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 19 September 2025, 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
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 412 437
Rank change year-on-year +117 +25 +5
Contract jobs citing Workday 236 114 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.85% 0.35% 0.39%
As % of the Vendors category 1.79% 0.78% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 67 88
10th Percentile £400 £374 £425
25th Percentile £463 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £725 £775 £691
90th Percentile £825 £825 £796
UK median daily rate £554 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -7.71% +4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 7
10th Percentile £25.00 £23.80 £42.43
25th Percentile £27.93 £35.50 £45.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £55.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +11.11% -15.74%
75th Percentile £43.75 - £58.72
90th Percentile - - £65.93
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £55.00 £52.53
% change year-on-year -31.82% +4.70% -10.59%

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 13,182 14,592 18,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.40% 44.29% 43.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,370 8,896 12,285
10th Percentile £275 £300 £260
25th Percentile £402 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -1.87%
75th Percentile £619 £630 £650
90th Percentile £713 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 622 595 587
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.33 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.96 £15.62 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.50 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year -24.93% -23.62% +83.44%
75th Percentile £47.09 £65.00 £63.38
90th Percentile £69.65 £70.00 £75.35
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.17% -32.58% +86.11%

Workday
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Workday as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Workday 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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 2025. 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 +83 152 £575 -14.81% 90
East of England +21 27 £550 +10.00% 12
South East +27 21 £475 +14.46% 77
Midlands -6 21 £538 -11.34% 28
West Midlands 0 18 £538 -13.13% 20
South West +21 4 £525 +162.50% 15
North of England -26 4 £675 +35.00% 18
East Midlands -3 3 £575 -4.17% 7
Yorkshire -14 3 £675 +92.86% 5
North West -10 1 - - 9
Workday
UK

Workday
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.12%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.85%) Confluence
4 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 15 (6.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.97%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (2.12%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 54 (22.88%) Workday HCM
2 11 (4.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.69%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (1.27%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.85%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.85%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.85%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.85%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.42%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.42%) Maximo
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.42%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.42%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.42%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 21 (8.90%) Azure
2 19 (8.05%) SaaS
3 16 (6.78%) SuccessFactors
4 12 (5.08%) Entra ID
5 9 (3.81%) PaaS
6 8 (3.39%) Power Platform
7 7 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.69%) AWS
9 4 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.27%) Snowflake
11 2 (0.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (0.85%) GCP
11 2 (0.85%) OCI
12 1 (0.42%) AtomSphere
12 1 (0.42%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (0.42%) Azure Functions
12 1 (0.42%) Boomi
12 1 (0.42%) Google Workspace
12 1 (0.42%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.39%) Power BI
2 5 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.69%) Tableau
4 2 (0.85%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.85%) Power Query
5 1 (0.42%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.42%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.42%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (1.69%) JIRA
2 3 (1.27%) Git
3 2 (0.85%) ERwin
4 1 (0.42%) Jenkins
General
1 113 (47.88%) Finance
2 82 (34.75%) Social Skills
3 42 (17.80%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.51%) Influencing Skills
5 11 (4.66%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (4.24%) Legal
7 9 (3.81%) Public Sector
8 8 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.54%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.12%) Banking
10 5 (2.12%) General Ledger
10 5 (2.12%) Retail
11 4 (1.69%) Aviation
11 4 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.27%) Law
13 2 (0.85%) Advertising
13 2 (0.85%) Back Office
13 2 (0.85%) Local Government
13 2 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (16.95%) Analyst
2 32 (13.56%) Consultant
3 29 (12.29%) Architect
4 27 (11.44%) Workday Consultant
5 24 (10.17%) Workday Analyst
6 23 (9.75%) Lead
7 20 (8.47%) Workday Manager
8 19 (8.05%) Workday Architect
9 17 (7.20%) Project Manager
10 13 (5.51%) Data Analyst
11 11 (4.66%) Business Analyst
11 11 (4.66%) Developer
11 11 (4.66%) Senior
11 11 (4.66%) Solutions Architect
11 11 (4.66%) Technical Architect
12 10 (4.24%) HR Analyst
12 10 (4.24%) Programme Manager
13 8 (3.39%) Workday Developer
13 8 (3.39%) Workday Project Manager
14 7 (2.97%) Workday Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.81%) Web Services
2 8 (3.39%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (3.39%) REST
3 7 (2.97%) JSON
3 7 (2.97%) SOAP
3 7 (2.97%) XML
4 6 (2.54%) RESTful
5 5 (2.12%) .NET
6 4 (1.69%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (0.85%) XSLT
8 1 (0.42%) ADO
8 1 (0.42%) J2EE
8 1 (0.42%) LDAP
8 1 (0.42%) Middleware
8 1 (0.42%) Node.js
8 1 (0.42%) OAuth
8 1 (0.42%) SAML
8 1 (0.42%) Semantic Kernel
8 1 (0.42%) Spring
8 1 (0.42%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.08%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (4.66%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (3.81%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.39%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.97%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.97%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.12%) Reinsurance
7 4 (1.69%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.69%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.27%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.27%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.85%) FMCG
10 1 (0.42%) CMDB
10 1 (0.42%) Digital Media
10 1 (0.42%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.42%) Replication
10 1 (0.42%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.42%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (23.73%) Stakeholder Management
3 53 (22.46%) ERP
4 42 (17.80%) Roadmaps
5 40 (16.95%) Agile
6 37 (15.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 33 (13.98%) Migration
8 30 (12.71%) Analytics
9 21 (8.90%) Data Migration
9 21 (8.90%) Project Management
10 20 (8.47%) Project Delivery
11 19 (8.05%) Change Management
12 18 (7.63%) Data Analysis
13 17 (7.20%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (6.78%) Process Improvement
14 16 (6.78%) Validation
15 15 (6.36%) SDLC
15 15 (6.36%) Workshop Facilitation
16 13 (5.51%) Business Analysis
16 13 (5.51%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 11 (4.66%) SQL
2 9 (3.81%) JavaScript
3 8 (3.39%) Java
3 8 (3.39%) Python
4 5 (2.12%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (1.27%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.42%) Bicep
7 1 (0.42%) C#
7 1 (0.42%) Groovy
7 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.42%) VBA
7 1 (0.42%) XPath
Qualifications
1 21 (8.90%) Degree
2 14 (5.93%) Security Cleared
3 11 (4.66%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.81%) ACCA
4 9 (3.81%) CIMA
5 8 (3.39%) PMI Certification
5 8 (3.39%) PMP
6 4 (1.69%) CIPD
6 4 (1.69%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.27%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (0.85%) APMG
8 2 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.42%) CIPFA
9 1 (0.42%) CISA
9 1 (0.42%) GIAC
9 1 (0.42%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.42%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.08%) GDPR
2 8 (3.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 7 (2.97%) SLA
4 6 (2.54%) QA
5 5 (2.12%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.69%) COBIT
6 4 (1.69%) PMO
7 2 (0.85%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.85%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.42%) IFRS
System Software
1 5 (2.12%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (0.42%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.42%) Terraform
Vendors
1 53 (22.46%) SAP
2 38 (16.10%) Oracle
3 29 (12.29%) Microsoft
4 22 (9.32%) ServiceNow
5 9 (3.81%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.12%) Databricks
7 4 (1.69%) Adaptive Insights
7 4 (1.69%) Anaplan
7 4 (1.69%) Hyperion
7 4 (1.69%) MuleSoft
7 4 (1.69%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.27%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.85%) Automation Anywhere
9 2 (0.85%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.85%) Kronos
9 2 (0.85%) Sparx
9 2 (0.85%) UiPath
10 1 (0.42%) Aderant
10 1 (0.42%) Marketo
10 1 (0.42%) Tagetik