Data Fabric Contracts

Data Fabric
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Fabric in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Fabric over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 560 680 822
Rank change year-on-year +120 +142 -107
Contract jobs citing Data Fabric 11 7 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.026% 0.012% 0.025%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.085% 0.037% 0.076%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 15
10th Percentile £475 - £553
25th Percentile £550 £538 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £750
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% -
75th Percentile £750 £713 £850
90th Percentile £835 £758 £978
UK excluding London median daily rate £775 £575 £708
% change year-on-year +34.78% -18.73% -

All Generic Skills
UK

Data Fabric is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,884 18,935 29,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.26% 33.25% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,299 13,036 20,297
10th Percentile £266 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £680 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 896 624 711
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.16 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.38 £22.26 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.98% -19.07% +4.90%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £21.13
% change year-on-year +36.36% +4.14% -11.29%

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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Fabric in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Fabric over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Fabric in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Fabric in the UK

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Top 6 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
England +111 9 £588 -6.00% 7
London +104 7 £550 -29.03% 5
Work from Home +109 4 £500 -20.00% 1
UK excluding London +56 2 £775 +34.78% 1
North of England +34 2 £775 +14.81% 1
North West +22 2 £775 +14.81% 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon Kinesis
2 3 (27.27%) Snowflake
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (18.18%) GCP
3 2 (18.18%) Serverless
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (9.09%) Azure
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) Data Lake
2 4 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (27.27%) DynamoDB
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (18.18%) BigQuery
4 2 (18.18%) Data Hub
4 2 (18.18%) DB2
4 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
4 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
5 1 (9.09%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) MLflow
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Architect
2 5 (45.45%) Data Architect
3 3 (27.27%) Lead
4 2 (18.18%) Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Lead Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Lead Data Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Software Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Administrator
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Architect
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Data Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) DBA
5 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Data Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Information Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Kafka
2 2 (18.18%) JMS
2 2 (18.18%) OpenAPI
2 2 (18.18%) REST
2 2 (18.18%) Swagger
3 1 (9.09%) Anaconda
3 1 (9.09%) BentoML
3 1 (9.09%) PyTorch
3 1 (9.09%) TensorFlow
3 1 (9.09%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (18.18%) IoT
1 2 (18.18%) Public Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
1 2 (18.18%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Data Management
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
3 3 (27.27%) Analytics
3 3 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (27.27%) Data Architecture
3 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
3 3 (27.27%) Machine Learning
3 3 (27.27%) Use Case
4 2 (18.18%) ArchiMate
4 2 (18.18%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
4 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics
4 2 (18.18%) Database Optimisation
4 2 (18.18%) Design Patterns
4 2 (18.18%) ETL
4 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
4 2 (18.18%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Java
1 2 (18.18%) Python
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Databricks
2 2 (18.18%) F5
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle
3 1 (9.09%) Dataiku
3 1 (9.09%) DataRobot