Workload Management Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Workload Management
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Workload Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 79 110
Rank change year-on-year -20 +31 +21
Contract jobs citing Workload Management 1 8 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.064% 0.65% 0.056%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.075% 0.79% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £413 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -13.27% -12.89%
75th Percentile - £656 £510
90th Percentile - £788 -
England median daily rate £500 £488 £585
% change year-on-year +2.56% -16.67% +26.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

Workload Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,335 1,013 1,586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 85.14% 82.83% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 418 841
10th Percentile £185 £243 £237
25th Percentile £363 £334 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £704
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 407 215 375
10th Percentile £14.05 £15.26 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.62 £14.38
Median hourly rate £21.00 £27.67 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.11% +31.76% -6.67%
75th Percentile £61.18 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.50 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

Workload Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Workload Management job vacancy trend in the East of England

Workload Management
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Workload Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Workload Management
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 Workload Management within the East of England region over the 6 months to 9 December 2025. 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 - 1 £450 - 3
Workload Management
England

Workload Management
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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat