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 16 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
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 316 413
Rank change year-on-year +11 +97 +1
Contract jobs citing Workday 312 163 133
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.76% 0.67% 0.37%
As % of the Vendors category 1.84% 1.41% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 105 84
10th Percentile £400 £428 £313
25th Percentile £490 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £581
Median % change year-on-year - +3.23% -3.13%
75th Percentile £706 £775 £630
90th Percentile £775 £825 £743
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £574
% change year-on-year - +4.53% -4.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 4
10th Percentile £24.58 - £23.58
25th Percentile £26.63 £31.76 £34.94
Median hourly rate £30.75 £53.50 £52.25
Median % change year-on-year -42.52% +2.39% +167.95%
75th Percentile £31.50 £74.88 £62.00
90th Percentile £45.30 £86.00 -
UK median hourly rate £30.75 £53.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year -42.52% -13.71% +217.95%

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 16,921 11,548 15,246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.25% 47.60% 41.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,953 7,441 9,698
10th Percentile £313 £280 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £519
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.11% -2.58%
75th Percentile £611 £625 £638
90th Percentile £711 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 896 462 1,000
10th Percentile £15.36 £14.84 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.44 £14.27
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.39 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.14% +17.30% -41.56%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.75 £56.70
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +27.45% +15.12% -47.88%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 16 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
London +21 199 £625 - 51
North of England -31 49 £473 -17.83% 10
Yorkshire -21 39 £431 -25.00% 2
South East -49 30 £375 -28.57% 18
Midlands -59 15 £525 +31.25% 16
West Midlands -54 12 £498 -26.30% 12
North West -34 9 £498 +37.24% 7
South West -35 6 £713 +23.91% 1
East of England -39 4 £575 -14.81% 3
East Midlands -26 2 £663 +65.63% 4
North East -22 1 - - 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 6 (1.92%) Confluence
1 6 (1.92%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.60%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (0.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (0.96%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (6.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.21%) MS Visio
3 8 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (2.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.64%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 66 (21.15%) Workday HCM
2 11 (3.53%) iTrent
2 11 (3.53%) Oracle Payables
2 11 (3.53%) Oracle Receivables
2 11 (3.53%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 10 (3.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 8 (2.56%) NetSuite
5 7 (2.24%) BambooHR
5 7 (2.24%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (1.28%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.96%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.96%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.96%) Dynamics SL
7 3 (0.96%) Infor CloudSuite
7 3 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.96%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 3 (0.96%) Sage X3
8 2 (0.64%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.64%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 28 (8.97%) Azure
1 28 (8.97%) SuccessFactors
2 23 (7.37%) Power Platform
3 22 (7.05%) SaaS
4 19 (6.09%) Entra ID
5 13 (4.17%) OCI
6 10 (3.21%) AWS
7 9 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (2.24%) Azure Logic Apps
8 7 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.60%) Boomi
9 5 (1.60%) Dagster
9 5 (1.60%) dbt
9 5 (1.60%) IaaS
9 5 (1.60%) Prefect
9 5 (1.60%) Serverless
9 5 (1.60%) Snowflake
10 4 (1.28%) Azure Functions
10 4 (1.28%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.96%) FTP
2 1 (0.32%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.37%) Power BI
2 15 (4.81%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (2.88%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (1.60%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.60%) Looker
4 5 (1.60%) Tableau
5 4 (1.28%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.96%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.64%) DTS
7 2 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.32%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 35 (11.22%) JIRA
2 3 (0.96%) Cucumber
2 3 (0.96%) Postman
2 3 (0.96%) Selenium
3 2 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (0.64%) Git
4 1 (0.32%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.32%) JMeter
4 1 (0.32%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.32%) TestRail
4 1 (0.32%) Zephyr
General
1 127 (40.71%) Finance
2 97 (31.09%) Social Skills
3 62 (19.87%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (7.69%) Legal
5 23 (7.37%) Banking
6 13 (4.17%) General Ledger
7 12 (3.85%) Manufacturing
8 10 (3.21%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.88%) Financial Institution
9 9 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.88%) Law
10 7 (2.24%) Publishing
10 7 (2.24%) Retail
11 6 (1.92%) Aviation
12 5 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.60%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.64%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 60 (19.23%) Analyst
2 48 (15.38%) Consultant
3 46 (14.74%) Architect
3 46 (14.74%) Lead
4 42 (13.46%) Workday Consultant
5 28 (8.97%) Project Manager
5 28 (8.97%) Workday Analyst
6 24 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
7 20 (6.41%) Workday Architect
8 19 (6.09%) Business Analyst
8 19 (6.09%) Senior
8 19 (6.09%) Workday Manager
9 17 (5.45%) Data Analyst
9 17 (5.45%) HR Analyst
10 16 (5.13%) Project Officer
11 11 (3.53%) HR Data Analyst
11 11 (3.53%) Technical Leader
11 11 (3.53%) Workday Project Manager
11 11 (3.53%) Workday Specialist
12 10 (3.21%) Workday Implementation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (7.37%) Middleware
2 22 (7.05%) Oracle Fusion
2 22 (7.05%) XML
3 20 (6.41%) REST
4 17 (5.45%) SOAP
5 14 (4.49%) JSON
6 8 (2.56%) Web Services
7 7 (2.24%) OAuth
8 6 (1.92%) CSS
8 6 (1.92%) HTML
8 6 (1.92%) JDBC
8 6 (1.92%) LDAP
8 6 (1.92%) Microsoft Graph
8 6 (1.92%) SAML
9 5 (1.60%) AngularJS
9 5 (1.60%) J2EE
9 5 (1.60%) OpenID
9 5 (1.60%) XSLT
10 4 (1.28%) .NET
11 3 (0.96%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.97%) Legacy Systems
2 14 (4.49%) Onboarding
3 11 (3.53%) Data Protection Act
4 10 (3.21%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.21%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.56%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.60%) Robotics
6 5 (1.60%) Social Media
7 4 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.64%) Augmented Reality
9 2 (0.64%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.64%) Learning Management System
9 2 (0.64%) Life Science
9 2 (0.64%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.32%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.32%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.60%) Linux
1 5 (1.60%) Windows
2 3 (0.96%) Unix
3 1 (0.32%) VMS
3 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (26.92%) ERP
2 64 (20.51%) Stakeholder Management
3 60 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (16.67%) Agile
5 35 (11.22%) Analytics
5 35 (11.22%) Migration
6 34 (10.90%) Decision-Making
7 32 (10.26%) Data Modelling
7 32 (10.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 30 (9.62%) Business Intelligence
9 29 (9.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (9.29%) Process Improvement
9 29 (9.29%) Workflow
10 27 (8.65%) Project Management
11 25 (8.01%) Validation
12 24 (7.69%) Data Migration
13 23 (7.37%) AI
13 23 (7.37%) Change Management
13 23 (7.37%) Risk Management
13 23 (7.37%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 22 (7.05%) SQL
2 15 (4.81%) Python
3 11 (3.53%) Java
4 10 (3.21%) JavaScript
4 10 (3.21%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.28%) C#
6 2 (0.64%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.32%) BeanShell
7 1 (0.32%) Groovy
7 1 (0.32%) XPath
Qualifications
1 23 (7.37%) Security Cleared
2 16 (5.13%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.17%) PMP
4 12 (3.85%) PMI Certification
5 11 (3.53%) Degree
6 7 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.92%) CISM
7 6 (1.92%) CISSP
8 3 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.64%) IIBA
9 2 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.64%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.32%) ACCA
10 1 (0.32%) CIMA
10 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.62%) GDPR
2 17 (5.45%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 15 (4.81%) QA
4 8 (2.56%) PMO
5 6 (1.92%) GAAP
5 6 (1.92%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.60%) Basel III
6 5 (1.60%) SLA
7 4 (1.28%) IFRS
8 3 (0.96%) IFRS 9
8 3 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.96%) NIST
8 3 (0.96%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.64%) GxP
9 2 (0.64%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.32%) GRC
System Software
1 12 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (0.96%) Control-M
1 3 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (0.64%) Terraform
3 1 (0.32%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 76 (24.36%) SAP
2 63 (20.19%) Oracle
3 38 (12.18%) ServiceNow
4 37 (11.86%) Microsoft
5 9 (2.88%) Databricks
6 7 (2.24%) MuleSoft
7 6 (1.92%) Adaptive Insights
7 6 (1.92%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.60%) Anaplan
9 4 (1.28%) IFS
9 4 (1.28%) Informatica
9 4 (1.28%) Kronos
9 4 (1.28%) PeopleSoft
10 3 (0.96%) Cognizant
10 3 (0.96%) CyberArk
10 3 (0.96%) Epicor
10 3 (0.96%) Infor
10 3 (0.96%) QAD
10 3 (0.96%) Sage
10 3 (0.96%) Zuora