Data Acquisition Job Trends

Data Acquisition
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Data Acquisition skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 590 638 646
Rank change year-on-year +48 +8 +144
Permanent jobs citing Data Acquisition 54 78 55
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.091% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.16% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 20 38 39
10th Percentile £47,325 £48,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,779 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% -3.42% +8.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £83,125 £118,750
90th Percentile £101,500 £85,000 £134,356
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,779 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.43% +14.14% +4.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,537 49,891 46,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.05% 89.96% 91.45%
Number of salaries quoted 28,419 24,819 35,711
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,532 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.34%

Data Acquisition
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Data Acquisition job vacancy trend in the UK

Data Acquisition
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Acquisition.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Acquisition

Data Acquisition
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Acquisition over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Acquisition in the UK

Data Acquisition
Top 12 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 31 December 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
England +52 51 £62,500 -2.17% 44
UK excluding London +40 46 £60,000 -4.43% 32
South East +42 23 £65,000 - 17
Work from Home +51 12 £75,000 +19.47% 15
West Midlands +33 8 £60,000 -4.43% 1
Midlands +29 8 £60,000 -4.43% 2
South West +14 8 £90,000 +12.50% 3
London +50 7 £75,000 +7.14% 14
East of England +20 3 - - 4
Scotland +3 2 - - 3
North of England -2 2 - - 3
Yorkshire -11 2 - - 1

Data Acquisition
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (9.26%) SAS
2 2 (3.70%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (18.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (18.52%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.70%) AutoCAD
3 1 (1.85%) Abaqus
3 1 (1.85%) EPLAN
Cloud Services
1 11 (20.37%) AWS
2 5 (9.26%) Amazon S3
3 4 (7.41%) Power Platform
4 3 (5.56%) Amazon Cognito
4 3 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (5.56%) Serverless
5 1 (1.85%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (1.85%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.56%) Internet
2 2 (3.70%) Network Security
3 1 (1.85%) Firewall
3 1 (1.85%) Modbus
3 1 (1.85%) RS-485
3 1 (1.85%) VLAN
3 1 (1.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.52%) Spotfire
2 5 (9.26%) Pentaho
3 4 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (7.41%) Power BI
4 2 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.70%) Big Data
4 2 (3.70%) Metadata
4 2 (3.70%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 4 (7.41%) LabVIEW
2 3 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.56%) MLflow
3 2 (3.70%) Git
General
1 24 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 13 (24.07%) Manufacturing
3 10 (18.52%) Pharmaceutical
4 9 (16.67%) Aerospace
5 5 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (9.26%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.56%) Electronics
6 3 (5.56%) Marketing
6 3 (5.56%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.70%) Legal
7 2 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.85%) Advertising
8 1 (1.85%) Aeronautics
8 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.85%) Finance
8 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (24.07%) Data Engineer
2 10 (18.52%) Data Manager
2 10 (18.52%) Junior
3 4 (7.41%) Coordinator
3 4 (7.41%) Developer
3 4 (7.41%) Project Coordinator
4 3 (5.56%) Digital Transformation
4 3 (5.56%) Lead
4 3 (5.56%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 3 (5.56%) Operations Engineer
4 3 (5.56%) Software Engineer
4 3 (5.56%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (5.56%) Test Engineer
5 2 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 2 (3.70%) Firmware Developer
5 2 (3.70%) Head of AI
5 2 (3.70%) Operational Security Analyst
5 2 (3.70%) SCM Engineer
5 2 (3.70%) Security Analyst
5 2 (3.70%) Security Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.56%) HTML
1 3 (5.56%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.85%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.37%) Management Information System
2 7 (12.96%) SCADA
2 7 (12.96%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (11.11%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.56%) Animation
4 3 (5.56%) IoT
4 3 (5.56%) Life Science
4 3 (5.56%) Operational Technology
5 2 (3.70%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.70%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (3.70%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 2 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.70%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (3.70%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 2 (3.70%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.85%) Acoustics
6 1 (1.85%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.85%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.85%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.41%) Linux
2 3 (5.56%) Windows
3 2 (3.70%) Unix
4 1 (1.85%) Debian
4 1 (1.85%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (29.63%) Validation
2 15 (27.78%) Data Management
3 13 (24.07%) Machine Learning
3 13 (24.07%) Visualisation
4 12 (22.22%) Data Cleansing
5 11 (20.37%) Data Visualisation
6 10 (18.52%) AI
6 10 (18.52%) Clinical Data Management
6 10 (18.52%) Data Collection
6 10 (18.52%) Digital Transformation Strategy
6 10 (18.52%) ETL
7 9 (16.67%) Agile
7 9 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (12.96%) Data Modelling
8 7 (12.96%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (12.96%) Software Engineering
9 6 (11.11%) Analytics
9 6 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (11.11%) Data Science
9 6 (11.11%) Innovative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 19 (35.19%) Python
2 9 (16.67%) SQL
3 6 (11.11%) C++
4 5 (9.26%) Bash
5 3 (5.56%) C
5 3 (5.56%) Java
6 2 (3.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (44.44%) Degree
2 8 (14.81%) BPSS Clearance
2 8 (14.81%) SC Cleared
2 8 (14.81%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.56%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.85%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (18.52%) Good Clinical Practice
2 4 (7.41%) QA
3 2 (3.70%) NIST
4 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.85%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.85%) GDPR
4 1 (1.85%) PERC
System Software
1 3 (5.56%) Docker
2 2 (3.70%) Firmware
3 1 (1.85%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (1.85%) iptables
Systems Management
1 4 (7.41%) Ansible
2 3 (5.56%) Kubeflow
2 3 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (20.37%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.26%) Cloudera
2 5 (9.26%) Informatica
2 5 (9.26%) Oracle
2 5 (9.26%) Talend
3 2 (3.70%) Databricks
4 1 (1.85%) Cisco
4 1 (1.85%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.85%) Google
4 1 (1.85%) MikroTik
4 1 (1.85%) Salesforce