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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 187 243
Rank change year-on-year -55 +56 +92
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 111 107 102
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.89% 1.12% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.23% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 88 58
10th Percentile £362 £350 £326
25th Percentile £436 £457 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £596 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.14% +19.25% -6.98%
75th Percentile £640 £678 £584
90th Percentile £700 £788 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 11,072 8,718 12,836
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.90% 91.34% 87.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,132 5,965 8,652
10th Percentile £350 £330 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 539 209 572
10th Percentile £17.19 £13.84 £14.89
25th Percentile £30.25 £18.22 £24.19
Median hourly rate £57.50 £35.89 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.21% -16.53% -18.10%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £74.95
UK median hourly rate £42.30 £27.97 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.26% -23.38% -1.35%

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 30 May 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 (6.31%) Confluence
2 2 (1.80%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
2 2 (1.80%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.90%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.90%) CMS
3 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (10.81%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (5.41%) Aladdin
2 4 (3.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (2.70%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (1.80%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (1.80%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.80%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.90%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.90%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.90%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.90%) SAP APO
5 1 (0.90%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.90%) SAP R/3
5 1 (0.90%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 13 (11.71%) Azure
1 13 (11.71%) GCP
2 6 (5.41%) Power Platform
3 5 (4.50%) Boomi
4 4 (3.60%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (3.60%) OCI
4 4 (3.60%) SuccessFactors
5 3 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (2.70%) GitHub
5 3 (2.70%) Snowflake
6 2 (1.80%) Collibra
6 2 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.80%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.80%) PowerApps
6 2 (1.80%) SaaS
7 1 (0.90%) dbt
7 1 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.90%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.90%) AMQP
1 1 (0.90%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.01%) Metadata
2 8 (7.21%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.60%) Power BI
3 4 (3.60%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.70%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.80%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.80%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.80%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.80%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.80%) Parquet
5 2 (1.80%) Spark SQL
5 2 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.90%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 10 (9.01%) JIRA
2 3 (2.70%) Git
2 3 (2.70%) Postman
3 1 (0.90%) Hudson
3 1 (0.90%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.90%) Robot Framework
General
1 39 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 35 (31.53%) Finance
3 22 (19.82%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (15.32%) Banking
5 16 (14.41%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (12.61%) Legal
6 14 (12.61%) Public Sector
7 9 (8.11%) Investment Banking
8 6 (5.41%) Retail
9 3 (2.70%) Billing
9 3 (2.70%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.70%) Law
9 3 (2.70%) Local Government
9 3 (2.70%) Marketing
9 3 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.80%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.80%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.90%) Military
Job Titles
1 55 (49.55%) Analyst
2 39 (35.14%) Business Analyst
3 25 (22.52%) Data Analyst
4 24 (21.62%) Lead
5 14 (12.61%) Data Business Analyst
6 9 (8.11%) Data Engineer
6 9 (8.11%) Senior
7 8 (7.21%) Banking Analyst
7 8 (7.21%) Banking Business Analyst
7 8 (7.21%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
7 8 (7.21%) Identity Management Analyst
8 5 (4.50%) Migration Engineer
9 4 (3.60%) Architect
9 4 (3.60%) Data Migration Engineer
9 4 (3.60%) Developer
9 4 (3.60%) Integration Engineer
9 4 (3.60%) Python Engineer
9 4 (3.60%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (3.60%) Senior Business Analyst
9 4 (3.60%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.21%) XML
2 7 (6.31%) JSON
3 5 (4.50%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (3.60%) Middleware
4 4 (3.60%) REST
5 3 (2.70%) PySpark
6 2 (1.80%) EDI
6 2 (1.80%) SOAP
7 1 (0.90%) FHIR
7 1 (0.90%) Great Expectations
7 1 (0.90%) JMS
7 1 (0.90%) Murex MxML
7 1 (0.90%) Pandas
7 1 (0.90%) pytest
7 1 (0.90%) RAML
7 1 (0.90%) RESTful
7 1 (0.90%) Swagger
7 1 (0.90%) Web Services
7 1 (0.90%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.02%) Data Structures
2 7 (6.31%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (6.31%) Reference Data
3 4 (3.60%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.60%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.70%) NHS
5 2 (1.80%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.90%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.90%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.90%) Derivative
6 1 (0.90%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.90%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.90%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.90%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.80%) HPUX
1 2 (1.80%) Linux
1 2 (1.80%) Unix
1 2 (1.80%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (39.64%) Migration
2 34 (30.63%) Agile
3 33 (29.73%) Data Modelling
3 33 (29.73%) Validation
4 29 (26.13%) Stakeholder Management
5 25 (22.52%) Data Migration
6 20 (18.02%) Business Analysis
6 20 (18.02%) ETL
6 20 (18.02%) Workshop Facilitation
7 19 (17.12%) Data Governance
7 19 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (15.32%) Requirements Gathering
9 16 (14.41%) Data Analysis
9 16 (14.41%) Data Transformation
10 14 (12.61%) Data Protection
10 14 (12.61%) Data Validation
10 14 (12.61%) User Acceptance Testing
10 14 (12.61%) User Stories
11 11 (9.91%) Data Integration
11 11 (9.91%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (28.83%) SQL
2 10 (9.01%) Python
3 3 (2.70%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.90%) DataWeave
4 1 (0.90%) Java
4 1 (0.90%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (11.71%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.41%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.70%) Degree
5 1 (0.90%) IIBA
5 1 (0.90%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (21.62%) Data Quality
2 19 (17.12%) GDPR
3 11 (9.91%) QA
4 3 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.80%) COBIT
5 2 (1.80%) NIST
6 1 (0.90%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.90%) AIFMD
6 1 (0.90%) Basel II
6 1 (0.90%) EMIR
6 1 (0.90%) FATCA
6 1 (0.90%) GMP
6 1 (0.90%) GxP
6 1 (0.90%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.90%) HL7
6 1 (0.90%) IFRS
6 1 (0.90%) MiFID
6 1 (0.90%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (1.80%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (0.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (15.32%) Microsoft
2 14 (12.61%) Google
3 12 (10.81%) Databricks
3 12 (10.81%) Oracle
3 12 (10.81%) SAP
4 6 (5.41%) Workday
5 5 (4.50%) MuleSoft
6 4 (3.60%) SimCorp
7 3 (2.70%) Ariba
7 3 (2.70%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.70%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.80%) Dell
8 2 (1.80%) IDERA
8 2 (1.80%) Informatica
8 2 (1.80%) Murex
8 2 (1.80%) NetCracker
8 2 (1.80%) Talend
9 1 (0.90%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.90%) GoldenSource
9 1 (0.90%) Qualtrics