Workflow Contracts in the North West

Workflow
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 100 124
Rank change year-on-year -3 +24 -1
Contract jobs citing Workflow 17 37 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.86% 1.34% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 1.56% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 25 19
10th Percentile £376 £115 £357
25th Percentile £438 £275 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +15.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £610 £500
90th Percentile £738 - £638
England median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 7
10th Percentile - £16.40 £16.25
25th Percentile - £16.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate - £18.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year - -58.14% +145.71%
75th Percentile - £19.13 £54.91
90th Percentile - £19.20 £56.38
England median hourly rate £26.77 £25.90 £31.27
% change year-on-year +3.38% -17.19% +42.59%

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 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Workflow
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Workflow in the North West

Workflow
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Workflow in the North West

Workflow
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Workflow in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Workflow in the North West

Workflow
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend 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 1 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
Manchester +16 7 £450 -20.00% 50
Cheshire -12 6 £613 +5.15% 9
Merseyside +1 4 £613 +432.61% 6
Workflow
England

Workflow
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (11.76%) Camunda
1 2 (11.76%) Confluence
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (11.76%) Tomcat
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (5.88%) Maximo
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (5.88%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) AWS
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) GCP
2 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.88%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (5.88%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Relational Database
2 2 (11.76%) Apache Hive
2 2 (11.76%) Hadoop
2 2 (11.76%) MySQL
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle Database
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle Database 10g
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle Database 11g
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.76%) Tableau
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.88%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (5.88%) Power BI
3 1 (5.88%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (5.88%) ScriptRunner
General
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Banking
2 2 (11.76%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.88%) Legal
3 1 (5.88%) Marketing
3 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Data Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Applications Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Developer
3 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Java Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Node.js Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle Applications Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Principal DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Data Scientist
4 1 (5.88%) E-Business Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Head of Architecture
4 1 (5.88%) IT Procurement Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Procurement Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Product Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Middleware
2 2 (11.76%) Node.js
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (11.76%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.88%) NHS
2 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) Solaris
2 2 (11.76%) Unix
2 2 (11.76%) Windows
2 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Agile
2 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (23.53%) DevOps
4 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
4 3 (17.65%) Decision-Making
4 3 (17.65%) Microservices
4 3 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (17.65%) Project Management
4 3 (17.65%) Scrum
4 3 (17.65%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (11.76%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (11.76%) Data Modelling
5 2 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (11.76%) Event-Driven
5 2 (11.76%) Event-Driven Programming
5 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (11.76%) ITSM
5 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Java
2 3 (17.65%) SQL
3 2 (11.76%) PL/SQL
3 2 (11.76%) Python
4 1 (5.88%) Groovy
4 1 (5.88%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Ansible
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) ServiceNow
2 2 (11.76%) Cisco
2 2 (11.76%) Cloudera
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle
2 2 (11.76%) Virgin Media
3 1 (5.88%) Adobe
3 1 (5.88%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.88%) Fortinet
3 1 (5.88%) Infoblox
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) SAP