Data Fabric Contract Job Trends in the South East

Data Fabric
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Fabric in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Fabric over the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 162 209
Rank change year-on-year -17 +47 -
Contract jobs citing Data Fabric 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.022% 0.031% 0.018%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.074% 0.094% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
England median daily rate £640 £625 £550
% change year-on-year +2.40% +13.64% -29.03%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,351 1,064 1,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.65% 33.16% 30.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 916 608 1,017
10th Percentile £204 £234 £205
25th Percentile £363 £380 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £525 £481
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% +9.15% -6.60%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 39 120
10th Percentile £12.50 £19.68 £15.67
25th Percentile £15.62 £24.42 £23.53
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -26.32% +26.67%
75th Percentile £60.25 £59.87 £61.90
90th Percentile £82.00 £71.97 £76.63
England median hourly rate £31.18 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -16.85% +7.14% +55.66%

Data Fabric
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Data Fabric job vacancy trend in the South East

Data Fabric
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Fabric.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Fabric

Data Fabric
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 February 2026. 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
Thames Valley - 1 £750 - 1
Oxfordshire - 1 £750 -
Data Fabric
England

Data Fabric
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Lucidchart
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Layer
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Logical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Physical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft