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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 293 363
Rank change year-on-year -20 +70 +43
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 364 242 229
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.74% 0.83% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.92% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 166 143
10th Percentile £350 £360 £358
25th Percentile £413 £463 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £594
90th Percentile £720 £788 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £32.13 - -
25th Percentile £40.00 - £45.98
Median hourly rate £61.79 - £46.23
75th Percentile £85.36 - £46.48
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £83.58 - -

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 41,843 26,418 36,777
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.72% 90.98% 85.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,135 16,804 23,539
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £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 2,505 1,141 2,540
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.76 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.36% -23.95% +1.39%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.00 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.78 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +82.03% -34.02% +8.91%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -16 311 £534 -3.87% 68
London +8 202 £550 -8.33% 37
UK excluding London -68 119 £500 -9.09% 50
Work from Home -35 114 £500 -15.61% 33
South East -56 26 £700 +27.27% 14
South West -4 23 £530 +16.48% 6
North of England -75 23 £463 -22.92% 10
Midlands -51 22 £500 -9.09% 8
Scotland -1 18 £392 -21.70% 8
West Midlands -54 14 £575 -9.80% 2
North West -44 12 £453 -30.65% 9
Yorkshire -60 10 £519 +6.41% 1
East of England -27 7 £441 -32.23% 5
East Midlands -25 6 £463 -15.91% 6
Wales -18 1 £450 +25.00% 1
North East -28 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 18 (4.95%) Confluence
2 4 (1.10%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
2 4 (1.10%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (1.10%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.82%) CMS
3 3 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (0.82%) SAS
4 2 (0.55%) Appian
5 1 (0.27%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 20 (5.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (5.22%) MS Visio
3 8 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (2.75%) Aladdin
3 8 (2.20%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (1.65%) Finacle
4 6 (1.65%) SAP ERP
5 5 (1.37%) Maximo
6 4 (1.10%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 3 (0.82%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 3 (0.82%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.82%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.82%) SAP R/3
7 3 (0.82%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.55%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.55%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.55%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.55%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.55%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 52 (14.29%) Azure
2 26 (7.14%) Power Platform
3 16 (4.40%) AWS
3 16 (4.40%) Azure Data Factory
3 16 (4.40%) GCP
4 12 (3.30%) Boomi
5 10 (2.75%) OCI
6 9 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (2.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 8 (2.20%) SaaS
8 7 (1.92%) Microsoft Purview
8 7 (1.92%) SuccessFactors
9 6 (1.65%) Collibra
9 6 (1.65%) GitHub
10 5 (1.37%) Snowflake
11 4 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.82%) Entra ID
12 3 (0.82%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.82%) Firewall
2 1 (0.27%) AMQP
2 1 (0.27%) FTP
2 1 (0.27%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.87%) Metadata
2 23 (6.32%) Power BI
3 20 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (3.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 10 (2.75%) SQL Server
6 9 (2.47%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.92%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.92%) Db2
7 7 (1.92%) Delta Lake
7 7 (1.92%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.92%) Oracle Database
8 6 (1.65%) Tableau
9 5 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.82%) DataStage
11 3 (0.82%) Electronic Patient Records
11 3 (0.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.55%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.55%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 33 (9.07%) JIRA
2 5 (1.37%) Postman
3 3 (0.82%) Git
3 3 (0.82%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.27%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.27%) ERwin
4 1 (0.27%) Hudson
4 1 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.27%) LSMW
4 1 (0.27%) NUnit
4 1 (0.27%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 137 (37.64%) Finance
2 129 (35.44%) Social Skills
3 71 (19.51%) Banking
4 68 (18.68%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (11.26%) Public Sector
6 29 (7.97%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (5.77%) Legal
8 11 (3.02%) Investment Banking
8 11 (3.02%) Retail
9 10 (2.75%) Law
9 10 (2.75%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.47%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (1.92%) Front Office
11 7 (1.92%) Marketing
11 7 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.65%) Police
12 6 (1.65%) Private Banking
13 5 (1.37%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 146 (40.11%) Analyst
2 91 (25.00%) Business Analyst
3 84 (23.08%) Lead
4 66 (18.13%) Data Analyst
5 29 (7.97%) Data Business Analyst
6 26 (7.14%) Data Migration Lead
7 25 (6.87%) Data Engineer
8 24 (6.59%) Senior
9 20 (5.49%) Architect
10 17 (4.67%) Developer
11 15 (4.12%) Consultant
12 14 (3.85%) Data Architect
13 13 (3.57%) Migration Engineer
14 12 (3.30%) Banking Analyst
14 12 (3.30%) Migration Manager
14 12 (3.30%) Senior Analyst
15 11 (3.02%) Data Migration Engineer
15 11 (3.02%) Test Leader
16 10 (2.75%) Banking Business Analyst
16 10 (2.75%) Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (7.42%) XML
2 25 (6.87%) JSON
3 22 (6.04%) Middleware
4 21 (5.77%) REST
5 20 (5.49%) Oracle Fusion
6 14 (3.85%) SOAP
7 5 (1.37%) EDI
7 5 (1.37%) RESTful
7 5 (1.37%) Web Services
7 5 (1.37%) XSLT
8 4 (1.10%) .NET
8 4 (1.10%) JDBC
8 4 (1.10%) Kafka
9 3 (0.82%) FHIR
9 3 (0.82%) OAuth
9 3 (0.82%) PySpark
10 2 (0.55%) Itk
10 2 (0.55%) JWT
10 2 (0.55%) OAuth2
10 2 (0.55%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 71 (19.51%) Data Structures
2 53 (14.56%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (4.67%) Reference Data
4 16 (4.40%) Product Ownership
5 15 (4.12%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.92%) Taxonomies
7 6 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.37%) Clustering
8 5 (1.37%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.37%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.37%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.37%) NHS
9 4 (1.10%) Derivative
10 3 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.82%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.82%) Data Fabric
10 3 (0.82%) Equities
10 3 (0.82%) IoT
10 3 (0.82%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.37%) Windows
2 2 (0.55%) HPUX
2 2 (0.55%) Linux
2 2 (0.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (51.65%) Migration
2 135 (37.09%) Validation
3 127 (34.89%) Data Migration
4 116 (31.87%) Data Modelling
5 106 (29.12%) Stakeholder Management
6 88 (24.18%) Agile
7 83 (22.80%) ETL
8 65 (17.86%) Data Transformation
9 63 (17.31%) User Acceptance Testing
10 61 (16.76%) Problem-Solving
11 59 (16.21%) Data Governance
12 56 (15.38%) Requirements Gathering
13 55 (15.11%) Data Cleansing
14 54 (14.84%) Data Analysis
15 51 (14.01%) ERP
15 51 (14.01%) Workshop Facilitation
16 48 (13.19%) Data Validation
17 46 (12.64%) Business Analysis
18 42 (11.54%) User Stories
19 41 (11.26%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 100 (27.47%) SQL
2 23 (6.32%) Python
3 10 (2.75%) Java
4 8 (2.20%) PL/SQL
5 7 (1.92%) T-SQL
6 4 (1.10%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.82%) Bicep
7 3 (0.82%) C#
7 3 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (0.82%) R
8 2 (0.55%) C
8 2 (0.55%) C++
8 2 (0.55%) Groovy
9 1 (0.27%) ABAP
9 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.27%) DataWeave
9 1 (0.27%) Korn
9 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 46 (12.64%) Security Cleared
2 33 (9.07%) SC Cleared
3 18 (4.95%) Degree
4 9 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (1.92%) IIBA
6 6 (1.65%) CBAP
7 5 (1.37%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.10%) PMP
9 2 (0.55%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.27%) CCA
10 1 (0.27%) CFA
10 1 (0.27%) CISA
10 1 (0.27%) CISSP
10 1 (0.27%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.27%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (27.75%) Data Quality
2 36 (9.89%) GDPR
3 34 (9.34%) QA
4 8 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.37%) GxP
5 5 (1.37%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.37%) NIST
5 5 (1.37%) Solvency II
6 4 (1.10%) COBIT
6 4 (1.10%) GMP
6 4 (1.10%) ISO 8583
6 4 (1.10%) SLA
7 3 (0.82%) HL7
7 3 (0.82%) SEPA
8 2 (0.55%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.55%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.27%) CDISC
9 1 (0.27%) GRC
9 1 (0.27%) MiFID
9 1 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (0.82%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.55%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.37%) Terraform
2 1 (0.27%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (17.03%) Oracle
2 52 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 48 (13.19%) SAP
4 27 (7.42%) Databricks
5 15 (4.12%) Google
6 13 (3.57%) IBM
7 11 (3.02%) Avaloq
7 11 (3.02%) Salesforce
8 9 (2.47%) Workday
9 8 (2.20%) GoldenSource
9 8 (2.20%) Informatica
9 8 (2.20%) MuleSoft
9 8 (2.20%) Murex
9 8 (2.20%) Temenos
10 7 (1.92%) Dell
11 5 (1.37%) AppDynamics
11 5 (1.37%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.37%) Splunk
11 5 (1.37%) Talend
12 4 (1.10%) Alteryx