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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 511 544
Rank change year-on-year +33 +33 +183
Contract jobs citing Data Acquisition 25 22 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.090% 0.066% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.099% 0.076% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 16 32
10th Percentile £300 £421 £401
25th Percentile £409 £450 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £501 £650
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -23.00% +18.18%
75th Percentile £534 £600 £800
90th Percentile £550 £694 £825
UK median daily rate £520 £475 £650
% change year-on-year +9.47% -26.92% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 0
10th Percentile £53.35 - -
25th Percentile £54.81 £26.88 -
Median hourly rate £61.00 £29.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +110.34% - -
75th Percentile £67.00 £31.13 -
90th Percentile £70.15 - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £29.00 -
% change year-on-year +89.66% - -

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 25,197 28,779 40,635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.72% 85.84% 89.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,128 18,858 28,367
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £405 £419 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £650 £666
90th Percentile £738 £756 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,394 1,701 1,412
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.16 £18.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%
75th Percentile £51.21 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.11 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.90% -4.71% +62.40%

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 2 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Acquisition in England over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 2 August 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 +8 8 £520 -7.56% 46
East of England +9 7 - - 11
West Midlands -3 7 £475 +2.93% 33
Midlands -5 7 £475 +2.93% 43
North of England - 2 £310 - 13
South East +23 1 - - 30
North West - 1 - - 8
Yorkshire - 1 £310 - 4
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:

Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.00%) Nutanix
2 1 (4.00%) AWS
2 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) SpaceWire
2 1 (4.00%) 5G
2 1 (4.00%) Internet
2 1 (4.00%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (4.00%) Modbus
2 1 (4.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.00%) Tableau
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) LabVIEW
General
1 7 (28.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Aerospace
2 6 (24.00%) Finance
2 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (20.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.00%) Banking
4 2 (8.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Automotive
5 1 (4.00%) Aviation
5 1 (4.00%) Avionics
5 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Marketing
5 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Developer
2 4 (16.00%) ETL Developer
2 4 (16.00%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Administrator
3 3 (12.00%) Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) C++ Software Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Electrical Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Junior
3 3 (12.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Business Data Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Data Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Software Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Systems Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Validation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) JSON
1 4 (16.00%) RESTful
1 4 (16.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) SCADA
2 3 (12.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (12.00%) FPGA
2 3 (12.00%) PCIe
2 3 (12.00%) State Machine
3 2 (8.00%) Operational Technology
4 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (4.00%) IoT
4 1 (4.00%) NB-IoT
4 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (32.00%) Linux
2 5 (20.00%) Windows
3 4 (16.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Validation
2 7 (28.00%) Data Analysis
3 6 (24.00%) ETL
4 5 (20.00%) Data Engineering
4 5 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (16.00%) Capacity Management
5 4 (16.00%) Data Extraction
5 4 (16.00%) ETL Development
5 4 (16.00%) System Testing
5 4 (16.00%) Test Automation
5 4 (16.00%) TestOps
6 3 (12.00%) Analytics
6 3 (12.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (12.00%) Concurrent Programming
6 3 (12.00%) Memory Management
6 3 (12.00%) Multithreading
6 3 (12.00%) Performance Analysis
6 3 (12.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (12.00%) Software Engineering
6 3 (12.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (48.00%) Python
2 9 (36.00%) SQL
3 7 (28.00%) VBA
4 5 (20.00%) Java
5 4 (16.00%) Bash
5 4 (16.00%) C
5 4 (16.00%) Tcl
5 4 (16.00%) T-SQL
6 3 (12.00%) C#
6 3 (12.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Degree
2 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) HNC
4 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.00%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.00%) COSHH
2 1 (4.00%) NCSC
2 1 (4.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Control-M
1 4 (16.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (24.00%) EMC
3 4 (16.00%) VMware
4 1 (4.00%) HubSpot
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle
4 1 (4.00%) Twitter