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 9 February 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
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 364 356
Rank change year-on-year +74 -8 +63
Contract jobs citing Workday 281 117 198
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.84% 0.45% 0.52%
As % of the Vendors category 1.86% 0.97% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 64 130
10th Percentile £419 £363 £424
25th Percentile £500 £509 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £598
Median % change year-on-year - +0.42% +1.70%
75th Percentile £688 £791 £638
90th Percentile £763 £851 £738
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £575
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 11
10th Percentile £34.44 - £43.88
25th Percentile £38.77 - £47.25
Median hourly rate £41.15 £31.76 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.55% -42.77% +184.62%
75th Percentile £44.94 £86.00 £61.94
90th Percentile - - £62.00
UK median hourly rate £41.15 £31.76 £55.53
% change year-on-year +29.55% -42.81% +184.77%

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 15,107 12,057 16,593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 45.39% 46.35% 43.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,923 7,294 10,713
10th Percentile £300 £275 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £705 £720 £732
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -2.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 750 344 859
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £12.97
25th Percentile £17.88 £19.99 £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.62 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.18% +7.42% -12.31%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £56.91
90th Percentile £72.00 £81.98 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £28.50
% change year-on-year -17.84% +1.75% -8.51%

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 9 February 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
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 9 February 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 +41 140 £625 +4.17% 48
North of England -27 47 £569 +16.72% 13
South East +9 43 £625 +11.11% 29
Yorkshire -30 34 £700 +86.67% 2
Midlands -23 33 £525 -35.38% 3
West Midlands -26 29 £525 -35.38% 3
North West -21 12 £521 +1.71% 6
South West -12 6 £700 +33.33% 6
East of England -29 5 £550 -2.22% 4
East Midlands -25 4 £438 -
North East -16 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 9 (3.20%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.07%) Confluence
3 3 (1.07%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.07%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (1.07%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.71%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 19 (6.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.49%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.71%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 64 (22.78%) Workday HCM
2 11 (3.91%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 10 (3.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 8 (2.85%) Oracle Payables
4 8 (2.85%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (2.49%) NetSuite
6 6 (2.14%) SAP HR
7 4 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (1.42%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (1.07%) BambooHR
8 3 (1.07%) iTrent
8 3 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.71%) Oracle FAH
9 2 (0.71%) Oracle Financials
10 1 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.36%) Oracle HRMS
10 1 (0.36%) SAP BPC
10 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
10 1 (0.36%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 30 (10.68%) Azure
2 18 (6.41%) SuccessFactors
3 17 (6.05%) OCI
4 14 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (4.27%) Entra ID
5 12 (4.27%) Power Platform
5 12 (4.27%) SaaS
6 7 (2.49%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (2.14%) OneDrive
8 4 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.42%) Boomi
9 3 (1.07%) AWS
9 3 (1.07%) IaaS
9 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (1.07%) PaaS
10 2 (0.71%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.71%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (0.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.71%) Tricentis Tosca
11 1 (0.36%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.71%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.56%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (3.20%) Power BI
3 6 (2.14%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (1.42%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.07%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.71%) DTS
6 2 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.71%) Tableau
7 1 (0.36%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.36%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.36%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.36%) Power Query
7 1 (0.36%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.36%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 26 (9.25%) JIRA
2 4 (1.42%) Selenium
3 3 (1.07%) Cucumber
3 3 (1.07%) Postman
4 2 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (0.71%) TestRail
5 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.36%) JMeter
5 1 (0.36%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.36%) Zephyr
General
1 119 (42.35%) Finance
2 84 (29.89%) Social Skills
3 53 (18.86%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (4.63%) Influencing Skills
5 12 (4.27%) Banking
6 11 (3.91%) General Ledger
6 11 (3.91%) Legal
7 10 (3.56%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.14%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.78%) Law
10 5 (1.78%) Retail
11 4 (1.42%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.07%) Local Government
12 3 (1.07%) Publishing
13 2 (0.71%) French Language
13 2 (0.71%) Japanese Language
13 2 (0.71%) Marketing
13 2 (0.71%) Military
Job Titles
1 49 (17.44%) Consultant
2 48 (17.08%) Lead
3 45 (16.01%) Workday Consultant
4 40 (14.23%) Analyst
5 39 (13.88%) Architect
6 24 (8.54%) Solutions Architect
7 23 (8.19%) Workday Analyst
8 21 (7.47%) Project Manager
9 16 (5.69%) Data Analyst
9 16 (5.69%) Implementation Consultant
9 16 (5.69%) Workday Architect
9 16 (5.69%) Workday Implementation Consultant
9 16 (5.69%) Workday Manager
10 15 (5.34%) Payroll Consultant
11 14 (4.98%) Workday Specialist
12 13 (4.63%) Administrator
13 11 (3.91%) HR Analyst
13 11 (3.91%) Project Officer
14 10 (3.56%) Business Analyst
15 9 (3.20%) Workday Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.34%) XML
2 13 (4.63%) Middleware
2 13 (4.63%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (2.49%) SOAP
4 6 (2.14%) REST
4 6 (2.14%) Web Services
5 4 (1.42%) JSON
5 4 (1.42%) XSLT
6 3 (1.07%) EDI
6 3 (1.07%) XML Messaging
7 2 (0.71%) .NET
7 2 (0.71%) ADO
7 2 (0.71%) CSS
7 2 (0.71%) HTML
7 2 (0.71%) OAuth
7 2 (0.71%) SAML
8 1 (0.36%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.36%) jQuery
8 1 (0.36%) LDAP
8 1 (0.36%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.96%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (4.27%) Onboarding
3 11 (3.91%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.20%) Data Structures
4 9 (3.20%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.42%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.71%) Life Science
10 1 (0.36%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.36%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.36%) Derivative
10 1 (0.36%) FMCG
10 1 (0.36%) Replication
10 1 (0.36%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.36%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.71%) Linux
1 2 (0.71%) Windows
2 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (28.83%) Stakeholder Management
2 71 (25.27%) ERP
3 51 (18.15%) Migration
4 47 (16.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 45 (16.01%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (15.66%) Agile
7 38 (13.52%) Data Migration
8 28 (9.96%) Analytics
9 26 (9.25%) Validation
10 23 (8.19%) Change Management
11 22 (7.83%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (7.83%) Process Improvement
12 19 (6.76%) Project Delivery
12 19 (6.76%) Project Management
12 19 (6.76%) Roadmaps
13 17 (6.05%) Decision-Making
13 17 (6.05%) End-to-End Testing
14 16 (5.69%) Integration Testing
14 16 (5.69%) PRINCE2
15 15 (5.34%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (4.98%) SQL
2 5 (1.78%) Java
2 5 (1.78%) Python
3 4 (1.42%) JavaScript
3 4 (1.42%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.07%) C#
5 2 (0.71%) Korn
5 2 (0.71%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.36%) ABAP
6 1 (0.36%) Groovy
6 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.36%) XPath
Qualifications
1 20 (7.12%) Security Cleared
2 19 (6.76%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.69%) PMP
4 15 (5.34%) PMI Certification
5 11 (3.91%) Degree
6 6 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.14%) ISTQB
7 5 (1.78%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 4 (1.42%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.71%) ACCA
10 2 (0.71%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.71%) CIMA
10 2 (0.71%) CIPD
11 1 (0.36%) CISA
11 1 (0.36%) CISSP
11 1 (0.36%) GIAC
11 1 (0.36%) PhD
11 1 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.76%) GDPR
2 11 (3.91%) QA
3 10 (3.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 8 (2.85%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.14%) SLA
6 5 (1.78%) Basel III
6 5 (1.78%) GAAP
7 4 (1.42%) HIPAA
7 4 (1.42%) PMO
8 3 (1.07%) IFRS
8 3 (1.07%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.71%) GxP
9 2 (0.71%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 7 (2.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (1.42%) HP ALM
2 3 (1.07%) Control-M
3 1 (0.36%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 68 (24.20%) SAP
2 55 (19.57%) Oracle
3 33 (11.74%) ServiceNow
4 24 (8.54%) Microsoft
5 5 (1.78%) Informatica
5 5 (1.78%) MuleSoft
5 5 (1.78%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.42%) HP
7 3 (1.07%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.07%) Snow
8 2 (0.71%) Adaptive Insights
8 2 (0.71%) IBM
8 2 (0.71%) PeopleSoft
8 2 (0.71%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.36%) Ariba
9 1 (0.36%) Databricks
9 1 (0.36%) IFS
9 1 (0.36%) Kronos
9 1 (0.36%) Qualtrics
9 1 (0.36%) Tagetik