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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 313 344
Rank change year-on-year +16 +31 +27
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 474 263 219
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.88% 0.80% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 0.88% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 188 144
10th Percentile £350 £348 £373
25th Percentile £425 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £533 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +6.50% -6.98%
75th Percentile £620 £651 £608
90th Percentile £700 £788 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.04% -9.89%
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 £62.68 - £46.48
90th Percentile £85.36 - -
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 45,677 29,801 32,930
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.61% 90.45% 85.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,947 18,563 20,756
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,765 1,620
10th Percentile £14.10 £14.21 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.30 £18.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.03
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -40.16% +0.31%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.12 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.15 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.65 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +88.47% -47.37% +14.67%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +5 379 £536 -0.19% 111
London -6 230 £550 - 73
Work from Home +5 181 £500 -6.89% 50
UK excluding London -23 160 £475 -5.00% 58
North of England -48 47 £466 -11.61% 11
Midlands -36 31 £490 -8.84% 9
North West -35 30 £463 -14.94% 3
South West -22 26 £538 +13.16% 10
South East -62 24 £700 +40.00% 21
Scotland -10 23 £372 -20.68% 3
West Midlands -37 16 £400 -5.88% 2
Yorkshire -42 15 £519 +69.44% 4
East Midlands -7 13 £490 -9.89% 7
East of England -18 9 £420 +0.12% 6
North East -38 2 £444 +1.43% 5
Wales -14 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 36 (7.59%) Confluence
2 11 (2.32%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.21%) CMS
5 1 (0.21%) SAS
5 1 (0.21%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 27 (5.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (5.49%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.48%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (3.59%) Aladdin
2 13 (2.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.48%) NetSuite
4 6 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (1.27%) Maximo
5 5 (1.05%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 4 (0.84%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.63%) Infor LN
7 3 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.63%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.42%) Cerner Millennium
8 2 (0.42%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
8 2 (0.42%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 2 (0.42%) MultiFonds
8 2 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.42%) SAP HR
8 2 (0.42%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.42%) Shopify
8 2 (0.42%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 67 (14.14%) Azure
2 41 (8.65%) Power Platform
3 26 (5.49%) AWS
4 20 (4.22%) GCP
4 20 (4.22%) Snowflake
5 19 (4.01%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (3.38%) Boomi
7 15 (3.16%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (2.95%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (2.53%) GitHub
10 11 (2.32%) Microsoft Purview
11 10 (2.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 10 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (2.11%) SaaS
11 10 (2.11%) SuccessFactors
12 9 (1.90%) AtomSphere
13 7 (1.48%) Entra ID
13 7 (1.48%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (1.48%) Serverless
14 6 (1.27%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.84%) Firewall
1 4 (0.84%) SSL
2 1 (0.21%) FTP
2 1 (0.21%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (10.55%) Data Warehouse
2 39 (8.23%) Metadata
3 36 (7.59%) Power BI
4 32 (6.75%) Data Lake
5 17 (3.59%) Relational Database
6 14 (2.95%) SQL Server
7 13 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (2.74%) Oracle Database
8 11 (2.32%) Delta Lake
9 9 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (1.90%) Semantic Layer
9 9 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (1.69%) Db2
11 7 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (1.48%) DynamoDB
11 7 (1.48%) MongoDB
11 7 (1.48%) NoSQL
12 6 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (1.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 50 (10.55%) JIRA
2 6 (1.27%) Git
3 5 (1.05%) Postman
4 4 (0.84%) Cypress.io
4 4 (0.84%) Gatling
4 4 (0.84%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.42%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.42%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.42%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.21%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.21%) ER Studio
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%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.21%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 156 (32.91%) Social Skills
2 154 (32.49%) Finance
3 92 (19.41%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (13.50%) Banking
5 31 (6.54%) Public Sector
6 27 (5.70%) Legal
7 25 (5.27%) Retail
8 21 (4.43%) Documentation Skills
9 20 (4.22%) Manufacturing
10 10 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.11%) Marketing
11 9 (1.90%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.69%) Front Office
12 8 (1.69%) Law
12 8 (1.69%) Local Government
13 6 (1.27%) Billing
13 6 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.05%) General Ledger
14 5 (1.05%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 210 (44.30%) Analyst
2 134 (28.27%) Business Analyst
3 94 (19.83%) Data Analyst
4 62 (13.08%) Lead
5 55 (11.60%) Data Business Analyst
6 40 (8.44%) Architect
7 37 (7.81%) Developer
8 32 (6.75%) Senior
9 30 (6.33%) Consultant
10 29 (6.12%) Data Engineer
11 27 (5.70%) Data Architect
12 26 (5.49%) Technical Analyst
13 20 (4.22%) Technical Business Analyst
14 18 (3.80%) Business Systems Analyst
15 16 (3.38%) Data Migration Lead
16 15 (3.16%) Data Consultant
16 15 (3.16%) SQL Analyst
16 15 (3.16%) SQL Data Analyst
17 14 (2.95%) Senior Analyst
17 14 (2.95%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (10.55%) JSON
2 44 (9.28%) REST
3 38 (8.02%) XML
4 30 (6.33%) Middleware
4 30 (6.33%) SOAP
5 19 (4.01%) Oracle Fusion
6 16 (3.38%) Web Services
7 13 (2.74%) OAuth
8 11 (2.32%) FHIR
9 9 (1.90%) OAuth2
9 9 (1.90%) XSLT
10 8 (1.69%) EDI
10 8 (1.69%) Kafka
11 6 (1.27%) PySpark
11 6 (1.27%) SAML
11 6 (1.27%) Terraform
12 5 (1.05%) Lightning Web Components
12 5 (1.05%) Playwright
12 5 (1.05%) RESTful
13 4 (0.84%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 80 (16.88%) Data Structures
2 52 (10.97%) Legacy Systems
3 39 (8.23%) Product Ownership
4 23 (4.85%) Onboarding
5 15 (3.16%) Management Information System
6 10 (2.11%) Reference Data
7 9 (1.90%) NHS
8 8 (1.69%) Derivative
8 8 (1.69%) Digital Media
9 7 (1.48%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.48%) Clustering
9 7 (1.48%) CMDB
9 7 (1.48%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.27%) LIMS
10 6 (1.27%) Mainframe
10 6 (1.27%) SCADA
11 5 (1.05%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.53%) Windows
2 8 (1.69%) Unix
3 7 (1.48%) Linux
4 3 (0.63%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.42%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (39.66%) Migration
2 178 (37.55%) Data Modelling
3 161 (33.97%) Validation
4 146 (30.80%) Stakeholder Management
5 141 (29.75%) Agile
6 136 (28.69%) Data Migration
7 96 (20.25%) Data Analysis
8 89 (18.78%) ETL
9 87 (18.35%) Requirements Gathering
10 85 (17.93%) Data Governance
11 83 (17.51%) Data Transformation
11 83 (17.51%) User Acceptance Testing
11 83 (17.51%) Workshop Facilitation
12 77 (16.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 75 (15.82%) User Stories
14 73 (15.40%) Problem-Solving
15 65 (13.71%) Business Analysis
16 61 (12.87%) ERP
16 61 (12.87%) Translating Business Requirements
17 56 (11.81%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 183 (38.61%) SQL
2 26 (5.49%) Python
3 12 (2.53%) Java
4 11 (2.32%) JavaScript
4 11 (2.32%) PL/SQL
5 6 (1.27%) Groovy
6 5 (1.05%) Bicep
6 5 (1.05%) MUMPS
6 5 (1.05%) PowerShell
6 5 (1.05%) TypeScript
7 4 (0.84%) Apex Code
7 4 (0.84%) Kotlin
7 4 (0.84%) T-SQL
8 3 (0.63%) ABAP
8 3 (0.63%) C#
8 3 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (0.63%) R
9 2 (0.42%) C
9 2 (0.42%) C++
9 2 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 47 (9.92%) Security Cleared
2 35 (7.38%) SC Cleared
3 17 (3.59%) Degree
4 8 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (0.63%) CTC Cleared
5 3 (0.63%) DBS Check
5 3 (0.63%) DV Cleared
5 3 (0.63%) IIBA
5 3 (0.63%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.42%) CBAP
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (0.42%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.21%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.21%) CCA
7 1 (0.21%) CISA
7 1 (0.21%) CISSP
7 1 (0.21%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.21%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (28.27%) Data Quality
2 42 (8.86%) QA
3 38 (8.02%) GDPR
4 10 (2.11%) HL7
5 6 (1.27%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.05%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.63%) GRC
8 2 (0.42%) DICOM
8 2 (0.42%) GMP
8 2 (0.42%) GxP
8 2 (0.42%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.42%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.21%) Basel II
9 1 (0.21%) CDISC
9 1 (0.21%) IFRS
9 1 (0.21%) MiFID
9 1 (0.21%) NCSC
9 1 (0.21%) NIST
9 1 (0.21%) SEPA
System Software
1 7 (1.48%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.42%) Docker
2 2 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (0.63%) Ansible
1 3 (0.63%) WMI
2 2 (0.42%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 71 (14.98%) Oracle
2 68 (14.35%) Microsoft
3 51 (10.76%) SAP
4 35 (7.38%) Databricks
5 21 (4.43%) ServiceNow
6 19 (4.01%) Salesforce
7 14 (2.95%) Google
8 12 (2.53%) IBM
9 9 (1.90%) Workday
10 8 (1.69%) Informatica
11 7 (1.48%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.48%) Murex
11 7 (1.48%) Splunk
12 6 (1.27%) AppDynamics
12 6 (1.27%) InterSystems
12 6 (1.27%) SimCorp
13 4 (0.84%) Avaloq
13 4 (0.84%) Charles River
13 4 (0.84%) Infor
13 4 (0.84%) webMethods