WFM Contracts in England

Workforce Management (WFM)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for WFM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WFM over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 477 630 702
Rank change year-on-year +153 +72 -108
Contract jobs citing WFM 60 21 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.044% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.048% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 15 61
10th Percentile £200 £288 £350
25th Percentile £274 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £556 £681 £663
90th Percentile £693 £760 £888
UK median daily rate £444 £575 £538
% change year-on-year -22.78% +6.98% +4.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

WFM is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,446 43,440 63,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.42% 90.15% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,588 30,513 45,420
10th Percentile £300 £325 £333
25th Percentile £413 £448 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,538 1,746
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £16.23 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.00 £49.37
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

WFM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing WFM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for WFM in England

WFM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WFM in England.

Daily rate trend for WFM in England

WFM
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WFM in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WFM in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WFM in England.

Hourly rate trend for WFM in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WFM within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +118 26 £500 -13.04% 8
Midlands +40 15 £240 +6.67% 6
West Midlands +38 14 £240 +6.67% 6
East of England +14 7 £350 -12.50% 5
North of England +27 2 £375 -40.00% 15
Yorkshire +14 1 £400 -36.00% 1
South East +12 1 £450 -37.93% 5
East Midlands - 1 - -
North West - 1 £350 - 11
WFM
UK

WFM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (8.33%) Apache
1 5 (8.33%) IIS
1 5 (8.33%) Tomcat
2 2 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (16.67%) Chatbot
2 9 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (8.33%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.67%) SAP HCM
2 1 (1.67%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.00%) AWS
2 8 (13.33%) GCP
3 7 (11.67%) Azure
3 7 (11.67%) SaaS
4 5 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 5 (8.33%) SAP Fieldglass
5 4 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (6.67%) Twilio
6 3 (5.00%) OCI
7 1 (1.67%) Boomi
7 1 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.67%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.00%) VoIP
2 5 (8.33%) H.323
2 5 (8.33%) HTTP
2 5 (8.33%) TCP/IP
3 4 (6.67%) CTI
3 4 (6.67%) MegaStream
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.33%) Power BI
General
1 12 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 10 (16.67%) Finance
3 9 (15.00%) Legal
4 7 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 6 (10.00%) Retail
6 5 (8.33%) Social Skills
7 2 (3.33%) Marketing
8 1 (1.67%) Banking
8 1 (1.67%) German Language
8 1 (1.67%) Law
8 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (25.00%) Architect
2 7 (11.67%) Consultant
3 6 (10.00%) Analyst
3 6 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 6 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (8.33%) Genesys Consultant
5 4 (6.67%) Coordinator
5 4 (6.67%) Project Coordinator
5 4 (6.67%) Technical Support
6 3 (5.00%) Lead
6 3 (5.00%) SAP Architect
6 3 (5.00%) Workforce Management Specialist
7 2 (3.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 2 (3.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
7 2 (3.33%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
7 2 (3.33%) Applications Support
7 2 (3.33%) Electrical Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Fibre Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Project Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.33%) Middleware
1 5 (8.33%) RESTful
2 4 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (28.33%) IVR
2 9 (15.00%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.33%) NHS
4 2 (3.33%) PDA
4 2 (3.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.67%) Windows
2 5 (8.33%) Linux
2 5 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (8.33%) VMS
3 2 (3.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (18.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 10 (16.67%) Conversational UI
3 9 (15.00%) Change Management
3 9 (15.00%) ERP
3 9 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (13.33%) Analytics
5 7 (11.67%) Decision-Making
5 7 (11.67%) Facilities Management
5 7 (11.67%) Project Management
5 7 (11.67%) Requirements Gathering
5 7 (11.67%) Roadmaps
6 6 (10.00%) Computer Science
6 6 (10.00%) CRM
6 6 (10.00%) Customer Experience
6 6 (10.00%) Impact Analysis
7 5 (8.33%) CI/CD
7 5 (8.33%) Presales
7 5 (8.33%) Proactive Maintenance
7 5 (8.33%) Scenario Testing
7 5 (8.33%) Workforce Optimisation
Qualifications
1 7 (11.67%) Degree
2 5 (8.33%) Master's Degree
3 4 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 4 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 4 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.33%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.67%) CIPD
5 1 (1.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) GDPR
1 5 (8.33%) QA
2 4 (6.67%) HIPAA
2 4 (6.67%) PCI DSS
2 4 (6.67%) SOC 2
3 2 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 13 (21.67%) Microsoft
2 11 (18.33%) Genesys
3 10 (16.67%) Avaya
4 6 (10.00%) SAP
5 5 (8.33%) Oracle
5 5 (8.33%) Red Hat
5 5 (8.33%) Verint
6 4 (6.67%) Cisco
6 4 (6.67%) Google
6 4 (6.67%) Kronos
7 2 (3.33%) Ceridian
7 2 (3.33%) Sage
7 2 (3.33%) Salesforce
7 2 (3.33%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.33%) UiPath
8 1 (1.67%) Datix
8 1 (1.67%) Dell
8 1 (1.67%) Workday