Data Mapping Contracts

Data Mapping
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Data Mapping skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Mapping over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 287 367 422
Rank change year-on-year +80 +55 +43
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 253 221 296
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.86% 0.51% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.60% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 132 189
10th Percentile £375 £363 £375
25th Percentile £463 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £606 £625
90th Percentile £788 £699 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £46.23 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and 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 26,789 37,090 51,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.94% 86.26% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,213 23,884 36,030
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £411 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.20% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,097 2,438 1,721
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.22 £16.00 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.41 £36.50 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -22.16% +0.69% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.34 £38.06 £35.00
% change year-on-year -30.81% +8.74% +75.00%

Data Mapping
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Mapping as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Mapping in the UK

Data Mapping
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Mapping.

Daily rate trend for Data Mapping in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Mapping over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Mapping in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Mapping.

Hourly rate trend for Data Mapping in the UK

Data Mapping
Top 16 Contract 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 11 May 2025. 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 +104 217 £550 +4.76% 125
London +38 121 £600 +9.09% 64
Work from Home +62 113 £575 +15.00% 66
UK excluding London +71 88 £525 +5.00% 81
Midlands +34 24 £545 -3.11% 20
North of England +23 23 £588 +6.82% 11
South East +39 20 £425 -10.53% 37
North West +14 16 £645 +17.27% 7
West Midlands +27 15 £525 -5.62% 10
East of England +34 11 £550 -4.35% 4
East Midlands +13 9 £548 -12.40% 9
Scotland +8 7 £500 +5.26% 5
Yorkshire +14 4 £538 - 3
North East -5 3 £525 - 2
South West +37 2 £455 -14.55% 5
Wales 0 1 £360 -15.29%

Data Mapping
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (2.37%) SAS
1 6 (2.37%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.98%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (1.58%) SharePoint 2010
4 3 (1.19%) IIS
4 3 (1.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.79%) Confluence
6 1 (0.40%) Apache
6 1 (0.40%) CMS
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 19 (7.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.98%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.58%) InfoPath
3 4 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.40%) Adobe Captivate
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.40%) ProjectWise
4 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (7.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (7.51%) Aladdin
3 18 (7.11%) thinkFolio
4 16 (6.32%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (3.16%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (2.37%) SAP PM
7 4 (1.58%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (1.19%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (1.19%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (1.19%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (1.19%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.79%) assyst
9 2 (0.79%) Exstream
9 2 (0.79%) Maximo
9 2 (0.79%) Murex MxG2000
9 2 (0.79%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.79%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.79%) Oracle Cash Management
9 2 (0.79%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.79%) Oracle iProcurement
Cloud Services
1 43 (17.00%) Azure
2 33 (13.04%) Power Platform
3 19 (7.51%) PowerApps
4 18 (7.11%) AWS
5 17 (6.72%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (4.74%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 8 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (3.16%) Microsoft Purview
7 8 (3.16%) Power Automate
8 6 (2.37%) Collibra
8 6 (2.37%) Entra ID
8 6 (2.37%) GCP
8 6 (2.37%) GitHub
9 5 (1.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (1.98%) OneDrive
10 4 (1.58%) SaaS
10 4 (1.58%) Salsify
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.79%) Firewall
1 2 (0.79%) HTTP
1 2 (0.79%) SNMP
2 1 (0.40%) SWIFTNet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.93%) Power BI
2 11 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (3.95%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (2.77%) GIS
5 7 (2.77%) Oracle Database
6 6 (2.37%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (2.37%) Power Query
7 5 (1.98%) Data Hub
7 5 (1.98%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.98%) Delta Lake
7 5 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.98%) Tableau
8 3 (1.19%) Bigtable
8 3 (1.19%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (1.19%) Data Mining
8 3 (1.19%) Data Vault
8 3 (1.19%) SAP Data Services
9 2 (0.79%) SAP BW
9 2 (0.79%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 10 (3.95%) JIRA
2 4 (1.58%) ERwin
3 3 (1.19%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.40%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.40%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.40%) LSMW
General
1 87 (34.39%) Finance
2 82 (32.41%) Social Skills
3 43 (17.00%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (11.07%) Banking
5 25 (9.88%) Front Office
6 10 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.16%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.77%) Retail
9 6 (2.37%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (2.37%) Public Sector
10 5 (1.98%) Billing
10 5 (1.98%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.19%) Back Office
12 3 (1.19%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.19%) Legal
12 3 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.19%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.79%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 101 (39.92%) Analyst
2 68 (26.88%) Business Analyst
3 40 (15.81%) Consultant
4 33 (13.04%) Data Analyst
5 22 (8.70%) Business Manager
5 22 (8.70%) Data Engineer
6 21 (8.30%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
7 20 (7.91%) Lead
8 19 (7.51%) Senior
9 14 (5.53%) Data Business Analyst
9 14 (5.53%) Data Consultant
10 13 (5.14%) Senior Analyst
11 12 (4.74%) Architect
11 12 (4.74%) Migration Engineer
12 10 (3.95%) Data Manager
12 10 (3.95%) Data Migration Engineer
12 10 (3.95%) Insight Manager
12 10 (3.95%) SAP Consultant
12 10 (3.95%) Technical Analyst
13 8 (3.16%) Data Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.16%) JSON
1 8 (3.16%) Web Services
2 7 (2.77%) Kafka
2 7 (2.77%) PySpark
3 6 (2.37%) REST
3 6 (2.37%) SAP TM
4 4 (1.58%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (1.58%) pytest
5 3 (1.19%) FHIR
5 3 (1.19%) Murex MxML
6 2 (0.79%) BAPI
6 2 (0.79%) RESTful
6 2 (0.79%) SOAP
7 1 (0.40%) .NET
7 1 (0.40%) EDI
7 1 (0.40%) IDoc
7 1 (0.40%) Middleware
7 1 (0.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.86%) Onboarding
2 26 (10.28%) Derivative
2 26 (10.28%) Legacy Systems
3 22 (8.70%) Fixed Income
3 22 (8.70%) Hedge funds
4 19 (7.51%) Data Structures
5 11 (4.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (3.16%) Life Science
6 8 (3.16%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.98%) IoT
7 5 (1.98%) SCADA
8 4 (1.58%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.58%) Reference Data
8 4 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.19%) CMDB
9 3 (1.19%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.19%) Frameworx
9 3 (1.19%) TM Forum
9 3 (1.19%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.79%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.77%) Windows
2 6 (2.37%) Linux
3 3 (1.19%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (32.02%) Migration
2 71 (28.06%) ETL
3 66 (26.09%) Agile
4 58 (22.92%) Data Migration
5 55 (21.74%) Validation
6 51 (20.16%) Data Governance
6 51 (20.16%) Data Modelling
7 46 (18.18%) Analytics
8 44 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
9 40 (15.81%) Business Analysis
10 35 (13.83%) Data Analysis
11 34 (13.44%) Business Intelligence
12 33 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
13 29 (11.46%) Data Integration
14 28 (11.07%) Asset Management
14 28 (11.07%) Data Transformation
15 26 (10.28%) Data Management
16 24 (9.49%) ERP
17 23 (9.09%) Investment Management
18 22 (8.70%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 105 (41.50%) SQL
2 42 (16.60%) Python
3 18 (7.11%) PL/SQL
4 7 (2.77%) Java
5 6 (2.37%) PowerShell
6 5 (1.98%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (1.58%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.19%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.79%) Bicep
9 2 (0.79%) C
9 2 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.40%) ABAP
10 1 (0.40%) C#
10 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.40%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (7.51%) Security Cleared
2 17 (6.72%) Degree
3 16 (6.32%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.19%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (0.79%) CBAP
7 2 (0.79%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.40%) ACCA
8 1 (0.40%) CIMA
8 1 (0.40%) CIPFA
8 1 (0.40%) CSPO
8 1 (0.40%) ICAEW
8 1 (0.40%) IIBA
8 1 (0.40%) MCSA
8 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.40%) PMP
8 1 (0.40%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.40%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (20.55%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.53%) GDPR
3 12 (4.74%) QA
4 3 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.79%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.40%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (1.19%) Active Directory
1 3 (1.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.37%) Terraform
2 2 (0.79%) Kibana
2 2 (0.79%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 38 (15.02%) Oracle
2 37 (14.62%) SAP
3 34 (13.44%) Microsoft
4 23 (9.09%) Charles River
5 18 (7.11%) BISAM
5 18 (7.11%) Calypso
5 18 (7.11%) SimCorp
6 12 (4.74%) Databricks
6 12 (4.74%) Informatica
7 6 (2.37%) Murex
7 6 (2.37%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.37%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.58%) Alteryx
9 3 (1.19%) Ariba
9 3 (1.19%) IDERA
10 2 (0.79%) Adobe
10 2 (0.79%) Epicor
10 2 (0.79%) Kofax
10 2 (0.79%) OpenText
10 2 (0.79%) ReadSoft