Data Acquisition Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Acquisition
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 535 617 586
Rank change year-on-year +82 -31 +113
Permanent jobs citing Data Acquisition 44 146 163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.19% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.24% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 5 93 65
10th Percentile - £39,106 £28,750
25th Percentile £28,500 £45,000 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £54,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.61% +9.00% -9.32%
75th Percentile £50,000 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £71,450 £87,500 £65,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -0.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,721 61,614 54,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.53% 82.28% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 17,560 42,296 28,644
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Data Acquisition
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Acquisition as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Acquisition in the UK excluding London

Data Acquisition
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Acquisition in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Data Acquisition in the UK excluding London

Data Acquisition
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Acquisition in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Acquisition in the UK excluding London

Data Acquisition
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Acquisition within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
South East +51 34 £29,000 -47.27% 15
Midlands +32 5 £50,000 -14.89% 20
West Midlands +29 4 £65,750 +5.20% 16
East of England +50 3 - - 8
Scotland +118 1 - - 7
Yorkshire +38 1 - - 8
East Midlands +37 1 £40,000 -5.88% 4
North of England +13 1 - - 14
Data Acquisition
UK

Data Acquisition
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.55%) Apache
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.55%) MTS
Cloud Services
1 32 (72.73%) Azure
2 12 (27.27%) AWS
2 12 (27.27%) GCP
3 2 (4.55%) Amazon S3
3 2 (4.55%) H2O.ai
3 2 (4.55%) IaaS
3 2 (4.55%) PaaS
3 2 (4.55%) SaaS
3 2 (4.55%) Vertex AI
4 1 (2.27%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.82%) Modbus
2 2 (4.55%) Ethernet
2 2 (4.55%) LoRaWAN
2 2 (4.55%) MQTT
3 1 (2.27%) 5G
3 1 (2.27%) Bluetooth
3 1 (2.27%) Internet
3 1 (2.27%) Profibus
3 1 (2.27%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (47.73%) Data Lake
2 11 (25.00%) Big Data
2 11 (25.00%) Hadoop
3 9 (20.45%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (20.45%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.55%) Apache Hive
4 2 (4.55%) BigQuery
4 2 (4.55%) Bigtable
4 2 (4.55%) HBase
4 2 (4.55%) Impala
4 2 (4.55%) Metadata
4 2 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Git
General
1 32 (72.73%) Law
2 16 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.27%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.27%) Agriculture
5 1 (2.27%) Automotive
5 1 (2.27%) Electronics
5 1 (2.27%) Finance
5 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.27%) Legal
5 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.27%) Marketing
5 1 (2.27%) Military
5 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (45.45%) Lead
2 9 (20.45%) Data Analytics Director
3 3 (6.82%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (4.55%) Control Systems Engineer
4 2 (4.55%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 2 (4.55%) Data Engineer
4 2 (4.55%) Integration Engineer
4 2 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (4.55%) Software Engineer
4 2 (4.55%) Systems Integration Engineer
4 2 (4.55%) Test Engineer
5 1 (2.27%) Architect
5 1 (2.27%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (2.27%) Commercial Lawyer
5 1 (2.27%) Development Engineer
5 1 (2.27%) Electrical Engineer
5 1 (2.27%) Embedded Engineer
5 1 (2.27%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (2.27%) Senior
5 1 (2.27%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.45%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.73%) Product Ownership
2 9 (20.45%) Cloud Native
2 9 (20.45%) Management Information System
3 4 (9.09%) SCADA
4 2 (4.55%) CAN bus
4 2 (4.55%) Driving Licence
4 2 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.55%) IoT
4 2 (4.55%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.27%) ARM Cortex
5 1 (2.27%) Cyberattack
5 1 (2.27%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.27%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (2.27%) NB-IoT
5 1 (2.27%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.55%) Linux
2 1 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.27%) Unix
2 1 (2.27%) VMS
2 1 (2.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (72.73%) Analytics
1 32 (72.73%) Business Intelligence
2 29 (65.91%) Data Architecture
2 29 (65.91%) Data Modelling
3 22 (50.00%) Roadmaps
4 20 (45.45%) Business Transformation
4 20 (45.45%) Data Strategy
4 20 (45.45%) Decision-Making
4 20 (45.45%) ERP
5 12 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
5 12 (27.27%) High Availability
6 11 (25.00%) Agile
6 11 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 11 (25.00%) Data Analytics
6 11 (25.00%) Data Governance
6 11 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 11 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
7 10 (22.73%) Data Science
7 10 (22.73%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (20.45%) SQL
2 5 (11.36%) Python
3 4 (9.09%) Java
4 2 (4.55%) Bash
4 2 (4.55%) C
4 2 (4.55%) C++
4 2 (4.55%) Ruby
5 1 (2.27%) C#
5 1 (2.27%) Ladder Logic
5 1 (2.27%) Perl
5 1 (2.27%) R
5 1 (2.27%) Tcl
5 1 (2.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (36.36%) Degree
2 12 (27.27%) Master's Degree
3 10 (22.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (20.45%) AWS Certification
4 9 (20.45%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.27%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 9 (20.45%) GDPR
2 2 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.55%) NCSC
3 1 (2.27%) JTAG
System Software
1 2 (4.55%) HDFS
1 2 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.27%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (2.27%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (4.55%) Hadoop YARN
1 2 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (47.73%) SAP
2 20 (45.45%) Microsoft
3 12 (27.27%) Google
4 10 (22.73%) Salesforce
5 2 (4.55%) Allen-Bradley
5 2 (4.55%) Cloudera
5 2 (4.55%) Dataiku
5 2 (4.55%) MapR
5 2 (4.55%) Rockwell
5 2 (4.55%) Siemens
5 2 (4.55%) Wonderware
6 1 (2.27%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.27%) EMC
6 1 (2.27%) NVIDIA
6 1 (2.27%) Red Hat