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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 225 255
Rank change year-on-year +9 +30 +112
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 108 93 99
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.98% 0.87% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.97% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 65 70
10th Percentile £351 £410 £408
25th Percentile £421 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £519
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.20% +1.22%
75th Percentile £584 £650 £588
90th Percentile £698 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 9,871 9,607 14,428
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.48% 90.38% 87.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,445 6,245 9,675
10th Percentile £341 £328 £338
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 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 426 189 520
10th Percentile £17.00 £18.20 £15.17
25th Percentile £25.56 £23.50 £22.61
Median hourly rate £55.00 £38.00 £45.11
Median % change year-on-year +44.74% -15.75% -20.79%
75th Percentile £65.11 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £32.91 £34.25
% change year-on-year -21.68% -3.93% -2.14%

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 23 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 4 (3.70%) Confluence
2 3 (2.78%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
2 3 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.85%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.93%) CMS
Applications
1 14 (12.96%) MS Visio
2 11 (10.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.78%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.85%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.85%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.85%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.85%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.85%) SAP R/3
3 2 (1.85%) SAP SD
3 2 (1.85%) SAP Travel Management
3 2 (1.85%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.93%) Maximo
4 1 (0.93%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.93%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.93%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 15 (13.89%) Azure
2 10 (9.26%) Power Platform
3 8 (7.41%) GCP
4 6 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (4.63%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (4.63%) OCI
6 4 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (3.70%) Boomi
6 4 (3.70%) Entra ID
6 4 (3.70%) Power Automate
6 4 (3.70%) PowerApps
7 3 (2.78%) AtomSphere
7 3 (2.78%) AWS
7 3 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.78%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (1.85%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (1.85%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.85%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.85%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.41%) Metadata
2 5 (4.63%) Power BI
3 4 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.78%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.85%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.93%) DataStage
6 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (7.41%) JIRA
2 2 (1.85%) Postman
General
1 41 (37.96%) Finance
2 38 (35.19%) Social Skills
3 26 (24.07%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (16.67%) Banking
5 14 (12.96%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (10.19%) Investment Banking
7 7 (6.48%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.70%) Back Office
8 4 (3.70%) Legal
9 3 (2.78%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.78%) Law
9 3 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.85%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.85%) Marketing
11 1 (0.93%) Billing
11 1 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.93%) Retail
11 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (51.85%) Analyst
2 40 (37.04%) Business Analyst
3 21 (19.44%) Data Analyst
4 16 (14.81%) Lead
5 13 (12.04%) Data Business Analyst
6 10 (9.26%) Banking Analyst
7 9 (8.33%) Banking Business Analyst
7 9 (8.33%) Developer
7 9 (8.33%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
7 9 (8.33%) Identity Management Analyst
7 9 (8.33%) Senior
8 7 (6.48%) Consultant
8 7 (6.48%) Integration Developer
9 5 (4.63%) Architect
9 5 (4.63%) Data Architect
9 5 (4.63%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.63%) Implementation Analyst
9 5 (4.63%) Integration Engineer
9 5 (4.63%) Pensions Analyst
10 4 (3.70%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.41%) REST
1 8 (7.41%) XML
2 7 (6.48%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (5.56%) JSON
3 6 (5.56%) XSLT
4 4 (3.70%) SOAP
5 3 (2.78%) EDI
5 3 (2.78%) SAP TM
6 2 (1.85%) FHIR
6 2 (1.85%) HTML
6 2 (1.85%) OAuth
7 1 (0.93%) .NET
7 1 (0.93%) ADO
7 1 (0.93%) Gherkin
7 1 (0.93%) Kafka
7 1 (0.93%) Middleware
7 1 (0.93%) Murex MxML
7 1 (0.93%) React
7 1 (0.93%) Spring
7 1 (0.93%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.81%) Data Structures
2 10 (9.26%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.63%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.63%) Reference Data
4 2 (1.85%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (1.85%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.85%) NHS
4 2 (1.85%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.93%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.93%) Educational Technology
5 1 (0.93%) e-Learning
5 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.93%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.93%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.93%) Market Risk
5 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.93%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (32.41%) Stakeholder Management
2 34 (31.48%) Migration
3 23 (21.30%) Data Migration
3 23 (21.30%) Data Modelling
3 23 (21.30%) Validation
4 22 (20.37%) ETL
5 20 (18.52%) Agile
6 19 (17.59%) Business Analysis
7 17 (15.74%) Requirements Gathering
8 16 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (14.81%) Workshop Facilitation
9 14 (12.96%) Data Analysis
9 14 (12.96%) Data Cleansing
9 14 (12.96%) Data Governance
10 13 (12.04%) ERP
10 13 (12.04%) User Acceptance Testing
11 12 (11.11%) Analytics
11 12 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 11 (10.19%) Data Management
12 11 (10.19%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 15 (13.89%) SQL
2 4 (3.70%) C#
2 4 (3.70%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.78%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.85%) Python
5 1 (0.93%) Java
5 1 (0.93%) R
Qualifications
1 17 (15.74%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.26%) Degree
3 9 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.85%) IIBA
5 2 (1.85%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.93%) CBAP
6 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (15.74%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.48%) QA
3 6 (5.56%) GDPR
4 3 (2.78%) COBIT
4 3 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.78%) NIST
5 2 (1.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.85%) HL7
6 1 (0.93%) GMP
6 1 (0.93%) GxP
6 1 (0.93%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.93%) IFRS
System Software
1 2 (1.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.85%) Terraform
2 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (17.59%) Microsoft
2 14 (12.96%) SAP
3 10 (9.26%) Oracle
4 8 (7.41%) Workday
5 6 (5.56%) Google
5 6 (5.56%) Salesforce
6 5 (4.63%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.78%) Ariba
7 3 (2.78%) Databricks
8 2 (1.85%) Adobe
8 2 (1.85%) IBM
8 2 (1.85%) IDERA
8 2 (1.85%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.85%) OneTrust
8 2 (1.85%) Tealium
9 1 (0.93%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.93%) Informatica
9 1 (0.93%) Murex
9 1 (0.93%) Talend
9 1 (0.93%) Xceptor