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 cited Data Fabric over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 501 570 710
Rank change year-on-year +69 +140 +124
Contract jobs citing Data Fabric 19 12 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.028% 0.013%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.19% 0.091% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 10 4
10th Percentile £424 £475 -
25th Percentile £436 £500 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% -12.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £669 £684 £713
90th Percentile £788 £773 £758
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -16.00% +8.70% -

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,944 13,250 19,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.97% 30.42% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,345 8,502 13,668
10th Percentile £300 £263 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 912 640
10th Percentile £16.46 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.08 £28.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year +10.02% +28.41% +9.64%

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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 1 May 2025.

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 6 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 1 May 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
England +64 15 £625 +13.64% 11
London +41 10 £650 +18.18% 10
Work from Home +40 5 £436 -12.80% 6
UK excluding London +64 3 £525 -16.00% 6
South East - 2 £525 - 4
East of England - 1 - -

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 1 (5.26%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) Azure Data Factory
2 4 (21.05%) Collibra
2 4 (21.05%) GCP
3 2 (10.53%) AWS
3 2 (10.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Cognitive Search
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.26%) PaaS
4 1 (5.26%) SaaS
4 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) Metadata
2 7 (36.84%) Data Lake
2 7 (36.84%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (31.58%) Big Data
4 5 (26.32%) NoSQL
5 4 (21.05%) RDBMS
5 4 (21.05%) Relational Database
6 2 (10.53%) BigQuery
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database
7 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
7 1 (5.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) ER Studio
1 4 (21.05%) ERwin
2 1 (5.26%) GitLab
General
1 6 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (31.58%) Influencing Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Finance
2 5 (26.32%) Pharmaceutical
3 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
4 3 (15.79%) Banking
5 2 (10.53%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (10.53%) Front Office
6 1 (5.26%) Back Office
6 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (5.26%) Investment Banking
6 1 (5.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Architect
2 4 (21.05%) Data Modeller
3 3 (15.79%) Data Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Data Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Business Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Oracle Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Analyst Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) C# Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Data Quality Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Lead
5 1 (5.26%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Principal Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Quality Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow Project Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) .NET
1 1 (5.26%) .NET Core
1 1 (5.26%) gRPC
1 1 (5.26%) JSON
1 1 (5.26%) Kafka
1 1 (5.26%) PySpark
1 1 (5.26%) PyTorch
1 1 (5.26%) SignalR
1 1 (5.26%) TensorFlow
1 1 (5.26%) WebSockets
1 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.26%) FMCG
2 1 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.26%) Life Science
2 1 (5.26%) LIMS
2 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Data Governance
2 9 (47.37%) Data Modelling
3 8 (42.11%) Metadata Management
4 6 (31.58%) Data Architecture
4 6 (31.58%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (26.32%) Analytics
5 5 (26.32%) Data Strategy
5 5 (26.32%) ETL
5 5 (26.32%) Ontologies
6 4 (21.05%) Data Ingestion
6 4 (21.05%) Data Management
6 4 (21.05%) Domain-Driven Design
6 4 (21.05%) Logical Data Model
6 4 (21.05%) Physical Data Model
6 4 (21.05%) Roadmaps
7 3 (15.79%) Data Analysis
7 3 (15.79%) Data Privacy
7 3 (15.79%) Project Management
7 3 (15.79%) Use Case
7 3 (15.79%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) SQL
2 4 (21.05%) Python
3 2 (10.53%) C#
3 2 (10.53%) R
4 1 (5.26%) Bash
4 1 (5.26%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.26%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) Data Quality
2 3 (15.79%) GDPR
3 2 (10.53%) QA
4 1 (5.26%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (5.26%) GxP
4 1 (5.26%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Ansible
1 1 (5.26%) Puppet
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Databricks
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle
3 2 (10.53%) Informatica
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow
3 2 (10.53%) Talend
4 1 (5.26%) Google