Workday Contract Job Trends in England

Workday
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 28 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
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 293 431
Rank change year-on-year -35 +138 +3
Contract jobs citing Workday 328 227 116
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.73% 0.83% 0.34%
As % of the Vendors category 1.77% 1.75% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 148 76
10th Percentile £406 £400 £314
25th Percentile £480 £481 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £574
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +0.17% +3.42%
75th Percentile £703 £728 £663
90th Percentile £775 £825 £788
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £574
% change year-on-year +4.35% +0.17% -4.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 3
10th Percentile £23.69 £25.08 £21.05
25th Percentile £24.78 £29.88 £28.63
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% -11.76% +18.88%
75th Percentile £31.41 £43.75 £49.38
90th Percentile £43.00 £52.53 £52.75
UK median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -21.33% -31.82% +53.85%

All Vendors
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,497 12,959 14,864
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.03% 47.23% 43.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,698 8,202 9,541
10th Percentile £313 £280 £290
25th Percentile £413 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £610 £622 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +0.10% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 977 624 828
10th Percentile £16.44 £14.75 £13.44
25th Percentile £20.31 £17.49 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.91 £25.15 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.78% -8.55% -30.47%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.13 £61.33
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.90 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.11 £25.15 £27.00
% change year-on-year +39.60% -6.85% -35.41%

Workday
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Workday job vacancy trend in England

Workday
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Workday

Workday
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Workday in England over the 6 months to 28 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Workday in England

Workday
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Workday

Workday
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Workday in England over the 6 months to 28 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Workday in England

Workday
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 Workday within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
London -28 202 £600 +4.35% 74
South East -42 41 £550 +7.32% 21
North of England -43 35 £413 -38.89% 10
Midlands -39 25 £588 +6.82% 16
East Midlands +6 20 £550 +37.50% 5
Yorkshire -27 17 £413 -38.89% 5
North West -32 17 £548 - 5
South West -23 16 £480 -16.52% 10
East of England -39 7 £606 +9.73% 1
West Midlands -59 4 £600 -11.11% 11
North East - 1 - -
Workday
UK

Workday
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (2.13%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.91%) Confluence
4 2 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
Applications
1 19 (5.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.44%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 82 (25.00%) Workday HCM
2 14 (4.27%) iTrent
3 9 (2.74%) NetSuite
3 9 (2.74%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (2.44%) Oracle Payables
4 8 (2.44%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (1.52%) BambooHR
6 4 (1.22%) Teamcenter
7 3 (0.91%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.91%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.91%) Dynamics SL
7 3 (0.91%) Infor CloudSuite
7 3 (0.91%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.91%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.91%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 3 (0.91%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.91%) SAP HR
8 2 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.61%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.61%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 35 (10.67%) Azure
2 29 (8.84%) SaaS
3 27 (8.23%) SuccessFactors
4 24 (7.32%) Power Platform
5 19 (5.79%) Entra ID
6 16 (4.88%) AWS
7 14 (4.27%) Boomi
8 9 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (2.74%) Snowflake
9 8 (2.44%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (1.83%) dbt
10 6 (1.83%) iPaaS
11 5 (1.52%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (1.52%) Dagster
11 5 (1.52%) GCP
11 5 (1.52%) Prefect
11 5 (1.52%) Serverless
12 4 (1.22%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.61%) FTP
2 1 (0.30%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.01%) Power BI
2 12 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (2.74%) Tableau
4 7 (2.13%) Looker
5 5 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (1.52%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.91%) Metadata
6 3 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.61%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.30%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.30%) Power Query
8 1 (0.30%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.30%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 26 (7.93%) JIRA
2 3 (0.91%) Git
General
1 126 (38.41%) Finance
2 125 (38.11%) Social Skills
3 69 (21.04%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (7.01%) Public Sector
5 22 (6.71%) Legal
6 21 (6.40%) Banking
7 17 (5.18%) Manufacturing
8 13 (3.96%) Retail
9 10 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (2.74%) Law
11 8 (2.44%) General Ledger
11 8 (2.44%) Publishing
12 7 (2.13%) Aviation
13 6 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.52%) Financial Institution
14 5 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (1.22%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.91%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 76 (23.17%) Analyst
2 50 (15.24%) Architect
3 49 (14.94%) Consultant
4 46 (14.02%) Lead
5 43 (13.11%) Workday Analyst
6 34 (10.37%) Workday Consultant
7 25 (7.62%) Senior
8 22 (6.71%) Business Analyst
9 21 (6.40%) Workday Architect
10 19 (5.79%) Solutions Architect
11 17 (5.18%) Data Analyst
11 17 (5.18%) Workday Manager
12 16 (4.88%) Project Manager
13 14 (4.27%) HR Analyst
14 12 (3.66%) Functional Consultant
14 12 (3.66%) Report Analyst
14 12 (3.66%) Senior Analyst
14 12 (3.66%) Workday Functional Consultant
15 11 (3.35%) Programme Manager
15 11 (3.35%) Workday Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (9.15%) Middleware
2 27 (8.23%) REST
3 21 (6.40%) JSON
4 20 (6.10%) SOAP
5 17 (5.18%) XML
6 13 (3.96%) Oracle Fusion
7 11 (3.35%) OAuth
8 9 (2.74%) SAML
9 7 (2.13%) LDAP
9 7 (2.13%) XSLT
10 6 (1.83%) JDBC
10 6 (1.83%) Microsoft Graph
10 6 (1.83%) Web Services
11 5 (1.52%) AngularJS
11 5 (1.52%) CSS
11 5 (1.52%) HTML
11 5 (1.52%) Jakarta EE
11 5 (1.52%) OpenID
12 4 (1.22%) OAuth2
13 3 (0.91%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.40%) Legacy Systems
2 16 (4.88%) Onboarding
3 10 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (2.74%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (2.44%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.44%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.52%) Robotics
6 5 (1.52%) Social Media
7 4 (1.22%) Learning Management System
7 4 (1.22%) Low-Code
8 3 (0.91%) e-Learning
8 3 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.61%) Augmented Reality
9 2 (0.61%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.61%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.61%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.61%) FMCG
9 2 (0.61%) Freedom of Information
9 2 (0.61%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.91%) Linux
1 3 (0.91%) Unix
1 3 (0.91%) Windows
2 1 (0.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (24.70%) Stakeholder Management
2 79 (24.09%) Problem-Solving
3 72 (21.95%) ERP
4 49 (14.94%) Analytics
4 49 (14.94%) Validation
5 48 (14.63%) Agile
6 44 (13.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 41 (12.50%) Data Modelling
8 38 (11.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 37 (11.28%) Decision-Making
9 37 (11.28%) Migration
10 36 (10.98%) Translating Business Requirements
11 35 (10.67%) User Acceptance Testing
12 29 (8.84%) Business Intelligence
12 29 (8.84%) Roadmaps
13 27 (8.23%) Data Migration
14 25 (7.62%) Integration Patterns
15 24 (7.32%) Workflow
16 23 (7.01%) Data Protection
17 21 (6.40%) AI
Programming Languages
1 18 (5.49%) SQL
2 16 (4.88%) Python
3 9 (2.74%) JavaScript
4 8 (2.44%) Java
4 8 (2.44%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.22%) C#
6 2 (0.61%) BeanShell
7 1 (0.30%) Bicep
7 1 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.30%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 29 (8.84%) Security Cleared
2 15 (4.57%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.35%) Degree
4 7 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.83%) CISM
5 6 (1.83%) CISSP
6 4 (1.22%) CIPD
6 4 (1.22%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.91%) ACCA
7 3 (0.91%) CIMA
8 2 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.61%) IIBA
8 2 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.61%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.61%) PMP
8 2 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (10.67%) GDPR
2 28 (8.54%) Data Quality
3 15 (4.57%) QA
4 13 (3.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (3.35%) PMO
6 6 (1.83%) HIPAA
7 4 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.91%) NIST
8 3 (0.91%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.61%) IFRS
9 2 (0.61%) SLA
10 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.30%) GAAP
10 1 (0.30%) GRC
10 1 (0.30%) ITGC
System Software
1 11 (3.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (0.91%) Terraform
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 86 (26.22%) SAP
2 50 (15.24%) Oracle
3 44 (13.41%) Microsoft
4 30 (9.15%) ServiceNow
5 15 (4.57%) MuleSoft
6 13 (3.96%) Salesforce
7 9 (2.74%) Databricks
8 8 (2.44%) Adaptive Insights
9 7 (2.13%) Kronos
10 5 (1.52%) Anaplan
11 4 (1.22%) Cognizant
11 4 (1.22%) IFS
12 3 (0.91%) CyberArk
12 3 (0.91%) Epicor
12 3 (0.91%) Google
12 3 (0.91%) Infor
12 3 (0.91%) PeopleSoft
12 3 (0.91%) QAD
12 3 (0.91%) Sage
12 3 (0.91%) Zuora