Data Acquisition Contract Job Trends in London

Data Acquisition
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Data Acquisition skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 366 372
Rank change year-on-year -9 +6 +169
Contract jobs citing Data Acquisition 5 12 41
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.035% 0.079% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% 0.088% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 31
10th Percentile - £475 £513
25th Percentile £510 £538 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £725 £650
Median % change year-on-year -28.28% +11.54% +23.81%
75th Percentile £530 £775 £700
90th Percentile £632 £880 £800
England median daily rate £520 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -13.33% -7.69% +23.81%

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 13,135 13,632 16,935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.46% 90.03% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,670 8,766 12,134
10th Percentile £343 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £792
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 164 235
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.65 £18.53
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.38
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.65 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% +4.71% -10.83%
75th Percentile £48.00 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.90 £80.75 £74.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

Data Acquisition
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Acquisition relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Data Acquisition job vacancy trend in London

Data Acquisition
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Acquisition.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Acquisition

Data Acquisition
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Acquisition in London over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Acquisition in London

Data Acquisition
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Acquisition.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Acquisition

Data Acquisition
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Nutanix
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
1 4 (80.00%) ETL Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) JSON
1 4 (80.00%) RESTful
1 4 (80.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Capacity Management
1 4 (80.00%) Data Analysis
1 4 (80.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (80.00%) Data Extraction
1 4 (80.00%) ETL
1 4 (80.00%) ETL Development
1 4 (80.00%) Validation
2 1 (20.00%) Data Management
2 1 (20.00%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
1 4 (80.00%) T-SQL
1 4 (80.00%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Control-M
1 4 (80.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) EMC
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Informatica