Data Fabric Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Data Fabric
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Fabric in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Fabric over the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 115 -
Rank change year-on-year -39 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Fabric 9 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.26% 0.058% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.90% 0.16% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £356 - -
25th Percentile £367 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 - -
75th Percentile £414 - -
90th Percentile £459 - -
England median daily rate £500 £700 £800
% change year-on-year -28.57% -12.50% +40.35%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,003 640 559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 29.02% 37.02% 29.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 626 390 353
10th Percentile £306 £238 £242
25th Percentile £413 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £592 £650
90th Percentile £700 £646 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 43 18
10th Percentile £13.69 £18.87 £15.13
25th Percentile £17.50 £23.76 £18.50
Median hourly rate £33.99 £33.91 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year +0.24% +4.65% +17.83%
75th Percentile £47.50 £50.00 £46.69
90th Percentile £70.41 - £56.25
England median hourly rate £42.50 £32.71 £50.00
% change year-on-year +29.93% -34.58% +14.06%

Data Fabric
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Data Fabric job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Data Fabric
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Data Fabric.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Data Fabric

Data Fabric
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Fabric in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 22 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Fabric in the West Midlands

Data Fabric
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 August 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
Warwickshire -7 7 £388 - 1
Staffordshire - 2 £400 -
Data Fabric
England

Data Fabric
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Storage
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) Metadata
2 1 (11.11%) Delta Lake
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Product Owner
2 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Analytics
1 7 (77.78%) Data Governance
2 6 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (66.67%) Translating Business Requirements
3 5 (55.56%) Agile
3 5 (55.56%) Metadata Management
3 5 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (44.44%) Decision-Making
4 4 (44.44%) Process Management
4 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
4 4 (44.44%) Scrum
4 4 (44.44%) User Stories
5 3 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
5 3 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 3 (33.33%) Data Management
5 3 (33.33%) Network Design
5 3 (33.33%) Product Vision
5 3 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
2 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (11.11%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft