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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 421 450 509
Rank change year-on-year +29 +59 +4
Contract jobs citing Workday 160 254 387
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.44% 0.44%
As % of the Vendors category 0.88% 1.03% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 173 259
10th Percentile £308 £425 £400
25th Percentile £363 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £632 £700 £656
90th Percentile £745 £800 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £613 £550
% change year-on-year -38.78% +11.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 5
10th Percentile £16.60 - -
25th Percentile £29.13 £18.75 £11.21
Median hourly rate £62.00 £25.25 £17.11
Median % change year-on-year +145.54% +47.62% -54.39%
75th Percentile - £34.56 £21.50
90th Percentile - £38.28 £40.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £31.00 £17.11
% change year-on-year +37.10% +81.23% +2.67%

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 18,083 24,657 35,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.51% 43.06% 40.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,274 16,502 23,585
10th Percentile £263 £270 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £644 £638
90th Percentile £738 £740 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £468
% change year-on-year - +6.95% +7.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,114 666 891
10th Percentile £12.05 £15.11 £12.21
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £40.55 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.97% +88.58% -2.27%
75th Percentile £57.33 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £33.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -34.97% +73.68% +0.89%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +18 133 £575 -4.17% 86
London +73 84 £600 +2.13% 54
Work from Home +66 74 £588 -2.49% 45
UK excluding London -7 52 £375 -38.78% 35
South East +13 24 £338 -44.33% 14
Midlands +22 14 £481 -16.30% 1
West Midlands +21 7 £600 +4.35%
North of England -19 6 £500 -16.67% 18
Scotland +41 5 £325 -52.47%
North West +12 4 £500 - 15
East of England +9 2 - - 2
Yorkshire -18 2 £265 -57.60%
East Midlands +15 1 £600 +65.52% 1
South West +5 1 £200 -77.78% 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 (0.63%) Confluence
1 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.88%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.25%) Chatbot
5 2 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 41 (25.63%) Workday HCM
2 6 (3.75%) SAP Payroll
3 4 (2.50%) NetSuite
4 3 (1.88%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (1.88%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (1.25%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (1.25%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (1.25%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (1.25%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.63%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.63%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.63%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.63%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.63%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 14 (8.75%) SuccessFactors
2 11 (6.88%) SaaS
3 7 (4.38%) Azure
4 6 (3.75%) Smartsheet
5 5 (3.13%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.25%) AWS
6 2 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.25%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.25%) Salesforce Einstein
7 1 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.13%) Power BI
2 3 (1.88%) Power Query
2 3 (1.88%) PowerPivot
3 2 (1.25%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.63%) Big Data
4 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.63%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (0.63%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (1.25%) JIRA
General
1 48 (30.00%) Finance
2 35 (21.88%) Social Skills
3 21 (13.13%) Retail
4 15 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.38%) Legal
6 6 (3.75%) French Language
7 5 (3.13%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.88%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.25%) Automotive
10 2 (1.25%) Billing
10 2 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.63%) Banking
11 1 (0.63%) Games
11 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (29.38%) Consultant
2 41 (25.63%) Workday Consultant
3 22 (13.75%) Lead
4 17 (10.63%) Analyst
5 15 (9.38%) Integration Consultant
5 15 (9.38%) Payroll Consultant
5 15 (9.38%) Workday Integration Consultant
6 13 (8.13%) Architect
6 13 (8.13%) Business Analyst
6 13 (8.13%) Developer
6 13 (8.13%) Project Manager
7 11 (6.88%) Workday Developer
7 11 (6.88%) Workday Specialist
8 9 (5.63%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (5.00%) Junior
9 8 (5.00%) Junior Consultant
10 7 (4.38%) Senior
11 6 (3.75%) HR Manager
11 6 (3.75%) Technical Developer
11 6 (3.75%) Workday Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.88%) Smart Contracts
2 2 (1.25%) OAuth
2 2 (1.25%) SailPoint
2 2 (1.25%) SOAP
2 2 (1.25%) XSLT
3 1 (0.63%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.63%) CSS
3 1 (0.63%) JDBC
3 1 (0.63%) JSON
3 1 (0.63%) LDAP
3 1 (0.63%) PySpark
3 1 (0.63%) REST
3 1 (0.63%) RESTful
3 1 (0.63%) Web Services
3 1 (0.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.75%) Life Science
1 6 (3.75%) Management Information System
2 5 (3.13%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.50%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.50%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.88%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.63%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (0.63%) FMCG
5 1 (0.63%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.63%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.63%) Mac OS
1 1 (0.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (26.25%) ERP
2 21 (13.13%) Migration
3 20 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (11.25%) Roadmaps
5 17 (10.63%) Line Management
5 17 (10.63%) Project Management
6 16 (10.00%) Agile
6 16 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
7 15 (9.38%) Data Migration
8 14 (8.75%) Human Resource Management
8 14 (8.75%) People Management
8 14 (8.75%) Process Improvement
9 13 (8.13%) Commercial Awareness
10 11 (6.88%) Cash Management
10 11 (6.88%) Change Management
11 9 (5.63%) Knowledge Transfer
12 8 (5.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (5.00%) User Acceptance Testing
13 7 (4.38%) Analytics
13 7 (4.38%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 6 (3.75%) Java
2 5 (3.13%) SQL
3 2 (1.25%) Python
4 1 (0.63%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 19 (11.88%) Degree
2 4 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.88%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.25%) CISSP
4 2 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.63%) ISEB
5 1 (0.63%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.88%) GDPR
2 9 (5.63%) QA
3 2 (1.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (1.25%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.25%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.25%) IFRS
3 2 (1.25%) IFRS 17
3 2 (1.25%) SLA
4 1 (0.63%) GRC
4 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.63%) NIST
4 1 (0.63%) PMO
4 1 (0.63%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 3 (1.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (0.63%) RSA Archer
1 1 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (15.63%) SAP
2 21 (13.13%) Microsoft
2 21 (13.13%) Oracle
3 8 (5.00%) Yardi
4 6 (3.75%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.50%) PeopleSoft
6 3 (1.88%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.25%) Ariba
7 2 (1.25%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.63%) Adaptive Insights
8 1 (0.63%) DocuSign
8 1 (0.63%) IBM