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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 309 357
Rank change year-on-year +18 +48 +22
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 450 257 231
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.85% 0.79% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.87% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 174 153
10th Percentile £350 £350 £365
25th Percentile £413 £416 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.23% +10.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £788 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £538 £490
% change year-on-year -8.84% +9.69% -4.85%
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 45,072 29,587 34,698
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.08% 90.43% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,942 18,578 22,301
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,665 1,596 2,086
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £17.33 £17.31
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.80 £68.75 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +83.17% -40.00% -1.45%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +4 371 £537 -2.36% 63
London +28 236 £550 - 40
Work from Home -21 149 £500 -17.05% 31
UK excluding London -37 149 £490 -8.84% 34
North of England -66 38 £463 -22.92% 8
South West -6 29 £550 +34.15% 5
Scotland -5 26 £358 -26.56% 1
South East -69 25 £700 +27.27% 11
Midlands -46 24 £490 -10.91% 8
North West -46 23 £459 -26.01% 5
Yorkshire -44 14 £491 -10.82% 3
West Midlands -52 12 £500 -31.03% 6
East Midlands -10 11 £476 -12.41% 2
East of England -16 8 £420 -35.38% 1
North East -42 1 £363 -32.56% 1

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 34 (7.56%) Confluence
2 13 (2.89%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.67%) CMS
3 3 (0.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.44%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
4 2 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.22%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.22%) Appian
5 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 27 (6.00%) MS Visio
2 23 (5.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 15 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.67%) Aladdin
3 6 (1.33%) Maximo
3 6 (1.33%) NetSuite
3 6 (1.33%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (1.33%) SAP ERP
4 5 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.11%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 3 (0.67%) Infor LN
5 3 (0.67%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 3 (0.67%) IntelliMatch
5 3 (0.67%) SAP Payroll
5 3 (0.67%) SAP R/3
5 3 (0.67%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.44%) Finacle
6 2 (0.44%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.44%) SAP HR
6 2 (0.44%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 68 (15.11%) Azure
2 39 (8.67%) Power Platform
3 27 (6.00%) AWS
4 21 (4.67%) GCP
5 18 (4.00%) Boomi
6 16 (3.56%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (3.11%) Snowflake
9 11 (2.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
11 9 (2.00%) GitHub
11 9 (2.00%) SaaS
12 8 (1.78%) Entra ID
13 7 (1.56%) AtomSphere
13 7 (1.56%) OCI
13 7 (1.56%) SuccessFactors
14 5 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (1.11%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.89%) Firewall
2 3 (0.67%) SSL
3 1 (0.22%) AMQP
3 1 (0.22%) FTP
3 1 (0.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (8.67%) Data Warehouse
1 39 (8.67%) Metadata
2 35 (7.78%) Power BI
3 23 (5.11%) Data Lake
4 12 (2.67%) Relational Database
4 12 (2.67%) SQL Server
4 12 (2.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 11 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (2.44%) Oracle Database
6 9 (2.00%) Delta Lake
7 8 (1.78%) Db2
7 8 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.56%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.56%) MongoDB
8 7 (1.56%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 6 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (1.11%) Oracle Reports
10 5 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 50 (11.11%) JIRA
2 6 (1.33%) Git
3 4 (0.89%) Cypress.io
3 4 (0.89%) Gatling
3 4 (0.89%) Postman
4 3 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.67%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (0.44%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.44%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.22%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.22%) ERwin
6 1 (0.22%) Hudson
6 1 (0.22%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.22%) LSMW
6 1 (0.22%) NUnit
6 1 (0.22%) PVCS
6 1 (0.22%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.22%) Subversion
General
1 151 (33.56%) Finance
2 145 (32.22%) Social Skills
3 90 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (14.44%) Banking
5 38 (8.44%) Public Sector
6 29 (6.44%) Documentation Skills
6 29 (6.44%) Legal
7 17 (3.78%) Retail
8 16 (3.56%) Manufacturing
9 12 (2.67%) Law
10 10 (2.22%) Marketing
11 8 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.33%) Billing
13 6 (1.33%) Front Office
13 6 (1.33%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.11%) Local Government
14 5 (1.11%) Police
15 4 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 192 (42.67%) Analyst
2 124 (27.56%) Business Analyst
3 81 (18.00%) Data Analyst
4 70 (15.56%) Lead
5 46 (10.22%) Data Business Analyst
6 40 (8.89%) Architect
7 36 (8.00%) Developer
8 34 (7.56%) Senior
9 30 (6.67%) Data Architect
10 24 (5.33%) Data Engineer
11 22 (4.89%) Data Migration Lead
11 22 (4.89%) Technical Analyst
12 20 (4.44%) Consultant
13 19 (4.22%) Business Systems Analyst
14 18 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
15 16 (3.56%) Technical Business Analyst
16 14 (3.11%) Senior Business Analyst
16 14 (3.11%) Systems Analyst
17 13 (2.89%) Transformation Analyst
18 12 (2.67%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (10.67%) JSON
2 42 (9.33%) REST
3 38 (8.44%) XML
4 31 (6.89%) SOAP
5 30 (6.67%) Middleware
6 18 (4.00%) Oracle Fusion
7 15 (3.33%) Web Services
8 12 (2.67%) OAuth
9 9 (2.00%) EDI
10 8 (1.78%) OAuth2
10 8 (1.78%) XSLT
11 6 (1.33%) Kafka
12 5 (1.11%) RESTful
12 5 (1.11%) SAML
13 4 (0.89%) .NET
13 4 (0.89%) JDBC
13 4 (0.89%) JWT
13 4 (0.89%) Playwright
13 4 (0.89%) PySpark
13 4 (0.89%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 76 (16.89%) Data Structures
2 56 (12.44%) Legacy Systems
3 36 (8.00%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.22%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.44%) Reference Data
6 10 (2.22%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.78%) Taxonomies
8 7 (1.56%) CMDB
8 7 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.56%) Digital Media
9 6 (1.33%) Clustering
9 6 (1.33%) LIMS
10 5 (1.11%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.11%) Derivative
10 5 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.11%) Mainframe
11 4 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.89%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.44%) Windows
2 6 (1.33%) Unix
3 5 (1.11%) Linux
4 3 (0.67%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.44%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (43.11%) Migration
2 153 (34.00%) Validation
3 150 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 135 (30.00%) Data Migration
5 125 (27.78%) Agile
6 122 (27.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 91 (20.22%) ETL
8 81 (18.00%) User Acceptance Testing
9 79 (17.56%) Problem-Solving
10 77 (17.11%) Data Governance
11 75 (16.67%) Data Analysis
12 74 (16.44%) Data Transformation
12 74 (16.44%) Requirements Gathering
13 69 (15.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 66 (14.67%) Workshop Facilitation
15 60 (13.33%) ERP
16 58 (12.89%) Data Cleansing
17 56 (12.44%) User Stories
18 54 (12.00%) Business Analysis
19 53 (11.78%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 150 (33.33%) SQL
2 23 (5.11%) Python
3 15 (3.33%) PL/SQL
4 11 (2.44%) Java
5 10 (2.22%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.33%) T-SQL
7 5 (1.11%) Groovy
7 5 (1.11%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.11%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.89%) Bicep
8 4 (0.89%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.67%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.67%) C#
9 3 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.67%) MUMPS
9 3 (0.67%) R
10 2 (0.44%) C
10 2 (0.44%) C++
10 2 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 53 (11.78%) Security Cleared
2 40 (8.89%) SC Cleared
3 14 (3.11%) Degree
4 11 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (0.67%) CTC Cleared
5 3 (0.67%) DBS Check
5 3 (0.67%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.44%) CBAP
6 2 (0.44%) IIBA
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (0.44%) PMP
6 2 (0.44%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.22%) CCA
7 1 (0.22%) CISA
7 1 (0.22%) CISSP
7 1 (0.22%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.22%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (25.11%) Data Quality
2 41 (9.11%) GDPR
3 38 (8.44%) QA
4 7 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.33%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.11%) ISO 20022
6 5 (1.11%) Solvency II
7 4 (0.89%) HL7
7 4 (0.89%) ISO 8583
8 3 (0.67%) NIST
8 3 (0.67%) SEPA
8 3 (0.67%) SLA
9 2 (0.44%) COBIT
9 2 (0.44%) GMP
9 2 (0.44%) GRC
9 2 (0.44%) GxP
9 2 (0.44%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.22%) EMIR
10 1 (0.22%) FATCA
10 1 (0.22%) MiFID
System Software
1 8 (1.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.44%) Docker
2 2 (0.44%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (1.11%) Terraform
2 3 (0.67%) Ansible
2 3 (0.67%) WMI
3 2 (0.44%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 75 (16.67%) Oracle
2 64 (14.22%) Microsoft
3 50 (11.11%) SAP
4 32 (7.11%) Databricks
5 22 (4.89%) ServiceNow
6 18 (4.00%) Salesforce
7 16 (3.56%) IBM
8 15 (3.33%) Google
9 12 (2.67%) MuleSoft
10 11 (2.44%) Workday
11 10 (2.22%) Informatica
12 8 (1.78%) Murex
13 7 (1.56%) Dell
14 6 (1.33%) AppDynamics
14 6 (1.33%) Splunk
15 5 (1.11%) Talend
16 4 (0.89%) Alteryx
16 4 (0.89%) InterSystems
16 4 (0.89%) OneTrust
16 4 (0.89%) SimCorp