Data Acquisition Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Data Acquisition
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Data Acquisition skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Acquisition 14 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 2.47% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.89% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 14 0 0
10th Percentile £413 - -
25th Percentile £434 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 - -
75th Percentile £529 - -
90th Percentile £556 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £467 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 484 133 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 85.51% 96.38% 62.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 79 32
10th Percentile £359 £222 £266
25th Percentile £410 £334 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £400
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% +15.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £525 £514 £453
90th Percentile £560 £540 £531
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 8
10th Percentile £23.20 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £12.18 £10.42
Median % change year-on-year +106.49% +16.89% -71.59%
75th Percentile - £17.89 £11.32
90th Percentile £45.20 £21.32 £14.26
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.00 £18.13 £22.75
% change year-on-year +26.86% -20.31% +28.39%

Data Acquisition
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Data Acquisition job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Data Acquisition
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

Data Acquisition
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Acquisition in Shropshire over the 6 months to 19 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Acquisition in Shropshire

Data Acquisition
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 19 March 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
Telford - 14 £467 - 1
Data Acquisition
West Midlands

Data Acquisition
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 14 (100.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) Pentaho
2 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (14.29%) Metadata
2 2 (14.29%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 8 (57.14%) Git
1 8 (57.14%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (85.71%) Data Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Data Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 12 (85.71%) Agile
2 12 (85.71%) Data Integration
2 12 (85.71%) Data Pipeline
2 12 (85.71%) ETL
3 10 (71.43%) Business Intelligence
3 10 (71.43%) Scrum
4 8 (57.14%) Analytics
4 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
4 8 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (57.14%) Data Analytics
4 8 (57.14%) Data Virtualisation
4 8 (57.14%) Deployment Automation
4 8 (57.14%) DevOps
4 8 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (57.14%) Test Automation
5 7 (50.00%) Business Analytics
6 5 (35.71%) Change Management
6 5 (35.71%) Data Engineering
7 4 (28.57%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) Bash
2 4 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 12 (85.71%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (57.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Talend
2 5 (35.71%) Denodo
3 4 (28.57%) Cloudera
3 4 (28.57%) Informatica
4 3 (21.43%) Oracle
5 1 (7.14%) Remedy