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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 350 368
Rank change year-on-year +17 +18 +118
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 267 193 267
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.75% 0.52% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.60% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 140 182
10th Percentile £325 £363 £354
25th Percentile £408 £411 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £524
Median % change year-on-year - -4.63% -2.47%
75th Percentile £638 £616 £638
90th Percentile £700 £733 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £550
% change year-on-year +4.17% -12.73% +15.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
Median hourly rate £81.00 - £86.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.00 - £86.66

All Process and 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 31,979 31,998 41,164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.50% 86.61% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,013 19,257 27,677
10th Percentile £300 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £532
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.22% -3.36%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £743 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,115 1,171 1,588
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.12 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £43.85
Median % change year-on-year -26.03% -22.46% +25.29%
75th Percentile £45.46 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -29.69% -26.97% +48.33%

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 November 2025.

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
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 November 2025. 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 +30 227 £511 +2.25% 56
London +43 136 £508 -3.33% 26
UK excluding London +12 98 £500 +4.17% 49
Work from Home +11 98 £500 - 22
North of England -12 34 £500 +21.21% 5
South East +6 18 £550 +21.55% 30
North West -14 17 £550 +33.39% 2
Scotland +7 16 £436 -12.80% 1
Yorkshire -16 15 £306 - 3
Midlands -35 13 £450 -12.20%
South West +7 10 £525 +23.53% 13
West Midlands -26 10 £496 -0.85%
East of England -18 5 £430 -12.30%
East Midlands -8 3 £375 -34.78%
North East - 2 £438 -
Wales - 2 £425 -

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 15 (5.62%) Confluence
2 6 (2.25%) Anypoint
2 6 (2.25%) nginx
3 4 (1.50%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
3 4 (1.50%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 42 (15.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (8.61%) MS Visio
3 21 (7.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (8.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (3.00%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (2.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.12%) Endur
4 3 (1.12%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (1.12%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.75%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.75%) Maximo
5 2 (0.75%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.75%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.75%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.75%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.75%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.75%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.75%) SAP Travel Management
5 2 (0.75%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.37%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 33 (12.36%) Power Platform
2 29 (10.86%) Azure
3 23 (8.61%) AWS
4 14 (5.24%) Dynamics 365
5 10 (3.75%) Azure Logic Apps
5 10 (3.75%) Serverless
6 8 (3.00%) Amazon SQS
6 8 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (3.00%) GCP
6 8 (3.00%) Snowflake
7 7 (2.62%) OCI
8 6 (2.25%) Amazon EventBridge
8 6 (2.25%) Boomi
9 5 (1.87%) GitHub
9 5 (1.87%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.50%) AtomSphere
10 4 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (1.50%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.37%) DKIM
1 1 (0.37%) DMARC
1 1 (0.37%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.99%) Power BI
2 16 (5.99%) Metadata
3 14 (5.24%) SQL Server
4 12 (4.49%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (3.00%) BigQuery
5 8 (3.00%) Relational Database
5 8 (3.00%) Tableau
6 4 (1.50%) DB2
7 3 (1.12%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.12%) Data Mining
7 3 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (1.12%) SAP BW
8 2 (0.75%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.75%) DataStage
8 2 (0.75%) IMS/DB
8 2 (0.75%) Power Query
8 2 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.37%) Big Data
9 1 (0.37%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 27 (10.11%) JIRA
2 5 (1.87%) Git
3 2 (0.75%) Cucumber
3 2 (0.75%) GitLab
3 2 (0.75%) JUnit
3 2 (0.75%) Maven
3 2 (0.75%) Mockito
3 2 (0.75%) Postman
3 2 (0.75%) Selenium
4 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.37%) Liquibase
4 1 (0.37%) SpecFlow
General
1 107 (40.07%) Finance
2 102 (38.20%) Social Skills
3 58 (21.72%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (11.61%) Banking
4 31 (11.61%) Public Sector
5 26 (9.74%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.75%) Legal
7 9 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.00%) Marketing
9 7 (2.62%) Investment Banking
9 7 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.25%) Back Office
10 6 (2.25%) Digital Healthcare
11 5 (1.87%) Billing
11 5 (1.87%) Retail
12 4 (1.50%) General Ledger
12 4 (1.50%) Law
12 4 (1.50%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.12%) Front Office
13 3 (1.12%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 135 (50.56%) Analyst
2 90 (33.71%) Business Analyst
3 57 (21.35%) Data Analyst
4 31 (11.61%) Consultant
5 25 (9.36%) Data Business Analyst
5 25 (9.36%) Lead
6 20 (7.49%) Developer
7 15 (5.62%) Architect
7 15 (5.62%) Senior
8 13 (4.87%) Management Consultant
9 12 (4.49%) Technical Business Analyst
10 11 (4.12%) Data Engineer
10 11 (4.12%) SAP Consultant
10 11 (4.12%) Technical Analyst
11 9 (3.37%) Implementation Analyst
11 9 (3.37%) SAP SD Consultant
12 8 (3.00%) Data Migration Lead
12 8 (3.00%) Pensions Analyst
13 7 (2.62%) Banking Analyst
13 7 (2.62%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (9.36%) JSON
2 20 (7.49%) XML
3 19 (7.12%) REST
4 14 (5.24%) SOAP
5 13 (4.87%) SAP TM
6 12 (4.49%) HTML
6 12 (4.49%) OAuth
7 9 (3.37%) OAuth2
8 7 (2.62%) Oracle Fusion
8 7 (2.62%) RESTful
8 7 (2.62%) XSLT
9 6 (2.25%) Middleware
10 5 (1.87%) .NET
11 4 (1.50%) DCOM
11 4 (1.50%) Gherkin
11 4 (1.50%) React
12 3 (1.12%) ADO
12 3 (1.12%) Kafka
12 3 (1.12%) Spring
12 3 (1.12%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.86%) Data Structures
2 24 (8.99%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (5.62%) Onboarding
4 13 (4.87%) Data Protection Act
4 13 (4.87%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.00%) Reference Data
6 7 (2.62%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (2.62%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.62%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.62%) Mainframe
6 7 (2.62%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.25%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.12%) Educational Technology
9 3 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.12%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.75%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.75%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (0.75%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.50%) Unix
2 2 (0.75%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (32.96%) Migration
2 77 (28.84%) Agile
3 65 (24.34%) Data Migration
4 61 (22.85%) Data Analysis
5 60 (22.47%) Data Modelling
5 60 (22.47%) Stakeholder Management
6 52 (19.48%) Data Governance
6 52 (19.48%) Validation
7 50 (18.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 43 (16.10%) User Acceptance Testing
9 40 (14.98%) Workshop Facilitation
10 39 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
11 38 (14.23%) Data Cleansing
11 38 (14.23%) Requirements Gathering
12 36 (13.48%) Business Analysis
12 36 (13.48%) ETL
13 33 (12.36%) Data Transformation
13 33 (12.36%) User Stories
14 30 (11.24%) ERP
15 29 (10.86%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 73 (27.34%) SQL
2 24 (8.99%) Python
3 12 (4.49%) Java
4 9 (3.37%) JavaScript
5 8 (3.00%) C#
6 6 (2.25%) VBA
7 5 (1.87%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.50%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.75%) JCL
9 2 (0.75%) Korn
9 2 (0.75%) PL/1
9 2 (0.75%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.75%) VB
10 1 (0.37%) C
10 1 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 40 (14.98%) Security Cleared
2 33 (12.36%) SC Cleared
3 27 (10.11%) Degree
4 8 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.87%) CBAP
7 4 (1.50%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.75%) ACCA
8 2 (0.75%) CIMA
8 2 (0.75%) PMP
9 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.37%) CSPO
9 1 (0.37%) IIBA
9 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.37%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.37%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (19.85%) Data Quality
2 28 (10.49%) QA
3 21 (7.87%) GDPR
4 5 (1.87%) COBIT
5 3 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.75%) IFRS
6 2 (0.75%) NIST
6 2 (0.75%) WCAG
7 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.37%) FATCA
7 1 (0.37%) GRC
7 1 (0.37%) HL7
7 1 (0.37%) MiFID
7 1 (0.37%) NCSC
7 1 (0.37%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (3.75%) Docker
2 2 (0.75%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.87%) Kibana
2 4 (1.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.50%) Terraform
3 2 (0.75%) CA Endevor
3 2 (0.75%) Grafana
3 2 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.37%) Ansible
Vendors
1 38 (14.23%) SAP
2 37 (13.86%) Microsoft
3 27 (10.11%) Oracle
4 9 (3.37%) MuleSoft
4 9 (3.37%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.00%) Databricks
5 8 (3.00%) Workday
6 6 (2.25%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.87%) Pega
7 5 (1.87%) Teradata
8 4 (1.50%) Duck Creek
8 4 (1.50%) IBM
8 4 (1.50%) Informatica
9 3 (1.12%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.12%) Google
9 3 (1.12%) Sage
10 2 (0.75%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.75%) Avaloq
10 2 (0.75%) Palantir
10 2 (0.75%) Syncsort