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 20 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
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 355 368
Rank change year-on-year +49 +13 +61
Contract jobs citing Workday 291 128 196
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.84% 0.49% 0.52%
As % of the Vendors category 1.86% 1.06% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 71 132
10th Percentile £420 £363 £414
25th Percentile £506 £500 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +2.13%
75th Percentile £700 £783 £638
90th Percentile £775 £825 £738
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £575
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 8
10th Percentile £34.44 - £43.62
25th Percentile £38.77 - £45.66
Median hourly rate £41.15 £31.76 £53.28
Median % change year-on-year +29.55% -40.39% +173.22%
75th Percentile £44.94 £86.00 £57.17
90th Percentile - - £62.00
UK median hourly rate £41.15 £31.76 £55.50
% change year-on-year +29.55% -42.77% +184.62%

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 15,639 12,079 16,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.89% 46.55% 43.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,181 7,403 10,442
10th Percentile £302 £281 £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 £700 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £523
% change year-on-year -4.31% - -1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 808 348 862
10th Percentile £15.33 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £20.00 £15.45
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.78 £27.14
Median % change year-on-year -22.60% +13.41% -18.99%
75th Percentile £58.65 £65.00 £56.49
90th Percentile £73.90 £85.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £29.00 £26.72
% change year-on-year -17.24% +8.53% -19.64%

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 20 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 20 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 +27 149 £628 +4.58% 82
North of England -34 50 £569 +16.72% 16
South East +5 44 £625 +11.11% 34
Yorkshire -32 37 £700 +86.67%
Midlands -27 32 £525 - 3
West Midlands -22 29 £525 - 3
North West -25 12 £521 +1.71% 12
South West -10 6 £700 +33.33% 6
East of England -35 4 £612 +2.04% 2
East Midlands -25 3 £350 -
North East -17 1 - - 4
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 8 (2.75%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.03%) Confluence
3 3 (1.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.03%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (1.03%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.69%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 19 (6.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.75%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.69%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 66 (22.68%) Workday HCM
2 11 (3.78%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 10 (3.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 9 (3.09%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (3.09%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (2.41%) NetSuite
6 6 (2.06%) SAP HR
7 4 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (1.37%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (1.03%) BambooHR
8 3 (1.03%) iTrent
9 2 (0.69%) Oracle FAH
9 2 (0.69%) Oracle Financials
10 1 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.34%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.34%) Dynamics SL
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle HRMS
Cloud Services
1 31 (10.65%) Azure
2 18 (6.19%) OCI
2 18 (6.19%) SuccessFactors
3 14 (4.81%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (4.12%) Entra ID
4 12 (4.12%) Power Platform
5 11 (3.78%) SaaS
6 8 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (2.06%) Boomi
7 6 (2.06%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.03%) AWS
8 3 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.03%) IaaS
8 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (1.03%) PaaS
9 2 (0.69%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (0.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (0.69%) Tricentis Tosca
10 1 (0.34%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.34%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.69%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.44%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (3.09%) Power BI
3 6 (2.06%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (1.37%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.03%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.69%) DTS
6 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.69%) Tableau
7 1 (0.34%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.34%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.34%) Power Query
7 1 (0.34%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.34%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 28 (9.62%) JIRA
2 4 (1.37%) Selenium
3 3 (1.03%) Cucumber
3 3 (1.03%) Postman
4 2 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (0.69%) TestRail
5 1 (0.34%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.34%) JMeter
5 1 (0.34%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.34%) Zephyr
General
1 125 (42.96%) Finance
2 88 (30.24%) Social Skills
3 55 (18.90%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (4.81%) Influencing Skills
5 12 (4.12%) Banking
5 12 (4.12%) General Ledger
5 12 (4.12%) Legal
6 11 (3.78%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.72%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.72%) Law
9 5 (1.72%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.72%) Publishing
9 5 (1.72%) Retail
10 4 (1.37%) Local Government
11 2 (0.69%) French Language
11 2 (0.69%) Japanese Language
11 2 (0.69%) Military
11 2 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (16.49%) Consultant
1 48 (16.49%) Lead
2 44 (15.12%) Analyst
3 43 (14.78%) Architect
3 43 (14.78%) Workday Consultant
4 26 (8.93%) Solutions Architect
5 25 (8.59%) Workday Analyst
6 20 (6.87%) Project Manager
7 18 (6.19%) Workday Architect
7 18 (6.19%) Workday Specialist
8 16 (5.50%) Data Analyst
8 16 (5.50%) Implementation Consultant
8 16 (5.50%) Workday Implementation Consultant
9 15 (5.15%) Payroll Consultant
9 15 (5.15%) Workday Manager
10 13 (4.47%) Business Analyst
10 13 (4.47%) Project Officer
11 12 (4.12%) HR Analyst
12 11 (3.78%) Administrator
13 10 (3.44%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.84%) Middleware
2 16 (5.50%) Oracle Fusion
3 15 (5.15%) XML
4 7 (2.41%) SOAP
5 6 (2.06%) REST
5 6 (2.06%) Web Services
6 4 (1.37%) JSON
6 4 (1.37%) XSLT
7 3 (1.03%) EDI
7 3 (1.03%) XML Messaging
8 2 (0.69%) ADO
8 2 (0.69%) CSS
8 2 (0.69%) HTML
8 2 (0.69%) OAuth
8 2 (0.69%) SAML
9 1 (0.34%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.34%) PyTorch
9 1 (0.34%) RESTful
9 1 (0.34%) SailPoint
9 1 (0.34%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.00%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (3.44%) Onboarding
2 10 (3.44%) Product Ownership
3 9 (3.09%) Data Structures
3 9 (3.09%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.03%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.69%) Life Science
9 1 (0.34%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.34%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.34%) Derivative
9 1 (0.34%) FMCG
9 1 (0.34%) Learning Management System
9 1 (0.34%) Replication
9 1 (0.34%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.69%) Linux
1 2 (0.69%) Windows
2 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (28.52%) Stakeholder Management
2 77 (26.46%) ERP
3 50 (17.18%) Migration
3 50 (17.18%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (15.46%) Agile
5 43 (14.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 36 (12.37%) Data Migration
7 29 (9.97%) Validation
8 27 (9.28%) Analytics
9 25 (8.59%) Change Management
9 25 (8.59%) Process Improvement
10 22 (7.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (6.87%) Project Management
12 19 (6.53%) End-to-End Testing
13 18 (6.19%) Decision-Making
13 18 (6.19%) Integration Patterns
13 18 (6.19%) Roadmaps
14 17 (5.84%) Project Delivery
15 16 (5.50%) Integration Testing
15 16 (5.50%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 13 (4.47%) SQL
2 5 (1.72%) Java
2 5 (1.72%) Python
3 4 (1.37%) JavaScript
3 4 (1.37%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.69%) C#
4 2 (0.69%) Korn
4 2 (0.69%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.34%) ABAP
5 1 (0.34%) Groovy
5 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.34%) XPath
Qualifications
1 23 (7.90%) Security Cleared
2 22 (7.56%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.81%) PMP
4 13 (4.47%) PMI Certification
5 10 (3.44%) Degree
6 6 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.06%) ISTQB
7 5 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.72%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 4 (1.37%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.69%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.69%) CIPD
10 1 (0.34%) ACCA
10 1 (0.34%) CIMA
10 1 (0.34%) CISA
10 1 (0.34%) CISSP
10 1 (0.34%) GIAC
10 1 (0.34%) PhD
10 1 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.90%) GDPR
2 14 (4.81%) QA
3 9 (3.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 8 (2.75%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.06%) SLA
6 5 (1.72%) Basel III
6 5 (1.72%) GAAP
7 4 (1.37%) HIPAA
7 4 (1.37%) PMO
8 3 (1.03%) IFRS
8 3 (1.03%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.69%) GxP
9 2 (0.69%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 7 (2.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (1.37%) HP ALM
2 3 (1.03%) Control-M
Vendors
1 66 (22.68%) SAP
2 56 (19.24%) Oracle
3 32 (11.00%) ServiceNow
4 27 (9.28%) Microsoft
5 7 (2.41%) MuleSoft
6 5 (1.72%) Informatica
7 4 (1.37%) HP
7 4 (1.37%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.03%) Adaptive Insights
8 3 (1.03%) Databricks
8 3 (1.03%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.03%) Snow
9 2 (0.69%) Anaplan
9 2 (0.69%) IBM
9 2 (0.69%) IFS
9 2 (0.69%) PeopleSoft
9 2 (0.69%) Virgin Media
10 1 (0.34%) Ariba
10 1 (0.34%) Epicor
10 1 (0.34%) Sage