Workload Management Contracts

Workload Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 499 571 688
Rank change year-on-year +72 +117 +62
Contract jobs citing Workload Management 21 11 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.025% 0.050%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.079% 0.029% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 3 10
10th Percentile £347 £372 £521
25th Percentile £411 £404 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £465 £700
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -33.57% +55.56%
75th Percentile £601 £524 £794
90th Percentile £725 £555 £802
UK excluding London median daily rate £560 - £700
% change year-on-year - - +55.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £19.25 £38.13
Median hourly rate - £19.50 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year - -49.68% -
75th Percentile - £20.56 £39.38
90th Percentile - £23.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £19.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Workload Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Workload Management in the UK

Workload Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Workload Management.

Daily rate trend for Workload Management in the UK

Workload Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Workload Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Workload Management in the UK

Workload Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Workload Management.

Hourly rate trend for Workload Management in the UK

Workload Management
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +68 20 £500 +22.70% 37
UK excluding London +67 11 £560 - 28
London +45 9 £446 +9.51% 14
East of England - 5 £500 - 9
Work from Home +38 4 £530 -7.83% 23
South East +43 3 £700 - 5
South West - 2 £493 - 6
West Midlands - 1 £475 - 1
Midlands - 1 £475 - 3

Workload Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Windchill
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) Azure
2 7 (33.33%) AWS
3 4 (19.05%) GCP
4 3 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.76%) Power Automate
6 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.76%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (9.52%) Snowflake Schema
2 2 (9.52%) Star Schema
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) JIRA
2 3 (14.29%) Artifactory
2 3 (14.29%) GitLab
2 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.76%) Git
General
1 12 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (9.52%) Analyst
2 2 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (9.52%) Configuration Engineer
2 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (9.52%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Business Analyst
3 1 (4.76%) Consultant
3 1 (4.76%) Data Analyst
3 1 (4.76%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (4.76%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Procurement Specialist
3 1 (4.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Senior Windows Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Test Automation Manager
3 1 (4.76%) Test Manager
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Deployment Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Cyber Defence
1 3 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 3 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
2 2 (9.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (28.57%) Linux
2 3 (14.29%) CentOS
3 2 (9.52%) Windows
4 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
1 6 (28.57%) Process Improvement
2 5 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (23.81%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (19.05%) Agile
3 4 (19.05%) DevOps
4 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 3 (14.29%) Configuration Management
4 3 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (14.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 3 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 3 (14.29%) DevSecOps
4 3 (14.29%) ETL
4 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
4 3 (14.29%) Problem Management
4 3 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 3 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) Python
2 4 (19.05%) SQL
3 3 (14.29%) Bash
3 3 (14.29%) Perl
4 1 (4.76%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Degree
2 3 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 3 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 3 (14.29%) CISSP
2 3 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
2 3 (14.29%) ISSEP
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (14.29%) SSCP
3 2 (9.52%) CISM
3 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Ansible
1 6 (28.57%) Terraform
2 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (14.29%) Puppet
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 6 (28.57%) Red Hat
2 3 (14.29%) Google
2 3 (14.29%) IBM
2 3 (14.29%) Teradata
3 1 (4.76%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco
3 1 (4.76%) NetApp
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) VMware