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

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 503 562 681
Rank change year-on-year +59 +119 +74
Contract jobs citing Workload Management 18 11 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.062% 0.026% 0.033%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.068% 0.030% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 5
10th Percentile £384 £372 £378
25th Percentile £411 £404 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £465 £700
Median % change year-on-year +4.03% -33.57% +55.56%
75th Percentile £534 £524 -
90th Percentile £709 £555 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 - £700
% change year-on-year - - +55.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 0
Median hourly rate - £19.50 -
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 26,555 36,687 51,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.98% 86.22% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,047 23,611 35,552
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,084 2,428 1,693
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.77
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.00 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%

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 16 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 7 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 16 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 +75 17 £500 +22.70% 42
London +34 9 £468 +14.72% 15
UK excluding London +48 8 £530 - 34
East of England - 5 £500 - 3
Work from Home +21 3 £560 -2.61% 26
South West - 2 £493 - 8
South East +46 1 £700 - 7

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 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Windchill
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) AWS
2 5 (27.78%) Azure
3 4 (22.22%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.11%) Snowflake Schema
2 2 (11.11%) Star Schema
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) JIRA
2 3 (16.67%) Artifactory
2 3 (16.67%) GitLab
2 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 11 (61.11%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Billing
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Senior
2 2 (11.11%) Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Configuration Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Test Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Business Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Data Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Lead
3 1 (5.56%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Procurement Specialist
3 1 (5.56%) Programme Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Programme Test Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Test Automation Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Test Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 3 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.11%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Linux
2 3 (16.67%) CentOS
3 1 (5.56%) Windows
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (27.78%) Agile
2 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 4 (22.22%) DevOps
3 4 (22.22%) Process Improvement
4 3 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 3 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 3 (16.67%) DevSecOps
4 3 (16.67%) ETL
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
4 3 (16.67%) Problem Management
4 3 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (11.11%) Computer Science
5 2 (11.11%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (11.11%) PLM
5 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) Python
2 4 (22.22%) SQL
3 3 (16.67%) Bash
3 3 (16.67%) Perl
4 1 (5.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.56%) CISM
3 1 (5.56%) CISSP
3 1 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (5.56%) ISSEP
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Ansible
1 6 (33.33%) Terraform
2 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 3 (16.67%) Google
2 3 (16.67%) IBM
2 3 (16.67%) Teradata
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.56%) Atlassian
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco
4 1 (5.56%) Guidewire
4 1 (5.56%) NetApp
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle
4 1 (5.56%) VMware