Data Stewardship Contract Job Trends in the North West

Data Stewardship
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Data Stewardship skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 114 -
Rank change year-on-year -17 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Stewardship 1 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.044% 0.17% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.050% 0.20% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £463 -
Median % change year-on-year -29.73% - -
England median daily rate £625 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +25.00% -9.09% -7.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,015 1,975 2,543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 89.08% 83.40% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,336 1,070 1,742
10th Percentile £251 £294 £270
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £595
90th Percentile £678 £656 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 110 172
10th Percentile £14.13 £18.95 £15.78
25th Percentile £17.30 £26.81 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.64% +15.21% +40.00%
75th Percentile £44.26 £62.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £65.13 £71.71 £64.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -39.40% -6.74% +27.14%

Data Stewardship
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Data Stewardship job vacancy trend in the North West

Data Stewardship
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Data Stewardship.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Data Stewardship

Data Stewardship
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 20 October 2025. 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
Cheshire - 1 £325 - 1
Data Stewardship
England

Data Stewardship
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (100.00%) Alation
1 1 (100.00%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
General
1 1 (100.00%) Automotive
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Data Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Governance Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Master Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica