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 17 September 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
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 280 420
Rank change year-on-year -62 +140 +19
Contract jobs citing Workday 317 234 113
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.68% 0.84% 0.35%
As % of the Vendors category 1.64% 1.78% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 155 67
10th Percentile £363 £400 £374
25th Percentile £466 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.77% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £706 £725 £775
90th Percentile £786 £825 £825
UK median daily rate £600 £565 £600
% change year-on-year +6.19% -5.83% +5.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 3
10th Percentile - £25.00 £23.80
25th Percentile £17.17 £27.93 £35.50
Median hourly rate £24.16 £37.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.57% -31.82% -0.68%
75th Percentile £31.13 £43.75 -
90th Percentile £36.10 - -
UK median hourly rate £24.16 £37.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -35.57% -31.82% -10.20%

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 19,330 13,111 14,461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.64% 47.22% 44.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,027 8,324 8,828
10th Percentile £312 £275 £300
25th Percentile £414 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.65% -4.62% -
75th Percentile £620 £616 £630
90th Percentile £710 £713 £732
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,118 613 594
10th Percentile £14.11 £14.75 £14.26
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.88 £15.62
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £33.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -24.36% -22.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £69.93 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.30 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +8.55% -16.17% -31.56%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -69 173 £600 +4.35% 400
South East -35 53 £563 +7.14% 86
North of England -49 34 £450 -33.33% 81
Midlands -42 27 £600 +11.63% 108
East Midlands +11 21 £600 +4.35% 11
North West -23 19 £658 - 53
South West -29 18 £480 -8.57% 21
Yorkshire -35 14 £413 -38.89% 23
East of England -43 13 £590 +7.27% 20
West Midlands -66 4 £438 -18.60% 97
North East - 1 - - 5
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 3 (0.95%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.32%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.32%) Confluence
4 1 (0.32%) Mendix
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 24 (7.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.58%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 78 (24.61%) Workday HCM
2 17 (5.36%) iTrent
3 9 (2.84%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (2.21%) NetSuite
5 6 (1.89%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (1.89%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (1.89%) SAP HR
6 4 (1.26%) Teamcenter
7 3 (0.95%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.95%) PeopleSoft HCM
8 2 (0.63%) BambooHR
8 2 (0.63%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.63%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.63%) Dynamics SL
8 2 (0.63%) Infor CloudSuite
8 2 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.63%) Sage X3
8 2 (0.63%) Unit4 Business World
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.32%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 41 (12.93%) Azure
2 32 (10.09%) SaaS
3 30 (9.46%) SuccessFactors
4 24 (7.57%) Power Platform
5 21 (6.62%) Entra ID
6 16 (5.05%) AWS
7 14 (4.42%) Boomi
8 11 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (2.84%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (2.21%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (2.21%) GCP
10 7 (2.21%) iPaaS
10 7 (2.21%) Snowflake
11 6 (1.89%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (1.58%) Azure Functions
12 5 (1.58%) Serverless
13 4 (1.26%) AtomSphere
13 4 (1.26%) GitHub
13 4 (1.26%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.26%) FTP
2 1 (0.32%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.62%) Power BI
2 8 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (1.89%) Oracle Reports
3 6 (1.89%) Tableau
4 4 (1.26%) Looker
4 4 (1.26%) Metadata
5 2 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.63%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.32%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.32%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.32%) Power Query
6 1 (0.32%) PowerPivot
6 1 (0.32%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (5.68%) JIRA
2 3 (0.95%) Git
General
1 122 (38.49%) Finance
1 122 (38.49%) Social Skills
2 62 (19.56%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (7.89%) Public Sector
4 20 (6.31%) Manufacturing
5 18 (5.68%) Banking
5 18 (5.68%) Retail
6 15 (4.73%) Legal
7 11 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (2.84%) Law
9 7 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.89%) Aviation
10 6 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.89%) General Ledger
10 6 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.26%) Marketing
12 3 (0.95%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.63%) Dutch Language
13 2 (0.63%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 59 (18.61%) Analyst
1 59 (18.61%) Consultant
2 56 (17.67%) Architect
3 51 (16.09%) Lead
4 42 (13.25%) Workday Consultant
5 31 (9.78%) Workday Analyst
6 22 (6.94%) Senior
7 20 (6.31%) Workday Architect
8 18 (5.68%) Solutions Architect
9 17 (5.36%) Business Analyst
10 16 (5.05%) Project Manager
11 15 (4.73%) Data Analyst
11 15 (4.73%) Workday Manager
12 13 (4.10%) HR Analyst
12 13 (4.10%) Integration Architect
13 10 (3.15%) Functional Consultant
13 10 (3.15%) HR Data Analyst
13 10 (3.15%) Workday Functional Consultant
14 9 (2.84%) Administrator
14 9 (2.84%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (8.52%) REST
2 26 (8.20%) Middleware
3 22 (6.94%) SOAP
3 22 (6.94%) XML
4 20 (6.31%) JSON
5 12 (3.79%) XSLT
6 11 (3.47%) OAuth
7 10 (3.15%) Web Services
8 9 (2.84%) Oracle Fusion
8 9 (2.84%) SAML
9 7 (2.21%) LDAP
9 7 (2.21%) Microsoft Graph
10 6 (1.89%) JDBC
10 6 (1.89%) OAuth2
11 5 (1.58%) Jakarta EE
11 5 (1.58%) OpenID
12 4 (1.26%) AngularJS
12 4 (1.26%) CSS
12 4 (1.26%) HTML
12 4 (1.26%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 19 (5.99%) Onboarding
2 16 (5.05%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (4.10%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (4.10%) Management Information System
4 12 (3.79%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.21%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.58%) Learning Management System
7 5 (1.58%) Robotics
7 5 (1.58%) Social Media
8 4 (1.26%) e-Learning
8 4 (1.26%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.95%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.63%) Augmented Reality
10 2 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.63%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.63%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.95%) Linux
1 3 (0.95%) Unix
1 3 (0.95%) Windows
2 1 (0.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (31.23%) Stakeholder Management
2 70 (22.08%) Problem-Solving
3 66 (20.82%) ERP
4 57 (17.98%) Analytics
5 50 (15.77%) Agile
6 48 (15.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 47 (14.83%) User Acceptance Testing
8 45 (14.20%) Validation
9 40 (12.62%) Migration
10 37 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 37 (11.67%) Decision-Making
11 32 (10.09%) Translating Business Requirements
12 29 (9.15%) Data Migration
12 29 (9.15%) Data Modelling
13 27 (8.52%) AI
14 26 (8.20%) Roadmaps
14 26 (8.20%) Workshop Facilitation
15 23 (7.26%) Business Intelligence
15 23 (7.26%) Integration Patterns
16 22 (6.94%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 16 (5.05%) SQL
2 12 (3.79%) Python
3 10 (3.15%) Java
4 8 (2.52%) PowerShell
5 7 (2.21%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.26%) C#
7 2 (0.63%) BeanShell
8 1 (0.32%) Bicep
8 1 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.32%) Korn
8 1 (0.32%) VBA
8 1 (0.32%) XPath
Qualifications
1 31 (9.78%) Security Cleared
2 18 (5.68%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.42%) Degree
4 9 (2.84%) CIPD
5 6 (1.89%) CISM
5 6 (1.89%) CISSP
6 5 (1.58%) ACCA
6 5 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.58%) CIMA
7 4 (1.26%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.26%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.63%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.63%) IIBA
9 2 (0.63%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.63%) PMP
10 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (10.41%) Data Quality
2 30 (9.46%) GDPR
3 12 (3.79%) QA
3 12 (3.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 9 (2.84%) PMO
5 6 (1.89%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.95%) NIST
7 3 (0.95%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.32%) GRC
8 1 (0.32%) IFRS
8 1 (0.32%) ITGC
8 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (3.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 95 (29.97%) SAP
2 56 (17.67%) Oracle
3 46 (14.51%) Microsoft
4 32 (10.09%) ServiceNow
5 14 (4.42%) MuleSoft
6 13 (4.10%) Salesforce
7 10 (3.15%) Adaptive Insights
8 6 (1.89%) Kronos
9 5 (1.58%) Google
10 4 (1.26%) Anaplan
10 4 (1.26%) Cognizant
10 4 (1.26%) Databricks
11 3 (0.95%) CyberArk
11 3 (0.95%) PeopleSoft
12 2 (0.63%) Ariba
12 2 (0.63%) Epicor
12 2 (0.63%) Infor
12 2 (0.63%) QAD
12 2 (0.63%) Sage
12 2 (0.63%) Zuora