Workflow Contract Job Trends

Workflow
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Workflow skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 94 187
Rank change year-on-year -7 +93 -30
Contract jobs citing Workflow 1,364 885 518
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.54% 2.74% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.00% 3.03% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 834 474 301
10th Percentile £350 £215 £310
25th Percentile £419 £363 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £645
90th Percentile £750 £688 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 209 16
10th Percentile £13.19 £24.49 £20.59
25th Percentile £16.93 - £25.81
Median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £39.89
Median % change year-on-year +25.25% -36.95% +109.95%
75th Percentile £62.44 - £74.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £54.00 £74.22
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.96 £25.15 £62.00
% change year-on-year -24.62% -59.44% +254.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,398 29,222 32,553
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.63% 90.44% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,773 18,158 20,413
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,911 1,744 1,558
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.20 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%
75th Percentile £67.84 £46.01 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.18 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +87.80% -47.37% +12.13%

Workflow
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Workflow job vacancy trend in the UK

Workflow
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Workflow
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Workflow over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Workflow in the UK

Workflow
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Workflow
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Workflow over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Workflow in the UK

Workflow
Top 17 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 4 September 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
England -4 1,178 £525 +5.00% 2,472
London +34 684 £550 +4.76% 1,650
UK excluding London -49 518 £475 +5.56% 1,084
Work from Home +34 401 £500 - 1,119
North of England 0 186 £438 -2.78% 249
South East -79 97 £575 +15.00% 255
Midlands -54 88 £475 +4.11% 151
North West -14 85 £459 +8.00% 156
Yorkshire +1 75 £450 -13.42% 67
West Midlands -42 70 £475 +2.70% 94
South West -38 67 £505 +107.18% 143
Scotland -44 42 £425 +21.43% 131
East of England -14 31 £543 +3.33% 106
North East -13 25 £425 - 30
East Midlands -31 17 £438 -2.78% 57
Wales -22 7 £600 +79.64% 10
Northern Ireland -11 1 - - 49

Workflow
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 70 (5.13%) Oracle Workflow
2 64 (4.69%) Apache Airflow
3 62 (4.55%) SharePoint
4 58 (4.25%) Confluence
5 41 (3.01%) Apache
6 29 (2.13%) Camunda
7 28 (2.05%) Apache Spark
8 22 (1.61%) CMS
9 14 (1.03%) Appian
10 13 (0.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 13 (0.95%) Jupyter
11 10 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
12 7 (0.51%) Oracle Self-Service HR
13 6 (0.44%) IIS
13 6 (0.44%) SAS
14 3 (0.22%) Apache Superset
14 3 (0.22%) HCL Notes
14 3 (0.22%) Headless CMS
14 3 (0.22%) Mendix
14 3 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 63 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.61%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.81%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.73%) Navisworks
6 10 (0.73%) Revit
7 8 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
7 8 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 6 (0.44%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.44%) ProjectWise
9 4 (0.29%) Notion
10 3 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.22%) DaVinci Resolve
10 3 (0.22%) NUKE
10 3 (0.22%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.15%) Houdini
11 2 (0.15%) InDesign
11 2 (0.15%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 23 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (1.32%) Oracle Payables
3 17 (1.25%) Oracle Receivables
4 14 (1.03%) NetSuite
5 12 (0.88%) Oracle EBS
5 12 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
6 9 (0.66%) Oracle General Ledger
7 7 (0.51%) Oracle Assets
7 7 (0.51%) Remedy AR System
7 7 (0.51%) Siebel CRM
7 7 (0.51%) Workfront
8 6 (0.44%) Aladdin
8 6 (0.44%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 6 (0.44%) Oracle FAH
8 6 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
8 6 (0.44%) Oracle HRMS
8 6 (0.44%) SAP MDG
9 5 (0.37%) Endur
9 5 (0.37%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 251 (18.40%) Azure
2 202 (14.81%) AWS
3 157 (11.51%) Power Platform
4 95 (6.96%) GitHub
5 74 (5.43%) Power Automate
6 71 (5.21%) GCP
6 71 (5.21%) SaaS
6 71 (5.21%) Serverless
7 68 (4.99%) Azure DevOps
8 64 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
9 58 (4.25%) Microsoft Copilot
10 54 (3.96%) Entra ID
11 53 (3.89%) GitHub Actions
12 46 (3.37%) PowerApps
13 43 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
14 39 (2.86%) Amazon S3
15 36 (2.64%) dbt
16 33 (2.42%) Snowflake
17 31 (2.27%) Anthropic Claude
18 27 (1.98%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.05%) Firewall
2 15 (1.10%) HTTP
3 12 (0.88%) Network Security
3 12 (0.88%) TCP/IP
4 11 (0.81%) WAN
5 9 (0.66%) Broadband
6 8 (0.59%) DNS
6 8 (0.59%) SAN
6 8 (0.59%) VPN
7 5 (0.37%) Internet
7 5 (0.37%) LAN
7 5 (0.37%) Wireless
8 4 (0.29%) IPv4
8 4 (0.29%) IPv6
8 4 (0.29%) SSL
8 4 (0.29%) VLAN
9 3 (0.22%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.22%) Multicast
9 3 (0.22%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (8.21%) Power BI
2 59 (4.33%) SQL Server
3 54 (3.96%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (3.52%) Metadata
5 39 (2.86%) Relational Database
6 34 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
7 22 (1.61%) BigQuery
8 21 (1.54%) MySQL
8 21 (1.54%) Oracle Reports
9 20 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
9 20 (1.47%) Oracle Database
10 18 (1.32%) MongoDB
10 18 (1.32%) Tableau
11 17 (1.25%) DynamoDB
12 15 (1.10%) NoSQL
13 13 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
14 12 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
14 12 (0.88%) Big Data
14 12 (0.88%) Data Lake
14 12 (0.88%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 144 (10.56%) JIRA
2 88 (6.45%) Git
3 36 (2.64%) Claude Code
4 35 (2.57%) GitLab
5 27 (1.98%) Jenkins
6 21 (1.54%) Oracle Forms
7 17 (1.25%) Bitbucket
8 11 (0.81%) Rational DOORS
8 11 (0.81%) Rational Rhapsody
9 10 (0.73%) Visual Studio
9 10 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
10 9 (0.66%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.66%) Selenium
11 7 (0.51%) MLflow
11 7 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
12 6 (0.44%) Ant
12 6 (0.44%) Eclipse
12 6 (0.44%) JDeveloper
13 5 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.37%) Vite
General
1 400 (29.33%) Social Skills
2 334 (24.49%) Finance
3 197 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (8.06%) Public Sector
5 103 (7.55%) Banking
6 57 (4.18%) Legal
7 55 (4.03%) Marketing
8 50 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
9 41 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
10 40 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 30 (2.20%) Retail
12 24 (1.76%) Front Office
13 22 (1.61%) Telecoms
14 20 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
15 18 (1.32%) Law
15 18 (1.32%) Military
16 17 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
16 17 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
17 16 (1.17%) General Ledger
18 15 (1.10%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 230 (16.86%) Developer
2 164 (12.02%) Senior
3 147 (10.78%) Analyst
4 126 (9.24%) Architect
5 121 (8.87%) Consultant
6 111 (8.14%) Lead
7 105 (7.70%) Business Analyst
8 59 (4.33%) Data Engineer
9 56 (4.11%) Solutions Architect
10 44 (3.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 43 (3.15%) Administrator
12 37 (2.71%) Senior Developer
13 35 (2.57%) Software Engineer
14 32 (2.35%) AWS Engineer
15 26 (1.91%) ServiceNow Developer
15 26 (1.91%) Systems Administrator
16 24 (1.76%) Designer
16 24 (1.76%) Project Manager
17 23 (1.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 21 (1.54%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (14.22%) REST
2 92 (6.74%) .NET
3 76 (5.57%) SOAP
4 73 (5.35%) Terraform
5 65 (4.77%) XML
6 57 (4.18%) JSON
7 56 (4.11%) React
8 44 (3.23%) Web Services
9 42 (3.08%) Node.js
10 39 (2.86%) Middleware
11 36 (2.64%) HTML
12 35 (2.57%) Kafka
13 30 (2.20%) RESTful
14 28 (2.05%) CSS
14 28 (2.05%) OAuth
15 27 (1.98%) PySpark
16 26 (1.91%) .NET Framework
17 22 (1.61%) LangChain
18 19 (1.39%) LangGraph
19 18 (1.32%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 107 (7.84%) Product Ownership
2 99 (7.26%) AI Agents
3 96 (7.04%) Onboarding
4 73 (5.35%) Cloud Native
5 62 (4.55%) CMDB
6 53 (3.89%) Management Information System
7 46 (3.37%) Data Structures
8 38 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
9 34 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
10 32 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
11 30 (2.20%) Data Centre
11 30 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
12 27 (1.98%) Low-Code
13 24 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
14 20 (1.47%) Algorithms
15 18 (1.32%) Derivative
16 17 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
17 16 (1.17%) Fixed Income
18 14 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
18 14 (1.03%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 66 (4.84%) Windows
2 28 (2.05%) Linux
3 24 (1.76%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.39%) Unix
5 10 (0.73%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.29%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.22%) Android
8 3 (0.22%) VMS
9 1 (0.073%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.073%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.073%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 401 (29.40%) AI
2 320 (23.46%) Agile
3 262 (19.21%) Problem-Solving
4 255 (18.70%) CI/CD
5 238 (17.45%) Stakeholder Management
6 201 (14.74%) Data Modelling
7 193 (14.15%) Analytics
8 191 (14.00%) DevOps
9 173 (12.68%) Validation
10 171 (12.54%) Continuous Improvement
11 156 (11.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 150 (11.00%) Migration
13 148 (10.85%) Business Intelligence
14 129 (9.46%) Roadmaps
15 123 (9.02%) Decision-Making
16 112 (8.21%) Data Governance
17 110 (8.06%) Software Engineering
18 109 (7.99%) User Acceptance Testing
19 104 (7.62%) ITSM
20 103 (7.55%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 282 (20.67%) SQL
2 264 (19.35%) Python
3 92 (6.74%) C#
4 83 (6.09%) JavaScript
5 72 (5.28%) Java
6 65 (4.77%) TypeScript
7 57 (4.18%) PowerShell
8 30 (2.20%) T-SQL
9 27 (1.98%) PL/SQL
10 24 (1.76%) Bash
11 17 (1.25%) C++
12 13 (0.95%) Apex Code
12 13 (0.95%) C
13 12 (0.88%) Shell Script
14 11 (0.81%) ABAP
15 10 (0.73%) R
16 9 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 9 (0.66%) VB.NET
17 8 (0.59%) Korn
18 7 (0.51%) Ada
Qualifications
1 203 (14.88%) Security Cleared
2 163 (11.95%) SC Cleared
3 95 (6.96%) Degree
4 33 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
6 24 (1.76%) DV Cleared
7 17 (1.25%) PMP
8 16 (1.17%) CISSP
8 16 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (1.03%) Master's Degree
10 13 (0.95%) Azure Certification
11 11 (0.81%) ACCA
12 10 (0.73%) CIMA
12 10 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
12 10 (0.73%) CISM
13 9 (0.66%) AWS Certification
13 9 (0.66%) PMI Certification
14 8 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 6 (0.44%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (9.16%) Data Quality
2 84 (6.16%) QA
3 47 (3.45%) Accessibility
4 43 (3.15%) GDPR
5 31 (2.27%) SLA
6 22 (1.61%) GRC
7 12 (0.88%) GxP
8 11 (0.81%) ISO 19650
8 11 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 10 (0.73%) NIST
10 8 (0.59%) PMO
10 8 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.59%) WCAG
11 7 (0.51%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 7 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.51%) GMP
11 7 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 17025
12 5 (0.37%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.37%) HL7
12 5 (0.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 55 (4.03%) Docker
2 46 (3.37%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.66%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.22%) KVM
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.073%) Firmware
9 1 (0.073%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.073%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.073%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.073%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 67 (4.91%) Kubernetes
2 34 (2.49%) Ansible
3 17 (1.25%) Grafana
4 12 (0.88%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.59%) Istio
5 8 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.59%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 7 (0.51%) SCCM
7 5 (0.37%) SCOM
7 5 (0.37%) SCOrch
8 3 (0.22%) Argo
8 3 (0.22%) Control-M
8 3 (0.22%) PowerCLI
8 3 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.22%) WMI
9 2 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
9 2 (0.15%) Cisco Prime
9 2 (0.15%) Cisco UCCX
9 2 (0.15%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.15%) Netcool
Vendors
1 258 (18.91%) Microsoft
2 167 (12.24%) ServiceNow
3 100 (7.33%) Oracle
4 66 (4.84%) SAP
5 41 (3.01%) Salesforce
6 40 (2.93%) Google
7 30 (2.20%) OpenAI
8 27 (1.98%) Adobe
9 26 (1.91%) IBM
10 24 (1.76%) Avature
11 23 (1.69%) Databricks
12 22 (1.61%) Workday
13 21 (1.54%) Atlassian
13 21 (1.54%) Pega
14 19 (1.39%) VMware
15 17 (1.25%) Foundry
16 16 (1.17%) Autodesk
17 14 (1.03%) Cisco
18 12 (0.88%) OpenText
18 12 (0.88%) Remedy