Data Stewardship Contracts

Data Stewardship
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Stewardship skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Stewardship over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 673 825
Rank change year-on-year +111 +152 -124
Contract jobs citing Data Stewardship 9 14 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.025% 0.022%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.025% 0.027% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 14
10th Percentile £383 £470 £510
25th Percentile £450 £556 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £713 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.81% +29.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £750 £722 £602
90th Percentile £773 £735 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Stewardship is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Stewardship in the UK

Data Stewardship
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Stewardship over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Stewardship in the UK

Data Stewardship
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Stewardship in the UK

Data Stewardship
Top 8 Contract 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 18 May 2024. 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 +104 9 £550 -22.81% 4
London +96 4 £450 -36.84%
UK excluding London +57 4 £550 +10.00% 4
Work from Home +104 3 £450 -33.33% 2
North of England +34 2 £550 - 1
North West +21 1 £550 - 1
South West - 1 - - 2
East of England - 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 2 (22.22%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) Apache
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Alation
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) Metadata
2 2 (22.22%) PowerCenter
3 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 1 (11.11%) Power BI
3 1 (11.11%) Tableau
General
1 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Legal
3 2 (22.22%) Manufacturing
4 1 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Analyst
1 5 (55.56%) Data Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Governance Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Lead
3 2 (22.22%) SAP Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) SAP Data Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Data Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Data Management Specialist
4 1 (11.11%) Data Science Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Data Steward
4 1 (11.11%) Informatica Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Structures
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Data Governance
1 6 (66.67%) Data Management
1 6 (66.67%) Metadata Management
2 4 (44.44%) Data Integration
2 4 (44.44%) Data Privacy
3 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 3 (33.33%) Quality Management
3 3 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
3 3 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 2 (22.22%) Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Data Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) Data Extraction
4 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
4 2 (22.22%) ETL
4 2 (22.22%) Order to Cash
4 2 (22.22%) Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (22.22%) Project Management
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (88.89%) Data Quality
2 5 (55.56%) GDPR
3 3 (33.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (11.11%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) SAP
2 2 (22.22%) Informatica
3 1 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) Okta
3 1 (11.11%) OneTrust
3 1 (11.11%) Symantec
3 1 (11.11%) Talend
3 1 (11.11%) Varonis