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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 359 364
Rank change year-on-year +42 +5 +78
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 277 177 243
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.75% 0.55% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.62% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 118 170
10th Percentile £350 £362 £400
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £523
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% -2.15% -0.48%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £620
90th Percentile £700 £729 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -6.86% +2.00% +11.11%
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 32,393 28,662 37,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.03% 88.45% 87.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,476 17,418 25,154
10th Percentile £304 £307 £305
25th Percentile £406 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £720 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,009 929 1,539
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.48 £18.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +21.43%
75th Percentile £55.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £30.45 £44.50
% change year-on-year -21.76% -31.57% +39.45%

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 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 4 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 +33 238 £511 -2.62% 99
London +47 145 £525 - 21
Work from Home +20 104 £500 - 15
UK excluding London -12 96 £475 -6.86% 90
North of England -31 31 £463 -11.90% 17
South East -15 17 £575 +35.29% 26
North West -16 16 £551 +14.39% 8
Midlands -44 16 £450 -14.29% 18
Yorkshire -34 13 £306 -41.71% 8
West Midlands -43 13 £450 -14.29% 10
Scotland +12 12 £436 -12.80% 4
South West +4 12 £525 +23.53% 10
East of England -17 7 £427 -18.67% 12
East Midlands -24 3 £375 -31.19% 7
North East - 2 £438 - 1
Wales - 1 £425 - 3

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 (2.89%) Confluence
2 6 (2.17%) nginx
2 6 (2.17%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
3 5 (1.81%) Anypoint
3 5 (1.81%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.72%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 36 (13.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (8.30%) MS Visio
3 21 (7.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 25 (9.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (3.61%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (2.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.44%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (1.08%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.72%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.72%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.72%) Endur
6 2 (0.72%) Finacle
6 2 (0.72%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 2 (0.72%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.72%) Maximo
6 2 (0.72%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.72%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.72%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.72%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.72%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.72%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.72%) SAP Travel Management
6 2 (0.72%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 36 (13.00%) Power Platform
2 30 (10.83%) Azure
3 21 (7.58%) AWS
4 14 (5.05%) Dynamics 365
5 10 (3.61%) Azure Logic Apps
5 10 (3.61%) OCI
5 10 (3.61%) Serverless
6 8 (2.89%) Amazon SQS
6 8 (2.89%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (2.89%) GCP
7 7 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.53%) Boomi
8 6 (2.17%) Amazon EventBridge
8 6 (2.17%) SaaS
8 6 (2.17%) Snowflake
9 5 (1.81%) GitHub
9 5 (1.81%) Power Automate
9 5 (1.81%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.44%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.44%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.36%) DKIM
1 1 (0.36%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.39%) Power BI
2 16 (5.78%) Metadata
3 15 (5.42%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (4.33%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.89%) BigQuery
6 7 (2.53%) Relational Database
6 7 (2.53%) Tableau
7 5 (1.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.44%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.44%) DB2
9 2 (0.72%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.72%) DataStage
9 2 (0.72%) IMS/DB
9 2 (0.72%) Power Query
10 1 (0.36%) KDB
10 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.36%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.36%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (6.50%) JIRA
2 5 (1.81%) 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 (41.16%) Finance
2 101 (36.46%) Social Skills
3 58 (20.94%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (14.08%) Banking
5 33 (11.91%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (10.11%) Public Sector
7 13 (4.69%) Investment Banking
8 10 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (3.25%) Marketing
10 8 (2.89%) Legal
11 7 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (2.53%) Retail
12 6 (2.17%) Back Office
12 6 (2.17%) Digital Healthcare
12 6 (2.17%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.81%) Billing
13 5 (1.81%) Front Office
14 4 (1.44%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 129 (46.57%) Analyst
2 83 (29.96%) Business Analyst
3 55 (19.86%) Data Analyst
4 32 (11.55%) Lead
5 30 (10.83%) Consultant
6 23 (8.30%) Data Business Analyst
7 20 (7.22%) Developer
8 14 (5.05%) Architect
8 14 (5.05%) Senior
9 13 (4.69%) Management Consultant
10 12 (4.33%) Banking Analyst
10 12 (4.33%) SAP Consultant
10 12 (4.33%) Technical Business Analyst
11 11 (3.97%) Technical Analyst
12 10 (3.61%) Data Engineer
13 9 (3.25%) Implementation Analyst
13 9 (3.25%) SAP SD Consultant
14 8 (2.89%) Banking Business Analyst
14 8 (2.89%) Data Architect
14 8 (2.89%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (8.30%) XML
2 22 (7.94%) JSON
3 21 (7.58%) REST
4 14 (5.05%) HTML
4 14 (5.05%) SOAP
5 13 (4.69%) SAP TM
6 12 (4.33%) OAuth
6 12 (4.33%) Oracle Fusion
7 9 (3.25%) OAuth2
8 7 (2.53%) RESTful
8 7 (2.53%) XSLT
9 6 (2.17%) Middleware
10 5 (1.81%) .NET
11 4 (1.44%) Gherkin
11 4 (1.44%) Kafka
11 4 (1.44%) React
12 3 (1.08%) FHIR
12 3 (1.08%) Playwright
12 3 (1.08%) Spring
12 3 (1.08%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 47 (16.97%) Data Structures
2 30 (10.83%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (5.78%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.97%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (3.61%) Reference Data
6 7 (2.53%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.53%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.53%) Mainframe
7 6 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (2.17%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.81%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.44%) NHS
9 4 (1.44%) Reinsurance
10 3 (1.08%) Educational Technology
10 3 (1.08%) Equities
10 3 (1.08%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.08%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.72%) MVS
1 2 (0.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (34.30%) Migration
2 75 (27.08%) Data Modelling
3 74 (26.71%) Agile
3 74 (26.71%) Data Migration
4 70 (25.27%) Stakeholder Management
5 64 (23.10%) Validation
6 57 (20.58%) Data Analysis
7 49 (17.69%) Data Governance
8 43 (15.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 43 (15.52%) Workshop Facilitation
9 41 (14.80%) User Acceptance Testing
10 40 (14.44%) Data Cleansing
10 40 (14.44%) ETL
11 39 (14.08%) Data Transformation
12 37 (13.36%) Business Analysis
12 37 (13.36%) Problem-Solving
13 34 (12.27%) Requirements Gathering
14 33 (11.91%) ERP
14 33 (11.91%) User Stories
15 32 (11.55%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 68 (24.55%) SQL
2 23 (8.30%) Python
3 12 (4.33%) Java
4 10 (3.61%) JavaScript
5 8 (2.89%) C#
6 5 (1.81%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.44%) PL/SQL
7 4 (1.44%) VBA
8 2 (0.72%) JCL
8 2 (0.72%) Korn
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%) R
9 1 (0.36%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 40 (14.44%) Security Cleared
2 31 (11.19%) SC Cleared
3 26 (9.39%) Degree
4 7 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.44%) 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 54 (19.49%) Data Quality
2 26 (9.39%) QA
3 20 (7.22%) GDPR
4 5 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.44%) COBIT
5 4 (1.44%) 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%) IFRS
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%) MiFID
8 1 (0.36%) NCSC
8 1 (0.36%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (3.61%) Docker
2 2 (0.72%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.81%) Kibana
2 4 (1.44%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.44%) Terraform
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 (14.08%) Microsoft
2 37 (13.36%) SAP
3 28 (10.11%) Oracle
4 10 (3.61%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.89%) Avaloq
5 8 (2.89%) Databricks
5 8 (2.89%) MuleSoft
6 6 (2.17%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.81%) GoldenSource
7 5 (1.81%) Pega
7 5 (1.81%) Workday
8 4 (1.44%) IBM
8 4 (1.44%) Sage
8 4 (1.44%) Teradata
9 3 (1.08%) Ariba
9 3 (1.08%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.08%) Dell
9 3 (1.08%) Google
9 3 (1.08%) Informatica
9 3 (1.08%) Murex