Data Steward Contracts

Data Steward
UK

The median Data Steward daily rate in the UK is £350, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 544 561 666
Rank change year-on-year +17 +105 +191
Contract jobs requiring a Data Steward 12 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.036% 0.003% 0.004%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.003% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 0
10th Percentile £258 - -
25th Percentile £260 £156 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £163 -
Median % change year-on-year +115.38% - -
75th Percentile £375 £169 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £195 £163 -
% change year-on-year +20.00% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 30,315 36,280 50,499
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.42% 92.94% 94.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,223 23,530 34,843
10th Percentile £281 £300 £306
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,498 2,061 1,518
10th Percentile £13.64 £14.16 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.75
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +0.58% +66.47%
75th Percentile £53.99 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £43.90 £39.55
% change year-on-year -42.71% +11.00% +86.12%

Data Steward
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Data Steward in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Steward in the UK

Data Steward
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Steward.

Daily rate trend for Data Steward in the UK

Data Steward
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Steward over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Steward in the UK

Data Steward
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Steward.

Hourly rate trend for Data Steward in the UK

Data Steward
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Steward within the UK over the 6 months to 3 August 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
England +33 12 £350 +115.38% 11
Work from Home - 10 £350 - 6
London - 9 £350 - 10
UK excluding London -1 1 £195 +20.00% 4
West Midlands -6 1 £195 +20.00%
Midlands -9 1 £195 +20.00% 1

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

For the 6 months to 3 August 2025, Data Steward contract 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 contract job ads featuring Data Steward in the job title.

1 11 (91.67%) Data Management
2 9 (75.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (75.00%) E-Commerce
2 9 (75.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (66.67%) Data Governance
3 8 (66.67%) Data Quality
4 6 (50.00%) Information Management
4 6 (50.00%) Informatica
4 6 (50.00%) Power Query
4 6 (50.00%) Salsify
4 6 (50.00%) Product Information Management
5 5 (41.67%) Data Mapping
6 4 (33.33%) Retail
7 3 (25.00%) ERP
8 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
8 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
8 2 (16.67%) Finance
8 2 (16.67%) SQL
8 2 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
8 2 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (16.67%) QA
8 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
9 1 (8.33%) KYC
9 1 (8.33%) Anti-Money Laundering
9 1 (8.33%) Power BI
9 1 (8.33%) Actionable Insight
9 1 (8.33%) Scorecard
9 1 (8.33%) Scaled Agile Framework

Data Steward 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 1 (8.33%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (75.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Salsify
2 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) Power Query
2 1 (8.33%) Metadata
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 9 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Retail
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Law
4 1 (8.33%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (8.33%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Data Management
2 9 (75.00%) E-Commerce
3 8 (66.67%) Data Governance
4 6 (50.00%) Information Management
4 6 (50.00%) Product Information Management
5 5 (41.67%) Data Mapping
6 3 (25.00%) ERP
7 2 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
7 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
7 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (8.33%) Actionable Insight
8 1 (8.33%) Anti-Money Laundering
8 1 (8.33%) Data Integration
8 1 (8.33%) Data Science
8 1 (8.33%) Data Transformation
8 1 (8.33%) ETL
8 1 (8.33%) KYC
8 1 (8.33%) Metadata Management
8 1 (8.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 1 (8.33%) Scorecard
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) R
2 1 (8.33%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Informatica
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (8.33%) SAP