Hybrid/Remote Data Mapping Contract Job Trends

Data Mapping
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Data Mapping skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 223 265
Rank change year-on-year -8 +42 +85
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 107 85 94
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.93% 0.83% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 0.92% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 65 64
10th Percentile £352 £404 £378
25th Percentile £425 £423 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £577 £650 £575
90th Percentile £696 £718 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.48% +1.46%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,283 9,216 14,067
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.97% 90.35% 87.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,716 6,286 9,379
10th Percentile £350 £330 £335
25th Percentile £416 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.37%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 468 203 543
10th Percentile £17.00 £15.25 £15.17
25th Percentile £25.38 £21.38 £23.63
Median hourly rate £55.00 £39.04 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.88% -2.40% -29.05%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.50 £62.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%

Data Mapping
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Mapping and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Data Mapping job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Data Mapping
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Mapping.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Mapping

Data Mapping
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Mapping over the 6 months to 20 March 2026.

Data Mapping daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Data Mapping
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Mapping.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Mapping

Data Mapping
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 5 (4.67%) Confluence
2 3 (2.80%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
3 2 (1.87%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (1.87%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.93%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.93%) CMS
Applications
1 14 (13.08%) MS Visio
2 7 (6.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (3.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (2.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.87%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.87%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.87%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.87%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.87%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.87%) SAP R/3
3 1 (0.93%) Maximo
3 1 (0.93%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.93%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.93%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.93%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 15 (14.02%) Azure
2 11 (10.28%) GCP
3 9 (8.41%) Power Platform
4 6 (5.61%) Boomi
5 5 (4.67%) OCI
6 4 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.74%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (2.80%) AtomSphere
7 3 (2.80%) AWS
7 3 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.87%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.87%) Collibra
8 2 (1.87%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.87%) Google Tag Manager
8 2 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.87%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.93%) dbt
9 1 (0.93%) GitHub
9 1 (0.93%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.93%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.93%) AMQP
1 1 (0.93%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.35%) Metadata
2 6 (5.61%) Power BI
3 5 (4.67%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.74%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.80%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.87%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.93%) DataStage
7 1 (0.93%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.93%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.93%) Parquet
7 1 (0.93%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 9 (8.41%) JIRA
2 2 (1.87%) Git
3 1 (0.93%) Hudson
General
1 40 (37.38%) Social Skills
2 38 (35.51%) Finance
3 26 (24.30%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (17.76%) Banking
5 15 (14.02%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (9.35%) Investment Banking
7 8 (7.48%) Legal
8 7 (6.54%) Public Sector
9 4 (3.74%) Back Office
9 4 (3.74%) Financial Institution
9 4 (3.74%) Law
10 3 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.80%) Retail
11 2 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.87%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.87%) Marketing
11 2 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (52.34%) Analyst
2 43 (40.19%) Business Analyst
3 21 (19.63%) Data Analyst
4 18 (16.82%) Lead
5 16 (14.95%) Data Business Analyst
6 9 (8.41%) Banking Analyst
7 8 (7.48%) Banking Business Analyst
7 8 (7.48%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
7 8 (7.48%) Identity Management Analyst
8 7 (6.54%) Data Engineer
8 7 (6.54%) Developer
8 7 (6.54%) Senior
9 6 (5.61%) Integration Engineer
10 5 (4.67%) Architect
10 5 (4.67%) Data Architect
11 4 (3.74%) Asset Management Analyst
11 4 (3.74%) Asset Management Business Analyst
11 4 (3.74%) Integration Developer
11 4 (3.74%) Senior Business Analyst
12 3 (2.80%) Investment Management Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.54%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (5.61%) XML
3 4 (3.74%) JSON
3 4 (3.74%) REST
3 4 (3.74%) SOAP
4 3 (2.80%) EDI
5 2 (1.87%) FHIR
5 2 (1.87%) HTML
5 2 (1.87%) Middleware
6 1 (0.93%) .NET
6 1 (0.93%) ADO
6 1 (0.93%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.93%) JMS
6 1 (0.93%) Kafka
6 1 (0.93%) Murex MxML
6 1 (0.93%) PySpark
6 1 (0.93%) RAML
6 1 (0.93%) React
6 1 (0.93%) Spring
6 1 (0.93%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 21 (19.63%) Data Structures
2 6 (5.61%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.67%) Reference Data
4 4 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.80%) NHS
5 3 (2.80%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.87%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.87%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.87%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.93%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.93%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.93%) Derivative
7 1 (0.93%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.93%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.93%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.93%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (37.38%) Migration
2 36 (33.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 28 (26.17%) Agile
4 27 (25.23%) Data Migration
4 27 (25.23%) Data Modelling
5 26 (24.30%) Validation
6 21 (19.63%) ETL
7 20 (18.69%) Requirements Gathering
8 19 (17.76%) Business Analysis
8 19 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (15.89%) Workshop Facilitation
10 16 (14.95%) Data Governance
11 15 (14.02%) Data Cleansing
12 13 (12.15%) Data Analysis
12 13 (12.15%) Data Transformation
13 12 (11.21%) User Acceptance Testing
13 12 (11.21%) User Stories
14 11 (10.28%) Data Integration
15 10 (9.35%) ERP
15 10 (9.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 24 (22.43%) SQL
2 5 (4.67%) Python
3 3 (2.80%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.93%) DataWeave
4 1 (0.93%) Java
4 1 (0.93%) R
4 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (12.15%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.48%) Degree
3 4 (3.74%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.74%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.87%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.93%) IIBA
5 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (20.56%) Data Quality
2 11 (10.28%) GDPR
2 11 (10.28%) QA
3 3 (2.80%) COBIT
3 3 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.80%) NIST
4 2 (1.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.87%) HL7
5 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.93%) FATCA
5 1 (0.93%) GMP
5 1 (0.93%) GxP
5 1 (0.93%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.93%) IFRS
5 1 (0.93%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (1.87%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.87%) Terraform
2 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (16.82%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.21%) SAP
3 11 (10.28%) Oracle
4 9 (8.41%) Google
5 5 (4.67%) Databricks
5 5 (4.67%) MuleSoft
5 5 (4.67%) Salesforce
5 5 (4.67%) ServiceNow
5 5 (4.67%) Workday
6 3 (2.80%) Ariba
7 2 (1.87%) Adobe
7 2 (1.87%) IBM
7 2 (1.87%) IDERA
7 2 (1.87%) Informatica
7 2 (1.87%) Murex
7 2 (1.87%) OneTrust
7 2 (1.87%) Talend
7 2 (1.87%) Tealium
8 1 (0.93%) Palantir
8 1 (0.93%) Qualtrics