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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 239 270
Rank change year-on-year +14 +31 +98
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 105 82 100
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.97% 0.76% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.85% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 56 73
10th Percentile £360 £405 £413
25th Percentile £428 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% +3.00%
75th Percentile £588 £639 £588
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 9,668 9,698 14,472
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.64% 90.10% 88.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,312 6,227 9,706
10th Percentile £335 £330 £334
25th Percentile £413 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 386 183 496
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.31 £15.21
25th Percentile £25.00 £24.75 £22.08
Median hourly rate £50.61 £38.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.44% -18.95% -17.39%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.93 £66.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £83.43
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year -22.62% -1.71% +1.74%

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 12 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%) Confluence
1 3 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.90%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
2 2 (1.90%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 14 (13.33%) MS Visio
2 11 (10.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (5.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.81%) 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%) Endur
3 1 (0.95%) Maximo
3 1 (0.95%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.95%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.95%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.95%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 15 (14.29%) Azure
2 9 (8.57%) 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%) Entra ID
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%) Boomi
7 3 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.86%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.90%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (1.90%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.90%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.90%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.62%) Metadata
2 5 (4.76%) Power BI
3 4 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.86%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.90%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.95%) DataStage
6 1 (0.95%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (7.62%) JIRA
2 2 (1.90%) Postman
General
1 39 (37.14%) Finance
2 36 (34.29%) Social Skills
3 23 (21.90%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (16.19%) Banking
5 14 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (10.48%) Investment Banking
7 6 (5.71%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.81%) Back Office
8 4 (3.81%) Legal
9 3 (2.86%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.86%) Law
9 3 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.90%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.90%) Marketing
11 1 (0.95%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.95%) Retail
11 1 (0.95%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.95%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (51.43%) Analyst
2 38 (36.19%) Business Analyst
3 20 (19.05%) Data Analyst
4 15 (14.29%) Lead
5 12 (11.43%) Data Business Analyst
6 10 (9.52%) Banking Analyst
7 9 (8.57%) Banking Business Analyst
7 9 (8.57%) Developer
7 9 (8.57%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
7 9 (8.57%) Identity Management Analyst
8 8 (7.62%) Consultant
8 8 (7.62%) Senior
9 7 (6.67%) Integration Developer
10 5 (4.76%) Architect
10 5 (4.76%) Data Architect
10 5 (4.76%) Implementation Analyst
10 5 (4.76%) Integration Engineer
10 5 (4.76%) Pensions Analyst
11 4 (3.81%) Asset Management Business Analyst
11 4 (3.81%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.62%) REST
1 8 (7.62%) XML
2 6 (5.71%) JSON
2 6 (5.71%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (5.71%) XSLT
3 4 (3.81%) SOAP
4 3 (2.86%) EDI
4 3 (2.86%) SAP TM
5 2 (1.90%) FHIR
5 2 (1.90%) HTML
5 2 (1.90%) OAuth
6 1 (0.95%) .NET
6 1 (0.95%) ADO
6 1 (0.95%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.95%) Kafka
6 1 (0.95%) Middleware
6 1 (0.95%) Murex MxML
6 1 (0.95%) React
6 1 (0.95%) Spring
6 1 (0.95%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.33%) Data Structures
2 10 (9.52%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.76%) Reference Data
4 4 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
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%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.95%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.95%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.95%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.95%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (32.38%) Stakeholder Management
2 30 (28.57%) Migration
3 22 (20.95%) Data Modelling
4 21 (20.00%) Agile
4 21 (20.00%) ETL
5 20 (19.05%) Data Migration
6 19 (18.10%) Business Analysis
6 19 (18.10%) Validation
7 16 (15.24%) Requirements Gathering
7 16 (15.24%) Workshop Facilitation
8 15 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (13.33%) Data Governance
9 14 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
10 13 (12.38%) Data Analysis
11 12 (11.43%) Analytics
11 12 (11.43%) Data Cleansing
11 12 (11.43%) ERP
11 12 (11.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 11 (10.48%) Data Management
13 10 (9.52%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 14 (13.33%) SQL
2 4 (3.81%) C#
2 4 (3.81%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.86%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.90%) Python
5 1 (0.95%) Java
5 1 (0.95%) R
Qualifications
1 17 (16.19%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.52%) Degree
3 9 (8.57%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.90%) IIBA
5 2 (1.90%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.95%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.95%) CBAP
6 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (15.24%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.76%) GDPR
2 5 (4.76%) 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 2 (1.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.43%) SAP
3 8 (7.62%) Workday
4 7 (6.67%) Oracle
5 6 (5.71%) Google
6 5 (4.76%) Salesforce
6 5 (4.76%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.86%) Ariba
7 3 (2.86%) Databricks
8 2 (1.90%) Adobe
8 2 (1.90%) IDERA
8 2 (1.90%) OneTrust
8 2 (1.90%) Tealium
9 1 (0.95%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.95%) IBM
9 1 (0.95%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.95%) Murex
9 1 (0.95%) OpenLink
9 1 (0.95%) Palantir
9 1 (0.95%) Xceptor