Workload Management Job Trends in the South West

Workload Management
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Workload Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 - 276
Rank change year-on-year - - -31
Permanent jobs citing Workload Management 1 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.013% - 0.067%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% - 0.081%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £43,375
25th Percentile £53,522 - £45,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,498 - £46,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.17%
75th Percentile £55,473 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £65,000 £54,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +19.27% +21.11% -30.77%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

Workload Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,265 2,452 7,430
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 68.56% 90.28% 83.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3,479 1,543 5,549
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,800 £28,767
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £52,600 £50,950
Median % change year-on-year +2.66% +3.24% -2.95%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,568 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

Workload Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Workload Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Workload Management job vacancy trend in the South West

Workload Management
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Workload Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Workload Management

Workload Management
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Workload Management within the South West region over the 6 months to 6 May 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Somerset - 1 £54,498 -
Workload Management
England

Workload Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Fire and Rescue
1 1 (100.00%) Police
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Line Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Maintenance
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle