Data Acquisition Contracts

Data Acquisition
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Data Acquisition skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Acquisition over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 548 616 768
Rank change year-on-year +68 +152 -108
Contract jobs citing Data Acquisition 36 81 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.15% 0.092%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.097% 0.16% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 37 47
10th Percentile £418 £419 £486
25th Percentile £450 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -1.74% +15.00%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £650
90th Percentile £775 £825 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £565 £500
% change year-on-year -4.78% +13.00% +16.69%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 - £49.78

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 contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Acquisition in the UK

Data Acquisition
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Acquisition over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Acquisition in the UK

Data Acquisition
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Acquisition in the UK

Data Acquisition
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Acquisition over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Acquisition in the UK

Data Acquisition
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +57 35 £550 - 62
London +52 17 £600 -7.69% 15
UK excluding London +21 17 £538 -4.78% 50
Work from Home +86 8 £500 +2.56% 21
South East +13 6 £750 +65.75% 15
Midlands +20 5 £526 - 9
West Midlands +19 3 £448 - 6
South West - 3 £450 - 11
East of England +1 2 - - 5
East Midlands - 2 £675 - 3
North West - 1 £550 - 4
North of England - 1 £550 - 8

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 4 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 3 (8.33%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (8.33%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 4 (11.11%) LabWindows
2 1 (2.78%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.78%) SAP GRC
2 1 (2.78%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 8 (22.22%) Azure
1 8 (22.22%) Power Platform
2 5 (13.89%) AWS
2 5 (13.89%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (8.33%) Azure Functions
3 3 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 3 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (8.33%) GCP
3 3 (8.33%) GitHub
3 3 (8.33%) NuGet
3 3 (8.33%) Serverless
4 1 (2.78%) Alation
4 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.11%) RS-232
2 1 (2.78%) DHCP
2 1 (2.78%) DNS
2 1 (2.78%) Ethernet
2 1 (2.78%) FlexRay
2 1 (2.78%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.22%) Power BI
2 7 (19.44%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (19.44%) Tableau
3 6 (16.67%) Big Data
3 6 (16.67%) NoSQL
4 3 (8.33%) Hadoop
5 2 (5.56%) Apache Hive
5 2 (5.56%) Data Lake
5 2 (5.56%) Data Mining
5 2 (5.56%) Impala
5 2 (5.56%) Metadata
5 2 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.56%) Spark SQL
5 2 (5.56%) Sqoop
6 1 (2.78%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.78%) Looker
6 1 (2.78%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) RStudio
2 4 (11.11%) Subversion
2 4 (11.11%) Visual Studio
3 3 (8.33%) CANoe
3 3 (8.33%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 12 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (22.22%) Finance
4 6 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (8.33%) Automotive
5 3 (8.33%) Retail
6 2 (5.56%) Banking
6 2 (5.56%) Marketing
6 2 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.78%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.78%) Electronics
7 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.78%) Legal
7 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (16.67%) Developer
2 5 (13.89%) Architect
2 5 (13.89%) Data Architect
2 5 (13.89%) Data Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Software Developer
4 3 (8.33%) Azure Architect
4 3 (8.33%) Azure Data Architect
4 3 (8.33%) Integration Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Software Integration Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) AWS Data Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Architect
5 2 (5.56%) CRM Executive
5 2 (5.56%) Full Stack Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Test Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) .NET Software Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) Software Manager
6 1 (2.78%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) .NET
1 3 (8.33%) .NET Core
1 3 (8.33%) .NET Framework
1 3 (8.33%) React
2 2 (5.56%) PySpark
3 1 (2.78%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (2.78%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.33%) Infotainment
3 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.78%) Grid Computing
3 1 (2.78%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (2.78%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.11%) Windows
1 4 (11.11%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.78%) Linux
2 1 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) Analytics
2 11 (30.56%) Data Strategy
2 11 (30.56%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (27.78%) Decision-Making
4 9 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 8 (22.22%) Agile
5 8 (22.22%) ETL
5 8 (22.22%) Visualisation
6 7 (19.44%) Data Engineering
6 7 (19.44%) Mentoring
7 6 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (16.67%) Data Architecture
7 6 (16.67%) Data Governance
7 6 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
7 6 (16.67%) Machine Learning
7 6 (16.67%) Test Automation
8 5 (13.89%) Computer Science
8 5 (13.89%) Data Analysis
8 5 (13.89%) DevOps
9 4 (11.11%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 13 (36.11%) SQL
2 11 (30.56%) Python
3 7 (19.44%) C#
4 4 (11.11%) C
5 2 (5.56%) Java
5 2 (5.56%) R
5 2 (5.56%) Scala
6 1 (2.78%) Perl
6 1 (2.78%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (30.56%) Degree
2 5 (13.89%) Numerate Degree
2 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.56%) IBM Certification
5 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.56%) GDPR
3 1 (2.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.78%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) HDFS
2 1 (2.78%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) NFS
2 1 (2.78%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) Ansible
1 1 (2.78%) CFEngine
1 1 (2.78%) Functional Safety
1 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.78%) Puppet
1 1 (2.78%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.56%) Google
2 2 (5.56%) IBM
2 2 (5.56%) Monetate
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle
2 2 (5.56%) Siemens
3 1 (2.78%) Alteryx
3 1 (2.78%) Informatica
3 1 (2.78%) Okta
3 1 (2.78%) OneTrust
3 1 (2.78%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.78%) SAP
3 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.78%) Siebel
3 1 (2.78%) Symantec
3 1 (2.78%) Talend
3 1 (2.78%) Varonis
3 1 (2.78%) VMware