Data Fabric Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Data Fabric
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Fabric in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Fabric over the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 205 - 186
Rank change year-on-year - - +53
Contract jobs citing Data Fabric 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.064% - 0.022%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.18% - 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
England median daily rate £678 £625 £565
% change year-on-year +8.40% +10.62% -27.10%

All Generic Skills
North of England

Data Fabric falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,687 1,154 1,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 35.90% 32.10% 29.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,111 640 911
10th Percentile £213 £203 £263
25th Percentile £363 £350 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £487 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.41% -2.65% -
75th Percentile £551 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £680 £650
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.68% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 49 60
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.03 £14.42
25th Percentile £18.78 £21.25 £17.24
Median hourly rate £41.94 £32.50 £24.64
Median % change year-on-year +29.05% +31.90% +12.00%
75th Percentile £56.69 £42.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.00 £61.90 £55.00
England median hourly rate £28.06 £37.50 £43.92
% change year-on-year -25.17% -14.62% +25.39%

Data Fabric
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Fabric relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Data Fabric job vacancy trend in the North of England

Data Fabric
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Fabric.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Fabric

Data Fabric
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Fabric.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Fabric

Data Fabric
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West - 3 £600 - 1
Data Fabric
England

Data Fabric
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
1 1 (33.33%) Neo4j
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Pharmaceutical
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Information Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Complex ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Conceptual Models
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) DataOps
3 1 (33.33%) Information Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
3 1 (33.33%) Matrix Organization
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) RBAC
3 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GMP
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks