Workstream Lead Contracts in the UK excluding London

Workstream Leader
UK > UK excluding London

The median Workstream Leader daily rate in the UK excluding London is £619, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 383 434
Rank change year-on-year +57 +51 +55
Contract jobs requiring a Workstream Lead 13 16 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.077% 0.054%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.083% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 8
10th Percentile £517 £451 £509
25th Percentile £544 £453 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £619 £463 £563
Median % change year-on-year +33.84% -17.78% +2.27%
75th Percentile £653 £584 £731
90th Percentile £669 £654 -
UK median daily rate £579 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +25.14% -7.50% -11.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,790 19,217 22,597
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.60% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,554 11,733 15,842
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £599 £598
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,245 1,162
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.79 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.50 £42.43
Median % change year-on-year -29.11% -6.91% +117.60%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%

Workstream Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Workstream Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Workstream Lead in the UK excluding London

Workstream Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Workstream Lead in the UK excluding London

Workstream Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Workstream Lead in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Workstream Lead in the UK excluding London

Workstream Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Workstream Lead in the UK excluding London

Workstream Lead
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 Workstream Lead within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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 West - 7 £650 -
Scotland - 4 £619 -
North of England +18 1 £550 -
Midlands - 1 - -
North West - 1 £550 -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Workstream Lead
UK

Workstream Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Workstream Lead contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Workstream Lead in the job title.

1 4 (30.77%) SAP
1 4 (30.77%) Change Management
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (15.38%) Data Governance
2 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 2 (15.38%) ERP
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (15.38%) Ariba
2 2 (15.38%) Project Management
2 2 (15.38%) Programme Management
2 2 (15.38%) Data Management
2 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) User Experience
2 2 (15.38%) People Management
2 2 (15.38%) Power BI
2 2 (15.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (15.38%) PMO
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (7.69%) Decision-Making
3 1 (7.69%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) Data Strategy
3 1 (7.69%) Runbook

Workstream Lead Skill Set
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (7.69%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 1 (7.69%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) SAP HANA
General
1 2 (15.38%) Finance
1 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Credit Risk
2 1 (7.69%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Change Management
2 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (15.38%) Data Governance
2 2 (15.38%) Data Management
2 2 (15.38%) ERP
2 2 (15.38%) People Management
2 2 (15.38%) Programme Management
2 2 (15.38%) Project Management
2 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (15.38%) User Experience
3 1 (7.69%) Budget Management
3 1 (7.69%) Data Analytics
3 1 (7.69%) Data Engineering
3 1 (7.69%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (7.69%) Data Strategy
3 1 (7.69%) Decision-Making
3 1 (7.69%) Product Analysis
3 1 (7.69%) Roadmaps
3 1 (7.69%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
1 2 (15.38%) PMO
2 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (7.69%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) SAP
2 2 (15.38%) Ariba
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Avaloq
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft