WFM Job Trends in the South East

Workforce Management (WFM)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring WFM skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 289 341
Rank change year-on-year -6 +52 -
Permanent jobs citing WFM 28 3 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.17% 0.035% 0.082%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.039% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 27 2 12
10th Percentile £18,500 £49,750 £20,000
25th Percentile £27,500 £58,750 £23,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £77,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -54.84% +93.75% -
75th Percentile £48,750 £96,250 £54,375
90th Percentile £62,250 £105,250 £60,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,394 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.65% +20.79% -58.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,746 7,640 11,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.75% 88.27% 80.93%
Number of salaries quoted 8,356 4,069 7,890
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £38,620
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £56,185 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.79% +2.16% -11.29%

WFM
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing WFM relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

WFM job vacancy trend in the South East

WFM
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing WFM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing WFM

WFM
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing WFM in the South East over the 6 months to 30 July 2026.

Salary histogram for WFM in the South East

WFM
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WFM within the South East region over the 6 months to 30 July 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
Thames Valley +21 22 £30,000 -36.84% 3
Buckinghamshire - 19 £30,000 - 1
Hampshire -37 5 £47,500 -55.81% 1
Berkshire +19 2 £85,000 -
Oxfordshire -19 1 £100,000 +110.53% 2
West Sussex - 1 £80,000 - 1
WFM
England

WFM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (32.14%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.57%) AWS
1 1 (3.57%) Azure
1 1 (3.57%) Azure AKS
1 1 (3.57%) Azure App Service
1 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (3.57%) Azure Functions
1 1 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
1 1 (3.57%) GCP
1 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
1 1 (3.57%) SaaS
1 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (32.14%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.57%) MySQL
2 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) NUnit
General
1 12 (42.86%) Advertising
1 12 (42.86%) Legal
2 5 (17.86%) Manufacturing
3 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Aviation
4 1 (3.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (53.57%) Analyst
1 15 (53.57%) Applications Support
1 15 (53.57%) Applications Support Analyst
1 15 (53.57%) Support Analyst
2 5 (17.86%) Project Manager
3 4 (14.29%) IT Support
4 3 (10.71%) Lead
5 1 (3.57%) Account Executive
5 1 (3.57%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) .NET
1 1 (3.57%) .NET Framework
1 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET
1 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (3.57%) Dapper ORM
1 1 (3.57%) Entity Framework
1 1 (3.57%) OAuth
1 1 (3.57%) OAuth2
1 1 (3.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.57%) IoT
1 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) Customer Requirements
2 6 (21.43%) ERP
3 5 (17.86%) Content Management
3 5 (17.86%) CRM
3 5 (17.86%) E-Commerce
3 5 (17.86%) ITSM
4 3 (10.71%) B2B
5 2 (7.14%) Asset Management
5 2 (7.14%) Logistics
6 1 (3.57%) Coaching
6 1 (3.57%) Computer Science
6 1 (3.57%) Data Integration
6 1 (3.57%) Dependency Injection
6 1 (3.57%) DevOps
6 1 (3.57%) Domain-Driven Design
6 1 (3.57%) Line Management
6 1 (3.57%) Mathematics
6 1 (3.57%) Mentoring
6 1 (3.57%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (3.57%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (35.71%) SQL
2 1 (3.57%) C#
2 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.57%) Degree
1 1 (3.57%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) JDA