Data Acquisition Contracts in London

Data Acquisition
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 343 371 455
Rank change year-on-year +28 +84 +98
Contract jobs citing Data Acquisition 10 20 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.080% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.086% 0.13% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 16
10th Percentile £410 £481 £388
25th Percentile £522 £600 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £680 £650 £488
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% +33.33% -21.69%
75th Percentile £770 £716 £706
90th Percentile £878 £784 £838
England median daily rate £643 £650 £488
% change year-on-year -1.15% +33.33% -11.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Central London +6 4 £528 -27.24% 7
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 1 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) Azure Functions
1 3 (30.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
1 3 (30.00%) Serverless
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (20.00%) GitHub
2 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure API Management
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Power BI
2 2 (20.00%) Big Data
2 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (10.00%) Apache Hive
3 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (10.00%) Impala
3 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (10.00%) Spark SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Sqoop
3 1 (10.00%) Tableau
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Banking
3 3 (30.00%) Investment Banking
3 3 (30.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (10.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Market Risk Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) PMO Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Power BI Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Risk Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Risk Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
1 2 (20.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (10.00%) PySpark
2 1 (10.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Market Risk
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (30.00%) Data Development
2 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) ETL
2 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (30.00%) Low Latency
2 3 (30.00%) Process Improvement
2 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Architectural Design
3 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Python
2 7 (70.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (10.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (10.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (10.00%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) Bloomberg
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle