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 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
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 317 404
Rank change year-on-year +12 +87 +4
Contract jobs citing Workday 317 162 130
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.76% 0.68% 0.36%
As % of the Vendors category 1.86% 1.43% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 103 82
10th Percentile £400 £405 £307
25th Percentile £490 £500 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £713 £775 £627
90th Percentile £775 £825 £748
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £574
% change year-on-year - +4.53% -4.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 4
10th Percentile £24.58 £25.00 £23.58
25th Percentile £26.63 £30.07 £34.94
Median hourly rate £30.75 £31.76 £52.25
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -39.22% +106.93%
75th Percentile £31.50 £56.06 £62.00
90th Percentile £45.30 £70.43 -
UK median hourly rate £30.75 £31.76 £62.00
% change year-on-year -3.18% -48.77% +145.54%

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 17,032 11,349 15,281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.03% 47.68% 41.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,998 7,290 9,756
10th Percentile £313 £278 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +1.94% -3.74%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £744
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 912 467 1,015
10th Percentile £15.64 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.87 £17.47 £14.34
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.45% +13.33% -43.11%
75th Percentile £59.19 £55.13 £57.41
90th Percentile £77.43 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.00 £22.30
% change year-on-year +30.00% +12.11% -47.84%

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 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 26 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 26 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 +15 203 £625 - 84
North of England -37 49 £495 -5.71% 14
Yorkshire -22 38 £431 -25.00% 3
South East -42 31 £375 -28.57% 21
Midlands -54 15 £525 +31.25% 20
West Midlands -53 12 £498 -26.30% 14
North West -34 10 £500 +37.93% 9
South West -27 6 £713 +23.91% 5
East of England -41 3 £575 -25.81% 2
East Midlands -30 2 £663 +65.63% 6
North East -22 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 7 (2.21%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.89%) Confluence
3 5 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.58%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (0.95%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (5.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.15%) MS Visio
3 8 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.63%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 63 (19.87%) Workday HCM
2 11 (3.47%) iTrent
2 11 (3.47%) Oracle Payables
2 11 (3.47%) Oracle Receivables
2 11 (3.47%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 10 (3.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 8 (2.52%) NetSuite
5 7 (2.21%) BambooHR
5 7 (2.21%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (1.26%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.95%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.95%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.95%) Dynamics SL
7 3 (0.95%) Infor CloudSuite
7 3 (0.95%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.95%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 3 (0.95%) Sage X3
8 2 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.63%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 30 (9.46%) Azure
2 28 (8.83%) SuccessFactors
3 24 (7.57%) Power Platform
4 21 (6.62%) SaaS
5 19 (5.99%) Entra ID
6 13 (4.10%) OCI
7 10 (3.15%) AWS
7 10 (3.15%) Boomi
8 9 (2.84%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (2.21%) Azure Logic Apps
9 7 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.58%) Dagster
10 5 (1.58%) dbt
10 5 (1.58%) IaaS
10 5 (1.58%) Prefect
10 5 (1.58%) Serverless
10 5 (1.58%) Snowflake
11 4 (1.26%) GitHub
11 4 (1.26%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.95%) FTP
2 1 (0.32%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (7.57%) Power BI
2 15 (4.73%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (2.84%) Oracle Reports
4 6 (1.89%) Tableau
5 5 (1.58%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (1.58%) BigQuery
5 5 (1.58%) Looker
6 4 (1.26%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.95%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.63%) DTS
8 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.32%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 35 (11.04%) JIRA
2 3 (0.95%) Cucumber
2 3 (0.95%) Postman
2 3 (0.95%) Selenium
3 2 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (0.63%) 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
1 122 (38.49%) Finance
2 101 (31.86%) Social Skills
3 61 (19.24%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (7.57%) Legal
5 22 (6.94%) Banking
6 13 (4.10%) General Ledger
6 13 (4.10%) Manufacturing
7 10 (3.15%) Public Sector
8 9 (2.84%) Financial Institution
8 9 (2.84%) Law
9 8 (2.52%) Publishing
10 7 (2.21%) Retail
11 6 (1.89%) Aviation
11 6 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.58%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.63%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 61 (19.24%) Analyst
2 53 (16.72%) Lead
3 50 (15.77%) Consultant
4 46 (14.51%) Architect
5 43 (13.56%) Workday Consultant
6 29 (9.15%) Workday Analyst
7 25 (7.89%) Project Manager
7 25 (7.89%) Solutions Architect
8 19 (5.99%) Business Analyst
8 19 (5.99%) Senior
8 19 (5.99%) Workday Architect
8 19 (5.99%) Workday Manager
9 17 (5.36%) Data Analyst
9 17 (5.36%) HR Analyst
10 15 (4.73%) Project Officer
11 11 (3.47%) HR Data Analyst
11 11 (3.47%) Technical Leader
11 11 (3.47%) Workday Project Manager
11 11 (3.47%) Workday Specialist
12 10 (3.15%) Workday Implementation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (8.83%) Middleware
2 25 (7.89%) XML
3 22 (6.94%) Oracle Fusion
4 20 (6.31%) REST
5 17 (5.36%) JSON
5 17 (5.36%) SOAP
6 8 (2.52%) Web Services
7 7 (2.21%) OAuth
8 6 (1.89%) CSS
8 6 (1.89%) HTML
8 6 (1.89%) JDBC
8 6 (1.89%) LDAP
8 6 (1.89%) Microsoft Graph
8 6 (1.89%) SAML
9 5 (1.58%) AngularJS
9 5 (1.58%) J2EE
9 5 (1.58%) OpenID
9 5 (1.58%) XSLT
10 4 (1.26%) .NET
11 3 (0.95%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.89%) Legacy Systems
2 13 (4.10%) Onboarding
3 10 (3.15%) Data Protection Act
3 10 (3.15%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.84%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.52%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.58%) Robotics
6 5 (1.58%) Social Media
7 4 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.63%) Augmented Reality
9 2 (0.63%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.63%) Learning Management System
9 2 (0.63%) Life Science
9 2 (0.63%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.32%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.58%) Linux
1 5 (1.58%) Windows
2 3 (0.95%) Unix
3 1 (0.32%) VMS
3 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (25.87%) ERP
2 61 (19.24%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (19.24%) Stakeholder Management
3 50 (15.77%) Agile
4 35 (11.04%) Analytics
5 34 (10.73%) Migration
6 32 (10.09%) Business Intelligence
6 32 (10.09%) Data Modelling
6 32 (10.09%) Decision-Making
6 32 (10.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 30 (9.46%) Validation
8 29 (9.15%) Workflow
9 28 (8.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (8.20%) Process Improvement
11 25 (7.89%) Integration Patterns
11 25 (7.89%) User Acceptance Testing
12 24 (7.57%) Data Migration
12 24 (7.57%) Translating Business Requirements
13 23 (7.26%) Project Management
14 22 (6.94%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (7.26%) SQL
2 15 (4.73%) Python
3 11 (3.47%) Java
4 10 (3.15%) JavaScript
4 10 (3.15%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.26%) C#
6 2 (0.63%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.32%) BeanShell
7 1 (0.32%) Groovy
7 1 (0.32%) XPath
Qualifications
1 23 (7.26%) Security Cleared
2 16 (5.05%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.47%) PMP
4 10 (3.15%) Degree
4 10 (3.15%) PMI Certification
5 7 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.89%) CISM
6 6 (1.89%) CISSP
7 2 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.63%) IIBA
7 2 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.63%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.32%) ACCA
8 1 (0.32%) CIMA
8 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.46%) GDPR
2 17 (5.36%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 15 (4.73%) QA
4 8 (2.52%) PMO
5 6 (1.89%) GAAP
5 6 (1.89%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.58%) Basel III
6 5 (1.58%) SLA
7 4 (1.26%) IFRS
8 3 (0.95%) IFRS 9
8 3 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.95%) NIST
8 3 (0.95%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.63%) GxP
9 2 (0.63%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.32%) GRC
System Software
1 12 (3.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (0.95%) Control-M
1 3 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (0.63%) Terraform
3 1 (0.32%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 81 (25.55%) SAP
2 60 (18.93%) Oracle
3 40 (12.62%) Microsoft
4 37 (11.67%) ServiceNow
5 12 (3.79%) MuleSoft
6 9 (2.84%) Databricks
7 8 (2.52%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.21%) Kronos
9 6 (1.89%) Adaptive Insights
10 5 (1.58%) Anaplan
11 4 (1.26%) IFS
11 4 (1.26%) Informatica
11 4 (1.26%) PeopleSoft
12 3 (0.95%) Cognizant
12 3 (0.95%) CyberArk
12 3 (0.95%) Epicor
12 3 (0.95%) Infor
12 3 (0.95%) QAD
12 3 (0.95%) Sage
12 3 (0.95%) Zuora