WFM Contracts in the UK excluding London

Workforce Management (WFM)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 362 432 463
Rank change year-on-year +70 +31 -59
Contract jobs citing WFM 28 11 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.047% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.053% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 9 35
10th Percentile £200 - £310
25th Percentile £235 £213 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% -15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £473 £525 £600
90th Percentile £500 £658 £663
UK median daily rate £445 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -22.70% +9.52% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,295 20,910 27,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.44% 89.50% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,314 14,450 18,900
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,280 1,343
10th Percentile £12.32 £10.99 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £47.11
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £61.45
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

WFM
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing WFM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for WFM in the UK excluding London

WFM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WFM in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for WFM in the UK excluding London

WFM
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WFM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WFM in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WFM in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for WFM in the UK excluding London

WFM
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WFM within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
Midlands +41 15 £240 +6.67% 2
West Midlands +27 14 £240 +6.67% 2
East of England +17 7 £350 -12.50% 6
North of England +36 3 £400 -36.00% 13
South East +18 2 £600 -17.24% 8
North West - 2 £406 - 8
Scotland +43 1 £375 - 5
Yorkshire +17 1 £400 -36.00% 1
East Midlands - 1 - -
WFM
UK

WFM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (17.86%) Apache
1 5 (17.86%) IIS
1 5 (17.86%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (35.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (7.14%) Chatbot
3 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) Power Platform
2 5 (17.86%) SaaS
3 4 (14.29%) AWS
4 2 (7.14%) GCP
5 1 (3.57%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.57%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) H.323
1 5 (17.86%) HTTP
1 5 (17.86%) TCP/IP
2 4 (14.29%) MegaStream
3 2 (7.14%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) Power BI
General
1 8 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 7 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (21.43%) Legal
4 4 (14.29%) Finance
5 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
6 1 (3.57%) General Ledger
6 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.57%) Law
6 1 (3.57%) Marketing
6 1 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (14.29%) Analyst
1 4 (14.29%) Coordinator
1 4 (14.29%) Project Coordinator
1 4 (14.29%) Technical Support
2 3 (10.71%) Consultant
2 3 (10.71%) Genesys Consultant
2 3 (10.71%) Workforce Management Specialist
3 2 (7.14%) Data Analyst
3 2 (7.14%) Electrical Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Fibre Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Power BI Analyst
3 2 (7.14%) Project Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (3.57%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (3.57%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (3.57%) Product Manager
4 1 (3.57%) Service Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) IVR
2 5 (17.86%) Management Information System
3 2 (7.14%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.57%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 6 (21.43%) Windows
2 5 (17.86%) Linux
2 5 (17.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.57%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) Decision-Making
2 5 (17.86%) Capacity Management
2 5 (17.86%) Change Management
2 5 (17.86%) Proactive Maintenance
2 5 (17.86%) Workforce Optimisation
3 4 (14.29%) Data Modelling
3 4 (14.29%) OpenUP
3 4 (14.29%) Planning and Forecasting
3 4 (14.29%) Visualisation
4 3 (10.71%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (10.71%) CI/CD
4 3 (10.71%) Configuration Management
4 3 (10.71%) Data Analysis
4 3 (10.71%) Presales
4 3 (10.71%) Quality Management
4 3 (10.71%) Requirements Gathering
4 3 (10.71%) Roadmaps
5 2 (7.14%) Service Delivery
5 2 (7.14%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) Degree
1 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) CIPD
2 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) SLA
2 1 (3.57%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 6 (21.43%) Avaya
3 5 (17.86%) Genesys
3 5 (17.86%) Red Hat
3 5 (17.86%) Verint
4 3 (10.71%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.57%) Concur
5 1 (3.57%) Kronos
5 1 (3.57%) Oracle
5 1 (3.57%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (3.57%) SAP
5 1 (3.57%) Workday