Workload Management Contract Job Trends in the South East

Workload Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Workload Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 - 171
Rank change year-on-year - - +32
Contract jobs citing Workload Management 3 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.045% - 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.056% - 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £412 - -
25th Percentile £449 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +64.39%
75th Percentile £599 - -
90th Percentile £627 - -
England median daily rate £525 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -13.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £92.50 - -
England median hourly rate £53.40 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,365 3,181 3,562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 81.31% 88.76% 83.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,099 1,991 2,144
10th Percentile £275 £213 £255
25th Percentile £419 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £622 £588 £625
90th Percentile £713 £650 £688
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 697 328 181
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.38 £16.17 £30.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £21.02 £58.49
Median % change year-on-year +125.98% -64.06% +7.58%
75th Percentile £70.00 £42.93 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.30 £69.65 £75.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%

Workload Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Workload Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Workload Management job vacancy trend in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Workload Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Workload Management

Workload Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Workload Management in the South East over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Workload Management in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Workload Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Workload Management

Workload Management
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
Thames Valley - 2 £425 - 6
Berkshire - 1 - - 4
Buckinghamshire - 1 £425 -
Surrey - 1 £640 - 1
Workload Management
England

Workload Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Military
1 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Commercial Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
1 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) ArchiMate
2 1 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Business Case
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Twin
2 1 (33.33%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Register
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Synthetic Environment
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CISSP
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Chartered Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (33.33%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft