Data Mapping Contracts

Data Mapping
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Data Mapping skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Mapping over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 365 399
Rank change year-on-year +64 +34 +146
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 256 236 303
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.82% 0.54% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.64% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 152 196
10th Percentile £350 £363 £375
25th Percentile £454 £411 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £602 £638
90th Percentile £788 £674 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £537 £450 £515
% change year-on-year +19.27% -12.57% +5.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £46.23 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 28,438 37,047 49,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.78% 85.22% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,912 23,635 34,414
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,399 2,530 1,711
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.30 £64.81
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +64.71%

Data Mapping
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Mapping as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Mapping in the UK

Data Mapping
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Mapping.

Daily rate trend for Data Mapping in the UK

Data Mapping
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Mapping over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Mapping in the UK

Data Mapping
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Mapping.

Hourly rate trend for Data Mapping in the UK

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Top 16 Contract 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 3 July 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 +66 220 £550 +10.00% 134
London +35 124 £575 +9.52% 82
Work from Home +27 108 £575 +15.00% 62
UK excluding London +56 92 £537 +19.27% 60
North of England +20 27 £550 -2.22% 11
South East +39 23 £550 +29.41% 31
Midlands +15 17 £550 +29.41% 6
North West +10 16 £620 +10.22% 8
Scotland +10 13 £488 +120.61% 1
West Midlands +4 10 £725 +72.62% 4
Yorkshire +11 8 £550 - 3
East of England +27 7 £650 +73.33% 5
East Midlands +6 7 £550 -12.00% 2
South West +32 4 £410 -20.39% 6
North East +3 3 £525 - 1
Wales +4 1 £360 -15.29% 1

Data Mapping
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (5.08%) Confluence
2 6 (2.34%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.95%) SAS
4 4 (1.56%) SharePoint 2010
5 3 (1.17%) IIS
5 3 (1.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.39%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.39%) CMS
7 1 (0.39%) Smallworld
Applications
1 28 (10.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (4.69%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.56%) InfoPath
4 4 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.39%) Adobe Captivate
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.39%) ProjectWise
5 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 23 (8.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (7.81%) Aladdin
3 19 (7.42%) thinkFolio
4 15 (5.86%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (2.34%) SAP PM
6 4 (1.56%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (1.17%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (1.17%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.78%) assyst
8 2 (0.78%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.78%) Murex MxG2000
9 1 (0.39%) Endur
9 1 (0.39%) Loan IQ
9 1 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.39%) Oracle Payroll
9 1 (0.39%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.39%) SAP Payroll
9 1 (0.39%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 32 (12.50%) Azure
2 29 (11.33%) Power Platform
3 16 (6.25%) PowerApps
4 11 (4.30%) AWS
5 10 (3.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 10 (3.91%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.73%) Microsoft Purview
8 6 (2.34%) Collibra
9 5 (1.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (1.95%) GitHub
9 5 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (1.95%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (1.95%) OneDrive
9 5 (1.95%) Power Automate
9 5 (1.95%) Salsify
10 3 (1.17%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.17%) GCP
10 3 (1.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.56%) Firewall
2 2 (0.78%) HTTP
2 2 (0.78%) SNMP
3 1 (0.39%) SWIFTNet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.47%) Power BI
2 11 (4.30%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (2.73%) Oracle Database
5 6 (2.34%) GIS
5 6 (2.34%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (1.95%) Data Mining
6 5 (1.95%) Delta Lake
6 5 (1.95%) Tableau
7 4 (1.56%) Data Hub
7 4 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.56%) Power Query
7 4 (1.56%) SAP BW
8 3 (1.17%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (1.17%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.17%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.17%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.78%) Metadata
9 2 (0.78%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 21 (8.20%) JIRA
2 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.39%) LSMW
General
1 98 (38.28%) Finance
2 97 (37.89%) Social Skills
3 43 (16.80%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (12.11%) Banking
5 26 (10.16%) Front Office
6 13 (5.08%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (4.69%) Public Sector
8 10 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.13%) Retail
10 7 (2.73%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.95%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.95%) Legal
13 4 (1.56%) Billing
13 4 (1.56%) General Ledger
13 4 (1.56%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (1.17%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.78%) Advertising
15 2 (0.78%) Law
Job Titles
1 120 (46.88%) Analyst
2 81 (31.64%) Business Analyst
3 41 (16.02%) Data Analyst
4 34 (13.28%) Consultant
5 23 (8.98%) Business Manager
5 23 (8.98%) Lead
6 22 (8.59%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
7 19 (7.42%) Data Engineer
8 16 (6.25%) Data Business Analyst
8 16 (6.25%) Senior
9 13 (5.08%) Data Consultant
9 13 (5.08%) Senior Analyst
10 12 (4.69%) Architect
10 12 (4.69%) Migration Engineer
11 11 (4.30%) Data Manager
12 10 (3.91%) Data Migration Engineer
12 10 (3.91%) Insight Manager
12 10 (3.91%) SAP Consultant
13 8 (3.13%) Migration Analyst
13 8 (3.13%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.30%) JSON
2 8 (3.13%) PySpark
3 7 (2.73%) Web Services
4 6 (2.34%) REST
4 6 (2.34%) SAP TM
5 5 (1.95%) Kafka
5 5 (1.95%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (1.56%) DCOM
6 4 (1.56%) Middleware
6 4 (1.56%) pytest
7 2 (0.78%) BAPI
7 2 (0.78%) SOAP
8 1 (0.39%) .NET
8 1 (0.39%) ADO
8 1 (0.39%) EDI
8 1 (0.39%) IDoc
8 1 (0.39%) Murex MxML
8 1 (0.39%) RESTful
8 1 (0.39%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.11%) Onboarding
2 25 (9.77%) Hedge funds
2 25 (9.77%) Legacy Systems
3 23 (8.98%) Derivative
3 23 (8.98%) Fixed Income
4 14 (5.47%) Data Structures
5 13 (5.08%) Product Ownership
6 9 (3.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (3.52%) Life Science
7 7 (2.73%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.95%) IoT
8 5 (1.95%) SCADA
8 5 (1.95%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.56%) Credit Risk
10 3 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.17%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.17%) CMDB
10 3 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.17%) Frameworx
10 3 (1.17%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.17%) Windows
1 3 (1.17%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.78%) Unix
3 1 (0.39%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (33.20%) Migration
2 71 (27.73%) Agile
3 61 (23.83%) ETL
4 58 (22.66%) Validation
5 57 (22.27%) Data Migration
6 55 (21.48%) Data Governance
7 53 (20.70%) Business Analysis
8 51 (19.92%) Data Modelling
9 47 (18.36%) Problem-Solving
10 46 (17.97%) Analytics
11 42 (16.41%) Data Analysis
11 42 (16.41%) Stakeholder Management
12 36 (14.06%) Business Intelligence
13 32 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
14 31 (12.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 27 (10.55%) Data Cleansing
16 26 (10.16%) Asset Management
17 24 (9.38%) Data Transformation
17 24 (9.38%) Investment Management
18 23 (8.98%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 109 (42.58%) SQL
2 40 (15.63%) Python
3 16 (6.25%) PL/SQL
4 5 (1.95%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (1.56%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.17%) VBA
7 2 (0.78%) Bicep
7 2 (0.78%) Java
8 1 (0.39%) ABAP
8 1 (0.39%) C#
8 1 (0.39%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.39%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (8.20%) Security Cleared
2 19 (7.42%) Degree
3 16 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.95%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.56%) CBAP
6 4 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.17%) PMP
8 2 (0.78%) CSPO
8 2 (0.78%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.39%) ACCA
9 1 (0.39%) CIMA
9 1 (0.39%) IIBA
9 1 (0.39%) MCSA
9 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.39%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (21.09%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.47%) GDPR
3 13 (5.08%) QA
4 4 (1.56%) COBIT
5 3 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.78%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.39%) IFRS
7 1 (0.39%) NIST
7 1 (0.39%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (0.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.56%) Terraform
2 1 (0.39%) Kibana
2 1 (0.39%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (16.02%) Oracle
2 38 (14.84%) SAP
3 27 (10.55%) Microsoft
4 22 (8.59%) Charles River
5 19 (7.42%) BISAM
5 19 (7.42%) Calypso
5 19 (7.42%) SimCorp
6 11 (4.30%) Databricks
7 10 (3.91%) Informatica
7 10 (3.91%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.95%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.95%) Workday
9 4 (1.56%) Duck Creek
9 4 (1.56%) Murex
10 3 (1.17%) Ariba
11 2 (0.78%) Google
11 2 (0.78%) Kofax
11 2 (0.78%) Kronos
11 2 (0.78%) ReadSoft
11 2 (0.78%) Sun