Data Acquisition Jobs in the West Midlands

Data Acquisition
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 191 223 233
Rank change year-on-year +32 +10 +40
Permanent jobs citing Data Acquisition 5 30 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.12% 0.40% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.49% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 3 16 9
10th Percentile £51,834 - £49,250
25th Percentile £54,584 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,779 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% +19.05% +16.67%
75th Percentile £76,070 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,878 - -
England median annual salary £62,779 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.18% -4.17% +8.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,903 6,174 6,037
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.13% 82.45% 96.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,622 4,565 3,154
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,905 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Data Acquisition
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Data Acquisition as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Acquisition in the West Midlands

Data Acquisition
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Data Acquisition in the West Midlands

Data Acquisition
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Acquisition in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Acquisition in the West Midlands

Data Acquisition
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Acquisition within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 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
Warwickshire -16 2 - - 15
Birmingham +29 1 £62,779 -3.42% 2
Worcestershire +25 1 £50,000 -13.04% 3
Coventry -6 1 £81,500 -
Data Acquisition
England

Data Acquisition
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (40.00%) MTS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) 5G
1 1 (20.00%) Internet
1 1 (20.00%) LoRaWAN
1 1 (20.00%) Modbus
1 1 (20.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Automotive
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Development Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (20.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 1 (20.00%) IoT
1 1 (20.00%) NB-IoT
1 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Analytics
1 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (40.00%) Line Management
1 2 (40.00%) Product Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Coaching
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Network Management
2 1 (20.00%) Predictive Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) NCSC