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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 310 366
Rank change year-on-year +10 +56 +28
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 414 257 235
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.80% 0.81% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.90% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 180 154
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £419 £454 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.64% +10.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £605
90th Percentile £700 £788 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £537 £450
% change year-on-year -6.89% +19.27% -12.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £33.70 - -
25th Percentile - - £45.98
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £46.23
75th Percentile £85.36 - £46.48
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.79 - -

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 43,890 28,628 37,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.04% 90.75% 85.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,271 18,064 23,618
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,636 1,406 2,527
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.46 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.45% -35.31% +8.91%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -11 345 £549 -0.23% 78
London +26 222 £550 -4.35% 43
UK excluding London -50 138 £500 -6.89% 51
Work from Home -34 129 £500 -13.04% 41
North of England -69 32 £500 -9.09% 12
South East -52 27 £700 +27.27% 19
Scotland +2 26 £358 -26.56% 2
South West -12 24 £548 +33.54% 6
Midlands -50 22 £495 -10.00% 7
North West -35 21 £463 -25.40% 10
West Midlands -60 13 £575 -20.69% 4
Yorkshire -52 10 £519 -5.68% 2
East Midlands -15 7 £463 -15.91% 3
East of England -29 7 £475 -26.92% 4
Wales -17 1 £450 +25.00% 1
North East -37 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 27 (6.52%) Confluence
2 11 (2.66%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.72%) CMS
3 3 (0.72%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
3 3 (0.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (0.72%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.48%) Appian
4 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.48%) SAS
5 1 (0.24%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 26 (6.28%) MS Visio
2 23 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (3.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (2.17%) Aladdin
3 8 (1.93%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (1.69%) SAP ERP
5 6 (1.45%) Maximo
5 6 (1.45%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 4 (0.97%) Finacle
6 4 (0.97%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.72%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 3 (0.72%) IntelliMatch
7 3 (0.72%) SAP R/3
7 3 (0.72%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.48%) Infor LN
8 2 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.48%) Shopify
8 2 (0.48%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 58 (14.01%) Azure
2 33 (7.97%) Power Platform
3 19 (4.59%) AWS
4 18 (4.35%) GCP
5 16 (3.86%) Azure Data Factory
5 16 (3.86%) Boomi
6 11 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (2.66%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (2.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 10 (2.42%) Snowflake
8 9 (2.17%) Microsoft Purview
8 9 (2.17%) OCI
8 9 (2.17%) SaaS
8 9 (2.17%) SuccessFactors
9 7 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (1.69%) GitHub
10 6 (1.45%) Collibra
10 6 (1.45%) Entra ID
11 5 (1.21%) AtomSphere
11 5 (1.21%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.97%) Firewall
2 2 (0.48%) SSL
3 1 (0.24%) AMQP
3 1 (0.24%) FTP
3 1 (0.24%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (7.97%) Metadata
2 32 (7.73%) Data Warehouse
3 31 (7.49%) Power BI
4 14 (3.38%) Data Lake
5 13 (3.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 11 (2.66%) Oracle Database
6 11 (2.66%) Relational Database
6 11 (2.66%) SQL Server
7 9 (2.17%) Delta Lake
8 8 (1.93%) NoSQL
8 8 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (1.69%) Db2
9 7 (1.69%) DynamoDB
9 7 (1.69%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 7 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.21%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 42 (10.14%) JIRA
2 5 (1.21%) Git
3 4 (0.97%) Cypress.io
3 4 (0.97%) Gatling
3 4 (0.97%) Postman
4 3 (0.72%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.72%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (0.48%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.24%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.24%) ERwin
6 1 (0.24%) Hudson
6 1 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.24%) LSMW
6 1 (0.24%) NUnit
6 1 (0.24%) PVCS
6 1 (0.24%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.24%) Subversion
General
1 156 (37.68%) Finance
2 141 (34.06%) Social Skills
3 85 (20.53%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (17.15%) Banking
5 41 (9.90%) Public Sector
6 27 (6.52%) Legal
7 26 (6.28%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (3.62%) Manufacturing
9 14 (3.38%) Retail
10 11 (2.66%) Law
11 10 (2.42%) Marketing
12 8 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (1.69%) Investment Banking
13 7 (1.69%) Police
14 6 (1.45%) Front Office
14 6 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (1.21%) Billing
15 5 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.21%) Private Banking
16 4 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 174 (42.03%) Analyst
2 107 (25.85%) Business Analyst
3 76 (18.36%) Lead
4 71 (17.15%) Data Analyst
5 38 (9.18%) Data Business Analyst
6 33 (7.97%) Senior
7 31 (7.49%) Architect
8 29 (7.00%) Developer
9 28 (6.76%) Data Engineer
10 25 (6.04%) Data Migration Lead
11 22 (5.31%) Data Architect
12 20 (4.83%) Consultant
13 16 (3.86%) Senior Analyst
14 15 (3.62%) Systems Analyst
15 14 (3.38%) Migration Engineer
16 13 (3.14%) Business Systems Analyst
16 13 (3.14%) Data Migration Engineer
17 12 (2.90%) Technical Analyst
18 11 (2.66%) Senior Business Analyst
19 10 (2.42%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (9.18%) JSON
2 34 (8.21%) XML
3 31 (7.49%) REST
4 27 (6.52%) Middleware
5 22 (5.31%) SOAP
6 21 (5.07%) Oracle Fusion
7 13 (3.14%) Web Services
8 9 (2.17%) OAuth
9 8 (1.93%) EDI
10 7 (1.69%) XSLT
11 6 (1.45%) OAuth2
12 5 (1.21%) Kafka
12 5 (1.21%) RESTful
13 4 (0.97%) .NET
13 4 (0.97%) JDBC
13 4 (0.97%) Playwright
13 4 (0.97%) PySpark
13 4 (0.97%) SAML
14 3 (0.72%) JWT
15 2 (0.48%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 70 (16.91%) Data Structures
2 59 (14.25%) Legacy Systems
3 23 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 17 (4.11%) Onboarding
5 13 (3.14%) Reference Data
6 10 (2.42%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.93%) Taxonomies
8 6 (1.45%) Clustering
8 6 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.21%) Derivative
9 5 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.21%) Mainframe
10 4 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.97%) Cloud Native
10 4 (0.97%) Digital Media
10 4 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (0.97%) IoT
10 4 (0.97%) Reinsurance
10 4 (0.97%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.93%) Windows
2 4 (0.97%) Unix
3 3 (0.72%) Linux
4 2 (0.48%) HPUX
4 2 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (48.79%) Migration
2 143 (34.54%) Validation
3 137 (33.09%) Data Migration
4 133 (32.13%) Data Modelling
5 113 (27.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 112 (27.05%) Agile
7 89 (21.50%) ETL
8 74 (17.87%) Requirements Gathering
9 73 (17.63%) Problem-Solving
10 71 (17.15%) Data Transformation
11 69 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
12 68 (16.43%) Data Governance
13 65 (15.70%) Data Analysis
13 65 (15.70%) Workshop Facilitation
14 62 (14.98%) ERP
15 57 (13.77%) Data Cleansing
16 53 (12.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 51 (12.32%) Data Validation
18 48 (11.59%) Data Architecture
19 47 (11.35%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 129 (31.16%) SQL
2 24 (5.80%) Python
3 16 (3.86%) PL/SQL
4 11 (2.66%) Java
5 8 (1.93%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.69%) T-SQL
7 5 (1.21%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.97%) Bicep
8 4 (0.97%) Groovy
8 4 (0.97%) Kotlin
8 4 (0.97%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.72%) C#
9 3 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.72%) R
10 2 (0.48%) C
10 2 (0.48%) C++
10 2 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.24%) ABAP
11 1 (0.24%) DataWeave
11 1 (0.24%) Perl
Qualifications
1 55 (13.29%) Security Cleared
2 41 (9.90%) SC Cleared
3 20 (4.83%) Degree
4 10 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (1.69%) IIBA
6 6 (1.45%) CBAP
7 3 (0.72%) CTC Cleared
7 3 (0.72%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.48%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.48%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.48%) PMP
8 2 (0.48%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.24%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.24%) CCA
9 1 (0.24%) CISA
9 1 (0.24%) CISSP
9 1 (0.24%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.24%) MBA
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (26.33%) Data Quality
2 37 (8.94%) GDPR
3 32 (7.73%) QA
4 8 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.21%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.21%) Solvency II
6 4 (0.97%) ISO 8583
6 4 (0.97%) NIST
6 4 (0.97%) SLA
7 3 (0.72%) COBIT
7 3 (0.72%) SEPA
8 2 (0.48%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.48%) GMP
8 2 (0.48%) GRC
8 2 (0.48%) GxP
8 2 (0.48%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.24%) Basel II
9 1 (0.24%) CDISC
9 1 (0.24%) HL7
9 1 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (1.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.48%) Docker
2 2 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (1.45%) Terraform
2 2 (0.48%) Ansible
2 2 (0.48%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.48%) WMI
3 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 76 (18.36%) Oracle
2 61 (14.73%) Microsoft
3 51 (12.32%) SAP
4 32 (7.73%) Databricks
5 17 (4.11%) ServiceNow
6 16 (3.86%) Google
7 14 (3.38%) IBM
8 13 (3.14%) Salesforce
9 12 (2.90%) MuleSoft
10 10 (2.42%) Workday
11 9 (2.17%) Informatica
12 8 (1.93%) Murex
13 7 (1.69%) Avaloq
13 7 (1.69%) Dell
14 6 (1.45%) Temenos
15 5 (1.21%) AppDynamics
15 5 (1.21%) GoldenSource
15 5 (1.21%) Splunk
15 5 (1.21%) Talend
16 4 (0.97%) Alteryx