Data Acquisition Contracts in the Midlands

Data Acquisition
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Data Acquisition skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Acquisition over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 161 186
Rank change year-on-year +30 +25 -48
Contract jobs citing Data Acquisition 3 2 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.11% 0.058% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.066% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile - - £434
25th Percentile £663 - £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - £495
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.04%
75th Percentile £688 - -
90th Percentile - - £520
England median daily rate £650 £488 £550
% change year-on-year +33.33% -11.36% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Data Acquisition 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 advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,250 3,028 4,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.30% 88.49% 88.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,505 2,116 3,273
10th Percentile £250 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £370 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £498 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.52% +4.74% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £565
90th Percentile £700 £680 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 122 148
10th Percentile £11.06 £12.05 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.60 £15.13 £13.73
Median hourly rate £19.00 £18.43 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% +5.33% +10.34%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.69 £22.14
90th Percentile £55.00 £53.53 £34.65
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
% change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%

Data Acquisition
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Data Acquisition as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Acquisition in the Midlands

Data Acquisition
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Acquisition in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Data Acquisition in the Midlands

Data Acquisition
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Acquisition in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Data Acquisition in the Midlands

Data Acquisition
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Acquisition within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 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
East Midlands - 2 £675 - 9
West Midlands +22 1 - - 25
Data Acquisition
England

Data Acquisition
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Big Data
1 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Data Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) SCADA Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) API Design
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) Data Strategy
1 2 (66.67%) ETL
1 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
1 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) HND
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft