Workday
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Workday products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Workday over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Workday, Inc.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 419 448 508
Rank change year-on-year +29 +60 -6
Contract jobs citing Workday 164 262 365
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.45% 0.42%
As % of the Vendors category 0.89% 1.05% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 180 245
10th Percentile £313 £424 £413
25th Percentile £363 £513 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £700 £650
90th Percentile £743 £800 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -27.08% +6.67% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 5
10th Percentile £16.60 - -
25th Percentile £29.13 £18.75 £11.21
Median hourly rate £62.00 £19.50 £17.11
Median % change year-on-year +217.95% +14.00% -54.39%
75th Percentile - £26.38 £21.50
90th Percentile - £30.05 £40.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £31.00 £17.11
% change year-on-year +37.10% +81.23% -

All Vendors
UK

Workday is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,339 24,882 34,833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.65% 42.98% 39.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,366 16,641 23,129
10th Percentile £263 £270 £294
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £630 £644 £635
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,115 687 882
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.23 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.75 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -3.91%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.84
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £64.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £38.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -43.53% +100.00% +2.70%

Workday
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Workday in the UK

Workday
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Workday in the UK

Workday
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Workday over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Workday in the UK

Workday
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Workday in the UK

Workday
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Workday over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Workday in the UK

Workday
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Workday within the UK over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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 +4 136 £581 -3.13% 72
London +69 85 £600 +2.13% 39
Work from Home +67 76 £588 -2.49% 33
UK excluding London -10 54 £438 -27.08% 27
South East +10 24 £494 -19.55% 9
Midlands +32 15 £588 +17.50% 1
West Midlands +20 8 £606 +5.43%
North of England -21 7 £500 -16.67% 14
Scotland +39 5 £325 -52.47%
North West +20 5 £500 - 12
East of England +13 2 - -
Yorkshire -24 2 £265 -55.83%
East Midlands +20 1 £600 +65.52% 1
South West +13 1 £200 -76.47% 2

Workday
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 (0.61%) Confluence
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (6.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.83%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.22%) Chatbot
5 2 (1.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 40 (24.39%) Workday HCM
2 6 (3.66%) SAP Payroll
3 4 (2.44%) NetSuite
4 3 (1.83%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (1.83%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 3 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (1.22%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (1.22%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (1.22%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.61%) Avolution ABACUS
6 1 (0.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.61%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.61%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.61%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.61%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.61%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 14 (8.54%) SuccessFactors
2 11 (6.71%) SaaS
3 6 (3.66%) Azure
3 6 (3.66%) Smartsheet
4 5 (3.05%) Power Platform
5 4 (2.44%) AWS
6 2 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.22%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.22%) Salesforce Einstein
7 1 (0.61%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.61%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.61%) SAP Fieldglass
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.05%) Power BI
2 3 (1.83%) Power Query
2 3 (1.83%) PowerPivot
3 2 (1.22%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.61%) Big Data
4 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.61%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (0.61%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (1.22%) JIRA
General
1 50 (30.49%) Finance
2 33 (20.12%) Social Skills
3 22 (13.41%) Retail
4 14 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.88%) Legal
6 6 (3.66%) French Language
7 5 (3.05%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.83%) General Ledger
9 3 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.22%) Automotive
10 2 (1.22%) Billing
11 1 (0.61%) Banking
11 1 (0.61%) Games
11 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (28.66%) Consultant
2 42 (25.61%) Workday Consultant
3 23 (14.02%) Lead
4 18 (10.98%) Analyst
5 16 (9.76%) Developer
5 16 (9.76%) Integration Consultant
5 16 (9.76%) Workday Integration Consultant
6 15 (9.15%) Payroll Consultant
7 14 (8.54%) Architect
8 13 (7.93%) Business Analyst
8 13 (7.93%) Project Manager
9 11 (6.71%) Workday Developer
10 10 (6.10%) Workday Specialist
11 9 (5.49%) Junior
11 9 (5.49%) Junior Consultant
11 9 (5.49%) Solutions Architect
12 7 (4.27%) Senior
13 6 (3.66%) HR Manager
13 6 (3.66%) Technical Developer
14 4 (2.44%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.83%) Smart Contracts
2 2 (1.22%) OAuth
2 2 (1.22%) SailPoint
2 2 (1.22%) SOAP
2 2 (1.22%) XSLT
3 1 (0.61%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.61%) CSS
3 1 (0.61%) JDBC
3 1 (0.61%) JSON
3 1 (0.61%) LDAP
3 1 (0.61%) REST
3 1 (0.61%) RESTful
3 1 (0.61%) Shiny
3 1 (0.61%) Web Services
3 1 (0.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.88%) Onboarding
2 6 (3.66%) Life Science
2 6 (3.66%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.44%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.44%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.83%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.61%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (0.61%) FMCG
5 1 (0.61%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.61%) Mac OS
1 1 (0.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (25.00%) ERP
2 22 (13.41%) Migration
3 19 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (10.98%) Project Management
4 18 (10.98%) Roadmaps
5 17 (10.37%) Data Migration
5 17 (10.37%) Line Management
5 17 (10.37%) Workshop Facilitation
6 15 (9.15%) Agile
6 15 (9.15%) Process Improvement
7 14 (8.54%) Human Resource Management
7 14 (8.54%) People Management
8 13 (7.93%) Commercial Awareness
9 12 (7.32%) Change Management
10 11 (6.71%) Analytics
11 10 (6.10%) Cash Management
12 9 (5.49%) Knowledge Transfer
12 9 (5.49%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (5.49%) User Acceptance Testing
13 7 (4.27%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 5 (3.05%) Java
1 5 (3.05%) SQL
2 2 (1.22%) Python
3 1 (0.61%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.61%) R
Qualifications
1 20 (12.20%) Degree
2 4 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (2.44%) Master's Degree
3 2 (1.22%) CISSP
3 2 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.61%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.61%) ISEB
4 1 (0.61%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.61%) MBA
4 1 (0.61%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.71%) GDPR
2 10 (6.10%) QA
3 2 (1.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (1.22%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.22%) IFRS
3 2 (1.22%) IFRS 17
3 2 (1.22%) SLA
4 1 (0.61%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.61%) GRC
4 1 (0.61%) PMO
4 1 (0.61%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 3 (1.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (0.61%) RSA Archer
1 1 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (17.07%) SAP
2 23 (14.02%) Oracle
3 21 (12.80%) Microsoft
4 10 (6.10%) ServiceNow
5 8 (4.88%) Yardi
6 6 (3.66%) PeopleSoft
7 2 (1.22%) Ariba
7 2 (1.22%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.22%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.61%) Adaptive Insights
8 1 (0.61%) Concur
8 1 (0.61%) DocuSign
8 1 (0.61%) IBM