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 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 219 221 266
Rank change year-on-year +2 +45 +138
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 93 107 126
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.94% 0.88% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.00% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 71 89
10th Percentile £335 £375 £400
25th Percentile £413 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £653 £594 £638
90th Percentile £785 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -

All Process and 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 9,090 10,670 16,772
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.82% 88.05% 88.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,040 6,695 11,731
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £744
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 302 211 408
10th Percentile £14.78 £18.27 £17.75
25th Percentile £20.40 £25.34 £25.99
Median hourly rate £35.95 £42.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.42% -19.05% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.61 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -32.04% -15.60% +25.65%

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 28 October 2025.

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 5 (5.38%) nginx
2 4 (4.30%) Confluence
3 2 (2.15%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.08%) Anypoint
Applications
1 16 (17.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (9.68%) MS Visio
3 3 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (8.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (6.45%) Aladdin
3 5 (5.38%) thinkFolio
4 2 (2.15%) Loan IQ
4 2 (2.15%) SAP PM
4 2 (2.15%) SAP SD
4 2 (2.15%) SAP Travel Management
4 2 (2.15%) Workday HCM
5 1 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (1.08%) Endur
5 1 (1.08%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (1.08%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (1.08%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 14 (15.05%) Azure
2 11 (11.83%) Power Platform
3 10 (10.75%) Serverless
4 9 (9.68%) AWS
5 8 (8.60%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (7.53%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (6.45%) GitHub
8 5 (5.38%) Amazon EventBridge
8 5 (5.38%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (4.30%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (4.30%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (4.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (4.30%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (3.23%) AtomSphere
10 3 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (3.23%) Boomi
10 3 (3.23%) Power Automate
10 3 (3.23%) PowerApps
10 3 (3.23%) Snowflake
11 2 (2.15%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.08%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.60%) Power BI
2 6 (6.45%) Relational Database
3 5 (5.38%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (5.38%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.23%) Metadata
5 2 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.15%) Data Mining
5 2 (2.15%) DB2
5 2 (2.15%) Delta Lake
5 2 (2.15%) GIS
5 2 (2.15%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.08%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.08%) IMS/DB
6 1 (1.08%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.08%) Power Query
6 1 (1.08%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (12.90%) JIRA
2 2 (2.15%) Postman
General
1 35 (37.63%) Finance
2 31 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 12 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.68%) Public Sector
5 8 (8.60%) Banking
6 6 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (6.45%) Front Office
7 5 (5.38%) Digital Healthcare
7 5 (5.38%) Investment Banking
8 4 (4.30%) Back Office
9 2 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.08%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.08%) Law
10 1 (1.08%) Legal
10 1 (1.08%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.08%) Police
10 1 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (45.16%) Analyst
2 29 (31.18%) Business Analyst
3 15 (16.13%) Consultant
3 15 (16.13%) Data Analyst
3 15 (16.13%) Developer
4 9 (9.68%) Data Business Analyst
4 9 (9.68%) Lead
5 8 (8.60%) Pensions Analyst
6 7 (7.53%) Integration Developer
6 7 (7.53%) Management Consultant
7 6 (6.45%) Data Migration Lead
7 6 (6.45%) SAP Consultant
7 6 (6.45%) SAP SD Consultant
8 5 (5.38%) Business Manager
8 5 (5.38%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
8 5 (5.38%) Implementation Analyst
9 4 (4.30%) Asset Management Business Analyst
9 4 (4.30%) Banking Analyst
9 4 (4.30%) Banking Business Analyst
9 4 (4.30%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.98%) REST
2 12 (12.90%) JSON
3 11 (11.83%) XML
4 9 (9.68%) SOAP
5 7 (7.53%) OAuth
6 6 (6.45%) HTML
6 6 (6.45%) SAP TM
7 5 (5.38%) OAuth2
7 5 (5.38%) RESTful
7 5 (5.38%) XSLT
8 3 (3.23%) Kafka
9 2 (2.15%) ADO
9 2 (2.15%) DCOM
9 2 (2.15%) PySpark
9 2 (2.15%) React
10 1 (1.08%) Gherkin
10 1 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
10 1 (1.08%) Spring
10 1 (1.08%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.20%) Onboarding
2 11 (11.83%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (6.45%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (6.45%) Data Structures
4 5 (5.38%) Derivative
4 5 (5.38%) Fixed Income
4 5 (5.38%) Hedge funds
5 4 (4.30%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.30%) Reference Data
6 3 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.15%) IoT
7 2 (2.15%) Mainframe
7 2 (2.15%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.15%) SCADA
7 2 (2.15%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.08%) e-Learning
8 1 (1.08%) IBM Mainframe
8 1 (1.08%) LIMS
8 1 (1.08%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.15%) Unix
2 1 (1.08%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (38.71%) Agile
2 24 (25.81%) Migration
3 21 (22.58%) Data Migration
4 19 (20.43%) Data Analysis
5 18 (19.35%) Stakeholder Management
6 17 (18.28%) Data Governance
6 17 (18.28%) ETL
7 16 (17.20%) Business Intelligence
7 16 (17.20%) Data Modelling
8 15 (16.13%) Business Analysis
8 15 (16.13%) Data Transformation
8 15 (16.13%) Validation
9 14 (15.05%) Data Cleansing
9 14 (15.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 13 (13.98%) Workshop Facilitation
11 12 (12.90%) DevOps
11 12 (12.90%) User Stories
12 11 (11.83%) Analytics
12 11 (11.83%) Requirements Gathering
12 11 (11.83%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (24.73%) SQL
2 18 (19.35%) Python
3 7 (7.53%) Java
4 4 (4.30%) C#
4 4 (4.30%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.15%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.15%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.08%) Bicep
6 1 (1.08%) JCL
6 1 (1.08%) Korn
6 1 (1.08%) PL/1
6 1 (1.08%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.08%) VB
6 1 (1.08%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 14 (15.05%) SC Cleared
3 11 (11.83%) Degree
4 6 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.15%) CBAP
7 1 (1.08%) IIBA
7 1 (1.08%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (20.43%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.45%) GDPR
2 6 (6.45%) QA
3 1 (1.08%) COBIT
3 1 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (7.53%) Docker
2 1 (1.08%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 3 (3.23%) Terraform
2 2 (2.15%) Kibana
3 1 (1.08%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 13 (13.98%) SAP
2 10 (10.75%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.45%) Oracle
4 5 (5.38%) BISAM
4 5 (5.38%) Calypso
4 5 (5.38%) Charles River
4 5 (5.38%) Pega
4 5 (5.38%) Salesforce
4 5 (5.38%) SimCorp
5 4 (4.30%) Databricks
5 4 (4.30%) Informatica
5 4 (4.30%) Workday
6 2 (2.15%) Duck Creek
6 2 (2.15%) Kronos
7 1 (1.08%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.08%) Ariba
7 1 (1.08%) Cognos
7 1 (1.08%) IBM
7 1 (1.08%) OpenLink
7 1 (1.08%) Teradata