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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 318 339 391
Rank change year-on-year +21 +52 +116
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 263 228 267
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.80% 0.59% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.69% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 155 177
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £413 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.40% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £674 £603 £638
90th Percentile £788 £683 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £86.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £86.66
% change year-on-year - - +73.32%

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 29,826 33,000 43,850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.52% 85.68% 89.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,546 20,284 29,794
10th Percentile £300 £308 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,802 1,460 1,537
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £18.70
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% - +48.28%
75th Percentile £44.78 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.56 £43.00 £41.90
% change year-on-year -47.53% +2.63% +80.76%

Data Mapping
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Mapping as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Mapping 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +31 229 £544 +8.75% 73
London +24 136 £550 +4.76% 47
Work from Home +17 101 £563 +12.50% 36
UK excluding London +25 94 £500 - 43
North of England -2 27 £528 +0.48% 9
South East +19 22 £550 +10.00% 27
Midlands -11 21 £450 - 4
Scotland +8 13 £425 -15.00% 1
West Midlands -13 13 £438 -2.78% 4
North West -17 13 £600 +14.33% 3
Yorkshire - 12 £366 - 4
East Midlands +4 8 £544 -
South West +30 6 £475 +5.56% 1
East of England +7 4 £420 +11.87% 1
North East - 2 £438 - 2
Wales - 1 - -

Data Mapping
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (5.32%) Confluence
2 6 (2.28%) Anypoint
2 6 (2.28%) nginx
2 6 (2.28%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.52%) SharePoint 2010
4 3 (1.14%) IIS
4 3 (1.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.38%) CMS
5 1 (0.38%) Smallworld
Applications
1 38 (14.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (6.08%) MS Visio
3 14 (5.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (3.04%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (1.52%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 29 (11.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (6.84%) Aladdin
3 16 (6.08%) thinkFolio
4 6 (2.28%) SAP PM
5 4 (1.52%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (1.14%) Loan IQ
6 3 (1.14%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (1.14%) SAP SD
6 3 (1.14%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.76%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.76%) Endur
7 2 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.76%) SAP Travel Management
7 2 (0.76%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.38%) Exchequer
8 1 (0.38%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle Payroll
8 1 (0.38%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 39 (14.83%) Power Platform
2 23 (8.75%) Azure
3 20 (7.60%) AWS
4 17 (6.46%) PowerApps
5 13 (4.94%) Serverless
6 11 (4.18%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (3.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 9 (3.42%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (3.04%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (2.66%) GitHub
9 7 (2.66%) Power Automate
10 6 (2.28%) Amazon EventBridge
10 6 (2.28%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (2.28%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (1.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (1.90%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (1.90%) Entra ID
11 5 (1.90%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (1.90%) OneDrive
11 5 (1.90%) Salsify
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.52%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.37%) Power BI
2 11 (4.18%) SQL Server
3 10 (3.80%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.42%) Tableau
5 7 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (2.66%) Oracle Database
6 6 (2.28%) GIS
6 6 (2.28%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (1.90%) Delta Lake
7 5 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.90%) Power Query
8 4 (1.52%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.52%) Data Mining
8 4 (1.52%) DB2
8 4 (1.52%) SAP BW
9 3 (1.14%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (1.14%) Data Hub
9 3 (1.14%) Metadata
9 3 (1.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (9.13%) JIRA
2 2 (0.76%) Postman
3 1 (0.38%) Git
3 1 (0.38%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.38%) Liquibase
3 1 (0.38%) LSMW
3 1 (0.38%) SpecFlow
General
1 108 (41.06%) Finance
2 94 (35.74%) Social Skills
3 42 (15.97%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (12.17%) Banking
5 27 (10.27%) Public Sector
6 20 (7.60%) Front Office
7 11 (4.18%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.66%) Billing
8 7 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.28%) Digital Healthcare
9 6 (2.28%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.90%) Legal
10 5 (1.90%) Marketing
10 5 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.52%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.52%) Retail
12 3 (1.14%) Local Government
12 3 (1.14%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.76%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 125 (47.53%) Analyst
2 80 (30.42%) Business Analyst
3 48 (18.25%) Data Analyst
4 46 (17.49%) Consultant
5 19 (7.22%) Lead
6 16 (6.08%) Business Manager
6 16 (6.08%) Data Business Analyst
6 16 (6.08%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
6 16 (6.08%) Management Consultant
7 15 (5.70%) SAP Consultant
8 13 (4.94%) Data Engineer
8 13 (4.94%) Developer
9 12 (4.56%) Data Manager
9 12 (4.56%) SAP SD Consultant
9 12 (4.56%) Senior
10 10 (3.80%) Architect
10 10 (3.80%) Data Consultant
11 9 (3.42%) Insight Manager
12 8 (3.04%) Migration Analyst
12 8 (3.04%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (10.27%) JSON
2 16 (6.08%) REST
3 15 (5.70%) SAP TM
4 14 (5.32%) XML
5 10 (3.80%) OAuth
6 9 (3.42%) SOAP
7 8 (3.04%) HTML
8 7 (2.66%) Kafka
8 7 (2.66%) OAuth2
8 7 (2.66%) RESTful
9 5 (1.90%) Web Services
9 5 (1.90%) XSLT
10 4 (1.52%) DCOM
10 4 (1.52%) Middleware
10 4 (1.52%) PySpark
11 3 (1.14%) Oracle Fusion
12 2 (0.76%) ADO
12 2 (0.76%) NumPy
12 2 (0.76%) Pandas
12 2 (0.76%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.65%) Onboarding
2 22 (8.37%) Data Structures
3 20 (7.60%) Legacy Systems
4 19 (7.22%) Fixed Income
5 18 (6.84%) Hedge funds
6 16 (6.08%) Derivative
7 11 (4.18%) Product Ownership
8 9 (3.42%) Cloud Native
8 9 (3.42%) Management Information System
9 7 (2.66%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (2.66%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (2.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (2.28%) Mainframe
11 5 (1.90%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.90%) IoT
11 5 (1.90%) Reference Data
11 5 (1.90%) Reinsurance
11 5 (1.90%) SCADA
11 5 (1.90%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.14%) Windows
1 3 (1.14%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.76%) MVS
2 2 (0.76%) Unix
3 1 (0.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (31.94%) Agile
2 77 (29.28%) Migration
3 56 (21.29%) Data Analysis
4 54 (20.53%) Data Migration
5 53 (20.15%) Validation
6 52 (19.77%) Data Modelling
7 51 (19.39%) ETL
8 47 (17.87%) Business Analysis
9 46 (17.49%) Data Governance
10 45 (17.11%) Stakeholder Management
11 43 (16.35%) Analytics
11 43 (16.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 42 (15.97%) Business Intelligence
13 35 (13.31%) Data Cleansing
13 35 (13.31%) Problem-Solving
14 34 (12.93%) User Acceptance Testing
15 32 (12.17%) Workshop Facilitation
16 31 (11.79%) User Stories
17 30 (11.41%) Data Transformation
18 28 (10.65%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 103 (39.16%) SQL
2 45 (17.11%) Python
3 10 (3.80%) Java
4 8 (3.04%) PowerShell
5 5 (1.90%) Kusto Query Language
5 5 (1.90%) PL/SQL
5 5 (1.90%) VBA
6 4 (1.52%) C#
7 2 (0.76%) Bicep
7 2 (0.76%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.76%) JCL
7 2 (0.76%) Korn
7 2 (0.76%) PL/1
7 2 (0.76%) VB
8 1 (0.38%) ABAP
8 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 38 (14.45%) Security Cleared
2 33 (12.55%) SC Cleared
3 26 (9.89%) Degree
4 11 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.52%) CBAP
7 3 (1.14%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.76%) PMP
9 1 (0.38%) ACCA
9 1 (0.38%) CIMA
9 1 (0.38%) CSPO
9 1 (0.38%) IIBA
9 1 (0.38%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (18.63%) Data Quality
2 23 (8.75%) QA
3 16 (6.08%) GDPR
4 4 (1.52%) COBIT
5 3 (1.14%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.76%) IFRS
7 1 (0.38%) FATCA
7 1 (0.38%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (3.42%) Docker
2 2 (0.76%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 5 (1.90%) Terraform
2 3 (1.14%) Kibana
3 2 (0.76%) CA Endevor
4 1 (0.38%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (16.73%) SAP
2 33 (12.55%) Microsoft
3 29 (11.03%) Oracle
4 16 (6.08%) BISAM
4 16 (6.08%) Calypso
4 16 (6.08%) Charles River
4 16 (6.08%) SimCorp
5 14 (5.32%) Databricks
6 10 (3.80%) Informatica
7 9 (3.42%) Workday
8 8 (3.04%) Salesforce
9 7 (2.66%) MuleSoft
10 6 (2.28%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.90%) Pega
12 4 (1.52%) Duck Creek
13 2 (0.76%) Cognos
13 2 (0.76%) IBM
13 2 (0.76%) Kronos
13 2 (0.76%) Syncsort
13 2 (0.76%) Xceptor