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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 316 342
Rank change year-on-year +44 +26 +42
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 490 258 237
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.90% 0.78% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 0.87% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 178 160
10th Percentile £356 £350 £372
25th Percentile £425 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £536 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.52% +7.20% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £656 £613
90th Percentile £700 £788 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £32.13 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £62.68 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 - -

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 45,937 29,792 32,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.50% 90.51% 85.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,939 18,514 20,418
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,060 1,790 1,498
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.23 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.44 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.94 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.10 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.13 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +78.36% -47.67% +7.50%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 13 September 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 +5 390 £537 -0.05% 127
London +1 242 £550 - 82
Work from Home +7 186 £500 -9.09% 239
UK excluding London -29 159 £470 -6.00% 62
North of England -47 44 £470 -6.00% 12
Midlands -29 33 £476 -3.54% 6
South West -20 28 £530 +11.58% 10
North West -37 27 £450 -15.05% 4
Scotland -14 23 £345 -18.82% 7
South East -63 22 £700 +33.33% 21
West Midlands -39 18 £388 -11.43% 2
Yorkshire -36 15 £519 +41.86% 5
East Midlands -11 13 £490 -9.89% 4
East of England -16 9 £420 +0.12% 7
North East -41 2 £444 +1.43% 3
Wales -14 1 £475 -

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 38 (7.76%) Confluence
2 11 (2.24%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.41%) Apache
4 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.20%) CMS
5 1 (0.20%) IBM Transformation Extender
5 1 (0.20%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 36 (7.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (5.51%) MS Visio
3 10 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.84%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.41%) Mingle
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (3.06%) Aladdin
1 15 (3.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.43%) NetSuite
3 6 (1.22%) Maximo
4 5 (1.02%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 4 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.82%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.82%) ResourceLink
5 4 (0.82%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.82%) SAP Payroll
6 3 (0.61%) Infor LN
6 3 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.61%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.61%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.41%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 2 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.41%) Oracle FAH
7 2 (0.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 68 (13.88%) Azure
2 41 (8.37%) Power Platform
3 27 (5.51%) AWS
4 21 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (4.08%) Snowflake
6 19 (3.88%) GCP
7 16 (3.27%) Dynamics 365
8 15 (3.06%) Boomi
9 12 (2.45%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (2.24%) SuccessFactors
11 10 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (2.04%) SaaS
12 9 (1.84%) AtomSphere
12 9 (1.84%) GitHub
12 9 (1.84%) Microsoft Purview
13 7 (1.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (1.43%) Entra ID
14 6 (1.22%) Serverless
15 5 (1.02%) Azure Service Bus
15 5 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.82%) SSL
2 2 (0.41%) Firewall
3 1 (0.20%) FTP
3 1 (0.20%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (10.41%) Data Warehouse
2 40 (8.16%) Metadata
3 36 (7.35%) Power BI
4 34 (6.94%) Data Lake
5 17 (3.47%) Relational Database
6 13 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (2.65%) SQL Server
7 11 (2.24%) Oracle Database
8 10 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (2.04%) Semantic Layer
9 9 (1.84%) Delta Lake
10 8 (1.63%) Db2
10 8 (1.63%) Oracle Reports
10 8 (1.63%) Power Query
11 7 (1.43%) DynamoDB
11 7 (1.43%) MongoDB
11 7 (1.43%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 7 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (1.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 6 (1.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 59 (12.04%) JIRA
2 5 (1.02%) Git
2 5 (1.02%) Postman
3 4 (0.82%) Cypress.io
3 4 (0.82%) Gatling
3 4 (0.82%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.61%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.41%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.41%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.41%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.20%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.20%) ERwin
6 1 (0.20%) Flyway
6 1 (0.20%) GitLab
6 1 (0.20%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.20%) LSMW
6 1 (0.20%) NUnit
6 1 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.20%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.20%) Robot Framework
General
1 160 (32.65%) Finance
2 158 (32.24%) Social Skills
3 95 (19.39%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (14.08%) Banking
5 34 (6.94%) Legal
6 30 (6.12%) Public Sector
7 25 (5.10%) Retail
8 21 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
8 21 (4.29%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.04%) Marketing
10 9 (1.84%) Investment Banking
11 8 (1.63%) Front Office
11 8 (1.63%) General Ledger
11 8 (1.63%) Law
12 7 (1.43%) Local Government
12 7 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.02%) Billing
13 5 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.02%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 214 (43.67%) Analyst
2 138 (28.16%) Business Analyst
3 92 (18.78%) Data Analyst
4 62 (12.65%) Lead
5 56 (11.43%) Data Business Analyst
6 40 (8.16%) Architect
7 37 (7.55%) Consultant
7 37 (7.55%) Developer
8 34 (6.94%) Senior
9 27 (5.51%) Data Engineer
9 27 (5.51%) Technical Analyst
10 25 (5.10%) Data Architect
11 21 (4.29%) Technical Business Analyst
12 19 (3.88%) SQL Analyst
12 19 (3.88%) SQL Data Analyst
13 18 (3.67%) Business Systems Analyst
13 18 (3.67%) Data Migration Lead
14 17 (3.47%) Data Consultant
15 16 (3.27%) Senior Analyst
16 15 (3.06%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (10.00%) JSON
2 48 (9.80%) REST
3 38 (7.76%) XML
4 34 (6.94%) SOAP
5 32 (6.53%) Middleware
6 25 (5.10%) Oracle Fusion
7 17 (3.47%) Web Services
8 13 (2.65%) OAuth
9 11 (2.24%) FHIR
10 9 (1.84%) OAuth2
10 9 (1.84%) XSLT
11 8 (1.63%) EDI
11 8 (1.63%) Kafka
12 6 (1.22%) PySpark
12 6 (1.22%) SAML
12 6 (1.22%) Terraform
13 5 (1.02%) Lightning Web Components
13 5 (1.02%) Playwright
14 4 (0.82%) GraphQL
14 4 (0.82%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 81 (16.53%) Data Structures
2 53 (10.82%) Legacy Systems
3 41 (8.37%) Product Ownership
4 24 (4.90%) Onboarding
5 17 (3.47%) Management Information System
6 13 (2.65%) Reference Data
7 10 (2.04%) Derivative
8 9 (1.84%) Legacy Applications
9 8 (1.63%) Digital Media
9 8 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (1.43%) Clustering
10 7 (1.43%) CMDB
10 7 (1.43%) LIMS
10 7 (1.43%) NHS
11 6 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (1.22%) Mainframe
12 5 (1.02%) Cloud Native
12 5 (1.02%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.06%) Windows
2 9 (1.84%) Unix
3 8 (1.63%) Linux
4 3 (0.61%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.41%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (40.41%) Migration
2 175 (35.71%) Data Modelling
3 174 (35.51%) Validation
4 160 (32.65%) Stakeholder Management
5 150 (30.61%) Agile
6 141 (28.78%) Data Migration
7 108 (22.04%) Data Analysis
8 90 (18.37%) Requirements Gathering
8 90 (18.37%) User Acceptance Testing
9 88 (17.96%) ETL
10 87 (17.76%) Data Governance
11 83 (16.94%) Workshop Facilitation
12 82 (16.73%) Data Transformation
13 78 (15.92%) User Stories
14 76 (15.51%) Problem-Solving
14 76 (15.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 68 (13.88%) Business Analysis
16 64 (13.06%) ERP
17 63 (12.86%) Translating Business Requirements
18 60 (12.24%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 193 (39.39%) SQL
2 25 (5.10%) Python
3 16 (3.27%) PL/SQL
4 12 (2.45%) Java
5 11 (2.24%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.22%) Groovy
6 6 (1.22%) MUMPS
7 5 (1.02%) C#
7 5 (1.02%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.02%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.82%) Apex Code
8 4 (0.82%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.61%) ABAP
9 3 (0.61%) Bicep
9 3 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.61%) R
9 3 (0.61%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.41%) C
10 2 (0.41%) C++
10 2 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 47 (9.59%) Security Cleared
2 35 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 20 (4.08%) Degree
4 7 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.02%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.61%) CTC Cleared
6 3 (0.61%) IIBA
6 3 (0.61%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.41%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.41%) CBAP
7 2 (0.41%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.41%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.20%) CCA
8 1 (0.20%) CISA
8 1 (0.20%) CISSP
8 1 (0.20%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (29.80%) Data Quality
2 44 (8.98%) QA
3 35 (7.14%) GDPR
4 10 (2.04%) HL7
5 6 (1.22%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.82%) GRC
6 4 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.82%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.41%) DICOM
7 2 (0.41%) GMP
7 2 (0.41%) GxP
7 2 (0.41%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.20%) CDISC
8 1 (0.20%) COREP
8 1 (0.20%) EMIR
8 1 (0.20%) IFRS
8 1 (0.20%) NCSC
8 1 (0.20%) NIST
8 1 (0.20%) SEPA
8 1 (0.20%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 7 (1.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.41%) Docker
2 2 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (0.61%) Ansible
1 3 (0.61%) WMI
2 2 (0.41%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.20%) Tivoli
3 1 (0.20%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 76 (15.51%) Oracle
2 75 (15.31%) Microsoft
3 52 (10.61%) SAP
4 32 (6.53%) Databricks
5 21 (4.29%) Salesforce
5 21 (4.29%) ServiceNow
6 15 (3.06%) IBM
7 13 (2.65%) Google
8 9 (1.84%) Workday
9 7 (1.43%) InterSystems
9 7 (1.43%) Murex
9 7 (1.43%) Splunk
10 6 (1.22%) AppDynamics
10 6 (1.22%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.02%) Informatica
11 5 (1.02%) SimCorp
12 4 (0.82%) Avaloq
12 4 (0.82%) Charles River
12 4 (0.82%) Infor
12 4 (0.82%) webMethods