Workday Contracts in the UK excluding London

Workday
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of Workday products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Workday over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Workday, Inc.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 347 320
Rank change year-on-year +52 -27 +73
Contract jobs citing Workday 48 50 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.24% 0.48%
As % of the Vendors category 0.75% 0.57% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 34 70
10th Percentile £400 £242 £346
25th Percentile £503 £288 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £375 £620
Median % change year-on-year +53.33% -39.52% +12.73%
75th Percentile £652 £614 £701
90th Percentile £800 £702 £800
UK median daily rate £600 £519 £600
% change year-on-year +15.66% -13.54% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 1
10th Percentile - £16.40 -
25th Percentile £31.76 £17.00 £29.50
Median hourly rate £53.50 £42.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.88% +37.10% +81.23%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.00 £32.50
90th Percentile £77.10 - -
UK median hourly rate £31.76 £62.00 £25.25
% change year-on-year -48.77% +145.54% +47.62%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Workday falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,435 8,722 10,170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 49.37% 42.09% 44.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,017 5,275 6,942
10th Percentile £220 £208 £205
25th Percentile £363 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £584 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £510 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.97% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 453 983 443
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £14.16 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.50 £21.46 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.85% -42.77% +95.64%
75th Percentile £51.90 £58.70 £60.59
90th Percentile £69.93 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £22.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +15.12% -47.88% +97.67%

Workday
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Workday as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Workday in the UK excluding London

Workday
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Workday in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Workday in the UK excluding London

Workday
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Workday in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Workday in the UK excluding London

Workday
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Workday in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Workday in the UK excluding London

Workday
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Workday in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Workday in the UK excluding London

Workday
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Workday within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
South East +35 12 £525 +68.00% 20
North of England +22 10 £638 +27.50% 20
East of England +30 8 £775 - 1
Scotland +8 8 £588 +80.77% 5
North West +13 7 £425 -15.00% 19
Midlands +6 7 £400 -8.57% 8
West Midlands +11 5 £675 +12.50% 8
South West +47 3 £575 +187.50% 2
Yorkshire +14 2 - - 1
East Midlands +10 2 £400 -33.33%
North East - 1 £850 -
Workday
UK

Workday
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (25.00%) Workday HCM
2 5 (10.42%) SAP CO
2 5 (10.42%) SAP FI
2 5 (10.42%) SAP FI/CO
2 5 (10.42%) SAP HR
2 5 (10.42%) SAP Payroll
3 2 (4.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 3 (6.25%) AWS
1 3 (6.25%) Power Platform
1 3 (6.25%) SuccessFactors
2 2 (4.17%) Snowflake
3 1 (2.08%) Azure
3 1 (2.08%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.08%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.25%) Power BI
2 2 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.17%) Tableau
3 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (2.08%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (4.17%) ERwin
2 1 (2.08%) Artifactory
2 1 (2.08%) Git
2 1 (2.08%) JIRA
General
1 28 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 13 (27.08%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (27.08%) Finance
3 4 (8.33%) Aviation
4 3 (6.25%) Banking
4 3 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.17%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.08%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Law
6 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (16.67%) Workday Manager
2 7 (14.58%) Project Manager
3 6 (12.50%) Architect
3 6 (12.50%) Developer
3 6 (12.50%) Workday Project Manager
4 5 (10.42%) Analyst
4 5 (10.42%) Consultant
4 5 (10.42%) SAP Developer
4 5 (10.42%) SAP HR Developer
4 5 (10.42%) Workday Architect
5 4 (8.33%) Workday Consultant
6 3 (6.25%) Data Analyst
6 3 (6.25%) Lead
6 3 (6.25%) Technical Architect
7 2 (4.17%) Data Modeller
7 2 (4.17%) Implementation Manager
7 2 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Oracle Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Project Implementation Manager
7 2 (4.17%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.17%) REST
1 2 (4.17%) SOAP
1 2 (4.17%) Web Services
2 1 (2.08%) JSON
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (4.17%) Life Science
1 2 (4.17%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.08%) Learning Management System
2 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.08%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (2.08%) Replication
2 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.08%) Linux
1 1 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (27.08%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (16.67%) Analytics
2 8 (16.67%) Migration
3 7 (14.58%) Project Management
3 7 (14.58%) Roadmaps
3 7 (14.58%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (12.50%) Change Management
4 6 (12.50%) Data Analysis
4 6 (12.50%) ERP
4 6 (12.50%) Validation
5 5 (10.42%) Actionable Insight
5 5 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (10.42%) Test Scripting
5 5 (10.42%) User Experience
5 5 (10.42%) Workshop Facilitation
6 4 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (8.33%) Computer Science
6 4 (8.33%) Project Delivery
6 4 (8.33%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.42%) ABAP
1 5 (10.42%) SQL
2 2 (4.17%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (2.08%) Java
3 1 (2.08%) PL/SQL
3 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.08%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (14.58%) Degree
2 4 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.17%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.08%) CIPD
4 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) QA
2 3 (6.25%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.17%) GDPR
4 1 (2.08%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (16.67%) SAP
2 7 (14.58%) Google
3 4 (8.33%) Oracle
4 3 (6.25%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.17%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.17%) Sparx
6 1 (2.08%) Adaptive Insights
6 1 (2.08%) Ceridian
6 1 (2.08%) Salesforce