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

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 362 364
Rank change year-on-year +23 +2 +137
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 251 192 278
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.73% 0.53% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.61% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 141 188
10th Percentile £325 £363 £376
25th Percentile £400 £408 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +12.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 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 31,128 31,222 41,758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.01% 86.14% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,470 18,786 28,146
10th Percentile £295 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £623 £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 2,032 1,099 1,610
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.09 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -19.77% +24.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.95 £73.50 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £33.27 £43.90
% change year-on-year -32.37% -24.21% +48.26%

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 November 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 9 November 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 +19 212 £500 - 267
London +22 123 £511 +0.25% 154
UK excluding London +17 97 £475 - 189
Work from Home -1 89 £500 - 122
North of England -8 34 £500 +21.21% 29
South East +10 19 £525 +7.14% 139
Scotland +12 17 £425 -15.00% 1
North West -5 16 £551 +33.45% 22
Yorkshire -12 16 £316 - 5
Midlands -23 15 £450 -2.70% 2
West Midlands -30 11 £450 - 2
South West +14 5 £563 +32.35% 14
East of England -17 5 £430 -10.93% 3
East Midlands -6 4 £383 -33.48%
North East - 2 £438 - 2
Wales - 2 £425 - 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 15 (5.98%) Confluence
2 6 (2.39%) Anypoint
2 6 (2.39%) nginx
3 3 (1.20%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.40%) Smallworld
Applications
1 40 (15.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (7.97%) MS Visio
3 19 (7.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (9.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.39%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.20%) Aladdin
4 3 (1.20%) Endur
4 3 (1.20%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (1.20%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (1.20%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.80%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.80%) Maximo
5 2 (0.80%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.80%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.80%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.80%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.80%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.80%) SAP Travel Management
5 2 (0.80%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.40%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 30 (11.95%) Power Platform
2 25 (9.96%) Azure
3 21 (8.37%) AWS
4 12 (4.78%) Dynamics 365
5 10 (3.98%) Serverless
6 9 (3.59%) Azure Logic Apps
7 8 (3.19%) Amazon SQS
7 8 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.19%) Snowflake
8 6 (2.39%) Amazon EventBridge
8 6 (2.39%) Boomi
9 5 (1.99%) GCP
9 5 (1.99%) GitHub
9 5 (1.99%) OCI
10 4 (1.59%) AtomSphere
10 4 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (1.59%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.20%) dbt
11 3 (1.20%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.80%) Firewall
2 1 (0.40%) DKIM
2 1 (0.40%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.76%) Power BI
2 13 (5.18%) Metadata
2 13 (5.18%) SQL Server
3 12 (4.78%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (3.59%) Relational Database
5 8 (3.19%) Tableau
6 6 (2.39%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.59%) DB2
7 4 (1.59%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (1.20%) Data Mining
8 3 (1.20%) SAP BW
9 2 (0.80%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.80%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.80%) DataStage
9 2 (0.80%) IMS/DB
9 2 (0.80%) MySQL
9 2 (0.80%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.80%) Power Query
10 1 (0.40%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 27 (10.76%) JIRA
2 5 (1.99%) Git
3 2 (0.80%) Cucumber
3 2 (0.80%) GitLab
3 2 (0.80%) JUnit
3 2 (0.80%) Maven
3 2 (0.80%) Mockito
3 2 (0.80%) Postman
3 2 (0.80%) Selenium
4 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.40%) Liquibase
4 1 (0.40%) SpecFlow
General
1 102 (40.64%) Finance
2 99 (39.44%) Social Skills
3 53 (21.12%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (12.35%) Public Sector
5 30 (11.95%) Banking
6 24 (9.56%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.59%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.79%) Marketing
9 6 (2.39%) Back Office
9 6 (2.39%) Digital Healthcare
9 6 (2.39%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.99%) Billing
10 5 (1.99%) Front Office
10 5 (1.99%) Retail
11 4 (1.59%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.59%) Legal
12 3 (1.20%) Law
12 3 (1.20%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.80%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 127 (50.60%) Analyst
2 79 (31.47%) Business Analyst
3 56 (22.31%) Data Analyst
4 32 (12.75%) Consultant
5 23 (9.16%) Lead
6 21 (8.37%) Data Business Analyst
7 18 (7.17%) Developer
8 15 (5.98%) Senior
9 13 (5.18%) Architect
9 13 (5.18%) Management Consultant
10 12 (4.78%) Data Engineer
11 11 (4.38%) SAP Consultant
12 9 (3.59%) SAP SD Consultant
13 8 (3.19%) Implementation Analyst
13 8 (3.19%) Pensions Analyst
13 8 (3.19%) Technical Analyst
13 8 (3.19%) Technical Business Analyst
14 7 (2.79%) Data Migration Lead
14 7 (2.79%) Integration Developer
15 6 (2.39%) Banking Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (9.96%) JSON
2 20 (7.97%) XML
3 18 (7.17%) REST
4 13 (5.18%) SAP TM
4 13 (5.18%) SOAP
5 12 (4.78%) OAuth
6 11 (4.38%) HTML
7 9 (3.59%) OAuth2
8 7 (2.79%) RESTful
8 7 (2.79%) XSLT
9 6 (2.39%) Middleware
10 4 (1.59%) .NET
10 4 (1.59%) DCOM
10 4 (1.59%) Gherkin
10 4 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
10 4 (1.59%) React
11 3 (1.20%) ADO
11 3 (1.20%) Kafka
11 3 (1.20%) Playwright
11 3 (1.20%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.16%) Data Structures
1 23 (9.16%) Legacy Systems
2 13 (5.18%) Onboarding
2 13 (5.18%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.19%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (2.79%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (2.79%) Cloud Native
4 7 (2.79%) Data Centre
4 7 (2.79%) Mainframe
4 7 (2.79%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.79%) Reference Data
5 6 (2.39%) Reinsurance
6 4 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.59%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.20%) Equities
7 3 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.20%) Hedge funds
7 3 (1.20%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.80%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.59%) Unix
2 2 (0.80%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (33.07%) Migration
2 81 (32.27%) Agile
3 62 (24.70%) Data Migration
4 59 (23.51%) Data Analysis
5 56 (22.31%) Data Modelling
6 50 (19.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 49 (19.52%) Stakeholder Management
8 48 (19.12%) Validation
9 45 (17.93%) Data Governance
10 40 (15.94%) User Acceptance Testing
11 39 (15.54%) Problem-Solving
12 38 (15.14%) Workshop Facilitation
13 37 (14.74%) Requirements Gathering
14 35 (13.94%) Business Analysis
15 34 (13.55%) Data Cleansing
16 33 (13.15%) Data Transformation
16 33 (13.15%) ETL
16 33 (13.15%) User Stories
17 28 (11.16%) ERP
18 27 (10.76%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 67 (26.69%) SQL
2 23 (9.16%) Python
3 12 (4.78%) Java
4 8 (3.19%) C#
4 8 (3.19%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.99%) PowerShell
5 5 (1.99%) VBA
6 4 (1.59%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.80%) JCL
7 2 (0.80%) Korn
7 2 (0.80%) PL/1
7 2 (0.80%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.80%) VB
8 1 (0.40%) C
8 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 38 (15.14%) Security Cleared
2 33 (13.15%) SC Cleared
3 25 (9.96%) Degree
4 8 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.59%) CBAP
7 3 (1.20%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.80%) ACCA
8 2 (0.80%) CIMA
8 2 (0.80%) PMP
9 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.40%) CSPO
9 1 (0.40%) IIBA
9 1 (0.40%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (19.92%) Data Quality
2 26 (10.36%) QA
3 14 (5.58%) GDPR
4 5 (1.99%) COBIT
5 3 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.80%) IFRS
6 2 (0.80%) NIST
6 2 (0.80%) WCAG
7 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.40%) FATCA
7 1 (0.40%) HL7
7 1 (0.40%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (3.98%) Docker
2 2 (0.80%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.99%) Kibana
2 4 (1.59%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.59%) Terraform
3 2 (0.80%) CA Endevor
3 2 (0.80%) Grafana
3 2 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.40%) Ansible
Vendors
1 35 (13.94%) SAP
2 33 (13.15%) Microsoft
3 25 (9.96%) Oracle
4 9 (3.59%) MuleSoft
4 9 (3.59%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.19%) Workday
6 6 (2.39%) Databricks
7 5 (1.99%) Pega
7 5 (1.99%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.99%) Teradata
8 4 (1.59%) Duck Creek
8 4 (1.59%) IBM
9 3 (1.20%) Informatica
10 2 (0.80%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.80%) Avaloq
10 2 (0.80%) Cognos
10 2 (0.80%) Dell
10 2 (0.80%) OpenLink
10 2 (0.80%) Palantir
10 2 (0.80%) Syncsort