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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 303 364
Rank change year-on-year +9 +61 +37
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 449 262 241
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.85% 0.80% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.89% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 177 158
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £606
90th Percentile £700 £788 £679
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £538 £475
% change year-on-year -8.84% +13.16% -8.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £35.28 - -
25th Percentile - - £45.98
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £46.23
75th Percentile £85.36 - £46.48
90th Percentile - - -
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 45,026 29,407 35,968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.11% 90.34% 85.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,974 18,494 23,016
10th Percentile £325 £300 £301
25th Percentile £419 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,554 2,302
10th Percentile £14.87 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.01 £17.37 £16.71
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.50 £51.55 £62.00
90th Percentile £82.46 £70.00 £73.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.33 £38.20
% change year-on-year +84.96% -36.30% -4.51%

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 18 July 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 18 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Mapping in the UK

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 18 July 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 -4 372 £537 -2.36% 47
London +31 236 £550 -4.35% 32
UK excluding London -60 151 £490 -8.84% 28
Work from Home -22 145 £500 -15.61% 22
North of England -67 39 £463 -22.92% 7
Scotland +2 27 £365 -25.13%
South West -15 27 £545 +32.93% 3
South East -52 27 £700 +27.27% 12
Midlands -46 25 £490 -10.91% 5
North West -46 23 £459 -26.01% 6
Yorkshire -35 15 £500 -9.09% 1
West Midlands -57 12 £500 -31.03% 3
East Midlands -8 11 £476 -13.41% 2
East of England -20 7 £475 -26.92%
North East -33 1 £363 -32.56%

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 33 (7.35%) Confluence
2 13 (2.90%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.67%) CMS
3 3 (0.67%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
3 3 (0.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.22%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.22%) Appian
5 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 27 (6.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (5.79%) MS Visio
3 10 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (3.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (2.45%) Aladdin
3 8 (1.78%) SAP ERP
4 7 (1.56%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (1.34%) Maximo
6 5 (1.11%) NetSuite
6 5 (1.11%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 3 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.67%) Finacle
7 3 (0.67%) Infor LN
7 3 (0.67%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 3 (0.67%) IntelliMatch
7 3 (0.67%) SAP Payroll
7 3 (0.67%) SAP R/3
7 3 (0.67%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.45%) SAP HR
8 2 (0.45%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.45%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 67 (14.92%) Azure
2 36 (8.02%) Power Platform
3 23 (5.12%) AWS
4 20 (4.45%) GCP
5 17 (3.79%) Boomi
6 16 (3.56%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (2.90%) Snowflake
9 11 (2.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (2.23%) Microsoft Purview
11 9 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (2.00%) GitHub
11 9 (2.00%) SuccessFactors
12 8 (1.78%) Entra ID
12 8 (1.78%) SaaS
13 7 (1.56%) OCI
14 6 (1.34%) AtomSphere
15 5 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (1.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.89%) Firewall
2 3 (0.67%) SSL
3 1 (0.22%) AMQP
3 1 (0.22%) FTP
3 1 (0.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (8.46%) Metadata
2 37 (8.24%) Data Warehouse
3 33 (7.35%) Power BI
4 19 (4.23%) Data Lake
5 12 (2.67%) SQL Server
5 12 (2.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 11 (2.45%) Oracle Database
6 11 (2.45%) Relational Database
7 10 (2.23%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (2.00%) Delta Lake
9 8 (1.78%) Db2
9 8 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (1.56%) DynamoDB
10 7 (1.56%) MongoDB
10 7 (1.56%) NoSQL
11 6 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 6 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (1.11%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (10.91%) JIRA
2 5 (1.11%) Git
3 4 (0.89%) Cypress.io
3 4 (0.89%) Gatling
3 4 (0.89%) Postman
4 3 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.67%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (0.45%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.45%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.22%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.22%) ERwin
6 1 (0.22%) Hudson
6 1 (0.22%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.22%) LSMW
6 1 (0.22%) NUnit
6 1 (0.22%) PVCS
6 1 (0.22%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.22%) Subversion
General
1 157 (34.97%) Finance
2 152 (33.85%) Social Skills
3 88 (19.60%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (14.70%) Banking
5 39 (8.69%) Public Sector
6 29 (6.46%) Documentation Skills
6 29 (6.46%) Legal
7 17 (3.79%) Manufacturing
7 17 (3.79%) Retail
8 11 (2.45%) Law
9 10 (2.23%) Marketing
10 9 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.34%) Billing
12 6 (1.34%) Front Office
12 6 (1.34%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.11%) Police
14 4 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.89%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 193 (42.98%) Analyst
2 125 (27.84%) Business Analyst
3 75 (16.70%) Data Analyst
3 75 (16.70%) Lead
4 42 (9.35%) Data Business Analyst
5 37 (8.24%) Architect
5 37 (8.24%) Senior
6 33 (7.35%) Developer
7 28 (6.24%) Data Architect
8 24 (5.35%) Data Engineer
8 24 (5.35%) Data Migration Lead
9 20 (4.45%) Consultant
9 20 (4.45%) Senior Analyst
9 20 (4.45%) Technical Analyst
10 17 (3.79%) Business Systems Analyst
11 15 (3.34%) Senior Business Analyst
11 15 (3.34%) Systems Analyst
12 14 (3.12%) Technical Business Analyst
13 13 (2.90%) Transformation Analyst
14 12 (2.67%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (10.24%) JSON
2 39 (8.69%) REST
3 37 (8.24%) XML
4 29 (6.46%) Middleware
4 29 (6.46%) SOAP
5 19 (4.23%) Oracle Fusion
6 13 (2.90%) Web Services
7 11 (2.45%) OAuth
8 8 (1.78%) EDI
9 7 (1.56%) OAuth2
9 7 (1.56%) XSLT
10 6 (1.34%) Kafka
11 5 (1.11%) RESTful
12 4 (0.89%) .NET
12 4 (0.89%) FHIR
12 4 (0.89%) JDBC
12 4 (0.89%) Playwright
12 4 (0.89%) PySpark
12 4 (0.89%) SAML
12 4 (0.89%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 77 (17.15%) Data Structures
2 57 (12.69%) Legacy Systems
3 33 (7.35%) Product Ownership
4 21 (4.68%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.67%) Reference Data
6 10 (2.23%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.78%) Taxonomies
8 7 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.56%) Digital Media
9 6 (1.34%) Clustering
9 6 (1.34%) CMDB
10 5 (1.11%) Derivative
10 5 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.11%) LIMS
10 5 (1.11%) Mainframe
11 4 (0.89%) Cloud Native
11 4 (0.89%) Fixed Income
11 4 (0.89%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.89%) Reinsurance
11 4 (0.89%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.23%) Windows
2 5 (1.11%) Unix
3 4 (0.89%) Linux
4 3 (0.67%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.45%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (45.21%) Migration
2 150 (33.41%) Data Modelling
3 149 (33.18%) Validation
4 137 (30.51%) Data Migration
5 128 (28.51%) Agile
6 125 (27.84%) Stakeholder Management
7 90 (20.04%) ETL
8 80 (17.82%) User Acceptance Testing
9 78 (17.37%) Requirements Gathering
10 76 (16.93%) Problem-Solving
11 75 (16.70%) Workshop Facilitation
12 74 (16.48%) Data Governance
13 71 (15.81%) Data Transformation
14 70 (15.59%) Data Analysis
15 65 (14.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 62 (13.81%) ERP
17 59 (13.14%) Data Cleansing
18 58 (12.92%) Business Analysis
19 55 (12.25%) User Stories
20 52 (11.58%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 141 (31.40%) SQL
2 22 (4.90%) Python
3 15 (3.34%) PL/SQL
4 11 (2.45%) Java
5 9 (2.00%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.34%) T-SQL
7 5 (1.11%) Groovy
7 5 (1.11%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.11%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.89%) Bicep
8 4 (0.89%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.67%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.67%) C#
9 3 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.67%) R
10 2 (0.45%) C
10 2 (0.45%) C++
10 2 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.45%) MUMPS
11 1 (0.22%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 57 (12.69%) Security Cleared
2 42 (9.35%) SC Cleared
3 18 (4.01%) Degree
4 11 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.34%) CBAP
5 6 (1.34%) IIBA
6 3 (0.67%) CTC Cleared
6 3 (0.67%) DBS Check
6 3 (0.67%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.45%) PMP
7 2 (0.45%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.22%) CCA
8 1 (0.22%) CISA
8 1 (0.22%) CISSP
8 1 (0.22%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.22%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (24.50%) Data Quality
2 40 (8.91%) GDPR
3 37 (8.24%) QA
4 8 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.11%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.11%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.11%) Solvency II
6 4 (0.89%) HL7
6 4 (0.89%) ISO 8583
6 4 (0.89%) NIST
7 3 (0.67%) COBIT
7 3 (0.67%) SEPA
7 3 (0.67%) SLA
8 2 (0.45%) GMP
8 2 (0.45%) GRC
8 2 (0.45%) GxP
8 2 (0.45%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.22%) Basel II
9 1 (0.22%) MiFID
9 1 (0.22%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (1.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.45%) Docker
2 2 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (1.11%) Terraform
2 3 (0.67%) Ansible
2 3 (0.67%) WMI
3 2 (0.45%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 75 (16.70%) Oracle
2 64 (14.25%) Microsoft
3 54 (12.03%) SAP
4 32 (7.13%) Databricks
5 21 (4.68%) ServiceNow
6 17 (3.79%) Salesforce
7 16 (3.56%) IBM
8 15 (3.34%) Google
9 12 (2.67%) MuleSoft
10 11 (2.45%) Workday
11 10 (2.23%) Informatica
12 8 (1.78%) Murex
13 7 (1.56%) Dell
14 6 (1.34%) AppDynamics
14 6 (1.34%) Splunk
15 5 (1.11%) Avaloq
15 5 (1.11%) Talend
15 5 (1.11%) Temenos
16 4 (0.89%) GoldenSource
16 4 (0.89%) webMethods