Workday Contracts 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 3 July 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
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 412 444
Rank change year-on-year +104 +32 +15
Contract jobs citing Workday 197 144 198
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.75% 0.39% 0.42%
As % of the Vendors category 1.59% 0.90% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 95 136
10th Percentile £375 £314 £411
25th Percentile £481 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £574 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% -4.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £725 £665 £700
90th Percentile £825 £782 £800
UK median daily rate £553 £574 £600
% change year-on-year -3.75% -4.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 3
10th Percentile £25.00 £23.58 £20.90
25th Percentile £25.75 £34.94 £24.13
Median hourly rate £31.76 £52.25 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.22% +68.55% -11.43%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.00 £36.63
90th Percentile £55.55 - £39.10
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £62.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year -39.52% +100.00% -11.43%

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 12,357 15,948 20,252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.33% 42.67% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,819 10,106 13,824
10th Percentile £280 £275 £267
25th Percentile £401 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £625 £627 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 582 1,060 550
10th Percentile £14.76 £12.50 £14.98
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.84 £18.53
Median hourly rate £25.50 £24.65 £32.15
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -23.33% +48.57%
75th Percentile £51.74 £60.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £73.71
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £40.00
% change year-on-year +4.01% -39.55% +83.51%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Workday in England.

Daily rate trend for Workday in England

Workday
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Workday in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Workday in England

Workday
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Workday in England.

Hourly rate trend for Workday in England

Workday
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Workday in England over the 6 months to 3 July 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 3 July 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 +87 136 £553 -10.05% 509
East of England +36 16 £551 -10.00% 98
South East +32 14 £525 +29.23% 143
Midlands +12 11 £550 +46.67% 110
West Midlands +11 9 £675 +35.00% 68
North of England +8 7 £550 +10.00% 144
South West +35 4 £575 +187.50% 60
North West +7 4 £425 -15.00% 76
Yorkshire +6 3 £675 +154.72% 56
East Midlands +4 2 £400 -33.33% 42
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 (2.54%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.03%) Confluence
2 4 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (7.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.03%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.51%) Trello
Business Applications
1 44 (22.34%) Workday HCM
2 9 (4.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (2.54%) Unit4 Business World
4 4 (2.03%) SAP CO
4 4 (2.03%) SAP FI
4 4 (2.03%) SAP FI/CO
4 4 (2.03%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (1.52%) NetSuite
5 3 (1.52%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (1.02%) SAP HR
6 2 (1.02%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (1.02%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.51%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.51%) Maximo
7 1 (0.51%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.51%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 18 (9.14%) Azure
2 12 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
2 12 (6.09%) Power Platform
3 9 (4.57%) SuccessFactors
4 6 (3.05%) Entra ID
4 6 (3.05%) SaaS
5 5 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.03%) Power Automate
6 4 (2.03%) PowerApps
7 3 (1.52%) PaaS
8 2 (1.02%) AWS
8 2 (1.02%) SAP Fieldglass
8 2 (1.02%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.02%) Workato
9 1 (0.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.02%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.06%) Power BI
2 4 (2.03%) Tableau
3 3 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.02%) Power Query
5 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.51%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.51%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 9 (4.57%) JIRA
2 2 (1.02%) ERwin
2 2 (1.02%) Git
2 2 (1.02%) Visual Studio Team System
3 1 (0.51%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.51%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.51%) Zephyr
General
1 98 (49.75%) Finance
2 69 (35.03%) Social Skills
3 37 (18.78%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.08%) Legal
5 9 (4.57%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.05%) Banking
6 6 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.05%) Law
6 6 (3.05%) Marketing
7 5 (2.54%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (2.54%) Retail
8 4 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.52%) Advertising
9 3 (1.52%) Aviation
9 3 (1.52%) General Ledger
9 3 (1.52%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.02%) Billing
10 2 (1.02%) Local Government
10 2 (1.02%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (20.30%) Analyst
2 26 (13.20%) Workday Manager
3 24 (12.18%) Lead
4 23 (11.68%) Workday Analyst
5 21 (10.66%) Consultant
6 19 (9.64%) Architect
6 19 (9.64%) Project Manager
7 18 (9.14%) Workday Consultant
8 15 (7.61%) Workday Architect
9 14 (7.11%) Business Analyst
10 12 (6.09%) Data Analyst
10 12 (6.09%) Programme Manager
11 11 (5.58%) Developer
11 11 (5.58%) HR Analyst
12 10 (5.08%) Workday Project Manager
13 9 (4.57%) Senior
14 8 (4.06%) Finance Manager
15 7 (3.55%) HR Manager
15 7 (3.55%) Solutions Architect
15 7 (3.55%) Workday Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.55%) REST
2 6 (3.05%) RESTful
2 6 (3.05%) SOAP
2 6 (3.05%) Web Services
3 4 (2.03%) .NET
3 4 (2.03%) React
4 3 (1.52%) ADO
4 3 (1.52%) JSON
4 3 (1.52%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.02%) SailPoint
5 2 (1.02%) XML
6 1 (0.51%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.51%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.51%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.51%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.09%) Legacy Systems
1 12 (6.09%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.05%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.54%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.03%) AI Agents
4 4 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (2.03%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.03%) Reinsurance
4 4 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.02%) FMCG
5 2 (1.02%) Life Science
6 1 (0.51%) CMDB
6 1 (0.51%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.51%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.51%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.51%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (25.38%) Problem-Solving
2 42 (21.32%) ERP
3 35 (17.77%) Stakeholder Management
4 34 (17.26%) Migration
5 31 (15.74%) Project Management
6 26 (13.20%) Agile
7 24 (12.18%) Analytics
7 24 (12.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 21 (10.66%) Change Management
8 21 (10.66%) Data Migration
9 18 (9.14%) CRM
9 18 (9.14%) Validation
10 17 (8.63%) Workshop Facilitation
11 16 (8.12%) Data Analysis
11 16 (8.12%) Process Improvement
12 15 (7.61%) Project Delivery
12 15 (7.61%) Roadmaps
12 15 (7.61%) User Acceptance Testing
13 13 (6.60%) DevOps
13 13 (6.60%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (7.11%) SQL
2 12 (6.09%) JavaScript
3 5 (2.54%) C#
4 4 (2.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (1.52%) Java
6 2 (1.02%) ABAP
6 2 (1.02%) Python
7 1 (0.51%) Bicep
7 1 (0.51%) Groovy
7 1 (0.51%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.51%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.51%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (10.66%) Degree
2 8 (4.06%) Security Cleared
3 5 (2.54%) ACCA
3 5 (2.54%) CIMA
4 4 (2.03%) CIPD
4 4 (2.03%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.52%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.52%) PMP
5 3 (1.52%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.02%) CBAP
7 1 (0.51%) APMG
7 1 (0.51%) CIPFA
7 1 (0.51%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.51%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.06%) QA
2 7 (3.55%) GDPR
3 4 (2.03%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.03%) PMO
4 3 (1.52%) COBIT
5 2 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.51%) IFRS
System Software
1 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.02%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (18.78%) SAP
2 32 (16.24%) Microsoft
3 23 (11.68%) Oracle
4 11 (5.58%) ServiceNow
5 10 (5.08%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.03%) Adaptive Insights
6 4 (2.03%) Google
7 3 (1.52%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.52%) Databricks
8 2 (1.02%) Kronos
8 2 (1.02%) Okta
8 2 (1.02%) Sparx
9 1 (0.51%) Aderant
9 1 (0.51%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.51%) Ceridian
9 1 (0.51%) OneTrust
9 1 (0.51%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.51%) Pardot
9 1 (0.51%) Tagetik
9 1 (0.51%) UiPath