Data Fabric Contracts

Data Fabric
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Fabric in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Fabric over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 586 711 827
Rank change year-on-year +125 +116 -144
Contract jobs citing Data Fabric 12 8 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.013% 0.025%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.091% 0.040% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 15
10th Percentile £475 - £530
25th Percentile £500 £538 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £750
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £684 £713 £850
90th Percentile £773 £758 £978
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £575 -
% change year-on-year +8.70% - -

All Generic Skills
UK

Data Fabric is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,143 19,914 29,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.35% 33.30% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,422 13,704 20,462
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £653
90th Percentile £788 £800 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 903 647 727
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.11
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.88
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%

Data Fabric
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Fabric in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Fabric in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Fabric over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Fabric in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Fabric in the UK

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Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Fabric within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +128 8 £550 -12.00% 4
London +105 7 £550 -29.03% 3
Work from Home +133 6 £500 -20.00% 3
UK excluding London +62 2 £625 +8.70%
North of England +33 1 £750 +11.11%
North West +16 1 £750 +11.11%
Northern Ireland - 1 £500 -

Data Fabric
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 2 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 3 (25.00%) Snowflake
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (16.67%) Serverless
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (8.33%) Azure
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) Data Lake
2 4 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (25.00%) DynamoDB
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (16.67%) Apache Hive
4 2 (16.67%) Big Data
4 2 (16.67%) Impala
5 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
5 1 (8.33%) Data Hub
5 1 (8.33%) DB2
5 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (8.33%) Metadata
5 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
5 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) MLflow
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Architect
2 5 (41.67%) Data Architect
3 4 (33.33%) Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Lead
4 2 (16.67%) Lead Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Lead Data Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Python Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Software Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Administrator
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Architect
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Data Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) DBA
5 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Data Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Information Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Kafka
2 2 (16.67%) JMS
2 2 (16.67%) OpenAPI
2 2 (16.67%) REST
2 2 (16.67%) Swagger
3 1 (8.33%) Anaconda
3 1 (8.33%) BentoML
3 1 (8.33%) PyTorch
3 1 (8.33%) TensorFlow
3 1 (8.33%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (16.67%) IoT
2 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Unix
3 1 (8.33%) Windows
3 1 (8.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Agile
1 5 (41.67%) Data Architecture
1 5 (41.67%) Data Management
2 3 (25.00%) Analytics
2 3 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (25.00%) Use Case
3 2 (16.67%) ArchiMate
3 2 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 2 (16.67%) Data Analytics
3 2 (16.67%) Design Patterns
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 2 (16.67%) Scrum
3 2 (16.67%) Software Delivery
3 2 (16.67%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) Dataiku
2 1 (8.33%) DataRobot
2 1 (8.33%) F5
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle