Data Mapping Contract Job Trends

Data Mapping
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Data Mapping skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 310 397
Rank change year-on-year -11 +87 +49
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 318 221 209
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.75% 0.74% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.82% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 153 142
10th Percentile £350 £357 £351
25th Percentile £413 £435 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.48% +1.70%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £688 £686
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £45.98
Median hourly rate £81.00 - £46.23
75th Percentile £85.36 - £46.48
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Data Mapping falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,399 26,862 38,734
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.19% 90.27% 86.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,113 17,118 25,178
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £612 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £491 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -1.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,154 913 2,346
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.52 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £29.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.77% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.52 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £76.25 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.77 £31.76 £31.50
% change year-on-year -18.86% +0.83% -10.00%

Data Mapping
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Data Mapping job vacancy trend in the UK

Data Mapping
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Mapping.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Mapping

Data Mapping
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Mapping over the 6 months to 9 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Mapping in the UK

Data Mapping
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Mapping.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Mapping

Data Mapping
Top 15 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Mapping within the UK over the 6 months to 9 March 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -2 276 £525 -1.18% 41
London +37 180 £550 +4.76% 21
Work from Home -14 105 £500 -4.76% 20
UK excluding London -59 100 £500 -4.76% 35
North of England -53 27 £500 -11.11% 6
South East -35 21 £596 +40.29% 19
South West - 17 £525 - 3
North West -27 16 £500 -22.48% 1
Midlands -63 15 £542 -0.64% 3
Scotland +15 13 £450 -7.69% 1
West Midlands -55 12 £542 +3.14% 2
Yorkshire -49 11 £494 -8.14% 5
East of England -43 5 £434 -21.18%
Wales -5 2 £438 +21.53% 2
East Midlands -36 2 £450 -17.43% 1

Data Mapping
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 13 (4.09%) Confluence
2 9 (2.83%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
3 6 (1.89%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.94%) CMS
4 3 (0.94%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.63%) Appian
5 2 (0.63%) SAS
6 1 (0.31%) Anypoint
Applications
1 26 (8.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (6.60%) MS Visio
3 15 (4.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (5.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (5.03%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (1.89%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (1.57%) Finacle
5 5 (1.57%) SAP ERP
6 4 (1.26%) Aladdin
6 4 (1.26%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (1.26%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (1.26%) SAP R/3
7 3 (0.94%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 3 (0.94%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (0.94%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.94%) SAP Payroll
7 3 (0.94%) SAP SD
8 2 (0.63%) IntelliMatch
8 2 (0.63%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.63%) SAP HCM
8 2 (0.63%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.63%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 42 (13.21%) Azure
2 26 (8.18%) Power Platform
3 18 (5.66%) AWS
4 17 (5.35%) OCI
5 12 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
6 10 (3.14%) Boomi
6 10 (3.14%) GCP
7 9 (2.83%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (2.20%) SaaS
9 5 (1.57%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (1.57%) Snowflake
10 4 (1.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (1.26%) SuccessFactors
11 3 (0.94%) AtomSphere
11 3 (0.94%) Collibra
11 3 (0.94%) Entra ID
11 3 (0.94%) Intacct
11 3 (0.94%) iPaaS
11 3 (0.94%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.31%) AMQP
1 1 (0.31%) DKIM
1 1 (0.31%) DMARC
1 1 (0.31%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.60%) Metadata
2 18 (5.66%) Power BI
3 15 (4.72%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (4.09%) SQL Server
5 12 (3.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (2.20%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.26%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.26%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (1.26%) Tableau
8 3 (0.94%) DataStage
8 3 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.63%) DB2
9 2 (0.63%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (0.63%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.31%) Data Hub
10 1 (0.31%) Dremio
10 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 22 (6.92%) JIRA
2 5 (1.57%) Git
3 2 (0.63%) Cucumber
3 2 (0.63%) GitLab
3 2 (0.63%) JUnit
3 2 (0.63%) Maven
3 2 (0.63%) Mockito
3 2 (0.63%) Postman
3 2 (0.63%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (0.63%) Selenium
4 1 (0.31%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.31%) Hudson
4 1 (0.31%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 132 (41.51%) Finance
2 125 (39.31%) Social Skills
3 66 (20.75%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (17.30%) Banking
5 38 (11.95%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (8.81%) Public Sector
7 15 (4.72%) Legal
8 14 (4.40%) Investment Banking
9 11 (3.46%) Retail
10 9 (2.83%) Law
11 7 (2.20%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (2.20%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.89%) Back Office
12 6 (1.89%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.89%) Marketing
13 5 (1.57%) Front Office
13 5 (1.57%) Private Banking
14 4 (1.26%) Police
Job Titles
1 142 (44.65%) Analyst
2 96 (30.19%) Business Analyst
3 61 (19.18%) Lead
4 59 (18.55%) Data Analyst
5 28 (8.81%) Data Business Analyst
6 23 (7.23%) Consultant
7 21 (6.60%) Senior
8 20 (6.29%) Data Migration Lead
9 19 (5.97%) Architect
10 17 (5.35%) Data Engineer
11 14 (4.40%) Developer
12 13 (4.09%) Banking Analyst
13 12 (3.77%) Data Architect
14 10 (3.14%) Banking Business Analyst
14 10 (3.14%) Migration Analyst
15 9 (2.83%) Data Migration Analyst
15 9 (2.83%) Integration Engineer
15 9 (2.83%) Senior Analyst
15 9 (2.83%) Technical Analyst
15 9 (2.83%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.66%) Oracle Fusion
2 17 (5.35%) XML
3 13 (4.09%) REST
4 10 (3.14%) SOAP
5 9 (2.83%) JSON
5 9 (2.83%) Middleware
6 8 (2.52%) SAP TM
7 7 (2.20%) .NET
7 7 (2.20%) HTML
8 5 (1.57%) EDI
9 4 (1.26%) Gherkin
9 4 (1.26%) OAuth
10 3 (0.94%) FHIR
10 3 (0.94%) OAuth2
10 3 (0.94%) React
10 3 (0.94%) RESTful
10 3 (0.94%) Spring
10 3 (0.94%) Spring Boot
10 3 (0.94%) XSLT
11 2 (0.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 59 (18.55%) Data Structures
2 46 (14.47%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (5.66%) Onboarding
4 15 (4.72%) Reference Data
5 12 (3.77%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.89%) NHS
7 6 (1.89%) Taxonomies
8 4 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.26%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.26%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.94%) Educational Technology
9 3 (0.94%) Equities
9 3 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.94%) LIMS
10 2 (0.63%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.63%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.63%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (0.63%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.63%) Unix
1 2 (0.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (49.37%) Migration
2 114 (35.85%) Data Migration
3 106 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 95 (29.87%) Validation
5 85 (26.73%) Data Modelling
6 73 (22.96%) Agile
7 61 (19.18%) ETL
8 58 (18.24%) Requirements Gathering
8 58 (18.24%) Workshop Facilitation
9 56 (17.61%) Data Cleansing
10 54 (16.98%) Data Analysis
11 51 (16.04%) Data Governance
11 51 (16.04%) Data Transformation
12 49 (15.41%) Business Analysis
12 49 (15.41%) User Acceptance Testing
13 47 (14.78%) Problem-Solving
14 43 (13.52%) ERP
15 41 (12.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 33 (10.38%) Data Management
17 28 (8.81%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 69 (21.70%) SQL
2 14 (4.40%) Python
3 10 (3.14%) JavaScript
4 9 (2.83%) PL/SQL
5 5 (1.57%) C#
5 5 (1.57%) Java
6 4 (1.26%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.63%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.63%) VBA
8 1 (0.31%) ABAP
8 1 (0.31%) C
8 1 (0.31%) DataWeave
8 1 (0.31%) Groovy
8 1 (0.31%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.31%) R
8 1 (0.31%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.31%) VB
Qualifications
1 55 (17.30%) Security Cleared
2 41 (12.89%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.29%) Degree
4 9 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.89%) CBAP
5 6 (1.89%) IIBA
6 4 (1.26%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.94%) PMP
8 2 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.31%) ACCA
9 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.31%) CCA
9 1 (0.31%) CFA
9 1 (0.31%) CIMA
9 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.31%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.31%) MBA
9 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (20.75%) Data Quality
2 31 (9.75%) QA
3 26 (8.18%) GDPR
4 8 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.20%) COBIT
5 7 (2.20%) NIST
6 4 (1.26%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.26%) ISO 8583
6 4 (1.26%) SLA
7 3 (0.94%) GMP
7 3 (0.94%) GxP
7 3 (0.94%) HL7
8 2 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.63%) GRC
8 2 (0.63%) PMO
8 2 (0.63%) SEPA
8 2 (0.63%) WCAG
9 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.31%) IFRS
9 1 (0.31%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (0.94%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.31%) Docker
2 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (0.94%) Kubernetes
1 3 (0.94%) Terraform
2 2 (0.63%) Grafana
2 2 (0.63%) Kibana
2 2 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.31%) Ansible
Vendors
1 49 (15.41%) Microsoft
2 46 (14.47%) SAP
3 45 (14.15%) Oracle
4 12 (3.77%) Avaloq
5 9 (2.83%) Databricks
5 9 (2.83%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.52%) GoldenSource
6 8 (2.52%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.20%) Google
7 7 (2.20%) MuleSoft
7 7 (2.20%) Temenos
7 7 (2.20%) Workday
8 6 (1.89%) Dell
8 6 (1.89%) IBM
9 5 (1.57%) Ariba
9 5 (1.57%) Informatica
9 5 (1.57%) Murex
9 5 (1.57%) Sage
10 4 (1.26%) Talend
10 4 (1.26%) Teradata