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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 213 226
Rank change year-on-year -8 +13 +73
Contract jobs citing Data Mapping 149 104 111
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.10% 1.02% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.11% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 81 67
10th Percentile £358 £350 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £593 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.61% +18.50% -6.98%
75th Percentile £625 £750 £581
90th Percentile £700 £788 £683
UK median daily rate £511 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +10.00% -6.98%

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 12,180 9,354 11,896
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.72% 91.76% 87.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,740 6,330 8,026
10th Percentile £354 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -4.67% -2.33%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 667 275 439
10th Percentile £16.70 £12.62 £16.50
25th Percentile £32.13 £18.77 £28.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £34.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.76% -20.93% -14.00%
75th Percentile £71.95 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.25 £72.08 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 26 July 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 (6.71%) Confluence
1 10 (6.71%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.67%) Anypoint
2 1 (0.67%) CMS
2 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 13 (8.72%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.03%) Aladdin
2 5 (3.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (2.01%) Infor LN
3 3 (2.01%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (1.34%) Maximo
5 1 (0.67%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.67%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.67%) SAP APO
5 1 (0.67%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.67%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.67%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.67%) SAP R/3
5 1 (0.67%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 18 (12.08%) Azure
2 14 (9.40%) GCP
3 13 (8.72%) Power Platform
4 8 (5.37%) Boomi
4 8 (5.37%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (4.70%) Snowflake
6 6 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (3.36%) AWS
7 5 (3.36%) GitHub
8 4 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (2.68%) SaaS
9 3 (2.01%) AtomSphere
9 3 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.34%) Collibra
10 2 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.34%) Figma
10 2 (1.34%) Lucidchart
10 2 (1.34%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.34%) Salsify
10 2 (1.34%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.01%) SSL
2 1 (0.67%) AMQP
2 1 (0.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.74%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (10.07%) Metadata
3 11 (7.38%) Power BI
4 8 (5.37%) Data Lake
5 6 (4.03%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.68%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.01%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.34%) DataStage
8 2 (1.34%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.34%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.34%) Parquet
8 2 (1.34%) Power Query
8 2 (1.34%) Spark SQL
8 2 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.67%) Oracle Database 10g
9 1 (0.67%) Oracle Database 11g
9 1 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.67%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 15 (10.07%) JIRA
2 3 (2.01%) Git
2 3 (2.01%) Postman
3 2 (1.34%) Balsamiq
4 1 (0.67%) Hudson
4 1 (0.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.67%) Robot Framework
General
1 48 (32.21%) Social Skills
2 47 (31.54%) Finance
3 25 (16.78%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (11.41%) Legal
5 15 (10.07%) Banking
6 13 (8.72%) Public Sector
7 10 (6.71%) Retail
8 8 (5.37%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (3.36%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.68%) Law
10 4 (2.68%) Local Government
10 4 (2.68%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (2.01%) Billing
11 3 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (2.01%) Marketing
12 2 (1.34%) German Language
12 2 (1.34%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.34%) Publishing
12 2 (1.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 79 (53.02%) Analyst
2 60 (40.27%) Business Analyst
3 36 (24.16%) Data Analyst
4 23 (15.44%) Data Business Analyst
5 21 (14.09%) Lead
6 14 (9.40%) Senior
7 12 (8.05%) Developer
7 12 (8.05%) Technical Analyst
8 11 (7.38%) Data Engineer
9 9 (6.04%) Technical Business Analyst
10 8 (5.37%) Transformation Analyst
11 7 (4.70%) Senior Analyst
11 7 (4.70%) Senior Business Analyst
11 7 (4.70%) SQL Analyst
11 7 (4.70%) SQL Data Analyst
12 6 (4.03%) Architect
12 6 (4.03%) Data Migration Specialist
12 6 (4.03%) Migration Engineer
12 6 (4.03%) Migration Specialist
13 5 (3.36%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.07%) JSON
2 12 (8.05%) XML
3 10 (6.71%) Middleware
3 10 (6.71%) REST
4 8 (5.37%) SOAP
5 6 (4.03%) EDI
6 4 (2.68%) Web Services
7 3 (2.01%) EDIFACT
7 3 (2.01%) FHIR
7 3 (2.01%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (2.01%) OAuth
7 3 (2.01%) OAuth2
7 3 (2.01%) PySpark
7 3 (2.01%) Swagger
7 3 (2.01%) XSLT
8 2 (1.34%) OpenAPI
9 1 (0.67%) Great Expectations
9 1 (0.67%) Kafka
9 1 (0.67%) pytest
9 1 (0.67%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (20.81%) Data Structures
2 16 (10.74%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (8.72%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.70%) Onboarding
4 7 (4.70%) Reference Data
5 6 (4.03%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.68%) LIMS
7 3 (2.01%) Derivative
7 3 (2.01%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.34%) Data Fabric
8 2 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.34%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.34%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.34%) NHS
8 2 (1.34%) Reinsurance
8 2 (1.34%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.67%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.67%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.67%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.03%) Unix
1 6 (4.03%) Windows
2 5 (3.36%) Linux
3 2 (1.34%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (38.26%) Agile
2 56 (37.58%) Data Modelling
3 55 (36.91%) Migration
4 41 (27.52%) Validation
5 37 (24.83%) Data Migration
6 34 (22.82%) Requirements Gathering
6 34 (22.82%) Workshop Facilitation
7 33 (22.15%) Stakeholder Management
8 30 (20.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 28 (18.79%) Business Analysis
9 28 (18.79%) Data Analysis
10 27 (18.12%) Data Transformation
10 27 (18.12%) User Stories
11 26 (17.45%) ETL
11 26 (17.45%) User Acceptance Testing
12 25 (16.78%) Data Governance
12 25 (16.78%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (12.75%) Data Validation
14 18 (12.08%) Data Protection
15 17 (11.41%) AI
Programming Languages
1 59 (39.60%) SQL
2 10 (6.71%) Python
3 3 (2.01%) Apex Code
3 3 (2.01%) Groovy
3 3 (2.01%) JavaScript
3 3 (2.01%) MUMPS
3 3 (2.01%) T-SQL
4 2 (1.34%) Java
5 1 (0.67%) DataWeave
5 1 (0.67%) Perl
5 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.67%) R
5 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (7.38%) Security Cleared
2 7 (4.70%) Degree
2 7 (4.70%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.67%) CBAP
4 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.67%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (23.49%) Data Quality
2 22 (14.77%) GDPR
3 15 (10.07%) QA
4 3 (2.01%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.01%) HL7
5 2 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.67%) AIFMD
6 1 (0.67%) Basel II
6 1 (0.67%) CDISC
6 1 (0.67%) COBIT
6 1 (0.67%) EMIR
6 1 (0.67%) FATCA
6 1 (0.67%) GMP
6 1 (0.67%) MiFID
6 1 (0.67%) NIST
6 1 (0.67%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (13.42%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.72%) Databricks
2 13 (8.72%) Oracle
2 13 (8.72%) SAP
3 12 (8.05%) Google
4 7 (4.70%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.36%) MuleSoft
5 5 (3.36%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.68%) SimCorp
7 3 (2.01%) AppDynamics
7 3 (2.01%) Ariba
7 3 (2.01%) Baan
7 3 (2.01%) IBM
7 3 (2.01%) Infor
7 3 (2.01%) Informatica
7 3 (2.01%) InterSystems
7 3 (2.01%) ION Trading
7 3 (2.01%) Murex
7 3 (2.01%) Palantir
7 3 (2.01%) Splunk