Data Acquisition Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Acquisition
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 335 430 566
Rank change year-on-year +95 +136 -116
Contract jobs citing Data Acquisition 9 41 57
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.059% 0.16% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.067% 0.18% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 21 35
10th Percentile £316 £450 £455
25th Percentile £320 £453 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.95% -11.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile - £650 £775
UK median daily rate £600 £508 £550
% change year-on-year +18.23% -7.73% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.88 - -
Median hourly rate £29.00 - -
75th Percentile £31.13 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 - £49.78
% change year-on-year - - +105.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,413 23,039 40,643
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.92% 89.76% 91.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,959 16,290 29,502
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 580 529 544
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.58
25th Percentile £25.38 £30.54 £19.98
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £67.35
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

Data Acquisition
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Acquisition as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Acquisition trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Acquisition
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Acquisition.

Data Acquisition daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Acquisition
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Acquisition over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Data Acquisition daily rate histogram 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 a work from home option 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) NetSuite
1 1 (11.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
1 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Tableau
2 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (11.11%) BigQuery
2 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
2 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) Looker
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) RStudio
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
4 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Test Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Python Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Python Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 4 (44.44%) Data Strategy
2 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Analytics
3 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Data Collection
4 2 (22.22%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (22.22%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 2 (22.22%) Information Governance
4 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 2 (22.22%) Signal Processing
4 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Validation
4 2 (22.22%) Visualisation
5 1 (11.11%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 1 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Siemens
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft