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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 209 227
Rank change year-on-year -16 +18 +97
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 149 103 114
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.10% 1.02% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.11% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 80 70
10th Percentile £358 £348 £363
25th Percentile £425 £454 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £603 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +20.55% -6.98%
75th Percentile £624 £759 £584
90th Percentile £700 £788 £694
UK median daily rate £509 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -7.45% +10.00% -5.88%

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 12,109 9,272 12,081
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.73% 91.62% 87.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,697 6,257 8,176
10th Percentile £353 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% -2.86% -2.33%
75th Percentile £620 £626 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 654 271 460
10th Percentile £16.74 £12.62 £16.48
25th Percentile £32.44 £19.03 £27.44
Median hourly rate £57.50 £34.48 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.76% -19.81% -15.79%
75th Percentile £71.99 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £39.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -36.33% -7.06%

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 23 July 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 (6.71%) Confluence
1 10 (6.71%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.67%) Anypoint
2 1 (0.67%) CMS
2 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 13 (8.72%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.03%) Aladdin
2 5 (3.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (2.01%) Infor LN
3 3 (2.01%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (1.34%) Maximo
5 1 (0.67%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.67%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.67%) SAP APO
5 1 (0.67%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.67%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.67%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.67%) SAP R/3
5 1 (0.67%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 19 (12.75%) Azure
2 15 (10.07%) GCP
3 12 (8.05%) Power Platform
4 9 (6.04%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (5.37%) Boomi
6 6 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (4.03%) Snowflake
7 5 (3.36%) GitHub
8 4 (2.68%) AWS
8 4 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (2.68%) SaaS
8 4 (2.68%) SuccessFactors
9 3 (2.01%) AtomSphere
9 3 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.34%) Collibra
10 2 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.34%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.34%) Lucidchart
10 2 (1.34%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.34%) Salsify
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.01%) SSL
2 1 (0.67%) AMQP
2 1 (0.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.07%) Data Warehouse
1 15 (10.07%) Metadata
2 10 (6.71%) Power BI
3 7 (4.70%) Data Lake
4 6 (4.03%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.36%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.01%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.34%) DataStage
7 2 (1.34%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.34%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.34%) Parquet
7 2 (1.34%) Power Query
7 2 (1.34%) Spark SQL
7 2 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.67%) Oracle Database 10g
8 1 (0.67%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.67%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 15 (10.07%) JIRA
2 3 (2.01%) Git
2 3 (2.01%) Postman
3 2 (1.34%) Balsamiq
4 1 (0.67%) Hudson
4 1 (0.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.67%) Robot Framework
General
1 49 (32.89%) Social Skills
2 45 (30.20%) Finance
3 25 (16.78%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (12.08%) Legal
5 13 (8.72%) Banking
5 13 (8.72%) Public Sector
6 10 (6.71%) Retail
7 9 (6.04%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.36%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.68%) Law
9 4 (2.68%) Local Government
9 4 (2.68%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (2.01%) Billing
10 3 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.01%) Marketing
11 2 (1.34%) German Language
11 2 (1.34%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.34%) Publishing
11 2 (1.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 77 (51.68%) Analyst
2 60 (40.27%) Business Analyst
3 33 (22.15%) Data Analyst
4 22 (14.77%) Data Business Analyst
4 22 (14.77%) Lead
5 14 (9.40%) Senior
6 12 (8.05%) Developer
7 11 (7.38%) Data Engineer
7 11 (7.38%) Technical Analyst
8 8 (5.37%) Technical Business Analyst
8 8 (5.37%) Transformation Analyst
9 7 (4.70%) Senior Analyst
9 7 (4.70%) Senior Business Analyst
9 7 (4.70%) SQL Analyst
9 7 (4.70%) SQL Data Analyst
10 6 (4.03%) Architect
10 6 (4.03%) Data Migration Specialist
10 6 (4.03%) Migration Engineer
10 6 (4.03%) Migration Specialist
11 5 (3.36%) Data Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.07%) JSON
2 12 (8.05%) XML
3 10 (6.71%) Middleware
3 10 (6.71%) REST
4 8 (5.37%) SOAP
5 6 (4.03%) EDI
6 4 (2.68%) Web Services
7 3 (2.01%) EDIFACT
7 3 (2.01%) FHIR
7 3 (2.01%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (2.01%) OAuth
7 3 (2.01%) OAuth2
7 3 (2.01%) PySpark
7 3 (2.01%) Swagger
7 3 (2.01%) XSLT
8 2 (1.34%) OpenAPI
9 1 (0.67%) Great Expectations
9 1 (0.67%) Kafka
9 1 (0.67%) Pandas
9 1 (0.67%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (22.15%) Data Structures
2 16 (10.74%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (7.38%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.37%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.70%) Reference Data
6 6 (4.03%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.68%) LIMS
8 3 (2.01%) Derivative
8 3 (2.01%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.34%) Data Fabric
9 2 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.34%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.34%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.34%) NHS
9 2 (1.34%) Reinsurance
9 2 (1.34%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.67%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.67%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.67%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.03%) Unix
1 6 (4.03%) Windows
2 5 (3.36%) Linux
3 2 (1.34%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (38.93%) Migration
2 56 (37.58%) Agile
3 55 (36.91%) Data Modelling
4 41 (27.52%) Validation
5 39 (26.17%) Data Migration
6 36 (24.16%) Workshop Facilitation
7 34 (22.82%) Requirements Gathering
8 33 (22.15%) Stakeholder Management
9 28 (18.79%) Business Analysis
9 28 (18.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 27 (18.12%) User Acceptance Testing
11 26 (17.45%) Data Analysis
11 26 (17.45%) ETL
11 26 (17.45%) User Stories
12 25 (16.78%) Data Governance
12 25 (16.78%) Data Transformation
12 25 (16.78%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (12.75%) Data Protection
14 18 (12.08%) Data Validation
15 16 (10.74%) AI
Programming Languages
1 56 (37.58%) SQL
2 10 (6.71%) Python
3 3 (2.01%) Apex Code
3 3 (2.01%) Groovy
3 3 (2.01%) JavaScript
3 3 (2.01%) MUMPS
3 3 (2.01%) T-SQL
4 2 (1.34%) Java
5 1 (0.67%) DataWeave
5 1 (0.67%) Perl
5 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.67%) R
5 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (7.38%) Security Cleared
2 7 (4.70%) Degree
2 7 (4.70%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.67%) CBAP
4 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.67%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (22.82%) Data Quality
2 23 (15.44%) GDPR
3 15 (10.07%) QA
4 3 (2.01%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.01%) HL7
5 2 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.67%) AIFMD
6 1 (0.67%) Basel II
6 1 (0.67%) CDISC
6 1 (0.67%) COBIT
6 1 (0.67%) EMIR
6 1 (0.67%) FATCA
6 1 (0.67%) GMP
6 1 (0.67%) MiFID
6 1 (0.67%) NIST
6 1 (0.67%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (1.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (14.09%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.40%) SAP
3 13 (8.72%) Databricks
3 13 (8.72%) Google
3 13 (8.72%) Oracle
4 7 (4.70%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.36%) MuleSoft
5 5 (3.36%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.68%) Ariba
6 4 (2.68%) SimCorp
6 4 (2.68%) Workday
7 3 (2.01%) AppDynamics
7 3 (2.01%) Baan
7 3 (2.01%) IBM
7 3 (2.01%) Infor
7 3 (2.01%) Informatica
7 3 (2.01%) ION Trading
7 3 (2.01%) Murex
7 3 (2.01%) Palantir
7 3 (2.01%) Splunk