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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 297 358
Rank change year-on-year -1 +61 +47
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 386 247 238
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.76% 0.83% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.91% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 176 150
10th Percentile £350 £350 £362
25th Percentile £406 £454 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +10.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £588
90th Percentile £700 £788 £651
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £538 £475
% change year-on-year -6.98% +13.16% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £33.70 - -
25th Percentile - - £45.98
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £46.23
75th Percentile £85.36 - £46.48
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.79 - -

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 42,996 27,186 37,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.90% 91.05% 84.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,808 17,251 23,716
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% -4.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,575 1,262 2,618
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.73
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.82 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +72.39% -32.00% +7.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.19 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +17.29%

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 20 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Mapping over the 6 months to 20 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Mapping in the UK

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 20 June 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 -17 326 £545 -0.91% 47
London +6 210 £550 -4.35% 24
UK excluding London -66 131 £500 -6.98% 41
Work from Home -42 113 £500 -13.04% 21
North of England -74 29 £463 -15.91% 10
South East -57 27 £700 +27.27% 13
South West -7 24 £538 +18.13% 3
Scotland +4 23 £358 -26.56% 5
Midlands -53 22 £490 -10.91% 7
North West -41 19 £455 -26.61% 8
West Midlands -56 13 £538 -25.86% 5
Yorkshire -58 9 £519 -5.73% 2
East Midlands -17 7 £463 -15.91% 2
East of England -34 6 £475 -26.92% 4
Wales -13 1 £450 +25.00%
North East -37 1 £363 -30.95%

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 21 (5.44%) Confluence
2 6 (1.55%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.04%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (0.78%) CMS
4 3 (0.78%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
4 3 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.52%) Appian
5 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.52%) SAS
6 1 (0.26%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 24 (6.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (5.44%) MS Visio
3 9 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (3.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (2.33%) Aladdin
3 8 (2.07%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (1.81%) SAP ERP
5 6 (1.55%) Finacle
5 6 (1.55%) Maximo
5 6 (1.55%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 3 (0.78%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 3 (0.78%) IntelliMatch
6 3 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.78%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.78%) SAP R/3
6 3 (0.78%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.52%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.52%) SAP Payroll
7 2 (0.52%) Shopify
7 2 (0.52%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 55 (14.25%) Azure
2 28 (7.25%) Power Platform
3 18 (4.66%) AWS
3 18 (4.66%) GCP
4 16 (4.15%) Azure Data Factory
5 13 (3.37%) Boomi
6 10 (2.59%) OCI
7 9 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 9 (2.33%) SaaS
7 9 (2.33%) SuccessFactors
8 8 (2.07%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (1.55%) Collibra
9 6 (1.55%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.55%) GitHub
9 6 (1.55%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (1.30%) Snowflake
11 4 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.04%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.78%) Firewall
2 1 (0.26%) AMQP
2 1 (0.26%) FTP
2 1 (0.26%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.25%) Metadata
2 26 (6.74%) Power BI
3 20 (5.18%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (2.59%) Relational Database
4 10 (2.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 9 (2.33%) Oracle Database
5 9 (2.33%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.07%) Data Lake
6 8 (2.07%) Delta Lake
6 8 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (1.81%) Db2
7 7 (1.81%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.55%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.55%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.30%) Tableau
10 4 (1.04%) DataStage
10 4 (1.04%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (0.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 36 (9.33%) JIRA
2 4 (1.04%) Cypress.io
2 4 (1.04%) Gatling
2 4 (1.04%) Git
2 4 (1.04%) Postman
3 3 (0.78%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.26%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.26%) ERwin
5 1 (0.26%) Hudson
5 1 (0.26%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.26%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.26%) LSMW
5 1 (0.26%) NUnit
5 1 (0.26%) PVCS
5 1 (0.26%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.26%) Subversion
General
1 149 (38.60%) Finance
2 138 (35.75%) Social Skills
3 78 (20.21%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (18.65%) Banking
5 41 (10.62%) Public Sector
6 28 (7.25%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (6.22%) Legal
8 12 (3.11%) Retail
9 10 (2.59%) Law
9 10 (2.59%) Marketing
10 9 (2.33%) Investment Banking
10 9 (2.33%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.81%) Private Banking
12 6 (1.55%) Front Office
12 6 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (1.55%) Police
13 5 (1.30%) Billing
13 5 (1.30%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 159 (41.19%) Analyst
2 92 (23.83%) Business Analyst
3 81 (20.98%) Lead
4 70 (18.13%) Data Analyst
5 30 (7.77%) Data Business Analyst
5 30 (7.77%) Senior
6 28 (7.25%) Data Engineer
7 27 (6.99%) Data Migration Lead
8 25 (6.48%) Developer
9 23 (5.96%) Architect
10 17 (4.40%) Consultant
11 14 (3.63%) Data Architect
11 14 (3.63%) Migration Engineer
11 14 (3.63%) Senior Analyst
11 14 (3.63%) Systems Analyst
12 13 (3.37%) Data Migration Engineer
13 12 (3.11%) Business Systems Analyst
13 12 (3.11%) Migration Manager
14 11 (2.85%) Senior Business Analyst
14 11 (2.85%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (9.07%) JSON
2 33 (8.55%) XML
3 27 (6.99%) REST
4 23 (5.96%) Middleware
5 22 (5.70%) Oracle Fusion
6 18 (4.66%) SOAP
7 10 (2.59%) Web Services
8 7 (1.81%) EDI
8 7 (1.81%) XSLT
9 6 (1.55%) OAuth
10 5 (1.30%) RESTful
11 4 (1.04%) .NET
11 4 (1.04%) JDBC
11 4 (1.04%) Kafka
11 4 (1.04%) Playwright
11 4 (1.04%) PySpark
12 3 (0.78%) JWT
12 3 (0.78%) OAuth2
12 3 (0.78%) SAML
13 2 (0.52%) Itk
Miscellaneous
1 72 (18.65%) Data Structures
2 60 (15.54%) Legacy Systems
3 20 (5.18%) Product Ownership
4 16 (4.15%) Onboarding
4 16 (4.15%) Reference Data
5 8 (2.07%) Taxonomies
6 6 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (1.55%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.30%) Clustering
7 5 (1.30%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (1.30%) Mainframe
8 4 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.04%) Derivative
8 4 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.04%) Reinsurance
9 3 (0.78%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.78%) Data Fabric
9 3 (0.78%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.81%) Windows
2 2 (0.52%) HPUX
2 2 (0.52%) Linux
2 2 (0.52%) Unix
2 2 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (51.30%) Migration
2 143 (37.05%) Validation
3 136 (35.23%) Data Migration
4 118 (30.57%) Data Modelling
5 111 (28.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 95 (24.61%) Agile
7 87 (22.54%) ETL
8 71 (18.39%) Data Transformation
9 67 (17.36%) User Acceptance Testing
10 66 (17.10%) Problem-Solving
11 63 (16.32%) Data Governance
12 62 (16.06%) Requirements Gathering
13 60 (15.54%) Data Analysis
14 59 (15.28%) ERP
15 56 (14.51%) Data Cleansing
16 54 (13.99%) Workshop Facilitation
17 51 (13.21%) Data Validation
18 47 (12.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 43 (11.14%) Business Analysis
19 43 (11.14%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 114 (29.53%) SQL
2 23 (5.96%) Python
3 14 (3.63%) PL/SQL
4 10 (2.59%) Java
5 7 (1.81%) T-SQL
6 6 (1.55%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.30%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.04%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.04%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.78%) Bicep
9 3 (0.78%) C#
9 3 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.78%) R
10 2 (0.52%) C
10 2 (0.52%) C++
10 2 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.52%) Groovy
11 1 (0.26%) ABAP
11 1 (0.26%) DataWeave
11 1 (0.26%) Korn
Qualifications
1 49 (12.69%) Security Cleared
2 34 (8.81%) SC Cleared
3 15 (3.89%) Degree
4 9 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (1.81%) IIBA
6 5 (1.30%) CBAP
7 3 (0.78%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.52%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.52%) PMP
9 1 (0.26%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.26%) CCA
9 1 (0.26%) CISA
9 1 (0.26%) CISSP
9 1 (0.26%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.26%) MBA
9 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.26%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (28.76%) Data Quality
2 35 (9.07%) GDPR
3 32 (8.29%) QA
4 7 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.30%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.30%) Solvency II
6 4 (1.04%) ISO 8583
6 4 (1.04%) NIST
6 4 (1.04%) SLA
7 3 (0.78%) COBIT
7 3 (0.78%) SEPA
8 2 (0.52%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.52%) GMP
8 2 (0.52%) GRC
8 2 (0.52%) GxP
8 2 (0.52%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.26%) Basel II
9 1 (0.26%) CDISC
9 1 (0.26%) HL7
9 1 (0.26%) MiFID
System Software
1 6 (1.55%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.30%) Terraform
2 2 (0.52%) Ansible
2 2 (0.52%) WMI
3 1 (0.26%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 71 (18.39%) Oracle
2 53 (13.73%) Microsoft
3 51 (13.21%) SAP
4 28 (7.25%) Databricks
5 16 (4.15%) Google
6 14 (3.63%) IBM
7 13 (3.37%) Salesforce
8 12 (3.11%) ServiceNow
9 11 (2.85%) Avaloq
9 11 (2.85%) MuleSoft
10 10 (2.59%) Workday
11 8 (2.07%) Informatica
11 8 (2.07%) Murex
11 8 (2.07%) Temenos
12 7 (1.81%) GoldenSource
13 6 (1.55%) Dell
14 5 (1.30%) AppDynamics
14 5 (1.30%) Splunk
14 5 (1.30%) Talend
15 4 (1.04%) Alteryx