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 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 233 258
Rank change year-on-year +22 +25 +105
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 111 81 107
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.05% 0.75% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 0.83% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 53 78
10th Percentile £375 £410 £439
25th Percentile £413 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.48% +4.50%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £600
90th Percentile £700 £685 £650
UK median daily rate £504 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 9,507 9,738 14,664
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.99% 89.82% 88.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,245 6,160 9,891
10th Percentile £331 £328 £338
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £723 £750 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 352 193 481
10th Percentile £15.74 £18.31 £15.25
25th Percentile £21.51 £22.50 £23.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £37.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.38% -22.11% -17.39%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.96
% change year-on-year -22.62% -9.61% +10.63%

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 30 January 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 5 (4.50%) nginx
2 3 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.80%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
3 2 (1.80%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.90%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (12.61%) MS Visio
2 12 (10.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (5.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (6.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.80%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.80%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.80%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.80%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.80%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.80%) SAP SD
2 2 (1.80%) SAP Travel Management
2 2 (1.80%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.90%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.90%) Endur
3 1 (0.90%) Maximo
3 1 (0.90%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.90%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.90%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.90%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.90%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 14 (12.61%) Azure
2 10 (9.01%) Power Platform
3 8 (7.21%) AWS
3 8 (7.21%) GCP
4 7 (6.31%) Serverless
5 6 (5.41%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (4.50%) Amazon EventBridge
6 5 (4.50%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (4.50%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (4.50%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (4.50%) GitHub
7 4 (3.60%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (3.60%) OCI
7 4 (3.60%) Power Automate
7 4 (3.60%) PowerApps
8 3 (2.70%) AtomSphere
8 3 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.70%) Boomi
8 3 (2.70%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.70%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.31%) Relational Database
2 6 (5.41%) Metadata
2 6 (5.41%) Power BI
3 5 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.70%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.80%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.90%) DataStage
6 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (9.91%) JIRA
2 2 (1.80%) Postman
General
1 41 (36.94%) Finance
2 37 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 23 (20.72%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (16.22%) Banking
5 14 (12.61%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (10.81%) Investment Banking
7 9 (8.11%) Public Sector
8 5 (4.50%) Digital Healthcare
9 4 (3.60%) Back Office
9 4 (3.60%) Legal
10 3 (2.70%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.70%) Law
10 3 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.80%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.80%) Marketing
12 1 (0.90%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.90%) German Language
12 1 (0.90%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (46.85%) Analyst
2 37 (33.33%) Business Analyst
3 22 (19.82%) Data Analyst
4 15 (13.51%) Lead
5 14 (12.61%) Developer
6 13 (11.71%) Data Business Analyst
7 12 (10.81%) Consultant
8 10 (9.01%) Banking Analyst
9 9 (8.11%) Banking Business Analyst
9 9 (8.11%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
9 9 (8.11%) Identity Management Analyst
10 7 (6.31%) Integration Developer
11 6 (5.41%) Management Consultant
11 6 (5.41%) Pensions Analyst
11 6 (5.41%) SAP Consultant
11 6 (5.41%) SAP SD Consultant
12 5 (4.50%) Data Engineer
12 5 (4.50%) Implementation Analyst
12 5 (4.50%) Integration Engineer
12 5 (4.50%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.61%) XML
2 13 (11.71%) REST
3 12 (10.81%) JSON
4 9 (8.11%) SOAP
5 7 (6.31%) HTML
5 7 (6.31%) OAuth
6 6 (5.41%) Oracle Fusion
6 6 (5.41%) SAP TM
6 6 (5.41%) XSLT
7 5 (4.50%) OAuth2
7 5 (4.50%) RESTful
8 3 (2.70%) EDI
9 2 (1.80%) ADO
9 2 (1.80%) FHIR
10 1 (0.90%) Gherkin
10 1 (0.90%) Kafka
10 1 (0.90%) Middleware
10 1 (0.90%) React
10 1 (0.90%) Spring
10 1 (0.90%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.51%) Data Structures
2 10 (9.01%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.50%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.50%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.70%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.80%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.80%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.80%) NHS
6 2 (1.80%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.90%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.90%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.90%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.90%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.90%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.90%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (30.63%) Stakeholder Management
2 33 (29.73%) Migration
3 30 (27.03%) Agile
4 23 (20.72%) Data Migration
5 20 (18.02%) Data Modelling
5 20 (18.02%) ETL
6 19 (17.12%) Validation
6 19 (17.12%) Workshop Facilitation
7 17 (15.32%) Business Analysis
7 17 (15.32%) Requirements Gathering
8 16 (14.41%) User Acceptance Testing
9 15 (13.51%) Data Governance
10 14 (12.61%) Data Cleansing
10 14 (12.61%) User Stories
11 13 (11.71%) Data Analysis
11 13 (11.71%) ERP
11 13 (11.71%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (10.81%) Analytics
12 12 (10.81%) Data Transformation
12 12 (10.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 17 (15.32%) SQL
2 9 (8.11%) Python
3 6 (5.41%) Java
4 4 (3.60%) C#
4 4 (3.60%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.70%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.90%) R
Qualifications
1 19 (17.12%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.51%) Degree
3 11 (9.91%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.80%) IIBA
5 2 (1.80%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.90%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.90%) CBAP
6 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (16.22%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.41%) GDPR
2 6 (5.41%) QA
3 2 (1.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (1.80%) COBIT
3 2 (1.80%) HL7
3 2 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.80%) NIST
4 1 (0.90%) GMP
4 1 (0.90%) GxP
4 1 (0.90%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.90%) IFRS
System Software
1 5 (4.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.80%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (14.41%) Microsoft
2 15 (13.51%) SAP
3 7 (6.31%) Oracle
3 7 (6.31%) Workday
4 6 (5.41%) Google
4 6 (5.41%) Salesforce
5 5 (4.50%) Pega
5 5 (4.50%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.70%) Ariba
7 2 (1.80%) Adobe
7 2 (1.80%) OneTrust
7 2 (1.80%) Tealium
8 1 (0.90%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.90%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.90%) IBM
8 1 (0.90%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.90%) Murex
8 1 (0.90%) OpenLink
8 1 (0.90%) Palantir
8 1 (0.90%) Xceptor