Workforce Management (WFM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring WFM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited WFM over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 637 774 918
Rank change year-on-year +137 +144 +155
Permanent jobs citing WFM 72 138 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.13% 0.045%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.16% 0.047%
Number of salaries quoted 32 65 20
10th Percentile £29,848 £23,100 £41,985
25th Percentile £43,045 £31,250 £89,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,743 £50,000 £120,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.49% -58.33% +118.18%
75th Percentile £87,813 £67,500 £132,188
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £135,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,394 £48,013 £43,000
% change year-on-year +25.79% +11.66% -14.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

WFM 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,902 86,889 92,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.67% 84.13% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,611 60,763 54,796
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%

WFM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for WFM in the UK

WFM
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WFM.

Salary trend for WFM in the UK

WFM
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing WFM over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for WFM in the UK

WFM
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WFM within the UK over the 6 months to 30 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +95 68 £60,568 +21.14% 469
UK excluding London +177 56 £60,394 +25.79% 491
Work from Home +78 39 £44,769 -50.26% 183
South West +107 26 £36,136 +11.19% 57
London +63 13 £93,750 -1.32% 30
East of England +58 13 £60,394 +93.26% 88
North of England +52 9 £80,372 +221.49% 116
Yorkshire +64 5 £60,743 - 45
Midlands +74 4 £55,625 +1.14% 98
North West +5 4 £100,000 +300.00% 57
West Midlands +46 3 £85,000 +54.55% 54
South East +74 2 £77,500 +72.22% 115
Wales - 2 - - 13
East Midlands +46 1 £26,250 -12.50% 38

WFM
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 1 (1.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 29 (40.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (30.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.39%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 24 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 18 (25.00%) Azure
3 6 (8.33%) GCP
4 2 (2.78%) AWS
4 2 (2.78%) OCI
4 2 (2.78%) SaaS
5 1 (1.39%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.39%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.39%) SAP Fieldglass
5 1 (1.39%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (33.33%) Power BI
2 18 (25.00%) BusinessObjects
2 18 (25.00%) Data Mining
3 12 (16.67%) Tableau
4 9 (12.50%) Data Hub
5 4 (5.56%) MongoDB
5 4 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.78%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (22.22%) Git
2 3 (4.17%) Subversion
General
1 33 (45.83%) Finance
2 29 (40.28%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (37.50%) Retail
3 27 (37.50%) Social Skills
4 9 (12.50%) Banking
5 7 (9.72%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (9.72%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.56%) Back Office
7 2 (2.78%) Marketing
8 1 (1.39%) Automotive
8 1 (1.39%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.39%) Front Office
8 1 (1.39%) Law
8 1 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (26.39%) Developer
2 18 (25.00%) Junior
2 18 (25.00%) Junior Developer
3 9 (12.50%) Analyst
3 9 (12.50%) Data Scientist
3 9 (12.50%) Principal Data Scientist
3 9 (12.50%) Senior
3 9 (12.50%) Senior Data Scientist
4 6 (8.33%) Client Director
4 6 (8.33%) Services Director
5 5 (6.94%) Lead
6 4 (5.56%) Java Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) Data Analyst
7 3 (4.17%) Data Manager
7 3 (4.17%) JavaScript Engineer
8 2 (2.78%) Consulting Manager
8 2 (2.78%) Integration Engineer
9 1 (1.39%) Full-Stack C# Developer
9 1 (1.39%) Full-Stack Developer
9 1 (1.39%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.50%) Pandas
1 9 (12.50%) PySpark
1 9 (12.50%) scikit-learn
1 9 (12.50%) TensorFlow
2 4 (5.56%) CSS
2 4 (5.56%) HTML
2 4 (5.56%) jQuery
2 4 (5.56%) Spring
3 3 (4.17%) CSS3
3 3 (4.17%) D3.js
3 3 (4.17%) DOM
3 3 (4.17%) HTML5
3 3 (4.17%) KnockoutJS
3 3 (4.17%) Sass
3 3 (4.17%) Vue
4 2 (2.78%) .NET
4 2 (2.78%) Web Services
4 2 (2.78%) XSLT
5 1 (1.39%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 9 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 9 (12.50%) Credit Risk
3 7 (9.72%) Cloud Native
3 7 (9.72%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (9.72%) Smartphone
4 4 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.39%) Acoustics
5 1 (1.39%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.39%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.78%) Linux
1 2 (2.78%) Windows
2 1 (1.39%) Android
2 1 (1.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (40.28%) Customer Experience
2 24 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 24 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 21 (29.17%) Analytics
3 21 (29.17%) Data Management
3 21 (29.17%) Decision-Making
4 20 (27.78%) Service Delivery
5 18 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
5 18 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 18 (25.00%) Coaching
5 18 (25.00%) Commercial Awareness
5 18 (25.00%) Performance Management
6 12 (16.67%) Storytelling
7 10 (13.89%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (13.89%) Machine Learning
8 9 (12.50%) Data Analytics
8 9 (12.50%) Demand Forecasting
8 9 (12.50%) Neural Network
8 9 (12.50%) Propensity Modelling
8 9 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 37 (51.39%) SQL
2 19 (26.39%) VBA
3 10 (13.89%) JavaScript
4 9 (12.50%) Python
5 5 (6.94%) Java
6 4 (5.56%) Rust
7 2 (2.78%) C#
7 2 (2.78%) Groovy
8 1 (1.39%) C
Qualifications
1 10 (13.89%) Degree
2 9 (12.50%) DBS Check
2 9 (12.50%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.39%) A+ Certification
3 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.39%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (1.39%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.39%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) SLA
2 3 (4.17%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (1.39%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 28 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 18 (25.00%) Facebook
3 9 (12.50%) Databricks
4 6 (8.33%) Google
5 3 (4.17%) Oracle
6 2 (2.78%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.78%) Workday
7 1 (1.39%) Genesys
7 1 (1.39%) Kronos
7 1 (1.39%) SAP
7 1 (1.39%) ServiceNow