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

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 353 372
Rank change year-on-year +21 +19 +132
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 250 209 276
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.74% 0.57% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.66% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 153 189
10th Percentile £325 £363 £388
25th Percentile £403 £408 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £644 £600 £638
90th Percentile £718 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +12.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £86.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £86.66
% change year-on-year - - +73.32%

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 30,417 31,751 42,257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.41% 86.14% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,927 19,078 28,622
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,950 1,157 1,592
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £18.71
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £42.75
Median % change year-on-year -32.95% -12.28% +22.14%
75th Percentile £42.69 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.27 £37.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -39.82% -12.94% +53.26%

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 26 October 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 26 October 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 +29 213 £508 +1.50% 104
London +2 122 £520 +1.96% 57
UK excluding London +26 99 £475 - 78
Work from Home +3 93 £515 +3.00% 60
North of England -9 33 £500 +21.21% 11
South East +19 20 £550 +10.00% 41
Midlands -23 19 £450 -5.26% 3
Scotland +16 17 £425 -15.00% 5
Yorkshire - 17 £306 - 2
West Midlands -18 16 £450 -2.70% 3
North West -18 14 £551 +33.45% 7
East of England -12 5 £430 -9.53% 8
South West +19 4 £475 +11.76% 9
East Midlands -5 3 £383 -33.48%
North East - 2 £438 - 2
Wales - 1 - - 3

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 (6.00%) Confluence
2 6 (2.40%) Anypoint
2 6 (2.40%) nginx
3 3 (1.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.20%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.40%) Smallworld
Applications
1 42 (16.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (8.00%) MS Visio
3 19 (7.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (9.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (2.80%) Aladdin
2 7 (2.80%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (2.00%) SAP PM
3 5 (2.00%) thinkFolio
4 3 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.20%) Endur
4 3 (1.20%) Loan IQ
4 3 (1.20%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (1.20%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (1.20%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.80%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.80%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.80%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.80%) SAP Travel Management
5 2 (0.80%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.40%) Aligne
6 1 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.40%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.40%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 30 (12.00%) Power Platform
2 25 (10.00%) Azure
3 19 (7.60%) AWS
4 12 (4.80%) Serverless
5 10 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (3.20%) Amazon SQS
7 8 (3.20%) Snowflake
8 7 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (2.80%) GitHub
9 6 (2.40%) Amazon EventBridge
9 6 (2.40%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (2.40%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (2.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (2.40%) Boomi
10 5 (2.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (2.00%) Collibra
10 5 (2.00%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (1.60%) AtomSphere
11 4 (1.60%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.60%) Firewall
2 1 (0.40%) DKIM
2 1 (0.40%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.00%) Power BI
2 11 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (4.40%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.00%) Metadata
4 9 (3.60%) Relational Database
5 8 (3.20%) Tableau
6 6 (2.40%) BigQuery
6 6 (2.40%) GIS
6 6 (2.40%) Oracle Database
6 6 (2.40%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (2.00%) Delta Lake
8 4 (1.60%) DB2
9 3 (1.20%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (1.20%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.20%) Data Mining
9 3 (1.20%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.20%) SAP BW
10 2 (0.80%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.80%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 27 (10.80%) JIRA
2 5 (2.00%) Git
3 2 (0.80%) Cucumber
3 2 (0.80%) GitLab
3 2 (0.80%) JUnit
3 2 (0.80%) Maven
3 2 (0.80%) Mockito
3 2 (0.80%) Postman
3 2 (0.80%) Selenium
4 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.40%) Liquibase
4 1 (0.40%) SpecFlow
General
1 104 (41.60%) Finance
2 90 (36.00%) Social Skills
3 50 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (12.00%) Banking
5 28 (11.20%) Public Sector
6 21 (8.40%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.60%) Front Office
8 8 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.40%) Back Office
10 6 (2.40%) Digital Healthcare
10 6 (2.40%) Investment Banking
10 6 (2.40%) Marketing
11 5 (2.00%) Billing
12 4 (1.60%) General Ledger
12 4 (1.60%) Legal
13 3 (1.20%) Law
13 3 (1.20%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.80%) Local Government
14 2 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 131 (52.40%) Analyst
2 79 (31.60%) Business Analyst
3 58 (23.20%) Data Analyst
4 36 (14.40%) Consultant
5 20 (8.00%) Data Business Analyst
6 18 (7.20%) Developer
6 18 (7.20%) Lead
7 14 (5.60%) Management Consultant
8 13 (5.20%) Senior
9 11 (4.40%) Architect
9 11 (4.40%) SAP Consultant
10 10 (4.00%) Data Engineer
10 10 (4.00%) Technical Analyst
11 9 (3.60%) SAP SD Consultant
12 8 (3.20%) Data Migration Lead
12 8 (3.20%) Implementation Analyst
12 8 (3.20%) Pensions Analyst
12 8 (3.20%) Technical Business Analyst
13 7 (2.80%) Business Data Analyst
13 7 (2.80%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.60%) JSON
2 17 (6.80%) REST
3 15 (6.00%) XML
4 13 (5.20%) SAP TM
4 13 (5.20%) SOAP
5 12 (4.80%) OAuth
6 10 (4.00%) HTML
7 9 (3.60%) OAuth2
8 8 (3.20%) Kafka
9 7 (2.80%) RESTful
10 5 (2.00%) XSLT
11 4 (1.60%) DCOM
11 4 (1.60%) Gherkin
11 4 (1.60%) Middleware
11 4 (1.60%) React
12 3 (1.20%) ADO
12 3 (1.20%) Playwright
12 3 (1.20%) Spring
12 3 (1.20%) Spring Boot
12 3 (1.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.80%) Data Structures
2 20 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
2 20 (8.00%) Onboarding
3 12 (4.80%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.60%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.20%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (3.20%) Fixed Income
6 7 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (2.80%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.80%) Hedge funds
6 7 (2.80%) Mainframe
6 7 (2.80%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.80%) Reference Data
7 6 (2.40%) Reinsurance
8 5 (2.00%) Derivative
8 5 (2.00%) IoT
8 5 (2.00%) SCADA
8 5 (2.00%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.20%) Equities
9 3 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.60%) Unix
2 2 (0.80%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (32.00%) Agile
2 74 (29.60%) Migration
3 60 (24.00%) Data Analysis
4 55 (22.00%) Data Migration
5 53 (21.20%) Data Modelling
6 51 (20.40%) Validation
7 49 (19.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 48 (19.20%) Data Governance
9 44 (17.60%) Stakeholder Management
10 39 (15.60%) Business Analysis
10 39 (15.60%) User Acceptance Testing
11 37 (14.80%) Workshop Facilitation
12 36 (14.40%) ETL
12 36 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
13 35 (14.00%) Data Transformation
14 34 (13.60%) Business Intelligence
14 34 (13.60%) Requirements Gathering
15 32 (12.80%) Data Cleansing
15 32 (12.80%) User Stories
16 29 (11.60%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 80 (32.00%) SQL
2 30 (12.00%) Python
3 12 (4.80%) Java
4 7 (2.80%) PL/SQL
5 5 (2.00%) C#
5 5 (2.00%) Kusto Query Language
5 5 (2.00%) VBA
6 4 (1.60%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.60%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.80%) Bicep
7 2 (0.80%) JCL
7 2 (0.80%) Korn
7 2 (0.80%) PL/1
7 2 (0.80%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.80%) VB
8 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 35 (14.00%) Security Cleared
2 31 (12.40%) SC Cleared
3 25 (10.00%) Degree
4 8 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.60%) CBAP
6 3 (1.20%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.80%) ACCA
7 2 (0.80%) CIMA
7 2 (0.80%) PMP
8 1 (0.40%) CSPO
8 1 (0.40%) IIBA
8 1 (0.40%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (21.60%) Data Quality
2 24 (9.60%) QA
3 21 (8.40%) GDPR
4 4 (1.60%) COBIT
4 4 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.80%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.80%) IFRS
6 2 (0.80%) WCAG
7 1 (0.40%) FATCA
7 1 (0.40%) NCSC
7 1 (0.40%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (3.60%) Docker
2 2 (0.80%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 5 (2.00%) Kibana
2 4 (1.60%) Terraform
3 3 (1.20%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.80%) CA Endevor
4 2 (0.80%) Grafana
4 2 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (16.00%) SAP
2 36 (14.40%) Microsoft
3 30 (12.00%) Oracle
4 12 (4.80%) Databricks
5 9 (3.60%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.20%) Informatica
6 8 (3.20%) MuleSoft
6 8 (3.20%) Workday
7 5 (2.00%) BISAM
7 5 (2.00%) Calypso
7 5 (2.00%) Charles River
7 5 (2.00%) Pega
7 5 (2.00%) SimCorp
7 5 (2.00%) Teradata
8 4 (1.60%) Duck Creek
8 4 (1.60%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.80%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.80%) Kronos
9 2 (0.80%) Syncsort
9 2 (0.80%) Xceptor