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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 306 351
Rank change year-on-year +11 +45 +46
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 474 260 220
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.88% 0.79% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 0.87% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 184 145
10th Percentile £354 £345 £375
25th Percentile £425 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £501
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +7.09% -6.88%
75th Percentile £625 £655 £613
90th Percentile £700 £788 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -8.57%
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 45,630 29,844 33,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.69% 90.49% 85.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,001 18,599 21,039
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.54%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £728 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,875 1,760 1,727
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £13.87
25th Percentile £18.29 £17.30 £18.00
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £67.86 £47.66 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.74 £42.05
% change year-on-year +93.36% -45.93% +12.12%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -10 381 £545 +1.40% 68
London +4 234 £550 - 29
Work from Home +12 176 £500 -9.09% 38
UK excluding London -38 160 £500 - 48
North of England -38 45 £470 -11.32% 10
Midlands -33 31 £490 -8.84% 4
North West -24 28 £466 -15.30% 6
South West -19 27 £530 +11.58% 9
Scotland 0 25 £398 -15.25% 2
South East -69 24 £700 +40.00% 17
West Midlands -45 16 £400 -5.88% 2
Yorkshire -35 15 £519 +69.44% 2
East Midlands -10 13 £490 -9.89% 2
East of England -13 9 £420 +0.12% 9
North East -44 2 £444 +1.43% 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 33 (6.96%) Confluence
2 12 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.21%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.21%) CMS
5 1 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 27 (5.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (5.06%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.48%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (3.59%) Aladdin
2 14 (2.95%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.48%) NetSuite
4 6 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (1.27%) Maximo
5 5 (1.05%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 5 (1.05%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.63%) Infor LN
6 3 (0.63%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 3 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.63%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.42%) Finacle
7 2 (0.42%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 2 (0.42%) MultiFonds
7 2 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.42%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.42%) SAP Payroll
7 2 (0.42%) Shopify
7 2 (0.42%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 65 (13.71%) Azure
2 41 (8.65%) Power Platform
3 25 (5.27%) AWS
4 21 (4.43%) GCP
5 19 (4.01%) Snowflake
6 17 (3.59%) Boomi
7 16 (3.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 16 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (2.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 11 (2.32%) Dynamics 365
8 11 (2.32%) GitHub
8 11 (2.32%) Microsoft Purview
8 11 (2.32%) SuccessFactors
9 10 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (2.11%) SaaS
10 9 (1.90%) AtomSphere
11 7 (1.48%) Entra ID
11 7 (1.48%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (1.48%) Serverless
12 6 (1.27%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.84%) Firewall
1 4 (0.84%) SSL
2 1 (0.21%) AMQP
2 1 (0.21%) FTP
2 1 (0.21%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
2 39 (8.23%) Metadata
3 37 (7.81%) Power BI
4 33 (6.96%) Data Lake
5 16 (3.38%) Relational Database
6 15 (3.16%) SQL Server
7 13 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (2.32%) Oracle Database
9 10 (2.11%) Delta Lake
9 10 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (1.90%) Db2
10 9 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (1.90%) Semantic Layer
11 7 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (1.48%) DynamoDB
11 7 (1.48%) MongoDB
11 7 (1.48%) NoSQL
11 7 (1.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 7 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 47 (9.92%) JIRA
2 7 (1.48%) Git
3 5 (1.05%) Postman
4 4 (0.84%) Cypress.io
4 4 (0.84%) Gatling
4 4 (0.84%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (0.63%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.42%) Balsamiq
6 2 (0.42%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.21%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.21%) ERwin
7 1 (0.21%) Flyway
7 1 (0.21%) GitLab
7 1 (0.21%) Hudson
7 1 (0.21%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.21%) LSMW
7 1 (0.21%) NUnit
7 1 (0.21%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.21%) Subversion
General
1 156 (32.91%) Finance
2 154 (32.49%) Social Skills
3 93 (19.62%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (13.92%) Banking
5 31 (6.54%) Public Sector
6 29 (6.12%) Legal
7 26 (5.49%) Retail
8 21 (4.43%) Documentation Skills
9 19 (4.01%) Manufacturing
10 10 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.11%) Marketing
11 9 (1.90%) Law
12 8 (1.69%) Front Office
12 8 (1.69%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.69%) Local Government
13 6 (1.27%) Billing
13 6 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.27%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 206 (43.46%) Analyst
2 130 (27.43%) Business Analyst
3 94 (19.83%) Data Analyst
4 66 (13.92%) Lead
5 54 (11.39%) Data Business Analyst
6 40 (8.44%) Architect
7 38 (8.02%) Developer
8 32 (6.75%) Senior
9 29 (6.12%) Data Engineer
10 27 (5.70%) Consultant
10 27 (5.70%) Data Architect
10 27 (5.70%) Technical Analyst
11 20 (4.22%) Technical Business Analyst
12 19 (4.01%) Business Systems Analyst
13 18 (3.80%) Data Migration Lead
14 15 (3.16%) SQL Analyst
14 15 (3.16%) SQL Data Analyst
15 14 (2.95%) Senior Analyst
15 14 (2.95%) Systems Analyst
16 13 (2.74%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (10.76%) JSON
2 46 (9.70%) REST
3 40 (8.44%) XML
4 32 (6.75%) SOAP
5 30 (6.33%) Middleware
6 19 (4.01%) Oracle Fusion
7 16 (3.38%) Web Services
8 13 (2.74%) OAuth
9 10 (2.11%) FHIR
10 9 (1.90%) OAuth2
10 9 (1.90%) XSLT
11 8 (1.69%) EDI
11 8 (1.69%) Kafka
12 6 (1.27%) SAML
12 6 (1.27%) Terraform
13 5 (1.05%) Lightning Web Components
13 5 (1.05%) Playwright
13 5 (1.05%) PySpark
13 5 (1.05%) RESTful
14 4 (0.84%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 76 (16.03%) Data Structures
2 53 (11.18%) Legacy Systems
3 41 (8.65%) Product Ownership
4 22 (4.64%) Onboarding
5 15 (3.16%) Management Information System
6 10 (2.11%) Reference Data
7 8 (1.69%) Derivative
7 8 (1.69%) Digital Media
8 7 (1.48%) Cloud Native
8 7 (1.48%) Clustering
8 7 (1.48%) CMDB
8 7 (1.48%) Legacy Applications
9 6 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.27%) LIMS
9 6 (1.27%) Mainframe
9 6 (1.27%) NHS
10 5 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.05%) IoT
10 5 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.05%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.53%) Windows
2 8 (1.69%) Unix
3 7 (1.48%) Linux
4 3 (0.63%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.42%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (39.24%) Migration
2 175 (36.92%) Data Modelling
3 153 (32.28%) Validation
4 144 (30.38%) Agile
5 141 (29.75%) Stakeholder Management
6 134 (28.27%) Data Migration
7 93 (19.62%) Data Analysis
8 87 (18.35%) ETL
9 85 (17.93%) Workshop Facilitation
10 84 (17.72%) Data Transformation
11 83 (17.51%) Data Governance
12 82 (17.30%) Requirements Gathering
12 82 (17.30%) User Acceptance Testing
13 77 (16.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 74 (15.61%) Problem-Solving
15 73 (15.40%) User Stories
16 61 (12.87%) Business Analysis
17 60 (12.66%) ERP
18 59 (12.45%) Translating Business Requirements
19 56 (11.81%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 182 (38.40%) SQL
2 26 (5.49%) Python
3 13 (2.74%) PL/SQL
4 12 (2.53%) Java
5 11 (2.32%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.27%) Groovy
7 5 (1.05%) Bicep
7 5 (1.05%) MUMPS
7 5 (1.05%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.05%) T-SQL
7 5 (1.05%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.84%) Apex Code
8 4 (0.84%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.63%) ABAP
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 48 (10.13%) Security Cleared
2 36 (7.59%) SC Cleared
3 16 (3.38%) Degree
4 8 (1.69%) 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%) 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
7 1 (0.21%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (27.43%) Data Quality
2 42 (8.86%) QA
3 41 (8.65%) GDPR
4 10 (2.11%) HL7
5 7 (1.48%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.05%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.63%) GRC
8 3 (0.63%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.42%) DICOM
9 2 (0.42%) GMP
9 2 (0.42%) GxP
9 2 (0.42%) SEPA
9 2 (0.42%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.21%) Basel II
10 1 (0.21%) CDISC
10 1 (0.21%) EMIR
10 1 (0.21%) FATCA
10 1 (0.21%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.21%) MiFID
System Software
1 7 (1.48%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.42%) Docker
2 2 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (0.63%) Ansible
1 3 (0.63%) WMI
2 2 (0.42%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 70 (14.77%) Oracle
2 64 (13.50%) Microsoft
3 49 (10.34%) SAP
4 35 (7.38%) Databricks
5 21 (4.43%) ServiceNow
6 19 (4.01%) Salesforce
7 15 (3.16%) Google
8 13 (2.74%) IBM
9 10 (2.11%) Workday
10 9 (1.90%) MuleSoft
11 8 (1.69%) Informatica
12 7 (1.48%) Murex
13 6 (1.27%) AppDynamics
13 6 (1.27%) InterSystems
13 6 (1.27%) SimCorp
13 6 (1.27%) Splunk
14 5 (1.05%) Avaloq
15 4 (0.84%) Charles River
15 4 (0.84%) Infor
15 4 (0.84%) webMethods