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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 336 369 366
Rank change year-on-year +33 -3 +138
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 260 195 275
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.74% 0.53% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.62% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 142 186
10th Percentile £325 £363 £369
25th Percentile £402 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £524
Median % change year-on-year - -4.63% -0.14%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £638
90th Percentile £700 £732 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +1.32% -13.64% +14.58%
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 31,719 31,545 41,752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.82% 86.25% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,853 18,987 28,148
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% -1.41% -3.18%
75th Percentile £619 £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 2,095 1,115 1,613
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.12 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.33
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -19.22% +23.80%
75th Percentile £44.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £33.93 £43.83
% change year-on-year -33.30% -22.58% +48.56%

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 16 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 16 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 +29 221 £504 +0.75% 124
London +11 129 £520 +1.46% 76
UK excluding London +22 100 £481 +1.32% 68
Work from Home +2 91 £500 - 55
North of England -12 34 £500 +21.21% 16
Scotland +11 17 £425 -15.00% 1
South East +6 17 £513 +20.59% 29
North West -15 17 £550 +33.39% 10
Yorkshire -25 15 £316 - 5
Midlands -31 15 £450 -12.20% 2
West Midlands -24 11 £450 -10.00% 2
South West +18 10 £525 +23.53% 20
East of England -18 5 £430 -10.93%
East Midlands -6 4 £383 -33.48%
Wales - 2 £425 -
North East - 2 £438 - 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 (5.77%) Confluence
2 6 (2.31%) Anypoint
2 6 (2.31%) nginx
3 3 (1.15%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.77%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.38%) Smallworld
Applications
1 42 (16.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (8.08%) MS Visio
3 20 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (9.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.92%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.15%) Endur
3 3 (1.15%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (1.15%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.77%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.77%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.77%) Maximo
4 2 (0.77%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.77%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.77%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.77%) SAP HCM
4 2 (0.77%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (0.77%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.77%) SAP Travel Management
4 2 (0.77%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.38%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Payroll
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 30 (11.54%) Power Platform
2 27 (10.38%) Azure
3 22 (8.46%) AWS
4 12 (4.62%) Dynamics 365
5 10 (3.85%) Serverless
6 9 (3.46%) Azure Logic Apps
7 8 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
7 8 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.08%) Snowflake
8 6 (2.31%) Amazon EventBridge
8 6 (2.31%) Boomi
8 6 (2.31%) GCP
9 5 (1.92%) GitHub
10 4 (1.54%) AtomSphere
10 4 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (1.54%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.15%) dbt
11 3 (1.15%) OCI
11 3 (1.15%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.77%) Firewall
2 1 (0.38%) DKIM
2 1 (0.38%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.46%) Power BI
2 14 (5.38%) Metadata
3 13 (5.00%) SQL Server
4 12 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (3.08%) Relational Database
5 8 (3.08%) Tableau
6 6 (2.31%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.54%) DB2
8 3 (1.15%) Data Mining
8 3 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (1.15%) SAP BW
9 2 (0.77%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.77%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.77%) DataStage
9 2 (0.77%) IMS/DB
9 2 (0.77%) MySQL
9 2 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.77%) Power Query
9 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 27 (10.38%) JIRA
2 5 (1.92%) Git
3 2 (0.77%) Cucumber
3 2 (0.77%) GitLab
3 2 (0.77%) JUnit
3 2 (0.77%) Maven
3 2 (0.77%) Mockito
3 2 (0.77%) Postman
3 2 (0.77%) Selenium
4 1 (0.38%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.38%) Liquibase
4 1 (0.38%) SpecFlow
General
1 106 (40.77%) Finance
2 99 (38.08%) Social Skills
3 58 (22.31%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (12.31%) Public Sector
5 31 (11.92%) Banking
6 26 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (3.85%) Legal
8 9 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (3.08%) Marketing
10 7 (2.69%) Investment Banking
10 7 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.31%) Back Office
11 6 (2.31%) Digital Healthcare
12 5 (1.92%) Billing
12 5 (1.92%) Retail
13 4 (1.54%) Front Office
13 4 (1.54%) Telecoms
14 3 (1.15%) General Ledger
14 3 (1.15%) Law
14 3 (1.15%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 135 (51.92%) Analyst
2 89 (34.23%) Business Analyst
3 57 (21.92%) Data Analyst
4 30 (11.54%) Consultant
5 23 (8.85%) Data Business Analyst
6 22 (8.46%) Lead
7 19 (7.31%) Developer
8 15 (5.77%) Senior
9 14 (5.38%) Architect
10 13 (5.00%) Management Consultant
11 12 (4.62%) Data Engineer
12 11 (4.23%) SAP Consultant
13 10 (3.85%) Technical Business Analyst
14 9 (3.46%) SAP SD Consultant
14 9 (3.46%) Technical Analyst
15 8 (3.08%) Implementation Analyst
15 8 (3.08%) Pensions Analyst
16 7 (2.69%) Banking Analyst
16 7 (2.69%) Data Migration Lead
16 7 (2.69%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (9.62%) JSON
2 20 (7.69%) XML
3 18 (6.92%) REST
4 13 (5.00%) SAP TM
4 13 (5.00%) SOAP
5 12 (4.62%) HTML
5 12 (4.62%) OAuth
6 9 (3.46%) OAuth2
7 7 (2.69%) RESTful
7 7 (2.69%) XSLT
8 5 (1.92%) .NET
8 5 (1.92%) Middleware
9 4 (1.54%) DCOM
9 4 (1.54%) Gherkin
9 4 (1.54%) React
10 3 (1.15%) ADO
10 3 (1.15%) Kafka
10 3 (1.15%) Playwright
10 3 (1.15%) Spring
10 3 (1.15%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.62%) Data Structures
2 24 (9.23%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (5.38%) Onboarding
4 13 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
4 13 (5.00%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.08%) Reference Data
6 7 (2.69%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (2.69%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.69%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.69%) Mainframe
7 6 (2.31%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.31%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.15%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.15%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.77%) Equities
10 2 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.77%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.77%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.54%) Unix
2 2 (0.77%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (31.92%) Migration
2 80 (30.77%) Agile
3 63 (24.23%) Data Analysis
4 61 (23.46%) Data Migration
5 57 (21.92%) Data Modelling
6 56 (21.54%) Stakeholder Management
7 52 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 52 (20.00%) Validation
8 51 (19.62%) Data Governance
9 42 (16.15%) User Acceptance Testing
10 40 (15.38%) Workshop Facilitation
11 39 (15.00%) Business Analysis
11 39 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
12 38 (14.62%) Requirements Gathering
13 33 (12.69%) Data Cleansing
13 33 (12.69%) Data Transformation
13 33 (12.69%) ETL
13 33 (12.69%) User Stories
14 27 (10.38%) Business Intelligence
15 26 (10.00%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 71 (27.31%) SQL
2 25 (9.62%) Python
3 12 (4.62%) Java
4 9 (3.46%) JavaScript
5 8 (3.08%) C#
6 6 (2.31%) VBA
7 5 (1.92%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.54%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.77%) JCL
9 2 (0.77%) Korn
9 2 (0.77%) PL/1
9 2 (0.77%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.77%) VB
10 1 (0.38%) C
10 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.38%) R
Qualifications
1 39 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 33 (12.69%) SC Cleared
3 24 (9.23%) Degree
4 8 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.54%) CBAP
7 3 (1.15%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.77%) ACCA
8 2 (0.77%) CIMA
8 2 (0.77%) PMP
9 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.38%) CSPO
9 1 (0.38%) IIBA
9 1 (0.38%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (19.62%) Data Quality
2 26 (10.00%) QA
3 21 (8.08%) GDPR
4 4 (1.54%) COBIT
5 2 (0.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.77%) IFRS
5 2 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.77%) WCAG
6 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.38%) FATCA
6 1 (0.38%) HL7
6 1 (0.38%) MiFID
6 1 (0.38%) NCSC
6 1 (0.38%) NIST
6 1 (0.38%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (3.85%) Docker
2 2 (0.77%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.92%) Kibana
2 4 (1.54%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.54%) Terraform
3 2 (0.77%) CA Endevor
3 2 (0.77%) Grafana
3 2 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 35 (13.46%) SAP
2 34 (13.08%) Microsoft
3 22 (8.46%) Oracle
4 9 (3.46%) MuleSoft
4 9 (3.46%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.08%) Workday
6 6 (2.31%) Databricks
7 5 (1.92%) Pega
7 5 (1.92%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.92%) Teradata
8 4 (1.54%) Duck Creek
8 4 (1.54%) IBM
8 4 (1.54%) Informatica
9 3 (1.15%) Sage
10 2 (0.77%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.77%) Dell
10 2 (0.77%) OneTrust
10 2 (0.77%) Palantir
10 2 (0.77%) Tealium
10 2 (0.77%) Xceptor