Data Acquisition Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Acquisition
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 336 436
Rank change year-on-year +35 +100 +139
Contract jobs citing Data Acquisition 3 9 41
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.030% 0.059% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.033% 0.067% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 21
10th Percentile £557 £316 £450
25th Percentile £567 £320 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £400 £488
Median % change year-on-year +48.13% -17.95% -11.36%
75th Percentile £627 £600 £600
90th Percentile £642 - £650
UK median daily rate £643 £625 £515
% change year-on-year +2.80% +21.36% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £29.00 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £47.50 -
% change year-on-year +15.79% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Data Acquisition
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Acquisition as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Acquisition trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Acquisition
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Acquisition.

Data Acquisition daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Acquisition
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Acquisition.

Data Acquisition hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Acquisition
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Market Risk Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) PMO Manager
1 1 (33.33%) PMO Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Fabric
1 1 (33.33%) Market Risk
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) Data Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Mapping
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Master Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Ontologies
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Test Planning
2 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 1 (33.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle