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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 202 237
Rank change year-on-year -36 +35 +89
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 125 108 110
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.95% 1.09% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 1.19% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 89 67
10th Percentile £362 £350 £358
25th Percentile £450 £455 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £575
90th Percentile £700 £788 £675
UK median daily rate £519 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -5.68% +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 11,817 9,098 12,787
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.54% 91.76% 87.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,556 6,194 8,597
10th Percentile £350 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -2.78%
75th Percentile £620 £637 £638
90th Percentile £725 £760 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.08% -3.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 638 254 556
10th Percentile £16.81 £13.15 £15.08
25th Percentile £32.06 £19.05 £25.19
Median hourly rate £57.50 £35.45 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.22% -17.57% -18.10%
75th Percentile £71.91 £65.00 £60.15
90th Percentile £85.25 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.45%

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 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 7 (5.60%) Confluence
1 7 (5.60%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.80%) Anypoint
2 1 (0.80%) CMS
2 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.80%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
2 1 (0.80%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 13 (10.40%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (4.80%) Aladdin
2 5 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (2.40%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (1.60%) Maximo
5 1 (0.80%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.80%) Infor LN
5 1 (0.80%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.80%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.80%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.80%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.80%) SAP APO
5 1 (0.80%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.80%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.80%) SAP R/3
5 1 (0.80%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 14 (11.20%) Azure
1 14 (11.20%) GCP
2 11 (8.80%) Power Platform
3 8 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.80%) Boomi
5 5 (4.00%) Snowflake
6 4 (3.20%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.20%) SaaS
6 4 (3.20%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (2.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (2.40%) GitHub
8 2 (1.60%) Collibra
8 2 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.60%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.60%) OCI
8 2 (1.60%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.80%) AtomSphere
9 1 (0.80%) iPaaS
9 1 (0.80%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.80%) AMQP
1 1 (0.80%) HTTP
1 1 (0.80%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.00%) Metadata
2 14 (11.20%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (7.20%) Power BI
4 5 (4.00%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.20%) Data Lake
5 4 (3.20%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.40%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.60%) DataStage
7 2 (1.60%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.60%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.60%) Parquet
7 2 (1.60%) Spark SQL
7 2 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.80%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.80%) Oracle Database 10g
8 1 (0.80%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.80%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 10 (8.00%) JIRA
2 3 (2.40%) Git
2 3 (2.40%) Postman
3 1 (0.80%) Hudson
3 1 (0.80%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.80%) Robot Framework
General
1 41 (32.80%) Social Skills
2 40 (32.00%) Finance
3 26 (20.80%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (12.80%) Legal
5 14 (11.20%) Public Sector
6 13 (10.40%) Banking
7 11 (8.80%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (4.80%) Retail
9 4 (3.20%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.20%) Law
10 3 (2.40%) Billing
10 3 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.40%) Local Government
10 3 (2.40%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.40%) Marketing
11 2 (1.60%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.60%) German Language
11 2 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.80%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 64 (51.20%) Analyst
2 48 (38.40%) Business Analyst
3 27 (21.60%) Data Analyst
4 21 (16.80%) Lead
5 18 (14.40%) Data Business Analyst
6 12 (9.60%) Data Engineer
6 12 (9.60%) Senior
7 6 (4.80%) Architect
7 6 (4.80%) Developer
7 6 (4.80%) Migration Engineer
8 5 (4.00%) Data Migration Engineer
8 5 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (4.00%) Senior Business Analyst
8 5 (4.00%) Senior Data Engineer
8 5 (4.00%) Technical Analyst
8 5 (4.00%) Transformation Analyst
9 4 (3.20%) Banking Business Analyst
9 4 (3.20%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
9 4 (3.20%) Identity Management Analyst
9 4 (3.20%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.80%) XML
2 10 (8.00%) JSON
3 7 (5.60%) Middleware
4 5 (4.00%) EDI
4 5 (4.00%) REST
5 3 (2.40%) PySpark
5 3 (2.40%) SOAP
5 3 (2.40%) XSLT
6 2 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.60%) Web Services
7 1 (0.80%) EDIFACT
7 1 (0.80%) JMS
7 1 (0.80%) OAuth
7 1 (0.80%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.80%) Pandas
7 1 (0.80%) pytest
7 1 (0.80%) RAML
7 1 (0.80%) RESTful
7 1 (0.80%) SAP ALE
7 1 (0.80%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 27 (21.60%) Data Structures
2 13 (10.40%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (5.60%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.60%) Reference Data
4 6 (4.80%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.80%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.40%) Derivative
5 3 (2.40%) NHS
6 2 (1.60%) Data Fabric
6 2 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.60%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.60%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.80%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.80%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.80%) LIMS
7 1 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.80%) PMI
7 1 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.20%) Windows
2 3 (2.40%) Linux
2 3 (2.40%) Unix
3 2 (1.60%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (42.40%) Migration
2 45 (36.00%) Data Modelling
3 44 (35.20%) Agile
4 35 (28.00%) Validation
5 34 (27.20%) Data Migration
6 29 (23.20%) Stakeholder Management
7 28 (22.40%) Workshop Facilitation
8 26 (20.80%) Requirements Gathering
9 23 (18.40%) ETL
10 22 (17.60%) Data Governance
10 22 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (16.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 20 (16.00%) Business Analysis
13 19 (15.20%) Data Analysis
13 19 (15.20%) Data Transformation
13 19 (15.20%) User Acceptance Testing
14 17 (13.60%) Data Validation
15 15 (12.00%) Data Protection
15 15 (12.00%) User Stories
16 14 (11.20%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 45 (36.00%) SQL
2 10 (8.00%) Python
3 3 (2.40%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.80%) DataWeave
4 1 (0.80%) Groovy
4 1 (0.80%) Java
4 1 (0.80%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.80%) MUMPS
4 1 (0.80%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.80%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (8.80%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.60%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.80%) Degree
4 5 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.80%) CBAP
5 1 (0.80%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.80%) IIBA
5 1 (0.80%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (24.80%) Data Quality
2 20 (16.00%) GDPR
3 9 (7.20%) QA
4 2 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.80%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.80%) AIFMD
5 1 (0.80%) Basel II
5 1 (0.80%) CDISC
5 1 (0.80%) COBIT
5 1 (0.80%) EMIR
5 1 (0.80%) FATCA
5 1 (0.80%) GMP
5 1 (0.80%) MiFID
5 1 (0.80%) NIST
5 1 (0.80%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (1.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (0.80%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (15.20%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.20%) Google
3 13 (10.40%) Databricks
3 13 (10.40%) SAP
4 11 (8.80%) Oracle
5 6 (4.80%) ServiceNow
6 5 (4.00%) MuleSoft
6 5 (4.00%) Workday
7 4 (3.20%) SimCorp
8 3 (2.40%) Ariba
8 3 (2.40%) IBM
8 3 (2.40%) Murex
8 3 (2.40%) Palantir
9 2 (1.60%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.60%) Bloomberg
9 2 (1.60%) Charles River
9 2 (1.60%) Dell
9 2 (1.60%) IDERA
9 2 (1.60%) Informatica
9 2 (1.60%) Salesforce