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 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 318 375
Rank change year-on-year -8 +57 +50
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 321 209 216
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.73% 0.71% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.79% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 141 147
10th Percentile £350 £358 £336
25th Percentile £414 £438 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £523
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +2.39% -0.48%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £600
90th Percentile £700 £703 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £481
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.00 - £45.98
Median hourly rate £82.29 - £46.23
75th Percentile £85.36 - £46.48
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.29 - -

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 37,710 26,528 38,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.02% 90.44% 86.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,926 17,086 24,905
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -1.28% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,216 926 2,329
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.25 £12.98
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £30.32 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.71% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.51 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.72 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £31.76 £31.25
% change year-on-year -10.26% +1.63% -10.71%

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 21 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 21 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 -13 279 £525 -4.55% 64
London +31 186 £550 - 31
Work from Home -3 108 £500 -7.83% 26
UK excluding London -62 98 £525 - 43
South East -38 25 £621 +46.56% 19
North of England -72 18 £463 -21.28% 9
South West - 18 £538 - 1
Midlands -63 17 £542 +0.74% 9
West Midlands -61 14 £542 +3.14% 6
Scotland +14 13 £450 -10.00%
North West -32 12 £453 -29.84% 6
Yorkshire -52 6 £500 -6.98% 3
East of England -31 5 £434 -21.18% 3
Wales -5 2 £438 +21.53% 2
East Midlands -36 2 £450 -17.43% 3

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 15 (4.67%) Confluence
2 9 (2.80%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
3 5 (1.56%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.93%) CMS
4 3 (0.93%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (0.93%) SAS
5 2 (0.62%) Appian
6 1 (0.31%) Anypoint
Applications
1 23 (7.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (6.85%) MS Visio
3 12 (3.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (4.67%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (3.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (2.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (1.87%) Finacle
4 6 (1.87%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (1.56%) Aladdin
5 5 (1.56%) SAP ERP
6 4 (1.25%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (1.25%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (1.25%) SAP R/3
7 3 (0.93%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 3 (0.93%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.62%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.62%) FIS Private Capital Suite
8 2 (0.62%) IntelliMatch
8 2 (0.62%) Maximo
8 2 (0.62%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.62%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.62%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 51 (15.89%) Azure
2 28 (8.72%) Power Platform
3 18 (5.61%) AWS
4 17 (5.30%) OCI
5 13 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
6 12 (3.74%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (3.74%) GCP
7 11 (3.43%) Boomi
8 8 (2.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (1.87%) SaaS
10 5 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (1.56%) Collibra
10 5 (1.56%) Snowflake
11 4 (1.25%) GitHub
11 4 (1.25%) SuccessFactors
12 3 (0.93%) AtomSphere
12 3 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.93%) Entra ID
12 3 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.93%) Firewall
2 1 (0.31%) AMQP
2 1 (0.31%) DKIM
2 1 (0.31%) DMARC
2 1 (0.31%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.85%) Metadata
2 20 (6.23%) Power BI
3 17 (5.30%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (4.05%) SQL Server
4 13 (4.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (2.18%) BigQuery
6 5 (1.56%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.56%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.25%) Delta Lake
7 4 (1.25%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.25%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.93%) DataStage
8 3 (0.93%) Electronic Patient Records
8 3 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (0.93%) Tableau
9 2 (0.62%) MySQL
9 2 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 25 (7.79%) JIRA
2 5 (1.56%) Git
3 3 (0.93%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (0.62%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.62%) GitLab
4 2 (0.62%) JUnit
4 2 (0.62%) Maven
4 2 (0.62%) Mockito
4 2 (0.62%) Postman
4 2 (0.62%) Selenium
5 1 (0.31%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.31%) Hudson
5 1 (0.31%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 138 (42.99%) Finance
2 126 (39.25%) Social Skills
3 64 (19.94%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (17.45%) Banking
5 40 (12.46%) Documentation Skills
6 32 (9.97%) Public Sector
7 19 (5.92%) Legal
8 13 (4.05%) Retail
9 12 (3.74%) Investment Banking
10 10 (3.12%) Law
11 7 (2.18%) Financial Institution
11 7 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (2.18%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.87%) Back Office
12 6 (1.87%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.87%) Marketing
12 6 (1.87%) Private Banking
13 4 (1.25%) Police
13 4 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 138 (42.99%) Analyst
2 99 (30.84%) Business Analyst
3 68 (21.18%) Lead
4 54 (16.82%) Data Analyst
5 31 (9.66%) Data Business Analyst
6 21 (6.54%) Architect
6 21 (6.54%) Senior
7 20 (6.23%) Data Migration Lead
8 18 (5.61%) Data Engineer
9 15 (4.67%) Data Architect
9 15 (4.67%) Developer
10 13 (4.05%) Consultant
11 12 (3.74%) Banking Analyst
12 10 (3.12%) Migration Analyst
13 9 (2.80%) Banking Business Analyst
13 9 (2.80%) Data Migration Analyst
13 9 (2.80%) Migration Engineer
13 9 (2.80%) Senior Analyst
13 9 (2.80%) Senior Business Analyst
13 9 (2.80%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (7.17%) Oracle Fusion
2 18 (5.61%) XML
3 12 (3.74%) REST
4 11 (3.43%) Middleware
5 10 (3.12%) JSON
6 9 (2.80%) SOAP
7 7 (2.18%) .NET
8 6 (1.87%) HTML
9 5 (1.56%) EDI
9 5 (1.56%) Kafka
10 4 (1.25%) Gherkin
10 4 (1.25%) OAuth
11 3 (0.93%) FHIR
11 3 (0.93%) OAuth2
11 3 (0.93%) React
11 3 (0.93%) RESTful
11 3 (0.93%) Spring
11 3 (0.93%) Spring Boot
11 3 (0.93%) XSLT
12 2 (0.62%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 65 (20.25%) Data Structures
2 48 (14.95%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (4.98%) Onboarding
4 15 (4.67%) Reference Data
5 12 (3.74%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (2.18%) NHS
7 7 (2.18%) Taxonomies
8 4 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.25%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.25%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.25%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.93%) Educational Technology
9 3 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.93%) IoT
9 3 (0.93%) LIMS
9 3 (0.93%) Reinsurance
9 3 (0.93%) SCADA
10 2 (0.62%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.62%) Windows
2 1 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (52.34%) Migration
2 122 (38.01%) Data Migration
3 109 (33.96%) Stakeholder Management
4 100 (31.15%) Validation
5 99 (30.84%) Data Modelling
6 77 (23.99%) Agile
7 68 (21.18%) ETL
8 59 (18.38%) Data Cleansing
9 58 (18.07%) Data Transformation
9 58 (18.07%) Requirements Gathering
10 57 (17.76%) Data Governance
11 53 (16.51%) User Acceptance Testing
11 53 (16.51%) Workshop Facilitation
12 52 (16.20%) Data Analysis
13 48 (14.95%) Business Analysis
13 48 (14.95%) ERP
13 48 (14.95%) Problem-Solving
14 44 (13.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 32 (9.97%) Data Management
16 30 (9.35%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 76 (23.68%) SQL
2 15 (4.67%) Python
3 9 (2.80%) JavaScript
4 7 (2.18%) PL/SQL
5 5 (1.56%) C#
6 4 (1.25%) Java
6 4 (1.25%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.93%) Bicep
8 1 (0.31%) ABAP
8 1 (0.31%) C
8 1 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.31%) DataWeave
8 1 (0.31%) Groovy
8 1 (0.31%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.31%) R
8 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.31%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 52 (16.20%) Security Cleared
2 35 (10.90%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.54%) Degree
4 10 (3.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.87%) CBAP
5 6 (1.87%) IIBA
6 5 (1.56%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.25%) PMP
8 2 (0.62%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (0.62%) 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 76 (23.68%) Data Quality
2 34 (10.59%) QA
3 32 (9.97%) GDPR
4 11 (3.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.18%) COBIT
5 7 (2.18%) NIST
6 4 (1.25%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.25%) ISO 8583
6 4 (1.25%) SLA
7 3 (0.93%) GMP
7 3 (0.93%) GxP
7 3 (0.93%) HL7
7 3 (0.93%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.62%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.62%) GRC
8 2 (0.62%) PMO
8 2 (0.62%) SEPA
8 2 (0.62%) WCAG
9 1 (0.31%) IFRS
System Software
1 3 (0.93%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.31%) Docker
2 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (1.87%) Terraform
2 3 (0.93%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.62%) Grafana
3 2 (0.62%) Kibana
3 2 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.31%) Ansible
Vendors
1 53 (16.51%) Microsoft
1 53 (16.51%) Oracle
2 43 (13.40%) SAP
3 15 (4.67%) Databricks
4 13 (4.05%) Avaloq
5 10 (3.12%) GoldenSource
6 9 (2.80%) Google
6 9 (2.80%) Informatica
6 9 (2.80%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.49%) MuleSoft
7 8 (2.49%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.49%) Temenos
8 7 (2.18%) Workday
9 6 (1.87%) IBM
9 6 (1.87%) Murex
10 5 (1.56%) Ariba
10 5 (1.56%) Dell
10 5 (1.56%) Sage
10 5 (1.56%) Talend
11 4 (1.25%) Alteryx