Data Governance Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Data Governance
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Data Governance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 - 33
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 1 0 13
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.28% - 2.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% - 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 11
10th Percentile - - £300
25th Percentile £613 - £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £410
75th Percentile £638 - £415
90th Percentile - - £450
East of England median daily rate £638 £600 £463
% change year-on-year +6.25% +29.73% +2.78%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 295 270 381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 81.94% 87.10% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 124 144
10th Percentile £211 £316 £221
25th Percentile £335 £411 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
75th Percentile £600 £557 £575
90th Percentile £675 £646 £675
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 55 170
10th Percentile £13.33 - £14.00
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £23.50 £21.46 £16.09
90th Percentile £34.04 £28.93 £29.38
East of England median hourly rate £20.09 £40.00 £30.48
% change year-on-year -49.78% +31.26% +38.52%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Data Governance job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Data Governance
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Data Governance
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 Governance within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 28 January 2026. 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 - 1 £625 - 4
Data Governance
East of England

Data Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft