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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 344 376
Rank change year-on-year +22 +32 +87
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 292 177 235
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.76% 0.57% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.63% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 117 163
10th Percentile £358 £351 £368
25th Percentile £417 £435 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.48% -0.48%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £490
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.00 - -

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 33,541 27,883 38,559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.38% 89.07% 87.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,255 16,908 25,386
10th Percentile £305 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £643
90th Percentile £722 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £499 £500
% change year-on-year -3.81% -0.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,020 876 1,970
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.98
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -9.67% +12.44%
75th Percentile £58.00 £62.50 £62.49
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.71 £30.45 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.85% -18.80% +44.23%

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 28 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 28 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 +21 254 £525 - 32
London +46 161 £545 +3.81% 19
Work from Home +10 108 £500 -4.76% 17
UK excluding London -11 96 £500 -4.76% 27
North of England -40 28 £500 -4.76% 6
South East -9 18 £575 +36.00% 10
Midlands -48 18 £496 -5.57% 3
West Midlands -34 15 £496 -5.57% 3
North West -22 14 £588 +4.44% 3
South West -8 13 £525 +23.53% 3
Yorkshire -39 12 £488 -7.14% 3
Scotland +16 11 £447 -10.60% 4
East of England -18 6 £427 -17.69%
North East -14 2 £438 -16.67%
East Midlands -34 2 - -
Wales - 2 £438 - 1

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 (2.74%) Confluence
2 7 (2.40%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
3 6 (2.05%) nginx
3 6 (2.05%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.03%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.68%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.68%) SAS
6 1 (0.34%) Appian
Applications
1 33 (11.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (7.88%) MS Visio
3 19 (6.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (7.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (4.11%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (2.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.37%) Finacle
4 4 (1.37%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (1.37%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (1.37%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (1.03%) Oracle EBS R12
5 3 (1.03%) SAP ERP
5 3 (1.03%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.68%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.68%) Endur
6 2 (0.68%) Maximo
6 2 (0.68%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.68%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.68%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.68%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.68%) SAP Travel Management
6 2 (0.68%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 32 (10.96%) Azure
2 30 (10.27%) Power Platform
3 17 (5.82%) AWS
4 14 (4.79%) Dynamics 365
5 13 (4.45%) OCI
6 10 (3.42%) Azure Logic Apps
7 9 (3.08%) GCP
8 8 (2.74%) Boomi
8 8 (2.74%) Serverless
9 7 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.40%) SaaS
10 6 (2.05%) Amazon EventBridge
10 6 (2.05%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (2.05%) Snowflake
11 5 (1.71%) GitHub
11 5 (1.71%) Power Automate
11 5 (1.71%) PowerApps
12 4 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (1.37%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.34%) DKIM
1 1 (0.34%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.85%) Power BI
2 17 (5.82%) Metadata
3 15 (5.14%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (3.77%) SQL Server
5 9 (3.08%) Relational Database
6 8 (2.74%) BigQuery
7 6 (2.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (2.05%) Tableau
8 3 (1.03%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.68%) DataStage
9 2 (0.68%) Power Query
9 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.34%) Big Data
10 1 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.34%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.34%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 19 (6.51%) JIRA
2 5 (1.71%) Git
3 4 (1.37%) Postman
4 2 (0.68%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.68%) GitLab
4 2 (0.68%) JUnit
4 2 (0.68%) Maven
4 2 (0.68%) Mockito
4 2 (0.68%) Selenium
5 1 (0.34%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.34%) SpecFlow
General
1 128 (43.84%) Finance
2 107 (36.64%) Social Skills
3 58 (19.86%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (16.10%) Banking
5 36 (12.33%) Documentation Skills
6 31 (10.62%) Public Sector
7 14 (4.79%) Investment Banking
8 10 (3.42%) Legal
9 9 (3.08%) Retail
10 8 (2.74%) Marketing
10 8 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (2.40%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (2.05%) Back Office
12 6 (2.05%) Digital Healthcare
12 6 (2.05%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.37%) Front Office
14 4 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 130 (44.52%) Analyst
2 88 (30.14%) Business Analyst
3 52 (17.81%) Data Analyst
4 47 (16.10%) Lead
5 31 (10.62%) Consultant
6 22 (7.53%) Data Business Analyst
7 19 (6.51%) Developer
8 17 (5.82%) Senior
9 14 (4.79%) Data Engineer
10 13 (4.45%) Architect
10 13 (4.45%) Data Migration Lead
10 13 (4.45%) Management Consultant
11 12 (4.11%) Banking Analyst
11 12 (4.11%) SAP Consultant
11 12 (4.11%) Technical Business Analyst
12 11 (3.77%) Technical Analyst
13 9 (3.08%) Banking Business Analyst
13 9 (3.08%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
13 9 (3.08%) Identity Management Analyst
13 9 (3.08%) SAP SD Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (8.90%) XML
2 21 (7.19%) REST
3 20 (6.85%) JSON
4 15 (5.14%) Oracle Fusion
5 14 (4.79%) SOAP
6 13 (4.45%) HTML
6 13 (4.45%) SAP TM
7 12 (4.11%) OAuth
8 9 (3.08%) OAuth2
9 8 (2.74%) Middleware
10 7 (2.40%) RESTful
10 7 (2.40%) XSLT
11 5 (1.71%) .NET
12 4 (1.37%) EDI
12 4 (1.37%) Gherkin
13 3 (1.03%) Kafka
13 3 (1.03%) Playwright
13 3 (1.03%) React
13 3 (1.03%) Spring
13 3 (1.03%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 54 (18.49%) Data Structures
2 37 (12.67%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (6.16%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
4 11 (3.77%) Reference Data
5 9 (3.08%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.40%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.71%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.71%) NHS
8 4 (1.37%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.37%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.03%) Educational Technology
9 3 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.03%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.03%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.68%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.68%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (39.38%) Migration
2 86 (29.45%) Data Migration
3 83 (28.42%) Data Modelling
4 82 (28.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 79 (27.05%) Agile
6 74 (25.34%) Validation
7 57 (19.52%) Workshop Facilitation
8 56 (19.18%) Data Analysis
9 55 (18.84%) Data Governance
10 46 (15.75%) Data Cleansing
10 46 (15.75%) Data Transformation
10 46 (15.75%) Requirements Gathering
10 46 (15.75%) User Acceptance Testing
11 45 (15.41%) Business Analysis
11 45 (15.41%) ETL
12 43 (14.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 40 (13.70%) ERP
14 36 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
14 36 (12.33%) User Stories
15 31 (10.62%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (21.92%) SQL
2 20 (6.85%) Python
3 10 (3.42%) Java
4 9 (3.08%) JavaScript
5 8 (2.74%) C#
6 5 (1.71%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.37%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.03%) VBA
9 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.34%) C
10 1 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.34%) Korn
10 1 (0.34%) R
10 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.34%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.34%) VB
Qualifications
1 43 (14.73%) Security Cleared
2 33 (11.30%) SC Cleared
3 30 (10.27%) Degree
4 7 (2.40%) CBAP
4 7 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.40%) IIBA
5 5 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.37%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.68%) PMP
8 1 (0.34%) ACCA
8 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.34%) CFA
8 1 (0.34%) CIMA
8 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.34%) MBA
8 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (19.86%) Data Quality
2 27 (9.25%) QA
3 21 (7.19%) GDPR
4 6 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.71%) COBIT
5 5 (1.71%) NIST
6 3 (1.03%) GMP
6 3 (1.03%) GxP
6 3 (1.03%) HL7
7 2 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.68%) GRC
7 2 (0.68%) WCAG
8 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.34%) Basel III
8 1 (0.34%) FATCA
8 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.34%) IFRS
8 1 (0.34%) MiFID
8 1 (0.34%) PMO
8 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (2.40%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.03%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.03%) Terraform
2 2 (0.68%) Grafana
2 2 (0.68%) Kibana
3 1 (0.34%) Ansible
3 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (14.38%) SAP
2 41 (14.04%) Microsoft
3 31 (10.62%) Oracle
4 12 (4.11%) Avaloq
5 10 (3.42%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.74%) Databricks
6 8 (2.74%) Workday
7 7 (2.40%) GoldenSource
8 6 (2.05%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.05%) Temenos
9 5 (1.71%) Google
9 5 (1.71%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.71%) Pega
10 4 (1.37%) Ariba
10 4 (1.37%) Dell
10 4 (1.37%) Sage
10 4 (1.37%) Teradata
11 3 (1.03%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.03%) Informatica
11 3 (1.03%) Murex