Data Acquisition Contracts in England

Data Acquisition
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Data Acquisition skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Acquisition over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 516 575 712
Rank change year-on-year +59 +137 -119
Contract jobs citing Data Acquisition 35 62 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.095% 0.13% 0.092%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.15% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 28 34
10th Percentile £427 £407 £440
25th Percentile £453 £444 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £501 £590
Median % change year-on-year +12.22% -15.04% +17.71%
75th Percentile £688 £703 £669
90th Percentile £775 £825 £784
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +18.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £26.88 - £41.60
25th Percentile £36.56 - £44.66
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £49.78
75th Percentile £48.75 - £54.89
90th Percentile - - £57.96
UK median hourly rate £47.50 - £49.78
% change year-on-year - - +169.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Data Acquisition is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,623 42,710 64,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.71% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,632 29,989 45,672
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,323 1,520 1,714
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.05 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

Data Acquisition
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Acquisition in England

Data Acquisition
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Acquisition in England.

Daily rate trend for Data Acquisition in England

Data Acquisition
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Acquisition in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Acquisition in England

Data Acquisition
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Acquisition in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Acquisition in England

Data Acquisition
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Acquisition in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Acquisition in England

Data Acquisition
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Acquisition within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +67 17 £600 +9.09% 20
South East +8 6 £750 +64.84% 15
Midlands +26 5 £526 - 18
West Midlands +15 3 £448 - 15
South West - 3 £450 - 14
East of England +1 2 - - 5
East Midlands - 2 £675 - 3
North West - 1 £550 - 2
North of England - 1 £550 - 7
Data Acquisition
UK

Data Acquisition
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (11.43%) Apache Spark
2 3 (8.57%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (8.57%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 4 (11.43%) LabWindows
2 1 (2.86%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.86%) SAP GRC
2 1 (2.86%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 8 (22.86%) Azure
2 7 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (14.29%) AWS
3 5 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (8.57%) Azure Functions
4 3 (8.57%) Azure Key Vault
4 3 (8.57%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (8.57%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (8.57%) GitHub
4 3 (8.57%) NuGet
4 3 (8.57%) Serverless
5 2 (5.71%) GCP
6 1 (2.86%) Alation
6 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) RS-232
2 1 (2.86%) DHCP
2 1 (2.86%) DNS
2 1 (2.86%) Ethernet
2 1 (2.86%) FlexRay
2 1 (2.86%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (20.00%) Power BI
2 6 (17.14%) Big Data
2 6 (17.14%) NoSQL
2 6 (17.14%) Tableau
3 3 (8.57%) Hadoop
4 2 (5.71%) Apache Hive
4 2 (5.71%) Data Lake
4 2 (5.71%) Data Mining
4 2 (5.71%) Impala
4 2 (5.71%) Metadata
4 2 (5.71%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (5.71%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.71%) Spark SQL
4 2 (5.71%) Sqoop
5 1 (2.86%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) RStudio
2 4 (11.43%) Subversion
2 4 (11.43%) Visual Studio
3 3 (8.57%) CANoe
3 3 (8.57%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (25.71%) Finance
4 6 (17.14%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (8.57%) Automotive
5 3 (8.57%) Retail
6 2 (5.71%) Banking
6 2 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.71%) Marketing
6 2 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.86%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.86%) Electronics
7 1 (2.86%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (17.14%) Developer
2 5 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Architect
3 4 (11.43%) Data Architect
3 4 (11.43%) Software Developer
4 3 (8.57%) Azure Architect
4 3 (8.57%) Azure Data Architect
4 3 (8.57%) Integration Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Software Integration Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) AWS Data Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Business Intelligence Architect
5 2 (5.71%) CRM Executive
5 2 (5.71%) Full Stack Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Test Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Analyst
6 1 (2.86%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 1 (2.86%) C# Developer
6 1 (2.86%) Integration Manager
6 1 (2.86%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) .NET
1 3 (8.57%) .NET Core
1 3 (8.57%) .NET Framework
1 3 (8.57%) React
2 2 (5.71%) PySpark
3 1 (2.86%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (2.86%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.57%) Infotainment
3 1 (2.86%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.86%) Grid Computing
3 1 (2.86%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (2.86%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Windows
1 4 (11.43%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.86%) Linux
2 1 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (31.43%) Analytics
2 10 (28.57%) Data Strategy
2 10 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (22.86%) Data Modelling
3 8 (22.86%) Decision-Making
3 8 (22.86%) ETL
4 7 (20.00%) Agile
4 7 (20.00%) Data Engineering
4 7 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 6 (17.14%) Machine Learning
5 6 (17.14%) Test Automation
5 6 (17.14%) Visualisation
6 5 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 5 (14.29%) Data Analysis
6 5 (14.29%) Data Architecture
6 5 (14.29%) Data Governance
6 5 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
7 4 (11.43%) Mathematics
7 4 (11.43%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 12 (34.29%) SQL
2 11 (31.43%) Python
3 7 (20.00%) C#
4 4 (11.43%) C
5 2 (5.71%) Java
5 2 (5.71%) R
5 2 (5.71%) Scala
6 1 (2.86%) Perl
6 1 (2.86%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (31.43%) Degree
2 5 (14.29%) Numerate Degree
2 5 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.71%) IBM Certification
5 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.71%) GDPR
3 1 (2.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.86%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (5.71%) HDFS
2 1 (2.86%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) NFS
2 1 (2.86%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Ansible
1 1 (2.86%) CFEngine
1 1 (2.86%) Functional Safety
1 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.86%) Puppet
1 1 (2.86%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.71%) Google
2 2 (5.71%) IBM
2 2 (5.71%) Monetate
2 2 (5.71%) Oracle
2 2 (5.71%) Siemens
3 1 (2.86%) Alteryx
3 1 (2.86%) Informatica
3 1 (2.86%) Okta
3 1 (2.86%) OneTrust
3 1 (2.86%) SAP
3 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.86%) Symantec
3 1 (2.86%) Talend
3 1 (2.86%) Varonis
3 1 (2.86%) VMware