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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 293 363
Rank change year-on-year -27 +70 +55
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 357 245 230
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.73% 0.85% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.93% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 171 141
10th Percentile £350 £363 £358
25th Percentile £419 £463 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £600
90th Percentile £715 £788 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £548 £500
% change year-on-year -8.68% +9.50% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £32.13 - -
25th Percentile £40.00 - £45.98
Median hourly rate £61.79 - £46.23
75th Percentile £85.36 - £46.48
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £83.58 - -

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 41,610 26,282 36,757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.67% 91.03% 85.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,026 16,812 23,631
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £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 2,481 1,100 2,513
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.30 £27.97 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.26% -23.38% -1.35%
75th Percentile £67.84 £57.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.88 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -33.82% +8.57%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -42 307 £525 -5.41% 49
London +13 199 £550 -8.33% 29
UK excluding London -67 115 £500 -8.68% 31
Work from Home -55 111 £500 -16.14% 18
South East -59 26 £700 +27.27% 11
South West -15 23 £528 +15.93% 5
Midlands -57 23 £495 -10.00% 3
North of England -82 21 £455 -22.55% 7
Scotland +3 15 £450 -10.00% 3
West Midlands -64 15 £538 -15.69%
North West -50 12 £453 -29.84% 6
Yorkshire -63 8 £509 +4.46% 1
East of England -31 7 £441 -32.23% 3
East Midlands -26 6 £463 -15.14% 3
Wales -12 1 £450 +25.00%
North East -26 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 17 (4.76%) Confluence
2 4 (1.12%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
2 4 (1.12%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (1.12%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.84%) CMS
3 3 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (0.84%) SAS
4 2 (0.56%) Appian
5 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 19 (5.32%) Microsoft Excel
1 19 (5.32%) MS Visio
2 8 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (3.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (2.80%) Aladdin
3 8 (2.24%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (1.68%) Finacle
4 6 (1.68%) SAP ERP
5 4 (1.12%) Maximo
6 3 (0.84%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 3 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.84%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.84%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.84%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 3 (0.84%) SAP R/3
6 3 (0.84%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.56%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.56%) SAP Payroll
7 2 (0.56%) Temenos T24
7 2 (0.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 52 (14.57%) Azure
2 28 (7.84%) Power Platform
3 17 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
4 14 (3.92%) GCP
5 13 (3.64%) AWS
6 11 (3.08%) Boomi
7 10 (2.80%) OCI
8 9 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (2.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 7 (1.96%) Microsoft Purview
9 7 (1.96%) SaaS
9 7 (1.96%) SuccessFactors
10 6 (1.68%) Collibra
10 6 (1.68%) GitHub
11 5 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.12%) PowerApps
12 4 (1.12%) Snowflake
13 3 (0.84%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 3 (0.84%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.84%) Firewall
2 1 (0.28%) AMQP
2 1 (0.28%) FTP
2 1 (0.28%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.00%) Power BI
2 24 (6.72%) Metadata
3 20 (5.60%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (3.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 11 (3.08%) SQL Server
6 9 (2.52%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.96%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.96%) DB2
7 7 (1.96%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.96%) Oracle Database
8 6 (1.68%) Delta Lake
8 6 (1.68%) Tableau
9 5 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.84%) Electronic Patient Records
11 3 (0.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.56%) Parquet
12 2 (0.56%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 32 (8.96%) JIRA
2 5 (1.40%) Postman
3 3 (0.84%) Git
3 3 (0.84%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.28%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.28%) ERwin
4 1 (0.28%) Hudson
4 1 (0.28%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.28%) LSMW
4 1 (0.28%) NUnit
4 1 (0.28%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 137 (38.38%) Finance
2 125 (35.01%) Social Skills
3 70 (19.61%) Banking
4 66 (18.49%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (11.48%) Public Sector
6 30 (8.40%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (5.88%) Legal
8 12 (3.36%) Investment Banking
8 12 (3.36%) Retail
9 10 (2.80%) Law
9 10 (2.80%) Manufacturing
10 8 (2.24%) Marketing
10 8 (2.24%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.68%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.68%) Front Office
12 6 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.68%) Police
12 6 (1.68%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 142 (39.78%) Analyst
2 88 (24.65%) Business Analyst
3 84 (23.53%) Lead
4 66 (18.49%) Data Analyst
5 29 (8.12%) Data Business Analyst
6 26 (7.28%) Data Migration Lead
7 24 (6.72%) Data Engineer
7 24 (6.72%) Senior
8 18 (5.04%) Architect
9 17 (4.76%) Developer
10 15 (4.20%) Consultant
11 14 (3.92%) Data Architect
12 13 (3.64%) Migration Engineer
13 12 (3.36%) Banking Analyst
13 12 (3.36%) Migration Manager
13 12 (3.36%) Senior Analyst
14 11 (3.08%) Data Migration Engineer
14 11 (3.08%) Migration Analyst
14 11 (3.08%) Test Leader
15 10 (2.80%) Banking Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.00%) XML
2 21 (5.88%) JSON
2 21 (5.88%) REST
3 19 (5.32%) Middleware
3 19 (5.32%) Oracle Fusion
4 13 (3.64%) SOAP
5 5 (1.40%) RESTful
5 5 (1.40%) Web Services
6 4 (1.12%) .NET
6 4 (1.12%) EDI
6 4 (1.12%) JDBC
6 4 (1.12%) Kafka
7 3 (0.84%) FHIR
7 3 (0.84%) PySpark
7 3 (0.84%) XSLT
8 2 (0.56%) HTML
8 2 (0.56%) Itk
8 2 (0.56%) OAuth
8 2 (0.56%) Swagger
9 1 (0.28%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 72 (20.17%) Data Structures
2 52 (14.57%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 17 (4.76%) Reference Data
4 14 (3.92%) Onboarding
5 7 (1.96%) Taxonomies
6 5 (1.40%) Clustering
6 5 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.40%) Fixed Income
6 5 (1.40%) Mainframe
6 5 (1.40%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.40%) NHS
7 4 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.12%) Cloud Native
8 3 (0.84%) Data Fabric
8 3 (0.84%) Equities
8 3 (0.84%) IoT
8 3 (0.84%) LIMS
8 3 (0.84%) Reinsurance
8 3 (0.84%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.12%) Windows
2 2 (0.56%) HPUX
2 2 (0.56%) Linux
2 2 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (52.94%) Migration
2 133 (37.25%) Validation
3 129 (36.13%) Data Migration
4 112 (31.37%) Data Modelling
5 103 (28.85%) Stakeholder Management
6 86 (24.09%) Agile
7 84 (23.53%) ETL
8 64 (17.93%) Data Transformation
9 61 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
10 60 (16.81%) Data Governance
11 56 (15.69%) Data Cleansing
11 56 (15.69%) User Acceptance Testing
12 54 (15.13%) Data Analysis
13 53 (14.85%) Requirements Gathering
13 53 (14.85%) Workshop Facilitation
14 49 (13.73%) ERP
15 46 (12.89%) Business Analysis
15 46 (12.89%) Data Validation
16 43 (12.04%) User Stories
17 40 (11.20%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 95 (26.61%) SQL
2 23 (6.44%) Python
3 10 (2.80%) Java
4 7 (1.96%) PL/SQL
4 7 (1.96%) T-SQL
5 5 (1.40%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.84%) Bicep
6 3 (0.84%) C#
6 3 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (0.84%) R
7 2 (0.56%) C
7 2 (0.56%) C++
7 2 (0.56%) Groovy
7 2 (0.56%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.28%) ABAP
8 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.28%) DataWeave
8 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 47 (13.17%) Security Cleared
2 33 (9.24%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.76%) Degree
4 9 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (1.96%) IIBA
6 6 (1.68%) CBAP
7 5 (1.40%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.12%) PMP
9 2 (0.56%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.28%) CCA
10 1 (0.28%) CFA
10 1 (0.28%) CISA
10 1 (0.28%) CISSP
10 1 (0.28%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.28%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (27.45%) Data Quality
2 36 (10.08%) GDPR
3 32 (8.96%) QA
4 8 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.40%) GxP
5 5 (1.40%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.40%) NIST
5 5 (1.40%) Solvency II
6 4 (1.12%) COBIT
6 4 (1.12%) GMP
6 4 (1.12%) ISO 8583
6 4 (1.12%) SLA
7 3 (0.84%) HL7
7 3 (0.84%) SEPA
8 2 (0.56%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.56%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.28%) Basel II
9 1 (0.28%) GRC
9 1 (0.28%) IFRS
9 1 (0.28%) MiFID
System Software
1 3 (0.84%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.40%) Terraform
2 1 (0.28%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 58 (16.25%) Oracle
2 52 (14.57%) Microsoft
3 47 (13.17%) SAP
4 26 (7.28%) Databricks
5 14 (3.92%) Google
6 12 (3.36%) Avaloq
6 12 (3.36%) IBM
7 9 (2.52%) GoldenSource
7 9 (2.52%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.24%) Informatica
8 8 (2.24%) MuleSoft
8 8 (2.24%) Temenos
8 8 (2.24%) Workday
9 7 (1.96%) Dell
10 6 (1.68%) Murex
10 6 (1.68%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.40%) Talend
12 4 (1.12%) Alteryx
12 4 (1.12%) Ariba
12 4 (1.12%) SimCorp