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 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 574 668
Rank change year-on-year +60 +94 +153
Contract jobs citing Data Fabric 27 10 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.089% 0.023% 0.011%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.26% 0.077% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 7 3
10th Percentile £429 £665 £432
25th Percentile £436 £725 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £800 £575
Median % change year-on-year -23.44% +39.13% -18.73%
75th Percentile £706 £825 £613
90th Percentile £833 £885 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £775 £575
% change year-on-year -45.16% +34.78% -18.73%

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 10,524 13,064 18,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.64% 30.13% 32.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,537 8,282 12,583
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £650 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 482 929 584
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.39 £11.87
Median hourly rate £30.65 £36.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.02% +62.22% -16.60%
75th Percentile £57.57 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £36.05 £22.50
% change year-on-year -16.77% +60.20% +5.19%

Data Fabric
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 27 June 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

Data Fabric
Top 12 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 27 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
England +84 23 £625 -21.88% 17
London +51 13 £638 -20.31% 11
Work from Home +48 9 £436 -37.66% 11
UK excluding London +51 8 £425 -45.16% 7
North West +12 2 - -
North of England +5 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
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 2 (7.41%) Apache Spark
1 2 (7.41%) Jupyter
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Actimize
1 1 (3.70%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 13 (48.15%) Azure
2 5 (18.52%) GCP
3 4 (14.81%) AWS
3 4 (14.81%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (14.81%) Collibra
3 4 (14.81%) Power Platform
4 3 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (3.70%) Dagster
6 1 (3.70%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.70%) PowerApps
6 1 (3.70%) Prefect
6 1 (3.70%) Serverless
6 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.70%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (37.04%) Metadata
2 8 (29.63%) Big Data
3 7 (25.93%) Data Lake
3 7 (25.93%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (25.93%) Relational Database
4 6 (22.22%) NoSQL
5 4 (14.81%) RDBMS
6 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
7 2 (7.41%) BigQuery
7 2 (7.41%) Hadoop
7 2 (7.41%) MySQL
7 2 (7.41%) Tableau
8 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (3.70%) Flink
8 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
8 1 (3.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) ER Studio
1 4 (14.81%) ERwin
2 2 (7.41%) MLflow
3 1 (3.70%) GitLab
General
1 8 (29.63%) Finance
2 7 (25.93%) Pharmaceutical
3 6 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
5 4 (14.81%) Banking
6 2 (7.41%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (7.41%) Front Office
6 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.70%) Back Office
7 1 (3.70%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.70%) Legal
7 1 (3.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Architect
2 6 (22.22%) Data Architect
3 5 (18.52%) Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) Data Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Data Modeller
5 3 (11.11%) Data Analyst
5 3 (11.11%) Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Business Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Dynamics 365 Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Information Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Oracle Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow Manager
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Lead
7 1 (3.70%) Senior
7 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) Kafka
2 2 (7.41%) PyTorch
2 2 (7.41%) TensorFlow
3 1 (3.70%) .NET
3 1 (3.70%) .NET Core
3 1 (3.70%) Anaconda
3 1 (3.70%) BentoML
3 1 (3.70%) gRPC
3 1 (3.70%) JSON
3 1 (3.70%) SignalR
3 1 (3.70%) WebSockets
3 1 (3.70%) XGBoost
3 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Data Structures
1 2 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.70%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (3.70%) FMCG
2 1 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (3.70%) IoT
2 1 (3.70%) Life Science
2 1 (3.70%) LIMS
2 1 (3.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Data Governance
2 12 (44.44%) Data Modelling
3 8 (29.63%) ETL
3 8 (29.63%) Metadata Management
4 7 (25.93%) Data Architecture
5 6 (22.22%) Data Management
5 6 (22.22%) Logical Data Model
5 6 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (22.22%) Use Case
6 5 (18.52%) Analytics
6 5 (18.52%) Data Strategy
6 5 (18.52%) Machine Learning
6 5 (18.52%) Ontologies
7 4 (14.81%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (14.81%) Data Engineering
7 4 (14.81%) Data Ingestion
7 4 (14.81%) Domain-Driven Design
7 4 (14.81%) Physical Data Model
7 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (14.81%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.93%) Python
1 7 (25.93%) SQL
2 3 (11.11%) Java
3 2 (7.41%) C#
3 2 (7.41%) R
3 2 (7.41%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.70%) Bash
4 1 (3.70%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.70%) Scala
4 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.70%) X++
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) Degree
2 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (7.41%) Master's Degree
2 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (37.04%) Data Quality
2 3 (11.11%) GDPR
3 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.70%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (3.70%) GxP
3 1 (3.70%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Kubeflow
1 2 (7.41%) Terraform
2 1 (3.70%) Ansible
2 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Databricks
2 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
3 4 (14.81%) Oracle
3 4 (14.81%) Talend
4 2 (7.41%) Informatica
4 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.70%) Dataiku
5 1 (3.70%) DataRobot
5 1 (3.70%) Google