Data Fabric Jobs

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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 702 887 911
Rank change year-on-year +185 +24 +288
Permanent jobs citing Data Fabric 9 23 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.023% 0.054%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.044% 0.065% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 7 23 34
10th Percentile £52,750 - £58,664
25th Percentile £65,000 £83,230 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £88,000 £69,724
Median % change year-on-year -11.93% +26.21% -16.75%
75th Percentile £97,500 £122,500 £94,054
90th Percentile £116,600 £122,861 £180,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £95,000 - £69,447
% change year-on-year - - -19.25%

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 20,320 35,437 42,555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.16% 34.69% 43.46%
Number of salaries quoted 9,321 23,080 22,873
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,647
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,043 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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

Data Fabric
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Fabric.

Salary trend for Data Fabric in the UK

Data Fabric
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Fabric over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +145 9 £77,500 -11.93% 11
London +106 5 £67,500 -22.95% 9
Work from Home +105 5 £77,500 -11.93% 13
UK excluding London - 4 £95,000 - 2
North of England - 2 £77,500 -
North West - 2 £77,500 -
South East - 1 £95,000 -
South West - 1 £143,500 - 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 (22.22%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) AWS
3 3 (33.33%) Snowflake
4 2 (22.22%) GCP
5 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) Collibra
5 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (44.44%) Data Lake
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (22.22%) Big Data
3 2 (22.22%) BigQuery
3 2 (22.22%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (22.22%) Hadoop
4 1 (11.11%) Metadata
4 1 (11.11%) Power BI
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Data Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Lead
3 3 (33.33%) Architect
3 3 (33.33%) Lead Data Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 2 (22.22%) Data Architect
4 2 (22.22%) Senior
4 2 (22.22%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Big Data Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Lead Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Lead Big Data Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Lead Enterprise Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Big Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Kafka
1 2 (22.22%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) FMCG
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (11.11%) Life Science
2 1 (11.11%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) ETL
2 5 (55.56%) Data Engineering
3 4 (44.44%) Analytics
3 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
4 3 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
4 3 (33.33%) Data Architecture
4 3 (33.33%) DevOps
4 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
4 3 (33.33%) TOGAF
5 2 (22.22%) Agile
5 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 2 (22.22%) Data Ingestion
5 2 (22.22%) Data Management
5 2 (22.22%) Data Strategy
5 2 (22.22%) Data Transformation
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (22.22%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) Java
2 3 (33.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) AWS Certification
1 4 (44.44%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
2 1 (11.11%) MBA
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Databricks
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) Cloudera
4 1 (11.11%) Informatica