Data Fabric Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Fabric
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Fabric in remote or hybrid contract work. 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 299 339 473
Rank change year-on-year +40 +134 +148
Contract jobs citing Data Fabric 5 6 4
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.050% 0.039% 0.015%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% 0.14% 0.049%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £475 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.80% -20.00% -21.88%
75th Percentile £436 £525 £713
90th Percentile £436 £630 £758
UK median daily rate £585 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +6.36% -12.00% -16.67%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Data Fabric
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Fabric as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Fabric trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Fabric
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Fabric.

Data Fabric daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Fabric
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Big Data
1 5 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (80.00%) Data Lake
2 4 (80.00%) Metadata
2 4 (80.00%) NoSQL
2 4 (80.00%) RDBMS
2 4 (80.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) ER Studio
1 4 (80.00%) ERwin
General
1 4 (80.00%) Influencing Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Data Modeller
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Principal Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Principal Data Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 5 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 5 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 5 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 5 (100.00%) Ontologies
2 4 (80.00%) Data Ingestion
2 4 (80.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 4 (80.00%) ETL
2 4 (80.00%) Logical Data Model
2 4 (80.00%) Metadata Management
2 4 (80.00%) Physical Data Model
2 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Data Acquisition
3 1 (20.00%) Disruptive Innovation
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Master Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft