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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 294 355
Rank change year-on-year -23 +61 +52
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 350 244 234
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.72% 0.85% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.94% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 169 143
10th Percentile £353 £373 £359
25th Percentile £422 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £501
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +9.89% -4.67%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £606
90th Percentile £719 £788 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.00 - £45.98
Median hourly rate £83.58 - £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 41,015 26,042 36,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.42% 91.03% 86.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,698 16,721 23,544
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £497 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.59% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,419 1,056 2,449
10th Percentile £14.79 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £27.97 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +51.98% -22.42% -2.58%
75th Percentile £67.50 £58.70 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £38.00
% change year-on-year +76.94% -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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -31 305 £525 -4.55% 60
London -1 194 £550 -8.33% 34
UK excluding London -74 115 £500 -6.98% 37
Work from Home -37 109 £500 -16.14% 27
South East -61 28 £700 +27.27% 13
South West -12 23 £528 +15.93% 4
Midlands -69 22 £495 -9.59% 5
North of England -77 22 £453 -21.30% 7
West Midlands -59 14 £538 -2.27% 2
Scotland +5 13 £450 -7.69% 3
North West -41 13 £450 -30.23% 7
Yorkshire -59 8 £509 -3.00%
East of England -34 7 £441 -26.58% 6
East Midlands -34 6 £463 -15.14% 3
Wales -11 1 £450 +25.00% 1
North East -28 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 18 (5.14%) Confluence
2 5 (1.43%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
3 4 (1.14%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (1.14%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.86%) CMS
4 3 (0.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (0.86%) SAS
5 2 (0.57%) Appian
6 1 (0.29%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 19 (5.43%) MS Visio
2 18 (5.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (4.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (2.86%) Aladdin
3 9 (2.57%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (2.00%) SAP ERP
5 6 (1.71%) Finacle
6 4 (1.14%) Maximo
6 4 (1.14%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.86%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 3 (0.86%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.86%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.86%) SAP R/3
7 3 (0.86%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.57%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.57%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 2 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.57%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.57%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.57%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.57%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 49 (14.00%) Azure
2 26 (7.43%) Power Platform
3 16 (4.57%) Azure Data Factory
4 14 (4.00%) GCP
5 13 (3.71%) AWS
6 12 (3.43%) OCI
7 10 (2.86%) Boomi
8 9 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (2.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 7 (2.00%) SaaS
10 6 (1.71%) Collibra
10 6 (1.71%) GitHub
10 6 (1.71%) Microsoft Purview
10 6 (1.71%) SuccessFactors
11 5 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.14%) PowerApps
13 3 (0.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (0.86%) Serverless
13 3 (0.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.86%) Firewall
2 1 (0.29%) AMQP
2 1 (0.29%) FTP
2 1 (0.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.86%) Metadata
2 23 (6.57%) Power BI
3 19 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (3.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 11 (3.14%) SQL Server
6 9 (2.57%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.00%) Data Lake
7 7 (2.00%) DB2
8 6 (1.71%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.71%) Oracle Database
8 6 (1.71%) Tableau
9 5 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.43%) Delta Lake
10 4 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.86%) Electronic Patient Records
11 3 (0.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.57%) DataStage
12 2 (0.57%) Metadata Repository
12 2 (0.57%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 31 (8.86%) JIRA
2 4 (1.14%) Postman
3 3 (0.86%) Git
3 3 (0.86%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.29%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.29%) ERwin
4 1 (0.29%) Hudson
4 1 (0.29%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (0.29%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.29%) LSMW
4 1 (0.29%) NUnit
4 1 (0.29%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 136 (38.86%) Finance
2 122 (34.86%) Social Skills
3 70 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (19.71%) Banking
5 38 (10.86%) Public Sector
6 31 (8.86%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (6.00%) Legal
8 12 (3.43%) Investment Banking
9 11 (3.14%) Retail
10 10 (2.86%) Manufacturing
11 9 (2.57%) Law
11 9 (2.57%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (2.00%) Marketing
12 7 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.71%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.71%) Front Office
13 6 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (1.71%) Private Banking
14 5 (1.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 140 (40.00%) Analyst
2 87 (24.86%) Business Analyst
3 84 (24.00%) Lead
4 63 (18.00%) Data Analyst
5 28 (8.00%) Data Business Analyst
6 27 (7.71%) Data Migration Lead
7 24 (6.86%) Data Engineer
8 23 (6.57%) Senior
9 17 (4.86%) Developer
10 16 (4.57%) Consultant
11 15 (4.29%) Architect
12 13 (3.71%) Data Architect
12 13 (3.71%) Migration Engineer
13 12 (3.43%) Banking Analyst
13 12 (3.43%) Migration Manager
14 11 (3.14%) Data Migration Engineer
14 11 (3.14%) Migration Analyst
14 11 (3.14%) Senior Analyst
15 10 (2.86%) Banking Business Analyst
15 10 (2.86%) Data Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.86%) XML
2 21 (6.00%) REST
3 20 (5.71%) JSON
4 19 (5.43%) Oracle Fusion
5 17 (4.86%) Middleware
6 13 (3.71%) SOAP
7 5 (1.43%) RESTful
7 5 (1.43%) Web Services
8 4 (1.14%) .NET
8 4 (1.14%) EDI
8 4 (1.14%) JDBC
8 4 (1.14%) Kafka
9 3 (0.86%) FHIR
9 3 (0.86%) HTML
9 3 (0.86%) PySpark
9 3 (0.86%) XSLT
10 2 (0.57%) HTML5 Canvas
10 2 (0.57%) Itk
10 2 (0.57%) OAuth
10 2 (0.57%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 75 (21.43%) Data Structures
2 49 (14.00%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (4.86%) Reference Data
4 16 (4.57%) Product Ownership
5 13 (3.71%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.00%) Taxonomies
7 5 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.43%) Clustering
7 5 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.43%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.43%) Mainframe
7 5 (1.43%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.43%) NHS
8 4 (1.14%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.86%) Data Fabric
9 3 (0.86%) Equities
9 3 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (0.86%) LIMS
9 3 (0.86%) Reinsurance
9 3 (0.86%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.86%) Windows
2 1 (0.29%) HPUX
2 1 (0.29%) Linux
2 1 (0.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (55.14%) Migration
2 136 (38.86%) Validation
3 133 (38.00%) Data Migration
4 112 (32.00%) Data Modelling
5 99 (28.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 84 (24.00%) Agile
7 82 (23.43%) ETL
8 62 (17.71%) Data Cleansing
9 61 (17.43%) Data Governance
10 60 (17.14%) Data Transformation
11 58 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
12 56 (16.00%) User Acceptance Testing
13 54 (15.43%) Data Analysis
14 53 (15.14%) Requirements Gathering
14 53 (15.14%) Workshop Facilitation
15 50 (14.29%) ERP
16 46 (13.14%) Business Analysis
17 45 (12.86%) Data Validation
18 41 (11.71%) User Stories
19 39 (11.14%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 92 (26.29%) SQL
2 22 (6.29%) Python
3 10 (2.86%) Java
4 7 (2.00%) PL/SQL
5 6 (1.71%) T-SQL
6 5 (1.43%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.86%) Bicep
7 3 (0.86%) C#
8 2 (0.57%) C
8 2 (0.57%) C++
8 2 (0.57%) Groovy
8 2 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.57%) R
8 2 (0.57%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.29%) ABAP
9 1 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.29%) DataWeave
9 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 48 (13.71%) Security Cleared
2 33 (9.43%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.57%) Degree
4 9 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (2.00%) IIBA
6 6 (1.71%) CBAP
7 5 (1.43%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.14%) PMP
9 2 (0.57%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.29%) CCA
10 1 (0.29%) CFA
10 1 (0.29%) CISA
10 1 (0.29%) CISSP
10 1 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.29%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.29%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (26.86%) Data Quality
2 34 (9.71%) GDPR
2 34 (9.71%) QA
3 9 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.71%) NIST
5 5 (1.43%) COBIT
5 5 (1.43%) GxP
5 5 (1.43%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.43%) Solvency II
6 4 (1.14%) GMP
6 4 (1.14%) ISO 8583
6 4 (1.14%) SLA
7 3 (0.86%) HL7
7 3 (0.86%) SEPA
8 2 (0.57%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.57%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.29%) GRC
9 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.29%) IFRS
9 1 (0.29%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (0.86%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.57%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.43%) Terraform
2 1 (0.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (16.00%) Oracle
2 49 (14.00%) Microsoft
3 47 (13.43%) SAP
4 23 (6.57%) Databricks
5 14 (4.00%) Google
6 12 (3.43%) Avaloq
6 12 (3.43%) IBM
7 9 (2.57%) GoldenSource
7 9 (2.57%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.29%) Informatica
8 8 (2.29%) Temenos
8 8 (2.29%) Workday
9 7 (2.00%) Dell
9 7 (2.00%) MuleSoft
9 7 (2.00%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.71%) Murex
11 5 (1.43%) Talend
12 4 (1.14%) Alteryx
12 4 (1.14%) SimCorp
12 4 (1.14%) webMethods