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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 289 371
Rank change year-on-year -18 +82 +46
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 348 251 222
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.73% 0.86% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.95% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 173 133
10th Percentile £358 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £606
90th Percentile £723 £788 £699
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £40.00 - -
25th Percentile £50.25 - £45.98
Median hourly rate £82.29 - £46.23
75th Percentile £85.36 - £46.48
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.29 - -

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 40,321 26,530 37,209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.49% 90.95% 86.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,358 17,078 23,948
10th Percentile £321 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -1.00% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +2.30% -4.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,401 1,077 2,439
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.47 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.85 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.00 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.09% -21.23% +1.39%
75th Percentile £67.25 £61.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.00 £27.13 £37.50
% change year-on-year +62.21% -27.67% +7.14%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -29 307 £535 -2.73% 71
London +3 197 £550 -8.33% 31
Work from Home -30 112 £500 -13.04% 33
UK excluding London -79 111 £525 - 45
South East -56 29 £700 +64.71% 13
South West -11 25 £528 +15.93% 7
Midlands -62 21 £500 -8.26% 4
North of England -65 20 £444 -24.47% 14
West Midlands -57 14 £538 +2.38% 3
North West -38 13 £422 -34.65% 9
Scotland +4 10 £450 -10.00% 2
East of England -43 6 £454 -17.45% 6
Yorkshire -50 6 £500 -6.98% 5
East Midlands -36 5 £463 -15.53% 1
Wales -11 1 £450 +25.00% 1
North East -20 1 £363 -30.95%

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 19 (5.46%) Confluence
2 7 (2.01%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
3 5 (1.44%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.15%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.86%) CMS
5 3 (0.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.86%) SAS
6 2 (0.57%) Appian
7 1 (0.29%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 21 (6.03%) MS Visio
2 20 (5.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (2.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (4.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (3.16%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (2.30%) Aladdin
4 7 (2.01%) SAP ERP
5 6 (1.72%) Finacle
5 6 (1.72%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (1.15%) Maximo
6 4 (1.15%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (1.15%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (1.15%) SAP R/3
7 3 (0.86%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 3 (0.86%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.57%) FIS Private Capital Suite
8 2 (0.57%) IntelliMatch
8 2 (0.57%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.57%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.57%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.57%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 49 (14.08%) Azure
2 29 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 16 (4.60%) Azure Data Factory
3 16 (4.60%) GCP
4 15 (4.31%) OCI
5 13 (3.74%) AWS
6 10 (2.87%) Boomi
7 9 (2.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 8 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (2.01%) SaaS
10 6 (1.72%) Collibra
10 6 (1.72%) SuccessFactors
11 5 (1.44%) GitHub
12 4 (1.15%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.15%) PowerApps
13 3 (0.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (0.86%) Serverless
13 3 (0.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.86%) Firewall
2 1 (0.29%) AMQP
2 1 (0.29%) FTP
2 1 (0.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.18%) Metadata
1 25 (7.18%) Power BI
2 13 (3.74%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (3.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 12 (3.45%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.01%) DB2
4 7 (2.01%) Relational Database
5 6 (1.72%) Data Lake
5 6 (1.72%) NoSQL
5 6 (1.72%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (1.44%) Delta Lake
7 4 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (1.15%) Tableau
8 3 (0.86%) Electronic Patient Records
8 3 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.57%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.57%) Metadata Repository
9 2 (0.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 31 (8.91%) JIRA
2 3 (0.86%) Git
2 3 (0.86%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (0.57%) Postman
4 1 (0.29%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.29%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.29%) ERwin
4 1 (0.29%) Hudson
4 1 (0.29%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (0.29%) LSMW
4 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 138 (39.66%) Finance
2 121 (34.77%) Social Skills
3 71 (20.40%) Banking
4 67 (19.25%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (10.34%) Public Sector
6 32 (9.20%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (7.76%) Legal
8 13 (3.74%) Investment Banking
9 10 (2.87%) Law
9 10 (2.87%) Retail
10 9 (2.59%) Pharmaceutical
11 8 (2.30%) Financial Institution
11 8 (2.30%) Manufacturing
11 8 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (1.72%) Front Office
13 6 (1.72%) Marketing
13 6 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.72%) Private Banking
14 4 (1.15%) Police
Job Titles
1 142 (40.80%) Analyst
2 95 (27.30%) Business Analyst
3 80 (22.99%) Lead
4 60 (17.24%) Data Analyst
5 28 (8.05%) Data Business Analyst
6 26 (7.47%) Data Migration Lead
7 22 (6.32%) Data Engineer
7 22 (6.32%) Senior
8 17 (4.89%) Architect
9 16 (4.60%) Consultant
10 15 (4.31%) Developer
11 14 (4.02%) Data Architect
12 13 (3.74%) Banking Analyst
12 13 (3.74%) Migration Engineer
13 11 (3.16%) Data Migration Engineer
13 11 (3.16%) Migration Analyst
13 11 (3.16%) Migration Manager
13 11 (3.16%) Senior Analyst
14 10 (2.87%) Banking Business Analyst
14 10 (2.87%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.61%) XML
2 22 (6.32%) Oracle Fusion
3 19 (5.46%) REST
4 17 (4.89%) JSON
4 17 (4.89%) Middleware
5 14 (4.02%) SOAP
6 5 (1.44%) RESTful
6 5 (1.44%) Web Services
7 4 (1.15%) .NET
7 4 (1.15%) HTML
7 4 (1.15%) JDBC
7 4 (1.15%) Kafka
8 3 (0.86%) EDI
8 3 (0.86%) FHIR
8 3 (0.86%) XSLT
9 2 (0.57%) HTML5 Canvas
9 2 (0.57%) Itk
9 2 (0.57%) OAuth
9 2 (0.57%) PySpark
10 1 (0.29%) IDoc
Miscellaneous
1 76 (21.84%) Data Structures
2 45 (12.93%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (4.60%) Onboarding
3 16 (4.60%) Product Ownership
3 16 (4.60%) Reference Data
4 9 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (2.01%) Taxonomies
6 5 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (1.44%) Clustering
6 5 (1.44%) Fixed Income
6 5 (1.44%) Mainframe
6 5 (1.44%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.44%) NHS
7 4 (1.15%) Cloud Native
8 3 (0.86%) Credit Risk
8 3 (0.86%) Data Fabric
8 3 (0.86%) IoT
8 3 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (0.86%) LIMS
8 3 (0.86%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.86%) Windows
2 1 (0.29%) HPUX
2 1 (0.29%) Linux
2 1 (0.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (55.75%) Migration
2 133 (38.22%) Data Migration
2 133 (38.22%) Validation
3 111 (31.90%) Data Modelling
4 109 (31.32%) Stakeholder Management
5 81 (23.28%) ETL
6 78 (22.41%) Agile
7 66 (18.97%) Data Governance
8 65 (18.68%) Data Cleansing
9 56 (16.09%) Data Transformation
9 56 (16.09%) User Acceptance Testing
10 55 (15.80%) Data Analysis
10 55 (15.80%) Problem-Solving
10 55 (15.80%) Requirements Gathering
11 54 (15.52%) Workshop Facilitation
12 50 (14.37%) ERP
13 48 (13.79%) Business Analysis
14 40 (11.49%) Data Management
14 40 (11.49%) Data Validation
15 39 (11.21%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 94 (27.01%) SQL
2 22 (6.32%) Python
3 10 (2.87%) Java
4 6 (1.72%) PL/SQL
4 6 (1.72%) T-SQL
5 5 (1.44%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.86%) Bicep
7 2 (0.57%) C
7 2 (0.57%) C#
7 2 (0.57%) C++
7 2 (0.57%) Groovy
7 2 (0.57%) R
8 1 (0.29%) ABAP
8 1 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.29%) DataWeave
8 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 50 (14.37%) Security Cleared
2 33 (9.48%) SC Cleared
3 20 (5.75%) Degree
4 10 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (2.01%) CBAP
6 6 (1.72%) IIBA
6 6 (1.72%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.15%) PMP
8 2 (0.57%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.29%) CCA
9 1 (0.29%) CFA
9 1 (0.29%) CISA
9 1 (0.29%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.29%) MBA
9 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (25.86%) Data Quality
2 38 (10.92%) GDPR
3 36 (10.34%) QA
4 10 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.72%) COBIT
5 6 (1.72%) NIST
6 5 (1.44%) GxP
6 5 (1.44%) ISO 20022
7 4 (1.15%) GMP
7 4 (1.15%) ISO 8583
7 4 (1.15%) SLA
7 4 (1.15%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.86%) HL7
8 3 (0.86%) SEPA
9 2 (0.57%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.57%) GRC
9 2 (0.57%) MiFID
9 2 (0.57%) PMO
9 2 (0.57%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 3 (0.86%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.57%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (1.15%) Terraform
2 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (15.80%) Oracle
2 50 (14.37%) SAP
3 47 (13.51%) Microsoft
4 20 (5.75%) Databricks
5 16 (4.60%) Google
6 12 (3.45%) Avaloq
6 12 (3.45%) IBM
7 9 (2.59%) GoldenSource
8 8 (2.30%) Informatica
8 8 (2.30%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.30%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.30%) Temenos
8 8 (2.30%) Workday
9 7 (2.01%) Dell
9 7 (2.01%) MuleSoft
9 7 (2.01%) Murex
10 5 (1.44%) Alteryx
10 5 (1.44%) Ariba
11 4 (1.15%) Sage
11 4 (1.15%) Talend