Data Acquisition Contracts in Northern Ireland

Data Acquisition
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Acquisition 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 1.32% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £343 - -
25th Percentile £370 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 - -
75th Percentile £483 - -
90th Percentile £504 - -
UK median daily rate £520 £475 £650
% change year-on-year +9.47% -26.92% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £51.80 - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £29.00 -
% change year-on-year +89.66% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 204 107 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 89.47% 73.29% 78.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 52 70
10th Percentile £263 £151 £200
25th Percentile £325 £184 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £400 £413
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% -3.03% -13.16%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £524
90th Percentile £619 £650 £602
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 18 8
10th Percentile £13.03 £12.25 £13.23
25th Percentile £14.78 £21.19 £13.23
Median hourly rate £17.30 £24.18 £13.91
Median % change year-on-year -28.45% +73.83% +26.74%
75th Percentile £25.15 £29.95 £14.56
90th Percentile - £40.25 £17.08
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +60.38%

Data Acquisition
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Acquisition in Northern Ireland

Data Acquisition
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for Data Acquisition in Northern Ireland

Data Acquisition
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Acquisition in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Acquisition in Northern Ireland

Data Acquisition
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 4 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
County Antrim - 3 £431 - 7
Data Acquisition
UK

Data Acquisition
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Financial Institution
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Change
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Test Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality