Kronos Contract Job Trends

Kronos
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Kronos products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kronos over the 6 months leading up to 26 September 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 Kronos, Inc.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 530 554 629
Rank change year-on-year +24 +75 +161
Contract jobs citing Kronos 22 17 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.067% 0.044% 0.037%
As % of the Vendors category 0.14% 0.100% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 13
10th Percentile £294 £480 £455
25th Percentile £347 £488 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -4.76% -16.00%
75th Percentile £519 £644 £575
90th Percentile £575 £730 £595
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £488 £550
% change year-on-year +12.82% -11.36% -10.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £14.13 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £14.13 -

All Vendors
UK

Kronos 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,716 17,050 22,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.51% 44.49% 44.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,667 10,098 14,275
10th Percentile £275 £285 £263
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £731 £729
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 814 652 663
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.50 £15.22
25th Percentile £17.81 £15.70 £18.78
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.87% +83.35%
75th Percentile £43.24 £64.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.35 £30.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -28.85% -29.41% +112.50%

Kronos
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Kronos as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Kronos in the UK

Kronos
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Kronos.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Kronos

Kronos
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kronos over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kronos in the UK

Kronos
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Kronos.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Kronos

Kronos
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kronos within the UK over the 6 months to 26 September 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
England +13 15 £475 -5.00% 12
London +38 13 £500 -35.48% 9
Work from Home +23 7 £525 +7.69%
UK excluding London -5 2 £550 +12.82% 7
North of England - 1 - -
North West - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £550 -

Kronos
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (31.82%) SAP HR
2 1 (4.55%) SAP HCM
2 1 (4.55%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 7 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Consultant
2 3 (13.64%) Analyst
2 3 (13.64%) Kronos Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Kronos Consultant
3 2 (9.09%) Kronos Specialist
3 2 (9.09%) Project Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Workday Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Workday Project Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Functional Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) HR Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Implementation Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) Implementation Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Implementation Project Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Project Implementation Manager
4 1 (4.55%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) SAP HCM Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) SAP Tester
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Functional Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) WFM
2 13 (59.09%) Migration
3 8 (36.36%) Data Migration
3 8 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (27.27%) Analytics
5 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (18.18%) System Integration Testing
5 4 (18.18%) Test Management
5 4 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (13.64%) Change Management
6 3 (13.64%) Data Management
6 3 (13.64%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (13.64%) Incident Management
6 3 (13.64%) Integration Testing
6 3 (13.64%) Regression Testing
6 3 (13.64%) Validation
7 2 (9.09%) Data Mapping
7 2 (9.09%) Data Protection
7 2 (9.09%) Process Improvement
8 1 (4.55%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) SQL
2 1 (4.55%) Java
2 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Firmware
Vendors
1 10 (45.45%) SAP
2 6 (27.27%) Workday
3 1 (4.55%) Ariba