Workload Management Contracts in England

Workload Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Workload Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Workload Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 465 533 632
Rank change year-on-year +68 +99 +65
Contract jobs citing Workload Management 20 9 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.082% 0.024% 0.042%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.090% 0.028% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 2 10
10th Percentile £350 £361 £521
25th Percentile £413 £377 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £408 £700
Median % change year-on-year +22.70% -41.79% +53.34%
75th Percentile £643 £442 £794
90th Percentile £725 £460 £802
UK median daily rate £488 £465 £700
% change year-on-year +4.84% -33.57% +55.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £19.25 £38.13
Median hourly rate - £19.50 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year - -49.68% -
75th Percentile - £19.75 £39.38
90th Percentile - £21.05 -
UK median hourly rate - £19.50 £38.75
% change year-on-year - -49.68% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Workload Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Workload Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Workload Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Workload Management in England

Workload Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Workload Management in England

Workload Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Workload Management in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Workload Management in England

Workload Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Workload Management in England

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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 Workload Management within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +45 9 £446 +9.51% 25
East of England - 5 £500 - 8
South East +43 3 £700 - 5
South West - 2 £493 - 7
West Midlands - 1 £475 - 1
Midlands - 1 £475 - 3
Workload Management
UK

Workload Management
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 3 (15.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Windchill
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) Azure
2 6 (30.00%) AWS
3 4 (20.00%) GCP
4 3 (15.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.00%) Power Automate
6 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (10.00%) Snowflake Schema
2 2 (10.00%) Star Schema
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) JIRA
2 3 (15.00%) Artifactory
2 3 (15.00%) GitLab
2 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Senior
2 2 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Configuration Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Analyst
3 1 (5.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (5.00%) Consultant
3 1 (5.00%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (5.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Power Platform Consultant
3 1 (5.00%) Procurement Specialist
3 1 (5.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Senior Windows Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Test Automation Manager
3 1 (5.00%) Test Manager
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Deployment Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Cyber Defence
1 3 (15.00%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (15.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (15.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (15.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Linux
2 3 (15.00%) CentOS
3 2 (10.00%) Windows
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
1 6 (30.00%) Process Improvement
2 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (20.00%) Agile
3 4 (20.00%) DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (15.00%) Configuration Management
4 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (15.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (15.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (15.00%) DevSecOps
4 3 (15.00%) ETL
4 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 3 (15.00%) Problem Management
4 3 (15.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (15.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) Python
1 4 (20.00%) SQL
2 3 (15.00%) Bash
2 3 (15.00%) Perl
3 1 (5.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (15.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (15.00%) CISSP
2 3 (15.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 3 (15.00%) ISSEP
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (15.00%) SSCP
3 2 (10.00%) CISM
3 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Ansible
1 6 (30.00%) Terraform
2 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.00%) Puppet
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (30.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (15.00%) Google
2 3 (15.00%) IBM
2 3 (15.00%) Teradata
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco
3 1 (5.00%) NetApp
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) VMware