Workflow Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Workflow
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Workflow skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Workflow 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 149 129 174
Rank change year-on-year -20 +45 -12
Contract jobs citing Workflow 167 258 377
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.69% 1.68% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 1.91% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 154 265
10th Percentile £317 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £581 £584 £660
90th Percentile £748 £663 £838
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 8
10th Percentile £32.38 £13.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £41.56 £13.81 £34.25
Median hourly rate £58.75 £40.00 £43.32
Median % change year-on-year +46.88% -7.65% -14.65%
75th Percentile £62.81 £62.00 £54.18
90th Percentile £64.13 - £56.38
UK median hourly rate £26.77 £25.90 £31.27
% change year-on-year +3.38% -17.19% +35.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Workflow
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Workflow as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Workflow trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Workflow
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Workflow.

Workflow daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Workflow
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Workflow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Workflow daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Workflow
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Workflow.

Workflow hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Workflow
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Workflow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Workflow hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Workflow
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 11 (6.59%) Confluence
1 11 (6.59%) Oracle Workflow
2 10 (5.99%) SharePoint
3 8 (4.79%) Apache
4 6 (3.59%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (2.40%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 3 (1.80%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.60%) Camunda
7 1 (0.60%) IIS
7 1 (0.60%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.60%) TPMS
Applications
1 7 (4.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.59%) MS Visio
3 5 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.20%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.60%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.60%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.60%) ProjectWise
5 1 (0.60%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.60%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.40%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (2.40%) Oracle Payables
1 4 (2.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.80%) Oracle Assets
2 3 (1.80%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (1.80%) Oracle HRMS
2 3 (1.80%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.80%) SAP MDG
3 2 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.20%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (1.20%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (1.20%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 2 (1.20%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (1.20%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 2 (1.20%) Oracle iProcurement
3 2 (1.20%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (1.20%) SAP HCM
3 2 (1.20%) SAP Payroll
3 2 (1.20%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 28 (16.77%) Azure
2 19 (11.38%) Power Platform
3 13 (7.78%) AWS
4 9 (5.39%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (4.79%) GCP
5 8 (4.79%) PowerApps
6 7 (4.19%) Power Automate
6 7 (4.19%) Serverless
7 6 (3.59%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (2.99%) Azure Functions
9 4 (2.40%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.40%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.40%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (2.40%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.80%) GitHub
10 3 (1.80%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.39%) Firewall
2 7 (4.19%) SMTP
3 6 (3.59%) HTTP
4 5 (2.99%) DNS
5 4 (2.40%) FTP
6 3 (1.80%) DHCP
6 3 (1.80%) POP3
6 3 (1.80%) Radio Access Network
6 3 (1.80%) Telnet
7 1 (0.60%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.60%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.19%) Power BI
2 8 (4.79%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.40%) BigQuery
3 4 (2.40%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (2.40%) RDBMS
4 3 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.80%) Power Query
4 3 (1.80%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.80%) Tableau
5 2 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.20%) Apache Hive
5 2 (1.20%) Big Data
5 2 (1.20%) Flink
5 2 (1.20%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (1.20%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.60%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.60%) HBase
6 1 (0.60%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 22 (13.17%) JIRA
2 5 (2.99%) Git
3 3 (1.80%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.20%) GitLab
4 2 (1.20%) webpack
5 1 (0.60%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.60%) MLflow
5 1 (0.60%) MSI
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.60%) Postman
5 1 (0.60%) Snyk
5 1 (0.60%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.60%) Spinnaker
5 1 (0.60%) Subversion
5 1 (0.60%) TeamCity
General
1 49 (29.34%) Social Skills
2 36 (21.56%) Finance
3 31 (18.56%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.58%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.99%) Banking
5 10 (5.99%) Legal
6 8 (4.79%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.59%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.99%) General Ledger
8 5 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.40%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.40%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.40%) Marketing
10 3 (1.80%) Back Office
10 3 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.80%) Law
10 3 (1.80%) Retail
11 2 (1.20%) Billing
11 2 (1.20%) Front Office
11 2 (1.20%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 44 (26.35%) Developer
2 24 (14.37%) Analyst
3 18 (10.78%) Business Analyst
3 18 (10.78%) Consultant
4 16 (9.58%) Senior
5 9 (5.39%) Architect
5 9 (5.39%) Lead
6 8 (4.79%) Automation Engineer
6 8 (4.79%) SAP Consultant
6 8 (4.79%) ServiceNow Developer
7 7 (4.19%) Data Engineer
7 7 (4.19%) Operations Engineer
7 7 (4.19%) Security Engineer
8 6 (3.59%) Senior Developer
9 5 (2.99%) Python Developer
10 4 (2.40%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (2.40%) Functional Consultant
10 4 (2.40%) Oracle Specialist
11 3 (1.80%) Digital Analyst
11 3 (1.80%) Power Apps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.39%) CSS
1 9 (5.39%) HTML
1 9 (5.39%) Web Services
2 7 (4.19%) REST
2 7 (4.19%) RESTful
3 6 (3.59%) AngularJS
3 6 (3.59%) SOAP
4 4 (2.40%) .NET
4 4 (2.40%) CSS3
4 4 (2.40%) Kafka
4 4 (2.40%) XML
5 3 (1.80%) Bootstrap
5 3 (1.80%) JSON
5 3 (1.80%) LDAP
5 3 (1.80%) pytest
5 3 (1.80%) PyTorch
5 3 (1.80%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.20%) PySpark
6 2 (1.20%) SAP Fiori
6 2 (1.20%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 5 (2.99%) Algorithms
1 5 (2.99%) Cloud Native
1 5 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (2.40%) Data Structures
2 4 (2.40%) Management Information System
2 4 (2.40%) Onboarding
2 4 (2.40%) Product Ownership
3 3 (1.80%) CMDB
4 2 (1.20%) Credit Derivative
4 2 (1.20%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.20%) Derivative
4 2 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.20%) Fixed Income
4 2 (1.20%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 2 (1.20%) Life Science
4 2 (1.20%) NHS
4 2 (1.20%) Swaptions
4 2 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.59%) Linux
2 7 (4.19%) Windows
3 5 (2.99%) Unix
3 5 (2.99%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.60%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.60%) Android
5 1 (0.60%) VyOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (23.35%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (20.96%) Agile
3 21 (12.57%) DevOps
3 21 (12.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 17 (10.18%) Analytics
5 16 (9.58%) Business Intelligence
5 16 (9.58%) Decision-Making
5 16 (9.58%) Project Management
6 15 (8.98%) CI/CD
6 15 (8.98%) Workflow Management
7 14 (8.38%) Data Pipeline
7 14 (8.38%) ITIL
8 13 (7.78%) Data Modelling
8 13 (7.78%) ITSM
9 12 (7.19%) ETL
9 12 (7.19%) Requirements Gathering
9 12 (7.19%) Security Operations
10 11 (6.59%) Roadmaps
10 11 (6.59%) User Experience
10 11 (6.59%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 38 (22.75%) SQL
2 28 (16.77%) Python
3 16 (9.58%) Java
4 12 (7.19%) JavaScript
5 7 (4.19%) Bash
5 7 (4.19%) PowerShell
6 6 (3.59%) ABAP
7 5 (2.99%) C#
7 5 (2.99%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.80%) VB
8 3 (1.80%) VBA
9 2 (1.20%) C
9 2 (1.20%) Perl
10 1 (0.60%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.60%) COBOL
10 1 (0.60%) Jython
10 1 (0.60%) PeopleCode
10 1 (0.60%) Scala
10 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (13.17%) Security Cleared
2 15 (8.98%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.79%) Degree
4 7 (4.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.80%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.60%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.60%) CAPM
7 1 (0.60%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.60%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.99%) Accessibility
1 5 (2.99%) Data Quality
1 5 (2.99%) GDPR
1 5 (2.99%) SLA
2 4 (2.40%) QA
3 2 (1.20%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.60%) COBIT
4 1 (0.60%) GRC
4 1 (0.60%) NIST
4 1 (0.60%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (4.79%) Active Directory
1 8 (4.79%) Docker
2 7 (4.19%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.80%) NFS
4 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (4.19%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.59%) Terraform
3 4 (2.40%) Ansible
4 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.80%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.20%) Grafana
6 1 (0.60%) Argo
6 1 (0.60%) Cloudify
6 1 (0.60%) Kibana
6 1 (0.60%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.60%) logstash
6 1 (0.60%) Nessus
6 1 (0.60%) SCCM
6 1 (0.60%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 31 (18.56%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.98%) ServiceNow
3 16 (9.58%) Oracle
4 13 (7.78%) SAP
5 12 (7.19%) Google
6 7 (4.19%) Palo Alto
7 6 (3.59%) Atlassian
8 4 (2.40%) Adobe
8 4 (2.40%) Sybase
9 3 (1.80%) IBM
9 3 (1.80%) Remedy
9 3 (1.80%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.20%) Ariba
10 2 (1.20%) Bloomberg
10 2 (1.20%) Murex
10 2 (1.20%) OpenLink
10 2 (1.20%) Qualys
10 2 (1.20%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.20%) Siebel
10 2 (1.20%) TIBCO