Data Fabric Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Data Fabric
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Fabric in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Fabric over the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 - 140
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Fabric 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.049% - 0.079%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.14% - 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - £435
75th Percentile - - £438
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £750 £625 £435
% change year-on-year +20.00% +43.68% -

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 719 667 818
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 35.56% 31.70% 32.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 356 513
10th Percentile £258 £263 £205
25th Percentile £400 £409 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.29% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £673 £700 £700
South East median daily rate £490 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -3.92% +2.00% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 23 36
10th Percentile £15.64 £18.55 £21.25
25th Percentile £20.79 £23.37 £24.26
Median hourly rate £53.00 £42.88 £48.13
Median % change year-on-year +23.60% -10.91% +143.71%
75th Percentile £80.00 £59.16 £63.29
90th Percentile £95.00 £62.24 £69.88
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £53.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% -33.96% +49.30%

Data Fabric
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Data Fabric job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Data Fabric
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Data Fabric.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Data Fabric

Data Fabric
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 4 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
Oxfordshire - 1 £750 -
Data Fabric
South East

Data Fabric
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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