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 12 May 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
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 309 403
Rank change year-on-year -5 +94 +9
Contract jobs citing Workday 305 162 136
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.75% 0.67% 0.37%
As % of the Vendors category 1.82% 1.40% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 105 86
10th Percentile £400 £428 £314
25th Percentile £498 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £581
Median % change year-on-year - +3.23% -3.13%
75th Percentile £700 £763 £635
90th Percentile £775 £825 £750
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £574
% change year-on-year - +4.53% -4.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 4
10th Percentile £24.58 - £23.58
25th Percentile £26.63 £31.76 £34.94
Median hourly rate £30.75 £53.50 £52.25
Median % change year-on-year -42.52% +2.39% +167.95%
75th Percentile £31.50 £74.88 £62.00
90th Percentile £45.30 £86.00 -
UK median hourly rate £30.75 £53.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year -42.52% -13.71% +217.95%

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 16,796 11,543 15,464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.38% 47.48% 42.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,880 7,440 9,828
10th Percentile £313 £281 £263
25th Percentile £413 £408 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.30% -2.68%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £638
90th Percentile £711 £725 £748
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 892 461 1,003
10th Percentile £15.64 £14.84 £12.03
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.50 £14.27
Median hourly rate £32.11 £27.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.94% +20.00% -43.75%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.23 £26.04 £22.50
% change year-on-year +23.75% +15.73% -47.98%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 12 May 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 +27 191 £625 +3.91% 41
North of England -34 49 £495 -5.71% 10
Yorkshire -19 39 £413 -28.26% 1
South East -39 28 £375 -28.57% 13
Midlands -45 17 £550 +37.50% 13
West Midlands -54 14 £550 -18.52% 10
North West -37 9 £498 +37.24% 8
South West -29 6 £713 +23.91% 2
East of England -35 5 £575 -14.81% 4
East Midlands -34 2 £663 +65.63% 3
North East -20 1 - - 1
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 (2.95%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.97%) Confluence
3 5 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.64%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (0.98%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (6.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.28%) MS Visio
3 7 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.66%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 66 (21.64%) Workday HCM
2 11 (3.61%) iTrent
2 11 (3.61%) Oracle Payables
2 11 (3.61%) Oracle Receivables
2 11 (3.61%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 10 (3.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 8 (2.62%) NetSuite
5 7 (2.30%) BambooHR
5 7 (2.30%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (1.31%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.98%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.98%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.98%) Dynamics SL
7 3 (0.98%) Infor CloudSuite
7 3 (0.98%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.98%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 3 (0.98%) Sage X3
8 2 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.66%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 28 (9.18%) SuccessFactors
2 26 (8.52%) Azure
3 23 (7.54%) Power Platform
4 20 (6.56%) SaaS
5 18 (5.90%) Entra ID
6 13 (4.26%) OCI
7 10 (3.28%) AWS
7 10 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (2.95%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (1.64%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (1.64%) Dagster
9 5 (1.64%) dbt
9 5 (1.64%) IaaS
9 5 (1.64%) OneDrive
9 5 (1.64%) Prefect
9 5 (1.64%) Serverless
9 5 (1.64%) Snowflake
10 4 (1.31%) Azure Functions
10 4 (1.31%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (1.31%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.98%) FTP
2 1 (0.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.54%) Power BI
2 15 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (2.95%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (1.64%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.64%) Looker
4 5 (1.64%) Tableau
5 4 (1.31%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.98%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.66%) DTS
7 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.33%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 34 (11.15%) JIRA
2 3 (0.98%) Cucumber
2 3 (0.98%) Postman
2 3 (0.98%) Selenium
3 2 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (0.66%) Git
4 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.33%) JMeter
4 1 (0.33%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.33%) TestRail
4 1 (0.33%) Zephyr
General
1 123 (40.33%) Finance
2 96 (31.48%) Social Skills
3 62 (20.33%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (7.87%) Legal
5 23 (7.54%) Banking
6 12 (3.93%) General Ledger
7 11 (3.61%) Manufacturing
8 9 (2.95%) Financial Institution
8 9 (2.95%) Public Sector
9 8 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.62%) Law
10 7 (2.30%) Publishing
10 7 (2.30%) Retail
11 6 (1.97%) Aviation
12 5 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.64%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.66%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 59 (19.34%) Analyst
2 47 (15.41%) Architect
3 46 (15.08%) Consultant
4 43 (14.10%) Lead
5 41 (13.44%) Workday Consultant
6 28 (9.18%) Project Manager
7 27 (8.85%) Workday Analyst
8 26 (8.52%) Solutions Architect
9 20 (6.56%) Workday Architect
10 19 (6.23%) Business Analyst
10 19 (6.23%) Senior
10 19 (6.23%) Workday Manager
11 17 (5.57%) Data Analyst
11 17 (5.57%) HR Analyst
12 16 (5.25%) Project Officer
13 11 (3.61%) HR Data Analyst
13 11 (3.61%) Technical Leader
13 11 (3.61%) Workday Project Manager
14 10 (3.28%) Workday Implementation Consultant
14 10 (3.28%) Workday Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (7.21%) Oracle Fusion
2 21 (6.89%) Middleware
2 21 (6.89%) XML
3 20 (6.56%) REST
4 17 (5.57%) SOAP
5 13 (4.26%) JSON
6 7 (2.30%) OAuth
6 7 (2.30%) Web Services
7 6 (1.97%) CSS
7 6 (1.97%) HTML
7 6 (1.97%) JDBC
7 6 (1.97%) LDAP
7 6 (1.97%) SAML
8 5 (1.64%) AngularJS
8 5 (1.64%) J2EE
8 5 (1.64%) OpenID
8 5 (1.64%) XSLT
9 4 (1.31%) .NET
9 4 (1.31%) Microsoft Graph
10 3 (0.98%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.51%) Legacy Systems
2 13 (4.26%) Onboarding
3 11 (3.61%) Data Protection Act
4 10 (3.28%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.28%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.62%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.64%) Robotics
6 5 (1.64%) Social Media
7 4 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.66%) Augmented Reality
9 2 (0.66%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.66%) FMCG
9 2 (0.66%) Learning Management System
9 2 (0.66%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.66%) Life Science
9 2 (0.66%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.33%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.64%) Linux
1 5 (1.64%) Windows
2 3 (0.98%) Unix
3 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (26.89%) ERP
2 67 (21.97%) Stakeholder Management
3 59 (19.34%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (17.05%) Agile
5 36 (11.80%) Migration
6 35 (11.48%) Analytics
7 33 (10.82%) Decision-Making
8 32 (10.49%) Data Modelling
9 30 (9.84%) Business Intelligence
10 29 (9.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 29 (9.51%) Process Improvement
10 29 (9.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 27 (8.85%) Project Management
11 27 (8.85%) Workflow
12 23 (7.54%) AI
12 23 (7.54%) Data Migration
12 23 (7.54%) Validation
13 22 (7.21%) Change Management
13 22 (7.21%) Risk Management
13 22 (7.21%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 22 (7.21%) SQL
2 15 (4.92%) Python
3 11 (3.61%) Java
4 10 (3.28%) JavaScript
5 8 (2.62%) PowerShell
6 4 (1.31%) C#
7 2 (0.66%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.33%) BeanShell
8 1 (0.33%) Groovy
8 1 (0.33%) XPath
Qualifications
1 23 (7.54%) Security Cleared
2 16 (5.25%) SC Cleared
3 12 (3.93%) PMP
4 11 (3.61%) PMI Certification
5 10 (3.28%) Degree
6 7 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.97%) CISM
7 6 (1.97%) CISSP
8 3 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.66%) IIBA
9 2 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.66%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.33%) ACCA
10 1 (0.33%) CIMA
10 1 (0.33%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.84%) GDPR
2 17 (5.57%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 15 (4.92%) QA
4 7 (2.30%) PMO
5 6 (1.97%) GAAP
5 6 (1.97%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.64%) Basel III
7 4 (1.31%) IFRS
7 4 (1.31%) SLA
8 3 (0.98%) IFRS 9
8 3 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.98%) NIST
8 3 (0.98%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.66%) GxP
9 2 (0.66%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.33%) GRC
System Software
1 12 (3.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (0.98%) Control-M
1 3 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (0.66%) Terraform
3 1 (0.33%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 73 (23.93%) SAP
2 62 (20.33%) Oracle
3 37 (12.13%) ServiceNow
4 35 (11.48%) Microsoft
5 9 (2.95%) Databricks
6 6 (1.97%) Adaptive Insights
6 6 (1.97%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.64%) Anaplan
7 5 (1.64%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.31%) IFS
8 4 (1.31%) Informatica
8 4 (1.31%) PeopleSoft
9 3 (0.98%) Cognizant
9 3 (0.98%) CyberArk
9 3 (0.98%) Epicor
9 3 (0.98%) Infor
9 3 (0.98%) Kronos
9 3 (0.98%) QAD
9 3 (0.98%) Sage
9 3 (0.98%) Zuora