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 26 March 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
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 335 370
Rank change year-on-year +35 +35 +50
Contract jobs citing Workday 305 137 179
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.81% 0.56% 0.47%
As % of the Vendors category 1.86% 1.19% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 84 128
10th Percentile £461 £383 £363
25th Percentile £517 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £594
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +1.10% +1.02%
75th Percentile £700 £775 £632
90th Percentile £775 £825 £738
UK median daily rate £600 £588 £573
% change year-on-year +2.13% +2.53% -2.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 5
10th Percentile - - £41.96
25th Percentile £38.77 £31.76 £43.03
Median hourly rate £41.86 £53.50 £51.06
Median % change year-on-year -21.77% +4.79% +149.05%
75th Percentile £44.94 £74.88 £62.00
90th Percentile - £86.00 -
UK median hourly rate £41.86 £53.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year -21.77% -13.71% +202.44%

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 16,441 11,496 15,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 43.78% 47.37% 42.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,719 7,454 10,228
10th Percentile £313 £296 £250
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.28%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 870 411 941
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £19.00 £14.36
Median hourly rate £25.38 £29.07 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.69% +21.13% -31.48%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £76.68 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £28.68 £23.50
% change year-on-year -11.18% +22.02% -38.96%

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 26 March 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
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 26 March 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 +50 183 £626 +4.38% 49
North of England -30 53 £538 +2.48% 4
Yorkshire -18 40 £700 +55.56%
South East -32 29 £625 +8.70% 26
Midlands -45 23 £525 +31.25% 3
West Midlands -44 20 £550 - 2
North West -36 13 £518 +0.98% 2
East of England -40 5 £575 -4.17% 2
South West -24 4 £713 +23.91% 6
East Midlands -35 2 £413 +3.13% 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 11 (3.61%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.97%) Confluence
4 4 (1.31%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.98%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (5.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.61%) MS Visio
3 7 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.66%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 77 (25.25%) Workday HCM
2 11 (3.61%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 10 (3.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 9 (2.95%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (2.95%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (2.30%) NetSuite
6 6 (1.97%) BambooHR
6 6 (1.97%) SAP HR
7 5 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
8 4 (1.31%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
9 3 (0.98%) iTrent
10 2 (0.66%) Oracle FAH
10 2 (0.66%) Oracle Financials
10 2 (0.66%) Primavera
10 2 (0.66%) ResourceLink
10 2 (0.66%) SAP BPC
11 1 (0.33%) Infor CloudSuite
11 1 (0.33%) Oracle HRMS
11 1 (0.33%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 33 (10.82%) Azure
2 19 (6.23%) OCI
3 17 (5.57%) Power Platform
4 16 (5.25%) Entra ID
4 16 (5.25%) SuccessFactors
5 14 (4.59%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (2.95%) SaaS
7 8 (2.62%) AWS
8 7 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (1.97%) Boomi
9 6 (1.97%) OneDrive
10 3 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (0.98%) Dagster
10 3 (0.98%) dbt
10 3 (0.98%) IaaS
10 3 (0.98%) PaaS
10 3 (0.98%) Prefect
10 3 (0.98%) Snowflake
11 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (0.66%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.66%) FTP
2 1 (0.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
1 14 (4.59%) Power BI
2 6 (1.97%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (1.64%) Tableau
4 4 (1.31%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.98%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.98%) Looker
5 3 (0.98%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.66%) DTS
6 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.33%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 35 (11.48%) JIRA
2 4 (1.31%) Selenium
3 3 (0.98%) Cucumber
3 3 (0.98%) Postman
4 2 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (0.66%) TestRail
5 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.33%) JMeter
5 1 (0.33%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.33%) Zephyr
General
1 130 (42.62%) Finance
2 87 (28.52%) Social Skills
3 58 (19.02%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (6.23%) Banking
5 13 (4.26%) Legal
6 10 (3.28%) General Ledger
6 10 (3.28%) Public Sector
7 8 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.30%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.30%) Publishing
8 7 (2.30%) Retail
9 6 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.64%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.31%) Local Government
11 4 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.31%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.98%) Law
13 2 (0.66%) Japanese Language
14 1 (0.33%) French Language
Job Titles
1 49 (16.07%) Architect
1 49 (16.07%) Consultant
2 47 (15.41%) Analyst
3 46 (15.08%) Lead
3 46 (15.08%) Workday Consultant
4 31 (10.16%) Workday Analyst
5 28 (9.18%) Solutions Architect
6 22 (7.21%) Workday Architect
7 20 (6.56%) Project Manager
8 17 (5.57%) Workday Manager
8 17 (5.57%) Workday Specialist
9 16 (5.25%) Project Officer
10 15 (4.92%) Business Analyst
10 15 (4.92%) Implementation Consultant
10 15 (4.92%) Workday Implementation Consultant
11 13 (4.26%) Data Analyst
12 12 (3.93%) Payroll Consultant
13 11 (3.61%) Senior
14 9 (2.95%) Programme Manager
14 9 (2.95%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.56%) Middleware
2 17 (5.57%) Oracle Fusion
3 14 (4.59%) XML
4 13 (4.26%) REST
5 10 (3.28%) SOAP
6 7 (2.30%) JSON
7 6 (1.97%) Web Services
8 4 (1.31%) OAuth
9 3 (0.98%) CSS
9 3 (0.98%) EDI
9 3 (0.98%) HTML
9 3 (0.98%) JDBC
9 3 (0.98%) LDAP
9 3 (0.98%) SAML
9 3 (0.98%) XML Messaging
9 3 (0.98%) XSLT
10 2 (0.66%) ADO
10 2 (0.66%) J2EE
10 2 (0.66%) jQuery
10 2 (0.66%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 34 (11.15%) Legacy Systems
2 14 (4.59%) Onboarding
3 9 (2.95%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (2.30%) Data Structures
4 7 (2.30%) Product Ownership
5 6 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.66%) Client/Server
7 2 (0.66%) Learning Management System
7 2 (0.66%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.66%) Life Science
7 2 (0.66%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.33%) Derivative
8 1 (0.33%) FMCG
8 1 (0.33%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.33%) Replication
8 1 (0.33%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.64%) Linux
1 5 (1.64%) Windows
2 3 (0.98%) Unix
3 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (26.23%) Stakeholder Management
2 75 (24.59%) ERP
3 56 (18.36%) Migration
4 53 (17.38%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (13.77%) Agile
6 40 (13.11%) Data Migration
7 39 (12.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 33 (10.82%) Change Management
9 32 (10.49%) Analytics
10 27 (8.85%) Process Improvement
10 27 (8.85%) Validation
11 25 (8.20%) Data Modelling
11 25 (8.20%) Project Management
12 23 (7.54%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (7.54%) Decision-Making
12 23 (7.54%) End-to-End Testing
13 22 (7.21%) Workflow
14 21 (6.89%) Business Intelligence
15 20 (6.56%) Integration Patterns
15 20 (6.56%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 15 (4.92%) SQL
2 9 (2.95%) Python
3 8 (2.62%) Java
4 6 (1.97%) PowerShell
5 5 (1.64%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.66%) Korn
6 2 (0.66%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.33%) ABAP
7 1 (0.33%) BeanShell
7 1 (0.33%) C#
7 1 (0.33%) Groovy
7 1 (0.33%) XPath
Qualifications
1 19 (6.23%) Security Cleared
2 17 (5.57%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.59%) PMP
4 13 (4.26%) PMI Certification
5 7 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (2.30%) Degree
6 5 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.98%) CISM
7 3 (0.98%) CISSP
7 3 (0.98%) ISTQB
7 3 (0.98%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.66%) CIPD
8 2 (0.66%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.33%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.20%) GDPR
2 17 (5.57%) QA
3 12 (3.93%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (1.97%) GAAP
4 6 (1.97%) PMO
5 5 (1.64%) Basel III
5 5 (1.64%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.31%) IFRS
6 4 (1.31%) SLA
7 3 (0.98%) IFRS 9
7 3 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.98%) NIST
7 3 (0.98%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.66%) GxP
8 2 (0.66%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 11 (3.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (1.31%) HP ALM
2 3 (0.98%) Control-M
2 3 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 62 (20.33%) SAP
2 55 (18.03%) Oracle
3 36 (11.80%) ServiceNow
4 31 (10.16%) Microsoft
5 7 (2.30%) Databricks
5 7 (2.30%) MuleSoft
6 5 (1.64%) Informatica
7 4 (1.31%) Adaptive Insights
7 4 (1.31%) CyberArk
7 4 (1.31%) HP
7 4 (1.31%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.98%) Kronos
8 3 (0.98%) Snow
9 2 (0.66%) Anaplan
9 2 (0.66%) Autodesk
9 2 (0.66%) IBM
9 2 (0.66%) IFS
9 2 (0.66%) PeopleSoft
9 2 (0.66%) Tagetik
9 2 (0.66%) Virgin Media