Data Acquisition Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Data Acquisition
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Data Acquisition skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 173 197
Rank change year-on-year +12 +24 +44
Permanent jobs citing Data Acquisition 10 8 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.25% 0.24% 0.051%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.26% 0.057%
Number of salaries quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £49,300 £59,000 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 -
90th Percentile - £76,000 -
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,245 3,106 3,530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 80.48% 91.78% 89.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,770 1,383 2,439
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,500 £45,000 £39,043
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -4.55%

Data Acquisition
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Data Acquisition job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Data Acquisition
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Data Acquisition.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Data Acquisition

Data Acquisition
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Acquisition in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Acquisition in the Thames Valley

Data Acquisition
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Acquisition within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Oxfordshire +22 10 £65,000 -3.70% 2
Data Acquisition
South East

Data Acquisition
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Amazon Cognito
1 3 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (30.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
1 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (30.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) LabVIEW
2 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (30.00%) MLflow
3 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 7 (70.00%) Manufacturing
2 3 (30.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (10.00%) Aeronautics
3 1 (10.00%) Electronics
3 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Operations Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) SCM Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Animation
1 3 (30.00%) Life Science
2 1 (10.00%) Arduino
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Data Management
1 3 (30.00%) DevOps
1 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (30.00%) MLOps
1 3 (30.00%) Motion Capture
1 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (30.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (10.00%) Biology
2 1 (10.00%) Chemistry
2 1 (10.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (10.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (10.00%) Physics
2 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (10.00%) User Experience
2 1 (10.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) C++
3 1 (10.00%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (10.00%) PhD
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Ansible
1 3 (30.00%) Kubeflow
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes