Workday Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Workday
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring knowledge or experience of Workday products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Workday over the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Workday, Inc.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 72 112
Rank change year-on-year -38 +40 +6
Contract jobs citing Workday 6 12 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.27% 1.25% 0.11%
As % of the Vendors category 0.67% 2.31% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 0
10th Percentile £466 £525 -
25th Percentile £528 £544 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £675 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.19% - -
75th Percentile £702 £800 -
90th Percentile £760 - -
England median daily rate £600 £600 £581
% change year-on-year - +3.23% -3.13%

All Vendors
East of England

Workday falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 898 520 697
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 40.07% 54.05% 36.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 278 352
10th Percentile £193 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £590
90th Percentile £688 £688 £711
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 90 215
10th Percentile £15.99 £14.84 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £15.44 £14.48
Median hourly rate £20.35 £18.85 £17.40
Median % change year-on-year +7.96% +8.33% -14.07%
75th Percentile £33.54 £60.00 £46.50
90th Percentile £65.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £32.00 £27.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +18.52% +20.00% -43.75%

Workday
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Workday relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Workday job vacancy trend in the East of England

Workday
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Workday.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Workday

Workday
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Workday in the East of England over the 6 months to 10 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Workday in the East of England

Workday
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Workday.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Workday

Workday
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Workday within the East of England region over the 6 months to 10 May 2026. 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
Hertfordshire -16 6 £606 -19.17% 2
Workday
England

Workday
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Workday HCM
2 1 (16.67%) ResourceLink
2 1 (16.67%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
1 1 (16.67%) Serverless
1 1 (16.67%) SuccessFactors
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) HR Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Business Process Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Process Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) SAP HCM Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) SAP Technical Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Integration Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Workday Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) SOAP
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 1 (16.67%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (33.33%) Workflow
2 1 (16.67%) AI
2 1 (16.67%) Data Integration
2 1 (16.67%) Data Management
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (16.67%) ERP
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Process Management
2 1 (16.67%) Project Governance
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) Project Planning
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
2 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
2 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
2 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (16.67%) User Experience
2 1 (16.67%) Validation
2 1 (16.67%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) ABAP
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) New Relic
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce