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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 198 227
Rank change year-on-year -8 +29 +64
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 169 106 109
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.25% 1.07% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 1.16% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 82 63
10th Percentile £354 £328 £400
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £615 £675 £600
90th Percentile £700 £788 £690
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +9.95% -6.93%

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 12,124 9,132 11,334
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.98% 91.87% 87.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,635 6,121 7,558
10th Percentile £356 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £719 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 703 283 373
10th Percentile £16.62 £12.62 £18.31
25th Percentile £30.26 £18.17 £30.75
Median hourly rate £50.00 £34.48 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.01% -19.81% -14.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £65.03
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +65.23% -38.57% +0.61%

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 19 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 (5.92%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.14%) Confluence
3 1 (0.59%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (6.51%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.37%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (3.55%) Aladdin
1 6 (3.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.78%) Infor LN
2 3 (1.78%) SimCorp Dimension
3 2 (1.18%) Maximo
4 1 (0.59%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.59%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.59%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.59%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.59%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.59%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.59%) SAP FS
4 1 (0.59%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.59%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.59%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 18 (10.65%) Azure
2 14 (8.28%) Power Platform
3 13 (7.69%) GCP
4 10 (5.92%) Snowflake
5 8 (4.73%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (4.14%) AWS
6 7 (4.14%) Boomi
7 6 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.55%) GitHub
8 5 (2.96%) SuccessFactors
9 4 (2.37%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.37%) SaaS
10 3 (1.78%) AtomSphere
10 3 (1.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (1.18%) Collibra
11 2 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.18%) Lucidchart
11 2 (1.18%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.18%) Salsify
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.78%) SSL
2 1 (0.59%) AMQP
2 1 (0.59%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.24%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (8.88%) Data Lake
3 14 (8.28%) Metadata
4 13 (7.69%) Power BI
5 7 (4.14%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.96%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.78%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.78%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.18%) DataStage
8 2 (1.18%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.18%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.18%) Parquet
8 2 (1.18%) Power Query
8 2 (1.18%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.59%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (0.59%) OLTP
9 1 (0.59%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 10 (5.92%) JIRA
2 3 (1.78%) Git
2 3 (1.78%) Postman
3 2 (1.18%) Balsamiq
4 1 (0.59%) Flyway
4 1 (0.59%) GitLab
4 1 (0.59%) Hudson
4 1 (0.59%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.59%) Liquibase
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.59%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (0.59%) Robot Framework
General
1 54 (31.95%) Finance
2 50 (29.59%) Social Skills
3 27 (15.98%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.47%) Banking
4 16 (9.47%) Legal
5 13 (7.69%) Retail
6 12 (7.10%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.14%) Local Government
8 6 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.96%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.37%) Front Office
10 4 (2.37%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.78%) Billing
11 3 (1.78%) Marketing
11 3 (1.78%) Publishing
12 2 (1.18%) German Language
12 2 (1.18%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.18%) Law
Job Titles
1 83 (49.11%) Analyst
2 66 (39.05%) Business Analyst
3 44 (26.04%) Data Analyst
4 32 (18.93%) Data Business Analyst
5 21 (12.43%) Lead
6 15 (8.88%) Developer
7 14 (8.28%) Technical Analyst
8 13 (7.69%) Senior
9 12 (7.10%) SQL Analyst
9 12 (7.10%) SQL Data Analyst
10 11 (6.51%) Data Engineer
10 11 (6.51%) Technical Business Analyst
11 9 (5.33%) Architect
11 9 (5.33%) Data Migration Specialist
11 9 (5.33%) Migration Specialist
12 8 (4.73%) Transformation Analyst
13 6 (3.55%) Consultant
13 6 (3.55%) Integration Specialist
13 6 (3.55%) SAP Consultant
13 6 (3.55%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.47%) JSON
2 13 (7.69%) REST
2 13 (7.69%) XML
3 11 (6.51%) Middleware
4 10 (5.92%) SOAP
5 7 (4.14%) FHIR
6 6 (3.55%) EDI
7 5 (2.96%) Lightning Web Components
7 5 (2.96%) Web Services
8 4 (2.37%) OAuth
9 3 (1.78%) EDIFACT
9 3 (1.78%) OAuth2
9 3 (1.78%) PySpark
9 3 (1.78%) Swagger
9 3 (1.78%) XSLT
10 2 (1.18%) Kafka
10 2 (1.18%) OpenAPI
10 2 (1.18%) RESTful
11 1 (0.59%) Great Expectations
11 1 (0.59%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 29 (17.16%) Data Structures
2 19 (11.24%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (10.65%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.92%) Management Information System
5 8 (4.73%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.55%) LIMS
7 5 (2.96%) Derivative
7 5 (2.96%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (2.96%) Reference Data
8 4 (2.37%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.78%) NHS
9 3 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.18%) Credit Risk
10 2 (1.18%) Data Fabric
10 2 (1.18%) Fixed Income
10 2 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.18%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.18%) Reinsurance
10 2 (1.18%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.73%) Unix
1 8 (4.73%) Windows
2 7 (4.14%) Linux
3 2 (1.18%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (39.64%) Agile
2 66 (39.05%) Migration
3 64 (37.87%) Data Modelling
4 50 (29.59%) Validation
5 49 (28.99%) Data Migration
6 42 (24.85%) Requirements Gathering
6 42 (24.85%) Stakeholder Management
7 41 (24.26%) Workshop Facilitation
8 38 (22.49%) Data Analysis
8 38 (22.49%) User Stories
9 35 (20.71%) Data Transformation
9 35 (20.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 32 (18.93%) Business Analysis
10 32 (18.93%) Data Governance
11 28 (16.57%) User Acceptance Testing
12 27 (15.98%) ETL
13 25 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (14.20%) Data Validation
15 21 (12.43%) Translating Business Requirements
16 18 (10.65%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 75 (44.38%) SQL
2 13 (7.69%) Python
3 5 (2.96%) MUMPS
4 4 (2.37%) Apex Code
4 4 (2.37%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.78%) Groovy
5 3 (1.78%) Java
5 3 (1.78%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.59%) ABAP
6 1 (0.59%) C#
6 1 (0.59%) DataWeave
6 1 (0.59%) Perl
6 1 (0.59%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.59%) R
6 1 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (4.73%) Security Cleared
2 7 (4.14%) Degree
3 6 (3.55%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.59%) CBAP
5 1 (0.59%) CCA
5 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.59%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (24.85%) Data Quality
2 22 (13.02%) GDPR
3 18 (10.65%) QA
4 7 (4.14%) HL7
5 3 (1.78%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.18%) DICOM
7 1 (0.59%) AIFMD
7 1 (0.59%) Basel II
7 1 (0.59%) CDISC
7 1 (0.59%) EMIR
7 1 (0.59%) FATCA
7 1 (0.59%) GMP
7 1 (0.59%) GRC
7 1 (0.59%) IFRS
7 1 (0.59%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.59%) MiFID
7 1 (0.59%) NCSC
7 1 (0.59%) Solvency II
Systems Management
1 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (10.06%) Microsoft
1 17 (10.06%) SAP
2 12 (7.10%) Databricks
3 11 (6.51%) Google
4 10 (5.92%) Oracle
5 7 (4.14%) ServiceNow
6 6 (3.55%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.96%) InterSystems
8 4 (2.37%) MuleSoft
8 4 (2.37%) Murex
8 4 (2.37%) SimCorp
9 3 (1.78%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.78%) Baan
9 3 (1.78%) Infor
9 3 (1.78%) ION Trading
9 3 (1.78%) Palantir
9 3 (1.78%) Splunk
10 2 (1.18%) Ariba
10 2 (1.18%) Bloomberg
10 2 (1.18%) Informatica