Data Stewardship Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Data Stewardship
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Data Stewardship skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Stewardship 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.19% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £510 - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 - -
75th Percentile £563 - -
90th Percentile £570 - -
South East median daily rate £534 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,816 1,793 2,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.86% 88.67% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,183 1,051 1,470
10th Percentile £268 £298 £213
25th Percentile £400 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £613
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 54 105
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.92 £18.95
25th Percentile £17.35 £29.75 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £56.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.68% +13.49% +138.10%
75th Percentile £55.00 £63.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £87.09 £69.03 £74.08
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £51.00 £51.96
% change year-on-year -56.86% -1.85% +38.56%

Data Stewardship
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Data Stewardship job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Data Stewardship
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Data Stewardship.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Data Stewardship

Data Stewardship
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Data Stewardship.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Data Stewardship

Data Stewardship
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Berkshire - 3 £550 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £518 - 1
Data Stewardship
South East

Data Stewardship
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) GeoServer
1 3 (75.00%) Smallworld
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Alation
2 1 (25.00%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Metadata
2 3 (75.00%) Geospatial Data
2 3 (75.00%) GIS
2 3 (75.00%) QGIS
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) GIS Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) AI
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Data Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Data Validation
2 3 (75.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 3 (75.00%) Impact Assessments
2 3 (75.00%) Integration Patterns
2 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (75.00%) Use Case
2 3 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Validation
2 3 (75.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) ESRI
1 3 (75.00%) Intergraph
2 1 (25.00%) Informatica