Data Acquisition Jobs

Data Acquisition
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Acquisition skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 729 726 833
Rank change year-on-year -3 +107 -2
Permanent jobs citing Data Acquisition 180 224 459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.24% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.25% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 117 82 154
10th Percentile £39,000 £28,750 £41,347
25th Percentile £48,000 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,140
Median % change year-on-year - -0.25% +4.04%
75th Percentile £76,250 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £91,250 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.00% -9.09% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Acquisition in the UK

Data Acquisition
Top 17 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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +37 171 £56,250 -6.25% 78
UK excluding London -44 146 £54,500 +9.00% 55
South East +16 61 £55,000 -8.33% 15
Work from Home -46 57 £51,000 -7.27% 13
Midlands -10 38 £58,750 +11.90% 18
London +100 31 £72,500 -25.64% 20
West Midlands -7 31 £62,500 +19.05% 15
North of England +32 26 £51,000 +20.00% 7
Yorkshire +69 19 £51,000 +20.00% 2
South West -22 11 £37,000 -32.73% 14
East Midlands -22 7 £42,500 - 3
Scotland -85 5 £50,000 +53.85%
North West -14 4 £50,000 -16.67% 2
East of England -4 3 £92,500 +189.69% 5
North East - 3 £80,000 - 3
Northern Ireland +16 1 - -
Wales -3 1 - -

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 10 (5.56%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.11%) Apache
2 2 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.11%) MTS
2 2 (1.11%) SAS
3 1 (0.56%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (0.56%) Kinematics
Applications
1 16 (8.89%) Simulink
2 14 (7.78%) Stateflow
3 7 (3.89%) CANalyzer
4 6 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.11%) Eikon
2 1 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (16.11%) Power Platform
2 24 (13.33%) Azure
3 20 (11.11%) AWS
4 15 (8.33%) SaaS
5 13 (7.22%) Azure Data Factory
5 13 (7.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 9 (5.00%) GCP
6 9 (5.00%) GitHub
6 9 (5.00%) Snowflake
7 7 (3.89%) Boomi
8 3 (1.67%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.67%) Serverless
9 2 (1.11%) PaaS
10 1 (0.56%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.56%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.56%) Asana
10 1 (0.56%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.78%) J1939
2 3 (1.67%) 4G
2 3 (1.67%) 5G
2 3 (1.67%) FlexRay
2 3 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.56%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.56%) Internet
3 1 (0.56%) Modbus
3 1 (0.56%) MQTT
3 1 (0.56%) RS-232
3 1 (0.56%) RS-422
3 1 (0.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (16.11%) Power BI
2 24 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (10.56%) SQL Server
4 18 (10.00%) Big Data
4 18 (10.00%) Tableau
5 14 (7.78%) Data Lake
5 14 (7.78%) Metadata
6 12 (6.67%) Relational Database
6 12 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (6.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 8 (4.44%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (4.44%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 7 (3.89%) BigQuery
9 7 (3.89%) Data Mining
10 6 (3.33%) Hadoop
11 5 (2.78%) NoSQL
12 2 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (1.11%) Qlik Sense
13 1 (0.56%) HBase
13 1 (0.56%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 14 (7.78%) ClearCase
1 14 (7.78%) Plastic SCM
2 11 (6.11%) JIRA
3 7 (3.89%) ClearQuest
4 5 (2.78%) LabVIEW
5 4 (2.22%) Git
6 2 (1.11%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.11%) MLflow
7 1 (0.56%) GitLab
7 1 (0.56%) Subversion
General
1 74 (41.11%) Social Skills
2 30 (16.67%) Electronics
3 29 (16.11%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (15.56%) Finance
5 26 (14.44%) Automotive
5 26 (14.44%) Marketing
6 16 (8.89%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (7.78%) Pharmaceutical
8 9 (5.00%) Games
8 9 (5.00%) Manufacturing
8 9 (5.00%) Public Sector
9 6 (3.33%) Retail
10 5 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.78%) Legal
11 2 (1.11%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.11%) Agriculture
11 2 (1.11%) Banking
11 2 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.11%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (28.89%) Senior
2 41 (22.78%) Data Engineer
3 33 (18.33%) Software Engineer
4 23 (12.78%) Developer
5 20 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
6 16 (8.89%) Senior Developer
7 15 (8.33%) Lead
8 12 (6.67%) Oracle Developer
8 12 (6.67%) Senior Oracle Developer
9 10 (5.56%) Systems Engineer
10 9 (5.00%) Architect
10 9 (5.00%) Azure Data Engineer
10 9 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (5.00%) Integration Engineer
10 9 (5.00%) SCADA Engineer
11 8 (4.44%) Test Engineer
12 7 (3.89%) Data Integration Engineer
12 7 (3.89%) Data Manager
12 7 (3.89%) Senior Data Engineer
13 6 (3.33%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.56%) .NET
2 7 (3.89%) GraphQL
2 7 (3.89%) RESTful
3 4 (2.22%) AngularJS
3 4 (2.22%) Java RMI
3 4 (2.22%) JSON
3 4 (2.22%) Pandas
3 4 (2.22%) XML
4 3 (1.67%) ASP.NET
4 3 (1.67%) HTML
5 2 (1.11%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.11%) EDI
5 2 (1.11%) Ionic Framework
5 2 (1.11%) Kafka
6 1 (0.56%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.56%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (0.56%) LangChain
6 1 (0.56%) Node.js
6 1 (0.56%) React
6 1 (0.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.44%) Operational Technology
1 26 (14.44%) SCADA
2 23 (12.78%) Algorithms
3 12 (6.67%) Data Structures
4 10 (5.56%) Embedded Systems
5 9 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
5 9 (5.00%) IoT
5 9 (5.00%) Taxonomies
6 8 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (4.44%) Management Information System
6 8 (4.44%) NHS
7 5 (2.78%) Augmented Reality
7 5 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.78%) Virtual Reality
8 4 (2.22%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.22%) FPGA
9 2 (1.11%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.11%) Grid Computing
10 1 (0.56%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.56%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 21 (11.67%) Windows
2 18 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 12 (6.67%) Linux
4 2 (1.11%) Android
4 2 (1.11%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.11%) Unix
4 2 (1.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (27.22%) Software Engineering
2 40 (22.22%) Agile
2 40 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (20.00%) ETL
4 35 (19.44%) Business Intelligence
5 31 (17.22%) Analytics
5 31 (17.22%) DevOps
6 28 (15.56%) Data Management
7 27 (15.00%) Data Modelling
7 27 (15.00%) Machine Learning
8 25 (13.89%) Computer Science
9 24 (13.33%) Project Management
10 22 (12.22%) Data Engineering
10 22 (12.22%) Data Governance
10 22 (12.22%) Decision-Making
10 22 (12.22%) Mentoring
10 22 (12.22%) Visualisation
11 20 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
11 20 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
12 19 (10.56%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 56 (31.11%) Python
2 39 (21.67%) SQL
3 30 (16.67%) C
4 21 (11.67%) MATLAB
5 16 (8.89%) C#
6 14 (7.78%) Embedded C
6 14 (7.78%) Perl
7 13 (7.22%) Java
8 11 (6.11%) C++
8 11 (6.11%) T-SQL
9 7 (3.89%) VB
10 3 (1.67%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.11%) Go
12 1 (0.56%) Ladder Logic
12 1 (0.56%) R
12 1 (0.56%) Scala
12 1 (0.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 89 (49.44%) Degree
2 18 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 16 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (8.33%) SC Cleared
5 13 (7.22%) Master's Degree
6 12 (6.67%) HND
7 10 (5.56%) PhD
8 9 (5.00%) MBA
9 5 (2.78%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.67%) HNC
10 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.11%) DBS Check
11 2 (1.11%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 1 (0.56%) CASP
12 1 (0.56%) CISSP
12 1 (0.56%) GCIA
12 1 (0.56%) GCIH
12 1 (0.56%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (20.56%) Data Quality
2 24 (13.33%) GDPR
3 17 (9.44%) Accessibility
4 14 (7.78%) Automotive SPICE
4 14 (7.78%) AUTOSAR
4 14 (7.78%) ISO 26262
4 14 (7.78%) MISRA
5 13 (7.22%) QA
6 10 (5.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (1.11%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.56%) GRC
8 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.56%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (8.89%) Hyper-V
1 16 (8.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (3.89%) Docker
2 7 (3.89%) Firmware
3 2 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (7.78%) Terraform
2 9 (5.00%) QRadar
3 6 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 29 (16.11%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.89%) IBM
2 16 (8.89%) VMware
3 15 (8.33%) Databricks
4 14 (7.78%) Lauterbach
5 13 (7.22%) Oracle
6 9 (5.00%) Darktrace
7 7 (3.89%) MuleSoft
8 4 (2.22%) Atlassian
8 4 (2.22%) Facebook
8 4 (2.22%) Instagram
9 2 (1.11%) Bloomberg
9 2 (1.11%) Cognos
9 2 (1.11%) Dell
9 2 (1.11%) Keysight
9 2 (1.11%) LexisNexis
9 2 (1.11%) MicroStrategy
9 2 (1.11%) SAP
9 2 (1.11%) Sun
10 1 (0.56%) iManage