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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 201 234
Rank change year-on-year -42 +33 +91
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 113 107 114
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.87% 1.10% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.20% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 88 68
10th Percentile £362 £350 £359
25th Percentile £425 £454 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £494
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +16.46% -10.23%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £570
90th Percentile £700 £788 £641
UK median daily rate £519 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -5.73% +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 11,588 8,912 12,864
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.39% 91.59% 87.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,443 6,078 8,650
10th Percentile £350 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.82% -2.38% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £635 £638
90th Percentile £725 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.19% -4.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 641 230 574
10th Percentile £17.23 £13.50 £15.05
25th Percentile £32.25 £18.66 £24.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £36.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.53% -15.12% -14.00%
75th Percentile £71.91 £65.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.25 £75.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +72.39% -32.00% +7.05%

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 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 3 (2.65%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.77%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.88%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.88%) CMS
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 10 (8.85%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
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 Payables
4 2 (1.77%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.88%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.88%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.88%) SAP APO
5 1 (0.88%) SAP FS
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 7 (6.19%) Power Platform
3 5 (4.42%) Boomi
4 4 (3.54%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
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
5 3 (2.65%) OCI
6 2 (1.77%) Collibra
6 2 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.77%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.77%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.88%) dbt
7 1 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.88%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.88%) AMQP
1 1 (0.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.62%) Metadata
2 10 (8.85%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (4.42%) Power BI
4 4 (3.54%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.65%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.65%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.77%) DataStage
6 2 (1.77%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.77%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.77%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.77%) Parquet
6 2 (1.77%) Spark SQL
6 2 (1.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.88%) Electronic Patient Records
7 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 40 (35.40%) Social Skills
2 36 (31.86%) Finance
3 21 (18.58%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (13.27%) Legal
5 14 (12.39%) Banking
5 14 (12.39%) Public Sector
6 12 (10.62%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (5.31%) Retail
8 5 (4.42%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.65%) Billing
9 3 (2.65%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.65%) Law
9 3 (2.65%) Local Government
9 3 (2.65%) Marketing
10 2 (1.77%) German Language
10 2 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.77%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (49.56%) Analyst
2 40 (35.40%) Business Analyst
3 25 (22.12%) Data Analyst
4 22 (19.47%) Lead
5 16 (14.16%) Data Business Analyst
6 12 (10.62%) Data Engineer
7 11 (9.73%) Senior
8 6 (5.31%) Migration Engineer
9 5 (4.42%) Banking Analyst
9 5 (4.42%) Banking Business Analyst
9 5 (4.42%) Data Migration Engineer
9 5 (4.42%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
9 5 (4.42%) Identity Management Analyst
9 5 (4.42%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (4.42%) Senior Business Analyst
9 5 (4.42%) Senior Data Engineer
10 4 (3.54%) Developer
10 4 (3.54%) Python Engineer
10 4 (3.54%) Technical Analyst
10 4 (3.54%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.73%) XML
2 9 (7.96%) JSON
3 5 (4.42%) EDI
3 5 (4.42%) Middleware
4 4 (3.54%) REST
5 3 (2.65%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (2.65%) PySpark
5 3 (2.65%) XSLT
6 2 (1.77%) SOAP
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%) SAP ALE
7 1 (0.88%) Swagger
7 1 (0.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (20.35%) Data Structures
2 11 (9.73%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (6.19%) Reference Data
4 6 (5.31%) Onboarding
4 6 (5.31%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.77%) Data Fabric
5 2 (1.77%) Derivative
5 2 (1.77%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.77%) NHS
5 2 (1.77%) Reinsurance
5 2 (1.77%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.88%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.88%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.88%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.88%) Life Science
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 46 (40.71%) Migration
2 39 (34.51%) Data Modelling
3 38 (33.63%) Agile
4 33 (29.20%) Validation
5 28 (24.78%) Data Migration
6 26 (23.01%) Stakeholder Management
7 23 (20.35%) ETL
7 23 (20.35%) Workshop Facilitation
8 21 (18.58%) Requirements Gathering
9 18 (15.93%) Business Analysis
9 18 (15.93%) Data Governance
10 17 (15.04%) Data Analysis
10 17 (15.04%) Data Transformation
10 17 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (14.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 16 (14.16%) User Acceptance Testing
12 15 (13.27%) Data Integration
12 15 (13.27%) Data Protection
12 15 (13.27%) Data Validation
12 15 (13.27%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 37 (32.74%) 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 10 (8.85%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.42%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (4.42%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.65%) Degree
4 1 (0.88%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (24.78%) Data Quality
2 19 (16.81%) GDPR
3 9 (7.96%) QA
4 2 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.88%) AIFMD
5 1 (0.88%) Basel II
5 1 (0.88%) CDISC
5 1 (0.88%) COBIT
5 1 (0.88%) EMIR
5 1 (0.88%) FATCA
5 1 (0.88%) GMP
5 1 (0.88%) MiFID
5 1 (0.88%) NIST
5 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
2 14 (12.39%) SAP
3 13 (11.50%) Databricks
4 10 (8.85%) 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%) ServiceNow
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%) NetCracker
9 2 (1.77%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.77%) Splunk
9 2 (1.77%) Talend