Workflow Contract Job Trends in England

Workflow
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Workflow skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 157 144
Rank change year-on-year +61 -13 +17
Contract jobs citing Workflow 841 479 670
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.71% 1.63% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.04% 1.85% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 397 235 411
10th Percentile £311 £274 £313
25th Percentile £400 £376 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% -10.00%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £621
90th Percentile £721 £760 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 10 15
10th Percentile £19.96 £29.58 £13.75
25th Percentile £22.79 £30.23 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% +44.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile - £71.75 £42.19
90th Percentile £57.50 £74.04 £70.45
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -30.14% +44.00% -23.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Workflow falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,668 25,905 33,491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.00% 88.32% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,615 15,999 22,793
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £531
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,810 882 1,400
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.54 £14.74
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.26 £74.99 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.79% -22.35% +21.43%

Workflow
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Workflow relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Workflow job vacancy trend in England

Workflow
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Workflow.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Workflow

Workflow
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Workflow in England over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Workflow in England

Workflow
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Workflow.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Workflow

Workflow
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Workflow in England over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Workflow in England

Workflow
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Workflow within the England region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +30 345 £525 -1.87% 195
South East +75 155 £475 - 174
South West +48 91 £400 -20.00% 42
Midlands -3 87 £463 -7.50% 71
North of England -6 77 £475 +5.56% 98
East of England +27 61 £490 +19.51% 59
West Midlands -13 51 £488 -15.22% 45
North West -5 41 £450 +4.65% 48
Yorkshire -34 30 £563 +25.00% 38
East Midlands -11 28 £435 -3.33% 24
North East - 6 £413 - 13
Workflow
UK

Workflow
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 37 (4.40%) Oracle Workflow
2 33 (3.92%) Confluence
3 32 (3.80%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (3.45%) Apache
5 27 (3.21%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.19%) Appian
7 8 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 7 (0.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.83%) Apache Spark
9 6 (0.71%) Camunda
10 5 (0.59%) IIS
11 4 (0.48%) nginx
11 4 (0.48%) SAS
11 4 (0.48%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.36%) CMS
12 3 (0.36%) Documentum
12 3 (0.36%) JBoss
12 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.24%) Alfresco
13 2 (0.24%) WebLogic
Applications
1 44 (5.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.66%) MS Visio
4 12 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.59%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.24%) Abaqus
7 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.24%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.12%) DaVinci Resolve
8 1 (0.12%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.12%) InDesign
8 1 (0.12%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 24 (2.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.07%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 9 (1.07%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (1.07%) SAP HCM
3 8 (0.95%) Oracle EBS R12
3 8 (0.95%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (0.95%) SAP MM
4 7 (0.83%) SAP FI
5 6 (0.71%) Maximo
5 6 (0.71%) Oracle General Ledger
5 6 (0.71%) Temenos T24
6 5 (0.59%) Oracle Assets
6 5 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.59%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.48%) Aladdin
7 4 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
8 3 (0.36%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.36%) SAP HR
8 3 (0.36%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.24%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 118 (14.03%) Azure
2 80 (9.51%) AWS
3 66 (7.85%) Power Platform
4 56 (6.66%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (4.04%) Power Automate
6 32 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
7 30 (3.57%) GitHub
8 24 (2.85%) GCP
9 23 (2.73%) Serverless
10 18 (2.14%) PowerApps
11 17 (2.02%) Entra ID
11 17 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (1.90%) Amazon S3
13 15 (1.78%) AWS Lambda
13 15 (1.78%) dbt
14 13 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
15 12 (1.43%) SaaS
16 10 (1.19%) Lucidchart
17 9 (1.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 9 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.07%) DNS
2 5 (0.59%) Firewall
3 4 (0.48%) DHCP
3 4 (0.48%) HTTP
4 3 (0.36%) NAS
4 3 (0.36%) Network Security
4 3 (0.36%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.24%) InfiniBand
5 2 (0.24%) SAN
5 2 (0.24%) SMTP
5 2 (0.24%) VPN
5 2 (0.24%) WebEx
6 1 (0.12%) FTP
6 1 (0.12%) Internet
6 1 (0.12%) IPv4
6 1 (0.12%) POP3
6 1 (0.12%) Symposium
6 1 (0.12%) Telnet
6 1 (0.12%) VLAN
6 1 (0.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (5.71%) Power BI
2 20 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (2.26%) Metadata
4 16 (1.90%) Oracle Reports
5 15 (1.78%) SQL Server
6 14 (1.66%) Relational Database
7 11 (1.31%) NoSQL
7 11 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (1.19%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 10 (1.19%) Tableau
9 9 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.71%) Data Mart
10 6 (0.71%) DynamoDB
10 6 (0.71%) MongoDB
10 6 (0.71%) Oracle Database
11 5 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (0.48%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.48%) DB2
12 4 (0.48%) SAS Enterprise Guide
12 4 (0.48%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 101 (12.01%) JIRA
2 40 (4.76%) Git
3 30 (3.57%) GitLab
4 19 (2.26%) Jenkins
5 12 (1.43%) Bitbucket
6 11 (1.31%) SonarQube
7 10 (1.19%) Artifactory
7 10 (1.19%) Oracle Forms
8 9 (1.07%) Selenium
9 8 (0.95%) Robot Framework
10 7 (0.83%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.83%) MLflow
11 5 (0.59%) PVCS
11 5 (0.59%) Rational DOORS
11 5 (0.59%) ScriptRunner
12 4 (0.48%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.36%) Oracle APEX
14 2 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 2 (0.24%) MSI
14 2 (0.24%) TestPartner
General
1 261 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 163 (19.38%) Finance
3 114 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (11.53%) Public Sector
5 67 (7.97%) Manufacturing
6 63 (7.49%) Marketing
7 61 (7.25%) Telecoms
8 49 (5.83%) Electronics
9 40 (4.76%) Banking
10 36 (4.28%) Organisational Skills
11 31 (3.69%) Legal
12 29 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
13 19 (2.26%) Law
14 18 (2.14%) Pharmaceutical
15 14 (1.66%) Aerospace
15 14 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (1.31%) Billing
16 11 (1.31%) Military
17 10 (1.19%) Financial Institution
17 10 (1.19%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 126 (14.98%) Analyst
2 99 (11.77%) Developer
3 80 (9.51%) Business Analyst
4 66 (7.85%) IT Engineer
5 57 (6.78%) Consultant
6 45 (5.35%) Lead
7 43 (5.11%) Support Engineer
8 40 (4.76%) Migration Engineer
9 36 (4.28%) Senior
10 25 (2.97%) Architect
10 25 (2.97%) Data Engineer
11 24 (2.85%) Desktop Support
12 23 (2.73%) DevOps Engineer
12 23 (2.73%) Windows Engineer
13 21 (2.50%) IT Support
14 20 (2.38%) ServiceNow Developer
14 20 (2.38%) Software Engineer
15 18 (2.14%) Administrator
15 18 (2.14%) SAP Consultant
16 16 (1.90%) Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (7.97%) REST
2 37 (4.40%) SOAP
3 26 (3.09%) XML
4 20 (2.38%) .NET
4 20 (2.38%) JSON
5 19 (2.26%) SAP Fiori
6 15 (1.78%) React
7 13 (1.55%) Middleware
8 12 (1.43%) CSS
8 12 (1.43%) HTML
8 12 (1.43%) Node.js
8 12 (1.43%) OAuth
9 10 (1.19%) AngularJS
9 10 (1.19%) Web Services
10 9 (1.07%) Apache NiFi
10 9 (1.07%) PySpark
11 8 (0.95%) Jinja
11 8 (0.95%) Kafka
12 7 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
12 7 (0.83%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 32 (3.80%) CMDB
2 29 (3.45%) Onboarding
3 27 (3.21%) Product Ownership
4 15 (1.78%) Cloud Native
5 12 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (1.31%) Management Information System
7 10 (1.19%) AI Agents
7 10 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (1.19%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (0.95%) Data Centre
9 8 (0.95%) Virtual Team
10 7 (0.83%) Fixed Income
10 7 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (0.83%) Life Science
11 6 (0.71%) Algorithms
11 6 (0.71%) Derivative
11 6 (0.71%) Low-Code
11 6 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 63 (7.49%) Windows
2 30 (3.57%) Linux
3 28 (3.33%) Windows 10
4 14 (1.66%) Unix
5 8 (0.95%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.48%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.36%) Android
8 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.24%) CentOS
8 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Embedded Compact
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (31.63%) Migration
2 233 (27.71%) Workflow Management
3 190 (22.59%) Agile
4 148 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
5 138 (16.41%) DevOps
6 111 (13.20%) Business Intelligence
7 104 (12.37%) CI/CD
8 88 (10.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 85 (10.11%) Scrum
10 79 (9.39%) Stakeholder Management
11 69 (8.20%) ITSM
12 67 (7.97%) AI
12 67 (7.97%) Analytics
13 64 (7.61%) Software Engineering
14 61 (7.25%) Continuous Improvement
15 55 (6.54%) Change Management
16 50 (5.95%) Requirements Gathering
17 48 (5.71%) Process Improvement
18 46 (5.47%) Data Modelling
19 45 (5.35%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 124 (14.74%) Python
2 120 (14.27%) SQL
3 60 (7.13%) JavaScript
4 39 (4.64%) PowerShell
5 32 (3.80%) Java
6 25 (2.97%) C#
7 20 (2.38%) VB
8 17 (2.02%) ABAP
8 17 (2.02%) PL/SQL
9 16 (1.90%) Bash
10 14 (1.66%) C++
11 13 (1.55%) TypeScript
12 9 (1.07%) C
13 8 (0.95%) Groovy
14 7 (0.83%) Bicep
15 6 (0.71%) Go
16 5 (0.59%) R
16 5 (0.59%) Scala
17 4 (0.48%) Embedded C
17 4 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 329 (39.12%) Security Cleared
2 300 (35.67%) SC Cleared
3 72 (8.56%) Degree
4 20 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (1.78%) Master's Degree
6 11 (1.31%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.59%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.48%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 3 (0.36%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.36%) CISA
10 3 (0.36%) ISEB
10 3 (0.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.36%) PMP
10 3 (0.36%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 2 (0.24%) CBAP
11 2 (0.24%) CIPD
11 2 (0.24%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.24%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (7.02%) QA
2 35 (4.16%) Data Quality
3 21 (2.50%) GDPR
4 9 (1.07%) GRC
5 7 (0.83%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.71%) NIST
6 6 (0.71%) SLA
7 5 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.59%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.48%) MiFID
9 2 (0.24%) COBIT
9 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.24%) EMIR
9 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.24%) NCSC
10 1 (0.12%) IFRS
10 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.12%) PMO
10 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 49 (5.83%) Docker
2 21 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.83%) Firmware
5 5 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.24%) Ceph
6 2 (0.24%) Lustre
6 2 (0.24%) OpenAM
6 2 (0.24%) OpenDJ
6 2 (0.24%) OpenIDM
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.12%) HDFS
7 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.12%) NFS
Systems Management
1 45 (5.35%) Terraform
2 43 (5.11%) Kubernetes
3 30 (3.57%) Ansible
4 13 (1.55%) Grafana
5 12 (1.43%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.31%) SCCM
7 9 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.48%) Puppet
10 3 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.36%) Packer
10 3 (0.36%) Podman
10 3 (0.36%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.36%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.24%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
11 2 (0.24%) Kibana
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.12%) WMI
12 1 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 112 (13.32%) Microsoft
2 83 (9.87%) SAP
3 65 (7.73%) ServiceNow
4 50 (5.95%) Oracle
5 20 (2.38%) Atlassian
6 14 (1.66%) Adobe
6 14 (1.66%) Google
7 13 (1.55%) OpenText
7 13 (1.55%) Red Hat
7 13 (1.55%) Salesforce
7 13 (1.55%) VMware
8 11 (1.31%) Databricks
8 11 (1.31%) IBM
8 11 (1.31%) Murex
9 8 (0.95%) Veracode
9 8 (0.95%) Workday
10 7 (0.83%) Cisco
10 7 (0.83%) Splunk
11 6 (0.71%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.71%) Temenos