Workflow Development Contract Job Trends

Workflow Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Workflow Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 569 555 600
Rank change year-on-year -14 +45 +177
Contract jobs citing Workflow Development 12 9 12
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.033% 0.026% 0.027%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.037% 0.030% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 11
10th Percentile £415 £399 £298
25th Percentile £463 £464 £349
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -14.89%
75th Percentile £688 £707 £588
90th Percentile £718 £944 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -13.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Workflow Development 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,261 30,399 39,447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.54% 87.91% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,301 18,546 26,335
10th Percentile £300 £306 £310
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £531
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £744 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,097 1,021 1,510
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.53 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £18.95
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.79% -22.35% +21.43%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -29.23% -26.97% +37.98%

Workflow Development
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Workflow Development job vacancy trend in the UK

Workflow Development
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Workflow Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Workflow Development

Workflow Development
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Workflow Development over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Workflow Development in the UK

Workflow Development
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Workflow Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Workflow Development

Workflow Development
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Workflow Development within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
England -33 11 £575 +4.55% 2
London +3 8 £563 -45.65%
Work from Home +23 7 £550 +51.72% 1
UK excluding London -45 2 £575 +9.52% 2
Scotland - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 £575 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £575 - 1

Workflow Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (16.67%) Appian
1 2 (16.67%) Camunda
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (8.33%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (8.33%) IIS
2 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) OpenText MBPM
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (8.33%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 2 (16.67%) Lucidchart
2 2 (16.67%) Power Automate
2 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (16.67%) PowerApps
3 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Data Mart
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Front Office
3 1 (8.33%) Law
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Military
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) BPM Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Business Improvement Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Business Process Improvement Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Migration Specialist
2 2 (16.67%) Murex Specialist
2 2 (16.67%) Process Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Process Improvement Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) CRM Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (8.33%) SailPoint Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) SailPoint Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) SharePoint Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) .NET
2 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 2 (16.67%) Murex MxML
2 2 (16.67%) SailPoint
2 2 (16.67%) XML
3 1 (8.33%) .NET Core
3 1 (8.33%) SOAP
3 1 (8.33%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Unix
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Workflow
2 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) Migration
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) Validation
4 2 (16.67%) Benchmarking
4 2 (16.67%) Business Transformation
4 2 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
4 2 (16.67%) Data Transformation
4 2 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (16.67%) Load Balancing
4 2 (16.67%) OO
4 2 (16.67%) OOP
4 2 (16.67%) Performance Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Process Improvement
4 2 (16.67%) RBAC
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security
5 1 (8.33%) CRM
5 1 (8.33%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (16.67%) BeanShell
3 2 (16.67%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (16.67%) Python
4 1 (8.33%) PL/SQL
4 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (8.33%) T-SQL
4 1 (8.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Murex
3 1 (8.33%) OpenText