Translating Business Requirements Contracts

Translate Business Requirements
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Translating Business Requirements skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Translating Business Requirements over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 203 318 429
Rank change year-on-year +115 +111 -9
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 496 441 502
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.15% 0.79% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 0.88% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 282 327
10th Percentile £405 £413 £409
25th Percentile £463 £495 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £663
90th Percentile £750 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £545 £525
% change year-on-year -1.38% +3.81% +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 3
10th Percentile - £62.00 £17.85
25th Percentile £50.00 £62.50 £18.38
Median hourly rate £55.00 £79.19 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.55% +286.29% +1.23%
75th Percentile £60.00 - £21.99
90th Percentile - £89.61 £22.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £79.19 £19.91
% change year-on-year -30.55% +297.79% -1.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Translating Business Requirements is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

Translating Business Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Translating Business Requirements as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Translating Business Requirements in the UK

Translating Business Requirements
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Translating Business Requirements.

Daily rate trend for Translating Business Requirements in the UK

Translating Business Requirements
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Translating Business Requirements over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Translating Business Requirements in the UK

Translating Business Requirements
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Translating Business Requirements.

Hourly rate trend for Translating Business Requirements in the UK

Translating Business Requirements
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Translating Business Requirements within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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 +88 396 £550 -8.33% 168
UK excluding London +117 212 £538 -1.38% 87
Work from Home +116 198 £504 -12.35% 85
London +53 192 £575 -8.00% 87
South East +45 66 £675 +8.00% 17
North of England +52 58 £525 +7.69% 25
North West +41 33 £525 +10.53% 14
Midlands +31 33 £550 +15.79% 15
West Midlands +23 25 £550 +10.00% 12
South West +18 24 £538 -24.56% 5
Yorkshire +27 23 £535 -0.47% 9
Scotland +38 15 £450 -21.74% 9
East of England +8 15 £535 -2.73% 7
East Midlands +7 4 £600 +28.00% 3
North East +13 3 £675 +68.75% 2
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Northern Ireland 0 1 £338 -38.64% 8

Translating Business Requirements
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 24 (4.84%) Confluence
2 16 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.42%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.41%) MTS
5 4 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.40%) Apache
6 2 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.40%) CMS
6 2 (0.40%) SAS
6 2 (0.40%) ThingWorx
7 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.20%) IIS
7 1 (0.20%) LiveLink
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.20%) nginx
7 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (3.02%) MS Visio
2 13 (2.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.60%) Trello
6 1 (0.20%) CATIA
6 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 22 (4.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (2.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (2.02%) NetSuite
4 9 (1.81%) SAP EWM
5 7 (1.41%) Aligne
5 7 (1.41%) Endur
5 7 (1.41%) EuroRunner
6 6 (1.21%) Distributed Ledger
7 5 (1.01%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.81%) SAP Hybris
9 3 (0.60%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.60%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.60%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.60%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.60%) SAP MII
9 3 (0.60%) SAP SD
10 2 (0.40%) OpenText VIM for SAP
10 2 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
10 2 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
10 2 (0.40%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 165 (33.27%) Azure
2 79 (15.93%) Power Platform
3 66 (13.31%) AWS
4 42 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (7.86%) GCP
6 26 (5.24%) Dynamics 365
7 21 (4.23%) Azure Data Factory
8 19 (3.83%) PowerApps
9 18 (3.63%) Power Automate
10 15 (3.02%) Serverless
11 14 (2.82%) OpenShift
12 13 (2.62%) Cloud Computing
13 10 (2.02%) Amazon S3
13 10 (2.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 10 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (1.81%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (1.81%) SaaS
14 9 (1.81%) WhatsApp
15 8 (1.61%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
15 8 (1.61%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.43%) WAN
2 12 (2.42%) LAN
3 7 (1.41%) VSAN
4 4 (0.81%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (0.60%) DNS
5 3 (0.60%) Firewall
5 3 (0.60%) HTTP
5 3 (0.60%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.60%) IPsec
6 2 (0.40%) Broadband
6 2 (0.40%) Internet
6 2 (0.40%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.20%) Intranet
7 1 (0.20%) Network Security
7 1 (0.20%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (12.50%) Power BI
2 31 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
3 30 (6.05%) SQL Server
4 24 (4.84%) Tableau
5 22 (4.44%) Data Lake
6 19 (3.83%) Relational Database
7 18 (3.63%) Big Data
8 16 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 12 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (2.42%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 12 (2.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 11 (2.22%) Hadoop
11 10 (2.02%) NoSQL
12 9 (1.81%) Amazon Athena
12 9 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (1.81%) Metadata
12 9 (1.81%) QlikView
13 8 (1.61%) BigQuery
13 8 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 30 (6.05%) JIRA
2 24 (4.84%) Git
3 15 (3.02%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.61%) GitLab
5 7 (1.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (0.81%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.60%) Postman
7 3 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.60%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.40%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.40%) Gatling
8 2 (0.40%) Selenium
8 2 (0.40%) webpack
9 1 (0.20%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.20%) RStudio
9 1 (0.20%) VersionOne
9 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 270 (54.44%) Social Skills
2 135 (27.22%) Analytical Skills
3 114 (22.98%) Finance
4 35 (7.06%) Public Sector
5 31 (6.25%) Banking
6 24 (4.84%) Presentation Skills
7 20 (4.03%) Manufacturing
8 16 (3.23%) Marketing
9 13 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.81%) Back Office
10 9 (1.81%) Retail
10 9 (1.81%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.61%) Legal
11 8 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (1.41%) Front Office
13 5 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.81%) French Language
14 4 (0.81%) Law
15 2 (0.40%) German Language
15 2 (0.40%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 142 (28.63%) Architect
2 97 (19.56%) Analyst
3 81 (16.33%) Solutions Architect
4 66 (13.31%) Consultant
5 65 (13.10%) Business Analyst
6 57 (11.49%) Developer
7 39 (7.86%) Senior
8 23 (4.64%) Product Owner
9 22 (4.44%) Java Architect
9 22 (4.44%) Java Solutions Architect
10 20 (4.03%) Data Engineer
11 19 (3.83%) Lead
12 18 (3.63%) Data Analyst
13 16 (3.23%) SAP Consultant
14 15 (3.02%) Senior Analyst
15 12 (2.42%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
15 12 (2.42%) Technical Analyst
15 12 (2.42%) Technical Architect
16 11 (2.22%) Cloud Architect
16 11 (2.22%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.23%) RESTful
2 16 (3.23%) REST
3 14 (2.82%) JSON
3 14 (2.82%) Middleware
4 13 (2.62%) HTML
5 12 (2.42%) React
6 11 (2.22%) Kafka
6 11 (2.22%) Web Services
7 10 (2.02%) CSS
8 8 (1.61%) .NET
8 8 (1.61%) OAuth
8 8 (1.61%) XML
9 7 (1.41%) Node.js
9 7 (1.41%) SOAP
10 6 (1.21%) SAML
10 6 (1.21%) Spring Boot
10 6 (1.21%) Swagger
11 5 (1.01%) OpenAPI
11 5 (1.01%) OpenID
11 5 (1.01%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 66 (13.31%) Product Ownership
2 18 (3.63%) Data Structures
3 17 (3.43%) Management Information System
4 14 (2.82%) Cloud Native
5 12 (2.42%) Public Cloud
5 12 (2.42%) Renewable Energy
6 10 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (2.02%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.02%) Solar Panel
7 8 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (1.41%) Market Risk
8 7 (1.41%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.21%) Blockchain
9 6 (1.21%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.01%) CBDC
10 5 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.01%) Web3
11 4 (0.81%) Derivative
11 4 (0.81%) Freedom of Information Act
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.83%) Windows
2 15 (3.02%) Linux
3 4 (0.81%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.40%) Unix
5 1 (0.20%) Android
5 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (28.43%) Problem-Solving
2 134 (27.02%) Agile
3 108 (21.77%) Data Modelling
4 87 (17.54%) DevOps
5 86 (17.34%) Business Intelligence
6 68 (13.71%) Migration
7 60 (12.10%) Analytics
8 58 (11.69%) ETL
9 53 (10.69%) Computer Science
9 53 (10.69%) User Stories
10 50 (10.08%) Scrum
11 49 (9.88%) Requirements Gathering
12 42 (8.47%) Data Management
12 42 (8.47%) Project Management
12 42 (8.47%) Stakeholder Management
12 42 (8.47%) Visualisation
13 38 (7.66%) Data Analysis
14 37 (7.46%) Technical Leadership
14 37 (7.46%) Use Case
15 36 (7.26%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 85 (17.14%) SQL
2 53 (10.69%) Java
3 41 (8.27%) Python
4 28 (5.65%) JavaScript
5 12 (2.42%) T-SQL
6 9 (1.81%) Bash
7 8 (1.61%) C#
8 7 (1.41%) Go
8 7 (1.41%) Perl
8 7 (1.41%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (1.01%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.01%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.81%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.81%) Swift
11 3 (0.60%) Scala
12 2 (0.40%) C
12 2 (0.40%) ProC
12 2 (0.40%) R
12 2 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 85 (17.14%) Degree
2 69 (13.91%) Security Cleared
3 39 (7.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 33 (6.65%) SC Cleared
5 24 (4.84%) DV Cleared
6 16 (3.23%) Master's Degree
7 14 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (2.02%) SAP Certification
10 9 (1.81%) Azure Certification
10 9 (1.81%) PMI Certification
10 9 (1.81%) PMP
11 4 (0.81%) CCIE
11 4 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.81%) HND
11 4 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.60%) CCNP
13 2 (0.40%) ACCA
13 2 (0.40%) CISSP
13 2 (0.40%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (11.09%) QA
2 22 (4.44%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.82%) GDPR
4 4 (0.81%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.40%) GxP
5 2 (0.40%) PMO
5 2 (0.40%) PSD2
6 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.20%) GRC
6 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (1.81%) Docker
2 7 (1.41%) vCloud
2 7 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (1.41%) VMware NSX
3 6 (1.21%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (4.44%) Kubernetes
1 22 (4.44%) Terraform
2 7 (1.41%) Istio
2 7 (1.41%) Rancher
2 7 (1.41%) vCenter Server
3 5 (1.01%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (0.60%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.40%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.20%) Ansible
6 1 (0.20%) Consul
6 1 (0.20%) Grafana
6 1 (0.20%) Nagios
6 1 (0.20%) Packer
Vendors
1 74 (14.92%) Microsoft
2 64 (12.90%) SAP
3 35 (7.06%) Oracle
4 29 (5.85%) Google
5 21 (4.23%) ServiceNow
6 14 (2.82%) Databricks
7 12 (2.42%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.41%) Ariba
8 7 (1.41%) VMware
9 6 (1.21%) Adobe
9 6 (1.21%) Informatica
10 5 (1.01%) Atlassian
10 5 (1.01%) Nexthink
10 5 (1.01%) Snow
10 5 (1.01%) Workday
11 4 (0.81%) Centrify
11 4 (0.81%) CyberArk
12 3 (0.60%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.60%) New Relic
12 3 (0.60%) Palo Alto