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 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 90 93
Rank change year-on-year -18 +3 +38
Contract jobs citing Workflow 39 25 44
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.52% 1.20% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 1.36% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 24 28
10th Percentile £350 £356 £306
25th Percentile £400 £359 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -17.43% +14.74%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £584
90th Percentile £600 £673 £613
England median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 3
10th Percentile £24.72 - -
25th Percentile £27.80 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.60 - £17.50
75th Percentile £31.40 - £19.00
90th Percentile £33.33 - £19.15
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -30.14% +44.00% -33.33%

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 2,252 1,845 2,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 87.52% 88.19% 87.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,480 1,054 1,620
10th Percentile £220 £278 £306
25th Percentile £358 £390 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £598
90th Percentile £650 £656 £683
England median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 96 188
10th Percentile £16.44 £16.03 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.75 £21.20 £17.72
Median hourly rate £41.94 £30.20 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year +38.87% -18.02% -1.23%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.39 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.67 £74.16 £64.13
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £38.16
% change year-on-year -28.14% -8.27% +9.67%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 21 January 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 -1 26 £426 -5.33% 33
Lancashire - 7 £589 - 9
Merseyside -10 3 £260 -32.90% 7
Cheshire -25 3 £475 -5.00% 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 1 (2.56%) Apache
1 1 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.56%) Confluence
1 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (7.69%) MS Visio
2 2 (5.13%) Chatbot
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Loan IQ
1 1 (2.56%) SAP HR
1 1 (2.56%) SAP PSCD
1 1 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.26%) AWS
1 4 (10.26%) Azure
2 3 (7.69%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (5.13%) Amazon S3
3 2 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (5.13%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (5.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (5.13%) PaaS
3 2 (5.13%) Power Automate
3 2 (5.13%) SaaS
3 2 (5.13%) Serverless
4 1 (2.56%) Apigee
4 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.56%) GCP
4 1 (2.56%) GitHub
4 1 (2.56%) Mimecast
4 1 (2.56%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) Power BI
2 2 (5.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.13%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.56%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.56%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (12.82%) JIRA
2 2 (5.13%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.56%) Git
3 1 (2.56%) InstallShield
3 1 (2.56%) MSI
General
1 13 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.64%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 4 (10.26%) Finance
4 4 (10.26%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Law
5 2 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Retail
6 1 (2.56%) Legal
6 1 (2.56%) Local Government
6 1 (2.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (35.90%) Analyst
2 6 (15.38%) Deskside Analyst
2 6 (15.38%) Deskside Support
2 6 (15.38%) Deskside Support Analyst
2 6 (15.38%) Desktop Support
2 6 (15.38%) Developer
2 6 (15.38%) Support Analyst
2 6 (15.38%) Technology Support Analyst
3 5 (12.82%) Lead
4 4 (10.26%) Business Analyst
4 4 (10.26%) Senior
5 3 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (7.69%) Senior Business Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Data Warehouse Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Service Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Service Management Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Systems Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) Middleware
1 2 (5.13%) REST
2 1 (2.56%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.56%) Bootstrap
2 1 (2.56%) CSS
2 1 (2.56%) HTML
2 1 (2.56%) IDoc
2 1 (2.56%) JSON
2 1 (2.56%) JWT
2 1 (2.56%) Node.js
2 1 (2.56%) OAuth
2 1 (2.56%) React
2 1 (2.56%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (2.56%) SAPUI5
2 1 (2.56%) SOAP
2 1 (2.56%) Web Dynpro
2 1 (2.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.69%) CMDB
1 3 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.13%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.13%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.13%) Taxonomies
3 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Windows
1 2 (5.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.77%) ITIL
2 11 (28.21%) ITSM
3 10 (25.64%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (23.08%) Agile
4 9 (23.08%) Service Management
5 8 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (17.95%) Change Management
6 7 (17.95%) Customer Service
6 7 (17.95%) Requirements Gathering
7 6 (15.38%) Data Analysis
7 6 (15.38%) Decision-Making
7 6 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (12.82%) Business Analysis
8 5 (12.82%) ETL
9 4 (10.26%) AI
9 4 (10.26%) Analytics
9 4 (10.26%) Data Modelling
9 4 (10.26%) Migration
9 4 (10.26%) Roadmaps
9 4 (10.26%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.26%) Python
2 3 (7.69%) SQL
3 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.13%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.56%) ABAP
4 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (17.95%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.82%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.56%) APMG
3 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.69%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.13%) QA
4 1 (2.56%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (7.69%) SCCM
2 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (28.21%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.38%) ServiceNow
3 5 (12.82%) SAP
4 2 (5.13%) Automation Anywhere
4 2 (5.13%) BMC
4 2 (5.13%) Dynatrace
4 2 (5.13%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.56%) Adobe
5 1 (2.56%) Google
5 1 (2.56%) Sophos