Data Stewardship Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Data Stewardship
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Data Stewardship skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Stewardship 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.21% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £450 £738 £450
% change year-on-year -38.98% +63.89% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

Data Stewardship falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 771 416 502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 82.11% 92.04% 85.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 199 153
10th Percentile £199 £225 £240
25th Percentile £406 £419 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +29.41% -22.73%
75th Percentile £675 £588 £575
90th Percentile £776 £690 £638
East of England median daily rate £500 £505 £442
% change year-on-year -0.99% +14.25% -11.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 122 162
10th Percentile £16.80 £16.46 £15.50
25th Percentile £40.00 £22.63 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% -10.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £70.00
East of England median hourly rate £48.84 £22.63 £40.00
% change year-on-year +115.82% -43.43% +101.92%

Data Stewardship
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Stewardship relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Data Stewardship job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Data Stewardship
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Stewardship within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 28 September 2026. 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
Stevenage - 1 - - 2
Data Stewardship
East of England

Data Stewardship
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Data Steward
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Information Governance
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Service Design
2 1 (50.00%) SIAM
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow