Data Acquisition Jobs in the South East

Data Acquisition
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Data Acquisition skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Acquisition over the 6 months leading up to 25 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 268 324 368
Rank change year-on-year +56 +44 +68
Permanent jobs citing Data Acquisition 34 60 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.36% 0.35% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.42% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2 39 24
10th Percentile - £39,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £28,500 £40,625 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -47.27% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £29,500 £63,125 £62,500
90th Percentile - £87,500 £87,125
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +8.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Data Acquisition falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,757 14,361 13,362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 92.09% 83.80% 94.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4,194 9,941 7,791
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,060 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Data Acquisition
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Data Acquisition as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Data Acquisition in the South East

Data Acquisition
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Acquisition in the South East.

Salary trend for Data Acquisition in the South East

Data Acquisition
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Acquisition within the South East region over the 6 months to 25 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +65 31 £29,000 -46.79% 36
Berkshire +65 29 - - 17
Middlesex - 2 - -
Buckinghamshire - 2 £29,000 - 11
Surrey +40 1 - - 9
Data Acquisition
England

Data Acquisition
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 11 (32.35%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.88%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 31 (91.18%) Azure
2 11 (32.35%) AWS
2 11 (32.35%) GCP
3 2 (5.88%) Amazon S3
3 2 (5.88%) H2O.ai
3 2 (5.88%) IaaS
3 2 (5.88%) PaaS
3 2 (5.88%) SaaS
3 2 (5.88%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (61.76%) Data Lake
2 11 (32.35%) Big Data
2 11 (32.35%) Hadoop
3 9 (26.47%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (26.47%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.88%) Apache Hive
4 2 (5.88%) BigQuery
4 2 (5.88%) Bigtable
4 2 (5.88%) HBase
4 2 (5.88%) Impala
4 2 (5.88%) Metadata
4 2 (5.88%) Tableau
General
1 32 (94.12%) Law
2 11 (32.35%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.94%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (58.82%) Lead
2 9 (26.47%) Data Analytics Director
3 2 (5.88%) Data Analytics Engineer
3 2 (5.88%) Data Engineer
3 2 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) Commercial Lawyer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (26.47%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 10 (29.41%) Product Ownership
2 9 (26.47%) Cloud Native
2 9 (26.47%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.88%) CAN bus
3 2 (5.88%) Driving Licence
3 2 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.88%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Cyberattack
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (91.18%) Analytics
1 31 (91.18%) Business Intelligence
2 29 (85.29%) Data Architecture
2 29 (85.29%) Data Modelling
3 22 (64.71%) Roadmaps
4 20 (58.82%) Business Transformation
4 20 (58.82%) Data Strategy
4 20 (58.82%) ERP
5 19 (55.88%) Decision-Making
6 11 (32.35%) Artificial Intelligence
6 11 (32.35%) CI/CD
6 11 (32.35%) Data Analytics
6 11 (32.35%) Data Governance
6 11 (32.35%) High Availability
6 11 (32.35%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (32.35%) Platform Engineering
7 10 (29.41%) Data Management
7 10 (29.41%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 10 (29.41%) Procure-to-Pay
7 10 (29.41%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (26.47%) SQL
2 2 (5.88%) Java
2 2 (5.88%) Python
2 2 (5.88%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (32.35%) Degree
1 11 (32.35%) Master's Degree
2 9 (26.47%) AWS Certification
2 9 (26.47%) Azure Certification
2 9 (26.47%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (26.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 9 (26.47%) GDPR
2 2 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.94%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (5.88%) HDFS
1 2 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Hadoop YARN
1 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (58.82%) Microsoft
1 20 (58.82%) SAP
2 11 (32.35%) Google
3 10 (29.41%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.88%) Cloudera
4 2 (5.88%) Dataiku
4 2 (5.88%) MapR