Data Fabric Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Fabric
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Fabric in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Fabric over the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 395 434
Rank change year-on-year +44 +39 +75
Contract jobs citing Data Fabric 8 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.058% 0.014% 0.018%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.17% 0.049% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £755 -
25th Percentile £413 £763 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £775 £575
Median % change year-on-year -45.16% +34.78% -18.73%
75th Percentile £438 £788 £613
90th Percentile - £795 -
UK median daily rate £625 £800 £575
% change year-on-year -21.88% +39.13% -18.73%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,667 6,093 7,242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.95% 28.83% 31.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,790 3,569 4,862
10th Percentile £220 £213 £231
25th Percentile £363 £378 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £601
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 367 756 389
10th Percentile £15.13 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.51 £14.36 £12.63
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.02 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.72% +60.10% +5.63%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £63.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £30.90 £36.05 £22.50
% change year-on-year -14.27% +60.20% -16.60%

Data Fabric
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Fabric as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Fabric in the UK excluding London

Data Fabric
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Fabric in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Fabric in the UK excluding London

Data Fabric
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Fabric in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Fabric in the UK excluding London

Data Fabric
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 June 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 +15 2 - -
North of England +12 2 - -
South West - 2 - - 2
Midlands - 2 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 - - 2
West Midlands - 1 - -
South East - 1 £425 - 3
East of England - 1 - -
Data Fabric
UK

Data Fabric
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
2 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
2 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Metadata
1 4 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (25.00%) Big Data
2 2 (25.00%) MySQL
2 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) Tableau
3 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
3 1 (12.50%) Power BI
3 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) ER Studio
1 1 (12.50%) ERwin
General
1 3 (37.50%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Architect
1 4 (50.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Information Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Data Modeller
3 1 (12.50%) Data Quality Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Data Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Quality Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Data Governance
2 4 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (37.50%) Data Management
3 3 (37.50%) ETL
3 3 (37.50%) Logical Data Model
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (25.00%) Conceptual Models
4 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (25.00%) Data Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Information Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) Matrix Organization
4 2 (25.00%) Metadata Management
4 2 (25.00%) Use Case
4 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
5 1 (12.50%) Data Integration
5 1 (12.50%) Domain-Driven Design
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) Python
3 2 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (12.50%) R
4 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
4 1 (12.50%) X++
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Talend
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle