Data Stewardship Jobs

Data Stewardship
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Data Stewardship skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Stewardship over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 660 - 930
Rank change year-on-year - - +279
Permanent jobs citing Data Stewardship 51 0 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.093% - 0.026%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.100% - 0.028%
Number of salaries quoted 17 0 22
10th Percentile £56,100 - £59,745
25th Percentile £59,000 - £68,703
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +71.43%
75th Percentile £68,750 - £110,000
90th Percentile £82,500 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 - £85,000
% change year-on-year - - +30.22%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,236 85,141 94,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.86% 85.08% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 25,106 59,815 55,546
10th Percentile £29,250 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

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

Data Stewardship
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Stewardship in the UK

Data Stewardship
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Stewardship over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Stewardship in the UK

Data Stewardship
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Stewardship within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
UK excluding London - 42 £62,500 - 18
England - 42 £62,500 - 29
South East - 32 £59,000 - 6
Work from Home - 9 £65,000 - 7
Midlands - 5 £62,500 - 1
West Midlands - 5 £62,500 -
London - 2 £65,000 - 12
Yorkshire - 2 £53,250 -
Wales - 2 £80,000 -
North of England - 2 £53,250 - 2
South West - 1 £143,500 - 3

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 4 (7.84%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 32 (62.75%) Azure
2 29 (56.86%) GCP
3 28 (54.90%) AWS
3 28 (54.90%) Snowflake
4 10 (19.61%) Power Platform
5 9 (17.65%) Collibra
6 5 (9.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (9.80%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (5.88%) Alation
8 1 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.96%) Tessian
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (76.47%) Metadata
2 34 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
3 31 (60.78%) Data Lake
4 10 (19.61%) Power BI
5 6 (11.76%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 6 (11.76%) Big Data
5 6 (11.76%) Tableau
6 5 (9.80%) BigQuery
7 4 (7.84%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (7.84%) Apache Hive
7 4 (7.84%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 4 (7.84%) Hadoop
7 4 (7.84%) Metadata Repository
7 4 (7.84%) SAP BW
8 1 (1.96%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (1.96%) Looker
8 1 (1.96%) SAP Data Services
General
1 33 (64.71%) Law
2 14 (27.45%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (13.73%) Finance
4 6 (11.76%) Social Skills
5 5 (9.80%) Manufacturing
6 4 (7.84%) Legal
7 2 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.92%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.96%) Advertising
8 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 35 (68.63%) Lead
2 31 (60.78%) Senior
3 5 (9.80%) Architect
4 4 (7.84%) Cloud Architect
4 4 (7.84%) Data Architect
5 3 (5.88%) Analyst
5 3 (5.88%) Data Manager
6 2 (3.92%) Data Analyst
6 2 (3.92%) Governance Analyst
6 2 (3.92%) Senior Manager
7 1 (1.96%) Data Business Analyst
7 1 (1.96%) Data Consultant
7 1 (1.96%) Data Quality Analyst
7 1 (1.96%) Engineering Manager
7 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Architect
7 1 (1.96%) Head of Engineering
7 1 (1.96%) Lead Architect
7 1 (1.96%) Lead Enterprise Architect
7 1 (1.96%) Master Data Analyst
7 1 (1.96%) Quality Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.92%) Data Structures
1 2 (3.92%) Virtual Team
2 1 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (1.96%) Data Fabric
2 1 (1.96%) FMCG
2 1 (1.96%) Life Science
2 1 (1.96%) Reference Data
2 1 (1.96%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (96.08%) Data Governance
2 43 (84.31%) Data Management
3 36 (70.59%) Metadata Management
4 35 (68.63%) Data Architecture
5 34 (66.67%) Analytics
6 32 (62.75%) Data Strategy
7 31 (60.78%) Data Transformation
8 30 (58.82%) Data Modelling
8 30 (58.82%) ETL
9 28 (54.90%) Data Pipeline
9 28 (54.90%) Stakeholder Management
10 26 (50.98%) Data Engineering
10 26 (50.98%) Master Data Management
11 25 (49.02%) Use Case
12 24 (47.06%) Anomaly Detection
12 24 (47.06%) Asset Management
12 24 (47.06%) Data Validation
12 24 (47.06%) Matrix Organization
12 24 (47.06%) Validation
13 14 (27.45%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 30 (58.82%) SQL
2 26 (50.98%) Python
3 4 (7.84%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (70.59%) Degree
2 10 (19.61%) Master's Degree
3 9 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (11.76%) MBA
5 1 (1.96%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (96.08%) Data Quality
2 32 (62.75%) Accessibility
3 28 (54.90%) QA
4 10 (19.61%) GDPR
5 8 (15.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 4 (7.84%) HDFS
Vendors
1 9 (17.65%) Informatica
2 6 (11.76%) Databricks
2 6 (11.76%) SAP
3 5 (9.80%) Google
4 4 (7.84%) Microsoft
4 4 (7.84%) Oracle
4 4 (7.84%) Teradata
5 1 (1.96%) IBM