Workflow Contracts in the North of England

Workflow
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Workflow skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Workflow over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 127 173
Rank change year-on-year +19 +46 -23
Contract jobs citing Workflow 56 59 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.68% 1.27% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 1.48% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 41 27
10th Percentile £383 £225 £268
25th Percentile £421 £415 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +21.05% -
75th Percentile £634 £622 £538
90th Percentile £665 £645 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 6
10th Percentile £23.54 £16.40 -
25th Percentile £25.09 £16.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £18.00 £30.25
Median % change year-on-year +39.72% -40.50% +98.36%
75th Percentile - £19.13 £53.41
90th Percentile - £19.20 £56.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £27.25 £30.25
% change year-on-year -7.71% -9.92% +37.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,980 3,974 5,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.62% 85.50% 90.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,916 2,420 3,486
10th Percentile £263 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £557 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 365 203
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.51 £12.50 £15.36
Median hourly rate £25.43 £17.72 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +43.51% -36.67% +47.71%
75th Percentile £56.76 £45.00 £44.13
90th Percentile £81.55 £59.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -21.23% +0.69% +45.00%

Workflow
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Workflow as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Workflow in the North of England

Workflow
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Workflow in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Workflow in the North of England

Workflow
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Workflow in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Workflow in the North of England

Workflow
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Workflow in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Workflow in the North of England

Workflow
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 18 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +6 29 £538 -2.27% 81
Yorkshire +22 27 £535 -14.42% 46
Workflow
England

Workflow
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 12 (21.43%) Confluence
2 7 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (10.71%) Apache
4 3 (5.36%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (3.57%) Camunda
5 2 (3.57%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.79%) Maximo
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.79%) SAP GRC
2 1 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (19.64%) GCP
2 8 (14.29%) Azure
3 7 (12.50%) AWS
4 6 (10.71%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (7.14%) GitHub
6 3 (5.36%) npm
7 2 (3.57%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.79%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.79%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.79%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.36%) HTTP
2 1 (1.79%) DNS
2 1 (1.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.93%) Flink
2 3 (5.36%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (5.36%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.57%) Apache Hive
3 2 (3.57%) Hadoop
3 2 (3.57%) MySQL
3 2 (3.57%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.57%) Oracle Database 10g
3 2 (3.57%) Oracle Database 11g
3 2 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (3.57%) Tableau
4 1 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.79%) Big Data
4 1 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.79%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (1.79%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (1.79%) Power BI
4 1 (1.79%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 17 (30.36%) JIRA
2 8 (14.29%) Git
3 5 (8.93%) Jenkins
4 4 (7.14%) Cucumber
4 4 (7.14%) Gradle
4 4 (7.14%) HP UFT
4 4 (7.14%) IntelliJ
4 4 (7.14%) JUnit
4 4 (7.14%) Maven
4 4 (7.14%) Selenium
5 3 (5.36%) GitLab
5 3 (5.36%) webpack
6 2 (3.57%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (1.79%) ScriptRunner
General
1 13 (23.21%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.29%) Finance
3 6 (10.71%) Banking
4 5 (8.93%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.57%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.57%) Legal
7 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.79%) Local Government
7 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (16.07%) Developer
2 7 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 6 (10.71%) Engineering Manager
4 4 (7.14%) Analyst
5 3 (5.36%) Angular Developer
5 3 (5.36%) Desktop Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) IT Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) Lead
5 3 (5.36%) Test Manager
6 2 (3.57%) Agile Coach
6 2 (3.57%) Azure Developer
6 2 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (3.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (3.57%) Java Developer
6 2 (3.57%) Node.js Developer
6 2 (3.57%) Oracle Applications Developer
6 2 (3.57%) Oracle Developer
6 2 (3.57%) Principal DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.14%) CSS
1 4 (7.14%) HTML
1 4 (7.14%) REST
2 3 (5.36%) AngularJS
2 3 (5.36%) Flask
2 3 (5.36%) Middleware
2 3 (5.36%) PySpark
2 3 (5.36%) pytest
2 3 (5.36%) RESTful
2 3 (5.36%) Web Services
3 2 (3.57%) Node.js
3 2 (3.57%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.79%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.79%) JDBC
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (1.79%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.14%) NHS
2 2 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.57%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.57%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.57%) Reference Data
3 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.79%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.79%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.29%) Linux
2 2 (3.57%) Solaris
2 2 (3.57%) Unix
2 2 (3.57%) Windows
2 2 (3.57%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.79%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.14%) Agile
2 15 (26.79%) DevOps
3 14 (25.00%) Workflow Management
4 12 (21.43%) Microservices
4 12 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (19.64%) Migration
6 10 (17.86%) Decision-Making
7 9 (16.07%) Coaching
7 9 (16.07%) Project Management
7 9 (16.07%) Scrum
7 9 (16.07%) Test Automation
8 8 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
8 8 (14.29%) Process Improvement
9 7 (12.50%) Agile Project Management
9 7 (12.50%) CI/CD
9 7 (12.50%) Data Modelling
9 7 (12.50%) Epics
9 7 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 15 (26.79%) Java
2 12 (21.43%) Python
3 10 (17.86%) SQL
4 5 (8.93%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.36%) Bash
6 2 (3.57%) Groovy
6 2 (3.57%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.79%) JCL
7 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.79%) R
7 1 (1.79%) REXX
7 1 (1.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (23.21%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.79%) CCNP
3 1 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.79%) Degree
3 1 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 6 (10.71%) QA
3 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.79%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.71%) Ansible
3 2 (3.57%) Terraform
4 1 (1.79%) Control-M
Vendors
1 6 (10.71%) Google
1 6 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.93%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.36%) Oracle
4 2 (3.57%) Cisco
4 2 (3.57%) Cloudera
4 2 (3.57%) SAP
4 2 (3.57%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.79%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.79%) Databricks
5 1 (1.79%) F5
5 1 (1.79%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.79%) IBM
5 1 (1.79%) Infoblox
5 1 (1.79%) Red Hat