Data Custodian Job Trends in England

Data Custodian
UK > England

The median Data Custodian salary in England is £70,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 March 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 652 - 766
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Custodian 2 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.003% - 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.003% - 0.009%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,200 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 - -
75th Percentile £74,800 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £70,500 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 58,440 37,452 66,025
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.66% 90.91% 94.48%
Number of salaries quoted 37,876 20,898 52,390
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £38,996 £45,000 £39,154
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

Data Custodian
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Data Custodian' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Data Custodian job vacancy trend in England

Data Custodian
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Custodian within the England region over the 6 months to 6 March 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East - 2 £70,500 -
Data Custodian
UK

Data Custodian Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 6 March 2026, Data Custodian job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Data Custodian in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Management
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) Information Management
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Management
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (100.00%) Storage Management

Data Custodian Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Management
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Information Management
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Management
1 2 (100.00%) Storage Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft