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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 356 359
Rank change year-on-year +36 +3 +94
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 279 173 242
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.77% 0.55% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.62% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 116 168
10th Percentile £350 £354 £400
25th Percentile £413 £423 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £524
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% -2.39% -3.01%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £611
90th Percentile £700 £706 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £518 £515
% change year-on-year -8.21% +0.49% +14.44%
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 & 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 31,821 27,941 37,669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.79% 88.66% 87.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,057 16,962 24,992
10th Percentile £304 £306 £304
25th Percentile £406 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £744 £742
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,969 885 1,593
10th Percentile £14.60 £15.62 £14.18
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.48 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.25 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% -20.38% +16.41%
75th Percentile £56.00 £61.76 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.49 £74.82 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £30.11 £43.90
% change year-on-year -20.86% -31.42% +59.64%

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 12 January 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
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 12 January 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 +22 239 £525 - 28
London +45 146 £550 +4.76% 15
Work from Home +15 106 £500 - 13
UK excluding London -4 97 £475 -8.21% 21
North of England -29 31 £463 -11.90% 5
South East -12 17 £575 +35.29% 8
Midlands -44 17 £450 -14.29% 5
North West -24 16 £551 +0.09% 2
West Midlands -33 14 £450 -14.29% 3
Yorkshire -27 13 £306 -41.71% 3
Scotland +15 12 £436 -12.80%
South West -6 12 £525 +23.53% 2
East of England -24 6 £427 -18.67%
East Midlands -21 3 £375 -31.19% 2
North East -6 2 £438 -16.67%
Wales - 2 £438 - 1

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 8 (2.87%) Confluence
2 6 (2.15%) nginx
2 6 (2.15%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
3 5 (1.79%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.43%) Anypoint
5 3 (1.08%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 36 (12.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (7.89%) MS Visio
3 20 (7.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 23 (8.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (3.58%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (2.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.43%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (1.08%) Finacle
5 3 (1.08%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (1.08%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.72%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.72%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.72%) Endur
6 2 (0.72%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 2 (0.72%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.72%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.72%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.72%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.72%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.72%) Unit4 Business World
6 2 (0.72%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 35 (12.54%) Power Platform
2 29 (10.39%) Azure
3 20 (7.17%) AWS
4 14 (5.02%) Dynamics 365
5 11 (3.94%) OCI
6 10 (3.58%) Azure Logic Apps
6 10 (3.58%) Serverless
7 8 (2.87%) Amazon SQS
7 8 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (2.87%) GCP
8 7 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (2.51%) Boomi
9 6 (2.15%) Amazon EventBridge
9 6 (2.15%) SaaS
9 6 (2.15%) Snowflake
10 5 (1.79%) GitHub
10 5 (1.79%) Power Automate
10 5 (1.79%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.43%) AtomSphere
11 4 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.36%) DKIM
1 1 (0.36%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (8.96%) Power BI
2 16 (5.73%) Metadata
3 14 (5.02%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (4.30%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.87%) BigQuery
5 8 (2.87%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.15%) Tableau
7 5 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.43%) DB2
9 3 (1.08%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.72%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.72%) DataStage
10 2 (0.72%) IMS/DB
10 2 (0.72%) Power Query
11 1 (0.36%) Big Data
11 1 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.36%) SAP BW
11 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (6.45%) JIRA
2 5 (1.79%) Git
3 3 (1.08%) Postman
4 2 (0.72%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.72%) GitLab
4 2 (0.72%) JUnit
4 2 (0.72%) Maven
4 2 (0.72%) Mockito
4 2 (0.72%) Selenium
5 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.36%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.36%) SpecFlow
General
1 114 (40.86%) Finance
2 102 (36.56%) Social Skills
3 60 (21.51%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (14.70%) Banking
5 33 (11.83%) Documentation Skills
6 29 (10.39%) Public Sector
7 13 (4.66%) Investment Banking
8 10 (3.58%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.87%) Marketing
9 8 (2.87%) Retail
10 7 (2.51%) Legal
10 7 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.15%) Back Office
11 6 (2.15%) Digital Healthcare
11 6 (2.15%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.79%) Billing
12 5 (1.79%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.79%) Front Office
12 5 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 127 (45.52%) Analyst
2 82 (29.39%) Business Analyst
3 56 (20.07%) Data Analyst
4 36 (12.90%) Lead
5 30 (10.75%) Consultant
6 23 (8.24%) Data Business Analyst
7 20 (7.17%) Developer
8 14 (5.02%) Architect
8 14 (5.02%) Senior
9 13 (4.66%) Management Consultant
10 12 (4.30%) Data Engineer
10 12 (4.30%) SAP Consultant
10 12 (4.30%) Technical Business Analyst
11 11 (3.94%) Banking Analyst
11 11 (3.94%) Technical Analyst
12 9 (3.23%) Data Migration Lead
12 9 (3.23%) SAP SD Consultant
13 8 (2.87%) Data Architect
13 8 (2.87%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
13 8 (2.87%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (8.60%) XML
2 22 (7.89%) JSON
3 21 (7.53%) REST
4 14 (5.02%) HTML
4 14 (5.02%) SOAP
5 13 (4.66%) Oracle Fusion
5 13 (4.66%) SAP TM
6 12 (4.30%) OAuth
7 9 (3.23%) OAuth2
8 7 (2.51%) RESTful
8 7 (2.51%) XSLT
9 6 (2.15%) Middleware
10 5 (1.79%) .NET
11 4 (1.43%) EDI
11 4 (1.43%) Gherkin
11 4 (1.43%) Kafka
11 4 (1.43%) React
12 3 (1.08%) FHIR
12 3 (1.08%) Playwright
12 3 (1.08%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 49 (17.56%) Data Structures
2 33 (11.83%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (5.73%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.94%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (3.58%) Reference Data
6 7 (2.51%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.51%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.51%) Mainframe
7 6 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (2.15%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.79%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.79%) NHS
9 4 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.43%) Reinsurance
10 3 (1.08%) Educational Technology
10 3 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.08%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.72%) Equities
11 2 (0.72%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.72%) MVS
1 2 (0.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (35.13%) Migration
2 76 (27.24%) Data Migration
3 74 (26.52%) Data Modelling
4 73 (26.16%) Agile
5 71 (25.45%) Stakeholder Management
6 66 (23.66%) Validation
7 57 (20.43%) Data Analysis
8 49 (17.56%) Data Governance
9 45 (16.13%) Workshop Facilitation
10 43 (15.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 42 (15.05%) User Acceptance Testing
12 41 (14.70%) Data Cleansing
12 41 (14.70%) Data Transformation
13 39 (13.98%) ETL
14 38 (13.62%) Problem-Solving
15 35 (12.54%) Business Analysis
15 35 (12.54%) Requirements Gathering
16 33 (11.83%) ERP
17 32 (11.47%) User Stories
18 31 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 66 (23.66%) SQL
2 22 (7.89%) Python
3 12 (4.30%) Java
4 10 (3.58%) JavaScript
5 8 (2.87%) C#
6 5 (1.79%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.43%) PL/SQL
7 4 (1.43%) VBA
8 2 (0.72%) JCL
8 2 (0.72%) PL/1
8 2 (0.72%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.72%) VB
9 1 (0.36%) C
9 1 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.36%) Korn
9 1 (0.36%) R
9 1 (0.36%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 40 (14.34%) Security Cleared
2 31 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 25 (8.96%) Degree
4 7 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.43%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.08%) CBAP
8 2 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.72%) PMP
9 1 (0.36%) ACCA
9 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.36%) CFA
9 1 (0.36%) CIMA
9 1 (0.36%) IIBA
9 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (19.71%) Data Quality
2 27 (9.68%) QA
3 20 (7.17%) GDPR
4 5 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.43%) COBIT
5 4 (1.43%) NIST
6 3 (1.08%) GMP
6 3 (1.08%) GxP
6 3 (1.08%) HL7
7 2 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.72%) GRC
7 2 (0.72%) WCAG
8 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.36%) Basel III
8 1 (0.36%) FATCA
8 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.36%) IFRS
8 1 (0.36%) MiFID
8 1 (0.36%) NCSC
8 1 (0.36%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (3.58%) Docker
2 2 (0.72%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.79%) Kibana
1 5 (1.79%) Terraform
2 4 (1.43%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.72%) CA Endevor
3 2 (0.72%) Grafana
3 2 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.36%) Ansible
Vendors
1 39 (13.98%) Microsoft
2 37 (13.26%) SAP
3 29 (10.39%) Oracle
4 10 (3.58%) Avaloq
5 9 (3.23%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.87%) Databricks
7 7 (2.51%) MuleSoft
8 6 (2.15%) GoldenSource
8 6 (2.15%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.15%) Workday
9 5 (1.79%) Pega
10 4 (1.43%) Google
10 4 (1.43%) IBM
10 4 (1.43%) Sage
10 4 (1.43%) Teradata
11 3 (1.08%) Ariba
11 3 (1.08%) Dell
11 3 (1.08%) Informatica
11 3 (1.08%) Murex
11 3 (1.08%) Temenos