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 9 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
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 317 415
Rank change year-on-year +13 +98 -7
Contract jobs citing Workday 305 160 140
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.75% 0.66% 0.38%
As % of the Vendors category 1.80% 1.39% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 104 90
10th Percentile £403 £431 £315
25th Percentile £500 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £706 £766 £627
90th Percentile £775 £843 £750
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £560
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
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 16,944 11,538 15,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.58% 47.48% 42.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,008 7,442 9,825
10th Percentile £313 £281 £263
25th Percentile £413 £408 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.35%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £635
90th Percentile £711 £725 £748
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £515
% change year-on-year -2.85% -0.07% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 891 461 1,003
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.84 £12.03
25th Percentile £18.64 £17.50 £14.26
Median hourly rate £32.23 £26.45 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.83% +17.56% -43.75%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.36 £25.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +26.91% +13.33% -48.57%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +14 191 £625 +3.65% 37
North of England -29 49 £495 -5.71% 8
Yorkshire -17 39 £413 -28.26% 2
South East -49 27 £375 -28.57% 14
Midlands -49 17 £550 +37.50% 11
West Midlands -46 14 £550 -18.52% 8
North West -35 9 £498 +37.24% 5
South West -31 6 £713 +23.91% 2
East of England -44 6 £606 -10.19% 3
East Midlands -33 2 £663 +65.63% 3
North East -20 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 9 (2.95%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.97%) Confluence
3 5 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.64%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (0.98%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (6.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.28%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.66%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 68 (22.30%) Workday HCM
2 11 (3.61%) iTrent
2 11 (3.61%) Oracle Payables
2 11 (3.61%) Oracle Receivables
2 11 (3.61%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 10 (3.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 8 (2.62%) NetSuite
5 7 (2.30%) BambooHR
5 7 (2.30%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (1.31%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.98%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.98%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.98%) Dynamics SL
7 3 (0.98%) Infor CloudSuite
7 3 (0.98%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.98%) Sage X3
8 2 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.66%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.66%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 28 (9.18%) SuccessFactors
2 25 (8.20%) Azure
3 23 (7.54%) Power Platform
4 20 (6.56%) SaaS
5 18 (5.90%) Entra ID
6 13 (4.26%) OCI
7 10 (3.28%) AWS
7 10 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (2.95%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (1.64%) Dagster
9 5 (1.64%) dbt
9 5 (1.64%) IaaS
9 5 (1.64%) OneDrive
9 5 (1.64%) Prefect
9 5 (1.64%) Snowflake
10 4 (1.31%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (1.31%) PaaS
10 4 (1.31%) Serverless
11 3 (0.98%) Azure Functions
11 3 (0.98%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.98%) FTP
2 1 (0.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.54%) Power BI
2 15 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (2.95%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (1.64%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.64%) Looker
4 5 (1.64%) Tableau
5 4 (1.31%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.98%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.66%) DTS
7 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.33%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 34 (11.15%) JIRA
2 3 (0.98%) Cucumber
2 3 (0.98%) Postman
2 3 (0.98%) Selenium
3 2 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.33%) Git
4 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.33%) JMeter
4 1 (0.33%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.33%) TestRail
4 1 (0.33%) Zephyr
General
1 123 (40.33%) Finance
2 97 (31.80%) Social Skills
3 62 (20.33%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (7.54%) Banking
4 23 (7.54%) Legal
5 12 (3.93%) General Ledger
6 10 (3.28%) Manufacturing
7 9 (2.95%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.62%) Law
8 8 (2.62%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.30%) Publishing
9 7 (2.30%) Retail
10 5 (1.64%) Aviation
10 5 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.64%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.66%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 58 (19.02%) Analyst
2 47 (15.41%) Architect
3 46 (15.08%) Consultant
4 43 (14.10%) Lead
5 41 (13.44%) Workday Consultant
6 28 (9.18%) Project Manager
7 27 (8.85%) Workday Analyst
8 26 (8.52%) Solutions Architect
9 20 (6.56%) Workday Architect
10 19 (6.23%) Workday Manager
11 18 (5.90%) Business Analyst
11 18 (5.90%) Senior
12 17 (5.57%) Data Analyst
12 17 (5.57%) HR Analyst
13 16 (5.25%) Project Officer
14 12 (3.93%) Workday Specialist
15 11 (3.61%) HR Data Analyst
15 11 (3.61%) Technical Leader
15 11 (3.61%) Workday Project Manager
16 10 (3.28%) Implementation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.89%) Oracle Fusion
2 20 (6.56%) Middleware
2 20 (6.56%) XML
3 19 (6.23%) REST
4 17 (5.57%) SOAP
5 12 (3.93%) JSON
6 8 (2.62%) Web Services
7 7 (2.30%) OAuth
8 6 (1.97%) CSS
8 6 (1.97%) HTML
8 6 (1.97%) JDBC
8 6 (1.97%) LDAP
8 6 (1.97%) SAML
9 5 (1.64%) AngularJS
9 5 (1.64%) J2EE
9 5 (1.64%) OpenID
9 5 (1.64%) XSLT
10 4 (1.31%) Microsoft Graph
11 3 (0.98%) .NET
11 3 (0.98%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.51%) Legacy Systems
2 14 (4.59%) Onboarding
3 11 (3.61%) Data Protection Act
4 10 (3.28%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.28%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.95%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.31%) Robotics
7 4 (1.31%) Social Media
8 3 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.66%) Augmented Reality
9 2 (0.66%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.66%) FMCG
9 2 (0.66%) Learning Management System
9 2 (0.66%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.66%) Life Science
9 2 (0.66%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.33%) Replication
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 81 (26.56%) ERP
2 67 (21.97%) Stakeholder Management
3 58 (19.02%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (16.72%) Agile
5 37 (12.13%) Migration
6 35 (11.48%) Analytics
7 34 (11.15%) Decision-Making
8 32 (10.49%) Data Modelling
9 30 (9.84%) Business Intelligence
10 29 (9.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 29 (9.51%) Process Improvement
10 29 (9.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 28 (9.18%) Workflow
12 27 (8.85%) Project Management
13 24 (7.87%) Data Migration
14 23 (7.54%) Validation
15 22 (7.21%) AI
15 22 (7.21%) Change Management
15 22 (7.21%) Risk Management
15 22 (7.21%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 21 (6.89%) SQL
2 14 (4.59%) Python
3 11 (3.61%) Java
4 9 (2.95%) JavaScript
5 8 (2.62%) PowerShell
6 3 (0.98%) C#
7 2 (0.66%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.33%) ABAP
8 1 (0.33%) BeanShell
8 1 (0.33%) Groovy
8 1 (0.33%) XPath
Qualifications
1 23 (7.54%) Security Cleared
2 16 (5.25%) SC Cleared
3 12 (3.93%) PMP
4 11 (3.61%) PMI Certification
5 10 (3.28%) Degree
6 7 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.97%) CISM
7 6 (1.97%) CISSP
8 3 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.66%) IIBA
9 2 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.66%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.33%) ACCA
10 1 (0.33%) CIMA
10 1 (0.33%) CIPD
10 1 (0.33%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.84%) GDPR
2 17 (5.57%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 15 (4.92%) QA
4 7 (2.30%) PMO
5 6 (1.97%) GAAP
5 6 (1.97%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.64%) Basel III
7 4 (1.31%) IFRS
7 4 (1.31%) SLA
8 3 (0.98%) IFRS 9
8 3 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.98%) NIST
8 3 (0.98%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.66%) GxP
9 2 (0.66%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.33%) GRC
System Software
1 12 (3.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (0.98%) Control-M
1 3 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.33%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 73 (23.93%) SAP
2 61 (20.00%) Oracle
3 38 (12.46%) ServiceNow
4 35 (11.48%) Microsoft
5 9 (2.95%) Databricks
6 6 (1.97%) Adaptive Insights
6 6 (1.97%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.64%) Anaplan
7 5 (1.64%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.31%) IFS
8 4 (1.31%) Informatica
9 3 (0.98%) Cognizant
9 3 (0.98%) CyberArk
9 3 (0.98%) Epicor
9 3 (0.98%) Infor
9 3 (0.98%) Kronos
9 3 (0.98%) PeopleSoft
9 3 (0.98%) QAD
9 3 (0.98%) Sage
9 3 (0.98%) Zuora