Data Acquisition Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Acquisition
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Data Acquisition skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Acquisition over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 426 497
Rank change year-on-year +44 +71 -92
Contract jobs citing Data Acquisition 16 29 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.077% 0.12% 0.074%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.091% 0.14% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 18 14
10th Percentile £450 £425 £410
25th Percentile £494 £453 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £533 £498
Median % change year-on-year +7.98% +7.04% +5.29%
75th Percentile £688 £628 £544
90th Percentile £723 £658 £708
UK median daily rate £600 £508 £550
% change year-on-year +18.23% -7.73% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £26.88 - £41.60
25th Percentile £36.56 - £44.66
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £49.78
75th Percentile £48.75 - £54.89
90th Percentile - - £57.96
UK median hourly rate £47.50 - £49.78
% change year-on-year - - +105.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data Acquisition is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,539 21,424 27,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.73% 89.49% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,477 14,871 19,220
10th Percentile £250 £255 £232
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,058 1,303 1,363
10th Percentile £12.33 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.24 £15.75 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.34 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.69% +75.00% -8.00%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £45.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

Data Acquisition
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Acquisition as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Acquisition in the UK excluding London

Data Acquisition
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Acquisition in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Acquisition in the UK excluding London

Data Acquisition
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Acquisition in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Acquisition in the UK excluding London

Data Acquisition
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Acquisition in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Acquisition in the UK excluding London

Data Acquisition
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Acquisition in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Acquisition in the UK excluding London

Data Acquisition
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 2024. 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
South East +19 6 £750 +64.84% 13
South West - 4 £450 - 14
Midlands +28 3 £675 - 33
East of England +10 2 - - 11
East Midlands - 2 £675 - 9
West Midlands +19 1 - - 24
North West - 1 £550 - 3
North of England - 1 £550 - 4
Data Acquisition
UK

Data Acquisition
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 4 (25.00%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Stack
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) RS-232
2 1 (6.25%) DHCP
2 1 (6.25%) DNS
2 1 (6.25%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (18.75%) Big Data
2 3 (18.75%) Power BI
3 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 2 (12.50%) Data Mining
3 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
4 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
4 1 (6.25%) Metadata
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Subversion
1 4 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Legal
2 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Architect
1 4 (25.00%) Data Architect
1 4 (25.00%) Developer
1 4 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Azure Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Azure Data Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Data Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Data Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Test Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) SCADA Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
1 1 (6.25%) Grid Computing
1 1 (6.25%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
1 4 (25.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (6.25%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Data Modelling
1 6 (37.50%) ETL
2 5 (31.25%) Data Analysis
2 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (25.00%) Data Architecture
4 3 (18.75%) Analytics
4 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (18.75%) Data Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Machine Learning
5 2 (12.50%) API Design
5 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 2 (12.50%) Data Lineage
5 2 (12.50%) Data Strategy
5 2 (12.50%) DevOps
5 2 (12.50%) Open Source
5 2 (12.50%) Requirements Analysis
5 2 (12.50%) Signal Processing
5 2 (12.50%) Software Testing
5 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) SQL
2 4 (25.00%) C
2 4 (25.00%) C#
2 4 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) R
3 2 (12.50%) Scala
4 1 (6.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Degree
2 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
4 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (12.50%) IBM Certification
4 2 (12.50%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
5 1 (6.25%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
1 1 (6.25%) NFS
1 1 (6.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
1 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
1 1 (6.25%) CFEngine
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) IBM
2 2 (12.50%) Siemens
3 1 (6.25%) Databricks
3 1 (6.25%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) VMware