Data Acquisition Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Acquisition
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 383 419
Rank change year-on-year +52 +36 +68
Contract jobs citing Data Acquisition 8 16 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.063% 0.077% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.069% 0.091% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 17
10th Percentile £466 £450 £425
25th Percentile £484 £494 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.55% +10.55%
75th Percentile £657 £688 £638
90th Percentile £698 £723 £660
UK median daily rate £643 £625 £515
% change year-on-year +2.80% +21.36% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 0
10th Percentile £52.00 £26.88 -
25th Percentile £53.13 £36.56 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £47.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% - -
75th Percentile - £48.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £47.50 -
% change year-on-year +15.79% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

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 2025.

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
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 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
East of England +30 3 - - 34
Midlands +18 2 £650 -3.70% 55
West Midlands +16 2 £650 - 28
South East +41 1 £454 -39.47% 68
North of England +23 1 - - 53
North West +14 1 - - 27
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3
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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Data Pipeline
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) SpaceWire
2 1 (12.50%) 5G
2 1 (12.50%) Internet
2 1 (12.50%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (12.50%) Modbus
2 1 (12.50%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
1 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (12.50%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (12.50%) GIS
1 1 (12.50%) Tableau
General
1 2 (25.00%) Aerospace
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Aviation
2 1 (12.50%) Avionics
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Military
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Electrical Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) GIS Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) GIS Data Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Technology Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Operational Technology
1 2 (25.00%) SCADA
2 1 (12.50%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (12.50%) IoT
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) NB-IoT
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
1 4 (50.00%) Unix
2 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Analytics
1 3 (37.50%) System Testing
1 3 (37.50%) TestOps
2 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (25.00%) Functional Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Compliance Management
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
3 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Data Strategy
3 1 (12.50%) High Availability
3 1 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (12.50%) Line Management
3 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
3 1 (12.50%) Network Management
3 1 (12.50%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (12.50%) Threat Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Bash
2 3 (37.50%) C
2 3 (37.50%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) Tcl
3 2 (25.00%) VBA
4 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (25.00%) QA
3 1 (12.50%) COSHH
3 1 (12.50%) NCSC
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) EMC
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Twitter