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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 315 386
Rank change year-on-year -14 +71 +46
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 322 210 214
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.73% 0.72% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.80% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 144 144
10th Percentile £350 £356 £326
25th Percentile £414 £434 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £523
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +1.44% +0.48%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £600
90th Percentile £700 £703 £684
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.00 - £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 37,704 26,329 38,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 90.53% 86.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,901 17,073 24,878
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -1.13% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,218 942 2,338
10th Percentile £14.94 £15.20 £12.85
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.75 £16.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.31 £57.75
90th Percentile £75.12 £77.10 £71.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £31.76 £31.50
% change year-on-year -5.54% +0.83% -12.50%

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 25 March 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 15 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 25 March 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 -26 281 £525 -4.11% 101
London +20 185 £550 - 29
Work from Home -3 108 £500 -7.83% 22
UK excluding London -77 100 £500 -4.76% 83
South East -34 26 £625 +47.44% 24
North of England -71 19 £459 -21.91% 22
South West - 18 £538 - 7
Midlands -70 17 £500 -7.62% 15
Scotland +16 13 £450 -10.00% 2
North West -39 13 £450 -30.23% 12
West Midlands -52 13 £542 +3.14% 7
Yorkshire -56 6 £500 -6.98% 7
East of England -43 5 £434 -21.18% 10
East Midlands -36 3 £475 -12.84% 8
Wales -8 2 £438 +21.53% 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 16 (4.97%) Confluence
2 9 (2.80%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
3 6 (1.86%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.93%) CMS
4 3 (0.93%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (0.93%) SAS
5 2 (0.62%) Appian
6 1 (0.31%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 23 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 23 (7.14%) MS Visio
2 12 (3.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (4.66%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (3.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (1.86%) Finacle
4 6 (1.86%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (1.55%) Aladdin
5 5 (1.55%) SAP ERP
6 4 (1.24%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (1.24%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (1.24%) SAP R/3
7 3 (0.93%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 3 (0.93%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.93%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.62%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.62%) FIS Private Capital Suite
8 2 (0.62%) Maximo
8 2 (0.62%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.62%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.62%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 50 (15.53%) Azure
2 27 (8.39%) Power Platform
3 18 (5.59%) AWS
4 17 (5.28%) OCI
5 13 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (3.73%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (3.73%) GCP
7 11 (3.42%) Boomi
7 11 (3.42%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (2.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (1.86%) SaaS
10 5 (1.55%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (1.55%) Collibra
10 5 (1.55%) Snowflake
11 4 (1.24%) GitHub
11 4 (1.24%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.24%) SuccessFactors
12 3 (0.93%) AtomSphere
12 3 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (0.93%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.93%) Firewall
2 1 (0.31%) AMQP
2 1 (0.31%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.83%) Metadata
2 19 (5.90%) Power BI
3 17 (5.28%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (4.35%) SQL Server
4 14 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (1.86%) BigQuery
6 5 (1.55%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.55%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.24%) Delta Lake
7 4 (1.24%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.24%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.93%) DataStage
8 3 (0.93%) Electronic Patient Records
8 3 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (0.93%) Tableau
9 2 (0.62%) MySQL
9 2 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (8.07%) JIRA
2 5 (1.55%) Git
3 3 (0.93%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (0.62%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.62%) GitLab
4 2 (0.62%) JUnit
4 2 (0.62%) Maven
4 2 (0.62%) Mockito
4 2 (0.62%) Postman
4 2 (0.62%) Selenium
5 1 (0.31%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.31%) Hudson
5 1 (0.31%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 138 (42.86%) Finance
2 128 (39.75%) Social Skills
3 64 (19.88%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (17.70%) Banking
5 40 (12.42%) Documentation Skills
6 33 (10.25%) Public Sector
7 20 (6.21%) Legal
8 14 (4.35%) Retail
9 12 (3.73%) Investment Banking
10 10 (3.11%) Law
11 7 (2.17%) Financial Institution
11 7 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.86%) Back Office
12 6 (1.86%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.86%) Private Banking
13 5 (1.55%) Marketing
14 4 (1.24%) Police
14 4 (1.24%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 137 (42.55%) Analyst
2 98 (30.43%) Business Analyst
3 70 (21.74%) Lead
4 53 (16.46%) Data Analyst
5 29 (9.01%) Data Business Analyst
6 21 (6.52%) Architect
6 21 (6.52%) Senior
7 20 (6.21%) Data Migration Lead
8 18 (5.59%) Data Engineer
9 16 (4.97%) Developer
10 15 (4.66%) Data Architect
11 12 (3.73%) Banking Analyst
12 11 (3.42%) Consultant
13 10 (3.11%) Migration Analyst
13 10 (3.11%) Migration Engineer
14 9 (2.80%) Data Migration Analyst
14 9 (2.80%) Integration Engineer
14 9 (2.80%) Senior Analyst
14 9 (2.80%) Senior Business Analyst
14 9 (2.80%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (7.14%) Oracle Fusion
2 18 (5.59%) XML
3 12 (3.73%) REST
4 11 (3.42%) Middleware
5 10 (3.11%) JSON
6 9 (2.80%) SOAP
7 7 (2.17%) .NET
8 6 (1.86%) HTML
9 5 (1.55%) EDI
9 5 (1.55%) Kafka
10 4 (1.24%) Gherkin
10 4 (1.24%) OAuth
11 3 (0.93%) FHIR
11 3 (0.93%) OAuth2
11 3 (0.93%) React
11 3 (0.93%) RESTful
11 3 (0.93%) Spring
11 3 (0.93%) Spring Boot
11 3 (0.93%) XSLT
12 2 (0.62%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 66 (20.50%) Data Structures
2 47 (14.60%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (5.28%) Onboarding
4 15 (4.66%) Reference Data
5 11 (3.42%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (2.17%) NHS
7 7 (2.17%) Taxonomies
8 5 (1.55%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.24%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.24%) Fixed Income
10 3 (0.93%) Educational Technology
10 3 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.93%) IoT
10 3 (0.93%) LIMS
10 3 (0.93%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.93%) SCADA
11 2 (0.62%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.62%) Windows
2 1 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (52.48%) Migration
2 123 (38.20%) Data Migration
3 109 (33.85%) Stakeholder Management
4 102 (31.68%) Data Modelling
4 102 (31.68%) Validation
5 79 (24.53%) Agile
6 68 (21.12%) ETL
7 59 (18.32%) Data Cleansing
7 59 (18.32%) Data Governance
8 58 (18.01%) Data Transformation
8 58 (18.01%) Requirements Gathering
9 53 (16.46%) Data Analysis
10 52 (16.15%) User Acceptance Testing
10 52 (16.15%) Workshop Facilitation
11 49 (15.22%) Business Analysis
11 49 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
12 45 (13.98%) ERP
13 43 (13.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 32 (9.94%) Data Management
15 31 (9.63%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 77 (23.91%) SQL
2 15 (4.66%) Python
3 9 (2.80%) JavaScript
4 7 (2.17%) PL/SQL
5 5 (1.55%) C#
5 5 (1.55%) T-SQL
6 4 (1.24%) Java
7 3 (0.93%) Bicep
8 1 (0.31%) ABAP
8 1 (0.31%) C
8 1 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.31%) DataWeave
8 1 (0.31%) Groovy
8 1 (0.31%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.31%) R
8 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.31%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 53 (16.46%) Security Cleared
2 36 (11.18%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.52%) Degree
4 10 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.86%) CBAP
5 6 (1.86%) IIBA
6 5 (1.55%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.24%) PMP
8 2 (0.62%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (0.62%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.31%) ACCA
9 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.31%) CCA
9 1 (0.31%) CFA
9 1 (0.31%) CIMA
9 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.31%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.31%) MBA
9 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (24.53%) Data Quality
2 35 (10.87%) QA
3 33 (10.25%) GDPR
4 12 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.17%) COBIT
5 7 (2.17%) NIST
6 4 (1.24%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.24%) ISO 8583
6 4 (1.24%) SLA
7 3 (0.93%) GMP
7 3 (0.93%) GxP
7 3 (0.93%) HL7
7 3 (0.93%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.62%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.62%) GRC
8 2 (0.62%) PMO
8 2 (0.62%) SEPA
8 2 (0.62%) WCAG
9 1 (0.31%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (0.93%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.31%) Docker
2 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (1.86%) Terraform
2 3 (0.93%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.62%) Grafana
3 2 (0.62%) Kibana
4 1 (0.31%) Ansible
4 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (16.77%) Oracle
2 51 (15.84%) Microsoft
3 43 (13.35%) SAP
4 15 (4.66%) Databricks
5 13 (4.04%) Avaloq
6 11 (3.42%) Google
7 10 (3.11%) GoldenSource
8 9 (2.80%) Informatica
8 9 (2.80%) Salesforce
9 8 (2.48%) MuleSoft
9 8 (2.48%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.48%) Temenos
10 7 (2.17%) Workday
11 6 (1.86%) IBM
11 6 (1.86%) Murex
12 5 (1.55%) Ariba
12 5 (1.55%) Dell
12 5 (1.55%) Talend
13 4 (1.24%) Alteryx
13 4 (1.24%) Sage