Hybrid/Remote Data Fabric Contract Job Trends

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 12 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 291 339
Rank change year-on-year -48 +48 +105
Contract jobs citing Data Fabric 12 7 4
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.094% 0.072% 0.027%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.26% 0.21% 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 3
10th Percentile £353 - -
25th Percentile £381 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £436 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.68% -12.80% -13.04%
75th Percentile £675 £436 £613
90th Percentile £710 £436 £665
UK median daily rate £500 £585 £750
% change year-on-year -14.53% -22.00% +30.43%

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 4,586 3,269 4,328
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.01% 33.77% 29.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,878 2,185 2,941
10th Percentile £360 £340 £325
25th Percentile £431 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £838
UK median daily rate £517 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.50% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 81 187
10th Percentile £18.65 £17.80 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.50 £26.25 £25.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £46.25 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £76.38 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £87.05 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £33.05 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.90% -5.57% +57.30%

Data Fabric
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Fabric and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Data Fabric job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Data Fabric
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Fabric.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Fabric

Data Fabric
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Fabric over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Data Fabric daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Data Fabric
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 3 (25.00%) Apache
1 3 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (25.00%) SaaS
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (16.67%) GitHub
4 2 (16.67%) PowerApps
4 2 (16.67%) Snowflake
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 1 (8.33%) AWS KMS
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Storage
5 1 (8.33%) GCP
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (8.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) BGP
1 1 (8.33%) LAN
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
1 1 (8.33%) OSPF
1 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (8.33%) VLAN
1 1 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Metadata
1 4 (33.33%) Power BI
2 3 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (25.00%) Delta Lake
2 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (16.67%) Hadoop
3 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 2 (16.67%) Parquet
3 2 (16.67%) Spark SQL
4 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (8.33%) Db2
4 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Git
General
1 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Data Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Data Migration Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Migration Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Product Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Data Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Security Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Product Owner
4 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) PySpark
2 2 (16.67%) JSON
2 2 (16.67%) XML
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (8.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Migration
2 6 (50.00%) Agile
3 5 (41.67%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (41.67%) Data Governance
3 5 (41.67%) Data Migration
3 5 (41.67%) Data Modelling
3 5 (41.67%) DevOps
3 5 (41.67%) ETL
4 4 (33.33%) AI
4 4 (33.33%) Analytics
4 4 (33.33%) Data Architecture
4 4 (33.33%) Data Engineering
4 4 (33.33%) Validation
5 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (25.00%) Data Management
5 3 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (25.00%) Data Transformation
5 3 (25.00%) Metadata Management
5 3 (25.00%) Scrum
5 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) SQL
2 5 (41.67%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) CCNA
3 1 (8.33%) CISA
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (8.33%) CISM
3 1 (8.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (8.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) RACF
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Databricks
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) BeyondTrust
3 1 (8.33%) Brocade
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) CyberArk
3 1 (8.33%) Extreme Networks
3 1 (8.33%) Juniper
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow