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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 349 360
Rank change year-on-year +23 +11 +122
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 269 201 264
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.74% 0.56% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.64% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 140 182
10th Percentile £326 £363 £358
25th Percentile £404 £420 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £523
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.35% -0.48%
75th Percentile £638 £603 £638
90th Percentile £699 £733 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.75% -4.76% +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
Median hourly rate £81.00 - £86.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.00 - £86.66

All Process and 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 32,247 31,236 40,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.88% 87.47% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,285 18,990 26,947
10th Percentile £300 £308 £310
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,090 1,084 1,559
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.25 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.19 £18.94
Median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -30.37% -23.53% +30.77%

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 8 December 2025.

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 16 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 8 December 2025. 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 +17 231 £504 -1.23% 188
London +32 141 £511 -7.05% 29
UK excluding London -8 95 £481 -3.75% 181
Work from Home -9 95 £500 - 173
North of England -19 34 £500 +21.21% 35
North West -7 19 £544 +31.76% 11
South East -9 18 £575 +35.29% 54
Scotland +14 13 £425 -15.00% 4
Yorkshire -29 13 £306 -41.71% 23
Midlands -40 13 £450 -14.29% 41
South West -3 10 £525 +23.53% 18
West Midlands -33 10 £450 -10.00% 22
East of England -20 5 £420 -14.39% 25
East Midlands -18 3 £375 -31.19% 16
North East - 2 £438 - 1
Wales - 2 £425 - 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 14 (5.20%) Confluence
2 6 (2.23%) Anypoint
2 6 (2.23%) nginx
3 5 (1.86%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
4 4 (1.49%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 41 (15.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (9.29%) MS Visio
3 21 (7.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (8.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (3.35%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.12%) Endur
4 3 (1.12%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (1.12%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (1.12%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.74%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 2 (0.74%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.74%) Maximo
5 2 (0.74%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.74%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.74%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.74%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.74%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.74%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.74%) SAP Travel Management
5 2 (0.74%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.37%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 35 (13.01%) Power Platform
2 31 (11.52%) Azure
3 22 (8.18%) AWS
4 15 (5.58%) Dynamics 365
5 10 (3.72%) Azure Logic Apps
5 10 (3.72%) Serverless
6 9 (3.35%) OCI
7 8 (2.97%) Amazon SQS
7 8 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (2.97%) GCP
8 7 (2.60%) Snowflake
9 6 (2.23%) Amazon EventBridge
9 6 (2.23%) Boomi
10 5 (1.86%) GitHub
10 5 (1.86%) Power Automate
10 5 (1.86%) PowerApps
10 5 (1.86%) SaaS
11 4 (1.49%) AtomSphere
11 4 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.37%) DKIM
1 1 (0.37%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.67%) Power BI
2 17 (6.32%) Metadata
3 15 (5.58%) SQL Server
4 14 (5.20%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (2.97%) BigQuery
5 8 (2.97%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.97%) Tableau
6 4 (1.49%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.49%) DB2
7 3 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.74%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.74%) DataStage
8 2 (0.74%) IMS/DB
8 2 (0.74%) Power Query
9 1 (0.37%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.37%) Dremio
9 1 (0.37%) Looker
9 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 25 (9.29%) JIRA
2 5 (1.86%) Git
3 2 (0.74%) Cucumber
3 2 (0.74%) GitLab
3 2 (0.74%) JUnit
3 2 (0.74%) Maven
3 2 (0.74%) Mockito
3 2 (0.74%) Postman
3 2 (0.74%) Selenium
4 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.37%) Liquibase
4 1 (0.37%) SpecFlow
General
1 107 (39.78%) Finance
2 100 (37.17%) Social Skills
3 64 (23.79%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (11.52%) Banking
5 29 (10.78%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (10.41%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.72%) Marketing
8 9 (3.35%) Legal
8 9 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.97%) Investment Banking
10 6 (2.23%) Back Office
10 6 (2.23%) Digital Healthcare
10 6 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.86%) Billing
11 5 (1.86%) Retail
12 4 (1.49%) General Ledger
12 4 (1.49%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.12%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.12%) Front Office
13 3 (1.12%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 134 (49.81%) Analyst
2 88 (32.71%) Business Analyst
3 56 (20.82%) Data Analyst
4 32 (11.90%) Consultant
5 24 (8.92%) Data Business Analyst
6 23 (8.55%) Lead
7 20 (7.43%) Developer
8 14 (5.20%) Architect
8 14 (5.20%) Senior
9 13 (4.83%) Management Consultant
10 12 (4.46%) SAP Consultant
11 11 (4.09%) Data Engineer
11 11 (4.09%) Technical Business Analyst
12 10 (3.72%) Implementation Analyst
12 10 (3.72%) Technical Analyst
13 9 (3.35%) SAP SD Consultant
14 7 (2.60%) Banking Analyst
14 7 (2.60%) Integration Developer
14 7 (2.60%) Report Analyst
14 7 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (8.92%) JSON
2 21 (7.81%) REST
3 20 (7.43%) XML
4 14 (5.20%) HTML
4 14 (5.20%) SOAP
5 13 (4.83%) SAP TM
6 12 (4.46%) OAuth
7 9 (3.35%) OAuth2
7 9 (3.35%) Oracle Fusion
8 7 (2.60%) RESTful
8 7 (2.60%) XSLT
9 5 (1.86%) .NET
9 5 (1.86%) Middleware
10 4 (1.49%) DCOM
10 4 (1.49%) Gherkin
10 4 (1.49%) React
11 3 (1.12%) Kafka
11 3 (1.12%) Playwright
11 3 (1.12%) Spring
11 3 (1.12%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 36 (13.38%) Data Structures
2 23 (8.55%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (5.58%) Onboarding
4 13 (4.83%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.46%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (3.35%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (2.97%) Reference Data
8 7 (2.60%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.60%) Data Centre
8 7 (2.60%) Mainframe
9 6 (2.23%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.86%) Reinsurance
11 4 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.12%) Educational Technology
12 3 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (1.12%) Low-Code
13 2 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
13 2 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
13 2 (0.74%) Marketing Technology
13 2 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.74%) MVS
1 2 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (33.83%) Migration
2 76 (28.25%) Agile
3 69 (25.65%) Data Migration
4 65 (24.16%) Data Modelling
5 64 (23.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 59 (21.93%) Data Analysis
7 56 (20.82%) Validation
8 50 (18.59%) Data Governance
9 46 (17.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 44 (16.36%) User Acceptance Testing
11 41 (15.24%) Workshop Facilitation
12 40 (14.87%) Requirements Gathering
13 39 (14.50%) Data Cleansing
14 37 (13.75%) ETL
14 37 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
15 36 (13.38%) Business Analysis
16 33 (12.27%) Data Transformation
17 32 (11.90%) Business Intelligence
17 32 (11.90%) User Stories
18 29 (10.78%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 75 (27.88%) SQL
2 24 (8.92%) Python
3 12 (4.46%) Java
4 10 (3.72%) JavaScript
5 8 (2.97%) C#
6 5 (1.86%) PowerShell
6 5 (1.86%) VBA
7 4 (1.49%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.74%) JCL
8 2 (0.74%) Korn
8 2 (0.74%) PL/1
8 2 (0.74%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.74%) VB
9 1 (0.37%) C
9 1 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.37%) R
9 1 (0.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 40 (14.87%) Security Cleared
2 32 (11.90%) SC Cleared
3 26 (9.67%) Degree
4 8 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.86%) CBAP
7 2 (0.74%) ACCA
7 2 (0.74%) CIMA
7 2 (0.74%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.37%) CSPO
8 1 (0.37%) IIBA
8 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (18.59%) Data Quality
2 29 (10.78%) QA
3 20 (7.43%) GDPR
4 6 (2.23%) COBIT
5 4 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.12%) IFRS
6 3 (1.12%) NIST
7 2 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.74%) WCAG
8 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.37%) FATCA
8 1 (0.37%) GRC
8 1 (0.37%) HL7
8 1 (0.37%) MiFID
8 1 (0.37%) NCSC
8 1 (0.37%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (3.72%) Docker
2 2 (0.74%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.86%) Kibana
2 4 (1.49%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.49%) Terraform
3 2 (0.74%) CA Endevor
3 2 (0.74%) Grafana
3 2 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.37%) Ansible
Vendors
1 39 (14.50%) Microsoft
2 36 (13.38%) SAP
3 28 (10.41%) Oracle
4 9 (3.35%) Databricks
4 9 (3.35%) MuleSoft
4 9 (3.35%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.97%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.97%) Workday
6 5 (1.86%) Pega
7 4 (1.49%) Duck Creek
7 4 (1.49%) IBM
7 4 (1.49%) Sage
7 4 (1.49%) Teradata
8 3 (1.12%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.12%) Avaloq
8 3 (1.12%) Google
8 3 (1.12%) Informatica
9 2 (0.74%) Palantir
9 2 (0.74%) Syncsort
9 2 (0.74%) Yardi