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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 320 348
Rank change year-on-year +31 +28 +34
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 487 250 228
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.89% 0.75% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 0.83% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 171 160
10th Percentile £351 £331 £363
25th Percentile £425 £406 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.15% +3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £656 £600
90th Percentile £675 £775 £676
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £488 £480
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.56% -12.73%
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 46,170 29,963 32,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.61% 90.48% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,721 18,625 19,646
10th Percentile £325 £295 £308
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 £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £737 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,354 1,887 1,283
10th Percentile £13.53 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -9.60%
75th Percentile £65.00 £42.90 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.65 £65.06 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.27 £40.33
% change year-on-year +68.43% -44.79% -7.99%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 11 October 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 +2 385 £525 - 207
London +16 241 £550 - 124
Work from Home +10 181 £500 -3.85% 83
UK excluding London -33 156 £469 -3.85% 112
North of England -58 48 £500 - 26
Midlands -31 30 £490 +15.29% 13
North West -34 28 £460 -23.32% 9
South West -8 26 £525 +10.53% 9
Scotland -11 26 £372 -12.47% 14
Yorkshire -26 19 £516 +68.55% 12
West Midlands -45 18 £400 -11.11% 10
South East -66 18 £570 +3.64% 25
East Midlands -2 10 £490 +28.10% 3
East of England -23 8 £398 -7.50% 11
Wales -12 1 £475 - 10
North East -40 1 £525 +20.00% 5

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 45 (9.24%) Confluence
2 11 (2.26%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.41%) Apache
3 2 (0.41%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.21%) CMS
4 1 (0.21%) IBM Transformation Extender
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.21%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 37 (7.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (5.75%) MS Visio
3 12 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (2.05%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.62%) Mingle
7 2 (0.41%) Windchill
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (2.87%) Aladdin
2 12 (2.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.44%) NetSuite
4 5 (1.03%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 4 (0.82%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 4 (0.82%) Maximo
5 4 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.82%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.82%) ResourceLink
5 4 (0.82%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.82%) SAP Payroll
5 4 (0.82%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.62%) Infor LN
6 3 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.41%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 2 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.41%) Oracle FAH
7 2 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 64 (13.14%) Azure
2 37 (7.60%) Power Platform
3 29 (5.95%) AWS
4 22 (4.52%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (4.31%) Snowflake
6 18 (3.70%) GCP
7 17 (3.49%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (2.67%) Boomi
9 12 (2.46%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (2.46%) SaaS
10 11 (2.26%) SuccessFactors
11 10 (2.05%) AtomSphere
12 9 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (1.64%) GitHub
13 8 (1.64%) Microsoft Purview
14 7 (1.44%) Entra ID
15 6 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 5 (1.03%) Azure Logic Apps
16 5 (1.03%) Azure Service Bus
16 5 (1.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.82%) SSL
2 3 (0.62%) HTTP
3 1 (0.21%) Firewall
3 1 (0.21%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (10.68%) Data Warehouse
2 40 (8.21%) Metadata
3 37 (7.60%) Data Lake
4 31 (6.37%) Power BI
5 18 (3.70%) Relational Database
6 13 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (2.26%) Power Query
8 10 (2.05%) Oracle Database
8 10 (2.05%) Semantic Layer
9 9 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (1.85%) SQL Server
10 8 (1.64%) Delta Lake
10 8 (1.64%) Oracle Reports
10 8 (1.64%) Tableau
11 7 (1.44%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (1.44%) DynamoDB
11 7 (1.44%) MongoDB
12 6 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 6 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 67 (13.76%) JIRA
2 5 (1.03%) Postman
3 4 (0.82%) Cucumber
3 4 (0.82%) Cypress.io
3 4 (0.82%) Gatling
3 4 (0.82%) Git
3 4 (0.82%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.62%) Balsamiq
4 3 (0.62%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.41%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.41%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.21%) Flyway
6 1 (0.21%) GitLab
6 1 (0.21%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.21%) NUnit
6 1 (0.21%) PVCS
6 1 (0.21%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.21%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.21%) Selenium
6 1 (0.21%) Subversion
General
1 167 (34.29%) Finance
2 162 (33.26%) Social Skills
3 96 (19.71%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (14.78%) Banking
5 28 (5.75%) Public Sector
6 26 (5.34%) Retail
7 25 (5.13%) Legal
7 25 (5.13%) Manufacturing
8 19 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (2.67%) Investment Banking
10 10 (2.05%) Front Office
10 10 (2.05%) Marketing
11 7 (1.44%) General Ledger
11 7 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.44%) Local Government
12 6 (1.23%) Law
13 5 (1.03%) Billing
13 5 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.03%) Police
14 4 (0.82%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 223 (45.79%) Analyst
2 147 (30.18%) Business Analyst
3 95 (19.51%) Data Analyst
4 61 (12.53%) Data Business Analyst
5 51 (10.47%) Lead
6 42 (8.62%) Consultant
7 41 (8.42%) Developer
8 38 (7.80%) Architect
9 33 (6.78%) Senior
10 29 (5.95%) Technical Analyst
11 26 (5.34%) Data Engineer
12 24 (4.93%) Technical Business Analyst
13 23 (4.72%) Data Architect
14 20 (4.11%) SQL Analyst
14 20 (4.11%) SQL Data Analyst
15 18 (3.70%) Business Systems Analyst
15 18 (3.70%) Data Consultant
15 18 (3.70%) Senior Analyst
16 16 (3.29%) Data Migration Lead
16 16 (3.29%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (10.06%) JSON
2 44 (9.03%) REST
3 39 (8.01%) XML
4 32 (6.57%) SOAP
5 27 (5.54%) Middleware
6 21 (4.31%) Oracle Fusion
7 18 (3.70%) Web Services
8 14 (2.87%) OAuth
9 11 (2.26%) FHIR
10 10 (2.05%) OAuth2
11 9 (1.85%) EDI
11 9 (1.85%) XSLT
12 8 (1.64%) Kafka
13 6 (1.23%) PySpark
13 6 (1.23%) SAML
14 5 (1.03%) Lightning Web Components
14 5 (1.03%) Playwright
14 5 (1.03%) Terraform
15 4 (0.82%) GraphQL
15 4 (0.82%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 79 (16.22%) Data Structures
2 58 (11.91%) Legacy Systems
3 41 (8.42%) Product Ownership
4 22 (4.52%) Onboarding
5 16 (3.29%) Management Information System
5 16 (3.29%) Reference Data
6 10 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (2.05%) Derivative
6 10 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.85%) Legacy Applications
8 8 (1.64%) Digital Media
9 7 (1.44%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.44%) CMDB
9 7 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (1.44%) LIMS
9 7 (1.44%) NHS
10 6 (1.23%) Clustering
10 6 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.03%) Mainframe
11 5 (1.03%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.29%) Windows
2 9 (1.85%) Unix
3 8 (1.64%) Linux
4 3 (0.62%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.41%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (37.58%) Migration
2 174 (35.73%) Validation
3 166 (34.09%) Data Modelling
3 166 (34.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 151 (31.01%) Agile
5 132 (27.10%) Data Migration
6 119 (24.44%) Data Analysis
7 97 (19.92%) Requirements Gathering
8 92 (18.89%) Data Governance
9 89 (18.28%) User Acceptance Testing
10 88 (18.07%) ETL
11 87 (17.86%) Data Transformation
12 83 (17.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 80 (16.43%) User Stories
14 78 (16.02%) Business Analysis
14 78 (16.02%) Workshop Facilitation
15 77 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
16 73 (14.99%) Translating Business Requirements
17 61 (12.53%) ERP
18 58 (11.91%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 208 (42.71%) SQL
2 22 (4.52%) Python
3 16 (3.29%) PL/SQL
4 11 (2.26%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.85%) Java
6 6 (1.23%) Groovy
6 6 (1.23%) MUMPS
7 5 (1.03%) C#
7 5 (1.03%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.03%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.82%) Apex Code
8 4 (0.82%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.62%) ABAP
9 3 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.62%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.41%) Bicep
10 2 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.41%) R
10 2 (0.41%) VBA
11 1 (0.21%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 48 (9.86%) Security Cleared
2 39 (8.01%) SC Cleared
3 22 (4.52%) Degree
4 7 (1.44%) DV Cleared
5 6 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
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%) Azure Certification
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%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.21%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (30.60%) Data Quality
2 46 (9.45%) QA
3 29 (5.95%) GDPR
4 10 (2.05%) HL7
5 7 (1.44%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.82%) COREP
6 4 (0.82%) GRC
7 3 (0.62%) FINREP
8 2 (0.41%) DICOM
8 2 (0.41%) IFRS
8 2 (0.41%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.41%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.21%) Basel II
9 1 (0.21%) CDISC
9 1 (0.21%) GMP
9 1 (0.21%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.21%) MiFID
9 1 (0.21%) SEPA
9 1 (0.21%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 7 (1.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.41%) Docker
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 77 (15.81%) Microsoft
2 64 (13.14%) Oracle
3 50 (10.27%) SAP
4 33 (6.78%) Databricks
5 21 (4.31%) Salesforce
5 21 (4.31%) ServiceNow
6 17 (3.49%) IBM
7 10 (2.05%) Google
8 9 (1.85%) Workday
9 7 (1.44%) InterSystems
9 7 (1.44%) Splunk
10 6 (1.23%) AppDynamics
10 6 (1.23%) Murex
11 5 (1.03%) Avaloq
11 5 (1.03%) Informatica
11 5 (1.03%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.03%) OneTrust
11 5 (1.03%) SimCorp
12 4 (0.82%) Bloomberg
12 4 (0.82%) Siemens