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 9 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 293 361
Rank change year-on-year +9 +68 +35
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 473 276 219
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.88% 0.83% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 0.92% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 192 145
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +7.50% -6.98%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £788 £691
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £519 £475
% change year-on-year -5.59% +9.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £35.28 - -
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 £40.00 - -

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 45,550 29,973 33,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.00% 90.45% 85.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,063 18,757 21,325
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.02%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £730 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,827 1,692 1,840
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.30 £18.25
Median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +72.96% -38.57% -3.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £74.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.63 £42.27
% change year-on-year +94.26% -46.47% +12.73%

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 9 August 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 9 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Mapping in the UK

Data Mapping
Top 15 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 9 August 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 -17 385 £537 -2.36% 90
London +2 236 £550 - 55
Work from Home -18 163 £500 -13.04% 40
UK excluding London -36 163 £490 -5.59% 46
North of England -53 44 £463 -15.99% 12
South West -19 30 £538 +13.16% 6
Midlands -43 29 £495 -7.91% 10
North West -38 27 £459 -26.01% 8
South East -66 27 £700 +40.00% 12
Scotland 0 26 £358 -24.63% 2
Yorkshire -34 15 £519 +69.44% 3
West Midlands -47 15 £500 +17.65% 5
East Midlands -6 12 £490 -9.89% 5
East of England -17 8 £420 -35.38% 4
North East -42 2 £444 -17.44% 2

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 38 (8.03%) Confluence
2 12 (2.54%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.63%) CMS
3 3 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.42%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
4 2 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.21%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 27 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (5.50%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (3.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (2.75%) Aladdin
3 6 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.27%) Maximo
3 6 (1.27%) NetSuite
3 6 (1.27%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (1.27%) SAP ERP
4 5 (1.06%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 3 (0.63%) Infor LN
5 3 (0.63%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 3 (0.63%) IntelliMatch
5 3 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.63%) SAP R/3
5 3 (0.63%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.42%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.42%) SAP HR
6 2 (0.42%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.42%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 69 (14.59%) Azure
2 40 (8.46%) Power Platform
3 29 (6.13%) AWS
4 20 (4.23%) GCP
5 17 (3.59%) Boomi
5 17 (3.59%) Snowflake
6 16 (3.38%) Azure Data Factory
6 16 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (2.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 11 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
8 11 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
9 10 (2.11%) GitHub
9 10 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (2.11%) SaaS
10 9 (1.90%) Entra ID
10 9 (1.90%) OCI
11 8 (1.69%) SuccessFactors
12 7 (1.48%) AtomSphere
13 6 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (1.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.85%) Firewall
1 4 (0.85%) SSL
2 1 (0.21%) AMQP
2 1 (0.21%) FTP
2 1 (0.21%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (9.73%) Data Warehouse
2 38 (8.03%) Metadata
3 35 (7.40%) Power BI
4 30 (6.34%) Data Lake
5 13 (2.75%) SQL Server
5 13 (2.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
6 12 (2.54%) Oracle Database
6 12 (2.54%) Relational Database
7 10 (2.11%) Delta Lake
8 9 (1.90%) Db2
9 8 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (1.48%) DynamoDB
10 7 (1.48%) MongoDB
10 7 (1.48%) NoSQL
10 7 (1.48%) Oracle Reports
10 7 (1.48%) Semantic Layer
10 7 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 52 (10.99%) JIRA
2 7 (1.48%) Git
3 4 (0.85%) Cypress.io
3 4 (0.85%) Gatling
3 4 (0.85%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (0.85%) Postman
4 3 (0.63%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (0.42%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.42%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.21%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.21%) ERwin
6 1 (0.21%) Flyway
6 1 (0.21%) GitLab
6 1 (0.21%) Hudson
6 1 (0.21%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.21%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.21%) LSMW
6 1 (0.21%) NUnit
6 1 (0.21%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 156 (32.98%) Finance
1 156 (32.98%) Social Skills
2 95 (20.08%) Analytical Skills
3 69 (14.59%) Banking
4 36 (7.61%) Public Sector
5 27 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
6 25 (5.29%) Legal
7 23 (4.86%) Retail
8 19 (4.02%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.11%) Law
9 10 (2.11%) Marketing
10 7 (1.48%) Local Government
10 7 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.27%) Billing
11 6 (1.27%) Front Office
11 6 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.06%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.85%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 209 (44.19%) Analyst
2 135 (28.54%) Business Analyst
3 89 (18.82%) Data Analyst
4 67 (14.16%) Lead
5 54 (11.42%) Data Business Analyst
6 41 (8.67%) Architect
7 37 (7.82%) Developer
8 36 (7.61%) Senior
9 30 (6.34%) Data Architect
10 26 (5.50%) Data Engineer
11 25 (5.29%) Technical Analyst
12 24 (5.07%) Consultant
13 20 (4.23%) Business Systems Analyst
14 19 (4.02%) Data Migration Lead
15 18 (3.81%) Senior Analyst
15 18 (3.81%) Technical Business Analyst
16 14 (2.96%) Senior Business Analyst
16 14 (2.96%) Systems Analyst
17 13 (2.75%) SQL Analyst
17 13 (2.75%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (10.78%) JSON
2 44 (9.30%) REST
3 40 (8.46%) XML
4 31 (6.55%) SOAP
5 29 (6.13%) Middleware
6 20 (4.23%) Oracle Fusion
7 15 (3.17%) Web Services
8 12 (2.54%) OAuth
9 9 (1.90%) EDI
9 9 (1.90%) OAuth2
10 8 (1.69%) FHIR
10 8 (1.69%) XSLT
11 7 (1.48%) Kafka
12 5 (1.06%) SAML
13 4 (0.85%) JDBC
13 4 (0.85%) Playwright
13 4 (0.85%) PySpark
13 4 (0.85%) RESTful
13 4 (0.85%) SailPoint
13 4 (0.85%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 79 (16.70%) Data Structures
2 58 (12.26%) Legacy Systems
3 39 (8.25%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.81%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.54%) Management Information System
6 8 (1.69%) Digital Media
6 8 (1.69%) LIMS
6 8 (1.69%) Reference Data
7 7 (1.48%) Cloud Native
7 7 (1.48%) Clustering
7 7 (1.48%) CMDB
7 7 (1.48%) Legacy Applications
8 6 (1.27%) Derivative
8 6 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.27%) Mainframe
9 5 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.06%) NHS
9 5 (1.06%) SCADA
9 5 (1.06%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.54%) Windows
2 8 (1.69%) Unix
3 7 (1.48%) Linux
4 3 (0.63%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.42%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (41.65%) Migration
2 161 (34.04%) Data Modelling
3 156 (32.98%) Validation
4 141 (29.81%) Data Migration
5 140 (29.60%) Agile
6 139 (29.39%) Stakeholder Management
7 93 (19.66%) ETL
8 85 (17.97%) Data Analysis
9 83 (17.55%) Data Governance
9 83 (17.55%) User Acceptance Testing
10 80 (16.91%) Data Transformation
10 80 (16.91%) Problem-Solving
11 79 (16.70%) Requirements Gathering
12 77 (16.28%) Workshop Facilitation
13 74 (15.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 66 (13.95%) User Stories
15 58 (12.26%) Business Analysis
15 58 (12.26%) Data Cleansing
15 58 (12.26%) ERP
16 55 (11.63%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 168 (35.52%) SQL
2 24 (5.07%) Python
3 15 (3.17%) PL/SQL
4 12 (2.54%) Java
5 11 (2.33%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.27%) Groovy
7 5 (1.06%) Bicep
7 5 (1.06%) MUMPS
7 5 (1.06%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.06%) T-SQL
7 5 (1.06%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.85%) ABAP
8 4 (0.85%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.63%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.63%) C#
9 3 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.63%) R
10 2 (0.42%) C
10 2 (0.42%) C++
10 2 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 52 (10.99%) Security Cleared
2 39 (8.25%) SC Cleared
3 16 (3.38%) Degree
4 11 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (0.63%) CTC Cleared
5 3 (0.63%) DBS Check
5 3 (0.63%) DV Cleared
5 3 (0.63%) IIBA
5 3 (0.63%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.42%) CBAP
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (0.42%) PMP
6 2 (0.42%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.21%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.21%) CCA
7 1 (0.21%) CISA
7 1 (0.21%) CISSP
7 1 (0.21%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (25.37%) Data Quality
2 45 (9.51%) QA
3 44 (9.30%) GDPR
4 8 (1.69%) HL7
4 8 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.27%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.27%) ISO 20022
6 5 (1.06%) Solvency II
7 4 (0.85%) ISO 8583
8 3 (0.63%) GRC
8 3 (0.63%) NIST
8 3 (0.63%) SEPA
9 2 (0.42%) COBIT
9 2 (0.42%) DICOM
9 2 (0.42%) GMP
9 2 (0.42%) GxP
9 2 (0.42%) SLA
9 2 (0.42%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.21%) Basel II
10 1 (0.21%) CDISC
System Software
1 9 (1.90%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.42%) Docker
2 2 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (1.27%) Terraform
2 3 (0.63%) Ansible
2 3 (0.63%) WMI
3 2 (0.42%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 79 (16.70%) Oracle
2 63 (13.32%) Microsoft
3 50 (10.57%) SAP
4 32 (6.77%) Databricks
5 22 (4.65%) ServiceNow
6 17 (3.59%) Salesforce
7 16 (3.38%) IBM
8 14 (2.96%) Google
9 12 (2.54%) MuleSoft
10 11 (2.33%) Informatica
11 10 (2.11%) Workday
12 7 (1.48%) Murex
13 6 (1.27%) AppDynamics
13 6 (1.27%) Dell
13 6 (1.27%) InterSystems
13 6 (1.27%) Splunk
14 5 (1.06%) Talend
15 4 (0.85%) Alteryx
15 4 (0.85%) Okta
15 4 (0.85%) OneTrust