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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 300 362
Rank change year-on-year -7 +62 +35
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 402 251 235
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.79% 0.83% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.91% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 178 151
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £451 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +10.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £597
90th Percentile £700 £788 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £537 £463
% change year-on-year -6.89% +16.05% -10.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £33.70 - -
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 £61.79 - -

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 43,335 27,616 36,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 91.08% 85.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,981 17,460 23,548
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £414 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £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 2,593 1,327 2,546
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.72
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.44 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.95 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.77 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.83 £38.12
% change year-on-year +79.22% -34.86% +8.91%

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 27 June 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 27 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Mapping in the UK

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 27 June 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 -29 336 £550 - 57
London +15 216 £550 -4.35% 32
UK excluding London -67 136 £500 -6.89% 51
Work from Home -45 121 £500 -13.04% 26
North of England -65 31 £500 -9.09% 11
South East -56 27 £700 +27.27% 20
Scotland +8 25 £358 -26.56% 5
South West -15 25 £545 +32.93% 3
Midlands -56 22 £490 -10.91% 7
North West -44 21 £463 -25.40% 8
West Midlands -59 13 £538 -25.86% 4
Yorkshire -39 9 £519 -5.73% 3
East Midlands -13 7 £463 -15.91% 3
East of England -28 6 £475 -26.92% 4
Wales -14 1 £450 +25.00% 1
North East -38 1 £363 -30.95%

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 26 (6.47%) Confluence
2 9 (2.24%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.00%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (0.75%) CMS
4 3 (0.75%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
4 3 (0.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.50%) Appian
5 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.50%) SAS
6 1 (0.25%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 24 (5.97%) Microsoft Excel
1 24 (5.97%) MS Visio
2 9 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (3.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (2.24%) Aladdin
3 8 (1.99%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (1.74%) SAP ERP
5 6 (1.49%) Maximo
5 6 (1.49%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 5 (1.24%) Finacle
7 3 (0.75%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 3 (0.75%) IntelliMatch
7 3 (0.75%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.75%) SAP R/3
7 3 (0.75%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.50%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.50%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.50%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 56 (13.93%) Azure
2 31 (7.71%) Power Platform
3 18 (4.48%) AWS
3 18 (4.48%) GCP
4 16 (3.98%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (3.48%) Boomi
6 10 (2.49%) OCI
6 10 (2.49%) Snowflake
7 9 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (2.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 9 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (2.24%) SaaS
7 9 (2.24%) SuccessFactors
8 8 (1.99%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (1.49%) Collibra
9 6 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (1.49%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.49%) GitHub
10 4 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.00%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.75%) Firewall
2 1 (0.25%) AMQP
2 1 (0.25%) FTP
2 1 (0.25%) HTTP
2 1 (0.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.71%) Metadata
2 29 (7.21%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (7.21%) Power BI
3 14 (3.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 13 (3.23%) Data Lake
5 10 (2.49%) Oracle Database
5 10 (2.49%) Relational Database
5 10 (2.49%) SQL Server
6 8 (1.99%) Delta Lake
6 8 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (1.74%) Db2
7 7 (1.74%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.74%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.74%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 7 (1.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (1.24%) Oracle Reports
8 5 (1.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 41 (10.20%) JIRA
2 4 (1.00%) Cypress.io
2 4 (1.00%) Gatling
2 4 (1.00%) Git
2 4 (1.00%) Postman
3 3 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (0.75%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.25%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.25%) ERwin
4 1 (0.25%) Hudson
4 1 (0.25%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (0.25%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.25%) LSMW
4 1 (0.25%) NUnit
4 1 (0.25%) PVCS
4 1 (0.25%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.25%) Subversion
General
1 156 (38.81%) Finance
2 143 (35.57%) Social Skills
3 83 (20.65%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (18.41%) Banking
5 41 (10.20%) Public Sector
6 27 (6.72%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (6.47%) Legal
8 15 (3.73%) Retail
9 14 (3.48%) Manufacturing
10 11 (2.74%) Law
11 10 (2.49%) Marketing
12 8 (1.99%) Investment Banking
13 7 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (1.74%) Police
14 6 (1.49%) Front Office
14 6 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (1.49%) Private Banking
15 5 (1.24%) Billing
15 5 (1.24%) Financial Institution
15 5 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 169 (42.04%) Analyst
2 101 (25.12%) Business Analyst
3 79 (19.65%) Lead
4 70 (17.41%) Data Analyst
5 35 (8.71%) Data Business Analyst
6 33 (8.21%) Senior
7 28 (6.97%) Architect
7 28 (6.97%) Data Engineer
8 27 (6.72%) Developer
9 26 (6.47%) Data Migration Lead
10 19 (4.73%) Data Architect
11 18 (4.48%) Consultant
12 16 (3.98%) Senior Analyst
13 15 (3.73%) Systems Analyst
14 14 (3.48%) Migration Engineer
15 13 (3.23%) Business Systems Analyst
15 13 (3.23%) Data Migration Engineer
16 11 (2.74%) Migration Manager
16 11 (2.74%) Senior Business Analyst
16 11 (2.74%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (9.20%) JSON
2 34 (8.46%) XML
3 28 (6.97%) REST
4 26 (6.47%) Middleware
5 22 (5.47%) Oracle Fusion
6 19 (4.73%) SOAP
7 12 (2.99%) Web Services
8 8 (1.99%) EDI
9 7 (1.74%) OAuth
9 7 (1.74%) XSLT
10 5 (1.24%) RESTful
11 4 (1.00%) .NET
11 4 (1.00%) JDBC
11 4 (1.00%) Kafka
11 4 (1.00%) OAuth2
11 4 (1.00%) Playwright
11 4 (1.00%) PySpark
12 3 (0.75%) JWT
12 3 (0.75%) SAML
13 2 (0.50%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 70 (17.41%) Data Structures
2 60 (14.93%) Legacy Systems
3 22 (5.47%) Product Ownership
4 16 (3.98%) Onboarding
5 15 (3.73%) Reference Data
6 8 (1.99%) Management Information System
6 8 (1.99%) Taxonomies
7 6 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.24%) Clustering
8 5 (1.24%) Derivative
8 5 (1.24%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.24%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.00%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.75%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.75%) Data Fabric
10 3 (0.75%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.74%) Windows
2 2 (0.50%) HPUX
2 2 (0.50%) Linux
2 2 (0.50%) Unix
2 2 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (49.50%) Migration
2 141 (35.07%) Validation
3 136 (33.83%) Data Migration
4 127 (31.59%) Data Modelling
5 115 (28.61%) Stakeholder Management
6 107 (26.62%) Agile
7 90 (22.39%) ETL
8 71 (17.66%) Data Transformation
8 71 (17.66%) Requirements Gathering
9 69 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
10 68 (16.92%) User Acceptance Testing
11 65 (16.17%) Data Analysis
12 64 (15.92%) Data Governance
13 61 (15.17%) ERP
13 61 (15.17%) Workshop Facilitation
14 57 (14.18%) Data Cleansing
15 50 (12.44%) Data Validation
16 49 (12.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 46 (11.44%) Data Architecture
18 45 (11.19%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 123 (30.60%) SQL
2 23 (5.72%) Python
3 16 (3.98%) PL/SQL
4 10 (2.49%) Java
5 7 (1.74%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.74%) T-SQL
6 5 (1.24%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.00%) Kotlin
7 4 (1.00%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.75%) Bicep
8 3 (0.75%) C#
8 3 (0.75%) Groovy
8 3 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (0.75%) R
9 2 (0.50%) C
9 2 (0.50%) C++
9 2 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.25%) ABAP
10 1 (0.25%) DataWeave
10 1 (0.25%) Korn
Qualifications
1 52 (12.94%) Security Cleared
2 38 (9.45%) SC Cleared
3 18 (4.48%) Degree
4 9 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (1.74%) IIBA
6 6 (1.49%) CBAP
7 3 (0.75%) CTC Cleared
7 3 (0.75%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.50%) PMP
8 2 (0.50%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.25%) CCA
9 1 (0.25%) CISA
9 1 (0.25%) CISSP
9 1 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.25%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.25%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.25%) MBA
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (26.87%) Data Quality
2 35 (8.71%) GDPR
3 32 (7.96%) QA
4 7 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.24%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.24%) Solvency II
6 4 (1.00%) ISO 8583
6 4 (1.00%) NIST
6 4 (1.00%) SLA
7 3 (0.75%) COBIT
7 3 (0.75%) SEPA
8 2 (0.50%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.50%) GMP
8 2 (0.50%) GRC
8 2 (0.50%) GxP
8 2 (0.50%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.25%) Basel II
9 1 (0.25%) CDISC
9 1 (0.25%) HL7
9 1 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 6 (1.49%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.24%) Terraform
2 2 (0.50%) Ansible
2 2 (0.50%) WMI
3 1 (0.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 74 (18.41%) Oracle
2 57 (14.18%) Microsoft
3 51 (12.69%) SAP
4 32 (7.96%) Databricks
5 16 (3.98%) Google
6 14 (3.48%) IBM
6 14 (3.48%) ServiceNow
7 13 (3.23%) Salesforce
8 12 (2.99%) MuleSoft
9 11 (2.74%) Workday
10 9 (2.24%) Avaloq
10 9 (2.24%) Murex
11 8 (1.99%) Informatica
12 7 (1.74%) Temenos
13 6 (1.49%) Dell
13 6 (1.49%) GoldenSource
14 5 (1.24%) AppDynamics
14 5 (1.24%) Splunk
14 5 (1.24%) Talend
15 4 (1.00%) Alteryx