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 21 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
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 337 364
Rank change year-on-year +46 +27 +72
Contract jobs citing Workday 310 135 186
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.83% 0.55% 0.49%
As % of the Vendors category 1.88% 1.17% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 81 133
10th Percentile £451 £375 £363
25th Percentile £514 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £595
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +0.84% +1.28%
75th Percentile £700 £775 £635
90th Percentile £775 £825 £738
UK median daily rate £613 £600 £575
% change year-on-year +2.08% +4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 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 16,468 11,576 16,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 43.99% 47.26% 42.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,749 7,433 10,258
10th Percentile £310 £295 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £514
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +2.19% -4.51%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £736
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 879 401 945
10th Percentile £15.58 £15.26 £12.18
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.45 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year -17.41% +23.53% -29.57%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £52.78
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £24.47
% change year-on-year -13.28% +18.54% -32.04%

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 21 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 21 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 +43 179 £628 +4.58% 39
North of England -33 54 £538 +2.48% 4
Yorkshire -20 40 £700 +55.56%
South East -24 35 £625 +8.70% 22
Midlands -43 25 £525 +31.25% 3
West Midlands -42 22 £550 - 2
North West -26 13 £518 +0.98% 2
East of England -33 5 £575 -4.17% 2
South West -24 4 £713 +23.91% 5
East Midlands -35 2 £413 +3.13% 1
North East -17 1 - - 2
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 10 (3.23%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.94%) Confluence
4 4 (1.29%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.97%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 17 (5.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.55%) MS Visio
3 7 (2.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.65%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 75 (24.19%) Workday HCM
2 11 (3.55%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 10 (3.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 9 (2.90%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (2.90%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (2.26%) NetSuite
6 6 (1.94%) BambooHR
6 6 (1.94%) SAP HR
7 5 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
8 4 (1.29%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
9 3 (0.97%) iTrent
10 2 (0.65%) Oracle FAH
10 2 (0.65%) Oracle Financials
10 2 (0.65%) ResourceLink
10 2 (0.65%) SAP BPC
11 1 (0.32%) Infor CloudSuite
11 1 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
11 1 (0.32%) Oracle HRMS
11 1 (0.32%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 32 (10.32%) Azure
2 19 (6.13%) OCI
3 17 (5.48%) Power Platform
3 17 (5.48%) SuccessFactors
4 14 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (4.19%) Entra ID
6 10 (3.23%) SaaS
7 7 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (1.94%) Boomi
8 6 (1.94%) OneDrive
9 5 (1.61%) AWS
10 3 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (0.97%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (0.97%) Dagster
10 3 (0.97%) dbt
10 3 (0.97%) IaaS
10 3 (0.97%) PaaS
10 3 (0.97%) Prefect
10 3 (0.97%) Snowflake
11 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.65%) FTP
2 1 (0.32%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.52%) Power BI
2 13 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (1.94%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (1.61%) Tableau
5 4 (1.29%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.97%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.97%) Looker
6 3 (0.97%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.65%) DTS
7 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.32%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.32%) Power Query
8 1 (0.32%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 35 (11.29%) JIRA
2 4 (1.29%) Selenium
3 3 (0.97%) Cucumber
3 3 (0.97%) Postman
4 2 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (0.65%) TestRail
5 1 (0.32%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.32%) JMeter
5 1 (0.32%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.32%) Zephyr
General
1 130 (41.94%) Finance
2 90 (29.03%) Social Skills
3 59 (19.03%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (5.16%) Banking
4 16 (5.16%) Legal
5 10 (3.23%) General Ledger
5 10 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
5 10 (3.23%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.26%) Financial Institution
6 7 (2.26%) Publishing
7 6 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (1.94%) Retail
8 5 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.61%) Law
8 5 (1.61%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.29%) Local Government
9 4 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.29%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.65%) French Language
10 2 (0.65%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 50 (16.13%) Consultant
2 49 (15.81%) Lead
3 48 (15.48%) Analyst
4 47 (15.16%) Architect
4 47 (15.16%) Workday Consultant
5 30 (9.68%) Workday Analyst
6 28 (9.03%) Solutions Architect
7 22 (7.10%) Workday Architect
8 20 (6.45%) Project Manager
9 18 (5.81%) Workday Specialist
10 17 (5.48%) Workday Manager
11 16 (5.16%) Business Analyst
11 16 (5.16%) Project Officer
12 15 (4.84%) Implementation Consultant
12 15 (4.84%) Payroll Consultant
12 15 (4.84%) Workday Implementation Consultant
13 14 (4.52%) Data Analyst
14 13 (4.19%) Senior
15 10 (3.23%) HR Analyst
16 9 (2.90%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.45%) Middleware
2 17 (5.48%) Oracle Fusion
3 15 (4.84%) XML
4 13 (4.19%) REST
5 10 (3.23%) SOAP
6 9 (2.90%) JSON
7 6 (1.94%) Web Services
8 4 (1.29%) OAuth
8 4 (1.29%) XSLT
9 3 (0.97%) EDI
9 3 (0.97%) JDBC
9 3 (0.97%) LDAP
9 3 (0.97%) SAML
9 3 (0.97%) XML Messaging
10 2 (0.65%) ADO
10 2 (0.65%) CSS
10 2 (0.65%) HTML
10 2 (0.65%) J2EE
10 2 (0.65%) OpenID
10 2 (0.65%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 35 (11.29%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (3.87%) Onboarding
3 10 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 9 (2.90%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (2.26%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.65%) Learning Management System
8 2 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.65%) Life Science
9 1 (0.32%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.32%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.32%) Derivative
9 1 (0.32%) FMCG
9 1 (0.32%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.32%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.32%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.65%) Linux
1 2 (0.65%) Windows
2 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (26.77%) Stakeholder Management
2 76 (24.52%) ERP
3 55 (17.74%) Migration
4 54 (17.42%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (14.52%) Agile
6 40 (12.90%) Data Migration
7 39 (12.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 32 (10.32%) Change Management
9 30 (9.68%) Analytics
10 28 (9.03%) Process Improvement
11 27 (8.71%) Validation
12 25 (8.06%) Project Management
13 24 (7.74%) Data Modelling
14 23 (7.42%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (7.42%) End-to-End Testing
15 22 (7.10%) Decision-Making
16 21 (6.77%) Business Intelligence
17 20 (6.45%) Integration Patterns
17 20 (6.45%) Workflow
18 19 (6.13%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 15 (4.84%) SQL
2 10 (3.23%) Python
3 8 (2.58%) Java
4 6 (1.94%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.29%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.65%) C#
6 2 (0.65%) Korn
6 2 (0.65%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.32%) ABAP
7 1 (0.32%) BeanShell
7 1 (0.32%) Groovy
7 1 (0.32%) XPath
Qualifications
1 20 (6.45%) Security Cleared
2 18 (5.81%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.52%) PMP
4 13 (4.19%) PMI Certification
5 8 (2.58%) Degree
6 7 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.29%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.97%) CISM
9 3 (0.97%) CISSP
9 3 (0.97%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.65%) CIPD
10 2 (0.65%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.32%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.32%) PhD
11 1 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.03%) GDPR
2 17 (5.48%) QA
3 12 (3.87%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (1.94%) GAAP
6 5 (1.61%) Basel III
6 5 (1.61%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.61%) PMO
7 4 (1.29%) IFRS
7 4 (1.29%) SLA
8 3 (0.97%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.65%) GxP
9 2 (0.65%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 8 (2.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (1.29%) HP ALM
2 3 (0.97%) Control-M
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 65 (20.97%) SAP
2 56 (18.06%) Oracle
3 32 (10.32%) ServiceNow
4 29 (9.35%) Microsoft
5 7 (2.26%) Databricks
5 7 (2.26%) MuleSoft
6 5 (1.61%) Informatica
7 4 (1.29%) Adaptive Insights
7 4 (1.29%) HP
7 4 (1.29%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.97%) Snow
9 2 (0.65%) Anaplan
9 2 (0.65%) IBM
9 2 (0.65%) IFS
9 2 (0.65%) Kronos
9 2 (0.65%) PeopleSoft
9 2 (0.65%) Tagetik
9 2 (0.65%) Virgin Media
10 1 (0.32%) Ariba
10 1 (0.32%) Epicor