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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 199 220
Rank change year-on-year -7 +21 +71
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 168 110 108
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.24% 1.09% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 1.19% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 86 63
10th Percentile £356 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £621 £675 £600
90th Percentile £700 £788 £690
UK median daily rate £519 £550 £501
% change year-on-year -5.73% +9.89% -6.88%

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 12,223 9,245 11,328
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.93% 91.94% 87.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,711 6,212 7,568
10th Percentile £356 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.55% -3.43% -2.33%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £719 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 701 284 387
10th Percentile £16.62 £12.62 £18.41
25th Percentile £31.25 £18.89 £31.25
Median hourly rate £52.43 £34.48 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.04% -19.81% -14.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £65.02
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.11 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.13 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +67.50% -38.57% -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 16 August 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 10 (5.95%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.76%) Confluence
3 1 (0.60%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.60%) CMS
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 12 (7.14%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.38%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.57%) Aladdin
3 3 (1.79%) Infor LN
3 3 (1.79%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (1.19%) Maximo
5 1 (0.60%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.60%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.60%) SAP APO
5 1 (0.60%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.60%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.60%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.60%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.60%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.60%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.60%) SAP R/3
5 1 (0.60%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 19 (11.31%) Azure
2 14 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 13 (7.74%) GCP
4 8 (4.76%) Boomi
4 8 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (4.76%) Snowflake
5 7 (4.17%) AWS
5 7 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (3.57%) GitHub
7 5 (2.98%) SuccessFactors
8 4 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (2.38%) SaaS
9 3 (1.79%) AtomSphere
9 3 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.19%) Collibra
10 2 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.19%) Lucidchart
10 2 (1.19%) OCI
10 2 (1.19%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.19%) Salsify
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.79%) SSL
2 1 (0.60%) AMQP
2 1 (0.60%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.31%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (8.33%) Data Lake
2 14 (8.33%) Metadata
3 12 (7.14%) Power BI
4 7 (4.17%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.38%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.79%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.79%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.19%) DataStage
7 2 (1.19%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.19%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.19%) Parquet
7 2 (1.19%) Power Query
7 2 (1.19%) Spark SQL
7 2 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.60%) OLTP
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database 10g
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 11 (6.55%) JIRA
2 3 (1.79%) Git
2 3 (1.79%) Postman
3 2 (1.19%) Balsamiq
4 1 (0.60%) Flyway
4 1 (0.60%) GitLab
4 1 (0.60%) Hudson
4 1 (0.60%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.60%) Liquibase
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.60%) Robot Framework
General
1 55 (32.74%) Finance
2 51 (30.36%) Social Skills
3 30 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (10.12%) Banking
5 16 (9.52%) Legal
6 13 (7.74%) Retail
7 12 (7.14%) Public Sector
8 7 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (4.17%) Local Government
9 5 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.98%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.79%) Billing
11 3 (1.79%) Front Office
11 3 (1.79%) Marketing
11 3 (1.79%) Publishing
12 2 (1.19%) German Language
12 2 (1.19%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.19%) Law
Job Titles
1 83 (49.40%) Analyst
2 67 (39.88%) Business Analyst
3 42 (25.00%) Data Analyst
4 31 (18.45%) Data Business Analyst
5 21 (12.50%) Lead
6 15 (8.93%) Developer
7 14 (8.33%) Senior
7 14 (8.33%) Technical Analyst
8 12 (7.14%) Data Engineer
9 11 (6.55%) SQL Analyst
9 11 (6.55%) SQL Data Analyst
9 11 (6.55%) Technical Business Analyst
10 9 (5.36%) Data Migration Specialist
10 9 (5.36%) Migration Specialist
11 8 (4.76%) Transformation Analyst
12 7 (4.17%) Architect
12 7 (4.17%) Migration Engineer
13 6 (3.57%) Consultant
13 6 (3.57%) Data Migration Engineer
13 6 (3.57%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.52%) JSON
2 13 (7.74%) REST
2 13 (7.74%) XML
3 11 (6.55%) Middleware
4 10 (5.95%) SOAP
5 6 (3.57%) EDI
5 6 (3.57%) FHIR
6 5 (2.98%) Lightning Web Components
7 4 (2.38%) OAuth
7 4 (2.38%) Web Services
8 3 (1.79%) EDIFACT
8 3 (1.79%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.79%) PySpark
8 3 (1.79%) Swagger
8 3 (1.79%) XSLT
9 2 (1.19%) Kafka
9 2 (1.19%) OpenAPI
10 1 (0.60%) Great Expectations
10 1 (0.60%) Oracle Fusion
10 1 (0.60%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 31 (18.45%) Data Structures
2 19 (11.31%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (10.12%) Product Ownership
4 9 (5.36%) Management Information System
5 7 (4.17%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.57%) LIMS
7 5 (2.98%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (2.98%) Reference Data
8 4 (2.38%) Derivative
8 4 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.19%) Credit Risk
10 2 (1.19%) Data Fabric
10 2 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.19%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.19%) NHS
10 2 (1.19%) Reinsurance
10 2 (1.19%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.60%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.76%) Unix
1 8 (4.76%) Windows
2 7 (4.17%) Linux
3 2 (1.19%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (39.88%) Migration
2 66 (39.29%) Agile
3 62 (36.90%) Data Modelling
4 51 (30.36%) Validation
5 49 (29.17%) Data Migration
6 43 (25.60%) Requirements Gathering
6 43 (25.60%) Stakeholder Management
7 40 (23.81%) Workshop Facilitation
8 37 (22.02%) User Stories
9 36 (21.43%) Data Analysis
10 35 (20.83%) Data Transformation
10 35 (20.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 32 (19.05%) Business Analysis
12 29 (17.26%) Data Governance
13 28 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
14 27 (16.07%) ETL
15 26 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
16 25 (14.88%) Data Validation
17 19 (11.31%) Translating Business Requirements
18 18 (10.71%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 73 (43.45%) SQL
2 12 (7.14%) Python
3 5 (2.98%) MUMPS
4 4 (2.38%) Apex Code
4 4 (2.38%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.79%) Groovy
5 3 (1.79%) Java
5 3 (1.79%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.60%) ABAP
6 1 (0.60%) C#
6 1 (0.60%) DataWeave
6 1 (0.60%) Perl
6 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.60%) R
6 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (4.76%) Security Cleared
2 7 (4.17%) Degree
3 6 (3.57%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.60%) CBAP
5 1 (0.60%) CCA
5 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (24.40%) Data Quality
2 23 (13.69%) GDPR
3 20 (11.90%) QA
4 6 (3.57%) HL7
5 3 (1.79%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.19%) DICOM
6 2 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.60%) AIFMD
7 1 (0.60%) Basel II
7 1 (0.60%) CDISC
7 1 (0.60%) COBIT
7 1 (0.60%) EMIR
7 1 (0.60%) FATCA
7 1 (0.60%) GMP
7 1 (0.60%) GRC
7 1 (0.60%) IFRS
7 1 (0.60%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.60%) MiFID
7 1 (0.60%) NIST
7 1 (0.60%) Solvency II
Systems Management
1 2 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (10.71%) Microsoft
1 18 (10.71%) SAP
2 13 (7.74%) Oracle
3 11 (6.55%) Databricks
3 11 (6.55%) Google
4 7 (4.17%) Salesforce
4 7 (4.17%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.98%) InterSystems
5 5 (2.98%) MuleSoft
6 4 (2.38%) Murex
6 4 (2.38%) SimCorp
7 3 (1.79%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.79%) Baan
7 3 (1.79%) IBM
7 3 (1.79%) Infor
7 3 (1.79%) Informatica
7 3 (1.79%) ION Trading
7 3 (1.79%) Palantir
7 3 (1.79%) Splunk
8 2 (1.19%) Talend