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 9 July 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
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 75 107
Rank change year-on-year -37 +32 +10
Contract jobs citing Workday 5 19 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.22% 1.60% 0.21%
As % of the Vendors category 0.58% 3.08% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 2
10th Percentile £567 £540 £526
25th Percentile £573 £544 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £551 £613
Median % change year-on-year +9.98% -10.00% +28.95%
75th Percentile £648 £589 £697
90th Percentile £661 £665 £729
England median daily rate £600 £550 £574
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.18% -4.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £37.50 -
England median hourly rate £30.75 £31.76 £52.25
% change year-on-year -3.18% -39.22% +68.55%

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 859 616 727
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 37.84% 52.03% 38.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 306 335
10th Percentile £188 £225 £202
25th Percentile £350 £403 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £527 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.08% +5.30% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £577
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
England median daily rate £510 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 104 243
10th Percentile £15.99 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.27 £15.84 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.63 £20.88 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +8.41% +28.07% -25.91%
75th Percentile £59.50 £60.00 £59.08
90th Percentile £70.00 £66.98 £74.65
England median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +41.15% +0.60% -30.56%

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
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 9 July 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 3 £606 -19.17% 1
Essex - 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 3 (60.00%) Workday HCM
2 1 (20.00%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (20.00%) Serverless
General
1 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) HR Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Integration Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Workday Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) e-Learning
1 1 (20.00%) Learning Management System
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (20.00%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) AI
1 1 (20.00%) API Development
1 1 (20.00%) Behavioural Change
1 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (20.00%) Data Management
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (20.00%) Information Security
1 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (20.00%) User Experience
1 1 (20.00%) Validation
1 1 (20.00%) Webhook
1 1 (20.00%) WFM
1 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) New Relic