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 cited Data Fabric over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 691 822
Rank change year-on-year +119 +131 -91
Contract jobs citing Data Fabric 12 6 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.011% 0.030%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.092% 0.033% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 23
10th Percentile £475 £432 £545
25th Percentile £613 £471 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £575 £708
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -18.73% -
75th Percentile £825 £613 £850
90th Percentile £855 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £775 £575 £708
% change year-on-year +34.78% -18.73% -

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 contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,045 18,435 29,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.87% 33.19% 33.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,307 12,697 20,403
10th Percentile £275 £310 £315
25th Percentile £413 £446 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 939 605 684
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.29
25th Percentile £15.39 £10.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%
75th Percentile £61.40 £58.75 £50.77
90th Percentile £71.88 £75.00 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.25 £22.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +60.23% +2.33% -4.44%

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 12 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 12 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 +90 10 £775 +34.78% 6
London +87 7 £713 +73.78% 5
Work from Home +118 4 £500 -13.04%
UK excluding London +28 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 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 3 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (16.67%) Serverless
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (8.33%) Azure
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
4 1 (8.33%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (41.67%) Data Lake
2 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
3 4 (33.33%) MongoDB
4 3 (25.00%) BigQuery
4 3 (25.00%) Data Hub
4 3 (25.00%) DB2
4 3 (25.00%) DynamoDB
4 3 (25.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon QuickSight
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
5 2 (16.67%) Sybase ASE
5 2 (16.67%) Sybase IQ
6 1 (8.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) MLflow
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Architect
2 5 (41.67%) Data Architect
3 4 (33.33%) Lead
4 2 (16.67%) Database Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Lead Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Lead Data Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Technical Leader
5 1 (8.33%) Administrator
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Database Developer
5 1 (8.33%) DBA
5 1 (8.33%) Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Information Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Database Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) SQL Database Developer
5 1 (8.33%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Anaconda
1 1 (8.33%) BentoML
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
1 1 (8.33%) PyTorch
1 1 (8.33%) TensorFlow
1 1 (8.33%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
1 3 (25.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Data Management
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) Use Case
3 3 (25.00%) Analytics
3 3 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 3 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (25.00%) Database Optimisation
3 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (25.00%) ETL
3 3 (25.00%) Fintech
3 3 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (16.67%) Data Analytics
4 2 (16.67%) Database Migration
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Databricks
2 5 (41.67%) Oracle
3 3 (25.00%) F5
4 2 (16.67%) Sybase
5 1 (8.33%) Dataiku
5 1 (8.33%) DataRobot