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 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 35 38 35
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 -
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 5 1 16
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.37% 0.36% 3.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 0.40% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 14
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £558 - £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 - £410
75th Percentile £605 - £415
90th Percentile £625 - -
East of England median daily rate £600 £600 £410
% change year-on-year - +46.34% -8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £18.22 -
East of England median hourly rate - £18.22 £79.17
% change year-on-year - -76.99% +81.46%

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 293 253 412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 80.27% 92.00% 84.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 140 155
10th Percentile £211 £296 £225
25th Percentile £335 £400 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £471 £478
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% -1.41% +0.63%
75th Percentile £573 £550 £563
90th Percentile £675 £639 £683
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £477
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.93% -4.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 38 188
10th Percentile £13.33 £14.99 -
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.48 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £25.15 £21.46 £21.39
90th Percentile £35.91 £31.48 £48.00
East of England median hourly rate £21.80 £57.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year -62.09% +50.84% +15.52%

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 10 March 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 - 5 £565 - 7
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 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