Workday HCM Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Workday Human Capital Management (HCM)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Workday HCM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 135 134
Rank change year-on-year -22 -1 +77
Contract jobs citing Workday HCM 5 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.17% 0.075% 0.11%
As % of the Business Applications category 2.03% 0.87% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £515 £646 -
25th Percentile £519 £705 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £806 -
Median % change year-on-year -31.78% - -
75th Percentile £563 £905 -
90th Percentile £570 £962 -
England median daily rate £555 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -7.50% - +9.09%

All Business Application Skills
Midlands

Workday HCM falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring business application skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 246 231 276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.52% 8.67% 9.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 155 184
10th Percentile £331 £393 £375
25th Percentile £413 £450 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £650
90th Percentile £725 £731 £696
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £34.50
25th Percentile - - £47.44
Median hourly rate £21.30 £23.60 £87.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.75% -73.03% -
75th Percentile - - £92.50
90th Percentile - - £93.75
England median hourly rate £40.75 £40.33 £56.49
% change year-on-year +1.05% -28.62% +41.23%

Workday HCM
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Workday HCM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Workday HCM job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Workday HCM
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Workday HCM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Workday HCM

Workday HCM
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Workday HCM within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 October 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
West Midlands -20 5 £550 -31.78% 1
Workday HCM
England

Workday HCM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (60.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (60.00%) OneDrive
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Test Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Workday Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Payroll Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Data Management
2 2 (40.00%) Defect Management
2 2 (40.00%) Defect Tracking
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Regression Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (40.00%) System Integration Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Workday
2 2 (40.00%) HP
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft