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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 81 105
Rank change year-on-year -4 +24 +12
Contract jobs citing Workflow 90 49 19
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.38% 2.22% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.87% 2.50% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 39 13
10th Percentile £227 £205 £370
25th Percentile £400 £215 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £513 £610
90th Percentile £720 £628 -
England median daily rate £515 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +3.00% - -6.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 0
10th Percentile £19.51 - -
25th Percentile £26.45 - -
Median hourly rate £29.00 £25.15 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.31% - -
75th Percentile £29.50 - -
90th Percentile £63.50 - -
England median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £32.50
% change year-on-year +25.25% -22.62% +18.18%

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 3,134 1,959 2,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.73% 88.72% 84.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,825 1,273 1,207
10th Percentile £276 £282 £309
25th Percentile £400 £375 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £454 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.25% -9.30% -
75th Percentile £599 £575 £588
90th Percentile £676 £665 £675
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 124 170
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.50 £10.95
25th Percentile £24.72 £18.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £45.25 £27.00 £34.61
Median % change year-on-year +67.59% -21.98% -1.13%
75th Percentile £72.73 £53.25 £51.91
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.63 £70.90
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.24%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -7 54 £450 +109.30% 60
Cheshire +1 17 £510 +18.60% 16
Merseyside -7 14 £294 -51.04% 7
Lancashire -15 2 £400 -11.11% 12
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 12 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 7 (7.78%) Confluence
3 2 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.22%) Camunda
3 2 (2.22%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.11%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.44%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.22%) AutoCAD
3 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.22%) Navisworks
3 2 (2.22%) ProjectWise
3 2 (2.22%) Revit
4 1 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (4.44%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (2.22%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 2 (2.22%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (2.22%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (2.22%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (2.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.11%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 1 (1.11%) Maximo
4 1 (1.11%) Odoo
4 1 (1.11%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 28 (31.11%) Azure
2 23 (25.56%) Power Platform
3 14 (15.56%) AWS
4 12 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (11.11%) Power Automate
6 6 (6.67%) PowerApps
7 5 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (5.56%) Entra ID
7 5 (5.56%) Mimecast
8 4 (4.44%) GCP
8 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (3.33%) Copilot Studio
9 3 (3.33%) Serverless
10 2 (2.22%) Azure AI
10 2 (2.22%) Lucidchart
11 1 (1.11%) Amazon Bedrock
11 1 (1.11%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (1.11%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.44%) Network Security
2 2 (2.22%) Firewall
2 2 (2.22%) SD-WAN
2 2 (2.22%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.22%) WAN
2 2 (2.22%) Wireless
3 1 (1.11%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.11%) NGFW
3 1 (1.11%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (24.44%) Power BI
2 6 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.44%) Snowflake Schema
4 3 (3.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (2.22%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (2.22%) Power Query
5 2 (2.22%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.22%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.22%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.11%) Metadata
6 1 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.11%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 11 (12.22%) JIRA
2 3 (3.33%) Git
3 2 (2.22%) JDeveloper
4 1 (1.11%) Balsamiq
4 1 (1.11%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.11%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.11%) GitLab
4 1 (1.11%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.11%) Postman
4 1 (1.11%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (1.11%) Selenium
4 1 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 33 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 22 (24.44%) Finance
3 18 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.56%) Banking
4 5 (5.56%) Military
4 5 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.44%) Law
5 4 (4.44%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.33%) Legal
7 2 (2.22%) Advertising
7 2 (2.22%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.11%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Legal Technology
8 1 (1.11%) Marketing
8 1 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (15.56%) Analyst
2 9 (10.00%) Consultant
3 8 (8.89%) Administrator
3 8 (8.89%) Security Engineer
4 7 (7.78%) Architect
4 7 (7.78%) Developer
4 7 (7.78%) Senior
4 7 (7.78%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (7.78%) Systems Administrator
5 5 (5.56%) Business Analyst
5 5 (5.56%) Project Manager
5 5 (5.56%) Service Analyst
5 5 (5.56%) Service Desk Analyst
6 4 (4.44%) Data Engineer
6 4 (4.44%) IT Analyst
6 4 (4.44%) Technical Consultant
6 4 (4.44%) User Experience Researcher
7 3 (3.33%) Automation Specialist
7 3 (3.33%) Senior Business Analyst
7 3 (3.33%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.89%) REST
1 8 (8.89%) XML
2 4 (4.44%) JSON
3 3 (3.33%) SailPoint
4 2 (2.22%) Django
4 2 (2.22%) LangChain
4 2 (2.22%) LangGraph
4 2 (2.22%) OAuth
4 2 (2.22%) Web Services
5 1 (1.11%) 802.1X
5 1 (1.11%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.11%) JWT
5 1 (1.11%) Material-UI
5 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (1.11%) Next.js
5 1 (1.11%) OpenAPI
5 1 (1.11%) Playwright
5 1 (1.11%) React
5 1 (1.11%) Swagger
5 1 (1.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (5.56%) CSOC
3 4 (4.44%) AI Agents
3 4 (4.44%) CMDB
3 4 (4.44%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.44%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.33%) Security Posture
4 3 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.22%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.22%) Life Science
5 2 (2.22%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.11%) Derivative
6 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.11%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.11%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.33%) Windows
2 5 (5.56%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.33%) Apple iOS
3 3 (3.33%) Linux
3 3 (3.33%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (26.67%) Analytics
2 22 (24.44%) Business Intelligence
2 22 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (21.11%) Agile
4 18 (20.00%) AI
4 18 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 16 (17.78%) Stakeholder Management
6 15 (16.67%) Migration
6 15 (16.67%) Roadmaps
7 13 (14.44%) CI/CD
7 13 (14.44%) ITSM
8 12 (13.33%) Data Modelling
8 12 (13.33%) Decision-Making
8 12 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
9 11 (12.22%) Incident Management
9 11 (12.22%) Security Operations
10 10 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
10 10 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 10 (11.11%) Visualisation
11 9 (10.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 19 (21.11%) SQL
2 17 (18.89%) Python
3 7 (7.78%) PowerShell
4 5 (5.56%) T-SQL
5 3 (3.33%) Java
5 3 (3.33%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.22%) C#
6 2 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.22%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.11%) Bash
7 1 (1.11%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (1.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (11.11%) Degree
2 9 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 8 (8.89%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.44%) CISSP
6 3 (3.33%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (1.11%) BC Cleared
8 1 (1.11%) CEH
8 1 (1.11%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.11%) MCSE
8 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (1.11%) MOS
8 1 (1.11%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.11%) PMP
8 1 (1.11%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (1.11%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.67%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.56%) GRC
3 5 (5.56%) NCSC
4 4 (4.44%) NIST
5 2 (2.22%) GDPR
5 2 (2.22%) ISO 19650
5 2 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (2.22%) SLA
6 1 (1.11%) CDISC
6 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (1.11%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.11%) PMO
6 1 (1.11%) QA
6 1 (1.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (8.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (5.56%) SCCM
2 4 (4.44%) Ansible
3 2 (2.22%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.22%) WMI
4 1 (1.11%) CASB
4 1 (1.11%) Istio
4 1 (1.11%) Network Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (1.11%) Opsgenie
4 1 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (30.00%) ServiceNow
2 23 (25.56%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.89%) SAP
4 6 (6.67%) Avature
5 5 (5.56%) Databricks
5 5 (5.56%) Sophos
6 4 (4.44%) BeyondTrust
6 4 (4.44%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (4.44%) Remedy
6 4 (4.44%) Splunk
6 4 (4.44%) UiPath
7 3 (3.33%) Atlassian
7 3 (3.33%) Cisco
7 3 (3.33%) Okta
8 2 (2.22%) Autodesk
8 2 (2.22%) OpenAI
8 2 (2.22%) Oracle
9 1 (1.11%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (1.11%) Snow
9 1 (1.11%) Veracode