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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 95 103
Rank change year-on-year +4 +8 +10
Contract jobs citing Workflow 47 26 40
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.95% 1.10% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 1.31% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 21 25
10th Percentile £205 - £346
25th Percentile £215 £356 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £540
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -21.30% -1.82%
75th Percentile £533 £500 £600
90th Percentile £600 £500 £628
England median daily rate £500 £500 £541
% change year-on-year - -7.62% -9.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.80 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.60 - £17.50
75th Percentile £31.40 - £18.94
90th Percentile £32.04 - £19.28
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -30.14% +30.91% +10.93%

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 2,120 1,980 2,461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 87.78% 83.54% 88.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,391 1,077 1,694
10th Percentile £215 £294 £271
25th Percentile £362 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £589
90th Percentile £678 £656 £673
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 109 168
10th Percentile £15.18 £16.45 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.07 £24.18 £17.75
Median hourly rate £29.60 £37.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +5.71% +47.71%
75th Percentile £45.46 £52.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.42 £70.90 £63.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +27.14%

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 8 November 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 8 November 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 +12 31 £295 -34.44% 65
Lancashire +1 10 £450 +20.00% 30
Cheshire -26 5 £540 +38.28% 13
Merseyside -1 1 £400 +166.67% 5
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 3 (6.38%) Apache
1 3 (6.38%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.26%) Confluence
2 2 (4.26%) IIS
2 2 (4.26%) SharePoint Server
2 2 (4.26%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Chatbot
1 2 (4.26%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Maximo
2 1 (2.13%) Loan IQ
2 1 (2.13%) SAP HR
2 1 (2.13%) SAP PSCD
2 1 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.51%) AWS
2 3 (6.38%) Power Platform
3 2 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (4.26%) Amazon S3
3 2 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (4.26%) Azure
3 2 (4.26%) Power Automate
3 2 (4.26%) Serverless
3 2 (4.26%) ShareGate
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (2.13%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (2.13%) SaaS
4 1 (2.13%) Snowflake
4 1 (2.13%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) Intranet
2 1 (2.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.26%) DB2
2 2 (4.26%) Power BI
2 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.13%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.13%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (6.38%) JIRA
2 1 (2.13%) Git
2 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (42.55%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (31.91%) Social Skills
3 9 (19.15%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.38%) Finance
5 1 (2.13%) Banking
5 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Law
5 1 (2.13%) Legal
5 1 (2.13%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 25 (53.19%) Analyst
2 12 (25.53%) Desktop Support
2 12 (25.53%) Support Analyst
3 9 (19.15%) Deskside Analyst
3 9 (19.15%) Deskside Support
3 9 (19.15%) Deskside Support Analyst
3 9 (19.15%) Technology Support Analyst
4 7 (14.89%) Payroll Manager
4 7 (14.89%) Systems Analyst
4 7 (14.89%) Systems Manager
5 6 (12.77%) Developer
6 5 (10.64%) Business Analyst
7 4 (8.51%) Consultant
8 3 (6.38%) Desktop Analyst
8 3 (6.38%) Desktop Support Analyst
8 3 (6.38%) IT Analyst
8 3 (6.38%) IT Support
8 3 (6.38%) IT Support Analyst
8 3 (6.38%) Lead
8 3 (6.38%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.51%) XML
2 3 (6.38%) CSS
2 3 (6.38%) HTML
2 3 (6.38%) SOAP
3 2 (4.26%) Node.js
3 2 (4.26%) REST
3 2 (4.26%) Web Services
4 1 (2.13%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.13%) Bootstrap
4 1 (2.13%) Express.js
4 1 (2.13%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.13%) IDoc
4 1 (2.13%) JSON
4 1 (2.13%) React
4 1 (2.13%) RESTful
4 1 (2.13%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (2.13%) SAPUI5
4 1 (2.13%) Web Dynpro
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.13%) CMDB
2 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.51%) Windows
2 2 (4.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.17%) ITSM
2 15 (31.91%) ITIL
2 15 (31.91%) Service Management
3 13 (27.66%) Customer Service
4 12 (25.53%) Data Analysis
5 10 (21.28%) Agile
5 10 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (14.89%) DevOps
6 7 (14.89%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (10.64%) Process Improvement
7 5 (10.64%) Project Management
7 5 (10.64%) Requirements Gathering
7 5 (10.64%) Scrum
8 4 (8.51%) AI
8 4 (8.51%) Change Management
8 4 (8.51%) Coaching
8 4 (8.51%) Decision-Making
8 4 (8.51%) Migration
9 3 (6.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (6.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.89%) JavaScript
2 5 (10.64%) Python
3 4 (8.51%) SQL
4 2 (4.26%) C#
4 2 (4.26%) Java
5 1 (2.13%) ABAP
5 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.13%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (27.66%) Security Cleared
2 9 (19.15%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.13%) APMG
3 1 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.13%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.77%) QA
2 4 (8.51%) SLA
3 3 (6.38%) Data Quality
4 2 (4.26%) Accessibility
4 2 (4.26%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (2.13%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (2.13%) Grafana
1 1 (2.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (38.30%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.38%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.26%) IBM
3 2 (4.26%) Nintex
3 2 (4.26%) SAP
4 1 (2.13%) Adobe