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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 357 367
Rank change year-on-year +32 +10 +85
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 291 183 237
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.75% 0.59% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.66% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 119 163
10th Percentile £365 £332 £363
25th Percentile £425 £436 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +0.48% -0.48%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £490
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.25% +8.78%
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 33,753 27,550 39,300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.16% 89.25% 87.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,385 16,677 25,860
10th Percentile £306 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £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 £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -3.66% -0.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,027 862 2,114
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +8.53%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £61.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £31.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -20.63% -11.27% +22.41%

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 3 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 3 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 +14 254 £525 - 56
London +49 163 £533 +1.43% 26
Work from Home +12 105 £500 -4.76% 24
UK excluding London -27 92 £500 -4.76% 40
North of England -45 26 £500 -4.76% 10
South East -17 18 £618 +46.05% 17
Midlands -58 17 £450 -15.89% 6
North West -28 13 £625 +11.11% 5
West Midlands -37 13 £496 -5.57% 5
South West - 13 £525 - 3
Yorkshire -40 11 £494 -5.95% 5
Scotland +16 10 £449 -10.30% 3
East of England -24 6 £427 -17.69% 1
East Midlands -29 3 £450 -17.43% 1
North East -13 2 £438 -16.67%
Wales - 2 £438 -

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 8 (2.75%) Confluence
2 7 (2.41%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
3 6 (2.06%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.03%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.69%) Appian
5 2 (0.69%) SAS
6 1 (0.34%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.34%) nginx
Applications
1 31 (10.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (7.56%) MS Visio
3 17 (5.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (6.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (4.12%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (2.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.37%) Finacle
4 4 (1.37%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (1.37%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (1.37%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (1.03%) Aladdin
5 3 (1.03%) Oracle EBS R12
5 3 (1.03%) SAP ERP
5 3 (1.03%) SAP Payroll
5 3 (1.03%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.69%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.69%) Endur
6 2 (0.69%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.69%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.69%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.69%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.69%) SAP Travel Management
6 2 (0.69%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 33 (11.34%) Azure
2 29 (9.97%) Power Platform
3 14 (4.81%) AWS
3 14 (4.81%) Dynamics 365
4 13 (4.47%) OCI
5 10 (3.44%) Azure Logic Apps
5 10 (3.44%) GCP
6 8 (2.75%) Boomi
7 7 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.41%) SaaS
8 6 (2.06%) Snowflake
9 5 (1.72%) Power Automate
9 5 (1.72%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.37%) AtomSphere
10 4 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (1.37%) SuccessFactors
11 3 (1.03%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.34%) DKIM
1 1 (0.34%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.53%) Power BI
2 17 (5.84%) Metadata
3 15 (5.15%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (3.78%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.75%) BigQuery
6 6 (2.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (2.06%) Tableau
7 4 (1.37%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.03%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.69%) DataStage
9 2 (0.69%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.34%) Big Data
10 1 (0.34%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.34%) Dremio
10 1 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 15 (5.15%) JIRA
2 5 (1.72%) Git
3 4 (1.37%) Postman
4 2 (0.69%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.69%) GitLab
4 2 (0.69%) JUnit
4 2 (0.69%) Maven
4 2 (0.69%) Mockito
4 2 (0.69%) Selenium
5 1 (0.34%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.34%) SpecFlow
General
1 127 (43.64%) Finance
2 107 (36.77%) Social Skills
3 58 (19.93%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (16.15%) Banking
5 37 (12.71%) Documentation Skills
6 29 (9.97%) Public Sector
7 15 (5.15%) Investment Banking
8 12 (4.12%) Legal
9 9 (3.09%) Retail
10 8 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (2.41%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.41%) Marketing
11 7 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (2.06%) Back Office
12 6 (2.06%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.72%) Law
13 5 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.37%) Front Office
14 4 (1.37%) Private Banking
14 4 (1.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 128 (43.99%) Analyst
2 86 (29.55%) Business Analyst
3 53 (18.21%) Data Analyst
4 50 (17.18%) Lead
5 32 (11.00%) Consultant
6 23 (7.90%) Data Business Analyst
7 17 (5.84%) Senior
8 15 (5.15%) Data Migration Lead
8 15 (5.15%) Developer
9 14 (4.81%) Data Engineer
10 13 (4.47%) Architect
10 13 (4.47%) Management Consultant
11 12 (4.12%) Banking Analyst
11 12 (4.12%) SAP Consultant
11 12 (4.12%) Technical Business Analyst
12 11 (3.78%) Technical Analyst
13 9 (3.09%) Banking Business Analyst
13 9 (3.09%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
13 9 (3.09%) Identity Management Analyst
13 9 (3.09%) SAP SD Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (7.90%) XML
2 17 (5.84%) REST
3 16 (5.50%) JSON
4 15 (5.15%) Oracle Fusion
5 13 (4.47%) SAP TM
6 10 (3.44%) SOAP
7 8 (2.75%) HTML
7 8 (2.75%) Middleware
7 8 (2.75%) OAuth
7 8 (2.75%) XSLT
8 6 (2.06%) .NET
9 4 (1.37%) EDI
9 4 (1.37%) Gherkin
9 4 (1.37%) OAuth2
10 3 (1.03%) Kafka
10 3 (1.03%) Playwright
10 3 (1.03%) React
10 3 (1.03%) RESTful
10 3 (1.03%) Spring
10 3 (1.03%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 58 (19.93%) Data Structures
2 38 (13.06%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (6.19%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.78%) Reference Data
5 10 (3.44%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.72%) NHS
8 4 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.37%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.03%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.03%) Educational Technology
9 3 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.03%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.03%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.03%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.69%) Equities
10 2 (0.69%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.69%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.69%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.69%) Unix
2 1 (0.34%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (41.92%) Migration
2 91 (31.27%) Data Migration
3 84 (28.87%) Stakeholder Management
4 82 (28.18%) Data Modelling
5 77 (26.46%) Validation
6 72 (24.74%) Agile
7 58 (19.93%) Workshop Facilitation
8 54 (18.56%) Data Governance
9 53 (18.21%) Data Analysis
10 49 (16.84%) Data Cleansing
10 49 (16.84%) Data Transformation
10 49 (16.84%) User Acceptance Testing
11 48 (16.49%) Requirements Gathering
12 47 (16.15%) ETL
13 45 (15.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 44 (15.12%) Business Analysis
15 43 (14.78%) ERP
16 36 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
17 32 (11.00%) Data Management
18 29 (9.97%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 66 (22.68%) SQL
2 16 (5.50%) Python
3 10 (3.44%) JavaScript
4 8 (2.75%) C#
5 6 (2.06%) Java
6 5 (1.72%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.37%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.69%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.69%) VBA
9 1 (0.34%) C
9 1 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.34%) Groovy
9 1 (0.34%) Korn
9 1 (0.34%) R
9 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.34%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.34%) VB
Qualifications
1 47 (16.15%) Security Cleared
2 35 (12.03%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.25%) Degree
4 7 (2.41%) CBAP
4 7 (2.41%) IIBA
5 5 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.37%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.69%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.69%) PMP
8 1 (0.34%) ACCA
8 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.34%) CFA
8 1 (0.34%) CIMA
8 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.34%) MBA
8 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (20.96%) Data Quality
2 26 (8.93%) QA
3 23 (7.90%) GDPR
4 6 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.72%) COBIT
5 5 (1.72%) NIST
6 3 (1.03%) GMP
6 3 (1.03%) GxP
6 3 (1.03%) HL7
7 2 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.69%) GRC
7 2 (0.69%) SLA
7 2 (0.69%) WCAG
8 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.34%) Basel III
8 1 (0.34%) FATCA
8 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.34%) IFRS
8 1 (0.34%) MiFID
8 1 (0.34%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (0.69%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.03%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.03%) Terraform
2 2 (0.69%) Grafana
2 2 (0.69%) Kibana
3 1 (0.34%) Ansible
3 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (14.43%) Microsoft
1 42 (14.43%) SAP
2 31 (10.65%) Oracle
3 12 (4.12%) Avaloq
4 9 (3.09%) Salesforce
4 9 (3.09%) Workday
5 8 (2.75%) Databricks
6 7 (2.41%) GoldenSource
6 7 (2.41%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.06%) Google
7 6 (2.06%) Temenos
8 5 (1.72%) Ariba
9 4 (1.37%) Dell
9 4 (1.37%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.37%) Sage
9 4 (1.37%) Teradata
10 3 (1.03%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.03%) Murex
11 2 (0.69%) Adobe
11 2 (0.69%) Informatica