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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 78 101
Rank change year-on-year -23 +23 +11
Contract jobs citing Workflow 77 55 24
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.94% 2.50% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 2.82% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 38 18
10th Percentile £183 £205 £351
25th Percentile £367 £215 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £411 £388
Median % change year-on-year +9.49% +6.06% -27.57%
75th Percentile £600 £497 £478
90th Percentile £694 £600 £600
England median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 11 0
10th Percentile £20.88 - -
25th Percentile £28.50 £25.15 -
Median hourly rate £29.00 £29.60 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% - -
75th Percentile £73.94 £31.40 -
90th Percentile £93.13 - -
England median hourly rate £29.00 £25.15 £70.00
% change year-on-year +15.31% -64.07% +154.55%

All Process & 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 3,290 1,948 2,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.70% 88.71% 83.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,853 1,288 1,113
10th Percentile £300 £256 £294
25th Percentile £403 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £680 £650
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 367 144 111
10th Percentile £14.29 £13.93 £16.85
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.30 £29.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +88.90% -37.64% +15.21%
75th Percentile £72.75 £45.37 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.25 £71.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%

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 12 October 2026.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Workflow in the North West over the 6 months to 12 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Workflow in the North West

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 12 October 2026. 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 -30 46 £500 +69.49% 97
Cheshire +9 19 £442 +2.79% 8
Merseyside -3 8 £120 -70.00% 5
Lancashire -29 1 £400 -11.11% 13
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 13 (16.88%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.90%) Confluence
3 2 (2.60%) Camunda
3 2 (2.60%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.30%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (11.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.60%) AutoCAD
2 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.60%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.60%) Navisworks
2 2 (2.60%) ProjectWise
2 2 (2.60%) Revit
3 1 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (7.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.60%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 2 (2.60%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (2.60%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.60%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (2.60%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (2.60%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.30%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (1.30%) SAP ECC
3 1 (1.30%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.30%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 29 (37.66%) Azure
2 21 (27.27%) Power Platform
3 14 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (12.99%) PowerApps
5 9 (11.69%) AWS
5 9 (11.69%) Power Automate
6 7 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (7.79%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (7.79%) SaaS
8 5 (6.49%) Mimecast
9 4 (5.19%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (5.19%) Entra ID
9 4 (5.19%) GCP
10 3 (3.90%) GitHub
10 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (3.90%) Serverless
11 2 (2.60%) Azure AI
11 2 (2.60%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (2.60%) ChatGPT
11 2 (2.60%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.19%) Network Security
2 3 (3.90%) Firewall
2 3 (3.90%) SD-WAN
2 3 (3.90%) TCP/IP
2 3 (3.90%) WAN
3 2 (2.60%) Wireless
4 1 (1.30%) BGP
4 1 (1.30%) DHCP
4 1 (1.30%) DNS
4 1 (1.30%) MPLS
4 1 (1.30%) OSPF
4 1 (1.30%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.30%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (1.30%) VLAN
4 1 (1.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (19.48%) Power BI
2 3 (3.90%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.60%) Metadata
3 2 (2.60%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 2 (2.60%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.60%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (2.60%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.30%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.30%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.30%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (9.09%) JIRA
2 5 (6.49%) Git
3 3 (3.90%) MSTest
3 3 (3.90%) NUnit
4 2 (2.60%) JDeveloper
5 1 (1.30%) Balsamiq
5 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.30%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.30%) GitLab
5 1 (1.30%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.30%) Postman
5 1 (1.30%) Selenium
5 1 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.30%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.30%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 27 (35.06%) Social Skills
2 26 (33.77%) Finance
3 17 (22.08%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.39%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.79%) Banking
5 6 (7.79%) Manufacturing
6 5 (6.49%) Military
6 5 (6.49%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.60%) Advertising
7 2 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.60%) General Ledger
7 2 (2.60%) Legal
7 2 (2.60%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.30%) Billing
8 1 (1.30%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.30%) Marketing
8 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (18.18%) Analyst
2 8 (10.39%) Consultant
2 8 (10.39%) Developer
3 7 (9.09%) Security Engineer
4 5 (6.49%) Business Analyst
4 5 (6.49%) Lead
4 5 (6.49%) Service Analyst
4 5 (6.49%) Service Desk Analyst
4 5 (6.49%) Technical Consultant
5 4 (5.19%) IT Analyst
5 4 (5.19%) Senior
6 3 (3.90%) Architect
6 3 (3.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (3.90%) Automation Specialist
6 3 (3.90%) Data Consultant
6 3 (3.90%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 3 (3.90%) Engineering Manager
6 3 (3.90%) Incident Engineer
6 3 (3.90%) User Experience Researcher
7 2 (2.60%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.29%) REST
2 6 (7.79%) XML
3 5 (6.49%) JSON
3 5 (6.49%) OAuth
4 3 (3.90%) .NET
4 3 (3.90%) Kafka
5 2 (2.60%) Django
5 2 (2.60%) LangChain
5 2 (2.60%) LangGraph
5 2 (2.60%) PyTorch
5 2 (2.60%) SailPoint
5 2 (2.60%) Web Services
6 1 (1.30%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (1.30%) JWT
6 1 (1.30%) OpenAPI
6 1 (1.30%) OpenID
6 1 (1.30%) Playwright
6 1 (1.30%) Regular Expression
6 1 (1.30%) RESTful
6 1 (1.30%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.49%) CMDB
1 5 (6.49%) CSOC
1 5 (6.49%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.19%) AI Agents
2 4 (5.19%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.90%) Low-Code
3 3 (3.90%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.90%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.60%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.60%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.60%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.60%) Life Science
5 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.30%) Equities
5 1 (1.30%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.30%) FMCG
5 1 (1.30%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.29%) Windows
2 5 (6.49%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.60%) Linux
3 2 (2.60%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.30%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.30%) macOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (28.57%) AI
2 21 (27.27%) Analytics
3 20 (25.97%) Agile
3 20 (25.97%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (23.38%) Roadmaps
5 16 (20.78%) CI/CD
6 15 (19.48%) Business Intelligence
7 14 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (16.88%) ITSM
9 12 (15.58%) ITIL
10 11 (14.29%) Incident Management
11 10 (12.99%) Knowledge Transfer
11 10 (12.99%) Requirements Gathering
11 10 (12.99%) Validation
12 9 (11.69%) Cybersecurity
12 9 (11.69%) Data Modelling
12 9 (11.69%) Generative AI
13 8 (10.39%) Business Analysis
13 8 (10.39%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (20.78%) Python
2 11 (14.29%) SQL
3 7 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 6 (7.79%) PowerShell
5 5 (6.49%) C#
5 5 (6.49%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.60%) Java
6 2 (2.60%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.30%) Bash
7 1 (1.30%) Go
7 1 (1.30%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 10 (12.99%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.69%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.39%) Degree
4 5 (6.49%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.90%) CISSP
6 2 (2.60%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.60%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.30%) CCIE
7 1 (1.30%) CCSA
7 1 (1.30%) CCSE
7 1 (1.30%) CCSP
7 1 (1.30%) CEH
7 1 (1.30%) GCIA
7 1 (1.30%) GCIH
7 1 (1.30%) GIAC
7 1 (1.30%) MCSE
7 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (1.30%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.39%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.49%) Accessibility
2 5 (6.49%) NCSC
2 5 (6.49%) SLA
3 4 (5.19%) GRC
3 4 (5.19%) NIST
4 2 (2.60%) ISO 19650
4 2 (2.60%) QA
5 1 (1.30%) CDISC
5 1 (1.30%) GDPR
5 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.30%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.30%) PMO
5 1 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (10.39%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (7.79%) SCCM
2 5 (6.49%) Ansible
3 4 (5.19%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.60%) WMI
5 1 (1.30%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (1.30%) Istio
5 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.30%) Network Intrusion Detection System
5 1 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (35.06%) Microsoft
2 23 (29.87%) ServiceNow
3 7 (9.09%) SAP
4 6 (7.79%) Databricks
5 5 (6.49%) Sophos
6 4 (5.19%) Cisco
6 4 (5.19%) UiPath
7 3 (3.90%) OpenAI
7 3 (3.90%) Splunk
8 2 (2.60%) Autodesk
8 2 (2.60%) BeyondTrust
8 2 (2.60%) CheckPoint
8 2 (2.60%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (2.60%) F5
8 2 (2.60%) Okta
8 2 (2.60%) Oracle
8 2 (2.60%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.60%) Remedy
9 1 (1.30%) Intel
9 1 (1.30%) Salesforce