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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 229 265
Rank change year-on-year +9 +36 +111
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 105 82 108
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.00% 0.77% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 0.85% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 54 80
10th Percentile £370 £410 £413
25th Percentile £431 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.48% +4.50%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -4.67% +0.48% -0.48%

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 9,415 9,633 14,828
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.84% 90.01% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,176 6,119 10,003
10th Percentile £331 £330 £338
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £724 £750 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 186 496
10th Percentile £15.74 £18.38 £15.21
25th Percentile £21.51 £22.91 £22.52
Median hourly rate £47.50 £37.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.38% -22.11% -17.39%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.44 £66.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +7.69%

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 2 February 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 3 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.90%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
2 2 (1.90%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.95%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (13.33%) MS Visio
2 12 (11.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (5.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.90%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.90%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.90%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.90%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.90%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.90%) SAP SD
2 2 (1.90%) SAP Travel Management
2 2 (1.90%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.95%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.95%) Endur
3 1 (0.95%) Maximo
3 1 (0.95%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.95%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.95%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.95%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.95%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 14 (13.33%) Azure
2 10 (9.52%) Power Platform
3 8 (7.62%) GCP
4 6 (5.71%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (3.81%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (3.81%) OCI
6 4 (3.81%) Power Automate
6 4 (3.81%) PowerApps
7 3 (2.86%) AtomSphere
7 3 (2.86%) AWS
7 3 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.86%) Boomi
7 3 (2.86%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.86%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (1.90%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.90%) Google Tag Manager
8 2 (1.90%) Serverless
8 2 (1.90%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.71%) Metadata
1 6 (5.71%) Power BI
2 5 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.86%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.90%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.90%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.95%) DataStage
5 1 (0.95%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (5.71%) JIRA
2 2 (1.90%) Postman
General
1 40 (38.10%) Finance
2 37 (35.24%) Social Skills
3 23 (21.90%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (17.14%) Banking
5 14 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (11.43%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.81%) Back Office
7 4 (3.81%) Legal
7 4 (3.81%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.86%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.86%) Law
8 3 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.90%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.90%) Marketing
10 1 (0.95%) Billing
10 1 (0.95%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.95%) Retail
10 1 (0.95%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (48.57%) Analyst
2 37 (35.24%) Business Analyst
3 21 (20.00%) Data Analyst
4 15 (14.29%) Lead
5 13 (12.38%) Data Business Analyst
6 12 (11.43%) Consultant
7 10 (9.52%) Banking Analyst
8 9 (8.57%) Banking Business Analyst
8 9 (8.57%) Developer
8 9 (8.57%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
8 9 (8.57%) Identity Management Analyst
9 7 (6.67%) Integration Developer
10 6 (5.71%) Management Consultant
10 6 (5.71%) SAP Consultant
10 6 (5.71%) SAP SD Consultant
11 5 (4.76%) Data Engineer
11 5 (4.76%) Implementation Analyst
11 5 (4.76%) Integration Engineer
11 5 (4.76%) Pensions Analyst
11 5 (4.76%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.57%) XML
2 8 (7.62%) REST
3 7 (6.67%) JSON
4 6 (5.71%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (5.71%) SAP TM
4 6 (5.71%) XSLT
5 4 (3.81%) SOAP
6 3 (2.86%) EDI
7 2 (1.90%) ADO
7 2 (1.90%) FHIR
7 2 (1.90%) HTML
7 2 (1.90%) OAuth
8 1 (0.95%) .NET
8 1 (0.95%) Gherkin
8 1 (0.95%) Kafka
8 1 (0.95%) Middleware
8 1 (0.95%) Murex MxML
8 1 (0.95%) React
8 1 (0.95%) Spring
8 1 (0.95%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 10 (9.52%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.86%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.90%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (1.90%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.90%) NHS
5 2 (1.90%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.95%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.95%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.95%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.95%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.95%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.95%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.95%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.95%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.95%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (32.38%) Stakeholder Management
2 32 (30.48%) Migration
3 25 (23.81%) Agile
4 22 (20.95%) Data Migration
5 20 (19.05%) Data Modelling
5 20 (19.05%) ETL
6 19 (18.10%) Validation
6 19 (18.10%) Workshop Facilitation
7 17 (16.19%) Business Analysis
7 17 (16.19%) Requirements Gathering
8 16 (15.24%) User Acceptance Testing
9 15 (14.29%) Data Governance
10 14 (13.33%) Data Cleansing
11 13 (12.38%) ERP
11 13 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (11.43%) Analytics
12 12 (11.43%) Data Analysis
12 12 (11.43%) Data Transformation
12 12 (11.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 10 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 16 (15.24%) SQL
2 4 (3.81%) C#
2 4 (3.81%) PowerShell
2 4 (3.81%) Python
3 3 (2.86%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.95%) Java
4 1 (0.95%) R
Qualifications
1 19 (18.10%) Security Cleared
2 11 (10.48%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.52%) Degree
4 2 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.90%) IIBA
4 2 (1.90%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.95%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.95%) CBAP
5 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (17.14%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.71%) GDPR
2 6 (5.71%) QA
3 2 (1.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (1.90%) COBIT
3 2 (1.90%) HL7
3 2 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.90%) NIST
4 1 (0.95%) GMP
4 1 (0.95%) GxP
4 1 (0.95%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.95%) IFRS
System Software
1 1 (0.95%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (15.24%) Microsoft
2 15 (14.29%) SAP
3 7 (6.67%) Oracle
3 7 (6.67%) Workday
4 6 (5.71%) Google
4 6 (5.71%) Salesforce
5 5 (4.76%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.86%) Ariba
7 2 (1.90%) Adobe
7 2 (1.90%) OneTrust
7 2 (1.90%) Tealium
8 1 (0.95%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.95%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.95%) Databricks
8 1 (0.95%) IBM
8 1 (0.95%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.95%) Murex
8 1 (0.95%) OpenLink
8 1 (0.95%) Palantir
8 1 (0.95%) Xceptor