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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 308 336
Rank change year-on-year +25 +28 +49
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 484 271 232
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.89% 0.82% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 0.91% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 186 157
10th Percentile £351 £331 £363
25th Percentile £425 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £537 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.96% +7.40% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £670 £600
90th Percentile £699 £788 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £30.55 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
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 46,068 29,787 33,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.40% 90.53% 85.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,926 18,499 20,227
10th Percentile £325 £300 £309
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,164 1,816 1,455
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.23 £14.90
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -1.91%
75th Percentile £67.48 £44.05 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.03 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +77.91% -47.67% +1.18%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -7 380 £535 -1.61% 194
London +1 233 £550 - 129
Work from Home -1 185 £500 -9.09% 75
UK excluding London -48 161 £469 -6.25% 84
North of England -52 46 £485 -3.00% 24
Midlands -41 31 £463 +2.78% 12
South West -13 28 £530 +11.58% 10
North West -33 27 £451 -24.95% 12
Scotland -9 26 £372 -12.47% 9
South East -62 21 £685 +24.55% 22
Yorkshire -45 17 £519 +69.44% 7
West Midlands -45 16 £375 -14.29% 8
East Midlands -13 13 £490 -9.89% 4
East of England -22 9 £420 +0.12% 5
North East -42 2 £444 +1.43% 5
Wales -11 1 £475 - 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 39 (8.06%) Confluence
2 11 (2.27%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.41%) Apache
4 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.21%) CMS
5 1 (0.21%) IBM Transformation Extender
5 1 (0.21%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 35 (7.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (5.58%) MS Visio
3 10 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.86%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.41%) Mingle
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.21%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 15 (3.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (2.89%) Aladdin
3 7 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.45%) NetSuite
4 6 (1.24%) Maximo
5 5 (1.03%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 4 (0.83%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.83%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.83%) ResourceLink
6 4 (0.83%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.83%) SAP Payroll
6 4 (0.83%) Teamcenter
7 3 (0.62%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 3 (0.62%) Infor LN
7 3 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.62%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.41%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
8 2 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.41%) Oracle FAH
8 2 (0.41%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 65 (13.43%) Azure
2 39 (8.06%) Power Platform
3 28 (5.79%) AWS
4 21 (4.34%) GCP
5 20 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (4.13%) Snowflake
6 16 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
7 15 (3.10%) Boomi
8 12 (2.48%) SuccessFactors
9 11 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (2.27%) SaaS
10 10 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (1.86%) AtomSphere
12 8 (1.65%) GitHub
12 8 (1.65%) Microsoft Purview
13 7 (1.45%) Entra ID
14 6 (1.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 5 (1.03%) Azure Service Bus
15 5 (1.03%) OCI
15 5 (1.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.83%) SSL
2 2 (0.41%) HTTP
3 1 (0.21%) Firewall
3 1 (0.21%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (10.54%) Data Warehouse
2 43 (8.88%) Metadata
3 34 (7.02%) Data Lake
3 34 (7.02%) Power BI
4 18 (3.72%) Relational Database
5 13 (2.69%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (2.69%) SQL Server
6 10 (2.07%) Oracle Database
6 10 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.07%) Semantic Layer
7 9 (1.86%) Power Query
8 8 (1.65%) Db2
8 8 (1.65%) Delta Lake
8 8 (1.65%) Oracle Reports
9 7 (1.45%) DynamoDB
9 7 (1.45%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 7 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (1.45%) Tableau
10 6 (1.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 59 (12.19%) JIRA
2 5 (1.03%) Git
2 5 (1.03%) Postman
3 4 (0.83%) Cypress.io
3 4 (0.83%) Gatling
3 4 (0.83%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.62%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.41%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.41%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.41%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.21%) ERwin
6 1 (0.21%) Flyway
6 1 (0.21%) GitLab
6 1 (0.21%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.21%) LSMW
6 1 (0.21%) NUnit
6 1 (0.21%) PVCS
6 1 (0.21%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.21%) Selenium
6 1 (0.21%) Subversion
General
1 162 (33.47%) Finance
2 155 (32.02%) Social Skills
3 95 (19.63%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (14.26%) Banking
5 31 (6.40%) Legal
6 28 (5.79%) Public Sector
7 25 (5.17%) Retail
8 22 (4.55%) Manufacturing
9 19 (3.93%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (1.86%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.86%) Marketing
12 8 (1.65%) General Ledger
13 7 (1.45%) Front Office
13 7 (1.45%) Law
13 7 (1.45%) Local Government
14 6 (1.24%) Billing
14 6 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.83%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 213 (44.01%) Analyst
2 136 (28.10%) Business Analyst
3 94 (19.42%) Data Analyst
4 58 (11.98%) Data Business Analyst
5 56 (11.57%) Lead
6 40 (8.26%) Consultant
7 39 (8.06%) Architect
7 39 (8.06%) Developer
8 34 (7.02%) Senior
9 28 (5.79%) Technical Analyst
10 26 (5.37%) Data Engineer
11 24 (4.96%) Data Architect
12 22 (4.55%) Technical Business Analyst
13 20 (4.13%) SQL Analyst
13 20 (4.13%) SQL Data Analyst
14 18 (3.72%) Business Systems Analyst
15 17 (3.51%) Data Consultant
15 17 (3.51%) Data Migration Lead
16 16 (3.31%) Systems Analyst
16 16 (3.31%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (10.33%) JSON
1 50 (10.33%) REST
2 40 (8.26%) XML
3 35 (7.23%) SOAP
4 32 (6.61%) Middleware
5 20 (4.13%) Oracle Fusion
6 18 (3.72%) Web Services
7 13 (2.69%) OAuth
8 11 (2.27%) FHIR
9 9 (1.86%) OAuth2
9 9 (1.86%) XSLT
10 8 (1.65%) EDI
11 7 (1.45%) Kafka
12 6 (1.24%) PySpark
12 6 (1.24%) SAML
13 5 (1.03%) Lightning Web Components
13 5 (1.03%) Playwright
13 5 (1.03%) Terraform
14 4 (0.83%) GraphQL
14 4 (0.83%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 81 (16.74%) Data Structures
2 54 (11.16%) Legacy Systems
3 41 (8.47%) Product Ownership
4 23 (4.75%) Onboarding
5 17 (3.51%) Management Information System
6 12 (2.48%) Reference Data
7 9 (1.86%) Derivative
7 9 (1.86%) Legacy Applications
8 8 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.65%) Digital Media
9 7 (1.45%) Clustering
9 7 (1.45%) CMDB
9 7 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (1.45%) LIMS
9 7 (1.45%) NHS
10 6 (1.24%) Cloud Native
10 6 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.24%) Mainframe
11 4 (0.83%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.10%) Windows
2 9 (1.86%) Unix
3 8 (1.65%) Linux
4 3 (0.62%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.41%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (40.50%) Migration
2 173 (35.74%) Validation
3 170 (35.12%) Data Modelling
4 157 (32.44%) Stakeholder Management
5 149 (30.79%) Agile
6 139 (28.72%) Data Migration
7 109 (22.52%) Data Analysis
8 90 (18.60%) Requirements Gathering
9 88 (18.18%) ETL
9 88 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
10 86 (17.77%) Data Governance
11 83 (17.15%) Data Transformation
12 81 (16.74%) Workshop Facilitation
13 79 (16.32%) User Stories
14 77 (15.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 76 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
16 69 (14.26%) Business Analysis
17 64 (13.22%) Translating Business Requirements
18 63 (13.02%) ERP
19 60 (12.40%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 196 (40.50%) SQL
2 24 (4.96%) Python
3 16 (3.31%) PL/SQL
4 12 (2.48%) Java
5 11 (2.27%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.24%) Groovy
6 6 (1.24%) MUMPS
7 5 (1.03%) C#
7 5 (1.03%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.03%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.83%) Apex Code
8 4 (0.83%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.62%) ABAP
9 3 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.62%) R
9 3 (0.62%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.41%) Bicep
10 2 (0.41%) C
10 2 (0.41%) C++
11 1 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 44 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 34 (7.02%) SC Cleared
3 20 (4.13%) Degree
4 6 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.03%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.62%) IIBA
7 2 (0.41%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.41%) CBAP
7 2 (0.41%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.41%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.41%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.21%) CCA
8 1 (0.21%) CISA
8 1 (0.21%) CISSP
8 1 (0.21%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.21%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.21%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (29.55%) Data Quality
2 43 (8.88%) QA
3 34 (7.02%) GDPR
4 10 (2.07%) HL7
5 5 (1.03%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.83%) GRC
7 3 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.41%) COREP
8 2 (0.41%) DICOM
8 2 (0.41%) GMP
8 2 (0.41%) GxP
8 2 (0.41%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.41%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.21%) AIFMD
9 1 (0.21%) EMIR
9 1 (0.21%) FINREP
9 1 (0.21%) IFRS
9 1 (0.21%) NCSC
9 1 (0.21%) NIST
9 1 (0.21%) SEPA
System Software
1 7 (1.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.41%) Docker
2 2 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (0.62%) Ansible
1 3 (0.62%) WMI
2 2 (0.41%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.21%) Tivoli
3 1 (0.21%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 74 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 69 (14.26%) Oracle
3 52 (10.74%) SAP
4 30 (6.20%) Databricks
5 22 (4.55%) Salesforce
6 21 (4.34%) ServiceNow
7 17 (3.51%) IBM
8 15 (3.10%) Google
9 9 (1.86%) Workday
10 7 (1.45%) InterSystems
10 7 (1.45%) Splunk
11 6 (1.24%) AppDynamics
11 6 (1.24%) MuleSoft
11 6 (1.24%) Murex
12 5 (1.03%) Informatica
12 5 (1.03%) SimCorp
13 4 (0.83%) Avaloq
13 4 (0.83%) Charles River
13 4 (0.83%) Infor
13 4 (0.83%) webMethods