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 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 344 461 475
Rank change year-on-year +117 +14 +53
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Manager 824 647 1,149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.83% 0.64% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 0.70% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 588 411 501
10th Percentile £33,025 £47,525 £42,500
25th Percentile £41,315 £56,219 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +8.00% +8.05%
75th Percentile £72,101 £87,500 £80,505
90th Percentile £107,500 £106,275 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £61,375 £55,742
% change year-on-year -15.27% +10.10% +11.48%

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 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 9 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 9 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 +137 726 £55,000 -18.52% 140
UK excluding London +96 532 £52,000 -15.27% 80
London +99 252 £72,500 +3.57% 73
Work from Home -39 243 £67,500 -4.57% 63
South East +94 154 £45,000 -26.53% 22
North of England -14 113 £50,000 -23.49% 14
South West +40 100 £52,396 -13.04% 12
Midlands +33 77 £55,000 -18.52% 9
North West +54 59 £50,000 -16.00% 12
Scotland -42 52 £66,500 +11.72% 13
West Midlands +30 43 £55,000 -26.67% 6
Yorkshire -28 39 £50,000 -30.53% 2
East Midlands +9 34 £45,000 -33.33% 3
East of England +33 24 £33,500 -39.09% 10
North East +9 15 £45,000 -13.46%
Wales +9 9 £52,956 -3.79%
Channel Islands - 2 - -
Northern Ireland +27 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 201 (24.39%) Data Engineering
2 193 (23.42%) Analytics
3 186 (22.57%) Data Management
4 182 (22.09%) Analytical Skills
5 179 (21.72%) Azure
6 177 (21.48%) Agile
7 167 (20.27%) Problem-Solving
8 165 (20.02%) Social Skills
9 134 (16.26%) Project Management
10 133 (16.14%) Finance
10 133 (16.14%) Data Warehouse
11 126 (15.29%) SQL
12 124 (15.05%) Business Intelligence
13 123 (14.93%) Data Governance
14 119 (14.44%) Data Modelling
15 116 (14.08%) GCP
16 114 (13.83%) AWS
17 110 (13.35%) Power Platform
18 109 (13.23%) Power BI
18 109 (13.23%) ETL
19 106 (12.86%) Data Quality
20 103 (12.50%) Line Management
20 103 (12.50%) Business Strategy
21 102 (12.38%) Google
22 101 (12.26%) Scrum
23 96 (11.65%) Microsoft
24 95 (11.53%) Degree
24 95 (11.53%) DevOps
25 94 (11.41%) Data Analysis
25 94 (11.41%) 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 (2.79%) Apache Spark
2 14 (1.70%) SAS
3 5 (0.61%) Apache
3 5 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.36%) 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 52 (6.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.73%) SPSS
5 5 (0.61%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.36%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 7 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.73%) SAP Business One
2 6 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.61%) Raiser’s Edge
4 4 (0.49%) 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
1 179 (21.72%) Azure
2 116 (14.08%) GCP
3 114 (13.83%) AWS
4 110 (13.35%) Power Platform
5 81 (9.83%) Azure DevOps
6 39 (4.73%) Azure Data Factory
7 34 (4.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 20 (2.43%) Snowflake
9 14 (1.70%) Serverless
10 12 (1.46%) 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 (0.49%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.70%) WPA
2 10 (1.21%) Wireless
3 6 (0.73%) TETRA
4 4 (0.49%) ADSL
5 3 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (16.14%) Data Warehouse
2 109 (13.23%) Power BI
3 80 (9.71%) Looker
4 79 (9.59%) BigQuery
5 53 (6.43%) Tableau
6 28 (3.40%) Data Lake
7 25 (3.03%) Big Data
8 21 (2.55%) Metadata
9 18 (2.18%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 13 (1.58%) 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 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
14 6 (0.73%) Power Query
14 6 (0.73%) QlikView
15 5 (0.61%) Ataccama
Development Applications
1 6 (0.73%) Git
2 4 (0.49%) RStudio
3 2 (0.24%) GitLab
4 1 (0.12%) ERwin
4 1 (0.12%) JIRA
General
1 182 (22.09%) Analytical Skills
2 165 (20.02%) Social Skills
3 133 (16.14%) Finance
4 74 (8.98%) Billing
5 58 (7.04%) Banking
6 49 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (5.70%) Legal
8 36 (4.37%) Marketing
9 33 (4.00%) Retail
10 31 (3.76%) Presentation Skills
11 30 (3.64%) Law
12 20 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
13 18 (2.18%) Investment Banking
14 15 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (1.58%) Games
15 13 (1.58%) Local Government
15 13 (1.58%) Police
16 8 (0.97%) Military
17 7 (0.85%) Fire and Rescue
17 7 (0.85%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.33%) 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 (0.36%) 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 (11.41%) Product Ownership
2 86 (10.44%) Management Information System
3 28 (3.40%) Data Centre
4 16 (1.94%) Cyber Threat
5 13 (1.58%) Taxonomies
6 12 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
6 12 (1.46%) 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 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (0.73%) PMI
9 6 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (0.73%) Virtual Team
10 5 (0.61%) Cloud Native
11 4 (0.49%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.49%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.49%) Smart Meter
12 3 (0.36%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.46%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (24.39%) Data Engineering
2 193 (23.42%) Analytics
3 186 (22.57%) Data Management
4 177 (21.48%) Agile
5 167 (20.27%) Problem-Solving
6 134 (16.26%) Project Management
7 124 (15.05%) Business Intelligence
8 123 (14.93%) Data Governance
9 119 (14.44%) Data Modelling
10 109 (13.23%) ETL
11 103 (12.50%) Business Strategy
11 103 (12.50%) Line Management
12 101 (12.26%) Scrum
13 95 (11.53%) DevOps
14 94 (11.41%) Data Analysis
15 91 (11.04%) CI/CD
15 91 (11.04%) Platform Engineering
16 88 (10.68%) Data Protection
17 84 (10.19%) Data Science
18 82 (9.95%) Backlog Management
Programming Languages
1 126 (15.29%) SQL
2 89 (10.80%) Python
3 18 (2.18%) R
4 8 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (0.85%) JavaScript
6 6 (0.73%) Java
6 6 (0.73%) Scala
7 5 (0.61%) Go
7 5 (0.61%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.49%) VBA
9 2 (0.24%) C#
Qualifications
1 95 (11.53%) Degree
2 38 (4.61%) DBS Check
3 17 (2.06%) Master's Degree
4 15 (1.82%) Numerate Degree
5 13 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.09%) MBA
7 8 (0.97%) CISSP
8 6 (0.73%) PMI Certification
8 6 (0.73%) Security Cleared
9 4 (0.49%) CISA
9 4 (0.49%) CISM
10 3 (0.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.36%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.36%) CCSK
10 3 (0.36%) CCSP
10 3 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.24%) CIMA
11 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.24%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (12.86%) Data Quality
2 81 (9.83%) QA
3 52 (6.31%) GDPR
4 10 (1.21%) Accessibility
5 8 (0.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.73%) SLA
8 5 (0.61%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.49%) 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 (0.73%) Terraform
2 4 (0.49%) 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 (12.38%) Google
2 96 (11.65%) Microsoft
3 40 (4.85%) Databricks
4 26 (3.16%) SAP
5 17 (2.06%) Oracle
6 8 (0.97%) Salesforce
6 8 (0.97%) Samsung
6 8 (0.97%) ServiceNow
7 7 (0.85%) Alteryx
8 6 (0.73%) Canon
9 4 (0.49%) 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%) Bloomberg
11 2 (0.24%) Dataiku
11 2 (0.24%) HubSpot
11 2 (0.24%) Meraki