Workflow Management Contracts

Workflow Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Workflow Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Workflow Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 476 544 676
Rank change year-on-year +68 +132 +102
Contract jobs citing Workflow Management 44 38 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.087% 0.070%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.10% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 26 21
10th Percentile £317 £338 £269
25th Percentile £348 £426 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £533 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.45% +1.43% -2.33%
75th Percentile £539 £650 £550
90th Percentile £635 £794 £554
UK excluding London median daily rate £388 £650 £288
% change year-on-year -40.38% +126.09% -36.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% - -
75th Percentile £35.11 - -
90th Percentile £53.05 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year -37.13% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Workflow Management 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 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Workflow Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Workflow Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Workflow Management in the UK

Workflow Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Workflow Management.

Daily rate trend for Workflow Management in the UK

Workflow Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Workflow Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Workflow Management in the UK

Workflow Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Workflow Management.

Hourly rate trend for Workflow Management in the UK

Workflow Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Workflow Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Workflow Management in the UK

Workflow Management
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Workflow Management within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +70 41 £450 -25.00% 80
UK excluding London +77 25 £388 -40.38% 51
Work from Home +37 15 £431 -11.54% 36
London +37 13 £435 -27.46% 40
North of England +25 8 £550 +3.29% 15
South East +50 6 £325 -50.00% 10
Yorkshire - 6 £625 - 5
Midlands +26 5 £563 -22.41% 2
East Midlands +13 4 £563 -22.41% 2
South West +43 3 £450 - 12
East of England - 3 £315 - 6
North West - 2 £475 - 10
Scotland - 1 £325 - 4
West Midlands - 1 - -

Workflow Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 15 (34.09%) Apache
2 10 (22.73%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (4.55%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.55%) Confluence
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.55%) iTrent
1 2 (4.55%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (2.27%) SAP HCM
2 1 (2.27%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (2.27%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 11 (25.00%) GCP
2 8 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (11.36%) Azure
4 4 (9.09%) AWS
4 4 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 3 (6.82%) dbt
5 3 (6.82%) Entra ID
5 3 (6.82%) GitHub
5 3 (6.82%) Vertex AI
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.55%) Smartsheet
7 1 (2.27%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.64%) DNS
2 5 (11.36%) DHCP
2 5 (11.36%) FTP
2 5 (11.36%) SMTP
2 5 (11.36%) Telnet
3 2 (4.55%) Firewall
3 2 (4.55%) Network Security
4 1 (2.27%) HTTP
4 1 (2.27%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.64%) Flink
2 4 (9.09%) Power BI
3 3 (6.82%) Big Data
3 3 (6.82%) BigQuery
3 3 (6.82%) Looker
3 3 (6.82%) Tableau
4 2 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (4.55%) Apache Hive
4 2 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.55%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.27%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.27%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (2.27%) GIS
5 1 (2.27%) Metadata
5 1 (2.27%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (2.27%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Git
1 3 (6.82%) JIRA
2 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.27%) MLflow
2 1 (2.27%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (29.55%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.91%) Finance
3 6 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Marketing
5 2 (4.55%) Law
5 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.27%) Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (13.64%) Analyst
1 6 (13.64%) Data Engineer
2 5 (11.36%) Business Analyst
3 4 (9.09%) Consultant
3 4 (9.09%) Support Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Architect
4 3 (6.82%) Desktop Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Developer
4 3 (6.82%) IFS Business Analyst
4 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Support
4 3 (6.82%) Project Manager
5 2 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Data Architect
5 2 (4.55%) Functional Business Analyst
5 2 (4.55%) Functional Consultant
5 2 (4.55%) IFS Analyst
5 2 (4.55%) IFS Consultant
5 2 (4.55%) Systems Analyst
5 2 (4.55%) Systems Support
5 2 (4.55%) Systems Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.36%) PySpark
2 3 (6.82%) AngularJS
2 3 (6.82%) Kafka
2 3 (6.82%) NumPy
2 3 (6.82%) Pandas
2 3 (6.82%) React
3 2 (4.55%) REST
4 1 (2.27%) PyTorch
4 1 (2.27%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.82%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.55%) Credit Risk
2 2 (4.55%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.55%) Photography
3 1 (2.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.36%) Linux
1 5 (11.36%) Windows
2 2 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (4.55%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.27%) CoreOS
3 1 (2.27%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.27%) Unix
3 1 (2.27%) VyOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (100.00%) Workflow
2 16 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (29.55%) Agile
3 13 (29.55%) Data Management
4 12 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
5 11 (25.00%) Analytics
6 10 (22.73%) ETL
6 10 (22.73%) Visualisation
7 8 (18.18%) Data Modelling
8 7 (15.91%) CI/CD
8 7 (15.91%) Data Analytics
8 7 (15.91%) Decision-Making
9 6 (13.64%) Data Lineage
9 6 (13.64%) Project Management
10 5 (11.36%) Data Governance
10 5 (11.36%) Data Security
10 5 (11.36%) ERP
10 5 (11.36%) Migration
10 5 (11.36%) Regulatory Compliance
11 4 (9.09%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (31.82%) SQL
2 13 (29.55%) Python
3 4 (9.09%) Java
4 2 (4.55%) Bash
5 1 (2.27%) Groovy
5 1 (2.27%) Perl
5 1 (2.27%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (29.55%) Security Cleared
2 11 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.27%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.45%) Data Quality
2 5 (11.36%) GDPR
3 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.27%) COBIT
3 1 (2.27%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (11.36%) NFS
2 3 (6.82%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.82%) Docker
3 2 (4.55%) Samba
4 1 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (13.64%) Terraform
2 3 (6.82%) Ansible
2 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.55%) Grafana
3 2 (4.55%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.55%) Prometheus
3 2 (4.55%) yum
4 1 (2.27%) Cloudify
4 1 (2.27%) Kubeflow
4 1 (2.27%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.27%) Rancher
4 1 (2.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (20.45%) Google
2 4 (9.09%) IFS
3 3 (6.82%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.55%) Adobe
4 2 (4.55%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.55%) VMware
5 1 (2.27%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (2.27%) Checkmarx
5 1 (2.27%) Cisco
5 1 (2.27%) Databricks
5 1 (2.27%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.27%) Genesys
5 1 (2.27%) IBM
5 1 (2.27%) Infoblox
5 1 (2.27%) Juniper
5 1 (2.27%) Oracle
5 1 (2.27%) SAP
5 1 (2.27%) ServiceNow