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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 324 396
Rank change year-on-year +3 +72 +30
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 321 214 202
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.75% 0.73% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.80% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 146 136
10th Percentile £350 £359 £331
25th Percentile £413 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £514
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.19% -2.14%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £688 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £475
% change year-on-year - +10.53% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £45.98
Median hourly rate £81.00 - £46.23
75th Percentile £85.36 - £46.48
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.00 - -

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 36,854 26,627 38,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.05% 90.37% 86.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,339 16,995 25,088
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,197 898 2,338
10th Percentile £14.82 £15.48 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.36 £32.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year -15.82% +3.17% -10.00%

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 13 March 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
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 13 March 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 +2 278 £525 -3.67% 53
London +31 178 £540 +2.86% 28
Work from Home -3 109 £500 -7.83% 31
UK excluding London -66 104 £525 - 41
North of England -59 27 £494 -15.96% 5
South East -43 23 £618 +45.29% 19
Midlands -67 17 £521 -4.45% 10
South West - 17 £525 - 3
North West -34 16 £525 -18.60% 2
West Midlands -61 14 £542 +3.14% 6
Scotland +14 13 £450 -10.00%
Yorkshire -47 11 £406 -24.42% 3
East of England -37 5 £434 -21.18%
Wales -6 2 £438 +21.53% 3
East Midlands -36 2 £450 -17.43% 4

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 13 (4.05%) Confluence
2 9 (2.80%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
3 6 (1.87%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.93%) CMS
4 3 (0.93%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (0.93%) SAS
5 2 (0.62%) Appian
6 1 (0.31%) Anypoint
Applications
1 24 (7.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (6.23%) MS Visio
3 14 (4.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (5.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (4.98%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (2.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (1.87%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (1.56%) Finacle
5 5 (1.56%) SAP ERP
6 4 (1.25%) Aladdin
6 4 (1.25%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (1.25%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (1.25%) SAP R/3
7 3 (0.93%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 3 (0.93%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (0.93%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.93%) SAP Payroll
7 3 (0.93%) SAP SD
8 2 (0.62%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.62%) IntelliMatch
8 2 (0.62%) Oracle Applications
8 2 (0.62%) SAP Travel Management
8 2 (0.62%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 46 (14.33%) Azure
2 29 (9.03%) Power Platform
3 18 (5.61%) AWS
4 17 (5.30%) OCI
5 13 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
6 12 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (3.43%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (3.43%) Boomi
7 11 (3.43%) GCP
8 7 (2.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 7 (2.18%) SaaS
9 5 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (1.56%) Snowflake
10 4 (1.25%) SuccessFactors
11 3 (0.93%) AtomSphere
11 3 (0.93%) Collibra
11 3 (0.93%) GitHub
11 3 (0.93%) Intacct
11 3 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (0.93%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.62%) Firewall
2 1 (0.31%) AMQP
2 1 (0.31%) DKIM
2 1 (0.31%) DMARC
2 1 (0.31%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.85%) Metadata
2 20 (6.23%) Power BI
3 16 (4.98%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (4.05%) SQL Server
4 13 (4.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (2.18%) BigQuery
6 5 (1.56%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.25%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.25%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (1.25%) Tableau
8 3 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.93%) DataStage
8 3 (0.93%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.93%) Electronic Patient Records
8 3 (0.93%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.31%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 22 (6.85%) JIRA
2 6 (1.87%) Git
3 2 (0.62%) Cucumber
3 2 (0.62%) GitLab
3 2 (0.62%) JUnit
3 2 (0.62%) Maven
3 2 (0.62%) Mockito
3 2 (0.62%) Postman
3 2 (0.62%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (0.62%) Selenium
4 1 (0.31%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.31%) Hudson
4 1 (0.31%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 134 (41.74%) Finance
2 126 (39.25%) Social Skills
3 65 (20.25%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (16.82%) Banking
5 38 (11.84%) Documentation Skills
6 31 (9.66%) Public Sector
7 16 (4.98%) Legal
8 12 (3.74%) Investment Banking
8 12 (3.74%) Retail
9 9 (2.80%) Law
10 8 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (2.18%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.18%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (1.87%) Back Office
12 6 (1.87%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.56%) Marketing
13 5 (1.56%) Private Banking
14 4 (1.25%) Police
14 4 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 139 (43.30%) Analyst
2 93 (28.97%) Business Analyst
3 61 (19.00%) Data Analyst
3 61 (19.00%) Lead
4 30 (9.35%) Data Business Analyst
5 22 (6.85%) Consultant
6 21 (6.54%) Architect
6 21 (6.54%) Senior
7 20 (6.23%) Data Engineer
8 19 (5.92%) Data Migration Lead
9 15 (4.67%) Developer
10 14 (4.36%) Data Architect
11 12 (3.74%) Banking Analyst
12 10 (3.12%) Migration Analyst
13 9 (2.80%) Banking Business Analyst
13 9 (2.80%) Migration Engineer
13 9 (2.80%) Senior Analyst
13 9 (2.80%) Senior Business Analyst
13 9 (2.80%) Technical Analyst
13 9 (2.80%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.61%) Oracle Fusion
1 18 (5.61%) XML
2 13 (4.05%) REST
3 10 (3.12%) JSON
3 10 (3.12%) SOAP
4 9 (2.80%) Middleware
5 8 (2.49%) SAP TM
6 7 (2.18%) .NET
7 6 (1.87%) HTML
8 5 (1.56%) EDI
9 4 (1.25%) Gherkin
9 4 (1.25%) Kafka
9 4 (1.25%) OAuth
10 3 (0.93%) FHIR
10 3 (0.93%) OAuth2
10 3 (0.93%) React
10 3 (0.93%) RESTful
10 3 (0.93%) Spring
10 3 (0.93%) Spring Boot
10 3 (0.93%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 62 (19.31%) Data Structures
2 47 (14.64%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (5.30%) Onboarding
4 14 (4.36%) Reference Data
5 11 (3.43%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (2.18%) NHS
8 6 (1.87%) Taxonomies
9 4 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.25%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.25%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.93%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.93%) Educational Technology
10 3 (0.93%) Equities
10 3 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.93%) LIMS
11 2 (0.62%) Credit Risk
11 2 (0.62%) Market Risk
11 2 (0.62%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.62%) Unix
1 2 (0.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (50.47%) Migration
2 117 (36.45%) Data Migration
3 103 (32.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 96 (29.91%) Validation
5 89 (27.73%) Data Modelling
6 74 (23.05%) Agile
7 65 (20.25%) ETL
8 58 (18.07%) Data Cleansing
8 58 (18.07%) Workshop Facilitation
9 55 (17.13%) Requirements Gathering
10 54 (16.82%) Data Transformation
11 53 (16.51%) Data Analysis
12 52 (16.20%) Data Governance
13 49 (15.26%) User Acceptance Testing
14 48 (14.95%) Problem-Solving
15 47 (14.64%) Business Analysis
16 44 (13.71%) ERP
17 42 (13.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 34 (10.59%) Data Management
19 28 (8.72%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 74 (23.05%) SQL
2 14 (4.36%) Python
3 9 (2.80%) JavaScript
4 8 (2.49%) PL/SQL
5 5 (1.56%) C#
6 4 (1.25%) Java
6 4 (1.25%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.62%) Bicep
7 2 (0.62%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.31%) ABAP
8 1 (0.31%) C
8 1 (0.31%) DataWeave
8 1 (0.31%) Groovy
8 1 (0.31%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.31%) R
8 1 (0.31%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 57 (17.76%) Security Cleared
2 41 (12.77%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.23%) Degree
4 9 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.87%) CBAP
5 6 (1.87%) IIBA
6 4 (1.25%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.93%) PMP
8 2 (0.62%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.31%) ACCA
9 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.31%) CCA
9 1 (0.31%) CFA
9 1 (0.31%) CIMA
9 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.31%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.31%) MBA
9 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (21.81%) Data Quality
2 34 (10.59%) QA
3 30 (9.35%) GDPR
4 10 (3.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.18%) COBIT
5 7 (2.18%) NIST
6 4 (1.25%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.25%) ISO 8583
6 4 (1.25%) SLA
7 3 (0.93%) GMP
7 3 (0.93%) GxP
7 3 (0.93%) HL7
8 2 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.62%) GRC
8 2 (0.62%) PMO
8 2 (0.62%) SEPA
8 2 (0.62%) WCAG
9 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.31%) MiFID
9 1 (0.31%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (0.93%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.31%) Docker
2 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.56%) Terraform
2 3 (0.93%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.62%) Grafana
3 2 (0.62%) Kibana
3 2 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.31%) Ansible
Vendors
1 53 (16.51%) Microsoft
2 49 (15.26%) SAP
3 47 (14.64%) Oracle
4 13 (4.05%) Databricks
5 12 (3.74%) Avaloq
6 9 (2.80%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.49%) GoldenSource
7 8 (2.49%) Google
7 8 (2.49%) Informatica
7 8 (2.49%) MuleSoft
7 8 (2.49%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.18%) Temenos
8 7 (2.18%) Workday
9 6 (1.87%) Dell
9 6 (1.87%) IBM
10 5 (1.56%) Ariba
10 5 (1.56%) Murex
10 5 (1.56%) Sage
10 5 (1.56%) Talend
11 4 (1.25%) Teradata