Workflow Contract Job Trends in the South West

Workflow
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Workflow skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 99 108
Rank change year-on-year +49 +9 +41
Contract jobs citing Workflow 90 28 42
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 3.91% 1.33% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.66% 1.53% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 13 25
10th Percentile £151 £406 £340
25th Percentile £231 £430 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% -13.25%
75th Percentile £575 £775 £500
90th Percentile £588 £798 £575
England median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 5 0
10th Percentile £20.82 - -
25th Percentile £23.50 £35.00 -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £74.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -66.01% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - £74.26 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -30.14% +44.00% -23.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,932 1,830 2,617
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.93% 86.73% 87.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,135 1,127 1,745
10th Percentile £263 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £424 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £731 £725
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 129 267
10th Percentile £15.25 £18.99 £20.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £47.50 £45.50
Median hourly rate £29.40 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.78% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

Workflow
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Workflow relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Workflow job vacancy trend in the South West

Workflow
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Workflow.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Workflow

Workflow
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Workflow in the South West over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Workflow in the South West

Workflow
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Workflow.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Workflow

Workflow
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Workflow in the South West over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Workflow in the South West

Workflow
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 15 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
Wiltshire +2 21 £550 - 13
Devon +24 20 £508 +6.95% 14
Bristol -6 16 £245 -66.75% 20
Cornwall - 16 £158 -
Dorset - 6 £525 - 13
Gloucestershire - 6 £400 - 17
Somerset - 2 £300 - 8
Workflow
England

Workflow
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 11 (12.22%) Apache
2 7 (7.78%) Confluence
3 3 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.22%) Documentum
Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Abaqus
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Lorenzo
Cloud Services
1 6 (6.67%) Azure
2 5 (5.56%) AWS
3 2 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (2.22%) GCP
3 2 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.11%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.11%) Lucidchart
4 1 (1.11%) Miro
4 1 (1.11%) Power Automate
4 1 (1.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.11%) HTTP
1 1 (1.11%) Internet
1 1 (1.11%) PABX
1 1 (1.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.44%) Metadata
2 1 (1.11%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (1.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.11%) Power BI
2 1 (1.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (13.33%) JIRA
2 11 (12.22%) GitLab
3 9 (10.00%) Artifactory
4 6 (6.67%) Git
4 6 (6.67%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.22%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.22%) Snakemake
6 1 (1.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.11%) NUnit
6 1 (1.11%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (21.11%) Public Sector
1 19 (21.11%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.44%) Electronics
2 13 (14.44%) Finance
2 13 (14.44%) Manufacturing
2 13 (14.44%) Marketing
2 13 (14.44%) Telecoms
3 4 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.22%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.11%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 18 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 11 (12.22%) Migration Engineer
3 10 (11.11%) IT Support
4 9 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (8.89%) Support Engineer
6 7 (7.78%) IT Support Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) Support Technician
8 4 (4.44%) Analyst
8 4 (4.44%) Migration Technician
9 3 (3.33%) Developer
9 3 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.33%) Windows Engineer
10 2 (2.22%) Automation Analyst
10 2 (2.22%) Automation Engineer
10 2 (2.22%) Desktop Engineer
10 2 (2.22%) Integration Engineer
10 2 (2.22%) IT Support Technician
10 2 (2.22%) IT Technician
10 2 (2.22%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
10 2 (2.22%) Service Management Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (21.11%) REST
2 8 (8.89%) Apache NiFi
3 5 (5.56%) SOAP
3 5 (5.56%) XML
4 3 (3.33%) .NET
4 3 (3.33%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.22%) Bootstrap
5 2 (2.22%) CSS
5 2 (2.22%) HTML
5 2 (2.22%) JSON
5 2 (2.22%) OAuth
5 2 (2.22%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.22%) Web Services
5 2 (2.22%) XSLT
6 1 (1.11%) .NET Compact Framework
6 1 (1.11%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.11%) JMS
6 1 (1.11%) Node.js
6 1 (1.11%) RESTful
6 1 (1.11%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.22%) CMDB
1 2 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.11%) Contactless
2 1 (1.11%) NHS
2 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.11%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 18 (20.00%) Windows
2 5 (5.56%) Linux
3 4 (4.44%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.11%) Android
4 1 (1.11%) Windows Embedded Compact
4 1 (1.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (60.00%) Migration
2 53 (58.89%) Workflow Management
3 20 (22.22%) DevOps
4 17 (18.89%) CI/CD
5 15 (16.67%) User Experience
6 13 (14.44%) Agile
6 13 (14.44%) Business Intelligence
6 13 (14.44%) Digital Marketing
6 13 (14.44%) Programme Management
7 11 (12.22%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (10.00%) ITSM
9 8 (8.89%) Change Management
10 7 (7.78%) ITIL
10 7 (7.78%) Service Delivery
10 7 (7.78%) Software Engineering
11 6 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (6.67%) Scrum
11 6 (6.67%) Service Management
12 5 (5.56%) Deployment Automation
12 5 (5.56%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 19 (21.11%) PowerShell
2 16 (17.78%) Python
3 4 (4.44%) JavaScript
3 4 (4.44%) SQL
4 3 (3.33%) Bash
4 3 (3.33%) C++
4 3 (3.33%) Java
5 2 (2.22%) Tcl
6 1 (1.11%) C
6 1 (1.11%) C#
Qualifications
1 77 (85.56%) Security Cleared
2 67 (74.44%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.89%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.44%) QA
2 2 (2.22%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (3.33%) Docker
1 3 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (12.22%) Ansible
1 11 (12.22%) Terraform
2 7 (7.78%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.33%) Grafana
3 3 (3.33%) Packer
3 3 (3.33%) Podman
3 3 (3.33%) Prometheus
3 3 (3.33%) Proxmox
4 1 (1.11%) SCCM
4 1 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (14.44%) SAP
2 8 (8.89%) Red Hat
3 6 (6.67%) Atlassian
4 5 (5.56%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.33%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.33%) VMware
6 2 (2.22%) OpenText
7 1 (1.11%) Blue Prism
7 1 (1.11%) Cerner
7 1 (1.11%) Xamarin