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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 98 120
Rank change year-on-year +18 +22 -11
Contract jobs citing Workflow 46 32 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.19% 1.16% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.47% 1.37% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 22 20
10th Percentile £205 £115 £386
25th Percentile £287 £238 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £463 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.03% -5.13% -11.36%
75th Percentile £550 £610 £534
90th Percentile £638 - £638
England median daily rate £490 £525 £532
% change year-on-year -6.67% -1.22% -11.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £16.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £17.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.71% - -
75th Percentile - £18.75 £44.50
90th Percentile - - £51.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £30.25
% change year-on-year -16.17% -0.83% +34.44%

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 1,863 2,335 2,762
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.59% 84.51% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,231 1,421 1,912
10th Percentile £296 £300 £313
25th Percentile £375 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +2.04%
75th Percentile £563 £585 £588
90th Percentile £669 £675 £675
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 264 153
10th Percentile £13.02 £11.00 £15.80
25th Percentile £19.02 £15.43 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.90 £30.50 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% -0.13% +29.71%
75th Percentile £60.00 £46.18 £44.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £67.23 £58.90
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +46.03%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 +28 22 £375 -18.03% 130
Cheshire -13 10 £430 -27.12% 31
Lancashire +5 8 £450 +5.88% 49
Merseyside -1 4 £613 +432.61% 22
Cumbria +10 2 - - 8
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 8 (17.39%) Confluence
2 4 (8.70%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.35%) Apache
3 2 (4.35%) IIS
3 2 (4.35%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (4.35%) SharePoint Server
3 2 (4.35%) Tomcat
3 2 (4.35%) WebSphere
4 1 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Maximo
2 2 (4.35%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (2.17%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.70%) AWS
2 3 (6.52%) Power Platform
3 2 (4.35%) Azure
3 2 (4.35%) GCP
3 2 (4.35%) Power Automate
3 2 (4.35%) ShareGate
4 1 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.17%) n8n
4 1 (2.17%) SaaS
4 1 (2.17%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) Intranet
2 1 (2.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (4.35%) DB2
1 2 (4.35%) Oracle Database
1 2 (4.35%) Oracle Database 10g
1 2 (4.35%) Oracle Database 11g
1 2 (4.35%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.17%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.17%) Power BI
2 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.17%) SQLite
2 1 (2.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (17.39%) JIRA
2 2 (4.35%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (2.17%) ScriptRunner
General
1 15 (32.61%) Social Skills
2 12 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.70%) Finance
3 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.35%) Banking
5 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.17%) Legal
5 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (28.26%) Analyst
2 6 (13.04%) Desktop Support
2 6 (13.04%) Developer
2 6 (13.04%) Engineering Manager
2 6 (13.04%) Support Analyst
3 4 (8.70%) Business Analyst
3 4 (8.70%) Desktop Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Consultant
4 3 (6.52%) Deskside Analyst
4 3 (6.52%) Deskside Support
4 3 (6.52%) Deskside Support Analyst
4 3 (6.52%) Desktop Analyst
4 3 (6.52%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 3 (6.52%) IT Analyst
4 3 (6.52%) IT Support
4 3 (6.52%) IT Support Analyst
4 3 (6.52%) Payroll Manager
4 3 (6.52%) SharePoint Developer
4 3 (6.52%) Systems Analyst
4 3 (6.52%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.52%) Middleware
1 3 (6.52%) XML
2 2 (4.35%) CSS
2 2 (4.35%) HTML
2 2 (4.35%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (4.35%) SOAP
2 2 (4.35%) Web Services
3 1 (2.17%) Express.js
3 1 (2.17%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (2.17%) Node.js
3 1 (2.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
1 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.17%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.17%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.04%) Windows
2 4 (8.70%) Linux
2 4 (8.70%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.35%) Solaris
3 2 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (32.61%) Agile
2 12 (26.09%) DevOps
3 11 (23.91%) Project Management
4 10 (21.74%) ITSM
4 10 (21.74%) Process Improvement
5 9 (19.57%) Decision-Making
5 9 (19.57%) Migration
5 9 (19.57%) Scrum
6 8 (17.39%) Coaching
6 8 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (17.39%) Service Management
7 7 (15.22%) Agile Project Management
7 7 (15.22%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (15.22%) Data Analysis
7 7 (15.22%) Epics
7 7 (15.22%) ITIL
7 7 (15.22%) Microservices
7 7 (15.22%) Workflow Management
8 6 (13.04%) Customer Service
9 5 (10.87%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 9 (19.57%) Java
2 6 (13.04%) JavaScript
3 5 (10.87%) SQL
4 4 (8.70%) Python
5 2 (4.35%) C#
5 2 (4.35%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.17%) Groovy
6 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.17%) R
6 1 (2.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (41.30%) Security Cleared
2 16 (34.78%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.17%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.17%) Degree
3 1 (2.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (2.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) QA
2 4 (8.70%) SLA
3 3 (6.52%) Data Quality
4 2 (4.35%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.52%) Ansible
2 2 (4.35%) Terraform
3 1 (2.17%) Grafana
3 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (28.26%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.52%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.35%) Cisco
3 2 (4.35%) IBM
3 2 (4.35%) Nintex
3 2 (4.35%) Oracle
4 1 (2.17%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.17%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.17%) Infoblox
4 1 (2.17%) SAP