Data Governance Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Data Governance
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Data Governance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 - 18
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 5 0 15
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 2.33% - 6.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.67% - 7.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £558 - £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 - £410
75th Percentile £605 - £415
90th Percentile £625 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £565 - £410

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridge

Data Governance 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 in Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 187 133 188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 86.98% 91.10% 87.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 86 108
10th Percentile £265 £296 £232
25th Percentile £400 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £488 £471
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% +3.50% -0.79%
75th Percentile £586 £584 £543
90th Percentile £675 £688 £633
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £471 £478
% change year-on-year +0.80% -1.41% +0.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 6 29
10th Percentile £14.64 £16.06 £15.52
25th Percentile £15.10 £17.29 £20.00
Median hourly rate £23.41 £20.40 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.77% -48.35% +12.86%
75th Percentile £32.19 £48.88 £71.25
90th Percentile £44.05 £61.25 £77.50
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
% change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Governance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Data Governance job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Data Governance
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Data Governance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Data Governance

Data Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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 4 (80.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Analytics
1 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (60.00%) ETL
2 3 (60.00%) Validation
2 3 (60.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Model Validation
4 1 (20.00%) AI
4 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
4 1 (20.00%) Data Validation
4 1 (20.00%) ERP
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
4 1 (20.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow