Data Acquisition Contracts in England

Data Acquisition
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 467 505 594
Rank change year-on-year +38 +89 +112
Contract jobs citing Data Acquisition 18 37 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.074% 0.099% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.081% 0.11% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 22 27
10th Percentile £414 £450 £415
25th Percentile £498 £528 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £643 £650 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% +33.33% -11.36%
75th Percentile £761 £688 £600
90th Percentile £865 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £643 £625 £515
% change year-on-year +2.80% +21.36% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 0
10th Percentile £52.00 £26.88 -
25th Percentile £53.13 £36.56 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £47.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% - -
75th Percentile - £48.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £47.50 -
% change year-on-year +15.79% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Data Acquisition
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Acquisition in England

Data Acquisition
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Acquisition in England

Data Acquisition
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Acquisition in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Acquisition in England

Data Acquisition
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Acquisition in England

Data Acquisition
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London +28 10 £680 +4.62% 57
East of England +31 3 - - 34
Midlands +21 2 £650 -3.70% 50
West Midlands +15 2 £650 - 26
South East +41 1 £454 -39.47% 69
North of England +19 1 - - 51
North West +17 1 - - 26
Data Acquisition
UK

Data Acquisition
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (5.56%) Apache
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
1 3 (16.67%) Azure Functions
1 3 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
1 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
1 3 (16.67%) Serverless
2 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (11.11%) GitHub
2 2 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Data Pipeline
3 1 (5.56%) Azure API Management
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) SpaceWire
2 1 (5.56%) 5G
2 1 (5.56%) Internet
2 1 (5.56%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (5.56%) Modbus
2 1 (5.56%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (16.67%) Power BI
2 2 (11.11%) Big Data
2 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 2 (11.11%) Tableau
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (5.56%) Apache Hive
3 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.56%) GIS
3 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.56%) Impala
3 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.56%) Spark SQL
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (5.56%) Sqoop
General
1 7 (38.89%) Finance
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (16.67%) Banking
4 3 (16.67%) Investment Banking
4 3 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Aerospace
6 1 (5.56%) Aviation
6 1 (5.56%) Avionics
6 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
6 1 (5.56%) Legal
6 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (16.67%) Analyst
1 3 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Data Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Electrical Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Project Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (5.56%) .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Software Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Lead
3 1 (5.56%) Market Data Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) PMO Project Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Power BI Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Python Developer
3 1 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Senior Python Developer
3 1 (5.56%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) .NET
1 2 (11.11%) .NET Core
2 1 (5.56%) ADO
2 1 (5.56%) PySpark
2 1 (5.56%) React
2 1 (5.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 3 (16.67%) Operational Technology
1 3 (16.67%) SCADA
2 1 (5.56%) Fixed Income
2 1 (5.56%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (5.56%) IoT
2 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Market Risk
2 1 (5.56%) NB-IoT
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (5.56%) Replication
2 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Linux
2 4 (22.22%) Unix
3 3 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (22.22%) Analytics
1 4 (22.22%) Data Engineering
1 4 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (16.67%) Agile
2 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 3 (16.67%) Code Quality
2 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (16.67%) Data Development
2 3 (16.67%) DevOps
2 3 (16.67%) ETL
2 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (16.67%) Low Latency
2 3 (16.67%) Process Improvement
2 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
2 3 (16.67%) System Testing
2 3 (16.67%) TestOps
3 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
3 2 (11.11%) Event-Driven
3 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) Python
2 9 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (22.22%) Java
4 3 (16.67%) Bash
4 3 (16.67%) C
4 3 (16.67%) Tcl
5 2 (11.11%) VBA
6 1 (5.56%) Perl
6 1 (5.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
1 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.56%) NVQ Level 3
2 1 (5.56%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) COSHH
2 1 (5.56%) NCSC
2 1 (5.56%) PMO
2 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Databricks
1 2 (11.11%) EMC
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Bloomberg
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) Twitter