Workload Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Workload Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Workload Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Workload Management over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 387 442
Rank change year-on-year +63 +55 +32
Contract jobs citing Workload Management 10 7 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.078% 0.034% 0.054%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.087% 0.040% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 7
10th Percentile £438 - -
25th Percentile £472 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +55.47%
75th Percentile £684 - £750
90th Percentile £725 - £808
UK median daily rate £475 £465 £700
% change year-on-year +2.15% -33.57% +55.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £19.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £19.50 £38.75
% change year-on-year - -49.68% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,544 17,537 21,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.36% 84.72% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,245 10,476 14,867
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 827 2,058 1,303
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.31 £15.24 £15.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +6.69% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

Workload Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Workload Management in the UK excluding London

Workload Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Workload Management in the UK excluding London

Workload Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Workload Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Workload Management in the UK excluding London

Workload Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Workload Management in the UK excluding London

Workload Management
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 Workload Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
East of England - 5 £500 - 6
South East +32 2 £700 - 7
South West - 2 £493 - 6
West Midlands - 1 £475 - 1
Midlands - 1 £475 - 4
Workload Management
UK

Workload Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Windchill
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) GCP
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (10.00%) Power Automate
5 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
2 3 (30.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (10.00%) Git
3 1 (10.00%) GitLab
3 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Configuration Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (20.00%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (20.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Agile
1 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (30.00%) Process Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) PLM
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (20.00%) Security Patching
3 2 (20.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Bash
2 3 (30.00%) Perl
3 1 (10.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (20.00%) CISM
2 2 (20.00%) CISSP
2 2 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (20.00%) ISSEP
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (20.00%) SSCP
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (30.00%) Google
2 3 (30.00%) IBM