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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 320 380
Rank change year-on-year -11 +60 +42
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 324 208 215
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.72% 0.72% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.79% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 141 141
10th Percentile £350 £358 £315
25th Percentile £414 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £523
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.87% -0.48%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £600
90th Percentile £700 £738 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £494
% change year-on-year -4.76% +6.33% +3.95%
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 38,313 26,307 38,195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.58% 90.51% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,289 17,086 24,815
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 £635 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £485 £500
% change year-on-year - -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,251 967 2,341
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.00 £12.82
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.24 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -1.54% -11.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £70.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.85 £31.08 £31.65
% change year-on-year +12.13% -1.80% -12.39%

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -22 283 £525 -4.55% 101
London +26 183 £550 - 29
Work from Home -6 107 £500 -9.09% 22
UK excluding London -72 104 £500 -4.76% 83
South East -40 28 £633 +49.60% 24
North of England -70 20 £455 -22.55% 22
South West - 18 £538 - 7
Midlands -64 17 £500 -6.98% 15
Scotland +13 13 £450 -10.00% 2
North West -37 13 £450 -30.23% 12
West Midlands -61 13 £542 +3.14% 7
East of England -40 6 £440 -20.00% 10
Yorkshire -53 6 £500 -6.98% 7
East Midlands -37 3 £475 -12.84% 8
Wales -9 2 £438 +21.53% 3
North East -15 1 £363 -30.95% 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 14 (4.32%) Confluence
2 9 (2.78%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
3 6 (1.85%) 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 21 (6.48%) MS Visio
2 19 (5.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (3.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (4.63%) Oracle EBS
2 11 (3.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (2.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (1.85%) Finacle
4 6 (1.85%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (1.54%) Aladdin
5 5 (1.54%) SAP ERP
6 4 (1.23%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (1.23%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (1.23%) SAP R/3
7 3 (0.93%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 3 (0.93%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.93%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.93%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.62%) FIS Private Capital Suite
8 2 (0.62%) IntelliMatch
8 2 (0.62%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.62%) SAP HCM
8 2 (0.62%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.62%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 50 (15.43%) Azure
2 28 (8.64%) Power Platform
3 18 (5.56%) AWS
4 17 (5.25%) OCI
5 14 (4.32%) GCP
6 12 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (2.78%) Boomi
9 8 (2.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (1.85%) Collibra
10 6 (1.85%) SaaS
11 5 (1.54%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (1.54%) Snowflake
12 4 (1.23%) GitHub
12 4 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (1.23%) SuccessFactors
13 3 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (0.93%) Entra ID
13 3 (0.93%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.93%) Firewall
2 1 (0.31%) AMQP
2 1 (0.31%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.72%) Metadata
2 20 (6.17%) Power BI
3 17 (5.25%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (4.32%) SQL Server
4 14 (4.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (1.85%) BigQuery
5 6 (1.85%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.54%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.54%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.23%) Delta Lake
7 4 (1.23%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.23%) 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%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (0.93%) Tableau
9 2 (0.62%) DB2
Development Applications
1 23 (7.10%) JIRA
2 5 (1.54%) 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%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.31%) ERwin
5 1 (0.31%) Hudson
5 1 (0.31%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 138 (42.59%) Finance
2 129 (39.81%) Social Skills
3 64 (19.75%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (17.59%) Banking
5 38 (11.73%) Documentation Skills
6 35 (10.80%) Public Sector
7 23 (7.10%) Legal
8 14 (4.32%) Retail
9 12 (3.70%) Investment Banking
10 11 (3.40%) Law
11 8 (2.47%) Financial Institution
12 7 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.85%) Back Office
13 6 (1.85%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.85%) Private Banking
14 5 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.54%) Marketing
15 4 (1.23%) Police
Job Titles
1 136 (41.98%) Analyst
2 96 (29.63%) Business Analyst
3 73 (22.53%) Lead
4 55 (16.98%) Data Analyst
5 29 (8.95%) Data Business Analyst
6 22 (6.79%) Senior
7 21 (6.48%) Architect
7 21 (6.48%) Data Migration Lead
8 19 (5.86%) Data Engineer
9 15 (4.63%) Data Architect
10 14 (4.32%) Developer
11 12 (3.70%) Banking Analyst
11 12 (3.70%) Consultant
12 10 (3.09%) Migration Analyst
12 10 (3.09%) Migration Engineer
13 9 (2.78%) Banking Business Analyst
13 9 (2.78%) Data Migration Analyst
13 9 (2.78%) Integration Engineer
13 9 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
13 9 (2.78%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (7.10%) Oracle Fusion
2 18 (5.56%) XML
3 12 (3.70%) Middleware
4 11 (3.40%) JSON
4 11 (3.40%) REST
5 8 (2.47%) .NET
6 7 (2.16%) HTML
6 7 (2.16%) SOAP
7 5 (1.54%) EDI
7 5 (1.54%) Kafka
8 4 (1.23%) Gherkin
8 4 (1.23%) OAuth
9 3 (0.93%) FHIR
9 3 (0.93%) OAuth2
9 3 (0.93%) React
9 3 (0.93%) RESTful
9 3 (0.93%) Spring
9 3 (0.93%) Spring Boot
9 3 (0.93%) XSLT
10 2 (0.62%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 66 (20.37%) Data Structures
2 48 (14.81%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (4.63%) Reference Data
4 14 (4.32%) Onboarding
5 11 (3.40%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (2.16%) NHS
7 7 (2.16%) Taxonomies
8 5 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.54%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.23%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.23%) Fixed Income
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%) Credit Risk
11 2 (0.62%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.62%) Windows
2 1 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (52.78%) Migration
2 121 (37.35%) Data Migration
3 110 (33.95%) Stakeholder Management
4 107 (33.02%) Data Modelling
5 102 (31.48%) Validation
6 79 (24.38%) Agile
7 70 (21.60%) ETL
8 61 (18.83%) Data Governance
9 59 (18.21%) Data Transformation
10 58 (17.90%) Data Cleansing
11 56 (17.28%) Requirements Gathering
12 53 (16.36%) Workshop Facilitation
13 52 (16.05%) User Acceptance Testing
14 51 (15.74%) Data Analysis
15 47 (14.51%) ERP
15 47 (14.51%) Problem-Solving
16 46 (14.20%) Business Analysis
17 44 (13.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 32 (9.88%) Data Management
19 31 (9.57%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 79 (24.38%) SQL
2 16 (4.94%) Python
3 10 (3.09%) JavaScript
4 7 (2.16%) PL/SQL
5 6 (1.85%) C#
6 5 (1.54%) T-SQL
7 4 (1.23%) Java
8 3 (0.93%) Bicep
9 2 (0.62%) R
10 1 (0.31%) ABAP
10 1 (0.31%) C
10 1 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.31%) DataWeave
10 1 (0.31%) Groovy
10 1 (0.31%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.31%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 54 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 37 (11.42%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.86%) Degree
4 11 (3.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.85%) CBAP
5 6 (1.85%) IIBA
6 5 (1.54%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.23%) 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 83 (25.62%) Data Quality
2 35 (10.80%) QA
3 33 (10.19%) GDPR
4 12 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.16%) COBIT
5 7 (2.16%) NIST
6 4 (1.23%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.23%) ISO 8583
6 4 (1.23%) 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%) MiFID
System Software
1 3 (0.93%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.31%) Docker
2 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (1.85%) 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 55 (16.98%) Oracle
2 51 (15.74%) Microsoft
3 46 (14.20%) SAP
4 15 (4.63%) Databricks
5 13 (4.01%) Avaloq
5 13 (4.01%) Google
6 10 (3.09%) GoldenSource
7 9 (2.78%) Informatica
7 9 (2.78%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.47%) MuleSoft
8 8 (2.47%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.47%) Temenos
9 7 (2.16%) Workday
10 6 (1.85%) IBM
10 6 (1.85%) Murex
11 5 (1.54%) Alteryx
11 5 (1.54%) Ariba
11 5 (1.54%) Dell
11 5 (1.54%) Talend
12 4 (1.23%) Teradata