Workflow Contract Job Trends in the North West

Workflow
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Workflow skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 100 108
Rank change year-on-year +17 +8 +4
Contract jobs citing Workflow 54 25 39
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.39% 1.04% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% 1.25% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 19 26
10th Percentile £205 £353 £325
25th Percentile £215 £356 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £400 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -25.93% -1.82%
75th Percentile £500 £494 £596
90th Percentile £600 £600 £625
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.15 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.60 - £17.50
75th Percentile £31.40 - £18.94
90th Percentile - - £19.28
England median hourly rate £25.15 £56.25 £23.25
% change year-on-year -55.29% +141.94% +0.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,015 2,004 2,543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 89.16% 83.60% 88.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,337 1,092 1,741
10th Percentile £251 £300 £274
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £678 £653 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 111 175
10th Percentile £14.13 £19.18 £15.85
25th Percentile £17.30 £27.38 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.64% +15.21% +40.00%
75th Percentile £44.61 £62.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £65.18 £71.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +28.57%

Workflow
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Workflow job vacancy trend in the North West

Workflow
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Workflow.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Workflow

Workflow
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Workflow in the North West over the 6 months to 18 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Workflow in the North West

Workflow
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Workflow.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Workflow

Workflow
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 18 October 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
Manchester +18 33 £295 -28.92% 42
Lancashire +9 9 £450 +5.88% 17
Cheshire -17 9 £465 +30.62% 12
Cumbria +14 2 - - 2
Merseyside +2 1 £400 +166.67% 9
Workflow
England

Workflow
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 7 (12.96%) Confluence
2 4 (7.41%) SharePoint
3 3 (5.56%) Apache
4 2 (3.70%) IIS
4 2 (3.70%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (3.70%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (3.70%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.85%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.85%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Maximo
2 1 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.85%) Loan IQ
2 1 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (7.41%) AWS
2 3 (5.56%) Power Automate
2 3 (5.56%) Power Platform
3 2 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (3.70%) Amazon S3
3 2 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (3.70%) Azure
3 2 (3.70%) Serverless
3 2 (3.70%) ShareGate
4 1 (1.85%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (1.85%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (1.85%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.85%) n8n
4 1 (1.85%) SaaS
4 1 (1.85%) Snowflake
4 1 (1.85%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.70%) Intranet
2 1 (1.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.70%) DB2
2 2 (3.70%) Power BI
2 2 (3.70%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.85%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.85%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.85%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (14.81%) JIRA
2 1 (1.85%) Git
2 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.85%) ScriptRunner
General
1 19 (35.19%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (24.07%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.96%) Public Sector
4 5 (9.26%) Finance
5 2 (3.70%) Banking
6 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Law
6 1 (1.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 24 (44.44%) Analyst
2 12 (22.22%) Desktop Support
2 12 (22.22%) Support Analyst
3 9 (16.67%) Deskside Analyst
3 9 (16.67%) Deskside Support
3 9 (16.67%) Deskside Support Analyst
3 9 (16.67%) Technology Support Analyst
4 7 (12.96%) Payroll Manager
4 7 (12.96%) Systems Analyst
4 7 (12.96%) Systems Manager
5 6 (11.11%) Developer
6 5 (9.26%) Engineering Manager
7 4 (7.41%) Business Analyst
7 4 (7.41%) Consultant
7 4 (7.41%) Desktop Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Desktop Analyst
8 3 (5.56%) Desktop Support Analyst
8 3 (5.56%) IT Support
8 3 (5.56%) IT Support Analyst
8 3 (5.56%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.41%) XML
2 3 (5.56%) CSS
2 3 (5.56%) HTML
2 3 (5.56%) SOAP
3 2 (3.70%) Node.js
3 2 (3.70%) REST
3 2 (3.70%) Web Services
4 1 (1.85%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.85%) Bootstrap
4 1 (1.85%) Express.js
4 1 (1.85%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.85%) IDoc
4 1 (1.85%) JSON
4 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (1.85%) React
4 1 (1.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.85%) CMDB
2 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.41%) Windows
2 2 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (29.63%) ITSM
2 15 (27.78%) Agile
2 15 (27.78%) Service Management
3 14 (25.93%) ITIL
4 13 (24.07%) Customer Service
5 12 (22.22%) Data Analysis
6 11 (20.37%) DevOps
7 9 (16.67%) Migration
7 9 (16.67%) Process Improvement
7 9 (16.67%) Project Management
7 9 (16.67%) Scrum
8 8 (14.81%) Decision-Making
8 8 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (12.96%) Coaching
10 6 (11.11%) Agile Project Management
10 6 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (11.11%) Epics
10 6 (11.11%) Microservices
10 6 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (11.11%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.96%) JavaScript
2 6 (11.11%) Java
3 5 (9.26%) Python
4 4 (7.41%) SQL
5 2 (3.70%) C#
5 2 (3.70%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.85%) Groovy
6 1 (1.85%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 14 (25.93%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.85%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.11%) QA
2 4 (7.41%) SLA
3 3 (5.56%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.70%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.70%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.85%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (1.85%) Grafana
1 1 (1.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (37.04%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.56%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.70%) IBM
3 2 (3.70%) Nintex
4 1 (1.85%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.85%) SAP