Workstream Lead Contracts

Workstream Leader
UK

The median Workstream Leader daily rate in the UK is £663, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 August 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
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 538 540 634
Rank change year-on-year +2 +94 +201
Contract jobs requiring a Workstream Lead 13 33 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.085% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.091% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 16 11
10th Percentile £561 £513 £463
25th Percentile £577 £559 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £620 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.94% +18.00% -4.55%
75th Percentile £766 £738 £672
90th Percentile £780 £808 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £725 £620 £688
% change year-on-year +17.03% -9.89% +30.02%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 30,132 36,077 49,221
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.30% 92.88% 94.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,016 23,240 33,998
10th Percentile £281 £300 £305
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.93%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,536 2,025 1,461
10th Percentile £13.60 £14.25 £14.42
25th Percentile £17.21 £20.30 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.16
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +2.00% +64.15%
75th Percentile £53.78 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -44.11% +20.00% +75.32%

Workstream Lead
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Workstream Lead in the UK

Workstream Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Workstream Lead.

Daily rate trend for Workstream Lead in the UK

Workstream Lead
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Workstream Lead over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Workstream Lead in the UK

Workstream Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Workstream Lead.

Hourly rate trend for Workstream Lead in the UK

Workstream Lead
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 August 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 +7 12 £700 +17.65% 9
London +15 9 £663 +15.22% 3
Work from Home +21 4 £625 +4.17% 5
UK excluding London -17 3 £725 +17.03% 6
South West +33 1 £725 +18.08% 1
South East +15 1 - -
West Midlands -10 1 - - 1
Midlands -10 1 - - 1

Workstream Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 15 August 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 featuring Workstream Lead in the job title.

1 8 (61.54%) Finance
2 7 (53.85%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (38.46%) Data Architecture
4 4 (30.77%) Data Migration
4 4 (30.77%) Agile
4 4 (30.77%) Migration
4 4 (30.77%) SAP
5 3 (23.08%) ERP
5 3 (23.08%) Project Management
5 3 (23.08%) Programme Management
5 3 (23.08%) Data Management
5 3 (23.08%) Data Integration
5 3 (23.08%) Data Governance
5 3 (23.08%) Data Quality
5 3 (23.08%) Product Ownership
5 3 (23.08%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (15.38%) SIAM
6 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
6 2 (15.38%) Regulatory Compliance
6 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
6 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
6 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
6 2 (15.38%) Big Data
6 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (15.38%) ServiceNow
6 2 (15.38%) Analytics
6 2 (15.38%) KYC
6 2 (15.38%) Anti-Money Laundering
6 2 (15.38%) GDPR

Workstream Lead Skill Set
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 2 (15.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (7.69%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (7.69%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (7.69%) OCI
1 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
1 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
1 1 (7.69%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Big Data
1 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.69%) Metadata
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
General
1 8 (61.54%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Retail
3 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Local Government
4 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (7.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Product Ownership
2 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (38.46%) Data Architecture
3 4 (30.77%) Agile
3 4 (30.77%) Data Migration
3 4 (30.77%) Migration
4 3 (23.08%) Data Governance
4 3 (23.08%) Data Integration
4 3 (23.08%) Data Management
4 3 (23.08%) ERP
4 3 (23.08%) Programme Management
4 3 (23.08%) Project Management
5 2 (15.38%) Analytics
5 2 (15.38%) Anti-Money Laundering
5 2 (15.38%) Data Strategy
5 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
5 2 (15.38%) KYC
5 2 (15.38%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (15.38%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) DBS Check
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
1 1 (7.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Data Quality
2 2 (15.38%) GDPR
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) SAP
2 2 (15.38%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Workday