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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 207 216
Rank change year-on-year +12 +9 +75
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 182 102 118
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.35% 1.05% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 1.14% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 76 72
10th Percentile £352 £341 £366
25th Percentile £411 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £537 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.89% +7.40% -9.09%
75th Percentile £576 £704 £588
90th Percentile £650 £788 £675
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% +5.00% -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 12,127 8,947 11,087
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.24% 92.35% 88.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,588 5,951 7,004
10th Percentile £355 £325 £325
25th Percentile £428 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.59% -2.52% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 758 280 274
10th Percentile £15.81 £12.96 £19.71
25th Percentile £30.00 £20.50 £30.88
Median hourly rate £48.83 £35.95 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.83% -16.41% -16.10%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £82.33 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +55.07% -40.82% -1.16%

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 28 September 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 10 (5.49%) Confluence
2 9 (4.95%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.55%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 13 (7.14%) MS Visio
2 6 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.20%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.55%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (2.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.20%) Aladdin
3 3 (1.65%) Infor LN
3 3 (1.65%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (1.10%) Cerner Millennium
4 2 (1.10%) Maximo
4 2 (1.10%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (1.10%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.10%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.10%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.55%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.55%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.55%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.55%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.55%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.55%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.55%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 20 (10.99%) Azure
2 16 (8.79%) Power Platform
3 11 (6.04%) Snowflake
4 10 (5.49%) GCP
5 9 (4.95%) AWS
5 9 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.75%) GitHub
7 5 (2.75%) SuccessFactors
8 4 (2.20%) Boomi
8 4 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (2.20%) SaaS
9 3 (1.65%) AtomSphere
9 3 (1.65%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.10%) Figma
10 2 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.10%) Intacct
10 2 (1.10%) Lucidchart
10 2 (1.10%) Salsify
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.65%) SSL
2 1 (0.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.19%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (8.79%) Data Lake
2 16 (8.79%) Power BI
3 13 (7.14%) Metadata
4 9 (4.95%) Relational Database
5 7 (3.85%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.75%) Oracle Database
7 4 (2.20%) Semantic Layer
7 4 (2.20%) Tableau
8 3 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.65%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.65%) Power Query
9 2 (1.10%) DataStage
9 2 (1.10%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.10%) OLTP
9 2 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database 10g
10 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database 11g
10 1 (0.55%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 14 (7.69%) JIRA
2 3 (1.65%) Postman
3 2 (1.10%) Balsamiq
4 1 (0.55%) Flyway
4 1 (0.55%) Git
4 1 (0.55%) GitLab
4 1 (0.55%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.55%) Liquibase
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.55%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.55%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (0.55%) Robot Framework
General
1 60 (32.97%) Finance
2 54 (29.67%) Social Skills
3 29 (15.93%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.34%) Banking
5 15 (8.24%) Legal
6 14 (7.69%) Public Sector
7 13 (7.14%) Retail
8 7 (3.85%) Local Government
9 6 (3.30%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.20%) Billing
11 4 (2.20%) Front Office
11 4 (2.20%) Marketing
12 3 (1.65%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.65%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.65%) Military
12 3 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 91 (50.00%) Analyst
2 72 (39.56%) Business Analyst
3 47 (25.82%) Data Analyst
4 33 (18.13%) Data Business Analyst
5 23 (12.64%) Lead
6 15 (8.24%) Senior
6 15 (8.24%) Technical Analyst
7 14 (7.69%) Developer
7 14 (7.69%) SQL Analyst
7 14 (7.69%) SQL Data Analyst
8 13 (7.14%) Technical Business Analyst
9 12 (6.59%) Consultant
10 10 (5.49%) Transformation Analyst
11 9 (4.95%) Architect
11 9 (4.95%) Data Engineer
12 8 (4.40%) Data Migration Specialist
12 8 (4.40%) Migration Specialist
13 7 (3.85%) Data Migration Lead
13 7 (3.85%) Technical Leader
14 6 (3.30%) Data Integration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.24%) JSON
2 14 (7.69%) REST
3 12 (6.59%) XML
4 11 (6.04%) Middleware
5 10 (5.49%) SOAP
6 7 (3.85%) FHIR
6 7 (3.85%) Web Services
7 6 (3.30%) EDI
8 5 (2.75%) Lightning Web Components
8 5 (2.75%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (2.20%) OAuth
10 3 (1.65%) EDIFACT
10 3 (1.65%) OAuth2
10 3 (1.65%) PySpark
10 3 (1.65%) Swagger
10 3 (1.65%) XSLT
11 2 (1.10%) Kafka
11 2 (1.10%) OpenAPI
12 1 (0.55%) Pandas
12 1 (0.55%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 30 (16.48%) Data Structures
2 21 (11.54%) Legacy Systems
3 20 (10.99%) Product Ownership
4 12 (6.59%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.95%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.85%) LIMS
7 6 (3.30%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.75%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (2.75%) Reference Data
9 4 (2.20%) Derivative
9 4 (2.20%) NHS
10 3 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.10%) Credit Risk
11 2 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.10%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.55%) Data Fabric
12 1 (0.55%) Legacy Code
12 1 (0.55%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.95%) Unix
1 9 (4.95%) Windows
2 8 (4.40%) Linux
3 2 (1.10%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (43.41%) Migration
2 71 (39.01%) Data Modelling
3 64 (35.16%) Validation
4 63 (34.62%) Agile
5 58 (31.87%) Stakeholder Management
6 56 (30.77%) Data Migration
7 47 (25.82%) Requirements Gathering
8 46 (25.27%) Data Analysis
9 40 (21.98%) User Stories
10 38 (20.88%) Data Transformation
11 37 (20.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 37 (20.33%) Workshop Facilitation
12 35 (19.23%) Data Governance
13 33 (18.13%) Business Analysis
13 33 (18.13%) User Acceptance Testing
14 30 (16.48%) Data Validation
14 30 (16.48%) ETL
15 27 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
16 25 (13.74%) ERP
16 25 (13.74%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 85 (46.70%) SQL
2 11 (6.04%) Python
3 6 (3.30%) MUMPS
4 4 (2.20%) Apex Code
4 4 (2.20%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.65%) Groovy
5 3 (1.65%) Java
6 2 (1.10%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.55%) ABAP
7 1 (0.55%) C#
7 1 (0.55%) Perl
7 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (6.04%) Degree
2 8 (4.40%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.85%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.55%) CBAP
5 1 (0.55%) CCA
5 1 (0.55%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.55%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (27.47%) Data Quality
2 17 (9.34%) GDPR
3 16 (8.79%) QA
4 7 (3.85%) HL7
5 2 (1.10%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.10%) DICOM
6 1 (0.55%) AIFMD
6 1 (0.55%) Basel II
6 1 (0.55%) CDISC
6 1 (0.55%) COREP
6 1 (0.55%) EMIR
6 1 (0.55%) GMP
6 1 (0.55%) GRC
6 1 (0.55%) IFRS
6 1 (0.55%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.55%) MiFID
6 1 (0.55%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (12.64%) Microsoft
2 22 (12.09%) SAP
3 17 (9.34%) Oracle
4 13 (7.14%) Databricks
5 7 (3.85%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.85%) ServiceNow
6 6 (3.30%) Google
6 6 (3.30%) InterSystems
7 3 (1.65%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.65%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.65%) Baan
7 3 (1.65%) IBM
7 3 (1.65%) Infor
7 3 (1.65%) ION Trading
7 3 (1.65%) Murex
7 3 (1.65%) Palantir
7 3 (1.65%) SimCorp
7 3 (1.65%) Splunk
8 2 (1.10%) Ariba
8 2 (1.10%) OneTrust