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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 312 355
Rank change year-on-year +23 +43 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 455 269 225
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.85% 0.81% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.90% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 189 150
10th Percentile £350 £350 £372
25th Percentile £420 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £788 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £537 £475
% change year-on-year -12.48% +13.05% -8.65%
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 45,351 29,931 33,545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 90.42% 85.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,028 18,763 21,568
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £734 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,760 1,659 1,891
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.30 £18.15
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.10 £74.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.50 £41.25
% change year-on-year +87.06% -43.03% +3.13%

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 2 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 2 August 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 2 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 -13 373 £537 -2.36% 81
London +32 235 £550 - 53
Work from Home -22 152 £500 -13.04% 39
UK excluding London -52 152 £470 -12.48% 40
North of England -60 40 £463 -15.91% 11
South West -15 28 £538 +18.13% 6
Scotland +3 26 £358 -24.63% 3
South East -68 26 £700 +27.27% 11
Midlands -44 25 £490 -9.89% 5
North West -47 25 £459 -24.80% 8
Yorkshire -41 14 £491 +34.20% 2
West Midlands -57 13 £500 -14.89% 3
East Midlands -9 11 £476 -12.41% 2
East of England -12 8 £420 -35.38% 4
North East -39 1 £363 -32.56% 2

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 37 (8.13%) Confluence
2 12 (2.64%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.66%) CMS
3 3 (0.66%) 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%) SAS
Applications
1 26 (5.71%) MS Visio
2 24 (5.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (3.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (2.86%) Aladdin
3 6 (1.32%) Maximo
3 6 (1.32%) NetSuite
3 6 (1.32%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (1.32%) SAP ERP
4 5 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.10%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 3 (0.66%) Infor LN
5 3 (0.66%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 3 (0.66%) IntelliMatch
5 3 (0.66%) SAP R/3
5 3 (0.66%) SimCorp Dimension
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%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.44%) SAP HR
6 2 (0.44%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.44%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 70 (15.38%) Azure
2 40 (8.79%) Power Platform
3 29 (6.37%) AWS
4 20 (4.40%) GCP
5 17 (3.74%) Boomi
5 17 (3.74%) Snowflake
6 16 (3.52%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (2.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 11 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (2.20%) Microsoft Purview
9 10 (2.20%) SaaS
10 9 (1.98%) GitHub
11 8 (1.76%) Entra ID
11 8 (1.76%) OCI
11 8 (1.76%) SuccessFactors
12 7 (1.54%) AtomSphere
13 5 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (1.10%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.88%) Firewall
1 4 (0.88%) SSL
2 1 (0.22%) AMQP
2 1 (0.22%) FTP
2 1 (0.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (10.11%) Data Warehouse
2 40 (8.79%) Metadata
3 36 (7.91%) Power BI
4 26 (5.71%) Data Lake
5 14 (3.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 13 (2.86%) SQL Server
7 12 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (2.64%) Relational Database
8 11 (2.42%) Oracle Database
9 9 (1.98%) Db2
9 9 (1.98%) Delta Lake
10 8 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (1.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 8 (1.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 7 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (1.54%) DynamoDB
11 7 (1.54%) MongoDB
11 7 (1.54%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (1.32%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 52 (11.43%) JIRA
2 7 (1.54%) Git
3 4 (0.88%) Cypress.io
3 4 (0.88%) Gatling
3 4 (0.88%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.66%) Postman
4 3 (0.66%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (0.44%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.44%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.22%) ERwin
6 1 (0.22%) Flyway
6 1 (0.22%) GitLab
6 1 (0.22%) Hudson
6 1 (0.22%) Liquibase
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
1 152 (33.41%) Finance
2 149 (32.75%) Social Skills
3 90 (19.78%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (15.16%) Banking
5 35 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 27 (5.93%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (5.49%) Legal
8 21 (4.62%) Retail
9 19 (4.18%) Manufacturing
10 10 (2.20%) Marketing
11 9 (1.98%) Law
12 8 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (1.54%) Front Office
13 7 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.32%) Billing
14 6 (1.32%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.32%) Local Government
15 5 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.88%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 196 (43.08%) Analyst
2 129 (28.35%) Business Analyst
3 81 (17.80%) Data Analyst
4 63 (13.85%) Lead
5 50 (10.99%) Data Business Analyst
6 41 (9.01%) Architect
7 37 (8.13%) Developer
8 35 (7.69%) Senior
9 30 (6.59%) Data Architect
10 25 (5.49%) Data Engineer
11 23 (5.05%) Technical Analyst
12 22 (4.84%) Consultant
13 19 (4.18%) Business Systems Analyst
14 18 (3.96%) Data Migration Lead
14 18 (3.96%) Senior Analyst
15 16 (3.52%) Technical Business Analyst
16 14 (3.08%) Senior Business Analyst
16 14 (3.08%) Systems Analyst
17 13 (2.86%) Transformation Analyst
18 12 (2.64%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (10.77%) JSON
2 44 (9.67%) REST
3 37 (8.13%) XML
4 31 (6.81%) SOAP
5 29 (6.37%) Middleware
6 19 (4.18%) Oracle Fusion
7 15 (3.30%) Web Services
8 12 (2.64%) OAuth
9 9 (1.98%) EDI
9 9 (1.98%) OAuth2
10 8 (1.76%) XSLT
11 6 (1.32%) FHIR
11 6 (1.32%) Kafka
12 5 (1.10%) SAML
13 4 (0.88%) .NET
13 4 (0.88%) JDBC
13 4 (0.88%) Playwright
13 4 (0.88%) PySpark
13 4 (0.88%) RESTful
13 4 (0.88%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 75 (16.48%) Data Structures
2 56 (12.31%) Legacy Systems
3 37 (8.13%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.96%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.42%) Management Information System
5 11 (2.42%) Reference Data
6 8 (1.76%) Digital Media
7 7 (1.54%) Clustering
7 7 (1.54%) CMDB
7 7 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.54%) LIMS
8 6 (1.32%) Cloud Native
8 6 (1.32%) Derivative
8 6 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
8 6 (1.32%) Mainframe
9 5 (1.10%) NHS
9 5 (1.10%) Taxonomies
10 4 (0.88%) Fixed Income
10 4 (0.88%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.42%) Windows
2 7 (1.54%) Unix
3 6 (1.32%) Linux
4 3 (0.66%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.44%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (41.54%) Migration
2 158 (34.73%) Data Modelling
3 150 (32.97%) Validation
4 134 (29.45%) Agile
5 132 (29.01%) Data Migration
6 124 (27.25%) Stakeholder Management
7 92 (20.22%) ETL
8 80 (17.58%) Problem-Solving
9 79 (17.36%) Data Analysis
9 79 (17.36%) Data Transformation
9 79 (17.36%) User Acceptance Testing
10 77 (16.92%) Data Governance
10 77 (16.92%) Requirements Gathering
11 71 (15.60%) Workshop Facilitation
12 70 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 61 (13.41%) User Stories
14 58 (12.75%) ERP
15 57 (12.53%) Business Analysis
16 56 (12.31%) Data Architecture
17 54 (11.87%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 157 (34.51%) SQL
2 23 (5.05%) Python
3 16 (3.52%) PL/SQL
4 12 (2.64%) Java
5 10 (2.20%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.32%) Groovy
6 6 (1.32%) T-SQL
7 5 (1.10%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.10%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.88%) Bicep
8 4 (0.88%) Kotlin
8 4 (0.88%) MUMPS
9 3 (0.66%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.66%) C#
9 3 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.66%) 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 50 (10.99%) Security Cleared
2 37 (8.13%) SC Cleared
3 15 (3.30%) Degree
4 11 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (0.66%) CTC Cleared
5 3 (0.66%) DBS Check
5 3 (0.66%) DV Cleared
5 3 (0.66%) 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%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (24.62%) Data Quality
2 42 (9.23%) GDPR
3 39 (8.57%) QA
4 7 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.32%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.32%) HL7
5 6 (1.32%) ISO 20022
6 5 (1.10%) Solvency II
7 4 (0.88%) ISO 8583
8 3 (0.66%) GRC
8 3 (0.66%) NIST
8 3 (0.66%) SEPA
9 2 (0.44%) COBIT
9 2 (0.44%) GMP
9 2 (0.44%) GxP
9 2 (0.44%) SLA
9 2 (0.44%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.22%) Basel II
10 1 (0.22%) CDISC
10 1 (0.22%) MiFID
System Software
1 8 (1.76%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.44%) Docker
2 2 (0.44%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (1.10%) Terraform
2 3 (0.66%) Ansible
2 3 (0.66%) WMI
3 2 (0.44%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 77 (16.92%) Oracle
2 62 (13.63%) Microsoft
3 46 (10.11%) SAP
4 34 (7.47%) Databricks
5 22 (4.84%) ServiceNow
6 17 (3.74%) Salesforce
7 16 (3.52%) IBM
8 14 (3.08%) Google
9 12 (2.64%) MuleSoft
10 10 (2.20%) Informatica
11 9 (1.98%) Murex
11 9 (1.98%) Workday
12 6 (1.32%) AppDynamics
12 6 (1.32%) Dell
12 6 (1.32%) Splunk
13 5 (1.10%) InterSystems
13 5 (1.10%) Talend
14 4 (0.88%) Alteryx
14 4 (0.88%) OneTrust
14 4 (0.88%) webMethods