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 15 August 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
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 277 417
Rank change year-on-year -49 +140 +34
Contract jobs citing Workday 321 242 111
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 0.87% 0.33%
As % of the Vendors category 1.68% 1.85% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 160 73
10th Percentile £400 £400 £318
25th Percentile £480 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £574
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +0.17% -0.17%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £738
90th Percentile £773 £825 £818
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £568
% change year-on-year +4.35% +1.32% -5.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 11 4
10th Percentile £23.69 £25.00 £23.58
25th Percentile £24.78 £28.50 £34.94
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% -23.08% +36.36%
75th Percentile £31.41 £48.63 £55.00
90th Percentile £43.00 £63.75 -
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 19,062 13,061 14,524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.60% 47.18% 43.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,004 8,264 9,264
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £613 £620 £627
90th Percentile £700 £716 £734
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.31% -0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,028 639 754
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.52 £15.62
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.15% -16.17% -20.00%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -28.40%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 15 August 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 -45 193 £600 +4.35% 253
South East -39 43 £500 -4.76% 37
North of England -36 34 £450 -33.33% 25
Midlands -33 27 £600 +9.09% 59
East Midlands +4 22 £600 +50.00% 5
North West -34 17 £548 - 17
Yorkshire -30 16 £413 -38.89% 7
South West -40 14 £480 -16.52% 7
East of England -38 10 £605 +9.91% 10
West Midlands -53 3 £600 -2.04% 54
North East - 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 7 (2.18%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.25%) Confluence
4 2 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.31%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.31%) Mendix
5 1 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 20 (6.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.87%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 74 (23.05%) Workday HCM
2 14 (4.36%) iTrent
3 10 (3.12%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (2.80%) NetSuite
5 7 (2.18%) Oracle Payables
5 7 (2.18%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (1.56%) BambooHR
7 4 (1.25%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.93%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.93%) Dynamics GP
8 3 (0.93%) Dynamics SL
8 3 (0.93%) Infor CloudSuite
8 3 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.93%) PeopleSoft HCM
8 3 (0.93%) Sage X3
8 3 (0.93%) SAP HR
9 2 (0.62%) Oracle Financials
9 2 (0.62%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.62%) ResourceLink
9 2 (0.62%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 37 (11.53%) Azure
2 33 (10.28%) SaaS
3 28 (8.72%) SuccessFactors
4 25 (7.79%) Power Platform
5 20 (6.23%) Entra ID
6 17 (5.30%) AWS
7 13 (4.05%) Boomi
8 10 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (3.12%) Snowflake
9 9 (2.80%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (2.18%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (2.18%) GCP
10 7 (2.18%) iPaaS
11 6 (1.87%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (1.87%) dbt
12 5 (1.56%) Dagster
12 5 (1.56%) Prefect
12 5 (1.56%) Serverless
13 4 (1.25%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.62%) FTP
2 1 (0.31%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.17%) Power BI
2 13 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (2.80%) Tableau
4 7 (2.18%) Looker
5 5 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (1.56%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.93%) Metadata
6 3 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.31%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.31%) Power Query
7 1 (0.31%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.31%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.31%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (7.17%) JIRA
2 3 (0.93%) Git
General
1 125 (38.94%) Social Skills
2 122 (38.01%) Finance
3 64 (19.94%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (7.48%) Public Sector
5 22 (6.85%) Legal
6 21 (6.54%) Banking
7 17 (5.30%) Retail
8 16 (4.98%) Manufacturing
9 11 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (2.80%) Law
11 8 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (2.18%) Aviation
12 7 (2.18%) General Ledger
12 7 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.56%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.25%) Marketing
14 4 (1.25%) Publishing
14 4 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (20.56%) Analyst
2 53 (16.51%) Architect
3 49 (15.26%) Consultant
4 48 (14.95%) Lead
5 36 (11.21%) Workday Analyst
6 32 (9.97%) Workday Consultant
7 25 (7.79%) Senior
8 21 (6.54%) Workday Architect
9 20 (6.23%) Business Analyst
10 19 (5.92%) Solutions Architect
11 17 (5.30%) Project Manager
12 16 (4.98%) Workday Manager
13 15 (4.67%) Data Analyst
14 13 (4.05%) HR Analyst
15 11 (3.43%) Senior Analyst
15 11 (3.43%) Workday Specialist
16 10 (3.12%) Functional Consultant
16 10 (3.12%) HR Data Analyst
16 10 (3.12%) Workday Functional Consultant
17 9 (2.80%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (8.72%) Middleware
1 28 (8.72%) REST
2 21 (6.54%) JSON
3 19 (5.92%) SOAP
4 17 (5.30%) XML
5 13 (4.05%) Oracle Fusion
6 11 (3.43%) OAuth
7 9 (2.80%) SAML
8 7 (2.18%) LDAP
8 7 (2.18%) XSLT
9 6 (1.87%) JDBC
9 6 (1.87%) Microsoft Graph
10 5 (1.56%) Jakarta EE
10 5 (1.56%) OAuth2
10 5 (1.56%) OpenID
10 5 (1.56%) Web Services
11 4 (1.25%) AngularJS
11 4 (1.25%) CSS
11 4 (1.25%) GraphQL
11 4 (1.25%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (5.92%) Onboarding
2 16 (4.98%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (4.36%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (2.80%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (2.49%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.18%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.56%) Learning Management System
7 5 (1.56%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.56%) Robotics
7 5 (1.56%) Social Media
8 4 (1.25%) e-Learning
9 3 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.62%) Augmented Reality
10 2 (0.62%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.62%) FMCG
10 2 (0.62%) Freedom of Information
10 2 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.62%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.93%) Linux
1 3 (0.93%) Unix
1 3 (0.93%) Windows
2 1 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (27.73%) Stakeholder Management
2 73 (22.74%) Problem-Solving
3 72 (22.43%) ERP
4 53 (16.51%) Analytics
5 47 (14.64%) Agile
6 45 (14.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 42 (13.08%) Validation
8 41 (12.77%) Migration
9 39 (12.15%) Data Modelling
9 39 (12.15%) User Acceptance Testing
10 38 (11.84%) Translating Business Requirements
11 37 (11.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 36 (11.21%) Decision-Making
13 31 (9.66%) Data Migration
14 28 (8.72%) Roadmaps
15 27 (8.41%) Business Intelligence
16 26 (8.10%) AI
17 24 (7.48%) Data Protection
17 24 (7.48%) Integration Patterns
18 23 (7.17%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 18 (5.61%) SQL
2 17 (5.30%) Python
3 8 (2.49%) Java
3 8 (2.49%) PowerShell
4 7 (2.18%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.25%) C#
6 2 (0.62%) BeanShell
7 1 (0.31%) Bicep
7 1 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.31%) Korn
7 1 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 28 (8.72%) Security Cleared
2 15 (4.67%) SC Cleared
3 12 (3.74%) Degree
4 8 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.87%) CIPD
5 6 (1.87%) CISM
5 6 (1.87%) CISSP
6 5 (1.56%) ACCA
6 5 (1.56%) CIMA
7 4 (1.25%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.62%) IIBA
9 2 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (10.59%) GDPR
2 29 (9.03%) Data Quality
3 13 (4.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 11 (3.43%) PMO
4 11 (3.43%) QA
5 6 (1.87%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.93%) NIST
7 3 (0.93%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.62%) IFRS
9 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.31%) GAAP
9 1 (0.31%) GRC
9 1 (0.31%) ITGC
9 1 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (3.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (0.93%) Terraform
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 87 (27.10%) SAP
2 51 (15.89%) Oracle
3 42 (13.08%) Microsoft
4 31 (9.66%) ServiceNow
5 14 (4.36%) Salesforce
6 13 (4.05%) MuleSoft
7 11 (3.43%) Adaptive Insights
8 8 (2.49%) Databricks
9 7 (2.18%) Kronos
10 5 (1.56%) Anaplan
10 5 (1.56%) Google
11 4 (1.25%) Cognizant
12 3 (0.93%) CyberArk
12 3 (0.93%) Epicor
12 3 (0.93%) IFS
12 3 (0.93%) Infor
12 3 (0.93%) PeopleSoft
12 3 (0.93%) QAD
12 3 (0.93%) Sage
12 3 (0.93%) Zuora