Data Steward Jobs

Data Steward
UK

The median Data Steward salary in the UK is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 May 2025.

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

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 697 875 972
Rank change year-on-year +178 +97 +239
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Steward 14 20 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.020% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.021% 0.008%
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 7
10th Percentile £64,750 - £64,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £47,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £49,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +46.46% -29.29% +40.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £51,750 £80,000
90th Percentile - - £98,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £49,500 -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

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

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 50,303 93,916 91,216
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.61% 94.69% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 27,096 67,168 57,442
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,886 £71,250 £80,559
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Steward in the UK

Data Steward
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Steward within the UK over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +147 14 £72,500 +46.46% 8
London +118 13 £72,500 - 7
UK excluding London +174 1 - - 3
Work from Home +112 1 - - 3
South East +100 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, Data Steward 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 permanent job ads featuring Data Steward in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 14 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 12 (85.71%) Data Lineage
3 10 (71.43%) Quality Management
4 9 (64.29%) Data Security
4 9 (64.29%) Law
4 9 (64.29%) Asset Management
4 9 (64.29%) Data Modelling
4 9 (64.29%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (64.29%) IBM
4 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
4 9 (64.29%) Informatica
4 9 (64.29%) Use Case
4 9 (64.29%) Visualisation
4 9 (64.29%) Data Visualisation
4 9 (64.29%) Tableau
4 9 (64.29%) Data Analysis
4 9 (64.29%) Marketing
4 9 (64.29%) Data Protection
4 9 (64.29%) Data Mapping
4 9 (64.29%) Data Integration
4 9 (64.29%) GDPR
4 9 (64.29%) IBM InfoSphere
4 9 (64.29%) Data Privacy
4 9 (64.29%) Power BI
4 9 (64.29%) Power Platform
4 9 (64.29%) Accessibility
4 9 (64.29%) Metadata
4 9 (64.29%) Collibra
4 9 (64.29%) RBAC

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 3 (21.43%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) Collibra
1 9 (64.29%) Microsoft Purview
1 9 (64.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) IBM InfoSphere
1 9 (64.29%) Metadata
1 9 (64.29%) Power BI
1 9 (64.29%) Tableau
General
1 9 (64.29%) Law
1 9 (64.29%) Marketing
2 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 3 (21.43%) Retail Banking
4 2 (14.29%) Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Data Governance
2 12 (85.71%) Data Lineage
3 10 (71.43%) Quality Management
4 9 (64.29%) Asset Management
4 9 (64.29%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (64.29%) Business Strategy
4 9 (64.29%) Data Analysis
4 9 (64.29%) Data Collection
4 9 (64.29%) Data Integration
4 9 (64.29%) Data Mapping
4 9 (64.29%) Data Modelling
4 9 (64.29%) Data Privacy
4 9 (64.29%) Data Protection
4 9 (64.29%) Data Security
4 9 (64.29%) Data Visualisation
4 9 (64.29%) RBAC
4 9 (64.29%) Use Case
4 9 (64.29%) Visualisation
5 4 (28.57%) Analytics
6 3 (21.43%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 9 (64.29%) Accessibility
2 9 (64.29%) GDPR
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) IBM
1 9 (64.29%) Informatica
1 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) SAP