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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 208 235
Rank change year-on-year -25 +27 +87
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 129 109 111
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.97% 1.08% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 1.17% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 89 69
10th Percentile £363 £350 £360
25th Percentile £450 £455 £408
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 £679
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 11,881 9,286 12,734
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.51% 91.76% 87.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,595 6,319 8,571
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 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £752 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 639 260 553
10th Percentile £16.70 £12.96 £15.17
25th Percentile £31.92 £19.05 £25.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £34.83 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.11% -19.01% -18.10%
75th Percentile £71.91 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.60 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.75
% change year-on-year +74.79% -33.38% +0.67%

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 5 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 8 (6.20%) Confluence
1 8 (6.20%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.78%) Anypoint
2 1 (0.78%) CMS
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.78%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
2 1 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 14 (10.85%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.65%) Aladdin
2 5 (3.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (2.33%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (1.55%) Infor LN
4 2 (1.55%) Maximo
5 1 (0.78%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.78%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.78%) SAP APO
5 1 (0.78%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.78%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.78%) SAP R/3
5 1 (0.78%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 14 (10.85%) Azure
1 14 (10.85%) GCP
2 11 (8.53%) Power Platform
3 9 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (5.43%) Boomi
5 5 (3.88%) Snowflake
6 4 (3.10%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.10%) SaaS
6 4 (3.10%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (2.33%) GitHub
8 2 (1.55%) AtomSphere
8 2 (1.55%) Collibra
8 2 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.55%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.55%) OCI
8 2 (1.55%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.78%) iPaaS
9 1 (0.78%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.55%) SSL
2 1 (0.78%) AMQP
2 1 (0.78%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.63%) Metadata
2 14 (10.85%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (6.98%) Power BI
4 5 (3.88%) Data Lake
4 5 (3.88%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.88%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.33%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.55%) DataStage
6 2 (1.55%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.55%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.55%) Parquet
6 2 (1.55%) Spark SQL
6 2 (1.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.78%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.78%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 11 (8.53%) JIRA
2 3 (2.33%) Git
2 3 (2.33%) Postman
3 1 (0.78%) Hudson
3 1 (0.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.78%) Robot Framework
General
1 41 (31.78%) Finance
1 41 (31.78%) Social Skills
2 27 (20.93%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (12.40%) Legal
4 14 (10.85%) Public Sector
5 13 (10.08%) Banking
6 10 (7.75%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (4.65%) Retail
8 4 (3.10%) Law
8 4 (3.10%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.33%) Billing
9 3 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.33%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.33%) Local Government
9 3 (2.33%) Marketing
10 2 (1.55%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.55%) Front Office
10 2 (1.55%) German Language
10 2 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 66 (51.16%) Analyst
2 50 (38.76%) Business Analyst
3 28 (21.71%) Data Analyst
4 21 (16.28%) Lead
5 19 (14.73%) Data Business Analyst
6 12 (9.30%) Data Engineer
6 12 (9.30%) Senior
7 8 (6.20%) Developer
8 6 (4.65%) Architect
8 6 (4.65%) Migration Engineer
8 6 (4.65%) Transformation Analyst
9 5 (3.88%) Data Migration Engineer
9 5 (3.88%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (3.88%) Senior Business Analyst
9 5 (3.88%) Senior Data Engineer
9 5 (3.88%) Technical Analyst
10 4 (3.10%) Consultant
10 4 (3.10%) Data Architect
10 4 (3.10%) Python Developer
10 4 (3.10%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.30%) XML
2 11 (8.53%) JSON
3 8 (6.20%) Middleware
4 6 (4.65%) EDI
4 6 (4.65%) REST
5 4 (3.10%) SOAP
6 3 (2.33%) PySpark
6 3 (2.33%) Web Services
6 3 (2.33%) XSLT
7 2 (1.55%) EDIFACT
7 2 (1.55%) OAuth
7 2 (1.55%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (0.78%) JMS
8 1 (0.78%) Pandas
8 1 (0.78%) pytest
8 1 (0.78%) RAML
8 1 (0.78%) RESTful
8 1 (0.78%) SAP ALE
8 1 (0.78%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 28 (21.71%) Data Structures
2 14 (10.85%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (6.20%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.43%) Reference Data
5 6 (4.65%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.65%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.33%) Derivative
6 3 (2.33%) NHS
7 2 (1.55%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.55%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.55%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.78%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.78%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.78%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.78%) LIMS
8 1 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.78%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.10%) Unix
1 4 (3.10%) Windows
2 3 (2.33%) Linux
3 2 (1.55%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (41.09%) Migration
2 47 (36.43%) Agile
2 47 (36.43%) Data Modelling
3 36 (27.91%) Validation
4 34 (26.36%) Data Migration
5 31 (24.03%) Workshop Facilitation
6 29 (22.48%) Requirements Gathering
7 28 (21.71%) Stakeholder Management
8 24 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (17.83%) ETL
9 23 (17.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 22 (17.05%) Data Governance
11 21 (16.28%) Business Analysis
11 21 (16.28%) Data Transformation
12 20 (15.50%) Data Analysis
12 20 (15.50%) User Acceptance Testing
13 17 (13.18%) Data Validation
14 16 (12.40%) User Stories
15 15 (11.63%) Data Protection
16 14 (10.85%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 47 (36.43%) SQL
2 11 (8.53%) Python
3 3 (2.33%) T-SQL
4 2 (1.55%) Groovy
4 2 (1.55%) Java
4 2 (1.55%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.78%) DataWeave
5 1 (0.78%) MUMPS
5 1 (0.78%) Perl
5 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.78%) R
5 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (8.53%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.20%) Degree
3 7 (5.43%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.78%) CBAP
5 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.78%) IIBA
5 1 (0.78%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (24.03%) Data Quality
2 20 (15.50%) GDPR
3 9 (6.98%) QA
4 2 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.78%) AIFMD
5 1 (0.78%) Basel II
5 1 (0.78%) CDISC
5 1 (0.78%) COBIT
5 1 (0.78%) EMIR
5 1 (0.78%) FATCA
5 1 (0.78%) GMP
5 1 (0.78%) MiFID
5 1 (0.78%) NIST
5 1 (0.78%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (1.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (0.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (15.50%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.85%) Google
3 13 (10.08%) Databricks
3 13 (10.08%) SAP
4 12 (9.30%) Oracle
5 7 (5.43%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.88%) MuleSoft
6 5 (3.88%) Workday
7 4 (3.10%) SimCorp
8 3 (2.33%) Ariba
8 3 (2.33%) IBM
8 3 (2.33%) Murex
8 3 (2.33%) Palantir
9 2 (1.55%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.55%) Baan
9 2 (1.55%) Dell
9 2 (1.55%) IDERA
9 2 (1.55%) Informatica
9 2 (1.55%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.55%) Talend