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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 368 376
Rank change year-on-year +30 +8 +108
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 267 190 269
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.75% 0.52% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.61% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 138 183
10th Percentile £325 £363 £358
25th Percentile £404 £409 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £524
Median % change year-on-year - -4.49% -0.29%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £638
90th Percentile £700 £732 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £478 £550
% change year-on-year +3.40% -13.18% +14.58%
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 32,049 31,289 41,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.77% 86.33% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,064 18,819 27,584
10th Percentile £300 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,120 1,102 1,587
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.11 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.14 £19.03
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%
75th Percentile £45.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £33.54 £44.50
% change year-on-year -31.43% -24.63% +50.85%

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 19 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 19 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 +23 227 £511 +2.25% 109
London +22 134 £520 +1.46% 66
UK excluding London +15 101 £494 +3.40% 61
Work from Home -4 94 £500 - 45
North of England -15 34 £500 +21.21% 7
South East +9 18 £550 +21.55% 31
Scotland +14 17 £425 -15.00% 1
North West -16 17 £550 +33.39% 4
Yorkshire -27 15 £316 - 2
Midlands -32 15 £450 -12.20% 2
West Midlands -27 11 £450 -10.00% 2
South West +13 10 £525 +23.53% 20
East of England -21 5 £430 -10.93%
East Midlands -16 4 £383 -33.48%
North East - 2 £438 - 1
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 43 (16.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (8.24%) MS Visio
3 21 (7.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (8.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (3.00%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (1.87%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.12%) Endur
4 3 (1.12%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (1.12%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.75%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.75%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.75%) Maximo
5 2 (0.75%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.75%) Oracle EBS R12
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%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Payroll
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 32 (11.99%) Power Platform
2 28 (10.49%) Azure
3 22 (8.24%) AWS
4 13 (4.87%) Dynamics 365
5 10 (3.75%) Serverless
6 9 (3.37%) Azure Logic Apps
7 8 (3.00%) Amazon SQS
7 8 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.00%) Snowflake
8 7 (2.62%) OCI
9 6 (2.25%) Amazon EventBridge
9 6 (2.25%) Boomi
9 6 (2.25%) GCP
10 5 (1.87%) GitHub
10 5 (1.87%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.50%) AtomSphere
11 4 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (1.50%) PowerApps
12 3 (1.12%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.75%) Firewall
2 1 (0.37%) DKIM
2 1 (0.37%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (8.61%) Power BI
2 14 (5.24%) Metadata
2 14 (5.24%) SQL Server
3 12 (4.49%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (3.00%) Relational Database
4 8 (3.00%) Tableau
5 6 (2.25%) BigQuery
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%) MySQL
8 2 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.75%) Power Query
8 2 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.37%) Dremio
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
2 101 (37.83%) Social Skills
3 58 (21.72%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (11.99%) Public Sector
5 31 (11.61%) Banking
6 26 (9.74%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (3.75%) Legal
8 9 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (3.00%) Marketing
10 7 (2.62%) Investment Banking
10 7 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.25%) Back Office
11 6 (2.25%) Digital Healthcare
12 5 (1.87%) Billing
12 5 (1.87%) Retail
13 4 (1.50%) Front Office
13 4 (1.50%) General Ledger
13 4 (1.50%) Law
13 4 (1.50%) Telecoms
14 3 (1.12%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 136 (50.94%) Analyst
2 89 (33.33%) Business Analyst
3 57 (21.35%) Data Analyst
4 30 (11.24%) Consultant
5 25 (9.36%) Lead
6 23 (8.61%) Data Business Analyst
7 20 (7.49%) Developer
8 15 (5.62%) Senior
9 14 (5.24%) Architect
10 13 (4.87%) Management Consultant
11 12 (4.49%) Data Engineer
12 11 (4.12%) SAP Consultant
12 11 (4.12%) Technical Business Analyst
13 10 (3.75%) Technical Analyst
14 9 (3.37%) SAP SD Consultant
15 8 (3.00%) Data Migration Lead
15 8 (3.00%) Implementation Analyst
15 8 (3.00%) Pensions Analyst
16 7 (2.62%) Banking Analyst
16 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%) RESTful
8 7 (2.62%) XSLT
9 6 (2.25%) Middleware
9 6 (2.25%) Oracle Fusion
10 5 (1.87%) .NET
11 4 (1.50%) DCOM
11 4 (1.50%) Gherkin
11 4 (1.50%) React
12 3 (1.12%) Kafka
12 3 (1.12%) Playwright
12 3 (1.12%) Spring
12 3 (1.12%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.74%) 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
7 6 (2.25%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.25%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.12%) Educational Technology
9 3 (1.12%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.12%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.75%) Equities
10 2 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.75%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.50%) Unix
2 2 (0.75%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (32.96%) Migration
2 80 (29.96%) Agile
3 65 (24.34%) Data Migration
4 63 (23.60%) Data Analysis
5 59 (22.10%) Stakeholder Management
6 57 (21.35%) Data Modelling
7 53 (19.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 53 (19.85%) Validation
8 51 (19.10%) Data Governance
9 43 (16.10%) User Acceptance Testing
10 40 (14.98%) Business Analysis
10 40 (14.98%) Workshop Facilitation
11 39 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
11 39 (14.61%) Requirements Gathering
12 36 (13.48%) Data Cleansing
13 34 (12.73%) ETL
13 34 (12.73%) User Stories
14 33 (12.36%) Data Transformation
15 29 (10.86%) Business Intelligence
16 28 (10.49%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 73 (27.34%) SQL
2 25 (9.36%) 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 26 (9.74%) Degree
4 8 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.50%) CBAP
7 3 (1.12%) 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%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (19.48%) Data Quality
2 28 (10.49%) QA
3 22 (8.24%) 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%) 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 36 (13.48%) SAP
2 35 (13.11%) Microsoft
3 26 (9.74%) Oracle
4 9 (3.37%) MuleSoft
4 9 (3.37%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.00%) Workday
6 7 (2.62%) Databricks
7 6 (2.25%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.87%) Pega
8 5 (1.87%) Teradata
9 4 (1.50%) Duck Creek
9 4 (1.50%) IBM
9 4 (1.50%) Informatica
10 3 (1.12%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.12%) Google
10 3 (1.12%) Sage
11 2 (0.75%) Avaloq
11 2 (0.75%) Dell
11 2 (0.75%) OpenLink
11 2 (0.75%) Syncsort