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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
11 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 312 364
Rank change year-on-year +18 +52 +31
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 436 259 234
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.82% 0.80% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 0.88% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 179 153
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £416 £450 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +10.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £606
90th Percentile £700 £788 £673
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £537 £450
% change year-on-year -6.93% +19.32% -12.57%
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 45,068 29,357 36,726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 90.46% 85.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,042 18,505 23,449
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.40% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,667 1,497 2,458
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.01 £17.45 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.45% -35.31% -2.91%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -4 366 £537 -2.36% 63
London +32 234 £550 -4.35% 40
UK excluding London -50 146 £500 -6.93% 37
Work from Home -28 134 £500 -15.61% 34
North of England -64 35 £500 -13.04% 6
South East -58 27 £700 +27.27% 14
Scotland +6 26 £358 -26.56% 2
South West -12 26 £548 +33.54% 6
Midlands -49 26 £500 -9.09% 6
North West -44 23 £459 -26.01% 4
West Midlands -62 13 £575 -20.69% 3
East Midlands -16 11 £476 -13.41% 3
Yorkshire -47 11 £519 -5.64% 2
East of England -25 7 £475 -26.92% 3
North East -33 1 £363 -31.76%

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 30 (6.88%) Confluence
2 13 (2.98%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.69%) CMS
3 3 (0.69%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
3 3 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.46%) Appian
4 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.46%) SAS
5 1 (0.23%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 27 (6.19%) Microsoft Excel
1 27 (6.19%) MS Visio
2 10 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (3.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (2.06%) Aladdin
3 8 (1.83%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (1.83%) SAP ERP
4 6 (1.38%) Maximo
4 6 (1.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 5 (1.15%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.69%) Finacle
6 3 (0.69%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 3 (0.69%) IntelliMatch
6 3 (0.69%) SAP R/3
6 3 (0.69%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.46%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 2 (0.46%) Infor LN
7 2 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.46%) Shopify
7 2 (0.46%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.46%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 63 (14.45%) Azure
2 33 (7.57%) Power Platform
3 19 (4.36%) AWS
4 17 (3.90%) GCP
5 16 (3.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 16 (3.67%) Boomi
6 15 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (2.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 11 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (2.52%) Snowflake
8 9 (2.06%) GitHub
8 9 (2.06%) Microsoft Purview
8 9 (2.06%) SaaS
8 9 (2.06%) SuccessFactors
9 8 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (1.83%) OCI
10 6 (1.38%) Collibra
10 6 (1.38%) Entra ID
11 5 (1.15%) AtomSphere
11 5 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.92%) Firewall
2 2 (0.46%) SSL
3 1 (0.23%) AMQP
3 1 (0.23%) FTP
3 1 (0.23%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (8.72%) Metadata
2 35 (8.03%) Data Warehouse
3 31 (7.11%) Power BI
4 18 (4.13%) Data Lake
5 13 (2.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 11 (2.52%) Oracle Database
6 11 (2.52%) Relational Database
6 11 (2.52%) SQL Server
7 9 (2.06%) Delta Lake
7 9 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (1.83%) NoSQL
8 8 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (1.61%) Db2
9 7 (1.61%) DynamoDB
9 7 (1.61%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 7 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (10.78%) JIRA
2 5 (1.15%) Git
3 4 (0.92%) Cypress.io
3 4 (0.92%) Gatling
3 4 (0.92%) Postman
4 3 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.69%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (0.46%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.46%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.23%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.23%) ERwin
6 1 (0.23%) Hudson
6 1 (0.23%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.23%) LSMW
6 1 (0.23%) NUnit
6 1 (0.23%) PVCS
6 1 (0.23%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.23%) Subversion
General
1 155 (35.55%) Finance
2 148 (33.94%) Social Skills
3 88 (20.18%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (15.60%) Banking
5 42 (9.63%) Public Sector
6 29 (6.65%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (6.42%) Legal
8 16 (3.67%) Manufacturing
8 16 (3.67%) Retail
9 11 (2.52%) Law
10 10 (2.29%) Marketing
11 9 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.61%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.61%) Police
12 7 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.38%) Front Office
13 6 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (1.15%) Billing
15 4 (0.92%) General Ledger
15 4 (0.92%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 184 (42.20%) Analyst
2 116 (26.61%) Business Analyst
3 75 (17.20%) Lead
4 73 (16.74%) Data Analyst
5 41 (9.40%) Data Business Analyst
6 36 (8.26%) Architect
6 36 (8.26%) Senior
7 31 (7.11%) Developer
8 27 (6.19%) Data Architect
8 27 (6.19%) Data Engineer
9 24 (5.50%) Data Migration Lead
10 20 (4.59%) Consultant
11 19 (4.36%) Senior Analyst
12 15 (3.44%) Systems Analyst
13 14 (3.21%) Migration Engineer
13 14 (3.21%) Senior Business Analyst
13 14 (3.21%) Technical Analyst
14 13 (2.98%) Business Systems Analyst
14 13 (2.98%) Data Migration Engineer
15 10 (2.29%) Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (9.86%) JSON
2 36 (8.26%) XML
3 35 (8.03%) REST
4 27 (6.19%) Middleware
5 26 (5.96%) SOAP
6 20 (4.59%) Oracle Fusion
7 13 (2.98%) Web Services
8 9 (2.06%) OAuth
9 7 (1.61%) EDI
9 7 (1.61%) XSLT
10 6 (1.38%) OAuth2
11 5 (1.15%) Kafka
11 5 (1.15%) RESTful
12 4 (0.92%) .NET
12 4 (0.92%) JDBC
12 4 (0.92%) Playwright
12 4 (0.92%) PySpark
12 4 (0.92%) SAML
12 4 (0.92%) Swagger
13 3 (0.69%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 73 (16.74%) Data Structures
2 59 (13.53%) Legacy Systems
3 27 (6.19%) Product Ownership
4 21 (4.82%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.75%) Reference Data
6 11 (2.52%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.83%) Taxonomies
8 7 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.38%) Clustering
9 6 (1.38%) Digital Media
10 5 (1.15%) CMDB
10 5 (1.15%) Derivative
10 5 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.15%) Mainframe
11 4 (0.92%) Cloud Native
11 4 (0.92%) Fixed Income
11 4 (0.92%) LIMS
11 4 (0.92%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.92%) Reinsurance
11 4 (0.92%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.83%) Windows
2 4 (0.92%) Unix
3 3 (0.69%) Linux
4 2 (0.46%) HPUX
4 2 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (46.79%) Migration
2 149 (34.17%) Validation
3 144 (33.03%) Data Modelling
4 139 (31.88%) Data Migration
5 122 (27.98%) Stakeholder Management
6 121 (27.75%) Agile
7 89 (20.41%) ETL
8 77 (17.66%) Requirements Gathering
9 75 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
10 74 (16.97%) Data Governance
11 72 (16.51%) User Acceptance Testing
12 69 (15.83%) Data Transformation
13 67 (15.37%) Data Analysis
13 67 (15.37%) Workshop Facilitation
14 63 (14.45%) ERP
15 60 (13.76%) Data Cleansing
15 60 (13.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 54 (12.39%) Business Analysis
17 50 (11.47%) Data Architecture
18 49 (11.24%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 134 (30.73%) SQL
2 23 (5.28%) Python
3 16 (3.67%) PL/SQL
4 11 (2.52%) Java
5 8 (1.83%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.61%) T-SQL
7 5 (1.15%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.92%) Bicep
8 4 (0.92%) Groovy
8 4 (0.92%) Kotlin
8 4 (0.92%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.69%) C#
9 3 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.69%) R
10 2 (0.46%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.46%) C
10 2 (0.46%) C++
10 2 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.23%) ABAP
11 1 (0.23%) MUMPS
Qualifications
1 58 (13.30%) Security Cleared
2 43 (9.86%) SC Cleared
3 20 (4.59%) Degree
4 10 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (1.61%) IIBA
6 6 (1.38%) CBAP
7 3 (0.69%) CTC Cleared
7 3 (0.69%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.69%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.46%) PMP
8 2 (0.46%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.23%) CCA
9 1 (0.23%) CISA
9 1 (0.23%) CISSP
9 1 (0.23%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.23%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.23%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.23%) MBA
9 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (25.69%) Data Quality
2 38 (8.72%) GDPR
3 33 (7.57%) QA
4 8 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.15%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.15%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.15%) Solvency II
6 4 (0.92%) ISO 8583
6 4 (0.92%) NIST
6 4 (0.92%) SLA
7 3 (0.69%) COBIT
7 3 (0.69%) HL7
7 3 (0.69%) SEPA
8 2 (0.46%) GMP
8 2 (0.46%) GRC
8 2 (0.46%) GxP
8 2 (0.46%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.23%) Basel II
9 1 (0.23%) MiFID
9 1 (0.23%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (1.38%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.46%) Docker
2 2 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (1.15%) Terraform
2 2 (0.46%) Ansible
2 2 (0.46%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.46%) WMI
3 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 75 (17.20%) Oracle
2 62 (14.22%) Microsoft
3 53 (12.16%) SAP
4 32 (7.34%) Databricks
5 19 (4.36%) ServiceNow
6 16 (3.67%) IBM
7 15 (3.44%) Google
7 15 (3.44%) Salesforce
8 12 (2.75%) MuleSoft
9 11 (2.52%) Workday
10 10 (2.29%) Informatica
11 8 (1.83%) Murex
12 7 (1.61%) Dell
13 6 (1.38%) AppDynamics
13 6 (1.38%) Splunk
14 5 (1.15%) Avaloq
14 5 (1.15%) Talend
14 5 (1.15%) Temenos
15 4 (0.92%) GoldenSource
15 4 (0.92%) webMethods
77 Data Mapping jobs Nationwide