WFM Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Workforce Management (WFM)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring WFM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 108 -
Rank change year-on-year -41 - -
Contract jobs citing WFM 6 7 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.19% 0.43% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.47% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £533 £469 -
25th Percentile £581 £498 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £545 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.85% - -
75th Percentile £694 £593 -
90th Percentile £698 £621 -
South East median daily rate £660 £545 -
% change year-on-year +21.10% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

WFM 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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,469 1,490 1,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 80.14% 91.02% 85.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,568 905 1,076
10th Percentile £325 £293 £281
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -1.91%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £625
90th Percentile £713 £664 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 98 90
10th Percentile £13.45 £14.20 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.50 £15.12 £27.56
Median hourly rate £60.00 £24.58 £58.49
Median % change year-on-year +144.15% -57.98% +16.98%
75th Percentile £85.00 £40.09 £70.39
90th Percentile £103.93 £78.25 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £21.90 £57.35
% change year-on-year +139.73% -61.81% +9.24%

WFM
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing WFM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

WFM job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

WFM
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing WFM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing WFM

WFM
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WFM in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for WFM in the Thames Valley

WFM
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WFM within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 5 September 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
Berkshire -25 5 £688 +52.78% 2
Buckinghamshire -32 1 £500 -21.88%
WFM
South East

WFM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (16.67%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Forms
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Implementation Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Systems Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) IVR
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (33.33%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (33.33%) User Experience
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) AI
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Experience
3 1 (16.67%) Data Mapping
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) ERP
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
3 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow