Data Acquisition Job Trends in Staffordshire

Data Acquisition
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Data Acquisition skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 - 70
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Data Acquisition 5 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Staffordshire 0.41% - 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% - 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £57,500
75th Percentile - - £59,375
90th Percentile - - £61,500
West Midlands median annual salary £65,000 £45,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +44.44% -21.74% -4.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 750 541 712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 62.19% 71.56% 80.54%
Number of salaries quoted 551 224 429
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,000 £24,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,580 £28,822
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £40,060
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +12.33% -7.38%
75th Percentile £60,000 £59,063 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £65,000
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -

Data Acquisition
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Acquisition relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire.

Data Acquisition job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Data Acquisition
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Data Acquisition.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Data Acquisition

Data Acquisition
Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Acquisition within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 8 September 2026. 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
Stafford - 5 - - 1
Data Acquisition
West Midlands

Data Acquisition
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DMZ
1 5 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 5 (100.00%) IPv4
1 5 (100.00%) Modbus
1 5 (100.00%) OSPF
1 5 (100.00%) VLAN
1 5 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 5 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 5 (100.00%) Control Systems Engineer
1 5 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
1 5 (100.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 5 (100.00%) High Availability
1 5 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 5 (100.00%) OO
1 5 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 5 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 5 (100.00%) Validation