Data Acquisition Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Data Acquisition
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Data Acquisition skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
10 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 118 -
Rank change year-on-year +16 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Acquisition 8 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.52% 0.062% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.067% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £694 - -
25th Percentile £862 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £881 £356 -
Median % change year-on-year +147.47% - -
75th Percentile £900 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £700 £483 £650
% change year-on-year +44.85% -25.65% +23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £51.63 - -
25th Percentile £52.19 - -
Median hourly rate £53.75 - -
75th Percentile £54.69 - -
90th Percentile £54.88 - -
UK median hourly rate £67.00 - £47.50

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,309 1,483 2,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 84.72% 91.66% 89.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 727 869 1,308
10th Percentile £225 £223 £282
25th Percentile £378 £363 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £575 £544 £588
90th Percentile £663 £633 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 41 81
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.10 £12.00
25th Percentile £16.17 £20.94 £16.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +20.97% +12.54%
75th Percentile £47.45 £24.18 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.10 £42.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year -22.62% -1.71% +1.74%

Data Acquisition
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Data Acquisition job vacancy trend in Scotland

Data Acquisition
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Data Acquisition
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Acquisition in Scotland over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Acquisition in Scotland

Data Acquisition
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Data Acquisition
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 10 February 2026. 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
Edinburgh - 8 £881 - 1
Data Acquisition
UK

Data Acquisition
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (37.50%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Apache Hive
1 3 (37.50%) Big Data
1 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (37.50%) NoSQL
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Operational Technology
1 5 (62.50%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Asset Management
1 5 (62.50%) Data Management
1 5 (62.50%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 5 (62.50%) Performance Improvement
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
2 3 (37.50%) Customer Service
2 3 (37.50%) Data Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Data Governance
2 3 (37.50%) Data Ingestion
2 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (37.50%) Data Science
2 3 (37.50%) DataOps
2 3 (37.50%) ETL
2 3 (37.50%) Fault Analysis
2 3 (37.50%) Workflow
3 2 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 2 (25.00%) Batch Processing
3 2 (25.00%) Predictive Modelling
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
1 3 (37.50%) Python
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
1 3 (37.50%) IBM Certification
1 3 (37.50%) Master's Degree
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Data Quality
1 3 (37.50%) SLA
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) AVEVA
2 3 (37.50%) IBM
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
Data Acquisition jobs