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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 96 102
Rank change year-on-year -2 +6 +20
Contract jobs citing Workflow 40 27 40
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.63% 1.20% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 1.41% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 23 23
10th Percentile £190 £356 £332
25th Percentile £215 £358 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £430 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -20.37% -4.00%
75th Percentile £519 £500 £592
90th Percentile £600 £588 £613
England median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.80 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.60 - £18.00
75th Percentile £31.40 - £19.31
90th Percentile £32.04 - £19.43
England median hourly rate £25.15 £39.25 £25.40
% change year-on-year -35.92% +54.56% -21.86%

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 2,171 1,916 2,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.54% 85.27% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,434 1,062 1,637
10th Percentile £213 £291 £276
25th Percentile £358 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £568 £575 £600
90th Percentile £664 £656 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 113 152
10th Percentile £15.56 £16.01 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.75 £21.25 £17.75
Median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.92% -8.45% +46.15%
75th Percentile £46.71 £51.91 £46.35
90th Percentile £69.35 £69.44 £64.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

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 9 December 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 9 December 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 +2 26 £383 -15.00% 66
Lancashire -6 7 £500 +33.33% 28
Cheshire -26 4 £488 +24.84% 38
Merseyside -4 3 £260 +73.33% 22
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 2 (5.00%) Apache
1 2 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.50%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) IIS
2 1 (2.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Chatbot
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Loan IQ
1 1 (2.50%) Maximo
1 1 (2.50%) SAP HR
1 1 (2.50%) SAP PSCD
1 1 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.00%) AWS
1 4 (10.00%) Azure
1 4 (10.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (7.50%) Power Automate
3 2 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (5.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (5.00%) Serverless
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.50%) Mimecast
4 1 (2.50%) SaaS
4 1 (2.50%) Snowflake
4 1 (2.50%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) Power BI
2 2 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.00%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.50%) DB2
3 1 (2.50%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.50%) Git
2 1 (2.50%) InstallShield
2 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.50%) MSI
General
1 13 (32.50%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (27.50%) Public Sector
2 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Finance
4 2 (5.00%) Law
5 1 (2.50%) Legal
5 1 (2.50%) Local Government
5 1 (2.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 18 (45.00%) Analyst
2 7 (17.50%) Payroll Manager
2 7 (17.50%) Systems Analyst
2 7 (17.50%) Systems Manager
3 6 (15.00%) Deskside Analyst
3 6 (15.00%) Deskside Support
3 6 (15.00%) Deskside Support Analyst
3 6 (15.00%) Desktop Support
3 6 (15.00%) Support Analyst
3 6 (15.00%) Technology Support Analyst
4 5 (12.50%) Developer
4 5 (12.50%) Lead
5 3 (7.50%) Business Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Consultant
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Desktop Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Migration Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Service Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) XML
2 2 (5.00%) Node.js
2 2 (5.00%) REST
2 2 (5.00%) SOAP
3 1 (2.50%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.50%) Bootstrap
3 1 (2.50%) CSS
3 1 (2.50%) Express.js
3 1 (2.50%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.50%) HTML
3 1 (2.50%) IDoc
3 1 (2.50%) JSON
3 1 (2.50%) React
3 1 (2.50%) RESTful
3 1 (2.50%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (2.50%) SAPUI5
3 1 (2.50%) Web Dynpro
3 1 (2.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.50%) CMDB
2 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.50%) Windows
2 2 (5.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (25.00%) ITIL
2 10 (25.00%) ITSM
3 9 (22.50%) Agile
4 8 (20.00%) Change Management
4 8 (20.00%) Service Management
5 7 (17.50%) Customer Service
5 7 (17.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (15.00%) Data Analysis
7 5 (12.50%) AI
8 4 (10.00%) Analytics
8 4 (10.00%) Coaching
8 4 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (10.00%) DevOps
8 4 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
8 4 (10.00%) Scrum
8 4 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 3 (7.50%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (7.50%) Decision-Making
9 3 (7.50%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (10.00%) Python
1 4 (10.00%) SQL
2 2 (5.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (2.50%) ABAP
3 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) APMG
3 1 (2.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) QA
2 5 (12.50%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.00%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.50%) GRC
4 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) Grafana
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
1 1 (2.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (32.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.00%) SAP
4 1 (2.50%) Adobe
4 1 (2.50%) Automation Anywhere
4 1 (2.50%) IBM
4 1 (2.50%) Sophos