Data Acquisition Contracts in London

Data Acquisition
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 372 457 553
Rank change year-on-year +85 +96 -130
Contract jobs citing Data Acquisition 20 38 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.14% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.15% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 16 26
10th Percentile £481 £388 £450
25th Percentile £600 £444 £542
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £488 £623
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -21.69% +3.75%
75th Percentile £716 £706 £700
90th Percentile £784 £838 £825
England median daily rate £650 £488 £550
% change year-on-year +33.33% -11.36% +3.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,788 24,627 35,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.55% 91.11% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,315 17,707 26,166
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 278 427
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.59 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £29.50 £38.13 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% +5.90% +10.77%
75th Percentile £47.56 £62.64 £51.00
90th Percentile £65.93 £76.78 £67.75
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -4.00% +53.06% +2.08%

Data Acquisition
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Acquisition in London

Data Acquisition
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Acquisition in London

Data Acquisition
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Acquisition in London over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Acquisition in London

Data Acquisition
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Acquisition in London

Data Acquisition
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Central London +37 2 £725 -
Data Acquisition
England

Data Acquisition
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 3 (15.00%) Apache
1 3 (15.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) NetSuite
1 1 (5.00%) SAP GRC
1 1 (5.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (15.00%) Azure Functions
2 3 (15.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 3 (15.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (15.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 3 (15.00%) GitHub
2 3 (15.00%) NuGet
2 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (15.00%) Serverless
3 2 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (5.00%) Alation
4 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 4 (20.00%) Tableau
2 3 (15.00%) Big Data
2 3 (15.00%) Power BI
3 2 (10.00%) Apache Hive
3 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (10.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (10.00%) Impala
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (10.00%) Spark SQL
3 2 (10.00%) Sqoop
4 1 (5.00%) Metadata
4 1 (5.00%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) RStudio
1 3 (15.00%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (55.00%) Finance
2 6 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (15.00%) Retail
6 2 (10.00%) Banking
6 2 (10.00%) Marketing
7 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
7 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Scrum Master
2 3 (15.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) CRM Executive
3 2 (10.00%) Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (5.00%) .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Big Data Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) C# Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Energy Trading Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Full Stack Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Full Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Hadoop Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Marketing Executive
4 1 (5.00%) Python Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) React Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) .NET
1 3 (15.00%) .NET Core
1 3 (15.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (15.00%) React
2 1 (5.00%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (5.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (5.00%) Solar Panel
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Scrum
2 7 (35.00%) Analytics
3 6 (30.00%) Data Strategy
3 6 (30.00%) Decision-Making
4 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (20.00%) Data Engineering
5 4 (20.00%) Data Governance
5 4 (20.00%) SDLC
5 4 (20.00%) Visualisation
6 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (15.00%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (15.00%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (15.00%) DevOps
6 3 (15.00%) ETL
6 3 (15.00%) Full Stack Development
6 3 (15.00%) Low Latency
6 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
7 2 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (10.00%) Personalization
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) SQL
2 5 (25.00%) Python
3 3 (15.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
1 1 (5.00%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (5.00%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Monetate
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) Alteryx
2 1 (5.00%) Google
2 1 (5.00%) Informatica
2 1 (5.00%) Okta
2 1 (5.00%) OneTrust
2 1 (5.00%) SAP
2 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.00%) Symantec
2 1 (5.00%) Talend
2 1 (5.00%) Varonis