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

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 647 763 936
Rank change year-on-year +116 +173 +127
Permanent jobs citing WFM 70 131 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.13% 0.045%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.15% 0.047%
Number of salaries quoted 33 65 21
10th Percentile £29,848 £23,100 £42,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £31,250 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,743 £50,000 £120,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.49% -58.33% +118.18%
75th Percentile £88,750 £67,500 £131,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £135,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,394 £48,013 £51,500
% change year-on-year +25.79% -6.77% +25.61%

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 51,728 84,924 96,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.83% 85.58% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 26,848 59,902 56,809
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,010 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,415 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -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 12 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 12 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 +90 66 £60,743 +21.49% 68
UK excluding London +144 54 £60,394 +25.79% 37
Work from Home +102 37 £44,769 -50.26% 47
South West +107 25 £36,136 +11.19% 2
London +69 14 £100,000 +5.26% 35
East of England +58 13 £60,394 +93.26% 7
North of England +60 8 £80,372 +120.16% 6
Yorkshire +73 5 £60,743 -21.62% 3
Midlands +58 4 £55,625 +1.14% 6
West Midlands +49 3 £85,000 +54.55% 5
North West -3 3 £100,000 +300.00% 3
South East +83 2 £77,500 +72.22% 16
Wales - 2 - - 1
East Midlands +41 1 £26,250 -51.16% 1

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 (1.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 27 (38.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (28.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.43%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 22 (31.43%) Power Platform
2 16 (22.86%) Azure
3 6 (8.57%) GCP
4 2 (2.86%) AWS
4 2 (2.86%) OCI
4 2 (2.86%) SaaS
5 1 (1.43%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.43%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.43%) SAP Fieldglass
5 1 (1.43%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.29%) HTTP
2 1 (1.43%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.43%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (31.43%) Power BI
2 16 (22.86%) BusinessObjects
2 16 (22.86%) Data Mining
3 12 (17.14%) Tableau
4 9 (12.86%) Data Hub
5 4 (5.71%) MongoDB
5 4 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.86%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (22.86%) Git
2 3 (4.29%) Subversion
General
1 33 (47.14%) Finance
2 27 (38.57%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (37.14%) Social Skills
4 25 (35.71%) Retail
5 9 (12.86%) Banking
6 7 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (10.00%) Public Sector
7 4 (5.71%) Back Office
8 2 (2.86%) Marketing
9 1 (1.43%) Automotive
9 1 (1.43%) Digital Health
9 1 (1.43%) Front Office
9 1 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (24.29%) Developer
2 16 (22.86%) Junior
2 16 (22.86%) Junior Developer
3 9 (12.86%) Data Scientist
3 9 (12.86%) Principal Data Scientist
3 9 (12.86%) Senior
3 9 (12.86%) Senior Data Scientist
4 8 (11.43%) Analyst
5 6 (8.57%) Client Director
5 6 (8.57%) Services Director
6 5 (7.14%) Lead
7 4 (5.71%) Java Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Data Analyst
8 3 (4.29%) Data Manager
8 3 (4.29%) JavaScript Engineer
9 2 (2.86%) Consulting Manager
9 2 (2.86%) Integration Engineer
10 1 (1.43%) Full-Stack C# Developer
10 1 (1.43%) Programme Director
10 1 (1.43%) Software Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.86%) Pandas
1 9 (12.86%) PySpark
1 9 (12.86%) scikit-learn
1 9 (12.86%) TensorFlow
2 4 (5.71%) CSS
2 4 (5.71%) HTML
2 4 (5.71%) jQuery
2 4 (5.71%) Spring
3 3 (4.29%) CSS3
3 3 (4.29%) D3.js
3 3 (4.29%) DOM
3 3 (4.29%) HTML5
3 3 (4.29%) KnockoutJS
3 3 (4.29%) Sass
3 3 (4.29%) Vue
4 2 (2.86%) .NET
4 2 (2.86%) Web Services
4 2 (2.86%) XSLT
5 1 (1.43%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (22.86%) Data Structures
2 9 (12.86%) Algorithms
2 9 (12.86%) Credit Risk
3 7 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 7 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (10.00%) Smartphone
4 4 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.43%) Acoustics
5 1 (1.43%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.86%) Linux
1 2 (2.86%) Windows
2 1 (1.43%) Android
2 1 (1.43%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (40.00%) Customer Experience
2 24 (34.29%) Visualisation
3 22 (31.43%) Data Analysis
4 21 (30.00%) Analytics
4 21 (30.00%) Decision-Making
5 19 (27.14%) Artificial Intelligence
5 19 (27.14%) Data Management
6 18 (25.71%) Actionable Insight
6 18 (25.71%) Service Delivery
7 16 (22.86%) Coaching
7 16 (22.86%) Commercial Awareness
7 16 (22.86%) Performance Management
8 12 (17.14%) Storytelling
9 10 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (14.29%) Machine Learning
10 9 (12.86%) Data Munging
10 9 (12.86%) Demand Forecasting
10 9 (12.86%) Natural Language Processing
10 9 (12.86%) Propensity Modelling
10 9 (12.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 35 (50.00%) SQL
2 17 (24.29%) VBA
3 10 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 9 (12.86%) Python
5 5 (7.14%) Java
6 4 (5.71%) Rust
7 2 (2.86%) C#
7 2 (2.86%) Groovy
8 1 (1.43%) C
Qualifications
1 10 (14.29%) Degree
2 9 (12.86%) DBS Check
2 9 (12.86%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.43%) A+ Certification
3 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.43%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (1.43%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.71%) SLA
2 3 (4.29%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 26 (37.14%) Microsoft
2 16 (22.86%) Facebook
3 9 (12.86%) Databricks
4 6 (8.57%) Google
5 3 (4.29%) Oracle
5 3 (4.29%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.86%) Genesys
6 2 (2.86%) SAP
6 2 (2.86%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.86%) Workday
7 1 (1.43%) Avaya
7 1 (1.43%) Cisco
7 1 (1.43%) Kronos
7 1 (1.43%) Ribbon