Data Acquisition Contracts in the City of London

Data Acquisition
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 125 170
Rank change year-on-year +6 +45 +23
Contract jobs citing Data Acquisition 4 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.23% 0.091% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.10% 0.18%
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 - -
Central London median daily rate £528 £725 -
% change year-on-year -27.24% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,638 1,985 3,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.28% 90.56% 91.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,037 1,404 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £356 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £809 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 25
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.35
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -15.66%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -15.66%

Data Acquisition
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Acquisition in the City of London

Data Acquisition
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Acquisition in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Data Acquisition in the City of London

Data Acquisition
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Acquisition in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Acquisition in the City of London

Data Acquisition
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Acquisition in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Acquisition in the City of London

Data Acquisition
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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