 (22.33%) Analytical Skills
2 166 (20.37%) Social Skills
3 133 (16.32%) Finance
4 74 (9.08%) Billing
5 58 (7.12%) Banking
6 50 (6.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (5.77%) Legal
8 36 (4.42%) Marketing
9 33 (4.05%) Retail
10 31 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
11 30 (3.68%) Law
12 20 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
13 18 (2.21%) Investment Banking
14 15 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (1.60%) Games
15 13 (1.60%) Local Government
15 13 (1.60%) Police
16 10 (1.23%) Public Sector
17 8 (0.98%) Military
18 7 (0.86%) Fire and Rescue
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.35%) Middleware
2 5 (0.61%) CSS
2 5 (0.61%) HTML
2 5 (0.61%) jQuery
3 4 (0.49%) PySpark
3 4 (0.49%) Web Services
3 4 (0.49%) XML
3 4 (0.49%) YAML
4 3 (0.37%) EDI
5 2 (0.25%) .NET
5 2 (0.25%) Apache Beam
5 2 (0.25%) Django
5 2 (0.25%) JSON
5 2 (0.25%) Pandas
5 2 (0.25%) PostGIS
5 2 (0.25%) RESTful
5 2 (0.25%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 1 (0.12%) Kafka
6 1 (0.12%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 94 (11.53%) Product Ownership
2 85 (10.43%) Management Information System
3 27 (3.31%) Data Centre
4 16 (1.96%) Cyber Threat
5 13 (1.60%) Taxonomies
6 12 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
6 12 (1.47%) Freedom of Information
7 10 (1.23%) Algorithms
7 10 (1.23%) Reinsurance
8 7 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (0.86%) Reference Data
9 6 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (0.74%) PMI
9 6 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (0.74%) Virtual Team
10 5 (0.61%) Cloud Native
11 4 (0.49%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.49%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.49%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.49%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (24.42%) Data Engineering
2 191 (23.44%) Analytics
3 184 (22.58%) Data Management
4 179 (21.96%) Agile
5 171 (20.98%) Problem-Solving
6 137 (16.81%) Project Management
7 127 (15.58%) Business Intelligence
8 122 (14.97%) Data Governance
9 119 (14.60%) Data Modelling
10 109 (13.37%) ETL
11 103 (12.64%) Business Strategy
12 102 (12.52%) Line Management
13 101 (12.39%) Scrum
14 95 (11.66%) DevOps
15 94 (11.53%) Data Analysis
16 91 (11.17%) CI/CD
16 91 (11.17%) Platform Engineering
17 88 (10.80%) Data Protection
18 85 (10.43%) Data Science
19 82 (10.06%) Backlog Management
Programming Languages
1 127 (15.58%) SQL
2 91 (11.17%) Python
3 18 (2.21%) R
4 8 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (0.86%) JavaScript
6 6 (0.74%) Java
6 6 (0.74%) Scala
7 5 (0.61%) Go
7 5 (0.61%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.49%) VBA
9 2 (0.25%) C#
Qualifications
1 95 (11.66%) Degree
2 38 (4.66%) DBS Check
3 17 (2.09%) Master's Degree
4 15 (1.84%) Numerate Degree
5 12 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.10%) MBA
7 8 (0.98%) CISSP
7 8 (0.98%) Security Cleared
8 6 (0.74%) PMI Certification
9 4 (0.49%) CISA
9 4 (0.49%) CISM
10 3 (0.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.37%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.37%) CCSK
10 3 (0.37%) CCSP
10 3 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.37%) SC Cleared
11 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (13.01%) Data Quality
2 81 (9.94%) QA
3 51 (6.26%) GDPR
4 10 (1.23%) Accessibility
5 7 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 7 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.74%) SLA
7 5 (0.61%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.49%) PMO
9 3 (0.37%) ISO 14000
10 2 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.12%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 1 (0.12%) CDISC
11 1 (0.12%) Good Clinical Practice
11 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
System Software
1 3 (0.37%) Docker
2 2 (0.25%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 6 (0.74%) Terraform
2 4 (0.49%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.37%) CASB
4 2 (0.25%) Argo
4 2 (0.25%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.12%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 102 (12.52%) Google
2 96 (11.78%) Microsoft
3 40 (4.91%) Databricks
4 25 (3.07%) SAP
5 17 (2.09%) Oracle
6 8 (0.98%) Samsung
6 8 (0.98%) ServiceNow
7 7 (0.86%) Alteryx
7 7 (0.86%) Salesforce
8 6 (0.74%) Canon
9 4 (0.49%) Informatica
10 3 (0.37%) Netskope
10 3 (0.37%) Reuters
10 3 (0.37%) Symantec
10 3 (0.37%) Tealium
10 3 (0.37%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.25%) Ariba
11 2 (0.25%) Dataiku
11 2 (0.25%) HubSpot
11 2 (0.25%) Meraki