Data Acquisition Jobs

Data Acquisition
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 660 737 739
Rank change year-on-year +77 +2 +96
Permanent jobs citing Data Acquisition 49 175 233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.090% 0.17% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.096% 0.20% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 8 113 83
10th Percentile £28,500 £39,106 £28,750
25th Percentile £35,250 £48,000 £39,353
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -0.25%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,225 £87,500 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £54,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year -26.94% +9.50% -9.09%

All Process and 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 51,121 85,992 93,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.75% 84.40% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,076 60,364 55,438
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

Data Acquisition
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Acquisition as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Acquisition in the UK

Data Acquisition
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Acquisition in the UK

Data Acquisition
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Acquisition over the 6 months to 27 May 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 27 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
England +66 48 £60,000 +4.35% 158
UK excluding London +88 44 £40,000 -26.94% 111
South East +59 34 £29,000 -47.27% 26
Work from Home +79 7 £70,000 +37.25% 61
London +88 5 £70,000 -3.45% 54
Midlands +34 5 £50,000 -14.89% 28
West Midlands +41 4 £65,750 +5.20% 23
East of England +36 3 - - 13
Scotland +110 1 - - 10
Yorkshire +46 1 - - 11
East Midlands +34 1 £40,000 -5.88% 5
North of England +24 1 - - 25

Data Acquisition
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (22.45%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.12%) Confluence
3 2 (4.08%) Apache
3 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.08%) MTS
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 32 (65.31%) Azure
2 12 (24.49%) AWS
2 12 (24.49%) GCP
3 2 (4.08%) Amazon S3
3 2 (4.08%) H2O.ai
3 2 (4.08%) IaaS
3 2 (4.08%) PaaS
3 2 (4.08%) SaaS
3 2 (4.08%) Vertex AI
4 1 (2.04%) AWS IoT
4 1 (2.04%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.12%) Modbus
2 2 (4.08%) Ethernet
2 2 (4.08%) LoRaWAN
2 2 (4.08%) MQTT
3 1 (2.04%) 5G
3 1 (2.04%) Bluetooth
3 1 (2.04%) Internet
3 1 (2.04%) Profibus
3 1 (2.04%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (42.86%) Data Lake
2 11 (22.45%) Big Data
2 11 (22.45%) Hadoop
3 9 (18.37%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (18.37%) NoSQL
4 3 (6.12%) Tableau
5 2 (4.08%) Apache Hive
5 2 (4.08%) BigQuery
5 2 (4.08%) Bigtable
5 2 (4.08%) HBase
5 2 (4.08%) Impala
5 2 (4.08%) Metadata
6 1 (2.04%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (6.12%) JIRA
2 2 (4.08%) Git
General
1 33 (67.35%) Law
2 16 (32.65%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.12%) Advertising
5 2 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.08%) Legal
5 2 (4.08%) Marketing
5 2 (4.08%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.04%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.04%) Agriculture
6 1 (2.04%) Automotive
6 1 (2.04%) Electronics
6 1 (2.04%) Finance
6 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.04%) Military
6 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (46.94%) Lead
2 9 (18.37%) Data Analytics Director
3 3 (6.12%) Developer
3 3 (6.12%) Lead Developer
3 3 (6.12%) Quantitative Developer
3 3 (6.12%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (4.08%) Commercial Lawyer
4 2 (4.08%) Control Systems Engineer
4 2 (4.08%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 2 (4.08%) Data Engineer
4 2 (4.08%) Integration Engineer
4 2 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (4.08%) Software Engineer
4 2 (4.08%) Systems Integration Engineer
4 2 (4.08%) Test Engineer
5 1 (2.04%) Database Manager
5 1 (2.04%) Database Marketing Manager
5 1 (2.04%) Electrical Engineer
5 1 (2.04%) Marketing Manager
5 1 (2.04%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.37%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.41%) Product Ownership
2 9 (18.37%) Cloud Native
2 9 (18.37%) Management Information System
3 4 (8.16%) Algorithms
3 4 (8.16%) SCADA
4 2 (4.08%) CAN bus
4 2 (4.08%) Cyberattack
4 2 (4.08%) Driving Licence
4 2 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.08%) IoT
4 2 (4.08%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.04%) ARM Cortex
5 1 (2.04%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.04%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (2.04%) NB-IoT
5 1 (2.04%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.08%) Linux
2 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.04%) Unix
2 1 (2.04%) VMS
2 1 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (65.31%) Analytics
1 32 (65.31%) Business Intelligence
1 32 (65.31%) Data Modelling
2 29 (59.18%) Data Architecture
3 22 (44.90%) Roadmaps
4 20 (40.82%) Business Transformation
4 20 (40.82%) Data Strategy
4 20 (40.82%) Decision-Making
4 20 (40.82%) ERP
5 12 (24.49%) Artificial Intelligence
5 12 (24.49%) High Availability
6 11 (22.45%) Agile
6 11 (22.45%) CI/CD
6 11 (22.45%) Data Analytics
6 11 (22.45%) Data Governance
6 11 (22.45%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 11 (22.45%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (22.45%) Platform Engineering
7 10 (20.41%) Data Science
7 10 (20.41%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (18.37%) SQL
2 8 (16.33%) Python
3 4 (8.16%) Java
4 2 (4.08%) Bash
4 2 (4.08%) C
4 2 (4.08%) C++
4 2 (4.08%) Ruby
5 1 (2.04%) C#
5 1 (2.04%) Ladder Logic
5 1 (2.04%) Perl
5 1 (2.04%) R
5 1 (2.04%) Tcl
5 1 (2.04%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (34.69%) Degree
2 12 (24.49%) Master's Degree
3 10 (20.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (18.37%) AWS Certification
4 9 (18.37%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.04%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 9 (18.37%) GDPR
2 3 (6.12%) NCSC
3 2 (4.08%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.08%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.04%) JTAG
System Software
1 2 (4.08%) HDFS
1 2 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.04%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (2.04%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (4.08%) Hadoop YARN
1 2 (4.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (42.86%) SAP
2 20 (40.82%) Microsoft
3 12 (24.49%) Google
4 10 (20.41%) Salesforce
5 2 (4.08%) Allen-Bradley
5 2 (4.08%) Cloudera
5 2 (4.08%) Dataiku
5 2 (4.08%) MapR
5 2 (4.08%) Rockwell
5 2 (4.08%) Siemens
5 2 (4.08%) Wonderware
6 1 (2.04%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.04%) EMC
6 1 (2.04%) NVIDIA
6 1 (2.04%) Red Hat