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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 98 98
Rank change year-on-year +15 0 +34
Contract jobs citing Workflow 79 27 37
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.43% 1.39% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.91% 1.54% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 21 26
10th Percentile £381 £402 £115
25th Percentile £400 £420 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +4.55% +12.82%
75th Percentile £547 £638 £608
90th Percentile £603 £738 £610
England median daily rate £509 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.75% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 2
10th Percentile £16.28 - £16.40
25th Percentile £20.82 - £16.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £25.15 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year - +39.72% -58.14%
75th Percentile £25.77 - £19.13
90th Percentile £32.10 - £19.20
England median hourly rate £25.15 £25.15 £27.25
% change year-on-year - -7.71% -11.41%

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 2,715 1,753 2,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.56% 90.08% 85.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,667 1,145 1,449
10th Percentile £296 £300 £308
25th Percentile £381 £390 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £575 £594
90th Percentile £654 £663 £689
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 102 251
10th Percentile £17.28 £16.03 £10.95
25th Percentile £25.38 £22.81 £13.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £31.88 £24.10
Median % change year-on-year +72.52% +32.28% -33.06%
75th Percentile £74.26 £62.25 £45.88
90th Percentile £85.00 £84.39 £62.50
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +13 57 £444 -1.39% 29
Merseyside -12 9 £438 -28.57% 8
Cheshire -14 7 £538 +2.33% 12
Lancashire - 6 - - 14
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 6 (7.59%) Confluence
2 3 (3.80%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.27%) Apache
3 1 (1.27%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.27%) SAS
3 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (8.86%) MS Visio
2 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (2.53%) Maximo
2 2 (2.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.27%) Odoo
3 1 (1.27%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (1.27%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.27%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.27%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 14 (17.72%) Power Platform
2 13 (16.46%) Azure
3 11 (13.92%) AWS
4 6 (7.59%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (7.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 6 (7.59%) Power Automate
5 3 (3.80%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (2.53%) Azure AI
6 2 (2.53%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 2 (2.53%) Azure Functions
6 2 (2.53%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (2.53%) Copilot Studio
6 2 (2.53%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.53%) GCP
6 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (2.53%) PaaS
6 2 (2.53%) SaaS
6 2 (2.53%) Serverless
6 2 (2.53%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.27%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.27%) Firewall
1 1 (1.27%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (1.27%) Network Security
1 1 (1.27%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.19%) Power BI
2 6 (7.59%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (5.06%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 4 (5.06%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (2.53%) Power Query
4 2 (2.53%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.27%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (1.27%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.27%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (15.19%) JIRA
2 2 (2.53%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.53%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (1.27%) InstallShield
3 1 (1.27%) JDeveloper
3 1 (1.27%) MSI
General
1 36 (45.57%) Social Skills
2 15 (18.99%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (16.46%) Finance
4 9 (11.39%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (8.86%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (6.33%) Law
7 4 (5.06%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.53%) Military
8 2 (2.53%) Retail
9 1 (1.27%) Banking
9 1 (1.27%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.27%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (16.46%) Senior
2 10 (12.66%) Analyst
3 9 (11.39%) Administrator
3 9 (11.39%) Architect
4 8 (10.13%) Developer
5 7 (8.86%) Business Analyst
5 7 (8.86%) Senior Analyst
5 7 (8.86%) Senior Business Analyst
5 7 (8.86%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (8.86%) Systems Administrator
5 7 (8.86%) User Experience Researcher
6 5 (6.33%) Project Manager
7 4 (5.06%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Consultant
7 4 (5.06%) Security Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Senior Manager
7 4 (5.06%) Senior Project Manager
8 3 (3.80%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) ServiceNow Architect
9 2 (2.53%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.59%) REST
2 3 (3.80%) XML
3 2 (2.53%) JSON
3 2 (2.53%) Middleware
3 2 (2.53%) Node.js
4 1 (1.27%) .NET
4 1 (1.27%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.27%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.27%) JWT
4 1 (1.27%) Material-UI
4 1 (1.27%) Next.js
4 1 (1.27%) OAuth
4 1 (1.27%) React
4 1 (1.27%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.27%) Vue
4 1 (1.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.06%) Data Structures
1 4 (5.06%) Onboarding
1 4 (5.06%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (3.80%) CMDB
3 2 (2.53%) AI Agents
3 2 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.53%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.53%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (2.53%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.53%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.27%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.27%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.27%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.27%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.59%) Windows
2 3 (3.80%) Apple iOS
2 3 (3.80%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.53%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (26.58%) Migration
1 21 (26.58%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (22.78%) Decision-Making
3 14 (17.72%) Agile
3 14 (17.72%) Requirements Gathering
4 12 (15.19%) Analytics
4 12 (15.19%) Business Intelligence
5 11 (13.92%) Roadmaps
5 11 (13.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 11 (13.92%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (12.66%) CRM
6 10 (12.66%) Data Modelling
6 10 (12.66%) ETL
6 10 (12.66%) ITSM
6 10 (12.66%) Workflow Management
7 9 (11.39%) AI
8 8 (10.13%) Business Analysis
8 8 (10.13%) ITIL
8 8 (10.13%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (13.92%) SQL
2 10 (12.66%) Python
3 6 (7.59%) T-SQL
4 5 (6.33%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.80%) C#
6 2 (2.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.53%) Java
7 1 (1.27%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.27%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (8.86%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.59%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.06%) Degree
4 3 (3.80%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.80%) CISSP
5 2 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.27%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.27%) PMP
6 1 (1.27%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.19%) Data Quality
2 8 (10.13%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.80%) NIST
4 2 (2.53%) GDPR
4 2 (2.53%) GRC
4 2 (2.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.53%) SLA
5 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (1.27%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.27%) QA
5 1 (1.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (1.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.80%) SCCM
2 2 (2.53%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.27%) CASB
3 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.27%) Opsgenie
3 1 (1.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (17.72%) ServiceNow
2 8 (10.13%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.86%) SAP
4 6 (7.59%) Avature
5 4 (5.06%) Atlassian
5 4 (5.06%) BeyondTrust
5 4 (5.06%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (5.06%) Remedy
5 4 (5.06%) Splunk
6 2 (2.53%) Automation Anywhere
6 2 (2.53%) BMC
6 2 (2.53%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.53%) Foundry
6 2 (2.53%) IBM
6 2 (2.53%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.53%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.27%) Okta
7 1 (1.27%) Oracle
7 1 (1.27%) Snow
7 1 (1.27%) Sophos