Data Stewardship Contract Job Trends

Data Stewardship
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Data Stewardship skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 551 553 632
Rank change year-on-year +2 +79 +183
Contract jobs citing Data Stewardship 8 6 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.016% 0.022%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.027% 0.018% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 5
10th Percentile £514 £430 £465
25th Percentile £521 £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £553 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.28% +0.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £741 £632 £588
90th Percentile £746 £673 £610
UK excluding London median daily rate £638 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +41.67% -10.00% +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,735 32,776 44,071
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.61% 85.83% 88.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,489 19,843 29,957
10th Percentile £294 £308 £313
25th Percentile £403 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,854 1,372 1,576
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £18.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% -1.16% +48.79%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £74.49 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.32 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -48.10% +1.18% +81.70%

Data Stewardship
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Stewardship as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Stewardship in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Data Stewardship
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Stewardship over the 6 months to 28 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Stewardship in the UK

Data Stewardship
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Data Stewardship
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 28 September 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 +21 8 £638 +15.28% 28
UK excluding London -1 8 £638 +41.67% 16
South East - 4 £534 - 8
East of England +3 3 £738 +63.89%
Work from Home +26 2 - - 23
South West - 1 - -

Data Stewardship
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 3 (37.50%) GeoServer
1 3 (37.50%) Smallworld
Business Applications
1 3 (37.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Alation
2 1 (12.50%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Metadata
2 3 (37.50%) Geospatial Data
2 3 (37.50%) GIS
2 3 (37.50%) QGIS
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
1 3 (37.50%) GIS Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Data Governance Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Data Governance Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Data Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Governance Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Replication
2 2 (25.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Analytics
1 6 (75.00%) Data Migration
1 6 (75.00%) Migration
2 5 (62.50%) Data Governance
3 4 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (50.00%) Machine Learning
4 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
4 3 (37.50%) Data Validation
4 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) High Availability
4 3 (37.50%) Impact Assessments
4 3 (37.50%) Integration Patterns
4 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (37.50%) Use Case
4 3 (37.50%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Validation
4 3 (37.50%) Visualisation
5 2 (25.00%) Data Design
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) ESRI
1 3 (37.50%) Intergraph
1 3 (37.50%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) Ariba
2 1 (12.50%) Informatica