Workstream Lead Contracts in England

Workstream Leader
UK > England

The median Workstream Leader daily rate in England is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 499 505 592
Rank change year-on-year +6 +87 +167
Contract jobs requiring a Workstream Lead 12 28 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.043% 0.084% 0.041%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.091% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 8
10th Percentile £560 £497 £446
25th Percentile £599 £541 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £595 £513
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +16.10% -6.82%
75th Percentile £775 £747 £731
90th Percentile £785 £808 -
UK median daily rate £663 £620 £525
% change year-on-year +6.94% +18.00% -4.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 25,461 30,794 41,684
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.57% 92.90% 94.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,436 20,200 29,410
10th Percentile £281 £300 £305
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -1.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,352 1,763 1,315
10th Percentile £13.51 £14.16 £14.85
25th Percentile £17.48 £21.15 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.23 £45.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.94% +8.43% +61.60%
75th Percentile £55.00 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.80
% change year-on-year -41.51% +2.87% +62.77%

Workstream Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Workstream Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Workstream Lead in England

Workstream Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Workstream Lead in England

Workstream Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Workstream Lead in England over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Workstream Lead in England

Workstream Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Workstream Lead in England

Workstream Lead
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 Workstream Lead within the England region over the 6 months to 17 August 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 +19 9 £663 +15.22% 2
South West +27 1 £725 +18.08%
South East +8 1 - -
West Midlands -6 1 - -
Midlands -8 1 - -
Workstream Lead
UK

Workstream Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 17 August 2025, Workstream Lead contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Workstream Lead in the job title.

1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 6 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (41.67%) Data Architecture
4 4 (33.33%) Data Migration
4 4 (33.33%) Migration
4 4 (33.33%) SAP
5 3 (25.00%) Project Management
5 3 (25.00%) ERP
5 3 (25.00%) Agile
5 3 (25.00%) Data Management
5 3 (25.00%) Data Integration
5 3 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 3 (25.00%) Data Quality
5 3 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (25.00%) Product Ownership
6 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
6 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
6 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 2 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
6 2 (16.67%) Big Data
6 2 (16.67%) Data Lake
6 2 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
6 2 (16.67%) GDPR
6 2 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (16.67%) Data Strategy
6 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (16.67%) KYC
6 2 (16.67%) Anti-Money Laundering
6 2 (16.67%) Analytics

Workstream Lead Skill Set
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (8.33%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (8.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (8.33%) OCI
1 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
1 1 (8.33%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Big Data
1 2 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (8.33%) Metadata
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Retail
3 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Local Government
4 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (8.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (41.67%) Data Architecture
3 4 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 4 (33.33%) Migration
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 3 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 3 (25.00%) Data Management
4 3 (25.00%) ERP
4 3 (25.00%) Project Management
5 2 (16.67%) Analytics
5 2 (16.67%) Anti-Money Laundering
5 2 (16.67%) Business Analysis
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) Data Strategy
5 2 (16.67%) KYC
5 2 (16.67%) Programme Management
5 2 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (16.67%) Scrum
5 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) DBS Check
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (16.67%) GDPR
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (8.33%) Workday