Data Acquisition Contracts

Data Acquisition
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 542 636 764
Rank change year-on-year +94 +128 -153
Contract jobs citing Data Acquisition 45 79 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.14% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 40 61
10th Percentile £409 £425 £425
25th Percentile £459 £450 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year +20.19% -3.70% +5.62%
75th Percentile £700 £641 £638
90th Percentile £791 £710 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £520 £500
% change year-on-year +8.17% +4.00% +11.11%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 - £49.78
% change year-on-year - - +105.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,760 54,632 81,458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.38% 89.84% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,440 37,790 57,209
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,414 1,780 1,950
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.90 £16.34 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +44.00% -
75th Percentile £58.69 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £71.83 £75.00 £63.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £19.96
% change year-on-year - +75.39% -8.21%

Data Acquisition
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Acquisition in the UK

Data Acquisition
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Acquisition in the UK

Data Acquisition
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Acquisition over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Acquisition in the UK

Data Acquisition
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Acquisition.

Hourly rate trend for Data Acquisition in the UK

Data Acquisition
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Acquisition over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Acquisition in the UK

Data Acquisition
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 18 April 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
England +108 43 £650 +33.33% 89
London +95 24 £650 +31.65% 10
UK excluding London +38 18 £563 +8.17% 76
Work from Home +107 12 £500 +2.56% 25
South East +17 6 £750 +64.84% 19
East of England +12 4 £425 -29.17% 11
South West - 4 £450 - 16
Midlands +38 3 £675 - 28
East Midlands - 2 £675 - 8
North of England +35 1 £550 +4.76% 4
West Midlands +33 1 - - 20
North West - 1 £550 - 4

Data Acquisition
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (13.33%) Apache Spark
2 5 (11.11%) Apache
Business Applications
1 4 (8.89%) LabWindows
2 3 (6.67%) SAP GRC
3 1 (2.22%) NetSuite
3 1 (2.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 12 (26.67%) Azure
2 10 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 8 (17.78%) AWS
4 6 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (11.11%) GCP
6 4 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (8.89%) Serverless
7 3 (6.67%) Alation
7 3 (6.67%) Azure Functions
7 3 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (6.67%) Entra ID
7 3 (6.67%) GitHub
7 3 (6.67%) NuGet
8 2 (4.44%) Collibra
9 1 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.22%) Azure Stack
9 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.89%) RS-232
2 2 (4.44%) Internet
3 1 (2.22%) DHCP
3 1 (2.22%) DNS
3 1 (2.22%) InfiniBand
3 1 (2.22%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
1 10 (22.22%) Power BI
2 9 (20.00%) Big Data
3 8 (17.78%) NoSQL
3 8 (17.78%) Tableau
4 5 (11.11%) Metadata
5 3 (6.67%) Data Lake
5 3 (6.67%) Data Mining
5 3 (6.67%) Hadoop
5 3 (6.67%) PowerCenter
6 2 (4.44%) Apache Hive
6 2 (4.44%) Impala
6 2 (4.44%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (4.44%) Relational Database
6 2 (4.44%) Spark SQL
6 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
6 2 (4.44%) Sqoop
6 2 (4.44%) Star Schema
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (8.89%) RStudio
1 4 (8.89%) Subversion
1 4 (8.89%) Visual Studio
2 3 (6.67%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.22%) GitLab
3 1 (2.22%) JIRA
General
1 15 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (31.11%) Finance
2 14 (31.11%) Social Skills
3 7 (15.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (6.67%) Retail
6 2 (4.44%) Banking
6 2 (4.44%) Marketing
6 2 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.22%) Legal
7 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (17.78%) Data Engineer
2 6 (13.33%) Architect
2 6 (13.33%) Developer
2 6 (13.33%) Scrum Master
3 4 (8.89%) Data Architect
3 4 (8.89%) Software Developer
4 3 (6.67%) Azure Architect
4 3 (6.67%) Azure Data Architect
5 2 (4.44%) Analyst
5 2 (4.44%) AWS Data Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Business Intelligence Architect
5 2 (4.44%) CRM Executive
5 2 (4.44%) Data Governance Analyst
5 2 (4.44%) Data Manager
5 2 (4.44%) Full Stack Developer
5 2 (4.44%) Python Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Senior
5 2 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.44%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.89%) PySpark
2 3 (6.67%) .NET
2 3 (6.67%) .NET Core
2 3 (6.67%) .NET Framework
2 3 (6.67%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (6.67%) Kafka
2 3 (6.67%) React
3 1 (2.22%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.67%) SCADA
3 2 (4.44%) Blog
3 2 (4.44%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.44%) Hackathon
3 2 (4.44%) IoT
3 2 (4.44%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.22%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.22%) Grid Computing
4 1 (2.22%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.22%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.89%) Windows
1 4 (8.89%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.22%) Linux
2 1 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (26.67%) Analytics
1 12 (26.67%) ETL
2 11 (24.44%) Data Modelling
2 11 (24.44%) Data Strategy
2 11 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
3 10 (22.22%) Data Engineering
3 10 (22.22%) Decision-Making
3 10 (22.22%) Scrum
4 8 (17.78%) Visualisation
5 7 (15.56%) Data Governance
5 7 (15.56%) Data Visualisation
6 6 (13.33%) Data Analysis
6 6 (13.33%) Data Architecture
6 6 (13.33%) Data Management
7 5 (11.11%) Agile
7 5 (11.11%) Computer Science
7 5 (11.11%) DevOps
7 5 (11.11%) Machine Learning
7 5 (11.11%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 19 (42.22%) SQL
2 12 (26.67%) Python
3 7 (15.56%) C#
4 4 (8.89%) C
5 3 (6.67%) Scala
6 2 (4.44%) Java
6 2 (4.44%) R
7 1 (2.22%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (22.22%) Degree
2 5 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 4 (8.89%) Numerate Degree
4 3 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.44%) IBM Certification
6 1 (2.22%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.22%) HND
6 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.89%) GDPR
3 3 (6.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (6.67%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (4.44%) HDFS
2 1 (2.22%) Docker
2 1 (2.22%) NFS
2 1 (2.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (6.67%) RSA Archer
2 1 (2.22%) Ansible
2 1 (2.22%) CFEngine
2 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (15.56%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.89%) Google
2 4 (8.89%) IBM
3 3 (6.67%) Informatica
3 3 (6.67%) Okta
3 3 (6.67%) OneTrust
3 3 (6.67%) SAP
3 3 (6.67%) Symantec
3 3 (6.67%) Talend
3 3 (6.67%) Varonis
4 2 (4.44%) Databricks
4 2 (4.44%) Monetate
4 2 (4.44%) Oracle
4 2 (4.44%) Siemens
5 1 (2.22%) Alteryx
5 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.22%) VMware