Data Collection Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Data Collection
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Data Collection skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Collection 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 1.15% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £531 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - -
75th Percentile £644 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £588 - £504
% change year-on-year - - +67.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.55 - -
Median hourly rate £54.70 - -
75th Percentile £55.85 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £54.70 £14.60 £62.50
% change year-on-year +274.66% -76.64% +411.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

Data Collection 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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 307 340 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 88.47% 80.76% 91.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 109 210
10th Percentile £250 £220 £225
25th Percentile £400 £333 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £442 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.78% -1.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £550 £547
90th Percentile £700 £638 £596
East of England median daily rate £500 £446 £500
% change year-on-year +12.11% -10.80% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 141 191
10th Percentile £14.35 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.84 £15.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -
75th Percentile £19.00 £18.00 £20.56
90th Percentile £43.75 £48.75 £27.50
East of England median hourly rate £26.34 £39.50 £19.81
% change year-on-year -33.32% +99.39% -2.17%

Data Collection
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Job postings citing Data Collection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Job vacancy trend for Data Collection in Cambridgeshire

Data Collection
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Data Collection.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Data Collection

Data Collection
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Data Collection.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Data Collection

Data Collection
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Collection within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 7 September 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge - 4 £588 - 4
Data Collection
East of England

Data Collection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (50.00%) Multimedia
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Python Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Python Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) FastAPI
2 2 (50.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Validation
2 2 (50.00%) Inertial Measurement
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Mapping
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Data Validation
3 1 (25.00%) ERP
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) IFRS
1 1 (25.00%) QA