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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 389 423
Rank change year-on-year +61 +34 +48
Contract jobs citing Workload Management 7 8 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.054% 0.039% 0.044%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.060% 0.046% 0.049%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £430 - £465
25th Percentile £456 £263 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £275 £625
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% -56.00% +35.14%
75th Percentile £530 £288 £700
90th Percentile £548 - -
UK median daily rate £468 £350 £625
% change year-on-year +33.57% -44.00% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £19.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £19.50 -

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 11,664 17,222 20,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 83.58% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,264 10,282 14,009
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 2,110 1,238
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.40 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.22
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.63 £61.30 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £36.13
% change year-on-year -24.66% +1.04% +40.67%

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 29 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 29 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 +35 5 £500 +81.82% 2
South West - 2 £493 - 8
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 (42.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Windchill
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) JIRA
2 3 (42.86%) Artifactory
3 1 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) GitLab
3 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Configuration Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Public Cloud
2 2 (28.57%) Virtual Team
3 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Configuration Management
2 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 2 (28.57%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) PLM
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Security Patching
3 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
4 1 (14.29%) Information Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Information Management
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Bash
2 3 (42.86%) Perl
3 1 (14.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Ansible
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Red Hat
2 3 (42.86%) Google
2 3 (42.86%) IBM
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft