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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 338 383
Rank change year-on-year +15 +45 +67
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 294 192 231
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.74% 0.62% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.69% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 129 160
10th Percentile £350 £347 £356
25th Percentile £420 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +0.48% -0.48%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £599
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £489
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.36% +8.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.00 - -

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 34,652 27,713 38,573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.01% 89.46% 87.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,939 16,970 25,283
10th Percentile £306 £306 £300
25th Percentile £408 £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 £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -4.06% -0.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,087 853 2,111
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.28
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -1.71% +1.74%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £72.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.51 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.18% -9.97% +9.38%

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 12 February 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 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 12 February 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 +6 255 £525 - 41
London +35 168 £550 +4.76% 18
Work from Home +14 105 £500 -4.76% 14
UK excluding London -27 91 £500 -4.76% 34
North of England -49 27 £494 -8.14% 7
South East -24 16 £625 +47.83% 19
Midlands -56 15 £496 -7.34% 2
North West -19 14 £525 -6.67% 5
South West - 14 £538 - 4
West Midlands -51 12 £542 +3.14% 2
Scotland +17 11 £436 -12.80% 2
Yorkshire -50 11 £494 -8.14% 2
East of England -30 6 £427 -17.69%
Wales +1 2 £438 +21.53%
North East -14 2 £438 -16.67%
East Midlands -26 2 £450 -17.43%

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 10 (3.40%) Confluence
2 8 (2.72%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
3 6 (2.04%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.02%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.68%) Appian
5 2 (0.68%) SAS
6 1 (0.34%) Anypoint
Applications
1 28 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (7.48%) MS Visio
3 16 (5.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (5.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (4.42%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.36%) Finacle
4 4 (1.36%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (1.36%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (1.36%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (1.02%) Oracle EBS R12
5 3 (1.02%) SAP ERP
5 3 (1.02%) SAP Payroll
5 3 (1.02%) SAP SD
5 3 (1.02%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.68%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.68%) Endur
6 2 (0.68%) Maximo
6 2 (0.68%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.68%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.68%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.68%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.68%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 38 (12.93%) Azure
2 27 (9.18%) Power Platform
3 15 (5.10%) AWS
3 15 (5.10%) Dynamics 365
4 14 (4.76%) OCI
5 10 (3.40%) Azure Logic Apps
5 10 (3.40%) GCP
6 7 (2.38%) Boomi
6 7 (2.38%) SaaS
7 6 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (1.70%) Entra ID
8 5 (1.70%) Power Automate
8 5 (1.70%) PowerApps
8 5 (1.70%) Snowflake
9 4 (1.36%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (1.36%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.36%) SuccessFactors
10 3 (1.02%) AtomSphere
10 3 (1.02%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.34%) DKIM
1 1 (0.34%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.46%) Metadata
2 17 (5.78%) Power BI
3 15 (5.10%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (3.74%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.72%) BigQuery
6 7 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (1.70%) Tableau
8 3 (1.02%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.68%) DataStage
9 2 (0.68%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.68%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.34%) Big Data
10 1 (0.34%) DB2
10 1 (0.34%) Informix
10 1 (0.34%) MS Access
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 20 (6.80%) JIRA
2 4 (1.36%) Git
2 4 (1.36%) Postman
3 2 (0.68%) Cucumber
3 2 (0.68%) GitLab
3 2 (0.68%) JUnit
3 2 (0.68%) Maven
3 2 (0.68%) Mockito
3 2 (0.68%) Selenium
4 1 (0.34%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.34%) SpecFlow
General
1 127 (43.20%) Finance
2 109 (37.07%) Social Skills
3 59 (20.07%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (15.99%) Banking
5 40 (13.61%) Documentation Skills
6 31 (10.54%) Public Sector
7 14 (4.76%) Investment Banking
8 12 (4.08%) Legal
9 9 (3.06%) Retail
10 7 (2.38%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.04%) Back Office
11 6 (2.04%) Financial Institution
11 6 (2.04%) Law
11 6 (2.04%) Marketing
11 6 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.70%) Front Office
12 5 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.36%) Private Banking
13 4 (1.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 130 (44.22%) Analyst
2 90 (30.61%) Business Analyst
3 51 (17.35%) Lead
4 50 (17.01%) Data Analyst
5 26 (8.84%) Consultant
6 21 (7.14%) Data Business Analyst
7 20 (6.80%) Senior
8 17 (5.78%) Architect
9 15 (5.10%) Developer
10 14 (4.76%) Data Engineer
10 14 (4.76%) Data Migration Lead
11 12 (4.08%) Banking Analyst
11 12 (4.08%) Technical Business Analyst
12 11 (3.74%) Data Architect
12 11 (3.74%) Technical Analyst
13 9 (3.06%) Banking Business Analyst
13 9 (3.06%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
13 9 (3.06%) Identity Management Analyst
14 8 (2.72%) Integration Developer
14 8 (2.72%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.80%) XML
2 16 (5.44%) Oracle Fusion
3 15 (5.10%) REST
4 12 (4.08%) JSON
5 8 (2.72%) Middleware
5 8 (2.72%) SAP TM
5 8 (2.72%) SOAP
5 8 (2.72%) XSLT
6 7 (2.38%) HTML
6 7 (2.38%) OAuth
7 6 (2.04%) .NET
8 5 (1.70%) EDI
9 4 (1.36%) Gherkin
10 3 (1.02%) FHIR
10 3 (1.02%) Kafka
10 3 (1.02%) OAuth2
10 3 (1.02%) Playwright
10 3 (1.02%) React
10 3 (1.02%) Spring
10 3 (1.02%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 56 (19.05%) Data Structures
2 37 (12.59%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (6.12%) Onboarding
4 14 (4.76%) Reference Data
5 10 (3.40%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.70%) NHS
8 4 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.36%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.36%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.02%) Educational Technology
9 3 (1.02%) Equities
9 3 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.02%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.02%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.02%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.68%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.68%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.68%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.68%) Unix
2 1 (0.34%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (43.20%) Migration
2 92 (31.29%) Data Migration
3 89 (30.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 83 (28.23%) Data Modelling
5 79 (26.87%) Validation
6 68 (23.13%) Agile
7 54 (18.37%) Data Analysis
7 54 (18.37%) Workshop Facilitation
8 52 (17.69%) Data Governance
8 52 (17.69%) User Acceptance Testing
9 51 (17.35%) ETL
10 50 (17.01%) Business Analysis
11 49 (16.67%) Data Transformation
11 49 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
12 48 (16.33%) Data Cleansing
13 44 (14.97%) ERP
14 42 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
14 42 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 36 (12.24%) Data Management
16 25 (8.50%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 63 (21.43%) SQL
2 15 (5.10%) Python
3 10 (3.40%) JavaScript
4 8 (2.72%) C#
5 6 (2.04%) Java
6 5 (1.70%) PL/SQL
6 5 (1.70%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.68%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.68%) VBA
8 1 (0.34%) ABAP
8 1 (0.34%) C
8 1 (0.34%) Groovy
8 1 (0.34%) Korn
8 1 (0.34%) R
8 1 (0.34%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.34%) VB
Qualifications
1 46 (15.65%) Security Cleared
2 33 (11.22%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.82%) Degree
4 7 (2.38%) CBAP
4 7 (2.38%) IIBA
5 6 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.36%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.68%) PMP
8 1 (0.34%) ACCA
8 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.34%) CCA
8 1 (0.34%) CFA
8 1 (0.34%) CIMA
8 1 (0.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.34%) MBA
8 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (19.39%) Data Quality
2 29 (9.86%) QA
3 21 (7.14%) GDPR
4 7 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.04%) COBIT
5 6 (2.04%) NIST
6 4 (1.36%) SLA
7 3 (1.02%) GMP
7 3 (1.02%) GxP
7 3 (1.02%) HL7
8 2 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.68%) GRC
8 2 (0.68%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.68%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.68%) PMO
8 2 (0.68%) WCAG
9 1 (0.34%) Basel III
9 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.34%) IFRS
9 1 (0.34%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (1.02%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.34%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.02%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.02%) Terraform
2 2 (0.68%) Grafana
2 2 (0.68%) Kibana
3 1 (0.34%) Ansible
3 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (15.31%) Microsoft
2 38 (12.93%) SAP
3 34 (11.56%) Oracle
4 12 (4.08%) Avaloq
5 11 (3.74%) Databricks
6 9 (3.06%) Workday
7 8 (2.72%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.38%) GoldenSource
9 6 (2.04%) Google
9 6 (2.04%) Salesforce
9 6 (2.04%) Temenos
10 5 (1.70%) Ariba
10 5 (1.70%) Murex
11 4 (1.36%) Alteryx
11 4 (1.36%) MuleSoft
11 4 (1.36%) Sage
11 4 (1.36%) Teradata
12 3 (1.02%) Atlassian
12 3 (1.02%) Dell
13 2 (0.68%) Informatica