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 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 200 237
Rank change year-on-year -39 +37 +85
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 113 104 102
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.89% 1.08% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.18% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 85 60
10th Percentile £358 £350 £342
25th Percentile £425 £458 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £593 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.61% +18.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £639 £675 £575
90th Percentile £700 £788 £653
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -6.98%

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 11,315 8,821 12,907
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.10% 91.36% 87.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,250 6,019 8,691
10th Percentile £350 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.98% -2.38% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £631 £638
90th Percentile £725 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 598 220 575
10th Percentile £17.51 £13.75 £14.93
25th Percentile £32.44 £18.43 £23.88
Median hourly rate £57.50 £35.95 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.97% -16.41% -18.10%
75th Percentile £71.43 £66.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £74.30
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.28 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.14% -25.26% +1.39%

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 11 June 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 7 (6.19%) Confluence
2 2 (1.77%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
2 2 (1.77%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.88%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.88%) CMS
3 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (8.85%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (5.31%) Aladdin
2 5 (4.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (2.65%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (1.77%) Maximo
4 2 (1.77%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (1.77%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.77%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.88%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.88%) SAP APO
5 1 (0.88%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.88%) SAP R/3
5 1 (0.88%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 14 (12.39%) Azure
1 14 (12.39%) GCP
2 6 (5.31%) Power Platform
3 5 (4.42%) Boomi
4 4 (3.54%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (3.54%) OCI
4 4 (3.54%) SaaS
4 4 (3.54%) Snowflake
4 4 (3.54%) SuccessFactors
5 3 (2.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (2.65%) GitHub
6 2 (1.77%) Collibra
6 2 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.77%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.77%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.88%) AWS
7 1 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.88%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.88%) AMQP
1 1 (0.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.62%) Metadata
2 8 (7.08%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.54%) Power BI
3 4 (3.54%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.65%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.77%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.77%) DataStage
5 2 (1.77%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.77%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.77%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.77%) Parquet
5 2 (1.77%) Spark SQL
5 2 (1.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.88%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.88%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 10 (8.85%) JIRA
2 3 (2.65%) Git
2 3 (2.65%) Postman
3 1 (0.88%) Hudson
3 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.88%) Robot Framework
General
1 39 (34.51%) Social Skills
2 34 (30.09%) Finance
3 22 (19.47%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (13.27%) Banking
4 15 (13.27%) Legal
5 14 (12.39%) Public Sector
6 13 (11.50%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (5.31%) Investment Banking
8 5 (4.42%) Retail
9 3 (2.65%) Billing
9 3 (2.65%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.65%) Law
9 3 (2.65%) Local Government
9 3 (2.65%) Marketing
9 3 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.65%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.77%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 52 (46.02%) Analyst
2 36 (31.86%) Business Analyst
3 25 (22.12%) Data Analyst
4 23 (20.35%) Lead
5 14 (12.39%) Data Business Analyst
6 12 (10.62%) Data Engineer
7 10 (8.85%) Senior
8 6 (5.31%) Banking Analyst
8 6 (5.31%) Banking Business Analyst
8 6 (5.31%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
8 6 (5.31%) Identity Management Analyst
8 6 (5.31%) Migration Engineer
9 5 (4.42%) Data Migration Engineer
9 5 (4.42%) Senior Data Engineer
10 4 (3.54%) Architect
10 4 (3.54%) Consultant
10 4 (3.54%) Developer
10 4 (3.54%) Python Engineer
10 4 (3.54%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (3.54%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.85%) XML
2 9 (7.96%) JSON
3 5 (4.42%) Middleware
4 4 (3.54%) EDI
4 4 (3.54%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (3.54%) REST
5 3 (2.65%) PySpark
5 3 (2.65%) XSLT
6 2 (1.77%) SOAP
7 1 (0.88%) FHIR
7 1 (0.88%) Great Expectations
7 1 (0.88%) JMS
7 1 (0.88%) Pandas
7 1 (0.88%) pytest
7 1 (0.88%) RAML
7 1 (0.88%) RESTful
7 1 (0.88%) Swagger
7 1 (0.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (20.35%) Data Structures
2 10 (8.85%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (6.19%) Reference Data
4 5 (4.42%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.54%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.65%) NHS
7 2 (1.77%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.77%) Derivative
7 2 (1.77%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.88%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.88%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.88%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.88%) Life Science
8 1 (0.88%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.65%) Windows
2 2 (1.77%) HPUX
2 2 (1.77%) Linux
2 2 (1.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (41.59%) Migration
2 38 (33.63%) Data Modelling
3 36 (31.86%) Validation
4 34 (30.09%) Agile
5 28 (24.78%) Data Migration
6 26 (23.01%) Stakeholder Management
7 23 (20.35%) ETL
8 20 (17.70%) Workshop Facilitation
9 19 (16.81%) Business Analysis
9 19 (16.81%) Data Governance
10 18 (15.93%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (15.93%) Requirements Gathering
11 16 (14.16%) Data Analysis
11 16 (14.16%) Data Validation
11 16 (14.16%) User Acceptance Testing
12 15 (13.27%) Data Integration
12 15 (13.27%) Data Protection
12 15 (13.27%) Data Transformation
13 14 (12.39%) User Stories
14 12 (10.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 33 (29.20%) SQL
2 10 (8.85%) Python
3 3 (2.65%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.88%) DataWeave
4 1 (0.88%) Java
4 1 (0.88%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (10.62%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.31%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.42%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.77%) Degree
5 1 (0.88%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (23.89%) Data Quality
2 19 (16.81%) GDPR
3 11 (9.73%) QA
4 3 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.77%) COBIT
5 2 (1.77%) NIST
6 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.88%) AIFMD
6 1 (0.88%) Basel II
6 1 (0.88%) CDISC
6 1 (0.88%) EMIR
6 1 (0.88%) FATCA
6 1 (0.88%) GMP
6 1 (0.88%) GxP
6 1 (0.88%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.88%) HL7
6 1 (0.88%) MiFID
6 1 (0.88%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (1.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (0.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (14.16%) Microsoft
2 14 (12.39%) Google
3 13 (11.50%) Databricks
3 13 (11.50%) SAP
4 11 (9.73%) Oracle
5 6 (5.31%) Workday
6 5 (4.42%) MuleSoft
7 4 (3.54%) SimCorp
8 3 (2.65%) Ariba
8 3 (2.65%) IBM
8 3 (2.65%) Palantir
8 3 (2.65%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.77%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.77%) Charles River
9 2 (1.77%) Dell
9 2 (1.77%) Informatica
9 2 (1.77%) Murex
9 2 (1.77%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.77%) Splunk
9 2 (1.77%) Talend