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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 564 676 813
Rank change year-on-year +112 +137 -87
Contract jobs citing Data Fabric 11 6 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.026% 0.011% 0.029%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.085% 0.032% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 20
10th Percentile £475 £432 £535
25th Percentile £531 £471 £605
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £575 £708
Median % change year-on-year +15.22% -18.73% -
75th Percentile £763 £613 £850
90th Percentile £853 - £871
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 12,955 18,685 29,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.09% 33.33% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,317 12,877 20,364
10th Percentile £270 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 922 612 691
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.18 £10.63 £17.19
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.13 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +58.19% -17.99% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £74.93 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.61 £22.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year +57.30% +3.53% -7.61%

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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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +89 9 £625 +8.70% 4
London +98 6 £550 +34.15% 3
Work from Home +115 4 £500 -13.04%
UK excluding London +37 3 £775 +34.78% 1
North of England - 3 £775 - 1
North West - 3 £775 - 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 5 (45.45%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon Kinesis
2 3 (27.27%) GCP
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%) Serverless
3 2 (18.18%) Snowflake
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 6 (54.55%) Data Lake
2 4 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (27.27%) BigQuery
3 3 (27.27%) Data Hub
3 3 (27.27%) DB2
3 3 (27.27%) DynamoDB
3 3 (27.27%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 3 (27.27%) MongoDB
3 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (9.09%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) MLflow
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Architect
2 5 (45.45%) Data Architect
3 4 (36.36%) Lead
4 2 (18.18%) Lead Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Lead Data Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Technical Leader
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%) Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Data Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Information Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) Anaconda
2 1 (9.09%) BentoML
2 1 (9.09%) JMS
2 1 (9.09%) OpenAPI
2 1 (9.09%) PyTorch
2 1 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) Swagger
2 1 (9.09%) TensorFlow
2 1 (9.09%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Public Cloud
2 2 (18.18%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
3 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
1 3 (27.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Data Management
2 4 (36.36%) 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%) Database Optimisation
3 3 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (27.27%) ETL
3 3 (27.27%) Incident Response
3 3 (27.27%) Machine Learning
3 3 (27.27%) Use Case
4 2 (18.18%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics
4 2 (18.18%) Data Integration
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Dimensional Modelling
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) Python
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 3 (27.27%) F5
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle
3 1 (9.09%) Dataiku
3 1 (9.09%) DataRobot