Data Fabric
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Fabric in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Fabric over the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 723 668 854
Rank change year-on-year -55 +186 -25
Permanent jobs citing Data Fabric 30 9 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.031% 0.018% 0.024%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.12% 0.045% 0.072%
Number of salaries quoted 17 6 23
10th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 -
25th Percentile £72,500 £58,438 £83,230
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £76,250 £88,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.92% -13.35% +26.21%
75th Percentile £85,000 £92,813 £122,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £121,375 £122,861
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £143,500 -
% change year-on-year -40.77% - -

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 permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 25,460 20,103 34,605
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.00% 41.08% 33.90%
Number of salaries quoted 16,234 9,890 22,281
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £38,918
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% +4.55% -14.10%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,940 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,619 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.24% - -9.09%

Data Fabric
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Fabric relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Data Fabric job vacancy trend in the UK

Data Fabric
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Fabric.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Fabric

Data Fabric
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Fabric over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Fabric in the UK

Data Fabric
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Fabric within the UK over the 6 months to 10 July 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -61 17 £80,000 +4.92% 10
Work from Home +13 12 £80,000 +3.23% 4
London -20 9 £65,000 -13.33% 7
UK excluding London -63 9 £85,000 -40.77% 4
South East -35 6 £85,000 - 1
Scotland - 2 £110,000 - 2
North West -2 1 £75,000 - 1
North of England -38 1 £75,000 - 1

Data Fabric
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (46.67%) Azure
2 9 (30.00%) Power Platform
2 9 (30.00%) Snowflake
3 6 (20.00%) AWS
3 6 (20.00%) GCP
4 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (13.33%) PaaS
4 4 (13.33%) SaaS
5 3 (10.00%) Azure AI
5 3 (10.00%) Azure Machine Learning
5 3 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (10.00%) dbt
5 3 (10.00%) Serverless
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (3.33%) Fivetran
7 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (30.00%) Power BI
2 8 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (16.67%) SAP HANA
4 3 (10.00%) Data Lake
4 3 (10.00%) Delta Lake
5 1 (3.33%) Big Data
5 1 (3.33%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.33%) SAP BW
5 1 (3.33%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) MLflow
General
1 10 (33.33%) Finance
2 6 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Legal
4 3 (10.00%) Marketing
5 2 (6.67%) Retail
6 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (46.67%) Architect
2 8 (26.67%) Data Architect
3 6 (20.00%) Senior
3 6 (20.00%) Senior Architect
3 6 (20.00%) ServiceNow Manager
4 4 (13.33%) Business Consultant
4 4 (13.33%) Cloud Consultant
4 4 (13.33%) Consultant
4 4 (13.33%) Data Consultant
4 4 (13.33%) Data Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) SAP Business Consultant
4 4 (13.33%) SAP Consultant
4 4 (13.33%) SAP Data Consultant
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Manager
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Service Manager
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 3 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (10.00%) Technical Leader
5 3 (10.00%) Technical Manager
5 3 (10.00%) Technical Services Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (23.33%) REST
1 7 (23.33%) SOAP
2 5 (16.67%) PySpark
3 3 (10.00%) Kafka
4 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.33%) CSS
4 1 (3.33%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (3.33%) HTML
4 1 (3.33%) Middleware
4 1 (3.33%) SAP PI
4 1 (3.33%) XBRL
4 1 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) AI Agents
1 6 (20.00%) Life Science
2 4 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 3 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) Analytics
2 11 (36.67%) Thought Leadership
3 10 (33.33%) AI
3 10 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 10 (33.33%) ITSM
3 10 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 9 (30.00%) Agile
4 9 (30.00%) Data Modelling
4 9 (30.00%) ITIL
4 9 (30.00%) Presales
4 9 (30.00%) Roadmaps
4 9 (30.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 9 (30.00%) User Experience
5 8 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (23.33%) Data Architecture
6 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (23.33%) Service Management
6 7 (23.33%) Workflow
7 6 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.00%) Python
2 5 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (3.33%) ABAP
3 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.33%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (10.00%) Degree
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.33%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) ISO 20022
2 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Ansible
1 3 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (43.33%) Microsoft
2 11 (36.67%) Databricks
3 7 (23.33%) ServiceNow
4 5 (16.67%) SAP
5 3 (10.00%) OpenAI
6 1 (3.33%) Alteryx
6 1 (3.33%) Google
6 1 (3.33%) MuleSoft
6 1 (3.33%) Oracle
6 1 (3.33%) Salesforce