Data Acquisition Contracts in Central London

Data Acquisition
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Data Acquisition skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Acquisition over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 133 171
Rank change year-on-year +13 +38 +23
Contract jobs citing Data Acquisition 4 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.20% 0.082% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.090% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £408 - -
25th Percentile £409 £713 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £725 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.24% - -
75th Percentile £678 £738 -
90th Percentile £725 - -
London median daily rate £680 £650 £488
% change year-on-year +4.62% +33.33% -21.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Data Acquisition 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,211 3,521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.89% 90.58% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,198 1,574 2,386
10th Percentile £361 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 24 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.01 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.38 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £29.11 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £41.29 £88.30
London median hourly rate £32.00 £28.50 £39.00
% change year-on-year +12.28% -26.92% +8.33%

Data Acquisition
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Data Acquisition as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Acquisition in Central London

Data Acquisition
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Acquisition in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Data Acquisition in Central London

Data Acquisition
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Acquisition in Central London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Acquisition in Central London

Data Acquisition
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Acquisition in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Acquisition in Central London

Data Acquisition
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
City of London +9 4 £528 -27.24% 4
Data Acquisition
London

Data Acquisition
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (25.00%) Impala
1 1 (25.00%) Spark SQL
1 1 (25.00%) Sqoop
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Banking
2 3 (75.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Business Data Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Market Risk Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) PMO Manager
1 1 (25.00%) PMO Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Risk Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Risk Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Market Risk
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (25.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (25.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) HDFS